Podbit · The Tim Dillon Show
Miriam Adelson and pro-Israel super PACs spent $32 million to take out Thomas Massie — the most expensive congressional race in American history. The winning candidate ran on the exact opposite platform of what Trump voters chose a year ago.
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Broadcasting from the UK for the last time this trip, Tim delivers a mock-eulogy for Thomas Massie — a congressman he repeatedly invited onto the show who always declined, and who has now lost his seat. The villain of the story is $32 million in spending from Miriam Adelson and allied pro-Israel, pro-Iran-war super PACs, which Tim describes as the most expensive congressional primary in American history [1] — Tim Dillon "$32M spent in one congressional race: Miriam Adelson and allies spent $32 million in the Kentucky primary — the most expensive congressiona…" 01:33 . The winning candidate, Ed Gallrein, is a retired Navy SEAL who ran on a platform of more war and less transparency — the opposite of what Trump voters chose a year ago. Tim riffs on a broader theory: that American politics, like American entertainment, operates as a machine that can force public acceptance of anything through sheer saturation. He draws an analogy to the music industry, noting that even sub-par entertainers can be made culturally unavoidable through marketing firepower. The deeper argument is that money has entirely replaced ideas in American democracy, and without public funding of elections or an end to super PACs, the same story will repeat endlessly with more 'central casting' archetypes — war heroes, fed-up moms — selected to appeal to lizard-brain instincts.
Miriam Adelson and allies spent $32 million in the Kentucky primary — the most expensive congressional race in US history — to defeat Thomas Massie.
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