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Karen Bass Recall and the Doomed Pacific Palisades
from Trump’s Speech & Casey Anthony’s Tik Tok | The Tim Dillon Show #434 · #434
4 min
Tim discusses the push to recall LA mayor Karen Bass over the fires, declines to interview Nicole Shanahan and Justine Bateman on it, and delivers an extended riff on how the Palisades and California in general are beautifully mismanaged and unfixable, comparing Texas unfavorably on looks but favorably on fire risk.
- Toxic sledge from the mountain slid into the water, making swimming impossible no matter who gets elected.
- Mayor of the region isn't the problem—people need to leave Pacific Palisades entirely because there's nothing to be done.
- Pacific Palisades is the most beautiful place with the stupidest people in the world; moving to ugly Texas makes practical sense.
- Living around beauty means accepting that it will burn in front of your face, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
- After five years living there and talking to locals, Tim sees no fix on the horizon—residents just have to exist in uncertainty.
- The mismanagement and chaos of the region is actually what makes it cool; it's interesting precisely because nothing makes sense.
- Residents can't retain thoughts for five seconds and get distracted by avocado toast; tariffs on avocado would solve the problem.
- Fire Chief Christin Crowley lost her bid to return to the job with only two votes despite wanting to tout her record putting out fires.
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