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Kanye, Elon, & The End Of DEI | The Tim Dillon Show #431

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show.
Another atmospheric rain event here in Los Angeles, a storm.
Cleansing the air of the fire, which is nice.
Cleansing the air of the hellish fire should be a 48-hour strongest storm
in a year bearing down on Southern California could cause flooding.
The terms now for these are always, you know, the most extreme.
They're like atmospheric, you know, sky storm.
It's never like it's going to rain for two days.
When I grew up, it was like it's raining.
And now it's like an atmospheric, you know, river or something they call it.
Like a, what is the term for this?
It's like a river of raging, even the way they write about it,
they're like raging torrents of rain and atmospheric river, they call it.
What happened to rain?
Like it was, it's going to rain a lot.
Now it's an atmospheric river.
Raging torrents of rock slides and mudslides.
It can be damaging and even deadly.
Yeah, well, that's not ideal.
But it doesn't, it doesn't help to call it an atmospheric river.
It's like a river is falling out of the sky onto whatever.
That's why I sold my house, you know, obviously.
Many people don't listen to the show.
They listen, but they don't listen.
So they come up to me and they go, did your house really burn down?
I go, well, it's pretty clear if you listen to the words.
Now I did keep hammering it going, my house burned down, my house burned down.
But there was a disclaimer early on when I said, I sold the house.
And I did.
I sold it last year because of the atmospheric river.
And torrents of raging atmospheric rain, river in the sky.
The storm is arriving through an atmospheric river.
Atmospheric river storms are long plumes of water vapor
that can pour over from the Pacific Ocean into California.
They carry so much water that they're said to be like a river in the sky.
Just a few atmospheric river events can bring California
from one third to one half of its annual precipitation.
What's nice about this, though, is we've had more rain than we've ever had
and we still don't have any water to fight fires.
So that's good that we have more water and yet none of it when it's needed
because we don't have a way to trap it and keep it or whatever.
But that's why I sold my home because my home was on a cliff.
I had a beautiful house.
It overlooked the valley, really.
I mean, my view was towards the valley,
but I looked at some of the hills in Beverly Hills and it was pretty.
But, you know, the California mountains aren't like Colorado.
You know, this isn't, you know, a mountain.
This isn't limestone.
This isn't, this is dirt.
The hills of California are packed dirt that with enough rain,
they all, you know, there's mudslides.
There are rock slides and people, you know, Mulholland Drive,
which is the road that you took to get,
one of the roads you took to get to my house.
Boulder slid down and they, and, and destroyed Mulholland Drive and they closed
it.
And it took months and months and months to get the road back to where you can
travel on it.
And I didn't love that.
I didn't like the idea of that.
Again, I, I think it's, you know, this is, you know, when you experience
climate,
you have to decide what is and isn't your home.
When you experience significant events that are out of your control, fires,
floods, hurricanes,
you have to decide how much you love a specific part of this country.
How much you're willing to sacrifice for it.
Are you okay with having a home on the West coast of Florida?
If it happens to be destroyed, can you bounce back?
Is that, no, you should think about this.
Truly.
Are you able to deal with the ramifications of an event?
Like a category four hurricane.
If you are living on the West coast of Florida, can you deal with the fire in
parts of the West coast?
Or are you going to make a different choice?
What is your home?
Are you willing to die for your home in your home?
Literally.
Are you willing to die in your home?
Are you willing to save people in your home?
Are you going to run around saving other people in the home?
I don't mean your home.
I mean your neighborhood, your town.
How deep are you in?
Are you rooted?
Do you care?
Are you willing to help the neighbors?
Do you love the neighbors?
Do you love it?
Are you fighting for it?
These are all real questions.
They are.
You have to decide where you want to, where your patch of dirt happens to be.
Is it worth it?
After we've had a wild year of fires and hurricanes and floods.
And I'm not saying you can predict this.
I'm also not saying you always have a choice.
Your kids are in the school.
Your job is there.
I get it.
I'm not an idiot.
I know that sometimes you just have to deal with it.
But there are people that are maybe younger or they have the ability to think
about these things before they buy a home.
Before they plant roots in an area.
What are you willing to deal with?
It's a trade-off.
It's a trade-off for sure.
It's a trade-off.
You know?
I don't know Elon Musk.
I met Elon Musk one time at a New Year's party a few years ago in Austin.
He was very gracious.
He was very nice to me.
A few of my friends were at that party.
We spoke very, you know, it was a minimal amount of interaction that we had.
He's an awkward guy.
He's clearly on the spectrum.
He clearly wants to be cool.
He clearly wants to be liked.
He has some brilliant thoughts in his head and he's got other thoughts.
He has some thoughts that have a lot of value and I'm sure there are thoughts
that do not.
He is quickly becoming the most famous person in the world.
I don't love this photo of Trump sitting there and Elon Musk standing over him
in kind of an ominous way.
You know, kind of wearing all black.
I don't love that.
And I don't, I'm not even suggesting that Trump is in somehow like, you know,
in debt to Elon.
Or being cucked by him in any way.
I'm just saying the photo itself, I don't love.
Now, obviously Elon spent a lot of money to get Trump elected and Elon put a
lot of effort and energy into that election.
And Elon's now working, I believe, as a special advisor, whatever the term is,
with this Department of Government Efficiency.
And he's going around and he is trying to purge the government of a lot of the,
some of the government employees.
He's trying to identify and isolate cases of corruption, waste, abuse.
And, you know, he's not wrong to be doing this.
This is something that Trump wants him to do.
Um, the aesthetics of it aren't ideal.
Trump doesn't look like he's in control.
Now, I'm not suggesting he's not.
This is just the appearance of it.
And appearances are, in many cases, reality.
They're enough reality for people to form opinions.
So, I think having a press conference in the Oval Office where Elon Musk is
standing over Donald Trump, dressed in all black, speaking more than Donald
Trump, isn't great.
I've predicted this relationship, at some point, was going to become difficult.
I think that's starting.
I'm not even saying that the U.S. aid program has an intrinsic value.
I think some of it does.
I mean, some of it for farmers.
And I'm sure there are people all over the world that get some help from this
program.
But it is also an intelligence front.
It is a CIA slash fund.
They do use it to foment instability all over the world where they can.
They provably use it domestically to fund protests.
They provably use it for all kinds of activities that are not necessarily in
the best interest of the American public.
But they're in the best interest of the CIA and the people that the CIA works
for.
That doesn't mean that everything that that agency does is bad.
And that doesn't mean that there aren't people that depend on that agency who
will suffer because it's completely closed down.
It is tough to hear people that have watched Benjamin Netanyahu vaporize tens
of thousands of Palestinian children who now come out and worry about children
in other countries not getting help from the U.S. aid program.
That is what they call irony.
I will say this.
He's going to go into the Pentagon next.
I mean, perhaps.
They're saying that some of the next targets might be the Department of Defense
and Education.
The Pentagon, we know, has lost lots of money.
USAID, that program, has lost a lot of money.
There are billions of dollars that are unaccounted for.
The Pentagon, you know, I mean, I remember back to the days of the Iraq War
when the Pentagon had lost billions of dollars, trillions of dollars unaccounted
for.
This isn't something new.
And this doesn't seem to be something that anybody wants to happen, which might
be, it might not be that bad that it's happening.
I think Musk is doing it in a very sloppy way.
I think he's got, you know, this band of 20-year-olds running around.
I think the aesthetics of it make it seem like Trump isn't in control.
And I think that makes Trump appear weak, which is not what he would want.
And I think that there are going to be cuts that are sloppy.
In the same way that when the Biden administration got everybody to administer
these DEI programs, diversity, equity, and inclusion,
they were done in a very sloppy way.
This idea that we had to make sure that every company, every university, every
athletics, you know, you know, franchise had diversity, equity, and inclusion
officers in it to make sure that they were hitting certain quotas.
And that the messaging of these institutions didn't exclude any group of people,
no matter how statistically insignificant that group was.
It was done in a very sloppy way.
So this is not unlike that in the sense that this is not a methodical approach.
But I don't know that you have the time to do a methodical approach.
That would be their argument.
Their argument would be, well, we don't have time to be methodical.
We have billions of dollars unaccounted for.
We have tons of fraud and corruption.
And the fact that Elon Musk happens to be the wealthiest man in the world
certainly does not help the aesthetics of what's going on.
Because here's the way this is being presented.
These are government bureaucrats who are doing good things.
They're good people.
They're lovely.
They are just here to help.
They're just here to help.
That's all USAID is.
That's all we're doing in other countries is helping.
That's why they love us so much.
I love, by the way, I'm reading these articles and they go,
USAID is one of the reasons people like us in the world.
No, no one likes, nobody likes us.
Nobody.
Go to any of these countries where they have USAID.
Half the people believe it's a CIA front.
The other half know it is.
And they all hate us.
None of them like it.
The idea that people adore us, yes.
Is there, have we provided aid to people that have been grateful?
Sure.
But in mass, in totality, the idea that we're winning all these friends and
everybody like,
go travel the world, tell me how much we're loved.
Go tell, go travel the world, tell me how much after we've overthrown
governments, okay?
Invaded countries, occupied them, tortured their residents, kidnapped them in
the middle of the night,
put them in secret underground torture prisons.
How much USAID has made up for that in the minds of people?
I'm asking, go travel the world and ask a lot of these people, do they really
love us or are they full of shit?
They don't love us, number one.
I'm not saying USAID doesn't have good things.
The Republicans are trying to restart the farm aid package for a lot of the
farmers that need aid.
Because eggs are a trillion dollars.
Because they had the Holocaust, a bunch of chickens, because of the bird flu,
they had the Benjamin Netanyahu, like 30,000 chickens.
And now we all have to pay, it's $5 for eggs.
I notice it now.
I'm even noticing it.
The rich.
Not the Elon Musk rich, the working rich.
But eggs are a lot of money now.
So they're trying to restart, you know, because they had to get rid of all
those chickens.
We're off topic.
The point is this.
People think what's happening right now.
I love ShipStation.
It's so important.
I mean, let