rant · moment 27 of 27
Closing Riff: Negotiate or Die, Kill That Fish
from LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426 · #426
4 min
In a closing rant, Tim argues LA can only be run by pragmatic dealmakers rather than idealists, blames complicit wealthy liberals for enabling the city's collapse, and closes with the recurring demand to kill the fish or die.
- Tim on craven leadership: cities need people willing to do what's necessary or they'll burn down.
- Politicians should lie to interest groups and do the opposite—that's the actual point of governance.
- LA will never be run by benevolent people—it's too big, too wealthy, too chaotic for idealism.
- Managing a city of 18 million requires deals and negotiation, not pure ideology.
- Crackpot ideas that sound good to teenagers on Twitter shouldn't run a city—actual operators should.
- Palisades rich people enabled bad policies for years because they wanted to hide affairs and selfishness.
- Tim: burned out and homeless now, part of LA's unhoused community created by these policies.
- The wealthy stopped just short of full selfishness—not selfish enough to actually solve anything, half measures kill everyone.
- Kill the fish or die: real operators are needed now, not feel-good Twitter politics and ironic hats.