rant · moment 15 of 23
Imagining Kim Cheatle's Bar Confession
from Trump Assassination Theories & The Bowels Of Power | The Tim Dillon Show #402 · #402
7 min
Tim spins an extended fictional scene of Cheatle drinking scotch in a DC dive bar with a CIA-type friend, reflecting on her life sacrificed entirely to government service, tied into her actual resignation letter language.
- Tim imagines Kim Cheatle sitting silently with a colleague at a bar after her resignation, the older operative reassuring her that she did the right thing.
- The colleague tells her she'll make a lot of money in the private sector but will never truly be out—they'll call her back someday.
- Tim argues that Cheatle's entire life has been consumed by her government career, whether or not she has a husband, kids, or other personal attachments.
- Her whole existence belongs to the bowels of the United States government and the configurations of power that have given her purpose.
- Tim suggests Cheatle may have been CIA before joining the Secret Service, with agents embedded everywhere working undercover.
- Tim performs Cheatle's resignation letter in her voice, confessing she's never questioned orders to stand down when told to allow Trump's assassination attempt.
- The monologue escalates: she has stalked corridors of the undead, eaten terrible salads, laughed at bureaucrats' shitty jokes, neglected her personal life entirely.
- What she'll really miss most are the late-night park meetings with shadowy figures and the ugly gray government buildings where history sometimes happens.
- Tim calls Cheatle a demon and an orc in the army, noting it's somewhat sad to bid goodbye to her as she fades into Virginia obscurity.
- The deal for silence is clear: if she's smart, she'll refuse memoir offers and keep her mouth shut, or she risks a hiking accident, car crash, or medication interaction.