Weekly Zeitgeist 420 (Best of 2/23/26-2/27/26)

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 427 (2/23/26-2/27/26)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
What is something from your search history that is revealing
about who you are?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (00:28):
This sucks.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
All my search history is work related stuff for the
last two weeks.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Boo.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
That's how we're I know.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
We're in a recession.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Recession indicator, okay.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
But also that also tells me that the only way
I find new information is scrolling on reels. So it
does my search history.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
For me and find on reels. What's your reels dominated?

Speaker 6 (00:51):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's a lot of did you guys watch the ANTM documentary?

Speaker 6 (00:56):
I've seen parts of it. I've seen the full thing.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Though, So basically it's like Tyra's a sociopath and then
she drops it. There's gonna she's gonna be involved with
season twenty five at the end. So I feel like
they had enough like drama and controversy.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
And America's next time model.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, are you gonna be on top? That's from heated
rivalry actually.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
But.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Literally, Like there were so many moments in the documentary
Spoiler where they were like, oh, yeah, this model's mother
died from a gun or got paralyzed from a gunshot wound,
and then she had to do like a gunshot fucking
a shoot then say so there's all these reels of
people being like when I tell the day after I
tell Tyra my dad died from hypothermia, and it's people

(01:41):
like posing in the snow or like whatever. Like even
some of the former models have come like participated in
this trend, Like I tell Tyra something traumatic and then
next day I have to do a photoshoot directly.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
That for real happened, like her parent had died from
not died.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
But like had been fully like paralyzed from the waist
down by a gun violence. And then she had to
pretend like she had been shot in the head on
a photo shoot after she told Tyra.

Speaker 7 (02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
And there were several times where like there was this
one woman who claimed who didn't claim, Like there was
this one woman who was like, Hey, the sex that
I had on screen that ruined my relationship and my
life was actually sexual assault because I was blacked out
and the producers didn't stop it, and then she a
few years later had gone on Tyra's show and specifically
was like, I haven't watched the scene. I don't want

(02:36):
to see it. And then as soon as the cameras
hit on Tyra's show, Tyra put up the scene and
was like, so what did you think about that? Like,
she's a fucking psychle, she's crazy, and now all she
cares about is ice cream and I'm like, what is
she putting in the ice cream?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
What is she doing.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Ice cream?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
She lives in Australia and she like is in ice
cream and she she There's literally a clip of Tyra
Banks being like, what I feel like my work as
a model in the nineties, you know, stands on its
own as its own like iconic whatever. But my real,
my real, lasting, like legendary thing will be ice cream.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Oh my god. It's called a spise and dream And Justin.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Said one of the former top models had started an
ice cream brand before Tyra.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
That's also also.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Tyra would never let them eat ice cream on the
Yeah Wild Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
She she feels like she owns anything that anyone who
was on that show did. She's like, that's mine.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
I'm surprised she wasn't like going to suit people for saying,
like we were rooting for you, we were all rooting
for you because I was like a one clip clip
of the thing I saw where like that model was
like she was fucking with me the entire time.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so she she I don't think she's
like the type to sue. She's not like Disney or
the kardad Gems. She's like the type to want more
people talking about her, so she like will take from
other people and she'll put shit out there just to
like get more screen. Like she wants more people to
like say that and do that because it puts her

(04:15):
in their mind's eye. She's so so weird, she's so insane.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, modeling, damn man, it's it's it's as if it's
as fucked up as it's always seemed and sounded.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
No one is talking about Naomi Campbell's involvement with us.

Speaker 8 (04:33):
What is happening all over all over the steam files.
There's so many people like that. There's a lot like
the white Men to get to first. You're right, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
I'm surprised they haven't done. I'm surprised, They're right, hasn't
been like what about Naomi Campbell?

Speaker 7 (04:49):
Right?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I think she knows too much? Yeah, she's down that
given how terrible I've been. I'm technically a white man now.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
So and she's like, and I learned how y'all move?
So I have I have things?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, she's at Bohemian Grove. She's like, yeah, right, I
know where the bodies are buried at Bohemian Grove.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah, exactly. Her and Harlan Crowe and Clarence Thomas like
are all hanging out in the summer, Like this is
what you funk would now, Lindy Megan, we got to ask,
what's something from your search history?

Speaker 9 (05:25):
This is real from this morning because I sometimes when
I have a lot to do, I'm very stressed, like today,
I like to wake up and immediately start watching Traders
on television and not doing any of my work. And
so I don't know if you watch Traders, but this
morning I googled is the is this Alan Cummings real castle.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
It's not. It's not.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
No, of course I'm not.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
He's not quite that stacked.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Yeah he might be.

Speaker 9 (05:57):
I don't know, but they why would he invite these
these into his home?

Speaker 6 (06:03):
But I think that's the fun that like an accent,
like a European accent has on Americans. You're like, yeah,
it's probably his castle.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (06:10):
Well, he says it's his castle in every episode.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
But is that not the whole point of the UK
is that the least the person you'd least expect owns
an ancient British manner. It's not that weird, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 11 (06:24):
Yeahah, I will say Alan is a great porn star name.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
Oh yeah, and the way singular yeah Alan, because the
way he says it with that Scott it's Alan. You're like, oh, ship, okay,
flavor patrol.

Speaker 10 (06:41):
You know, I bet he's never heard that before.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
I know, right brand new. He's like, I was going
to change my name to Alan Conrad.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
It would have never worked.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Megan, how about you? What's history?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Mine is just a little bit of a journey through
my emotional state. On Sunday, the last day of the Olympics,
and it was the US versus Canada men's hockey final.
I'm I'm not a big hockey watcher, although I'm really
excited because Lindy in my hometown Seattle got a p
w h L, which is the new women's professional hockey league,

(07:18):
the Seattle Torrent and the captain for the US team,
Hillary Knight, plays.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Yet so I'm really exciting.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah. Just yesterday she was like, now I have to
sit here and take responsibility for somebody else's actions, and
that's like not. I was like, yes, sister, yeah tell them.
So I went to go buy her jersey sold out
and I love to see that. But that's not what
my search history says. My search history is men's hockey start,
then cooking question fighting aloud in Olympics, and then I

(07:50):
went for which it's not, and yet they kept doing it,
so I guess fighting aloud in Olympics period. Then I
went to my dogs for a walk because I was
getting stressed because despite me not really following hockey or
caring that much about it, I nevertheless picked a guy
I wanted to win, and then it was stressful and
then I was into deep immediately. You have a rabid

(08:14):
competitive spirit, yes, and it kicks in instantaneously, like it
could be like the Nuggets versus the Rockets or something
if I just I don't know off handedly, like oh
I hope Denver wins. Oh it's over for me, because
if Denver loses, like now, now my reputations on the line.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
Are you Denver sports fan?

Speaker 4 (08:33):
No, I'm from Seattle, but they just might team away,
so I kind of don't acknowledge. Yes, I don't acknowledge
that m n b A until I get my team back. Anyways,
So I went for a walk and then my searches
on my walk were US Men's hockey team score, US
men's hockey team score, US men's hockey team scorecore, like

(08:56):
a lot of refreshing. Then I get home and I
stopped Google, and then we won. And then I googled
Jack Hugh's teeth because I noticed that he was bleeding
out of his mouth, but I had missed that he
had lost them in that game, and I was like,
jack Hugh's teeth lost today? Answer yes? And then it
starts kind of falling apart from me because I start

(09:17):
seeing a lot of chatter online about these guys on
our team. It turns out some of them aren't so good.
I'm like Katchick Brothers, Oh yeah, Katchick Brother's, maga, Katchack Brothers,
anti trans commissioned, Donald Trump, question Mark, Wayne Gretzky, Wayne
Gretzky Maga, and I think we all know where my
searching ended up.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
It all fell apart.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
I was.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
I went from I've never turned so fast on a
team that I was excited about than I did with
the men's hockey team. I was really excited the Jack Hughes,
the Hughes brothers, I thought had a good story because
their mom is one of the coaches for the women's team.
And I was like, well, it seems like a couple
of good guys. And then they were like, nope, I
want to go to a strip club in Miami, and

(10:01):
then after that, I want to eat cold with our
freak president.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
And then do the women seem to hang out with
Stanley Tucci?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yes, the women's team got to have a lovely Italian
deal with Stanley Tucci and champagne supplied by Megan v Stallion,
our nation's top Meghan. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
It used to for me.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
How far her.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
Star is falling?

Speaker 4 (10:25):
You know?

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (10:27):
Man?

Speaker 6 (10:27):
It's funny too because I remember when their dad, Keith Katchick,
was playing.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
I was like, I remember seeing I I used to
play hockey, but I've completely checked out from checking it
with like the NHL, and I'm like, is Keith Katchicks
still playing? And I was like, no, it's fifty five
or whatever. Kid.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
You know he's got two scumbag sons.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Now, dude, these Seattle Torrent jerseys are dope.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
At are they good looking?

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Such a good color scheme, like the emerald, green, blue,
the cream? Oh good, catch me at Dick's driving rocking
this ship on baby cut. I'll always give it up
to Dix because they got the best fucking fries in
the game, am I really do.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
It's crazy what they do to those French fries floppy.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
I like, I don't like them too crispy. I like
the way they do them at Dick's, and they keep.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
The skins on as well.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (11:14):
I don't care for any of that.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
But yeah, I definitely a crispy fry over a floppy.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yeah, it's an acquired taste.

Speaker 9 (11:21):
But I like, hey, I you know, Dix obviously great
salele company, hometown heroes, so I like, I do like
to teach the controversy. I appreciate that some people like
the Dicks fries. Personally, I like a Krispy fry. The
Dicks fries are floppy, brown, and just saturated in oil. Yeah,
but I do like a Dix Burger.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
Yeah, they're all good. They're all good. I think the
floppy fry is definitely not a popular choice. Most people
like crispy, so whenever I go in, the default is floppo.
Oh maybe root for the underdog.

Speaker 10 (11:53):
So I support you.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
That's fine, that's fine. You don't have to look, no
I do. We don't have to like with each other.
Like you know, Megan cannot watch heated Rivalry and it's okay.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
You're literally the first person who said that.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
I'm just trying to make bring something relevant up, Carl.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
What is something you think is overrated?

Speaker 7 (12:13):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (12:14):
You know, this might this might be unpopular or currently.
I'm just gonna go ahead and say the Olympics. I
think maybe because I'm thinking ahead to when the Olympics
come to La Yeah, twenty twenty eight, and I'm just like,
fuck the Olympics.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
Like I don't.

Speaker 12 (12:30):
It's it's always a nightmare for any city that it
comes to. They use it to give more money to
the cops. They use it to displace homeless people and
vulnerable people. No city is it's you know, the IOC
is like wildly corrupt.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
You know.

Speaker 12 (12:45):
It's like, yeah, we wont hockey, and now you know
all those guys are just hanging out to state in
the Union Address.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
It's like, okay, yeah, I.

Speaker 12 (12:51):
Don't know, especially the chairman of the LA Olympics, Ksey Wasserman,
the sc files, everyone's like, you got to step down.

Speaker 7 (13:00):
We're standing by our bow.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
At least we got like one of the Mount Rushmore
of Epstein file people given show.

Speaker 12 (13:09):
Yeah, Like la PD is already getting like weaponized robot dogs.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Like what are they gonna get when they we have
the Olympics here?

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Oh man, Just they're gonna be fine on hover packs
or some shit.

Speaker 12 (13:19):
I there's aspects of it I enjoy, but I feel
like the Olympics maybe gotta go. We're gonna spend so
much money on it, and and yeah, I feel like
it could be better spend elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Every block in la will have its own bespoke la
PD helicopter hovering over it at all hours of the day,
at night exactly.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
Yeah, and in mid air, so they're never down, never grounded. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (13:41):
Yeah, I think I'm just thinking of a head to
the LA Ones and how it's going to be a nightmare.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
I don't even know how they're gonna do. The airport's
so fucking small, they're still trying to figure out how
to get everything connected. I just give me a nightmare.

Speaker 7 (13:55):
And yeah, and it's like, yeah, curling is fine. I will.
I watched some and it's like.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
I got I did.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
I was suffering has to happen for that.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah, for you to slide rock down at what costs? Yeah,
because I mean you always see like those like listical
things where they're like, look at the use Olympic venues
now five years later and they're all just like in
some terrible cinemat Max.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yeah, it's great for anything. Also, it's like LA's la.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
We're already a global, major, great city.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
It's one thing.

Speaker 12 (14:27):
And it's like, you know it put Barcelona on the
map in ninety two. It's like, okay, well, I don't
we don't we need less people?

Speaker 7 (14:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:35):
No, Carl Lewis put Barcelona on the map in ninety two.
That's what the fuck I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Dan and Dave Oh wait yeah, just Dan right fucked
me with that last name. Oh, Brian, I was I
was riding off of that and like whatever I.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Thought I was fucking with Dave because I was named
after Miles Davis, and I use that very tenuous connection
to be like, oh yeah, and Ave is all me baby,
that's all.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
One of them had the last name O'Brien. And then
my best friends at the time were guys named Danny
and David. They were brothers named Danny and David, so
they really got a lot of use out of that.
And then they blew it.

Speaker 6 (15:16):
This fucking blew it the what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (15:23):
I think that's a good I think that's a good
overrated I can't.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Yeah, that's the crazy thing was like, I think didn't.
Karen Bass was like, yo, he needs to. I feel
like you should resign, and he was like I'm still
in charge. Nah. He's like I'm good, like and this
is it's like it's ship like this where you're like, bro,
there's fucking like nothing matters anymore. If this guy is
just really gonna.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
Be like assert that, He's like, well, I know before,
well the thing is Dayne Maxwell. Yeah, he was like, well,
I knew this was all before the two thousand and
eight conviction, so like, I have plausible deniability.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
It's like, look at the Epstein files, the crimes span
fucking starting the fucking eighties and shit right yeah, okay, okay, casey, okay, okay,
all right boy, all right, we'll see you.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
We'll see you. It's it does feel like America is
just turning more and more into Russia and we're like
this I'm just trying to picture because like the the
anecdote that always sticks with me about Moscow under Putin
is that like the rich travel in ambulances so they
can just like cut through traffic, right, and like I

(16:32):
feel like that. I feel like that's coming to La.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
Well, that's like how Miami is. Yeah, you know what
I mean, Like they're always like inexplicable, Like every time
I've gone there to visit family, there's like inexplicable police
escorts and nothing's happening in the city higher them.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Bro, they're just they're just fucking tapped in so they
just you know, domain it. And I'm like, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Seems bad. All right, let's take a quick break and
then we'll talk about how we fight back. Snowball Buddy
the Elf style. We'll be right back and we're back.

(17:15):
We're back, and this Trump administration, uh huh. I'm gonna
get us all killed.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Baby, It's it's terrifying.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
We really we touched on just the like the senility
of it all constantly, Like when last week he was like, yeah,
it was last week when he said, like and this
man said President, I want to kiss you, and you're like,
what the fuck? Why is that even a thing to say?
It's like, oh, of course, because your brain circuitry is completely.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Sat strong Man Steel Magnate Yeah, and he's mode. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
I feel like maybe rhetorically that's what needs to be said.
So like MAGA, people starting more like, dude, this guy
looks like Biden.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, fuck dude, he's Biden maxing.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
Danility mogged right now by Biden maxing. But yeah, just
do The cortisol spikes are fucking humiliating anyway. So I think,
you know, we we've obviously positive, as many people have
many times, that he's in an alternate reality, and not
just due to like the cognitive decline or like the
acute narcissism, but also because he's more than likely it's

(18:28):
almost it's it is actually guaranteed that he is being
shielded from the truth by his aides who don't who
as a way of like personality management, because like, look,
we see it all the time. There's like the regular
sycophant boot licking meetings that we'll talk about where just
like everyone sits at a table and it's like show
and tell of sycophants being.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, the telephone, the televised ones where they're like and sir,
I have created this cheer for you, and I've brought
in the Alabama roll Tide marching band and to like
they just all like have prepared remarks about how cool
he is.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
This is a scroll on papyrus where I've listed all
of your many great achievements, sir.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Overwritten the dead Sea scrolls.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
Yeah, we whited it all out, but like we see that, right,
And like there's the cancelations of public appearances, like he
didn't want to go to the super Bowl, but it
was like I was too tired. But really they were saying,
it's like no, because he's gonna get boomed, and like
we don't like he's he doesn't he doesn't handle that well.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
There's are little pin pricks to the outside world, right,
like you can't you can't let Truman out to do
a walk about after you know from the Truman show,
you got to keep him in his bubble exactly.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
And also like the polling. He always talks about poles
like that, Like we see the poles and they're like, yeah, yeah,
people are not really into this. But he's like they
all the polls always wrong. I've seen the real polls,
and you're like, what what do you mean? It's sure
someone's writing shit down and telling you that. I'm pretty
sure that's what it is. So like now I'm just
sort of like, this is putting at increasing risk for

(20:07):
something truly catastrophic to happen based on whatever alter Like
obviously with all the dangers he presents already, that to
add to that fake information to create a worldview where
he's actually more powerful or more potent than he actually is,
or has more support for something than he actually does,
I'm like, it's it's getting worse and worse, especially as
we hear about Iran and he was just speaking at

(20:28):
an event on Monday, and it's even clear that he's
being shown being shown alternate numbers all the time. So
like he talked about the economy and like the thing
that he said he could fix but that was never
gonna happen he loves to again claim that this is like,
there's nothing to see here. This is actually the greatest
economy anyone has ever seen.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Right, look at the stock market, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
The Dow is fifty out, Like, oh god, that's all
because that's what he needs to hear. So here's here's
just a clip of him again asserting that the economy
where by all you know, measurable all measurable data, it
seems to indicate this is not a great economy for
working people.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
By the way, this does feel like he this speech
is when a comedian is going to like do a
big event or like host the oscars and they like
go out on the road to like, you know, test
material and test for the state of the Union. Yeah,
this feels like he's just doing State of the Union shit,
like to be like, how's this going to go over?
What do people think? Am I getting? Are the laughs

(21:30):
at the right place?

Speaker 6 (21:31):
I mean, yeah, it's a joke in that you're saying
the economy is good, right, It's a set up and
punchline in of itself. But yeah, we have the greatest
economy ever.

Speaker 13 (21:39):
Apparently, we have a country that's now doing well, we
have the greatest economy we've ever had. We have the
most activity we've ever had. I'm making a speech tomorrow night,
and you'll be hearing me say that. I mean, it's
it's going to be a long speech because we have
so much to talk about.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Oh, he seems quite crazy by that.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
What a tease by the way, he almost fell asleep.
But well saying when did he had a speech coming up?

Speaker 6 (22:03):
I'm understanding that this is what it is, you know,
apparently okay, So then then this is also very interesting,
right is like the polling. There's the latest polling that
was just even shown on CNN. I was showing how
he went from forty one percent approval with Latinos in
February of last year to now twenty two percent, forty

(22:26):
five percent approval with voters under forty five in February
of last year to now twenty seven percent. Forty one
percent of independence approved a year ago to now twenty
six percent.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's those those are I'm no political expert, Miles, you
know that those numbers are bad.

Speaker 14 (22:44):
They see low personally, I guess not an expert.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
I wouldn't want that. I know podcast numbers and if
if if my downloads were going, I'd be like, oh,
it's something something's different there.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Half yeah yeah, half season those numbers, yeah yeah right.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
And again this is at the same event talking that
extra special shit about how you know what the polls
say this, but I've actually seen something different, and I'm
sure he literally has been shown something different.

Speaker 13 (23:14):
Polls are tough, you know, when you get a fake
poll I get him today. I saw one today that
I'm at forty I'm not a forty percent, much.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Higher twenty six.

Speaker 13 (23:25):
I mean, I'd love to run against him. The real
pole say you kill everybody, wouldn't even be close.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
But I believe that, right the real polls say like
that they're showing like, sir, those are all wrong. Look
at these You're locked in and they're like, fuck, how
do we fuck the rat fuck the election to make
this happen because it ain't happening electorally or through any
kind of democratic process.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I hope he believes that so that he doesn't break.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
The election, like you know, well he's going They know
they have to, you know what I mean, Like, even
if he doesn't, but I'm sure this is part of
him being like dude, if he really gets he's gonna
start lashing out at everyone. We've already have all this,
all these messages, we have to clean up barely keeping
this fucking circus together. But again, it's like, if he's
being shown things that are saying, dude, you're not as

(24:18):
wildly unpopular as you are, No need to change course.
The economy that you said you'd fix is actually looking
worse and worse and worse. The amount of debt that
is being added is catastrophic. Then I'm like, then what
are they telling him about Iran right now? You know,
as like we're seeing all this like build up and
rhetorical you know, sort of setting of the table to

(24:39):
try and manufacture consent for some kind of armed conflict
over there.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
I think I can get them to do whatever they want. Yeah,
I think yeah, I think that, like AI video of
him winning gold for the US team was probably something
they actually shut Sarah, you blacked out again and check
it out. Look what you did.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
Oh that's that's crazy. So the referees also have sticks
and have a puck, well I play, yeah, yeah, that's
that's how good you are.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Man.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
The refs had to get in there against you.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Also have their own buck on some people. Again, it's
a matter of speaking.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
You did.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, here stick work.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
Look at Canadians are scared sork of determination. But yeah,
just like even I think everything we could just get
just even darker and darker and darker as you have
things like again at Epstein scandal, that they're trying so
hard to just put their heads in the ground and
act like isn't there to now whatever? They think they're

(25:39):
gonna get some kind of like wartime bump in approvals,
like some common George Bush like, and I'm like, god,
this is a completely different era, Like people are fully
soured on, like military intervention abroad for no fucking reason,
so that you think this is people are gonna start
and be like, oh, thank god, We're going to Iran
for no reason and people more people can die for

(26:01):
no fucking reason.

Speaker 7 (26:02):
M Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Also was Georgia Bush's popularity Like I feel like it
was really strong in the aftermath of nine to eleven,
and then he went to Iraq and it started taking
a shit, right like once it was became clear that
like the whole thing was a lie, and you know that, right,
I feel like that, I don't know, maybe those numbers

(26:25):
aren't reaching Trump, but like, I'm pretty sure that that
was in the end not good for his popularity, right,
because yeah, that was nobody really thought. I think people
got on board in the run up because they thought
it was going to be like the first one. But right, yeah,
nobody thinks that any.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
It was just getting it up to because I think
right before the invasion it got it to like sixty
four percent, and then approval, Yeah, like it was going up.
They saw what was going up with the saber rattling,
yeah yeah, and they're like, oh yeah, yeah, so we're
gonna do a little bit of that. But again, the
problems like that was that was those are That was
like an era of relative peace for Americans, and the

(27:08):
context is completely different, especially now when you have things
like the economy crushing people and being like what the fuck,
Like I'm getting priced out of milk. That if you're
not addressing those things and thinking merely people go, I
don't need food or a job. I need to feel
good that we're gonna bomb Iran, Like.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
My favorite NASCAR racer is probably gonna win. I don't
need food, right, you know, right exactly, Get free nuggies, dude, Dude, I'm.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
Sitting pretty with these tends man. But yeah, and I
think this goes to show like that the absolute clowns
are in this cabinet now and have no idea how
anything goes, and it's just sort of like, well, we
know we can at least get the wartime profits, we
get the military industrial like machine humming again, and those
people get money, and we'll just invest in that and
just kind of keep moving our money around until we

(27:54):
walk out of here. Was money so big we can
hide forever.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, it's generally not good when people aren't telling you
the truth and you're not working with actual information, and like, seriously,
we people are everybody else extremely.

Speaker 14 (28:09):
Kissed about the Epstein files, Like it cannot be overstated.
Regular people left and right, everyone, I'm so angry about this.
They're gonna lose their minds if we bomb Iran.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
A fucking twenty one year old MAGA supporter pulled up
Tomara Lago armed and got killed by the Secret Service
because of the fucking Epstein files. Ye, Like, there are
such huge, fucking issues that have to be addressed. And
again this just goes to show like the people who
are running things have just such a perverse understanding or

(28:45):
intentional misunderstanding of how it all works to be like
no man line goes up, we get our money, we
get out, and if we have more money, we can
protect ourselves from poor people with violence. And that's yeah.

Speaker 14 (28:56):
I think they just truly don't get it, because like,
when do these people interact with like poor middle class people?

Speaker 4 (29:02):
Ever?

Speaker 6 (29:03):
No, I've always there like we're.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Helping our friends make money, Like we're a good guy.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
What's going Why are you.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Mad at us?

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I can't release the files. Some of my very good
friends are going to get hurt. With his exclamation, MTG
was that's what he told her, Right of my very
good friends are in there? Did he not know? He
was like, I'm just like, is that one of the
pieces of information that they were withholding from him? That

(29:30):
he was also I don't know.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
I mean because the way again, because you also hear
it in his rhetoric around that Epsteine files. He goes like,
I've been told I've been totally exonerated. He's always I've
been told yes, and you're like, and I believe it.
And because you know, they're not gonna be like sir
man all over this ship man, like what the was
going on, looks bad. You need to.

Speaker 14 (29:54):
The first is fine, he's living somewhere.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Blane is fine. They got a body double in print.
Then I'll be fine too.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Chill out, everybody, Oh my god, have you heard yourselves?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
It was that. That was the first one where it
was like, oh, he's like not getting any informant. Like
he was literally like where why don't people just move on?
Like we're all moving on and if you ask questions
about that, you're actually not my friend anymore. Yeah, Like
that was literally like that. It's the energy he brought

(30:28):
into the Epsteam files like months and months ago.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
Saying person, if you keep talking about it, you're definitely
not a Republican And you're like okay, and you're not
coming to my birthday party either. Not with that, keep
that up.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
It really, but yeah, it does remind you of like
the end of Downfall, like that meme that has been
so popular for so long, of like when they finally
come clean with Hitler and or like around yeah that
they're losing the war and they just like haven't told
him to that point because everyone's so scared of him,
and so they're like hell, and he just like flips

(31:01):
out like that's kind of what you hear about, like
how Trump reacts when things go badly.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Yeah, because that whole thing too is like in the
in that scene, right, he believes there's a whole other
army regiment coming to support the defense of Berlin, and
they're like, uh, Steiner's not gonna make it here with
his men. Yeah, and it's like, so we're cooked, bro,
Like we're cooked. Yeah, it's uh, you can only imagine,

(31:32):
you can only imagine. And then like you know, Pete
Heigseth is now saying shit like, oh, we're gonna be
ordering pizzas, like all kinds of ways to throw you
guys off from the pizza tracker at the Pentagon.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Oh good, So he's he's invested in Calshi. Yeah, right, exactly,
he gets that. That's how we want to follow stories. Now, Yeah,
will they.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
Will people die needlessly based on the amount of pizzas
being ordered? Please tell me, Please tell me.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
All right, let's Mexico, because big things are happening over
the weekend. On Sunday, Amnho, leader of the Hallisco New
Generation cartel, was killed in a military operation conducted by
the Mexican government with help from the US government intelligence wise.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
That's I think a lot of people will have you
thinking that it's like the US did that shit. It's like, yeah,
they were probably like here's something.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
They used the Havana syndrome weapon to give everybody knows.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
Yeah, everybody got a Havana syndrome gun down there and
they used it. But yeah, I was like, it's just
the subsequent power vacuum caused all kinds of panic. Cartel
members are rioting, setting fire to cars, gas stations, buildings,
Like a prosecutor got killed, like some of his like
henchmen were also killed in the the operate, the mission,

(32:52):
I don't know, the hate job whatever, whatever it's called.
When the state takes your life and you know the
reaction military action, military action the videos were.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
It becomes it becomes like such just like defint like
uniquely spaces.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
When the government put a hit out, like if the
government is also a gang, they put a hit out
and then their their goons clapped them. But yeah, so
like the videos are all over I mean like all
over the internet, which just ship on fire, people running
like in just like there's like so much chaos happening
in airports and but then there are people be like,
there's gunman in the airports. And when I say people,

(33:33):
people most likely looking at Laura Luomer's fucking Twitter account,
where somehow hurt proxy because she has a fucking Pentagon
press pass. Now, yes, that it gives an air of
legitimacy to the nonsense that she tweets when, especially when
she's like the US has helped conduct this operation.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
But again, who handcuffed herself to the Twitter headquarters when
she thought she was being shadowed? Yes? Yes, years ago
and then last year during the election, was like kind of.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
People thought they were having an affair.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Like people thought they were having an affair. She was
spending a lot of time with Trump.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
I think she based on his memory, she was probably
just trying to remind him constantly that she existed, right, Yeah, Yeah,
they're like, no, it's like people think it's an affair.
He's so senile, it's like you need affair levels of
interaction to stay in his mind. But yeah, she said again,
tourists were being taken hostage, like out of their hotels
by armed gunman. Planes were on fire, just sensational nonsense.

(34:32):
And it got to the point where the Mexican Embassy
had to put a like a statement out to directly
address her lies. They're saying, like, it's false that attacks
against civilians took place at the Guadalajara Airport. It's false
that attacks were carried out against the general population in Jalisco.
It's false that members of organized crime were holding US
tourist hostage. There's a fake photograph of a plane on

(34:53):
fire in Guadalharla that was using Guadalajara that was used.
False that gunment took over the facilities of the Guadalhara Airport.
It's false that the military personal participated in the arrest
of Elmento in Mexico. So again, this is like sort
of nothing, nothing could have gone wrong when you kick
out actual journalists from the pre Pentagon and you give
it to these like weird grifters online.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Who's online shit posters.

Speaker 6 (35:17):
Yeah, for sure. And I think saying this shit obviously
serves two purposes. The first that it helps like paint
Trump as a strong man, you know, because let's be real,
he was basically this happened because he was demanding Mexico
do something about the cartels or else I'm gonna fucking
it conduct military operations in your country. And second, it

(35:41):
helps keep the perception that Mexico is a very bad
place and by comparison, America is actually great. Please stop
reading the news about how it's not that's those are lies.
Look at the look at the three video clips of
a gas station on fire, and you don't need news.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Just watch Cecario.

Speaker 7 (35:59):
That's all.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
That's yeah, the documentary Cichario. And I think that second
sort of benefit was what like utah S editor Mike
Lee clearly thought he was doing, because he posted a
like CCTV camera of these guys, these mask guys, setting
a gas station on fire, and he posted cartel hitmen

(36:20):
wear masks. Leftists aren't complaining.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Damn, that's actually fuck. I don't think I can oppose
Ice anymore. Yeah, he did get my ass on that one,
because the bad guys wear masks.

Speaker 14 (36:36):
Yeah, yeah about cartels, and let him know my disappointment.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
Show yourselves, cowards, What are you hiding from.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
The COVID didn't go away?

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Okay, cartel?

Speaker 6 (36:49):
Yeah exactly? Are those ninety fives? Oh my god? Okay,
but you know, like this, like everyone, even Chuck Schumer,
like people were just poning him on Twitter when Chuck
Schumer is even getting you. It said, yes, cartel hitmen
wear masks, that's why I shouldn't, and everyone just started
like hopping on it.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
He and that's actually not why that's not the logic.
Two things.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yeah, Christopher Murphy from Kinetic said, oh, dear Mike, I
literally couldn't make our argument better than you do. The
bad guys wear masks, the good guys don't. And you're like, well,
all right, I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Guess you're actually just learning that cartel hitmen wear masks,
and that is why I shouldn't.

Speaker 14 (37:34):
Like what the cartels in many ways.

Speaker 6 (37:39):
So yeah, that that tweet went bye bye pretty quickly.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
But Mike, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
That's because that's from his permal account based. It's not
his like official Senator Lee account, it's his other one
that he should posts from. Really yeah yeah, it's based yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's where we post from. Yep, yep. Anyway, because yeah,
you got old old dudes thinking their twenty three year

(38:05):
old ship posters. I'm like, yeah, doing based, Mike lead
It's like, dude, you're fucking just get the fuck.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Out of here. Is this based? Can I get a
feedback from the interns if this is based this living based.

Speaker 6 (38:19):
The frog meme. Cool.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
No, all right, all right, all right, let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
And we're back. And look, if you're at the Tampa
International Airport, take off the fucking pajamas and crocs, asshole,
because last fall we saw Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy talk
about a new golden age of travel, where he basically
shamed people from dressing comfortably for overpriced plane flights. Specifically,
it's like, hey, you know, man, why you gotta wear

(38:58):
pajamas all the time? Slippers looking sloppy? I remember when
you could smoke cigarettes on an airplane and you wore
a business suit while saying racial slurs and harassing air
flight attendants. That's the golden age we want to bring back. Well,
apparently the Tampa Airport has taken things a step further
with a new policy there. It's clearly a troll post,
but just so dumb. This is what they posted quote,

(39:20):
We've seen enough, We've had enough. It's time to ban
pajamas at Tampa International Airport. After successfully banning crocs and
giving everyone the amazing opportunity to experience the world's first
crocs free airport. It's time to take on an even
larger crisis. Pajamas at the airport in the middle of
the day. We know this decision could be disruptive to

(39:41):
someone in your life. It's time to have a difficult
conversation with them. You can do this. We and Phoebe
believe in you. The madness stops today. The movement starts now.
Help help Tampa International become the world's first crocks free
and pajama free airport. Do your part.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Say no to pajamas.

Speaker 10 (39:56):
You know they really know how to tap into what
the people care about.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Yeah, you know, planes are literally falling out of the
sky because of Sean Duffy and Elon Musk's mismanagement transportation.
But no, it's really at the pajamas.

Speaker 6 (40:11):
The air traffic controllers are wearing the jamas, isn't they
think in the tower?

Speaker 2 (40:15):
So that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (40:16):
I like how this is like this, this sentence sounds
like a thing we should be saying about your friends
who are still Mago at this point. It's like, we
know this decision could be disruptive to someone in your life.
It's time to have a difficult conversation. You can do this.
We believe if your uncle cut these motherfuckers out of
your life, because they literally stand for all things evil
in the yeah ever, but they haven't anyway, But here

(40:37):
they are the madness stuffs.

Speaker 10 (40:38):
Today just feels like the whole country's in crisis.

Speaker 9 (40:42):
Everyone I know is depressed and like on their last nerve,
you know, barely hanging on.

Speaker 8 (40:49):
And that.

Speaker 9 (40:50):
Who would this appeal to? Who would even get a
chuckle out of? First of all, they the right does not.
Donald Trump is the only funny person, right, and that's.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
That's doing.

Speaker 11 (41:06):
Yes, It's also like what he's saying somebody should only
say sarcastically, so he gets extra like like he gets
lucky with how fun he is.

Speaker 9 (41:16):
I mean, I right, I mean I think of him
as like outsider art. Like it's like, oh, you, you
stumbled onto something interesting here.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
But smearing over these gatorade bottles is an interesting take
on consumer's stage capitalist evil Daniel Johnston or something exactly.

Speaker 10 (41:34):
There's something about this this airport pajamas meme that that
it makes me sick. I hate it so much. I
hate the punctuation pajamas period period, Like I'm sorry, is
this two thousand and nine Twitter? Like what you put
the clapping emojic.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
It's it's cringe millennial Twitter.

Speaker 10 (41:56):
Oh it's a millennial.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
I'm but my culture is not a costume.

Speaker 10 (42:05):
I guess this.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
I mean, I this fisses me off for all the
obvious reasons and also for the reasons Lindy named. But
it's like, I'm sorry to be too serious about this,
but it's like people are dressing for the experience they're
having at the airport and on planes. You know, it's like, yeah,
you can wish for a golden age of travel. Back
then you were treated as a human being with a
seat that your butt fit in, and they gave you

(42:28):
actual food and nobody was, you know, scanning your genitals
with radiation to see if you were packing a knife
in there. And you know, it's like, of course, why
do I have to get dressed up just to have
my Fourth Amendment rights violated? Yeah, like, come on now,
is a stupid And then you know, you get on
the plane. Everyone everyone is pissed off and angry because

(42:49):
they've all been treated like garbage all through security. They're
getting they're being treated like garbage at the gate they're
getting and I and I say this with love because
we know our nation's flight attendants are God's strongest warriors,
but you know they're sick of everybody's ass as well.
People are getting in fights. Yeah, everybody's drunk. It's like
you want me and I have to wear a gown.

Speaker 8 (43:12):
To this.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
I'm dressed. Yeah, I'm dressed like how you'd see me
come out of my house if I heard there was
a car crash in there, Like, yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Everybody looks profoundly hungover.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Sorry right, yeah, no, I.

Speaker 9 (43:26):
Just people are wearing their pajamas because they're clinging to
one shred of comfort. Yeah, absolutely, hellish next maare experience that. Also,
you're constantly aware this might be the when you when
you die, when they finally there, there aren't any any
air traffic controllers left, and you are going to fall
out of the sky and die.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
And producer Victory is a good point in the chat.
He said, Also a lot of people go to sleep
on the plane, like the time amin, bro, I'm just
trying to I'm trying. I want to time travel there
so I can't. Yeah, pay fourteen dollars for hummus.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
And like the worst part of it all is that,
like you can't ever get mad, or they'll put you
on a list that says you could never get on
the plane again, which I don't. I don't ever want
to be on the plane again. And yet there's no
other way for me to get anywhere, And so you
have to just be disrespected and be like thank you

(44:18):
so much so.

Speaker 9 (44:21):
And it's giving next Top Model documentary where Tyra made
Danny close her tooth gap, and then seasons later she
made some other girl created tooth gap. If you fly
like business class to Europe, they give you pajamas.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
So it'll make you while you're in the bathroom. We
made your bed. I remember, like looking at them, What
the fuck they making a bed for you?

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Right?

Speaker 11 (44:48):
They'll give you those hot sleep mask. I can't bring
my own bats, and I have plane phobia, like I can,
I freak out on plants. The only way I can
imagine it worse is a bunch of dudes annoyingly good
posture in suits and ties, just like rows of those.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Weirdly like a.

Speaker 9 (45:08):
Middle school principle, like dress coding, you liket like getting the.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
Skirt that's about over six inches. Yeah, I want to
craz Sean Duffy Duffy moving on though to just something
that's really interesting because we live in a world of
like synthetic movements and synthetic media, like you know, the
Milania documentary being plopp propped up by you know, bulk

(45:37):
ticket buys, the fake Turning Point US a halftime show.
There's a lot of these things that want to give
people the sense that this is a shared reality and
that this is people are behind it, when really just
a lot of ship propped up by algorithms and like
disingenuous engagement. And Nicki Minaj seems to be part of
that too now because she's got a hell of a year,
like after increasingly losing revel and relevance as a musician

(46:01):
and her constant defending of her sexual predator husband, people
have not really been picking up what she's been putting
down recently, and her MAGA transformation was solidified with an
appearance on Erica Kirk's show or whatever the fuck that
word panel as a turning point panel they did, and
from there she slowly became one of maga's hottest new tokens,

(46:22):
culminating in an appearance with Donald Trump himself. But a
recent analysis of the Twitter we call it Twitter. In
this house, Twitter activity reveals that she's been propped up
by bots and coordinating with other MAGA influencers. So this
was in Politico where they got this full on analysis
of like a lot of the exmocial social media activity

(46:44):
on Twitter that says quote. The report, compiled by the
disinformation detection company Syabra, identifies a coordinated network of bots,
more than eighteen thousand of them, that drove algorithms to
spread Minaj's posts on x. The analysis, which looked at
social media activity from November eleventh to December twenty eighth,
provides a window into how the rapper was able to
capture millions of views online and position herself as a celebrity.

(47:08):
The White House found value in partnering with the report
found inauthentic accounts repeatedly amplified Minaj's post with praise that
used highly similar language. As they put it, particularly in
response to posts where authentic accounts were criticizing Minaj. So
like when real people are like the fuck are you
talking about? Are you for real? The what what are

(47:29):
you saying? There would be things like this, Nikki, you
are brave for living your truth. People I might not
always agree with what's being played out, but as an
artist and watching your growth as a person, it's inspiring.
This was from a comment of I guess Nicki minaj
fan at LAX seven six two eighty three.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Fairy Real.

Speaker 6 (47:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and they're all using they say
supportive comments generated by fake profiles were predominantly brief, repetitive,
and low and semantic complexity, consisting largely of praising keywords
and positive hashtag rather than original or substantive engagement.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
And you're like, yeah, all the low syntax complexity does
not bar them from being a mega people.

Speaker 6 (48:10):
But yeah, yeah, romantic quality, Yeah that might be we
could maybe look at that a little bit closer. But again,
like she posted her support for Trump and then talked
about the prosecutions of Christians in Nigeria, Gavin Newsom's perceived
in light alignment with the transgender community. The bots were
there to back her up. Cybora's report shows they also

(48:31):
amplified her posts related to the music industry too, because
I guess she's trying to really keep herself going there.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
It's interesting speaking of her tweets about the music industry
because she's willing to be like call out jay Z,
but you'll know she will never go so far as
to utter Beyonce's name.

Speaker 7 (48:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Yeah, So there's still a sliver of in there somewhere,
you know, Like.

Speaker 6 (48:53):
Look the barsanity. Yeah, the barbs just ain't what they
used to be on Twitter, you know what I mean.
There was a time when you're like, bro, watch out
for the fucking bars they they have. Yeah, it's just
you probably they're like this, that's legit. I think still
so we I don't know if we have the synthetic
defense program against the beehive.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
It's just I don't know. This one just makes me
kind of sad. I was a huge Nicky fan. I
saw her in concert in New York. I saw at
Barclays and it was really fun, and she, you know,
was so talented, but even in her pre Maga days,
she had just this inability to she had She's always
had a scarcity mindset, you know what I mean, So

(49:35):
she can never like be okay yeah yeah, especially other
women rappers, and so I feel like that was the
start of her downfall. And as she started getting gassed
up by like worse and worse people, I feel like
it corrupted her mind more and more. I'm not trying
to make excuses for her. Obviously, her husband is a
nightmare in and of himself as well, but the way
she goes after women in particular is really disappointing. And

(49:59):
then and then to be kind of co to sort
of willingly jump into this movement of people who like,
like under their own legislation, under their own legislation, you
wouldn't be in this country right like, and you won't
be allowed to vote under like their new plans. And
you're like, you have an axe to grind about Jay

(50:21):
Z and Cardi B. And somehow that's turned into you
appearing on stage with Erica Kirk, who's the most menacing
individual I've ever plaid eyes on in my life. Okay,
And it just just absolutely took a hammer to her legacy.
And it's frankly quite sad. Yeah, although I don't like
feel bad for her, but it's not.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
But you see this all the time, and a lot
of rappers do this because like, the second they start
orienting towards mag I'm like, Okay, what do you need
a pardon for?

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Who needs?

Speaker 4 (50:48):
Right?

Speaker 6 (50:48):
Exactly the first thought, I'm like, there's no fucking reason
for this because you believe your proximity to the administration
is going to render you some above the low status,
and clearly with Kenneth Betty's record on I don't know
what they're I don't know what's going on. I don't
know what she who she knows, or whatever's happening. But
it's also like, lady, you were born in Trinny, you're
from Trinidad, like you are you seeing any anything that's

(51:11):
going on? But again, it's just that same proximity to
the power that they're like, it's fine, it's gonna protect me,
and I can completely turn my back on everyone else
who's going to be affected by this because at least
I can carve out a little spot.

Speaker 11 (51:23):
Yeah no, no, you go, well, you just immediately become
the coolest, most powerful person in that arena compared to
everyone else.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (51:32):
Yeah, that's basically what I was like what I was
going to say, like the it's that sort of Oh,
someone annoyed me or hurt my feelings one time, and
I have such a fragile, tattered, wounded ego that the
first person who's nice to me like I have no discernment,
Like I don't care at all, whoever's going to be

(51:52):
nice to me and tell me that the person that
was mean to me is bad, I'm gonna move toward them.

Speaker 10 (51:58):
And if and then they're gonna also pay me to
be there for you, of course.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Especially as her other revenue streams are drying up. So
it's like, yeah, this is an easy way to just
like launder rich mega guy's money directly to Nicki Minaj
through TPUSA.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
And I think what's interesting is like if they're doing
this whole campaign with the bots and all this uh
spending all this money, and you know, I guess there
must be someone putting a bunch of time into organizing this.
It's like the goal is that do they think that
they can trick Nicki Minaj fans into becoming maga because

(52:35):
it is that working?

Speaker 4 (52:36):
I mean no, but I think like that's TOPI fight
our point on what you and what we're saying. It's
like it's not just that like I mean, she becomes
the most popular person immediately, but also because she's black, right,
Like they're constantly on this hunt for like black validators
or POC validators to be like, oh, it's not that bad.
And also because they've flattened like identity to be like, well,

(52:57):
if you could get one black person that'll like win,
that'll went over.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
Like it's like how they were running Alan keys against
Barack Obama and Illinois is if there's no difference between
those two guys. They're both black men. So it's the same.
I mean, like that's as as nuance of their thinking
is about like identity and race, and so I think
that's like one of the reasons why, like Nicki Minaj
had a very easy time ascending to the highest heights

(53:24):
of loserdom on the MAGA side is because they're like, oh,
nice yacause I've heard of her.

Speaker 6 (53:30):
They're like, yeah, I've heard of her. It's like these
other people, they're like, nobody's really fucking will walk a
fakka anymore.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
But they don't see. They don't see what we all see,
which is that her doing that lowers her escall with
literally everyone else. It doesn't. It might win over like
six mentally ill barbs on Twitter, but it's not going
to win over like huge swaths of the community because
she's an insane person.

Speaker 6 (53:54):
And the reaction from black people was like, what the fuck,
what is she doing? Like get the fuck kind of there.
But also, hey, that's that's enough to let us know
where the fuck you're at if you're willing to just
be like, well, this is the right wing grift I'm
doing now because nothing matters to me except my damn srelly.
To your point, though, Alex Brucellwitz, who's a median political

(54:15):
advisor Trump considers a very close friend, told Political he
is confident there are no bots involved with the social
media the rappers and presence quote Nikki has never used
bot activity to promote herself on social media because she
doesn't need to. She has one of the largest fan
bases of any musician that's alive today, which reads like
some shit they read in some doc like some kind

(54:36):
of analysis where they're like, these are the people with
great social media presences that we could maybe leverage their
blackness to create cover for our white like naked and
open white supremacy, and it's not working, because it later
goes on to be like they're just mad because she's
They even said she's getting Democrats to like open their eyes,
and you're like, that's really you really think? I will

(55:02):
I'll tell you later, I'll I'll get back to I'll
get back to their office. On that.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
You wouldn't know him. He's I met him at summer camp.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
His name Byron Donaldson.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Who else?

Speaker 6 (55:14):
Tim Scott? Huge, huge, Huge? It worked on Yeah, You're like, yeah,
she's when she's spitting like Roman, then I'm just like,
where do you want me to go? Queen? Where?

Speaker 11 (55:31):
Since since the Monster Verse, I've based every decision of
my life on what Nick honestly that would have been.

Speaker 6 (55:42):
Oh man, it's funny to think that some of the
best version the verses on that Monster track are now
like magot people.

Speaker 10 (55:50):
Crazy.

Speaker 6 (55:51):
Yeah, look, it happens. It happens. But hey, everybody, you
keep your head on the swivel and know the bullshit
when you see it and call it out and tell
your friends look this, because again, this is so funny
to me because so much of like what conservatism is
on the Internet now is just pretending that a bunch
of people are fucking with it when they're not, and
it's like trying to give the perception that it's so

(56:11):
much bigger. And that's the one other little green shoot
of hope I have, is that there is so much
just being propped up in like the digital world and
like the esthetic of social media to make you think
this is mainstream. Yeah, it's it's it's not.

Speaker 9 (56:25):
Yeah. I mean I don't know how to process this
because I heard it from Candas Owens. But like Candae
Owans made that video where she was like I did
some some YouTube math and like, actually, oh yeah, only
six thousand people watch the Kid Rock halftime show. Now,
look kandas Okay, I don't We're not relying on Kansas

(56:48):
as a source.

Speaker 10 (56:48):
But I believe it. I mean I believe yeah, like
based on the reality that I see around me.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (56:55):
Yeah yeah, And like of course the people who are
like croudigging like we're watching. But turning point USA, it's
like there's like five videos of like people at their
homes doing it, and like all the kids and there
look miserable.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
I wanted to watch bad Buddies.

Speaker 6 (57:10):
Yeah, I'm gonna get cooked at school tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (57:15):
Shit right, all the children are like I thought he
was gonna be a kid.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
He's sixty Yeah, sad for Kids Rock. He's not a kid.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
Wait you said the tv US a halftime with Kids
Pop Kid Rock?

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