477 - Back To Iran, Gaza Reborn, & A Happy New Year

31:13Tim Dillon:We'll get to all of those places after we've saved the protesters in Iran. And I don't want to be accused because, you know, I'm in Beverly Hills a lot. There's a lot of Iranians here that came over after the Shah, after the fall of the Shah. And they tell me how bad the government of Iran is. And I absolutely agree with them. I go, yeah, I don't want to live under a theocratic regime in Iran. But we've seen this movie. We know what happens when America gets involved. And by the way, a little foreshadowing, nothing great. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel unwanted subscriptions.

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34:59Tim Dillon:Alright, let's watch this a little bit. Can I hear through this?

35:06Overinflation eroding living standards in Iran causing protests. Gunshots and unrest were reported in multiple cities nationwide.

35:21So now this is a country with 90 million people. I don't know what percentage of the population this is. I don't know how widespread these things are. I'm not saying they're not. I just don't know. We're also being fed. Now listen, I'm not saying the Iranian regime is good and the people are unhappy with them. But I want you to think about it. Before every war that we've ever gone into, we are fed a media diet of people supposedly about to organically rise up and overthrow their government. This is before every war.

35:55Tim Dillon:Before every war, they go, look at these people. They've been living under hellish conditions and they're ready to get rid of the government. And you're, you know, at work and you're in the break room and you're eating a turkey on wheat. and because it's early January and you're trying to do the right thing, whatever that means, and you're eating your turkey on wheat and maybe you're a gym teacher. You're a good person. And you're looking at the TV and they're playing people in Iran throwing Molotov cocktails or, you know, burning cars. And you go, those people have had enough. they've had enough living under tyranny you're sitting in a in a in the break room you're sitting in the teacher's lounge in like uh you know i don't know iowa and you're like these people have had enough they've suffered long enough and then you're like and then the government goes by by the way, we're going to go rescue those people.

37:06Tim Dillon:And you go, awesome. Now, what rescuing means is a lot of those people are going to die. So that's what rescuing means. That's number one. That's number one. And maybe it's worth it. I don't know. But number one, rescuing in American terms, let's bring out the dictionary. Rescuing means bombing people and a lot of them are going to die. So that's the rescue. rescuing in our country. We don't know how to rescue anyone unless we kill them. We only know how to rescue you if we're killing you. It's the only way we've ever tried to rescue anyone. And eventually, people go, I'm getting tired of being rescued.

37:47Tim Dillon:They just rescued my mother in front of me. And there's blood all over the living room. So what we do is we go over there and we do the rescuing. So much rescuing. And we end up killing a lot of the people that we happen to rescue. Well, then people start to go, you know, this rescue doesn't feel too great. And they don't, they, none of these people that are protesting, by the way, I don't think a lot of them, maybe there's a small percentage of them that want this, but I don't think a lot of these people are clamoring for the United States and Israel to install a government here. I don't think a lot of people in Iran are clamoring for the United States and Israel to install a government.

38:32Tim Dillon:So Trump said, we are locked and loaded and ready to go. Shortly after, Ali Larianjani, a former parliament speaker who serves as the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, alleged on the social media platform X that Israel and the U.S. were stoking the demonstrations. I don't believe it for a minute. He offered no evidence to support the allegation which Iranian officials have repeatedly made during the years of protests sweeping country. By the way, there was an Iranian woman who was walking around without a hijab and they put her in jail or they, it was something. It was an acid attacker, killed her, I don't know.

39:09Tim Dillon:And there were real protests. And I get it. I don't want to live in an Islamic theocracy. And yeah, the protests now in their sixth day have become the biggest in Iran since 2022 and the death of 22-year-old Maha Amini in police custody triggered nationwide demonstrations. However, the demonstrations have yet to be countrywide and have not been as intense. So when that girl was killed, I remember there were demonstrations at Beverly Hills. And I get it. Listen, I get it. I don't want to live in an Islamic theocracy at all, on any level. So I completely understand why people who do live in one do not want to live in one.

39:49Tim Dillon:And in fact, want the government who's using a perverted sense of religion to go around and essentially be a fascist government and kill people, I completely understand why people in Iran would not want to live under that government. How many of those people want to live in a U.S.-Israel puppet government? I don't know. I don't know. And what do you do with the ones that don't want to live under a U.S.-Israel puppet government? because there's like 90 million people in the country. What do you do with that country? When you knock out the leaders, what exactly do you do? How does this work? How do you put, by the way, everyone in our country hates each other.

40:42Tim Dillon:The two opposing factions in our government hate each other. Okay? And we're a pretty fucking advanced superpower. And it's not working. It's not working here You know, it's very difficult To imagine how you would go to Iran And install an effective government When we barely have one here It's barely working here So what exactly would you do in Iran? And again, ears are open I'm not trying to, you know Shut down anybody's enthusiasm about this project that was hatched at the New Year's Eve party in Palm Beach. The New Year's Eve party at Palm Beach, okay? Where this was hatched, and I know it's been hatched before that, but like, you know, I'm not trying to dampen anyone's enthusiasm for this.

41:37Tim Dillon:I'm sure it's a great idea. Because these ideas always seem great. Because here's the bottom line. The bottom line is this. the Iranian government is bad. And you go, yeah. And I see these people on social media and the people I like, I don't dislike these people. And they're going, I want to visit Iran. And I can't. And I'm Iranian. And I can't go back to visit Iran because the government sucks. And I go, I feel bad. I'm sorry to hear that. That is unfortunate. And I'm sorry. And then they go, the government is illegitimate. And you go, okay, all right. I mean, it is a government. I agree with you.

42:35It's not ideal by any means, okay?

42:40Tim Dillon:And we need to, and we need, Iranian people deserve to live in a free, open, and prosperous society. I agree with that in theory, in theory, in principle. I'm allowed to agree with you in theory and principle. If someone came up to me and says, I deserve to be rich and hot and have a family that loves me, I would go to that person. I'd go, I agree with you in theory. How are we getting there? How are we getting there? This is what no one ever asks. how are we forget the pie in the sky theories and all that how are we getting there how are we getting to rich hot family that loves you not i'm not against that i don't think you'd find many people that were against the goal what are we doing to get there i don't i don't know what we're doing it's a country of 90 million people and i don't think a lot of them are really excited about a puppet government led by the United States and Israel.

43:45Tim Dillon:I'm sure some of them are. Some of them go, well, it's better than what we have now. Iran warns all U.S. bases and forces in the entire region will be legitimate targets after Trump vowed to protect anti-regime protesters. So here's what's going to happen. This spirals into World War III. This spirals into World War III. For us. because if we get bogged down in Iran, China's taking Taiwan. There's no way China's not taking Taiwan if we're bogged down in Iran. Why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they? They're taking, if we're busy in Iran, China's going, guess what? We're taking Taiwan. And then this is going to kick off some type of, Yeah, China's Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping, friend of the show, issues unstoppable Taiwan invasion threat as World War III fears are.

44:50Tim Dillon:All you need is a few things to pop off and China will go grab Taiwan. While we're in Iran installing a government that hopefully 90 million people in Iran think is swell. Hopefully 90 million people in Iran think it's great and all the influencers in America who can no longer go back to Iran, hopefully they are now free to travel. So in order to make influencers in America happy that want to go back to Iran, we engage in a full-scale invasion of Iran, boots on the ground, decapitation of the regime, a multi-year rebuilding process where our troops are sitting ducks for terrorists and other remnants of the regime that splinter off, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

45:35Tim Dillon:blah. China goes and takes Taiwan and Russia goes and swallows Ukraine while we're doing this, by the way. Most likely result, maybe not, could be wrong. Could be wrong about that, but it doesn't sound crazy. Doesn't sound wild. Here's the thing. All these influencers want to go back to Iran. You know, we have mountains here. Iran and LA kind of look similar. Google Iran, Google Tehran, hit image. Google LA, hit image. I'm going to solve the problem right now. I'm going to solve it right now. Try to find Tehran city view. Yeah. Okay. There you go. Make that big. I want everyone to look at this.

46:26Tim Dillon:All these influencers who want to go home. Take a look. Take a look. There's Tehran. Pretty. Get LA up. Hit image. This is how we can do it. Very easy. Go to the first picture on the left. There it is. You did it. You're home. You're home. You did it. You're all here anyway. There's a lot of people that live in L.A. from Iran. So how about we do that? And by the way, L.A., if you don't know, isn't thriving. L.A. isn't thriving. So we have people here that live in Los Angeles, us, a city that is doing, by any stretch of the imagination, terribly. It's doing really bad. And they're going, wouldn't it be nice if I could go back to Iran and I could travel freely in Iran without any problems?

47:36Tim Dillon:Well, a lot of people feel that about LA. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a house that wasn't invaded by criminals? Wouldn't it be nice to live in a state that knew what to do when we had natural disasters. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a state where homeless people didn't shoot up fentanyl and die in front of my children as I walked them to school? That's more of a pressing issue than what's going on in Tehran. Now, maybe it's my fault that I don't think about the political conditions in Tehran more. This is probably something I should be doing. It makes me a heartless psychopath to not think about the political situation in Tehran.

48:14Tim Dillon:Can you get Netanyahu on Iran, by the way? Can we get a little video of Benjamin Netanyahu discussing what's going to go on in Iran? And now you're going to see all of the people that switched after Trump. If he does this, if he goes into Iran, it goes into Iran, and we get bogged down or mired down or whatever it is, if we end up doing this, all of the forces and the people that told them to do this will quietly reinvent themselves as Democrats once they have destroyed the brand of the Republican Party, which is exactly what happened after George W. Bush and the Republican Party was completely destroyed.

48:56A lot of those people reinvented themselves as Democrats and said, we're actually going to support Hillary Clinton because her brand is not tarnished as much

49:05Tim Dillon:and she loves war. And then they went and they said, well, she lost. We're going to get in with Donald, Trump. And then when Trump's brand was damaged, a lot of them switched over to Biden and now they're back with Trump. And a lot of these people will then go to another candidate. It doesn't matter as long as they have their objectives met. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel unwanted subscriptions. It monitors your spending, helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. One of my favorite things about Rocket Money is that it can track subscriptions and has the ability to cancel unwanted ones with the app with a few taps, giving users an easy way to stop paying for things they don't use.

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53:12Tim Dillon:I love this. Americans who are defaulted on their student loans will have their paychecks garnished starting in January. So people who have defaulted on their student loans, people who have not paid their student loans back, starting January 7th, let's watch this. Starting January 7th, the fun is over. If you have defaulted on your student loan, the Trump administration will begin to garnish your pay starting next month. That's right. According to the Department of Education, starting the week of January 7th, borrowers in default will get a notice of their status. They'll be given 30 days before payment is withheld.

53:58They didn't say how much would be deducted from their paychecks.

54:03Tim Dillon:Sallie Mae is no joke. Sallie Mae ain't no joke. They will come and you cannot get those loans washed in a bankruptcy. They will follow you to the end of your life. That shitty job you have, it's going to get shittier. You're going to make even less money. And you're going to remember college. I hope you had fun. I hope to God you had fun at college. I hope you fucked a lot. I hope you made a lot of lifelong friends. I hope it was a ball. I hope every day was an unending, orgasmic, life-changing experience. because you are about to pay for that for the rest of your life. That's the way the American economy is set up now.

54:50Tim Dillon:You go to college, you have four years of fun, hopefully, and you pay for it for the rest of your life. The rest of your days on earth that you draw breath, wherever you go, McDonald's, doesn't matter. You are in McDonald's handing a McGriddle to someone in the morning rush who's pissed. they're taking that money from you there's no job you can escape you can't escape it unless you go totally off the grid black market selling drugs or putting your pussy on the street there is no way you can escape sally may they're going to dig and dig and they're going to take it so i hope and pray that you had a good time let's keep watching this but according to the government student aid website, up to 15 % of an employee's pay can be taken out and withheld.

55:47That's right. Right now, about 5 million borrowers are in default and millions more are expected to miss payments.

55:55Tim Dillon:So we got 5 million people in this country that are about to default on their student loans and their wages are about to be garnished. Now, by the way, they're not paying their student loans because their job doesn't pay them enough money and with the cost of living, most of them are probably not getting off on saying fuck you to Sally Mae. They don't have the money. Nobody wants their credit ruined and their wages garnished. They're fucked. They're completely fucked. Those people need to join the military and fight Iran. Sorry. That's what it is. You need to join the military and fight Iran. That's what has to happen now.

56:43Tim Dillon:I hope you had a good four years when you were in Iran and you were fighting the Revolutionary Guard as a way to get out of your student loans and you're in the hot desert climate and you're sweating and you're standing there and you're next to your buddies from basic training and you're about to ambush a bunch of Iranian national guards. You've got intelligence, you know exactly where they are and you're about to ambush them and you're about to start killing people in a foreign country in a horrible climate i hope you had fun i hope you look back on your time at ohio state and say it was all worth it it was all worth it when you are getting off a military plane in iran to go provide security for the rebuilding of the great iranian regime that we have knocked out and you are standing there and you are shot by some Iranian separatist, one of the revolutionary guards who's peeled off and started their own thing.

57:58Tim Dillon:They got their own thing going now and they see the chaos as an opportunity and they pump a bullet in you and it's in your neck and you then collapse and you realize that this is over. You realize that no matter what happens in the next minute or two of your life, you know, because you think your mind starts playing games. You're like, maybe I'll survive this. Like maybe the next, maybe it didn't get me in such a bad place. Something, whatever. You know, your mind plays tricks at the end. It happens. So you go and you're collapsed on the ground now and you're bleeding and your blood is leaking into the sand.

58:35Tim Dillon:I hope the last thought you have, I hope the last thought you have is homecoming. I hope the last thought you have Is that homecoming game at Ohio State When your parents came up And they were so proud of you I hope it was Go Buckeyes Buckeyes, right? Maybe? Is that it? I think so Yeah, well, whatever But that's the whole point And when you got some graters ice cream With that girl And she gave you a blowjob I hope as you're laying In the hot Iranian sand And the blood is draining from your body Because you joined the military to somehow get out of these student loans, I hope you think it's worth it.

59:16Tim Dillon:Because meanwhile, going to college now, you better have a fucking plan when you're in college. You better know what you're going to do. Because they're going to find you, they're going to come and find you now with these student loans to the ends of the earth. And the only way to get out of this is going to be able, is going to join some fucking domestic group like ICE where you're just snatching up a granny. or you're going to have to join the military and you're going to go to Iran and you're going to rescue the Iranian protesters. And I hope you realize that those are the stakes now of college.

59:54Tim Dillon:Those are the stakes of college, by the way. Your entire life you're going to be destitute and broke because you went to college for four years and you took out student loans and the job market is terrible. so you're going to have to either start going on OnlyFans and getting into shit fetish porn or you're going to have to die in Iran. And that's really what it is. You're going to have to lay under a glass table while men take shits and put it out on OnlyFans or you're going to have to go to Iran and get killed. I don't know what else to tell you if you go to college without a plan. You better graduate with a fucking skill You better graduate with it Your parents should make you watch Shit fetish videos on OnlyFans Because you're not going to be hot enough To do regular OnlyFans You're going to have to go deep and dark And your parents should sit you in a room And go before you go to Oneonta I want you to just understand what the stakes are And they're going to put a video Of a woman under a glass table And then a guy is going or a man is under a glass table jerking off, and as the woman is going to have to squat over the glass table and take a shit while the man is jerking off.

1:01:14Tim Dillon:And you're going to say, and you're going to go, why are you making me watch this? And you're going to turn around as a good parent, this is what a good parent should do, and you're going to go, you are going to be doing that if you do not make good use of these four years. Do you understand that? you're going to be doing that that's going to be your job you're going to be doing that for a living if you do not make good use of these four years because you will never get out of debt never and then you should bring your son in the room and turn that off and then show him a POW prisoner of war being tortured being tortured I mean bad Bad, like the worst dark web torture video you can find.

1:02:05And when he's like, yo, why are you showing me this? You go, that's going to be you. If you don't make good use of these four years, you're going to be tortured. And your sister's going to be doing shit fetish porn because you didn't fucking listen to me. I'm telling you. Putin claims Ukraine hid his private residence. Is this a lie? Is Putin lying or is he being truthful? So hard to know with him. Ukraine and Zelensky have denied it. Ukraine and Zelensky have denied it. Well, they would. And I'm not backing poots. Can we? So, okay. There could be no forgiveness. It is, in fact, insane to question whether this terrorist act took place at all.

1:02:52That was a feverish, feverish message from Moscow on Tuesday as a double down on accusing Ukraine of targeting a presidential palace with drones in a bid to disrupt peace talks. Kiev has dismissed the allegation as a baseless lie aimed at building a pretext for the Kremlin to push ahead for this war. Russia has presented no public evidence for its claim and the timing was not lost on observers in Kiev and Europe following the positive mood of President Donald Trump's weekend summit with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian president. Well, here's the deal. Putin might be fibbing he might be telling a fib.

1:03:29Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced late Monday that 91 drones had been intercepted on their way to Putin's residence on the shore of Lake Valdai in the northern Novogrod region. He appeared to contradict earlier statements from Russia's defense ministry, which normally tallies Ukrainian strikes that have become a daily reality. So I don't know. Listen. This is now the he said, she said portion of the war. This is now, this has become, have you ever had two friends argue? And what starts as kind of a principled disagreement about something or other descends into ad hominem attacks, that's what this has become.

1:04:11This has really just become an ad hominem, it's kind of in the gutter. The discourse over here is in the gutter. Putin orders fresh invasion, land grab in Ukraine to seize more territory in 2026, in brazen snub of Trump peace bid. I mean, this thing's just degenerated, and these men, Vladimir Putin, Zelensky, Trump, they're just not getting the job done. This is very difficult. You know, this idea that you can just wave a wall. Not in Iran. That one will be easy. That's 90 million people.

1:04:53Tim Dillon:That'll be fine. but this one seems hard. It seems really hard. It seems difficult. This guy Putin is really, he's like, here's what needs to happen. And by the way, I'm going to say something now and no one's going to like it. Here's what I'm going to say.

1:05:17Here's what I'm going to say. And this is very obvious. I can't even I'm going to say it I'm going to say what needs to happen no one's going to like it I hate being right I hate being right and I don't want this to happen can I speak here for a minute with everyone privately can we have a private discussion can we have a private discussion they have to kill Zelensky they have to kill him Putin will not stop unless Zelensky is dead this is obvious Zelensky needs to give his life for his country. He needs to be killed. If he is not dead, this war will not end. I believe that to be the case. I could be completely wrong.

1:06:00I'm sorry about it. I don't want Zelensky to die. I'm not on Putin's quote-unquote side. I'm telling you, real politic, looking at this in a completely, I'm free to look at it and tell you what's going on. If Zelensky is not taken out, I don't think, I think it's personal for Putin. I think the drone attacks that the Ukraine, I'm sure with our help, successfully pulled off were those drones. It was a brilliant mission. We're in those little sheds. Remember that? And the tops came off and they took out. Listen, this has now become personal for Putin. and I believe if Volodymyr Zelensky is still alive or at the very least running that country, I just don't believe this is ever going to work.

1:06:58So I don't want this to happen. I'm not saying this is going to happen, but I'm saying if Zelensky is still running the show there, It feels personal that Putin is not going to come to the table. I just, I believe there's too much bad blood. That's what I believe. And I think that either Zelensky needs to step down or if Putin were to eliminate Zelensky, then I think you would maybe have some chance of peace. I don't think with Zelensky at the helm, this will work. Do I sound crazy? No, I don't think so. Yeah. I mean, I employ you, so I don't know. I mean, it could, it might not. But I'm just saying, this is the way I feel.

1:07:54I feel this is very personal for Vladdy Daddy. And I think that in the parlance of like a reality show, a Real Housewife type thing, you know, I think Putin just feels that he cannot have a good faith negotiation with Zelensky. Yeah, freezing Moscow plunged into darkness as hundreds of thousands lose power following Ukraine drone strikes. I really want the war to end. I think war is terrible. I think the people that are suffering on both sides, it's incredibly horrific.

1:08:35to watch it. But I do think that Zelensky, you know, is probably for Putin, this has become deeply personal. Putin's legacy hinges on this. Now, by the way, early on, when nobody wanted this, you know, when people looked at this and went, when you get him so dug deep in, where he's lost hundreds of thousands of people, and he has to save face in front of the oligarchs that run the country and his population of people, when you've lost that many people and you've suffered some humiliating setbacks inside of Russia, the war has gone inside of Russia. Again, I'm not speaking of the morality of any of this.

1:09:20I'm telling you what is happening. Putin does not feel that he has to come to the table with a peace deal designed by the United States and global partners, whatever that means, Putin feels that he is in too deep now to get out with anything other than a total victory. This is just the reality, and it's tragic. It's sad. It's why when things like this happen, you have to try to force a negotiation very quickly with some type of land deal that may or may not hold, but you don't tell the Ukraine to engage in a full-scale war and arm them and fund them, killing so many people. Now that it's this, the idea of any peace right now seems, now it could happen, but it seems incredibly unlikely because both sides are dug in so much, but specifically Putin is dug in to a point where I don't think he wants to get out with anything other than major, major concessions from the Ukraine that they're unwilling to give.

1:10:32This is why you don't get involved in these things, by the way. This is why you try to not get involved. You try to force diplomatic solutions. You try to force. This is why. You don't get involved in these things because they don't end well. Once hundreds of thousands of people start dying, things don't end well. People get emotional, which is why installing a new government in Iran is not a good idea because immediately lots and lots of people all over the world are going to start dying. And when that starts happening, things take on a life of their own and you'll see China, I think, take Taiwan.

1:11:11That seems to be an inevitability within a few years. Everyone says, well, China, they think if they've fired a shot,

1:11:19Tim Dillon:they've lost the battle, they fight through their mind, they fight through corporate espionage, they fight through tech, They fight through, let's hope. Let's all hope. That's how they're fighting, okay? But no matter what happens, no matter what happens, when Sally Mae has chased you to every shitty job that you've ever had, and you look at your paycheck, and you've made$460 after taxes, after the garnishments, and you're living in a fucking weekly motel in Vegas and it's hot, you're going to say to yourself, you're going to walk out into that Vegas heat and go, I might as well be in this heat with a gun in Iran.

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