But when you do that, you understand that things are going to happen. “Now, some people like to go into the eye of the storm, so to speak, with a weapon. (The segment starts around seven and a half minutes in.) “As a general rule, when there is going to be civil unrest, I tend to go the other way,” he advises. This is all made very clear in Dillon’s monologue about the Kenosha shooting, in which he implicitly identifies with Kyle Rittenhouse and addresses his audience as though it does too. People who might reasonably see no alternative but to grab a gun and go stand up to the leftist mobs burning down America. He’s harkening to the conservative ideal of normal, diner-going Americans who love Thomas Jefferson and don’t understand your pronouns hard-working, cancel culture-hating folks looking innocently on as their beloved nation descends into chaos. When he talks about people abandoned by the government and failed by the left, regular people who need to arm themselves for their own safety, thinking people who recognize that Black Lives Matter protests have nothing to do with police brutality, he’s talking about white Republicans. None of this makes any sense-until you realize who Dillon sees himself as speaking to and for. Oh, and the Proud Boys are morally equivalent to anarchists. Dillon holds simultaneously that the state is the enemy of the people, and that people taking direct action against state violence are illegitimate insurgents that the left is somehow both the impotent Democratic establishment and a hopelessly radical mob that things are so bad people have no choice but to take matters into their own hands, except for the violent LARPers who aren’t actually protesting police brutality, but who are asking to have their rights violated with each statue they tear down. How will Darwinism work out for them?- Tim Dillon June 2, 2020Īs you can see, what we have here is a cursed marriage of Fox News Brain and Libertarian edgelord irony poisoning. First, a brief selection:Īlot of the people clamoring to abolish police are 90 lbs genderqueer kids from Vermont. You needn’t look any further than his Twitter timeline to see this, though we will in a moment. For a comedian, he often sounds no different than conservative commentators like Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss, or even more unabashed reactionaries like Ben Shapiro. He frequently trashes the Black Lives Matter protests and seems to see Antifa as a much greater threat to American life than domestic right-wing terrorism. That’s no small feat.ĭillon’s also a right-leaning paranoiac who uses his platform to disseminate fear-mongering propaganda that would be perfectly at home on Fox News. He’s a very funny guy, with the appeal and acumen to find success in comedy’s traditional institutions as well as its DIY fringes. Joe Rogan’s had him on three times Vulture profiled him just a few years ago. The Tim Dillon Show’s YouTube channel has 132,000 subscribers its Patreon has almost 9,000, earning Dillon more than $48,000 each month. Politically, he positions himself as a nonpartisan man of the people, a pro-worker populist with equal vitriol for the left and right, unafraid to call balls and strikes wherever he sees them. He was a Just For Laughs New Face in 2016 and had both a Comedy Central half-hour and a Netflix quarter-hour in 2018 he appeared regularly on Lights Out with David Spade and more recently on TBS’s Tournament Of Laughs. While he’s a mainstay at the Comedy Store and the Stand, in pre-pandemic days you could still find him at indie venues like the Virgil, Union Hall, the Bell House, and UCB, which serve decidedly different audiences than comedy clubs. He’s an edgy contrarian free thinker-type, a friend of the Legion of Skanks who came up in the New York alt scene.
It’s predictable.”ĭillon, a Long Island native who sold subprime mortgages before the financial crisis, exists somewhere between comedy’s liberal mainstream and its seething conservative underground. “When you defund and abolish the police, you will have militias,” he said, skipping right over the fact that the Kenosha police department both exists and is funded. “These protestors are anarchists, they want to burn down the city,” he went on, in a characteristically rambling monologue disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement and offering generous sympathy to Rittenhouse, whom he described as the inevitable product of left-wing activism. This week that person is comedian Tim Dillon, who declared in a new episode of his podcast that he doesn’t have “any love lost” for the victims of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old Trump supporter who allegedly killed two protestors in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Every so often in this life someone comes right out and says they don’t care if their political enemies get murdered.
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