rant · moment 10 of 20
Politicians as Merch Entrepreneurs
from The D.C. Plane Crash & RFK’s Hearing | The Tim Dillon Show #429 · #429
1 min
He extends the merch bit into a broader riff about politicians now functioning as entrepreneurs with coins and merchandise, arguing there should be a line you don't cross by attacking someone's business.
- Tim on the new rules of political discourse: attack someone's fitness for office, call them a crank or conspiracy theorist, but never criticize their merchandise or meme coins.
- Government service is now only worthwhile if you can launch a coin or sell merch—there's no other benefit to holding office.
- Politicians should be allowed to call each other pedophiles all day, but there has to be a hard boundary: don't tank the coin, don't wreck the merch.