Paul F. Tompkins
speaker
211 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
Paul F. Tompkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It hasn't worn off yet.
It's funny, like, sorry, but the idea that, like, with the Nixon era, after Watergate, when Nixon resigns, that is maybe the last time that there were real consequences for the highest office. Yeah. It doesn't mean anything.
It really is just like an asterisk in history, you know, essentially of saying like, just so you know, people, some people thought this was bad and they and they said so officially. But there's no real consequence for any of this. So really what they're doing is saying. We cannot, Nixon should not have had a consequence. We got to make sure that there's never a consequence ever again.
And unfortunately that meant for everybody for like, for, I don't know if, if, because if it didn't happen, if it didn't happen after Bush, which there was not even an impeachment for Bush, like for the Iraq war that we all know now was bogus. If there was never going to be a consequence for that, Then it worked. And there and from now on, like, when is it ever going to happen again?
When if it didn't happen, then when is it ever going to happen again?
And then it also conditions whether you're on Russia's side or not, whether you're on that side of things or not. It conditions everybody to feel like... it's okay that there's no consequences because what are you going to do?
It's just the way things are.
I mean, it's like, it's just not even that funny. No! You know what I mean?
That's one of the things that sucks about Rush Limbaugh is that he... For somebody who did a lot of bits and, you know, was supposedly doing satire, he just wasn't that funny.
Yes. Because you put the tiniest effort into constructing these bits.
And the idea that it's so... That he phrased it as this matter of personal choice rather than like just common sense practical thinking. You know, like, do you really want to put your trash in two separate trash cans? Yeah. And it's like, well, it's not so much that it's a hassle. It's that we're going to make Earth unlivable for ourselves. Not that we're like, you know, fuck you, the dodo.
You should have had claws or something. It's that we're fucking ourselves. Why has that been... Why is that so hard to understand and so hard to comply with and so hard to keep as part of the narrative? Because the logical extension is, what do you care? You'll be dead. By the time this shit affects people in a meaningful way, to you a meaningful way, you'll be dead. So what do you care?
And these are people that are allegedly all about the family. And it's like, well, I mean, do you plan on having grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren? Like, do you care about what – I don't know. I'm not being funny now, and I'm just being whiny.
My politics are, I don't want somebody telling me what to do. I believe in a vague idea of a John Wayne movie, and things were better in this bygone era before these people started to suggest that maybe we could improve things, and that's where it ends.
I know. Right. It's so abusive. It's so and it's so bald. Yeah. It's right out there. It's like he's not. There's no. It's not like a sort of obfuscating language. He is saying very clearly. Yeah. What the deal is, this is fucking unbelievable.
He's fun. Yeah, he's fun. But he also says things that I like to hear. But he's fun. He's just fun. But he's fun. I think also you cannot underestimate the effect of the pointer. If you're on television and you have a... You're walking over a television with a pointer and you're pointing at something. It looks very official.
So, Robert, why are all your weapons in front of you? Well, I'm always I'm always surrounded by weapons. What's what's going to happen during this discussion?
Yeah, you're not you're not strapped, Paul.
Here's my knife.
I didn't realize this was a knife on the table show. I apologize.
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