518 - Vivek Ramaswamy, French Riots, & The MAGA Cult

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the tim dillon show and happy spooky season it's halloween it's spooky season and i went because i love horror movies i was in one uh thanksgiving uh where i i'm beheaded eli roth put me in it um with addison ray gina gershon patrick duffy and there i am take a look at that and i've always been a big fan there that is a dummy that they made of me um and then they did a 3d head now can you also bring up the photo of my decapitated head which is down to the right and i mean they did such an unbelievable job at recreating my head and i have that head in my studio out west in la but i think a little bit about bringing the head to new york and putting it you know on the dining room table it's a little bit of a thing but i think a little bit about bringing the head to new york it's just creepy and weird i don't want to do it um so in the spirit of horror movies i saw that naza movie about uh israel and gaza and naza the word which i did not know means collateral damage how many civilians can be killed in any one airstrike i and this is going to be horrible to admit i thought naza was the name of like a palestinian who was killed no i literally you know what i mean i literally thought that was the thing like this is the story of naza who was you know whatever barbecued by the idf which i'm against um and i watched the movie and the movie is interesting because it's all of these israeli special forces people going hey um and i watched the movie and the movie is interesting because it's all of these israeli here's how we identify targets that are in hamas some are high up in hamas some are lower level we hack their phones we um you know approximate their exact location they have unbelievable capabilities almost so that you go how did october 7th happen because you imagine they didn't get all of these capabilities and they didn't get all of these capabilities and they didn't get all of these capabilities on october 8th whatever moving on you're you're sitting in the movie and they're going and here's how we choose the targets and they all seem very contrite like they all seem like they're upset about it but then you say to yourself like me and ray talked about this on the patreon like wait a minute you're just flattening cities so like what is this it's supposed to give you this idea that like they're going through this moral um fight in their head this struggle about how many civilians are actually going to be killed in any strike but you go but you're just carpet bombing cities so like how does that square with this documentary which again at first glance seems very critical of israel and and sort of is but then when you zoom out a little bit you go oh but it shows all of these people wrestling with how much collateral damage can happen or being very uh you know regretful of of such uh actions but then you look at gaza and you go wait a minute hold on here this seems like an indiscriminate bombing campaign that just flattened large swaths of the of the region like i don't think people are going to be able nobody's going to go be up but i don't think people are going to be able to go back and live there and that's kind of the point so i saw that movie and then afterwards a woman stands up in a hijab and which i'm all for i don't like the burqa i don't like the full thing but i don't mind a hijab especially when it's a designer like a gucci or something i feel safe i do i feel safe with like a high end you know but she stood up and she goes and it's your tax dollars that support it and we're all sitting there in the dark silently it's like bitch i'm friends with tucker carlson so like i didn't do it whatever bitch google me but the point is this you know it's not a it's not a movie for the children for halloween and it's a difficult difficult thing because the last five minutes are very graphic where you know i thought all of it would be that but it was really just these people whose faces are like they're sitting in the dark on rooftops and they're like here's how many nasa we tolerated here's how many nasa it's the number of civilians who die from a strike i've now started using the word nasa in my everyday life which is not what anyone would have wanted like if i send a group text out and i go hey i have tickets to a show who wants to go i see a lot of theater and then people respond but then i realize you know what i actually should have included other people and then i have to take a couple of people out of the group chat there i consider them nasa or if a restaurant has a table for four and not not six two people can't dine they're nasa so that's not the intent of the film but now that is now in my vocabulary and i'm trying to get it out of my vocabulary but the thing about words is they creep in and they stay some people you know it's just it's it's uh it's what it is what's going on in france you know i don't pay much attention i like france and paris is a beautiful city and they're they it's quieter now but they had these massive riots these massive protests and they started with kids who wanted uh school supplies i think they wanted uh teachers and money for supplies you know get the erasers in there they said get the trapper keeper get the pencil get that little two-sided eraser you know that one that you always got and get a fault get a couple of folders i think that's what kids were looking for they go get me some supplies i want to go into school nice trapper keeper couple of folders you know the three the three hole punch thingy that uh whatever they call that couple of marble notebooks but apparently they don't have money for this in france um and the economic picture uh is deteriorating because of the iran war and the price of oil and france is in a lot of debt like we are so it started with young people and these young people france is like this great history of protest and young people were like hey we gotta do something here we want pencils we want uh teachers we we need the supplies we need the resources we need and then it then i think some other groups joined in and it could have been some of the younger younger migrant types and you know some anarchists some of the left-wing anarchists that jump in and then everybody starts you know smashing the you know the louis baton store and grabbing the sneakers it always starts with like hey we would like to have more resources very understandable requests by the way from young people in france that don't feel like they for whatever reason they don't feel like things are going well and then you know you have a lot of different groups that try to get involved in a protest and go let's try to do some damage smash some windows get some sneakers they've burned down some historic i believe something historic got burned down i forget i don't know what that one is what is that is that the eiffel tower no i don't know what is that what did they burn over there it's a 19th century city hall building they burned a 19th century city hall so you you know here's here's maybe some thoughts about it you know when when protests become riots and you just start burning everything down you know you're burning down your own country and and and maybe some of the people that are burning it down are not they don't care about your country maybe they just arrived i don't know i'm not there i'm just saying it's very possible that there are people that live in these countries that don't really connect with the history of france that's fair right they maybe just don't connect with it and they go yeah they don't really care they go hey some of them come from countries where shit burns all the time and we're not blameless in that by the way so there are but I don't think it's all migrants either. I think there's a lot of like agitators and outside groups and there's the young kids, but a lot of the people that got arrested weren't the younger kids. They seem to be just kind of anarchists. There is this idea that if you burn everything down and you destroy civil society, you get to rebuild it the way that you would like to rebuild it. That's kind of a childish idea. It's kind of an idea that like teenagers have. Usually you grow out of things like that as you get older, but a lot of people don't. Greta Thunberg's there, of course, doing her thing. You know, there was a shopkeeper who was like, hey, I'm totally like pro-migrant. I'm totally pro-youth, but they burned her shop because they go, we don't care. What do we care? Remember the BLM thing where the guy was standing in the window and they threw something through his window and he goes, but I agree with you. Like he's yelling at the violent mob, but I'm with you. I agree with you. But the thing is, violence is seductive. So once you start burning things down and lighting things on fire, it inspires something in people that's kind of like, it's like a psychosexual release. It's like cathartic. So the targets start varying from like, maybe legitimate targets or like to just like, hey, like I want sneakers and fuck this bitch and let's light this perfume. Like I remember during the height of the BLM riots, there were like Korean shop owners and Indian shop owners and their stores were being lit on fire and people were defending that. They were going, yeah, but that's all part of it. And I'm like, I don't know if that should be part of it, but these people didn't do anything wrong and their property's being lit on fire. And we had the government going like, well, this is what it is, protest. And it's like, well, no, it's a violent riot where you are burning people's property and threatening their lives and their physical safety. Let's play this. This is a woman who, you almost feel for this woman because like, you know, she was probably, like she's on board with all of this stuff in theory. And then when it's like, you know, actually comes for you and you're like, oh, wait a minute. This is just unfocused rage that isn't, it's not a principled thing. It may have started like that, but it's spiraled into just madness. Then, so here's the shop owner. And I don't know what she's saying here. I'll, I guess I'll narrate it because I guess she's speaking French. Stop it. Why are you doing this? Stop it. Stop. Stop. This is not the cause. Don't break things, she says. Stop. Yeah. But here's the thing. So now you see largely non-French. And again, this is just a video I'm watching. So I'm sorry to, you know, actually have eyes. This is such a problem in life to have actual eyes that like function. And then you see that you actually see like, and you go, oh, I have to like tell myself my eyes are like not working. Now maybe, and I'm not saying every French person is white either. But let's say what I'm looking at is young, probably African men and not only African men, but in that clip, a few of them walking in to this woman's store and looting it. And this woman is going, hey, stop. And there's, I guess, I'm not saying it's just African people, but in this clip that I'm looking at, that's what you see. And people are going in and looting the store and she's going, hey, stop. And this is what turns someone like her into a Marine Le Pen supporter. Marine Le Pen, whatever you think, is the France, the right-wing candidate who loves cats. I'm not saying anything about Marine Le Pen. I get in enough trouble in my own country. I don't know anything about Marine Le Pen. Would I like to have chocolate mousse with Marine Le Pen? Yes. But why not? She likes cats. And I'm just curious, but how do you run a society where now they had a curfew and things have calmed down or whatever, but like this is a real question. And there was also riots in Milan. So there's riots. And again, some of this has to be, you know, blamed on cost of living some of it has to be blamed on people losing ground, the existential threat of AI, the kind of like malaise that everybody seems to be in, how technology has affected people. A lot of these younger kids growing up watching TikTok, watching these things, violence isn't real to them. This woman isn't real. It doesn't matter. They are, you know, there's a certain callousness that these kids, these kids have potentially because they were raised in algorithms where all they did was watch violence and maybe, you know, it seems like kind of a video game. So, I mean, these people here seem like they're having fun. Yeah, it feels, one of them has the, looks like the leg of a mannequin. Yeah, I don't know. It just, that's not exactly the Paris I would like to go to, and it just doesn't, I don't, you know, that's not the Paris of my dreams. Is that fair to say? It's not exactly the city of love. It's not the Paris of my dreams. And there is a debate and there is a question about what is any society? Like, what is it? What is an actual society? What constitutes a society? What constitutes civilized, civil society? And you have to have a conversation about that now that's maybe a little uncomfortable for certain people in Europe that wanted to avoid this conversation for as long as possible. And I'm not saying that the young kids who started this were unjustified or that they don't have legitimate grievances. I'm sure a lot of them do. But this energy doesn't seem to be political in nature. It seems to be just about tearing down a society causing the maximum amount of chaos and harm. So I look at that and I go, huh? Again, and it doesn't mean that you know, everybody here is like a monster. It just means that like this doesn't seem like a healthy. You know, people, people like it. Like people think it's cool. Like anytime anyone's burning things down, like people in America, like, and I'm talking about like celebrities and like, you know, the smart, smart people, air quotes. They're always like, that's always good. It's always a universal good when somebody's writing or burning something down. You can never understand anything like Putin says or does. He's just a, he's an ogre that can't be reasoned with, can't understand him. Guy's a psychopath trying to take over Europe. We must fight a war and kill millions of people. So everything he does and says, you can never even try to understand it at all. Not one bit. But anytime a group of people is burning something in the middle of the street or smashing the windows of a Nike store, that's good. That's a universal good. Like everyone's like, France knows how to protest. Now, by the way, I'm not against protest. I do think France holds the government's feet to the fire, certainly more than Americans do. But you look at this stuff and you go, huh? I don't know. Do you, does it look like the people in this photo care deeply about France? Fair question. Just, I'm, I'm, I don't know. Does it seem like they are invested? Is, are these the people that want the notebooks and the teachers and the erasers? Is that the crowd that's looking for that? By the way, maybe. I don't know. I don't know. Are these, is this the crowd that's upset that they don't have a vote? have enough resources in school. I mean, one little nerd tries to get in. You see the little nerd trying to get in? You see this one little nerd trying to get in? Dude, play this again. The nerd tries to get in. He's probably one of these school kids. They immediately are like, bro, you're ruining our vibe. That kid's trying to get aura. 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But he is in hot water after releasing political ads claiming his opponent lied about being raped as a child. So, and he's running for the O. Ohio governor. So you have Vivek Ramaswamy. He's trying to become the governor of Ohio. He is, I believe, the endorsement of J.D. Vance, who's, you know, a rock star politically. Everything's going well. And so Amy Acton, who's running against him, was removed from her mother's home when she was 12 after her stepfather was indicted on a charge of raping her. Grizzly, not good, obviously. Um, so Ohio's bitter governor's race got even uglier Tuesday when an attack ad surfaced featuring Democratic nominee Amy Acton's long-estranged mother calling her daughter a liar, prompting Acton's brother to accuse Acton's Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, of turning childhood rape into a political talking point. The 60-second video by Acton's mother, Donna Arthur, initially circulated on social media Monday night. It included no disclosure of who produced or financed it and the Ramaswamy campaign early Tuesday, did not acknowledge any responsibility. Can we watch this? Yeah. Let's watch this because. This is. So Amy Acton running against Vivek. Vivek trying to be the governor of Ohio. So is Amy Acton. Amy Acton's father taken out of the house when she was 12. I mean, for, like, the greatest evil crime ever, like raping your child. Was it her stepfather or her father? It was the stepfather. Okay, well, then that's okay. But, no, that, of course, it's not. But, so now this is the mother, and I don't know which way this is going to go. Is this the mother basically saying, that bitch is a lying bitch? Yeah. Well, listen. Here's the thing about it, folks. Everybody gets to weigh in. So Amy Acton's mother is coming out and saying, this bitch is a liar. Now, let's watch this video here. And, by the way, then we'll see who we are going with. We will see who we are going with. We will make the decision. We're going to. We'll either be. This video has 60 seconds to convince me, even though I don't live in Ohio, and I don't care who wins. And it has. And it means nothing to me. And it doesn't mean much to America, I don't think. That being said, like Ohio, love Grater's ice cream. Like the crowds. Like the people. Not insulting Ohio. Is it the most inspiring landmass? No. We will decide, are we with Amy Acton, or are we with her stepfather and her mother? Because this is her own mother. And just like Meghan Markle, it is interesting when someone's own mother comes out and goes, she is a liar. Let's watch. My name is Donna Arthur, and I'm Amy Acton's mother. I worked at Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America. I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living. in a tent. None of that is true. She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help. And she can't help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth. And my daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for people who lie. Don't let her become your governor. If you think she'll make your life better, you're fooling yourself. It will only get worse. Okay, so first of all, let me say this right now. I've been alive 41 years. That is the greatest political ad I've seen in my life. That is the single greatest political ad I have truly ever seen in my whole entire life. Bar none. That was un-fucking-believable. The woman who was running for governor's mother just came in and said, "My daughter is a pathological liar. She said she grew up in a tent." That is not true. She has lied her entire life. She is lying to you. She will not make your life better. It's only gonna get worse. I gotta be honest. I might be going with Mama Bear here. I mean, what would inspire the- Unless this woman is really embarrassed about how she raised her daughter, this is possible. And she brought a man into the house who was a fucking creep and did a horrible thing to the daughter. And this mother is so deeply ashamed and maybe can't even accept that it's real. Can't even accept that this happened. And says, "I'm just gonna lock it away in a part of my mind and like disassociate and then just say my daughter's a li-" To say my daughter's a liar. But I don't know. The mother, she's this old woman and she's basically saying, "My daughter has lied her entire-" Now, by the way, I am no fan of Vivek. Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. Because I think he is also of a fibber and a liar and a grifter and a con artist and it's whatever. I mean, come on. Like how many, you know. But this is so fucking wild. So here's the deal. Acton's stepfather abused her from nine to 12 and was criminally charged and the family lived in a tent in winter. Her brother confirms they were removed from their mother's custody. Acton's stayed married to the stepfather until he died. So maybe the mother here, is lying. Meanwhile, Acton's campaign provided extensive documentation from court records and contemporary- reports in local media that corroborated her account that she and her brother were removed from their mother's home after her second husband, Cleedeth. Cleedeth. I didn't know this. This new information coming to light. Her second husband, Cleedeth Arthur, was arrested and indicted and charged with the rape of Amy Stearns, being God, less than 13 years of age. Okay. Here's what we will say. In light of this information, we, you know, I wanted to go with the mother. I like old people. And I wanted to go with her, but it does seem like the mother is just denying the facts. Now, has Amy acted, responded to that with an ad saying, my mother is an old bitch. She's a fucking bitch. And white trash. She put out an ad where it's her brother responding. Interesting. Now, let's look at Amy Acton's brother, because now here's the fun of politics, folks. People get too caught up. Oh, what are the taxes? Are they going up and down? Politics is about family. It's about family. And it's about people who are willing to put this all out there. I mean, people are getting nuts about the policy. I mean, who cares? We think we should spend more on education. Snore. Snore fest. This is Amy Acton's brother who's now coming out and going, my mother's an old bitch. She moved a pedophile into our house, and that pedophile started raping us. And Vivek is using this for his own gain. Here's Amy Acton's brother. And by the way, what a campaign. You know, I hate, I don't want anyone being abused sexually in any way, obviously. And this is all terrible tragedies. But just drama, political theater. I mean, this is really something to sink your teeth into, albeit a horrible thing that should never have happened. But it's a family drama playing out in real time. Let's take a look. This is Amy Acton's brother. I received a lot of abuse, but Amy always got the worst of it. Can you imagine, can you imagine, by the way, can you imagine being in Ohio right now? Can you imagine being in Ohio and going, what has happened to the country? Like, politics used to be like, this guy said he was gonna build the bridge and didn't. What the fuck's gone on in our country where, like, every ad is like, yeah, I was raped, but she was really raped. I got abused, but she got really fucked. I mean, it's like, what in the hell is going on in our country where one of the issues of the campaign is whether or not the prospective governor grew up in a tent? Are we in a good place in the country? Can anyone are we in a good place in the country where it's, like, who raped who? Who grew up in the tent? Is the pedophile's wife lying? Is she protecting him? What the fuck's going on? Can you imagine just sitting in Ohio, you got a little scoop of Grader's black raspberry chocolate chip, and you're sitting there, and you're getting pounded with these ads. You have to turn the TV off. Your kids can't even watch the ads. Like, this is so crazy. Okay? Or, like, your option is either this family or, like, Vivek healthcare scammer? Rama, Rama, Ramalada! It's crazy. So, let's watch this ad. That was just something I was like, I just started thinking about that. I'm like, you know, I grew up in Long Island where the ads were like, it's, uh, you know, DiBenedetto versus Marino. It was always, like, too Italian. And they'd be like, DiBenedetto said that they were gonna build the sports complex, and they didn't. Marino will. You're like, alright. That sports complex was gonna bring 500 jobs! If you want one of those 500 jobs, vote Marino! Now it's like depressing, horrific political ads about people living in tents and child rape. Here we go. Play it again, please. Start it from the beginning. She continued to receive that abuse because she knew she had to protect me from that, and that if she hadn't done that, who knows where I would have ended up. And she's 11 and 12 years old, and to think that that's somehow a talking point. Shame on Vivek. It's the contempt he has for Amy. It's the contempt he has for Ohio. He's not fit to lead. Vivek is a uniquely disgusting person, but that being said, you know, I don't know. If I'm sitting in a campaign war room, and they go, we got the mother saying she's a liar. You know, Vivek is a healthcare scammer. He's going for this. He's going for this. Can you blame him? Can you blame Vivek? Can you blame him? So does he respond to this at all? Yeah, he does. Yeah, they got the mother. Well, he's going to use the mother. It's like, you can almost not blame him because, again, this is not a moral person. Isn't this the guy that's like, hey, remember when everyone was like, we don't have any jobs, and he's like, stop going to parties, and stop being cool, and start being a fucking nerd coder? I mean, it's like, that was his response to people, like, so here, let's see Vivek his response, and that is not racist. Everyone says that. When I say Vivek, they said that's a racist representation of his last name, and you know what? Prove it. Prove it, because I'll release a fucking ad with Amy Acton's mother going, Tim Dylan is not a racist. He's not. He makes fun of the last name because it's a weird last name. That's all. And it's weird because it's different. I'm Amy Acton's mother. And if you show up to the country with a weird name, people should be able to make fun of it. Relax. You're here on an H-1B visa. You got a job at some tech company. I don't. I live in a tent with my pedophile husband and my daughter. I'm Amy Acton's mother, and Tim Dylan's not a racist. All right, here's Vivek. Vivek, there's an ad circulating that includes Amy Acton's mother accusing the candidate of being a liar. Is this ad from your campaign? Is it something that you want to put on the air before the election? It is an ad from our campaign. And the thing that I want to say is that I would love for this race in this election to be about the substantive issues that impact Ohioans. And unfortunately, Amy Acton has been hiding from those issues. She won't debate me. She doesn't allow cameras at her events. And I think her record of continuously, certainly during this campaign, I would say spreading some defamatory, disparaging lies about me and my family, that does deserve to be scrutinized. And this is part of a broader pattern, Jesse, that I think bears mention in this race as well. Every person who appears to know her the best, her former boss, her former colleagues in state government, even the doctors of this state, the Ohio State Medical Association, have told voters not to vote for her but to vote for me instead. This is part of a pattern of someone else who appears to know her well, who says the same thing. And I do think that it's important for voters to take all of that into account, especially because Amy Acton has hid from debate and ducked questions. Now, I know that she's told a lot of lies about me during this campaign. Well, there it is, Vivek saying basically, "Hey, she's a pathological liar. Everyone who knows her thinks she's a liar, and I stand with Cledith." That's what he is saying. So, Vivek, now, maybe Amy Acton doesn't want to debate him because maybe he'll show up with Cledith. Now, Cledith obviously is the man that, now, by the way, here's my question, and I don't want to be indelicate, folks. And I don't even want to ask this question. Would you know if your husband was molesting your daughter if you all lived in one tent? If you lived in one tent, would it not become obvious a little bit what was going on? Now, Amy is saying they lived in a tent during the winter. Now, I don't understand than why you would move into a tent during the winter. it seems to me that it would make sense if you were going to live in a tent that you would do so during the summer i understand seasonal living i've done it for many years you kind of go with the weather it gets a little cold you go to la it gets a little warmer you go to new york i get it so if you were going to live in a tent you know so it's weird to me that they would live in a tent can we get a picture of the tent that amy acton lived in and i'm not trying to belittle anybody or make light of this if cleedeth is guilty and i guess he's guilty he was arrested and indicted was he convicted was cleedeth convicted this is this is whoa law enforcement lost track of cleedeth arthur after he moved but there were multiple warrants to bring him in so you know i think cleedeth was probably a real problem can you get a picture of the tent up okay okay Just google amy acton tent and hit image because maybe maybe maybe there is no picture of the tent i'm just trying to was it a nice tent can you get up amy acton talking about living in a tent oh is that the tent i don't know i don't get her up on youtube talking about living in a tent because this feels um this feels like potentially uh something that maybe she's exaggerated and maybe not i don't know but it is one of those things where you say to yourself how did that even work just an aside here poor christina applegate they said she had ms now she doesn't and everyone was happy about it and christina applegate was like hey guys anyway uh i'm still in hell here and everyone around her was like we're actually thrilled that you don't have ms and christina applegate was like sure but also i have something and it sucks people just want to not feel bad for you people just want the freedom to not feel bad for you anymore and so they're like oh yeah well you don't have that thing and she's like no but i'm doing terribly and i i would like someone to and everybody was just like like christina applegate was basically like in the room and they're like you don't have a mess everyone's like woohoo and christina applegate's like well no i'm still doing bad so here this is amy act in a tent take it away i think it was somewhere off route seven i was 12 and we were living in a tent but it made me tough and determined to find a way out i waited tables delivered newspapers anything to put myself to college and medical school i don't want anyone to have to struggle like i just stopped this for a minute what a horrible choice ohio has what a horrible choice of incredibly damaged people ohio is about to choose from i mean if you want to talk about a lose lose election it is this medicare con man first tent girl what a terrible terrible terrible terrible choice they have but continue this and by the way she sounds like there's something up with her and i don't know what it is but there sounds like something up there's something the guy probably does cleedeth probably is guilty but there does there's something in the voice here i don't i don't know there's something about that mother going amy's lied her whole life all right play play play play this again from like halfway through papers anything to put myself through college and medical school i don't want anyone to have to struggle like i did as governor i'll take on the corruption that's raising our costs and fight for an ohio where your hard work pays off and you always come first uh okay sure well do what you will ohio do what you will so now i'm wondering where where are the odds here what are the what are the polymarket odds actins at 79 percent and rama and is it uh 23 percent vivek ramaswamy and he's dropped like 10 since that ad oh my god god is he making a mess of it so amy acton tent girl is going to beat the uh medicare fraudster scammer vivek according to polymarket wow so it seems that vivek is fucked interesting huh fun fun stuff over there in ohio how many 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love uh the continued death mayhem and madness um elon musk chose to restrict ukraine's access to spacex satellite network you know and people have criticized that and musk held multiple conversation with administration officials leading up to the order musk has expressed his taste with his company being seen as profiting from the continued war between russia and the ukraine any limits on speed or usage are decided by the u.s military and ultimately potus musk the world's richest person wrote on x you know this is why the government has opened the doors for a lot of these people um it's clear that we're preparing for something that doesn't even resemble the country that we live in now and that will be um it's anyone's guess what that will look like but here's what i mean by that you have these very wealthy people whether it's elon musk or jeff bezos or zuckerberg and a lot of these people are these guys palmer lucky teal whatever they're building their own armies i mean they have their own armies drone armies you know they're you know high-end robotics they you know satellite systems starlink and geopolitics Politically, all of the, you know, this is the most powerful group of people that has ever lived. I mean, even more powerful than like the robber barons, the JP Morgans. These people have access to technology that is way far beyond anything that private citizens have ever had access to. And they have more data and information on people, including their own leaders, than anyone has ever had. And it has made them godlike and omniscient. I mean, they're giving birth to Thomas Friedman at the New York Times, who I have some differences with, a lot of them. But he basically said we're giving birth to like a species, like artificial intelligence. It's not like a new technology, it's kind of like a species. So you do have a bunch of people that have this godlike power to turn off systems and turn on systems that affect the outcome of wars. And it's done in conjunction with the president. And I'm sure Trump wants this war to end. And, you know, you know, and the war has to end, too. I mean, this war does have to end. There is no way Ukraine is going to be able to win a war with a nuclear power that has a tremendous advantage with the amount of people that they can draft into a military. But you will have this kind of frozen conflict for years and years and years where lots of people die. And then eventually you'll have to hammer out some agreement. And. You know, but it's just kind of an interesting time. And you like you think about. The amount of power somebody like Elon Musk has, it's an unbelievable amount of power, like the amount of power that these people have. Far exceeds anything that anyone's had in history, and which is why I always say they view themselves as the actual government. They believe they are. They believe they're the actual government. Like they're they don't want to take orders from like some senator in Georgia. Who? Like, you know, can barely use a cell phone. They just they don't they're not doing that. They see themselves as like, you know, again, these, you know, godlike people who are who are giving birth to a new era of. Human humanity, essentially, you know, like, you know, human 2.0 or whatever. What advance say about the act in head just for a second? That's so hilarious. Because Vance is the temporary restrictions here. Just go back to this. I think Vance didn't like people whining about the Amy Acton ad. The temporary restrictions came as a surprise because Vance also kind of is another fibber about the tent. I think he's another one who's like, I lived in a tent. What are all these people in Ohio living in tents? What's going on? But this is we're back to Starlink. The temporary restrictions came as a surprise to some officials inside the administration who said, neither Mr. Trump nor the Pentagon specifically ordered any limits meant to deliberately disrupt drone operations and battlefield communications. Mr. Trump said Monday he was seeking details on who ordered the slowdown. I don't know who it was, but I'd like to find out, he said. I mean, that's like O.J. Simpson when he released the book. If I did it. It's like O.J. going like, I don't know who killed my ex-wife. I'd like to find out. No one wants to know more than I do. They're obviously helping Russia. They obviously want, you know, they want Putin to be happy. They're making backroom deals. I think the the idea that you can go to the Ukraine, meddle in their elections, support Zelensky, put five billion dollars into this thing, this revolution of dignity that they had. You know, listen, if you could wave a. Wand and everything could be exactly how you wanted. That's great. But the country sits on trillions of dollars of mineral deposits. And, you know, this is why we have an interest in it. And we talked about putting it in NATO, whether that was, you know, we were genuinely going to do it or not. Putin. Saw it as an existential threat, whether you think that's valid or not, it doesn't matter. He felt that it was. And he went to war and we told the Ukraine repeatedly. Not to negotiate. We told the Ukraine repeatedly to not negotiate and to continue fighting. We sent Boris Johnson there. We had Biden and the entire Jake Sullivan, the entire apparatus of our military industrial complex. All of that, our intelligence agency. Everybody's telling Ukraine, hey, we'll help you. We'll fund you. Don't negotiate. And in the process. In the process, a lot of people have died. Like, unbelievable. I forget what's the casualty number in Ukraine. It's like somewhere near a million. I don't know exactly. I don't want to say the wrong thing, but. OK, so Ukrainian forces have suffered between 525,000 and 625,000 total military casualties, including 125,000 to 150,000 deaths. But the 625,000. The people that were maimed and hurt. I mean, this is not exactly like a scratch. These are people whose lives have been permanently altered. Yeah. Estimates range from half a million to 625,000 killed, wounded or missing. This is a real war. People are dying and we need to bring it to an end and we need to do it diplomatically. And we're using Ukraine right now as a way to and have been for the last few years as a way to weaken Russia. It's had the opposite effect. And we've got a lot of people killed in the process. That doesn't mean Vladimir Putin's like a good guy or should have invaded. But we've seen this war as an opportunity to do what we've kind of always wanted to do, which is weaken Russia because everything's always about Russia. This new book that just came out, David Raboi's new book. I mean, you want to laugh? Want to have a laugh? Take a look at this new book, by the way. David Raboi, new book. It's it's about Epstein and and how Russia created the Epstein thing. This is like unbelievable. OK, like it is this new book that has come out. R.E.A. B.O.I. That has come out where. We are supposed to believe it's like unbelievable. So, yeah. David Raboi's new book is titled The Epstein Conspiracy. How Russia turned a lie about Jeffrey Epstein into a weapon against Israel, America and Jews. How Russia did this. Now, by the way, it's unbelievable. It's Russia. Russia is the reason that Jeffrey Epstein had an island and a mansion in Manhattan. And hung out with U.S. Presidents and prime ministers of Israel. It Russia invented that they made all that up. They spun this crazy net, this crazy wild narrative. I mean, it's laughable. But again, this is like I remember we didn't think about Russia for the majority of my life. You know, at the end of the at the end of the Cold War, our parents tried to sell us on the. Like these Long Island boomers were like, we used to have to go under our desks during nuclear drills. And it was supposed to make us go like, wow, you went through so much. Oh, my God, you went through so much. We used to have to get under our desks for nuclear drills. You don't you don't know what it was like. Oh, yeah. We get shot in the face in school. You don't know what that's like. But here's the other. So but but we didn't think about Russia that much. And then around like the 2010s, like during the Obama administration, people started Russia crept back up again. People started talking about Russia and how Russia was like this threat, this emerging threat. And then I remember and I'm sure Russia's had some influence operations in terms like social media and stuff. I'm not an idiot. I know they do stuff like that. We do stuff like that. Every developed country. To the extent that they can does things like that. But this whole idea that Russia is responsible for everything. Russia installed Donald Trump. Russia converted him as an asset in the 80s. And you just waited for him to become the press. Like, you know, and now the new book is that Russia invented Jeffrey Epstein. It's like you couldn't. You couldn't write a more ridiculous title if you wanted to. How Russia turned a lie about Jeffrey Epstein into a weapon against America, Israel and Jews. A lot of Jews live in Russia, by the way. It's so crazy. The book traces how the narrative move from a single discredited source into Russian state media and ultimately into mainstream American podcasts on the political left and right. Where with the intent. of undermining America's economy, you go, guys, guys. Guys, what? What are you even saying? The facts of the guy's life are the reason that people hold the beliefs they do about what he was doing. No one cares about that. Nobody cares about some source in Russian media. The facts speak for themselves. It's the craziest thing I've ever heard. But again, there's nothing Russia's not capable of doing. That's what you have to realize here. Russia did it. Russia did it. That's the whole thing. Sam Altman, you know, gets a trillion dollars from our government. Russia did that. Russia did it. Flock cameras everywhere. Russia. It's Russia. You're being told that you're being kicked off Medicaid because we're in a war with Iran? Russia. Russia did it. You see how it works? Russia is doing it all. Anything that you happen to be upset about can just get traced back to Russia. It's a very quick trip to Russia. It's always a quick trip to Russia. So now here is J.D. Vance. Just to go back to Ohio because what a terrible, terrible choice. Sophie's choice over there. J.D. Vance doubling down on the claim that Amy Acton and her brother are lying about being abused as children. Interesting. Interesting. So this is. This is J.D. Vance lying because J.D. Vance is on the side of Cleedeth. J.D. Vance weighing in now, speaking on behalf of Amy Acton's mother and Cleedeth. So let's hear what J.D. Vance has to say. And now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because guess what? Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to. run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar. Here's what's funny. The Trump administration has now become like 100% the we-defend-pedophiles administration. It is the most hilarious turn from whatever the QAnon people believed, which was that Trump was like directing underground armies to get the children because remember the tunnels were under Central Park. And Trump had like white hat, deep state. operatives that he had, you know, fighting the other deep state operatives and they were trying to get the children out of the tunnels. It has now become. The gaslighting is unbelievable. It has now become, hey, by the way, Epstein was like a weirdo. Nothing to see there. He wasn't doing anything. We're not going to release the rest of the files. We're not prosecuting anybody. And then this bitch goes like, you know, you know, I was also sexually assaulted. And he goes, shut up. Well, you know. You shut up. You're a liar. Go back in your tent. But it has become like somehow it became like the defense. Like they're telling just children to shut up about getting, you know? It's like unbelievable. This is now what the administration has become. It's like become the like, hey, why don't you shut your mouth about. And here's. Right. This is a person. Let's watch this. Somebody said release the Epstein files. They immediately get attacked. This is the white version of what we saw in Paris. Where you just basically have a bunch of psychotic, insane people that are. I mean, Trump now is playing to the lowest caliber of human being in our country. And these are basically people that. These are people that are just violent psychopaths that are attending these rallies. They don't care about any of the Epstein stuff. They don't care about. I've lost friendships over this. People that really joined the cult. Like joined the MAGA cult. And I disagree with the left on many things. But I've lost friendships over people that have joined the MAGA cult. And you couldn't get them back. Like they were gone. And you could just see it in their eyes where it was like, oh, you're gone. You can't come back. Come back. You're gone. And I think that's where they're at now. Where somebody with a release the Epstein files shirt. Which was the position that they all had two years ago. And for the prior fucking seven years, by the way. Somebody with a release the Epstein files shirt is just brutally attacked at a rally. Because these people are so far gone. That they no longer care. About. About anything except what this man says. They have absolutely no logic left. And I mean, the next crop of politicians that this country is going to have, it's unbelievable. I mean, judging from like, I lived in a tent. And it's like, no, bitch, you didn't live in a tent. Hey, I was raped. Shut up, bitch. You weren't raped. Like, I mean, if this is any. If this is any indication of where this country is going. And the people. The people that are stepping up to lead it. I mean, whoa. We need some fresh faces. We need some new people. We need some new blood. We need some. Whatever it is. But. I mean, this can't go on. Yeah, this Fatty Boombaddy at the Trump rally pummeled by a bunch of people. I mean, listen. How many people in that audience? Like, make that shot bigger if you can. Look at this audience of people. How many people in this audience at this point do you think would pass a psychological evaluation? I mean, how many people in this audience would just pass a regular mandatory psych eval? Like, there's no. There's no way it's a majority of them. There's no way that the people that are in this audience would pass a mandatory psych evaluation. There's zero way. This is the bottom of the pocketbook here. It's one thing if you're a rich guy and you go, Fuck it, I just want the money. Invade Iran. Do whatever. These crypto scammers and everything. They don't care. And whatever. I'm not saying anything about that morally. I'm just saying like, you know, but the people that are at these rallies that are still invested in this. How many of them could just. You know, if these people sat down, you would, you would, you would, you know, the person would go, This is a real. We've got real problems. The psych evaluation did not go the way we thought it did. This is not exactly. I mean, and I'm not even talking about like an. I'm not even talking about like to get into the, you know, CIA or whatever the fuck they make those people go through. I mean, just. This is a standard, regular, mandatory psych evaluation. How about this? Let's even drop the term psych evaluation and a job interview to work at Panera. How many people in this audience could get through a job interview to work at Panera? How many people could secure a job at Panera putting broccoli and cheese soup in a cardboard cup and handing. Handing it to somebody? Could they do that? I, and I don't think it's a. I don't think it's a majority of them. I think somewhere in the interview process, the manager of Panera would go, They displayed tendencies that we think would be incredibly disruptive here. They displayed tendencies in the interview. We saw evidence of some antisocial behavior, perhaps some violent tendencies. Some delusions of grandeur. I mean, you just got a couple of guys that are just wailing on this chick. They're just wailing on her. She could take it a little bit. She's a boon baddie. But it's still not exactly. And this is Trump. Let's play. Let's play Trump. Because again, this is. I mean, can you. Like, these people are still in this cult. They're still in. They're still in it. It's not fun anymore. No one's really smiling. And let's just watch a little bit of this. Yeah, I mean, it's. What's funny is he sold out all these people that are around him. They've all been sold out. He doesn't want to have dinner with them. He has dinner with, you know, the tech guy. or you know, his billionaire friends like these people have all been sold out and it is the hardest thing to admit here's where i will and i don't feel bad for these people but here's what i will say um the hardest thing to admit is that that is the toughest thing to admit these people when they admit how badly he screwed them will just spiral into alcoholism drug addiction and death most likely sadly um they will and not to say anything good about you know the people that led us here which was like psychotic behavior and the other side but he has specifically with this war in iran with um the the you know the hastening of the development of of ai at the expense of these people's livelihoods without with reckless abandon no regulation he has sold them out with with the iran war specifically with the with the middle east with reach redrawing the map of the middle east and and the spending of the money and he has sold these people out especially the younger people behind him it's it's unbelievable they can't comprehend how damaging the last two years have been for their lives and i and i think if they fully comprehended it it would be they would either have to just shut it off and not think about it maybe like amy acton's mother or or you know you you you just basically have to just go deeper into denial but there's there's no way to read it's very hard for people like this who again would not pass a psyche val probably would have trouble getting a venial job going through the interview um these people are really not all of them there's probably people in there with a little bit of money but are you know it's like american money like with a lot of dumb people in america have money a lot of stupid people have like way more money than you would think you'd be like whoa and they choose to be dumb because it's fun to be dumb and it's actually nice um and there's also an element of that in here too where people there's just a very toxic uh mix of all of these different things but the vast majority of people are peeling away i think the approval now is 30 unbelievable what are you doing if you lived in ohio are you going to vac or amy what do you think i'm going amy i don't like vivek i don't like vivek either uh i don't like don't amy i feel like i'm kind of with you there is a little bit something's wrong with amy but i'll tell you this i'm telling you right now i would vote for amy's mother i vote for i i because you know what here's the thing she might have married a pedophile and she might have raised her family in a tent but she stands by her man and where i come from we call that a down-ass bitch bye tim dillon shows brought to you by mod mod prescribes a once or twice daily modafinil drink that can keep your energized focused you want to be energized and focused and alert throughout the day here's the mechanism energy drinks with caffeine temporarily block adenosine the chemical that makes you tired it builds up and when the caffeine wears off it all crashes you down at once modafinil works differently it engages multiple pathways in your brain dopamine norepinephrine histamine and orexin to achieve steady energy and alertness for 10 to 12 hours was invented in the 1970s and since then it's been used by the highest performers on and off the planet whoa soldiers pilots and astronauts aboard the space station use modafinil on high-stakes situations where full concentration and alertness are it's now available at mod.com to qualifying patients visit mod.com folks do it now pull over your car for a free consultation get 10 off your first order plus free shipping with promo code tim that's promo code tim at mod.com promo code tim at mod.com see their website for important safety information we thank mod for sponsoring the pod