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Boris Johnson Resigns and Politicians Getting Away With Everything

from Tim's Big Audition with Chris Distefano | The Tim Dillon Show #308 · #308

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Tim and Krysta discuss Boris Johnson's resignation over lockdown parties and an affair-related job favor, arguing old-school political corruption was more tolerable when hidden, segueing into Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing versus R. Kelly's.

In this bit8 moments
  • Boris Johnson stepped down after throwing a party during COVID, but Tim says he'd vote for a leader who did that.
  • Johnson tried to get a job for a woman he had an affair with—Tim treats this as unremarkable politician behavior.
  • Politicians need to have a little fun, but it should stop short of child abuse on private islands.
  • Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail in New York with no visitor access.
  • A woman at a barbecue complained that Maxwell got 20 years while R. Kelly got 30, calling it racist.
  • Tim attributes R. Kelly's longer sentence to him being Black, not to degree of involvement.
  • Maxwell's full culpability can't be proven publicly because it would implicate powerful people with too much money.
  • Probably 1,000 celebrities are on the Epstein list, but only a few are proven, and the full list will never be released.
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Ghislaine MaxwellR. Kellycorruption in politicsThe Clintons

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