473 - Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush

Summary

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The Tim Dillon Show – Episode 473

Title: Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush
Date: December 6, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Tim Dillon—known for his dark comedic takes on American decline—dives into stories of violence in his Long Island hometown, the manufactured drama of American foreign policy, and the meaninglessness of modern American life. Using a recent parental double homicide in a Long Island deli as a springboard, Tim rants about suburban despair, the decline of national purpose, performative government violence, and why no one dresses up for the holidays anymore. Along the way, he skewers the absurdities of tech billionaires, political theater, and the hollow core of American entertainment.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Long Island Deli Double Murder

(00:44 – 09:49)

• Tim opens with a recent murder: a young man killed his parents in a Long Island deli.
• He recounts how violence in suburban strip malls isn’t as rare as outsiders think, but stabbings during the “sacred” breakfast rush struck a particular nerve.
• Tim’s dark humor surfaces as he jokes about why, on Long Island, “if you kill one parent, the other will never let you forget it, so you might as well do both” (02:58).
• Delis are painted as near-religious spaces where people “finish their day” with a caloric, comforting, bacon-egg-and-cheese feast.
• The murder represents the culmination of suburban consumerism and hopelessness: “This is what it looks like. We have zero national purpose anymore.” (18:22)

Notable Quotes

• Tim Dillon: “A Long island deli in the morning is one of the greatest places you can ever be.” (06:44)
• Tim Dillon: “Long island is the natural state of life, which is why it's so ugly... It is life in its natural state, truly, which is like gross and, and. And cruel.” (16:17)
• Tim Dillon: “It’s not like some quaint little town… What civilization really is, is Bottle Depot and someone who's killing their parents in the deli.” (16:48)

2. America’s Lack of National Purpose and the Tech Oligarchy

(18:22 – 22:11)

• Tim riffs on how the only Americans with “purpose” are Silicon Valley’s AI entrepreneurs (“They all agree we should leave the planet—and by ‘we’ they mean them.”).
• He contrasts the nihilistic everyday grind—deli, Bottle Depot, methadone clinic—with the AI set, forwarding a world of surveillance, crypto feudalism, and escape from Earth itself.
• Everyone else is stuck in retail parks, “going over to the methadone clinic,” while national politics is just about one side trying to dominate or destroy the other.

Notable Quotes

• Tim Dillon: “The only people in our society who've agreed on anything all run AI companies. Think about this…They've agreed that borders and countries are fake.” (19:06)
• Tim Dillon: “Everybody else, Bottle Depot, going over to the methadone clinic.” (21:28)

3. Performative Violence as Governance: Venezuela, Pete Hegseth, and War Crimes

(28:59 – 43:25)

• Tim discusses recent reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of everyone on suspected drug-smuggling boats from Venezuela, which may amount to a war crime.
• He lacerates the idea that American government is only “functional” to the public when it’s actively bombing someone, especially during scandals like Epstein or times of economic malaise.
• The American need for spectacle is palpable: “A Boomer loves a grainy video of a boat being blown up in a country we didn’t even know we were mad at.” (38:40)
• He connects government violence abroad to domestic decline and escapism, with suburbanites tuning out scandals while getting distracted by militaristic spectacle.

Notable Quotes

• Tim Dillon: “This is how it is, folks…We're a government. There it is.“ (38:29)
• Tim Dillon: “When the Epstein stuff's going down and all this stuff is going down, someone up there goes, we need to start bombing. Someone like now we need to pivot people's attention from the economy and the pedophile ring we're covering up to Venezuela.” (57:01)
• Tim Dillon: “Forget the morality of it. It's not what we're here to analyze…You know your audience and you know it will work.” (58:52)

4. Immigration Enforcement, Silicon Valley, and Deportation as Political Theater

(46:11 – 54:54)

• Tim explores how tech companies like Palantir now profit from ICE raids and immigration enforcement, noting “progressive” branding is a cover for profit-driven expansion of state power.
• He points out the contradiction of tech leaders supporting extreme immigration surveillance while decrying government regulation of their own businesses.
• Harsh deportations, he warns, radicalize the public and reinforce the sense of political theater rather than real policy.
• Both left and right parties are called out for “performative” politics—the right’s cruelty, the left’s empty “holding space” rituals.

Notable Quotes

• Tim Dillon: “They're building a new world that excludes anyone's right to criticize it…” (48:30)
• Tim Dillon: “Any political movement eventually has two parts…it’s the show.” (54:54)

5. The Collapse of Holiday Formality and the Tech Bro Aesthetic

(32:27 – 35:33)

• Tim laments the death of formality at the holidays, blaming finance’s decline and tech’s irreversible impact on dress codes and culture.
• He proposes: “If you want the holidays to be better, I think you should institute a dress code.” (35:00)
• The pervasively casual aesthetic is not just a style choice—it's symbolic of deeper decay.

Notable Quotes

• Tim Dillon: “They don't want to dress too formally while, while they're, you know, instituting systems of mass death…” (33:10)
• Tim Dillon: “People need to show up to your house. It cannot show up in sweatpants. And they cannot look like they just got out of the hospital.” (35:18)

6. Mainstream Entertainment, Alienation, and the Allure of Escapism

(65:37 – 70:55)

• Tim checks in with Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, marveling at the vapidity of mainstream entertainment: “Why would you not do fentanyl and kill your parents in a deli? When that is what is being offered as the mainstream entertainment option?” (70:00)
• He jokes that reality is so numbing and bizarre, drug use starts to sound rational.
• The central point: With nothing of meaning or connection left in mainstream culture, extreme acts and distractions rise.

7. Cynicism about Philanthropy and America’s Future

(72:03 – 74:01)

• At episode’s end, Tim mocks a promo about Michael and Susan Dell’s $6.25 billion charity gift, quipping about the futility of “investing in America’s kids” when “no one believes the children are our future. Really. They're killing their parents in delis.” (74:01)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Delis as Sacred:

  • “A Long island deli in the morning is one of the greatest places you could ever be.” (06:44)

• On Suburban Anomie:

  • “Long island is the natural state of life, which is why it's so ugly… It is life in its natural state, truly, which is like gross and, and. And cruel and, And, And that's what it is…” (16:17)

• On Government Functioning as Spectacle:

  • “One of the only ways to prove that we're a functioning government is for Pete…to go on TV and go, we're killing someone.” (37:01)

• On Tech Power:

  • “They’re building a new world that excludes anyone’s right to criticize it.” (48:30)

• On American Holidays:

  • “If you want the holidays to be better, I think you should institute a dress code.” (35:00)

• On Mainstream Entertainment’s Futility:

  • “Why would you not do fentanyl and kill your parents in a deli? When that is what is being offered as the mainstream entertainment option?” (70:00)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:44 – 09:49: Opening story – Long Island deli murder & the sacredness of breakfast
• 16:08 – 21:28: The natural state of suburbia, loss of national purpose, and tech’s “escape” philosophy
• 28:59 – 43:25: Pete Hegseth, Venezuela, and war crime allegations – how bombing equals governance
• 46:11 – 54:54: Tech companies and anti-immigration theater
• 32:27 – 35:33: Decline in holiday formality, tech culture’s effect on elites and norms
• 65:37 – 70:55: Mainstream entertainment’s emptiness—Fallon, dolls, and why not just do drugs?
• 72:03 – 74:01: Cynicism about philanthropy and “investing” in America's children

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Summary Flow

Tim Dillon’s Episode 473 is a bleak, hilarious parade of American sorrow—a tour through violence at home, the performativity of American power abroad, and the great void at the heart of post-industrial society. Using the personal and the local (a deli murder) to frame the structural and global (war crimes, tech dystopias), Tim finds the tragic (and comic) symmetry in everything from deli breakfast sandwiches to Fox News militarism. The episode, as is his style, stitches together social decay, political cynicism, and savage jokes, targeting everything from Silicon Valley overlords to failed holiday traditions to the mainstream’s cultural nothingness.

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For those who haven't listened:

• Expect sharp, dark humor and a relentless critique of American banality.
• The episode’s energy is equal parts comic outrage and mournful nostalgia, punctuated by Tim’s trademark metaphors and “can you believe this?” incredulity.
• While the core is comedic, the show’s themes—alienation, spectacle politics, the emptiness of progress—cut deep.

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Transcript

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And I, and I read about this. On Long island there is a deli I believe in Beth Page and a young man who was troubled, he had a drug addiction, killed both of his parents, I believe stabbed them to death.

In a Long island deli. And I don't like hearing that because that's where I grew up and I don't, I don't like to hear that. Now. This isn't as rare as you'd think on Long Island. There's actually a lot of people who do kill their parents. This is true.

And it's something that, it's something that just hangs in the air is that people kill their parents on Long Island. This is not something that's completely unheard of. Unfortunately, this does happen. And you know.

I get it. Obviously I would never kill my parents and I would never want anyone to be killed and I would never want anyone's parents to be killed and I would certainly never want anyone to be killed in a deli, which should be a place of love and kind of, you know, reflection. That's what a deli is. You should be able to kind of eat and kind of reflect on your day, your week, your month, your year.

The trajectory of your life, whatever. I mean, sitting in a deli should be peaceful. You should not be dealing with a guy who came in to stab his parents. But just knowing a lot of people on Long island and knowing kind of, you know, that whole thing, that whole dynamic. I'm trying to be very careful about how I say this, but I can, I can understand and I'm obviously would never condone it. Obviously. I mean, I don't know how many disclaimers I need here, but I think that fans and the listeners know what I'm trying to say. I understand this. I do not agree with it, but I have met enough people on that island, you know, I grew up there. I lived there for many years.

And I get. And here's the other thing. People aren't going to like, I get doing both of them. Because if you kill one of your parents on Long island, the other one will just become such a cunt. I mean, gender unimportant. If you kill one of your parents on Long island, the other parent will become so insufferable and they will use it as a way, by the way, to constantly.

They. You. It'll be like you killed them. Like, the one that survives will complain so much. Not that they even love their significant other that much either. They will just use it forever.

My son killed my husband. Like, it will. It'll never end. It will never end. So I get having to kind of do them both, to get rid of both of them, because you go, I'll. If I kill one of these people, I will never hear the end of it. Just because of the types of, you know, the personality types. And now this guy. Police said a man and woman were stabbed to death just after 9am Thursday in the deli they had owned for decades. A man was taken into custody shortly after. And while police did not confirm the individual's identity or his relationship to the victims, friends of the shop owner said the man was one of the couple's three sons. His hands was bloody, his clothes were bloody, and he was just leaning on his car. I didn't know anything that happened at the time, but he just sat on his car, said witness Brandon James. Near the crime scene. The daughter, the owner's daughter was inconsolable. His friends comforted her inside the deli. Another man saw the man walk out from the back of the shop. I just seen the son walking out. I mean, this is really. I mean, these quotes, the grammar in these quotes. These Long island goons that can barely speak. I just seen the sun walking out. And he says that I stabbed my parents. And that was it. He was very cool, like nothing happened. I mean, what. These are the actual quotes from the article. I just see the sun walking out. And he says that, hey, I stabbed my parents. And that was it. Can you believe this guy?

This guy comes out, he goes, hey, I stabbed my parents.

I stab him. My mama and my papa.

It's so fucked up. You stab him in a deli. 9am the smell of bacon on the griddle. The smell of bacon on the griddle. You've got a bacon, egg and cheese waiting for you. And this guy comes in.

Because this was someone's Favorite deli. You know, everyone in Long island has a deli. I grew up with great delis.

You know, they're, they're fewer and they're few and far between. Now, that doesn't mean there's not a lot of delis, but the, the ones that I grew up with were truly great.

I don't know anything about this deli and I'm sure I'll hear from friends and people that are like, I know the people or I've been to that deli or I, whatever, or someone will always have a beef. They'll be like, well, I actually didn't like them that much. But a Long island deli in the morning is one of the greatest places you could ever be.

A Long island deli in the morning is one of the greatest places you can ever be. Because everyone really. People don't go to a Long island deli to start the day. They go to finish the day. They go to the. It's the end of the day if you go to Long Island Deli. Hit image of this deli. Let's see what this deli looks like. I'm getting hungry.

Was this a. This looks like a little. Was this a little bit of an Italian deli? Yeah, yeah. A lot of these are Italian delis. And they got a little pizza happening as well.

I wonder if they did. Yeah, they did. Breakfast, of course. That's the thing about a Long island deli. You know, when you're in Manhattan or you're in wherever you are and you're in a place, people are getting their egg whites, turkey hot sauce because they're starting the day and they're going to go make a million dollars and get a wife. But Long island delis are where you go to end the day. You get the caloric intake of the day in one sandwich. And then you go sit in an office and do nothing except read comments on the Internet and go insane. That's the entire day of Long Island. It's your life. It's actually not bad. You eat so much food you get. Once you have finished your breakfast on Long island, you are done. You're done. It's. It's two or three eggs, bacon, American cheese, salt, pepper, ketchup on a roll. Some people will do a hungry man hero that includes a hash brown and ham. That's a little excessive in my opinion. You might get a chocolate milk or Ronnie Brook Farms, perhaps an Asley Quick and. And a lot of these people chase that with a siggy or they'll chase it With a nice big, tall cup of coffee with a lot of coffee creamers. You might see French vanilla. French vanilla is a big coffee creamer on the island. But some people might do a little holiday cookie creamer, a little amaretto, a little hazelnut, whatever floats your boat. And then you just go sit in an office.

And. And. And. And read things on the Internet that make you insane.

And then you eat lunch, and then you go home and you. You. You sit in your house and you eat again. And maybe you go out to dinner or to a bar and drink.

And this is it. So this is a holy sacrament in the morning, the bacon, egg and cheese in Long Island. And this guy went in and he stabbed his two parents in the deli. Mamma mia. Let's watch a little bit of this.

News story here. Again, this is from. And I had to cover this right up front. And then we'll get into, like, I don't know, what is Pete Hegseth doing? He's killing a fisherman there in Venezuela. But we'll get into that. We'll get into that. He just wants to kill people, that guy. Have you seen that guy's face?

That. And I think he killed only two people. You got. Here's the thing. We in America, that's like a thing. If you kill a few people, you gotta kill a lot of people. For us to turn the other way. You kill two people, we're all over that. You need to kill so many people that, frankly, we get.

Kind of like, you know, overwhelmed. You get overwhelmed if you start. If you. If they started killing so many people over there in Venezuela, you could find a justification for it. You get overwhelmed, you go, yeah, I guess there's a reason they're killing all those people. But you kill a few people, it's confusing. I'm like, why are you doing that? What's that one boat? What's that one little tiny boat that He's. Is. He's a. How many drugs are on that little boat? All right, let's watch this here. Double murder. Long island, place of my birth, in a deli, no less. Come on to Long island, where a man is in custody tonight accused of brutally stabbing and killing the owners of a beloved deli. It happened during the breakfast rush. And witnesses now, by the way. By the way. So they've already. They're letting you know what a big deal that breakfast rushes. He just wants to let you know, first of all, we've already moved on past the stabbing. Now we're all going, wow, it's the breakfast rush. It's the height of the morning. This is the biggest Long Island. It's about mornings and nights. The days are nothing. The days are kind of nothing. No matter how much money you have, if you live out in the Hamptons, the days are nothing. You kind of, like, wander around an empty beach and take a pill or something. And. And. And if you have no money, the days are nothing because you sit in, like, a debt collection office and call people and threaten them, even though you also have no money now. So he's saying it's the breakfast rush. There's hash browns, People are on the grill. And. And this guy's going to kill people in the morning. It's crazy. Go on in here. Say they believe the alleged killer is the couple's own son. News4's Pisy Chang is live in Bethpage with a horrific turn of events. Paisy.

Yeah, David. It happened here at Ana Deli. And anybody who has ever been into this deli say that the owners were just amazing people. If you went in here, you didn't have enough change, you didn't have. Have enough money, they would always just say, forget about it. Come back tomorrow. It wasn't a big deal. Very kind, very generous. And they are all trying to make sense of this senseless tragedy. Crime scene detectives. Hold on. Hold on a minute. Go back to. Just go back to see her. This is to just educate people that don't know where I'm from in my life. This is the. Where I come from. Okay, Just go back again, please, and just try to freeze it on that Asian woman. Yeah, see if we can. Can we get some light on that so I can see it? Yeah, just freeze. Oh, you can't freeze it without. Damn it. You have a Carvel ice cream right next to this Italian deli. Where I come from, I should be £900. You are so. I mean, it's. You're so destroyed every day of your life.

This is a deli that also has pizza. Do you understand what I mean? It's like a deli that goes, just also eat pizza while you're here. Just eat pizza while you're shopping. And then next to it, there's ice cream. It's unreal. But. And this story. I don't know why this story got me so much. You know, again, this show has become so big, and we talk about so many of these things, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm in DC this weekend at the DC Improv, and I get invited to all these, you know, Christmas things. That are going on around. Watch. I really don't think I'm going to go to any of them because I really just. I really just trash these people on the show. And then it's weird to kind of see them. If you see them, you're eating a little meatball at some big party or event. But I also may go, but because the food will be free. But I don't want to be attacked by Cash Patel's girlfriend in D.C. what's her name? Alexis Wilkins. I don't want to be attacked by Alexis Wilkins in D.C.

I don't want to be attacked by this woman. Or worse, what if she's is singing Christmas songs? That's even worse. I don't want to be. You know, I'm like. I'm like, I'm eating a tiny crab cake in the corner, and then I'm. I'm.

I. I just. It's Alexis Wilkins. I see her from the corner of the room, and she makes a beeline to me. I'll just FaceTime Candace Owens and hold my phone out like a cross. You are repelled. All right, let's go back to this here because. But. And here's what I mean, here's my point. You can't forget where you came from. And where I come from truly is. And I. And I don't say this with any joy. The worst people in the world. I mean, there is nothing. This man killed his parents during the breakfast rush. They are without conscience and they don't care. Here they are.

Crime scene detectives removing evidence from Ana Deli in Beth Page, a fixture in the community. Now the scene right next to Bottle Depot. Do you understand the hell that I come from? It is an Italian deli. It is sandwiched in between Carvel ice Cream and Bottle Depot, A place where you buy alcohol, you. You drink it, and then you die.

I'm telling you right now, you need to understand where I am from. And we must celebrate the fact that I have crawled out of that pit, but kind of also now, looking at that strip mall, want to crawl back in it? Because I have realized, meeting all the people I've met and seeing what I've seen, I've kind of realized.

That as. As bad as Long island is, it is the natural state of life.

Long island is the natural state of life, which is why it's so ugly. We hate seeing it. We don't like seeing it because it is life in its natural state, truly, which is like gross and, and. And cruel and. And, And. And that's what it is, and that's why I appreciate it now. When I go back there, I appreciate it for what it is, which is the. It. It is just the raw state of.

What we've done here. This is the suburbs. This is what we've done. This is what society really. It's not like some quaint little town. It's not like a little Gilmore Girls town where everybody's like, knows each other and, you know, everybody's, oh, I love the soup. They make it. The organic grocer. And we're gonna go with lentil soup day. No, that's not what it is. What civilization really is is bottle depot and someone who's killing their parents in the deli. This is what America is now. It's the culmination of everything we've ever done, by the way, when you look around in America, it's the culmination of everything we've ever done. There are no surprises. Nothing is shocking if you have even the smallest amount of intelligence. There's. Yeah, there's nothing. There's no trend. We go, how do we get here? Whoa, whoa. Wow.

This went left. No, it didn't. This. This went exactly to where it was going to go. This went to exactly the place that anyone could have protected. I'm sorry, that could have predicted it was going to go. The suburban sprawl, the poison, the drugs, the alcohol, the consumerism, the food, the hatred, the division, all of it. All of it across the board.

This is what it looks like. This is what it looks like. We have zero national purpose anymore. The people that are trying to introduce a national purpose.

Are trying to. It's only about dominating the people they disagree with. The only national purpose that anyone puts forward is to destroy half the country. That's the only purpose that anyone's put forward, by the way. Everyone's like, oh, we got a national purpose. Women shouldn't vote. Kill gays, kill them, burn them, or the other side. Their national purpose is to just infect everybody with whatever madness spell they're under. So that's the problem in the body politic is that there are. There is no purpose that doesn't involve destroying half of the country. We. We don't have one. We don't have one on any level, by the way. There's. There's not one thing we can. So the only people in our society who've agreed on anything all run AI companies. They're the. Think about this. These are. The only people who agree on anything are Silicon Valley AI entrepreneurs. And they all agree that we should leave the planet. And by we, they mean them. And that's the only people that are in agreement. Everyone else is like, we just. They're at Bottle Depot, they're at the Italian Deli with pizza, or they're at the Carvel Ice Cream. And if you go get a vanilla milkshake with chocolate chip and Crunchy swirled through the shake, it's unreal, but that's what I mean. You have, you have two sides. You have the, you, you have one side that wants to dominate the other side. You have, you have the. You know, both sides want to kill the other side. And then the only people who've agreed, the only agreement we have in our country right now is in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Menlo Park. These are the only people that have, that have agreed. And they've agreed that borders and countries are fake. They've agreed that governments have no legitimacy to tell them what to do or to limit.

Their products. They've agreed that the Earth as a planet is kind of getting old and maybe it's time to shed that and get out of here. They've agreed that humanity itself should go away and should be augmented with superior technology.

So that AI doesn't defeat us, we must merge with it. All of those decisions have been made. They believe we should live in a surveillance state. And they believe that we will live in a kind of feudal system where digital money crypto will reign supreme and that.

We will have sort of a digital surveillance and police state. They're. They're all agreed. They're all agreed. Everyone else fighting about abortion, the. They're fully on, agreed to the left, to the right, it doesn't matter. They don't care. So they're the only people in America that have a national purpose. If you talk to the AI people, they're. They're busy. They fully have a national purpose. They have a purpose. They get it. Defeat China, be the leader in AI technology. Leave the planet, enslave the population. Fully, fully on board. They have a purpose. Everybody else, Bottle Depot, going over to the methadone clinic.

This is the state of the country. It's. Everything that we've ever done has led to this. Every decision that we've ever made, from urban planning to architecture, every level of government, state, local, federal, all of these things add up to what you're looking at right now. There's strip mall where a drug addict stabs two of his parents in the deli that they own. This is a horrible story, obviously, but everything leads to this. Everything leads to this. Let's watch a little bit more here. They were just hardworking people, you know, I mean, a staple like in this neighborhood for so long. Like it's crazy to believe they're not here anymore. Where's my sandwich? That's what she wanted to say. By the way. I know they're dead. Where's the food? I've been standing here 45 minutes. Can one of their children fry an egg? One of the ones that didn't stab them because I've been here 45 minutes. By the way, not to be morbid, but this is such a hot topic. I guarantee you they love like Long Island. This is such an exciting.

Did you hear it's a big thing at the nail salon. It's gonna be a big thing in the schools. The teachers, little coffee klotch, bunch of teachers get together in the break room. Did you hear? This is gonna be a big story.

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There's I'm sure there's some coming in from Venezuela. Of course, there is a regime change, war decapitating the government. I don't know. I mean, what are we doing? I mean, nobody knows what we're doing. I don't think anybody knows what we're doing here.

But I guess Pete Hegseth, our secretary of war.

Is kind of denying that he committed a war crime because people are now saying that top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers.

So here's the thing. The remarks came in response to a Washington Post report on Friday that said the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, had given a verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs and that this led a military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack in early September. Obviously, if that occurred, that would be very serious, and I agree that that would be an illegal act. Representative Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio and former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, sent on Face a Nation.

They got to kill people. This is what the thing is. The Epstein thing is like an like.

It'S like an albatross around their neck. You just can't get rid of it. They can't shake it. They're covering up a human trafficking ring. It's they can't shake it. They can't shake it. So they the economy is tough. There's more layoffs now.

That at any time since COVID the economy is tanking. People feel very apprehensive about the holiday season, shopping, getting presents for their family. And by the way, stop then don't ears and kids get present. Stop with the adults. I'm telling you now, I'M telling you now. I used to always kind of bemoan what had happened to the holidays. And I still do. People show up in sweatpants, people look like shit, nobody dresses up, the food isn't good, no one cares. People are. You know, it's just there's no pride in the holidays anymore. When I grew up, my grandmother, my grandfather, there was pride. And people would dress nicely. There'd be a formal dinner, people would sit there, there would be multiple courses of food, and there would be discussion and conversation and, and prayer, whatever your rituals are. But now we don't have that. We have a lot of people sitting on a couch and snuggies and onesies. And people all kind of look like they just got outta rehab. And they all, and they all are on pills and they're all just kind of sitting there. They're all PTSD trauma victims. I don't know why, but they are because of traffic, because they can't handle traffic. So everybody's just like sort of a trauma victim whose mind has been wiped out. And they're just eating like Pillsbury dough croissants on a couch from Ikea. It's filthy, it's disgusting. And I. So I bemoaned the holidays, and now people are actually starting to agree with me. They're all coming around to this. They're going, you know, you're right, you've been saying this for years, but it's true. People are going, yeah, it doesn't feel like the holidays anymore. And I'll. I'll tell you why. It's the lack of formality in the country.

It's the lack of formality in the country. A lot of this is when, when finance was our industry. Say what you want about the finance people. They're crooks, they're scum, whatever, sure.

But they wore suit. The tech people are very casual and they kind of wear.

Much more casual clothing. And that has in. And they are the people that have the most money now, and they're the most powerful and they have the political influence. And that tech aesthetic has infected.

A lot of the elites, top tier, higher end people. And they're walking around in jeans and they're walking around without a tie, and maybe no one has a blazer. And maybe so. So now, by the way, it. All right, get, get. What do these people wear? This is what tech people kind of wear. I mean, they look right, they're in hoodies, they're walking around Stanford. They're nerds. They're bums. Fine. It's okay. Look at basis. Look at it. Look at him. This guy's one of the wealthiest people in the entire world. And again, this outfit would be your earth science teacher. That's what your earth science teacher would look like in 2002. That's what your earth science teacher would look like. That guy's one of the wealthiest men in the world. He doesn't look at, he looks like an earth science teacher. Because the tech people exude this kind of casual. Because they're casually destroying everything. It's the whole point. They don't want to, they don't want to be too. They don't want to dress too formally while, while they're, you know, instituting systems of mass death. But they, they're very influential because rich people now are aping them and looking like them. Now it bleeds all the way down to the point where you're, you're at your Christmas and no one is dressed up and no one looks nice. And it's a, it's a very casual. And I think that that's one of the reasons the holidays have declined. And I think if you want the holidays to be better, I think you should institute a dress code. This is something that the Tim Dillon show is actually.

Talking about, is actually instituting a dress code into the holiday where people actually, if you're going to go to the trouble of cooking or catering or ordering food or whatever you're going to do, people need to show up to your house. It cannot show up.

In sweatpants. And they cannot look like they just got out of the hospital. They cannot show up in a hospital gown and paper slippers and sit there. It's not a ward, it's a home.

But you have a lot of anxiety about how much money people have right now with everything happening. I think we've had like a million layoffs. I read that last night. So here's what you're gonna have to do. You're gonna have to kill people. And they, and they look at Venezuela and they're a good boogeyman because they were socialists and we've never really liked them from Hugo Chavez and he's a communist. He's a communist. So. And then drugs. Well, do you want to get stabbed in your deli by your drug addict son? What? So we're going to kill Maduro. So Venezuela is like a good, that's a good one. The Middle east is too tricky right now. Israel and Gaza, that whole thing is. It was too tricky and there's a lot of bad PR. @. In America now with all. With the whole Middle East. So we got to stay out of the Middle east for a while. So we're going back to our old bag of tricks, which is South America. We're going back to South America now because the Middle east got too hot. When you're selling drugs on a block and the block becomes hot, it means that maybe the police are surveilling it and you got to move your operation. So what happened in the Middle east was Israel went wild. They bombed Qatar. Ally Qatar. We had to go, hey, you guys got to chill the fuck out. Israel was at war with, like, seven countries. Saudi Arabia, our. Our boy over there are the American dollar system kind of, you know, again, partially held up by the Saudi, the petrodollar. It's like the American monetary system. There's a lot of internal and external strife right now regarding the last two years in the Middle East. It's traumatic. It's traumatic, but we still need to kill people right now to just show people that we have a functioning government. We don't. There's no way to show anyone that we have a functioning government unless a guy comes on TV and goes, we're going to kill. We're killing someone right now. I know you're unemployed, but watch this. We're. We're bombing a boat. This is what people are doing. They're in their delis waiting to get stabbed by their children, and they're watching Fox News, and they're watching a boat blow up, and they're going, we're still a functioning government. And I mean, I know it's funny, but this is absolutely true. It is. Right now, one of the only ways to prove that we're a functioning government is for Pete. He had to go on TV and go, we're killing someone.

Because of the drugs. We're. We're. We're. We're. We're. We're blowing up a boat. Do we have a video of this? Can we get a video of the boat being blown up?

This is how it is.

This is how it is, folks. Let's take a look at this. See, look. We're. We're a government.

There it is.

Boomers love this. Hey, it may not rate with you, you fucking zoomer. Fuck you. Fuck you, you millennial narcissist. A boomer loves a grainy video of a boat being blown up in a country we didn't even know we were mad at. We didn't even know they were the problem. We barely heard of them. We barely heard of it's like, well, the Russia, Ukraine thing happened. Ukraine was our greatest ally, our best friend. We hadn't even heard of these people. No one had said anything because it was just Hunter Biden and people getting, like, contracts and all these, like, Nepo baby crackheads going to work at Ukrainian gas companies. I wasn't getting those jobs. You weren't getting those jobs. This was Nepo baby political Nepo baby crack addicts having a lot of fun over there in Kiev, you know, with a gun in a hooker's mouth, getting money. So that's why they didn't talk much about the Ukraine. And then Russia invaded Ukraine, in my estimation, after we had kind of weirdly been obsessed with the idea of including Ukraine into NATO and then kind of instigating a little bit. And then Russia, and again, you know, inappropriately, if it makes anyone feel better, invaded the Ukraine. And it's been a bloody, horrible war which has been egged on by.

Financial interest, weapons manufacturers in the United States and Europe. And.

It'S ugly. But we didn't know much about the Ukraine that we didn't know that, like, we owed them, like, everything in the world and that, you know, like, it would be Ukrainians, like now. By the way, just keep in mind, I'm not a heartless person. I feel terrible. I had a comedian on who now lives in Texas, who was a Ukrainian. I felt very bad about what happened. If I could wave a wand, I. I'd have the war not happen at all. But it was very. It's very interesting to me that there's Ukrainian flags all over Beverly Hills, all over la, and you see them all over everywhere. And I had no idea how close of a relationship we had with Ukraine. I just didn't know. I did not know that. I didn't know it. I was surprised by it when I saw all of the Ukrainian flags come out. And I have. Some of these people are probably from Ukraine. I get it. I'm not. I'm not like some, like, psycho.

I just was surprised. Like, right now, I'm surprised by how much Venezuela is a threat to us. Again, I didn't know this. I'm a relatively intelligent person. I pay pretty close attention to the news. It's my job. I had no idea that, like, Venezuela was responsible for all of the drugs. I thought it was, like, I don't know, Mexico or China or, like, any of the countries that we had been told were, you know, you can't start bombing boats in China. Eleven US warships and 15,000 troops now in Caribbean as Venezuelan tensions escalate.

So here's the thing, folks. A boomer likes to see a video of a boat getting bombed. And there's a narrative and he's a socialist. And it makes sense. It fits. It's casting and it works. It works. We need a little bit of something going on. And this works. It's Venezuela. It's perfect.

It's perfect. Drugs are a big problem. Drug addicts are stabbing their parents in Long island delis. We know it's a problem.

And this kind of allows us to do what we do. The American government, it barely functions. People got to realize that it, like, doesn't function really. It closes. There's, you know, the shutdown happens. You know, people are in feuds all the time. Interest groups are fighting over who owns what politician. I mean, the government is. Listen, it's not to say that our country doesn't function. Our country functions. But getting legislation passed through the government, this is. Anyone will tell you this is like near impossible. Unless it's something like the big beautiful bill. Nobody even knows what that is. They just know that Sam Altman got a lot of money. A bunch of people get thrown off Medicare. Ice gets a lot of money.

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Or having no immigration enforcement, a lot of people are just going to go, well, we don't want to be part of this. We don't want to do this. So then you have a situation where you have people coming in, you don't know who they are because you've made.

Immigration regulation synonymous with zip tying children and old women and rushing into high school graduations. So any enforcement people are going to go, well, we don't want to be part of that. So some of these ICE rates, I just look at them and I go, long term, what exactly? I mean, now Palantir has gotten in on the game. Palantir said, we're going to, we're going to help you deport people. This is the tech companies game, by the way. They're going to talk about God. They're going to, they're going to get on the, they're, they're going to, they're going to do what Elon did with Twitter. He goes, we call it X now and you can say the N word and we're going to talk about God and then we're going to deport people. And while we're doing all of this behind the scenes, we're going to create this digital police state and you're going to be with it or you're not, but we're going to placate you with things we think culturally you feel comfortable with.

The truly progressive position on immigration is extreme skepticism, says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data management company's chief executive. It's great that he's along Democrat. You go, what's interesting about the Silicon Valley people is they're all radical libertarians. None of them actually believe in governments. None of them believe that the government should be able to tell them what to do. They're progressive maybe on social policies and economic policy to, to a degree they believe like, you know, they're, and maybe they're like whatever, you know, pro gay marriage and, and there's a lot of women in leadership roles in Silicon Valley or whatever. But the reality is none of them are progressive in the sense that they believe that any entity outside of their multi billion dollar and soon to be trillion dollar corporations can, can regulate them. They don't want to be regulated. They don't want anyone telling them what to do. And this has been that way for a pretty long time. And they believe that the United States government tax dollars should subsidize their efforts to. To build a new world that excludes anybody's right to criticize it. That's what they're doing. They're building a new world that excludes anyone's right to criticize it. And here's the thing now, now they're going, well, let's get into these ICE raids, let's start deporting people. Because what we'll be able to do is we'll be able to curry favor with.

The United States government, and they'll help with the. The war. You know, they. They sold a bunch of tech to Israel. They'll be helping with Venezuela, I'm sure. Palantir software is helping U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster, according to federal procurement filings and interviews with people who have knowledge of the project and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive detail. The thing is, you're never going to get rid of. However many millions of people are in America illegally, you're never going to get rid of them in a span of four years. So the job of any government, basically, I think, is to enforce immigration. You're gonna have to deport certain people. Absolutely. You're gonna deport people that have committed crimes. You're gonna deport people that are here for a pretty short amount of time, but you need to have some way to do it that it isn't pure chaos. And Marjorie Taylor Greene said that on this show, the thing you don't want to do is lose the plot completely where people think that all immigration enforcement is cruelty and it's all inhumane. And because you do need to have a country, need to have a border, you need to figure out what rights you should have as a citizen. And. And it's harder and harder to do this if you have people living in the shadows that aren't citizens, that are in some weird legal limbo. And we have an economy, we have a culture, we have all these things where it's hard to assimilate people into these things overnight. So it causes more disruption, it radicalizes people, it pushes people to the political fringes, all the things that people supposedly don't want. So what you need to do is you need to regulate immigration. You need to figure out a way that it doesn't. It's the biggest issue everywhere in the world right now, in every single country, every Western country, Every European country, Scandinavian countries, the uk, it's all immigration. It's all of it. It's the biggest motivating factor that gets people out to the polls.

And it has to be dealt with. But when you have this clumsy, you know, kind of somewhat insane, over the top deportations.

People are looking at this and going, you know, and this is what do they use? This Sabrina Carpenter song. Yeah, play this. Let's see.

Try out some freaky positions.

Have you ever tried this one? Have you ever tried this one? Have you ever tried this one?

It's unserious. It's unserious. It's childish, it's cruel. I think one of the problems with whatever the MAGA movement is evolved into is it's duped their hardcore followers so much that the only thing left now is performative cruelty. And I think that, you know, when you look at everything from.

The Epstein stuff to this, this, you know, crackdown on the Deep State or whatever this is, all of this stuff has, has that hasn't happened and hasn't materialized and, you know, this blind, unyielding support for everything Israel does and this insane pivot to Venezuela and the fact that, you know, save for a few dissenting voices, we might have had more of a commitment in Iran. It's unserious. And I think a lot of people are looking at this and saying, well, the, the last thing we have left is performative cruelty. By the way, it's the. With the Democrats, the last thing they had left was the kind of performative.

Woke, liberal, whatever you want to call it, like that performative gobbledygook of just, you know, like, you know, this holding space crap.

Where, you know, that's the last thing that they have left. They can't deliver any material change to anyone's life. They can't get anyone healthcare, they can't make anyone's life better. So they're holding space. You know, the Democrats play this game of like these performative kind of word games and land acknowledgements and these weird, like, you know, pseudo prayers that they, they say all the time. But that's the thing with maga. You go, you go, wait a minute. All of this stuff seems designed to.

It'S designed to watch on television, but it's not. It doesn't seem real. Like, you look at this Venezuela stuff and it seems, doesn't seem real. Now we'll see if this ceasefire holds. Now, they've also done good things. They've gotten rid of certain things that I think were good. I think the DEI stuff was good. I think closing the border was good. They've done some good things, for sure. And a lot of people.

Can recognize that any political movement eventually has two parts. It has the part where there's what's actually happening, and then the part. It's the show. The show. And when Pete Hegseth tweets Franklin targets narco terrorists.

You know, everyone knows someone with a drug problem. It's a great. It's a great narrative. It's a great narrative. We're blowing a boat. People like it. It's the holidays. It's December, it's cold. People are in there on their couch. They're watching tv, and they see. And they're blowing up a boat. So let's watch a little bit of this to just see what we're even talking about here.

Tonight. President Trump defending striking a boat allegedly carrying drugs to the US Twice in early September. I want those boats taken out, and if we have to, we'll attack on land also, just like we attack on sea. And there's very little coming in by sea. I think we've knocked out over 90% of it. Two people initially survived, and the administration says the decision for a second strike, killing all on board, was made by Admiral Frank Bradley. Today, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said even though he watched the first part of the attack live, he'd moved on to his next meeting. Before the second strike, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat. We have his back. And the American people are safer because narco terrorists know you can't bring drugs through the water. So you didn't see any survivors? Survivors. To be clear, after that first strike, I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was on fire and it's exploded and fire, smoke, you can't see anything. This is called the fog of war. Right? Right. The fog of what? They loved it. Listen, it's just what we got to do as a country. It's just what we got to do. You can't get angry at it. Can't even get mad at it. Yes, it's a war crime. It's whatever. It's what we do. It's December. It's the holidays. No, it's. This is what we're going to do. There's a decision made to just start bombing. We need to start. Something's got to get bombed. I mean, truly, when the Epstein stuff's going down and all this stuff is going down, someone up there goes, we need to start bombing. Someone like now we need to pivot people's attention from the economy and the pedophile ring. We're covering up to Venezuela. Let's start blowing up boats. Who cares? They're narco terrorists. Great, we'll blow them up and it'll pivot. And even this is good. Even this, like, war crime thing is good. Cuz what this allows is everyone can fight about this.

It's just I've lived through this forever. I'm. I'm sorry that I'm not. I don't feel any way about. I mean, you can't. Day in and day out, you can't consume this stuff and still care. There's no way to do it at 40. You'd have to be so crazy. You'd have to be so crazy at 40 to still have an emotional investment in that. It's just what it is. We're just blowing up. But this is what happens here. Have you not lived here? Are you new? Are you five? We're blowing stuff up because in narco terrorists and they're killing your family and fentanyl and crack. Whatever's. Whatever you really, you know, whatever you need to believe here, whatever works, whatever fits, whatever narrative fits, we're gonna do it. You know, it's a Bill Hicks joke where he goes, it's like he's a Hitler. And whatever you need. It's like. It's just the, it's the, it's just. This is the game we play. This is the game we play. It's, it's. It's like a tried and true method and it really works. It really, really works. And kudos.

Forget the morality of it. It's not what we're here to analyze. That's not what we're doing. We're actually just looking at this going, kudos, good job. Who's ever in there pushing this, you know your audience and you know it will work. And it is working in Long island right now and many suburbs like it. The people that. Whose children haven't killed them are watching Fox News and they are seeing or msnbc, by the way, and they're either going, or criminal or they're excited that we're blowing up drug dealers in the middle of the ocean. And they're not talking about Epstein, and they're not talking about whatever the hell else is in these documents that may or may not come out redacted or unredacted. And they're not talking as much about the economy and they're not asking to have health care and they're not asking what Palantir is doing and they're not asking why five tech guys in AI control half the American economy in San Francisco. They're not asking any of that. They're just watching a boat blow up in the middle of the ocean.

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See this?

Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's a little hard to get mad at him. He's. They're dancing, right? See the, the Muslim like the Middle east, they don't dance so we don't see like Isis dancing. So it's easy. But when we see him dancing we're like, I don't know, he's not fitting into the villain role. It's, there's, it's the culture sexy and there's a lot of dancing and they like, they. He's wearing a collared shirt. I, I don't know, it's. It's harder. Isis, they're all in black robes in a pickup truck with Kalishna coughs E. Easy. Done. Done.

I mean it's like wardrobe, hair and makeup in perfect. This is a little difficult. No one's really afraid of Venus. What they don't like that gang trendy agua, which I, I imagine is no good.

Um.

But they don't really, they're not really like no one's going to bed in this country going well, Maduro and you know, he's gotta go. He's gotta go.

So their job is to telegraph how important it is American foreign policy. They go, you don't know what we know. And if you knew what we knew, if you had the intelligence, if you knew how many boats were coming in with Venezuelan fentanyl and this guy was, like, stamping each boat with the M with his Maduro M before they all left Venezuela and came here. If you knew that, you would understand why we had to blow up this boat. And we'll have to blow up more boats, and then we'll release all of that footage to entertain you over the holidays. This is what. This is what we need to do as a country. There's no. There's no other way.

There's no other way to pivot people's. You need war.

You know, domestic policy doesn't work because otherwise, by the way. So here. This is a good. This is a good example of where. This is where the country is at.

Every now and then, I like to check in with Jimmy Fallon's the Tonight Show.

My colleague and I like to see where is the country at what. Where is the United States right now? I think it's fair to check in. Now, listen, does it have the viewership it used to? No. Does it have the cultural cachet? Probably not, but it is on the biggest network, and it is the big show. It's the Tonight show on NBC. And this one features Sydney Sweeney, our greatest Nazi star. And so. Kidding, Sidney.

But let's just take a look because. Because we need to understand, who are the people who aren't killing their parents? What are they? What are they? What's left for them? What's. Let's say you're not in Long island and you're not on drugs and you're not killing your parents in a deli during morning rush. My favorite thing, the breakfast rush, because it's such a Long Island. And he's right. He's like, there's home fries, there's eggs going, there's bacon going. We got soft rolls. People are just trying to eat and go back to their house and go to sleep and get on the phone for an hour about their disability. People want to get on the phone for an hour, they're going to wait on hold because they're voluntarily disabled. And they go, I need my money. I'm disabled. My friend got injured. He injured himself with a shopping cart in Home Depot, spent two years not working and got a settlement of like $60,000, which was much less than had he just worked. But that's not the point. The laziness, the being a piece of shit is the point. That's the whole thing about Long Island. It's like being a piece of shit is the point. But.

What if you are just a regular person in America and you, you know, you're not on drugs that were shipped here by Maduro, apparently. And you're not going to kill your parents while they're making omelets. Where. What. What is left for you? Truly? Like, this is a good question. If you're not a Nazi, if you're not far left comm. Like, if you're not a radical, if you're not going crazy, if you're not some type of antisocial whatever. Like if you're not totally radicalized in some sector of the Internet, if you're not a furry. If you're not like a non binary.

Sapio sexual furry, or you're not like reading books about Hitler. Where are you? What's left for the mainstream of this country? Take a look. This is unbelievably great. Okay.

All right. There's three of the hot. The hottest dolls right now that are attached to purses. Labubus. Yes, yes. And they're at a fast food food where you take your car to get fast food even faster. A drive through. Yes. What's the Scottish hamburger place?

Sorry, sorry. As a clown. As a clown. Clown is a mascot. McDonald's. Yes, yes, yes. And they're doing. Boo Boos are going through a drive through McDonald's. Yes. But they're also doing a TikTok trend involving numbers.

Everyone says it. It's not 41. Oh, I. You can't say that. No, no, you can say no. Go, go.

Subtract two. Subtract two, subtract two. I think from what you're saying.

No, I can't say that. He's. That the trend. Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The n. There's a number. I know. Is it. It's not 66. I know, but that I feel like I'm going to. No, you can say it. It's not 68. I know. It's 67. Yes.

Three. Labubu is doing six. Seven at McDonald's. All right, all right. Serious question. Why would you not do fentanyl and kill your parents in a deli?

Why would you not? When that is what is being offered as the mainstream.

Entertainment option? When that is being offered. When that is put forth as the mainstream entertainment option, why would people not embrace a life of drugs?

I mean, why. If that was what was out there, why would you not? When I watch that, I feel like I'm on drugs. I've been sober for 15 years. When I watch that, I feel as if I am on drugs. So when reality feels like you are on drugs, why would you not just Be on drugs.

You know.

CNN is now working with our friends at Cal. How fun is that? I won't be impressed until they're with CBS News with our good friend Barry Weiss who will be moderating a town hall with Erica Kirk. By the way, how fun is that? Barry Weiss and Erica Kirk.

CBS News editor in chief Barry Weiss sets her on air debut at town hall with Erica Kirk. Our friend, the great Barry Weiss, everyone.

Friend of the show, Barry Weiss. I texted her the other day, come on the show, come on the program. I said we're in the top 30 in the in the world. Really? On Spotify, top 25. When this thing drops, come on the show again. We'd have disagreements, but we'd have a great conversation about our country and world. And the offer is out to Barry and no response, which is sad but somewhat expected.

But sad. So she's choosing to do a town hall with Erica Kirk and not moi.

And not me. What about it's a town hall of Erica Kirk and then I come on right after.

Dressed like the president of Iran.

Why wouldn't she do a town hall with me and then the president of Iran as well? On. On Zoom.

We kid Barry, friend of the show. Barry was. Well, there you have it, folks. I mean, here's what it is. You know, we didn't even get to Michael and Susan Dell donating his historic. Let's just get Michael. Susan Dell. Can we just finish out with Michael and Susan Dell, folks? 6.2 billion here. Michael and Susan Dell. I mean this one. Huh? I mean these two.

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They had a bunch of money left over after purchasing that head for her that they were able to donate six and a half billion dollars to the well. The children are our future. No one believes that. Not the AI people. No one believes that the children are our future. Really. They're killing their parents in delis. So if you're gonna invest in anything, invest in a security system for the restaurant you own. Good night. Amazon five Star Theater presents real Customer reviews performed by Ed Helms Tonight's Tactical Jacket I was living a simple life. Life didn't get out much. Then I bought this jacket and everything changed. Women came flocking to me from lands domestic and foreign. I bought a motorcycle, started hanging out with drug dealers, but like rich ones and we flew helicopters. I ended up taking down a communist regime with a band of Russia rebels. On the 245 day sailboat voyage home, I was attacked by a shark. I knew it was the jacket he was after. I tossed it, giving up the jacket in exchange for my life. I'm alive today, but jacketless.

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