Jun 16, 2025
Trump-Supporting Comedian RAILS Against Him
Comedian Tim Dillon expressed his frustration at the Israel-Iran conflict. Cenk Uygur and Sharon Reed discuss on The Young Turks.
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I didn't realize how how grateful
I needed to be to Israel for this.
I didn't realize how much it was in my
interest that the government of a middle
eastern country I've never been to,
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and has very little effect on my life,
get decapitated and replaced
with another government.
I want to thank Israel for this is Iran.
The reason for any of this is Iran.
The reason that corporations in America
just pillage and leave a trail of death
and destruction in their wake is Iran.
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The reason we have no health care?
I mean, this is the most insane thing
I've ever heard.
That's comedian Tim Dillon
going scorched earth on Israel
and war hawks in the media, who are
advocating for the United States to get
involved in an all out war with Iran.
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We'll hear more of his spicy takes
in just just a minute.
But initial thoughts here.
Yeah. Thank God for guys like Dillon.
If that hurts your feelings,
I couldn't care less.
So what we needed in this country
was independent media.
And so what we had was mainstream media.
And it was a prison.
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It was an absolute prison
where you couldn't get any opinion out
that wasn't sanctioned
by the special interests in Washington.
Now there's a prison break
and we're in the populist woods.
So now Tim Dillon and guys like him
supported Trump, but there's nothing
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tying him, financially or otherwise,
to Trump or anyone else.
So they're saying, that's it.
I'm going to tell you the truth.
And I don't work for establishment media.
I don't need to lie to you.
I don't have any sponsors
that demand that I lie to you.
I don't have any special interests
that demand that I lie to you.
So I'm going to tell you the truth.
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The truth is, we don't need
to be in this war at all.
Israel is trying to drag us into this war.
And now how are they going to shut up
all the independent media?
Okay, now you got to shut up
the Young Turks, which they've been trying
to do for 20 some odd years.
Then you got to go shut up.
Joe Rogan and Tim Dillon
and Andrew Schultz and Charlamagne.
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It's hard to shut all these people up.
Especially if you pretended
that you were in favor of free speech.
You were against cancel culture
and you were anti war.
So Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble
because he is violating every single core
tenet that he promised to his own voters.
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So let's give you a lot more of this,
and you see where it's coming from.
Yeah.
Dylan focused his anti-war argument on the
fact that people here in the United States
have more pressing things to worry about
than Iran's nuclear program.
Your own society is declining perpetually,
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year after year, annually.
Things get worse. People are fleeing.
And you're out there saying the most
important thing to the British working
class or the American working class,
is that the Iranian regime
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is decapitated with Israeli airstrikes.
Is can you imagine knocking on the door
of a double wide trailer and grabbing
a person who was five months away
from being homeless in our country
and asking them their biggest problem.
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How?
How do you think the word Iran
is going to come up much?
How do we get in this position?
Well, Iran when, when, when when your
insurance won't cover a knee operation
and you have to go bankrupt
to replace your hip, is your main concern
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that Iran be decapitated?
This is the craziest shit
I've ever heard in my life.
Yeah. What about our own backyard?
Along these same lines, here is Dylan
explaining how the majority of
American voters in 2024 felt about funding
another country's wars, when our own house
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just does not seem to be in order.
They didn't see commerce.
They didn't see families running around.
They saw desolate,
you know, crime ridden cities.
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They were unable to send their kids
to a decent college.
They were unable to own a house,
and they felt like giving money
to the Ukraine or giving money to Israel
for endless wars, years and years.
Whether you support them morally or not,
just the reality that they go on years,
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two years, three years, billions
and billions and billions of dollars.
I think a lot of people looked at that
and went, this doesn't make any sense.
It's not rational that the country
that we live in is seemingly in terminal,
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irreversible decline,
and that nobody can do anything about it.
But we must be all over the world
funding things here and there
that your kids on TikTok come up to you
and go, why are we doing this?
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Is baby just got beheaded?
And you have to go?
- Well it's complicated.
- All right, so there's that clip.
And finally, here is Tim Dillon
directly calling out the war hawks
in the media, the elite,
for pushing us into a war that will have
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no actual effect on them personally.
The people that are pushing
for these wars, like, you know,
and the guys that are very like,
blasé and casual about them,
Thomas Friedman of The New York Times,
Sam Harris, all these guys,
they're all sitting in beautiful homes.
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Their wives are playing tennis,
the kids are in the pool, they're eating
a nice lunch, and they're typing a column
about how good it is that someone,
somewhere, is getting bombed,
that someone is laying in their bed
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at night and bombs are going off.
These guys have never been in a war.
They've covered wars, whatever that means.
I'm sure all these guy,
Douglas Murray, they're always.
They're always in or out of war.
They're always having cocktails at a war.
But they're never fighting the war.
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They're having cocktails at the war.
Canapés.
They're like a a meet
and greet at the war.
So, yeah, you know,
I watched the cables in the morning
and just kind of sat around.
I was watching Morning Joe a little bit
this morning before I got out the door.
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It does seem like these are pundits
theorizing and some, you know,
generals they have on some people who have
been to war, despite what Dillon says.
But it just seems like everybody's out of
touch with everyday Americans who are
looking at this and saying, what about us?
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Yeah, look, I know I'm unique on this,
but I feel like the battle is joined.
I we've been out here for 20 years.
The young Turks
standing opposed against wars.
I've been fighting those guys
that he mentioned.
Sam Harris, Thomas Friedman
for 20 straight years.
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Sam Harris I'm an atheist,
but the Muslims are the worst.
Wait, you either don't believe
in religion or you do.
What the hell is this?
Muslims are the worst and they believe
they're violent and all that stuff.
I had a three hour debate with him.
You can check it out.
Thomas Friedman, you know, always is
defending the democratic establishment,
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always defending Israel, always
defending all the wars that we go into.
And what do they do afterwards?
The mainstream media,
they come back and they go,
oh, nobody could have seen it coming.
Oh, we got light into Iraq.
Nobody could have seen it coming.
We'll do better next time, right?
Oh, Joe Biden is not young and dynamic.
Nobody could have seen it coming.
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We'll do better next time.
And here we are.
Next time in Iran.
Same exact thing. Iran could get a nuke.
And then the next thing you know,
you know, it'll be a mushroom cloud.
It'll be our first thing. Oh my God.
Any second now
they're going to get a nuke.
And then Netanyahu goes on TV.
Bret Baier asked him on Fox News.
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Hey, were they our intelligence?
US intelligence says they never
even restarted their nuclear military
nuclear program at all since 2003 at all.
Did you know that the Grand Ayatollah
has an edict out?
You always hear the ones like,
oh, we're going to destroy Israel
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and say, that's it.
That's what we have to murder everyone
in Iran because they they theoretically,
hypothetically wrote on a document once
that they're going to destroy Israel,
whatever the hell.
Right?
In that same kind of edict,
the Ayatollah said that it is a sin
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to develop a nuclear weapon.
Now, I don't believe him.
Oh, so you believe him on the other one?
But you don't believe him on this one?
Why?
Because you're doing propaganda, right?
So that's what the mainstream media does.
And I've been fighting it
for 20 straight years.
And now all of a sudden,
I got Tim Dillon and Rogan and Dave Smith
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and so many others.
Even Tucker Carlson and Marjorie
Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon.
I can't believe it. I can't believe it.
Saying, yeah, antiwar. And we meant it.
Antiwar. And we meant it.
Okay, those look, whatever you think
of their media leaders,
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their political leaders I know of,
so many on the left will tell,
you know, all their voters are liars.
They're not. Why would a voter be a liar?
What's their incentive to lie?
No, they said they were antiwar
because they are antiwar.
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Can they get tricked into a war?
Well, that we're finding that out
together right now.
So a lot of their media guys
proved to be true.
Now saying, oh my God.
Look, guys, I'm not saying
these guys are great on other issues.
Steve Bannon
is a nightmare on other issues.
Jack Posobiec.
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I couldn't disagree more
with that guy on 1000 issues.
Right? But they're all over their heirs.
Like Tim is going,
don't go in, don't go in.
This is not our war. This is Israel's war.
And their voters are saying, don't go in.
So that's why Trump's in a conundrum.
I mean, I love the way that Dylan
does it in a funny way, right?
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He's like.
And he's and he's right.
Just think about that for a second.
And then I'm going to go
to you guys in the polls.
In fact, I'll give you one poll
and then I'll come back to this thing.
He said we on the live chat, we're asking
what should the United States focus on?
Because this is what he was
asking a funding our allies wars,
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or B fixing our own problems.
What have we got there? 95 to 5 5%
say no, no.
Let's spend all of our money funding,
funding other people's wars.
95% of Americans.
Now I get it. It's our poll, right?
But go do your own poll.
I bet you it's like CNN will
do a poll and then bury it.
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I've seen them do that before.
Well, it turns out 85%
of Americans are against.
Get this out of here.
Never report that again. Okay?
You know, most Americans love Israel
and think it's a special ally
and think that we have to do this war
for Israel like we did with Iraq.
Okay. Get rid of our own.
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Okay, so what Dylan said there
is so on point, right?
And that's part of why we're covering you.
Go to a trailer park.
Go. Go to a suburban home.
Go any American, knock on their door
and say, give me your top three problems.
Not one will list Iran.
Not one, not one. Give me your top five.
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Give me your top 20 problems.
Not one will list Iran.
Okay. They'll tell you about.
Oh, my God, housing is so high,
the drug prices are so high,
my wages are too low, etc.
But we're not spending money on that.
None of that, none of that
we're taking away from Medicaid.
We're taking away
from Social Security offices.
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We're taking away from Snap.
We're taking away from everything
just to give it to Israel to do this war.
Come on, come on.
So are a lot of our members wrote in.
Some said MAGA has realized the scam.
That's why I'm telling you guys.
Has all of MAGA realized that?
No, but we've got more in a second.
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But a lot of them have recognized it.
Take the win.
It's never happened before.
A United States of America.
I know that you're not in the mood
to unite with anybody.
If you're on the left
and you see what's happening
in the streets of LA, etc., right?
But this is an actual antiwar coalition,
certainly 100%.
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The, the libertarians mean it for sure.
It's just Vegas.
Another member on Twitch this time said
comedians probably know more about what's
going on than the mainstream media hosts.
I don't think that's even close.
I think, first of all,
an average Young Turks viewer
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is going to know about 20 times
what a mainstream media reporter knows.
Like if you did a quiz on the news, right?
Our politicians affected
by money that they receive.
All Young Turks viewers would say yes.
Almost every single mainstream media
reporter would say no, it's already over.
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The quiz is already over. Right.
But we can go on and on and on.
So ask him about how we
got light into the Iraq war.
How you can go on and on.
There's just nothing but lies.
Okay, we have one more vote.
Poll. This one's on Titcomb.
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Do you believe that MAGA is truly
rebelling against Trump and the war, and a
lot of people have different opinions.
I'm curious how you guys are going to come
out on this, No, they actually want war.
A lot of people on the left
believe that no I don't.
They're all lying at all times,
even though they're all saying
that they're anti or tons of them
are saying they're anti-war.
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I don't believe them.
And I don't want their help
even though they're in power.
I just want to hate them.
B no, they're against the war,
but none of them are rebelling.
Again, there's Dylan rebelling, and we're
going to show you in a little bit.
Tucker and Marjorie, Taylor Greene, etc.
Rebelling.
But anyway.
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C yes, they are anti-war
and are pushing Trump not to get involved.
Okay, so curious what you guys think.
Titcomb but there's a lot of us
on the left that are so mad at the right
that we think, you know,
I don't want any help from them.
I don't know, Sharon. Me?
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I'm a practical person.
We're not in charge.
Trump is in charge.
Trump is not going to listen to the left,
but there is some chance
that he's going to listen to his own base,
which he does do a decent amount of times.
And it looks like the base is turning.
So I'm encouraged by that.
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When you look at the Dylan broadcast,
what do you think?
I think, yeah.
Enough of them are turning against,
Trump, led by Dylan and others.
I just wonder how much steam
it will pick up.
But I think Trump does listen
to the polls.
Jack.
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And I do think that when his base
starts to erode a little bit,
I mean, just look what he's doing with.
Oh, well, we'll exempt the farmers.
We'll do this and that
with his immigration,
enforcement policies with Ice.
So I, I think you're right.
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A lot of people on the left
have blinders on because a lot of water
under the bridge, and it seems like the
floodgates are open and it keeps coming.
But, yeah, I think it makes sense, I do.
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