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Zelensky Used to Play the President on TV
from The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422 · #422
3 min
They discuss the strangeness of Ukraine's president having played a president on a comedy show before becoming the real president, and how sloppy and unartful current geopolitical propaganda has become.
- Saying "America First" gets conflated with fascism even though every country prioritizes itself.
- U.S. interventions abroad aren't free—massive amounts of money fund them and people profit, exactly what Eisenhower warned about.
- Zelensky played the president on a comedy show, then actually became president of Ukraine.
- Tim imagines Putin watching this unfold from his palace, thinking America is openly mocking him by making a TV comedian the president.
- The way intelligence agencies handle coups and scandals isn't even artful anymore—it's lazy, like a bad cop show.
- The CIA meddles in countries ham-handedly, but sells the intervention brilliantly to Americans as helping people and spreading dignity.
CIAUkraineDwight EisenhowerVladimir PutinVolodymyr Zelenskyy