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Country by Committee: Trump's Missing Message

from Tim Walz The Funnel Cake Dad | The Tim Dillon Show #404 · #404

7 min

Tim argues Trump has lost his 2016 singular focus and needs a new message, theorizing that neither Trump nor Harris will really govern and that unelected people, Big Tech, and Hollywood interests are really running the country, with AI-obsessed tech bros and Hollywood forming opposing coalitions.

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  • Tim says Trump's 2016 message was laser-focused on one thing—the wall, immigration—but now his messaging is scattered across multiple topics.
  • Democrats' only message is "we're not Trump," while Trump rambles about folksy topics like mashing potatoes with a fork.
  • Harris is a hollow human being full of billionaire ideas with no authentic opinions, just enjoying the ride of being a presidential candidate.
  • Neither party will actually help the middle class on day one—it's not their first order of business no matter who wins.
  • Tim's message for Trump should be: this will be government by committee, led by unelected people in the shadows, not a real president.
  • Harris hasn't spoken in four years and mirrors the opinions of whoever interviews her, suggesting she's been replaced as the actual decision-maker.
  • Biden was removed and Harris installed specifically to enable committee-based governance rather than presidential leadership.
  • Tech Bros on Trump's side want to use him for their own agendas—sucking up government money for their "live forever" and AI merger quests.
  • Hollywood supports Harris because she'll be a powerful ally for their corporate mergers and deals, having traditionally aligned with Democrats.
  • What voters see is stagecraft—Hollywood for ugly people—with a completely different conversation happening behind closed doors with donors and people who actually matter.
  • Trump's authenticity connects with people, but when he's angry and ineffective on the stump, he loses that edge.
  • Three debates between these two will be exhausting, and his energy levels and focus aren't what they were.
  • Harris's rise exemplifies sociopathic tenacity—the clawing, scraping, backstabbing ambition that propels certain people to fame.
  • Politics is a quick ascent to a level of fame most people never experience, followed by either unraveling or fading into obscurity with a mediocre book deal.
  • Defeated politicians end up making third-rate podcast appearances as their post-political career.
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Kamala HarrisDonald TrumpJoe Bidenlibertarian tech brosJD VanceDeep StateArtificial Intelligence

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