The Daily Zeitgeist - Anti-Trends Legislation 3/31: Trump 3rd Term, Elon Musk/Wisconsin, Signalgate, John Fetterman, NJ Police Chief Pranks
Episode Date: March 31, 2025In this edition Anti-Trends Legislation, Miles and special guest co-host Francesca Fiorentini discuss their respective weekends, Trump 'not joking' about running for a 3rd time, Elon handing out milli...on dollar checks to sway Wisconsin's judicial race, Signalgate getting dumber, John Fetterman having a stroke… of bad publicity, a NJ police chief's sick pranks, Idaho's latest anti-trans legislation just dropped and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We don't have a cold that we got to do?
What's something funny that happened to?
Oh, oh, oh, dude, I bought turntables this weekend.
Oh, midlife crisis.
My era is coming back.
I used to be a DJ when I were young.
I don't when I were young. I don't when I were young.
I don't believe you.
What do you mean you don't believe that I bought turntables?
No, I actually do believe all of this.
I buy CDJs.
So what are you going to do with this?
Was this was it something that was destroyed in Elf Incendio?
Because all of my musical equipment was destroyed.
I needed a way to be musical again.
Yeah, this felt like the lowest barrier to entry because I'm already
I already know how to like DJ like sort of basically I used to I'm sold.
I was mixing vinyl.
So like playing with all this digital shit is so much more fun.
And it's a way for me to have fun.
Do you ever want to just DJ your own party?
But you can't because I would feel like corny.
I don't know, like I don't know.
I mean, when you DJ, you kind of get off on DJing anyway that like you kind of are
partying except you're a control freak and you're in charge of all the music.
My DJ friends who still do it. I mean I have one and he's so talented but he was like last in LA
and he's like yeah come through I go on at three. I'm sorry when? In the morning?
Yeah.
I'm sorry when in the morning.
Yeah, I was with the downtown.
It's like, yes. Good for you to get that spot.
Is that one that's the best spot?
Exactly.
You can have is started three like when everyone.
Yeah, dude, I'm ready to stay out of the Molly.
Yeah. And you're like.
Hello, the internet.
Welcome to this Monday morning edition of NPR.
I'm Miles Gray.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, this is the Daily Zeitgeist.
And this is time for us to tell you
what has been trending over the weekend.
I forget how Jack does the intro, but guess what?
He's out on a little break.
So we gonna do it my way like usher.
Okay, so anyway, here we are.
It is Monday, March 31st.
No fooling here, maybe tomorrow though, buckle up.
And it's 2025.
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Dude, it's such a flawless start,
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We're open, we're transparent,
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Who you might be here and here and there throughout the next two weeks.
The brilliant and talented, I don't even, multi-hyphenate, just throw anything.
Fucking Buenos Aires party animal discount haver.
Hell yeah.
Forgetting the club before 4am.
Fantastic parent, partner, activist, journalist, journalist comedian what the fuck does
what what does he do podcast host podcaster bituation room you heard it
all Francesca Fiorentini thank you so much thank you so much for having me I'm
excited to fill in for Jack for the next little bit I'm excited to dig into
everything with you you know I don't know, starting a Monday morning
with Miles Gray is like a really, that's a rare treat.
That's exciting.
And I'm so, I feel happy.
Is it?
Well, thank you.
Oh, well, and I feel the same.
The feeling is mutual, Francesca, because I'm like, yeah,
we get to talk, we get to be Asian people.
I'm like.
Yes.
Anyway, saw that clip, you on Jenny Yang's podcast.
I was like, oh man, I started listening to that episode.
It was really good, really, really good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny Yang had a very real moment. Listened to her podcast,
just a calling in, you know, Asian influencers and content creators. She knows if you are an Asian
doing in entertainment or online, she knows you, she will trap you into her awesome web of like
solidarity, but you know as we're going through this moment of real fascism and the alien enemies act
Which somehow is still on the books. Yeah
Funny we just let that one cook still might need it again. Yeah, I mean this is the whole thing
It's like can we get rid of these laws?
No, okay, and you know she's basically like
look this helped in turn you know hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans so maybe
it's time to speak out about what is going on even if you personally are not being impacted
and that's hard for someone who's like I think Jenny and a lot of folks like they don't want
that smoke. They don't want to talk about political shit and I get it. You know, you want opportunities. You don't want to. And also, you got Rachel Ziegler and you're like,
yeah, queen, you know. Yeah. Yeah. But I think also culturally too, like knowing a lot of
Asian immigrants and what that process is like assimilating and like just culturally too of
like keeping your head low. There's a lot of shit you have to break through to kind of arrive at
that point where you're like, no, this is the only way to fucking be talking about shit.
But anyway, yeah, very, very good talk.
Also found out that her, one of her favorite professors
is like my aunt-in-law.
That checks out.
It's so wild, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, here we are telling you what's trending,
but first we gotta tell you what is happening in our hearts,
what's overrated and underrated in our hearts, Francesca?
I'm gonna ask you first. What is something you think is overrated from your personal life? What's going on with you?
Oh, if you've made this mistake, you know exactly what I'm talking about, but the litter robot
Which is an automatic cat litter bot. I got the little robot. Yeah. Yeah, it is completely overrated
Okay, what's going on with yours?
Because my shit is doing it.
Kicking, really?
Yeah, I did have to send one in though before because one was fucked up.
They are really expensive, number one.
We're talking like $700, but then you think about it, right?
You think about the time, you think about the smell, you think, and it's worth it.
And when it works, it's good.
But when it breaks down, which is frequent,
it is like upside down,
your cat doesn't wanna go inside the litter
and then just shits outside of the box.
And so we got to a point where like,
the cat was poison-pilled against the litter
because it kept on like turning,
like being upside down when she wanted to go inside of it.
Oh, what the fuck?
That's way fucked up.
Like that's fully not working.
We had Badly as our second litter robot
and so we've bad juju and like we got the warranty
so they're like, oh, we can replace the part
but like this bitch has already been poisoned against it
so now she's just shitting outside the box
even when it's working.
Oh, damn, that's fucked up.
So we had to go now get a regular litter like, you know,
peasants and-
Bending and scooping.
Just bending over and scooping and terrible wouldn't be me so I'm really glad that you've had good
experiences but I'm telling you it's a swing I had so much money it's funny
like I had one that one of the sensors was working and it kept being like it's
full it's full I'm like it is not full you fucking fool look at this one turd in here do your damn job no but that's what, it's full. I'm like, it is not full, you fucking fool. Look, there's one turd in here.
Do your damn job.
No, but that's what I love about it
is that it does turn it over when it's one turd.
You can't smell it.
You like keep it the best.
It's good.
No, I get it though, because cats are so like particular
because that shit goes, man, one time the door was too closed
into like the little closet area where the litter box was.
And my cat was like fuck this
I'm shitting everywhere. Fuck you. And that's I get how the cat frustration works
But anyway, look this is just it's it's chaos out here. It's chaos. It's
Cats are shit. It's a lot of shit, you know, and the kid isn't potty trained yet. So I'm like, oh my god, dude
the guys child
Did his first pee in the toilet?
But then like it's like once a week he'll be like, you know, I want to pee in the toilet
I'm like, okay before he I would be like to do what?
I'm like, you're not what? Yeah, and then now you think you've grown. Oh, and part of me is like just purely in denial
Because I don't want him to be a potty like you're you're still a baby and I will inhibit your growth for my own personal needs.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a lot of time.
Yeah, there's just a lot of poo happening in my head right now.
My overrated is paying for quesadillas.
I'm just now, like the more I think about it, because like, you know, kids like simple
shit and sometimes I was out somewhere and I'm like,
Oh, I may eat a quesadilla. You know what I mean? And then I'm like, why did I pay eight dollars for this right now?
I could have. What kind of quesadilla are you getting? You're getting like a kid's quesadilla that's just cheese?
Yeah, it was like just straight up just straight cheese. It was like it wasn't a kid's one.
It was just a plain qu idea like at a like a
What are you doing? Well, cuz the kid doesn't like this too He doesn't have the mandibular strength to chew through proteins
I can't be chunky steak. He can't do all that shit. So I have to get him the regular one
You know, like this is way too much. It's like this is this feels foolish
like we live in California live in LA all of these ingredients are so readily available and it just takes a second to make it feels like one of those things like you kind of feel foolish by like buying
I mean so Matt my husband loves buying quesadillas out and I get it
I like it. It's funny these this is not why he likes it
But I'm like I get it because it's like almost a healthier burrito doesn't have tons of rice and beans in there
That's gonna be what you know
No, but you got pico and you can you know, whatever. I had a horrible Mexican food experience
over the weekend that made me so sad. But the burritos in San Francisco just can't be beat.
They are their own thing. They've been around. I don't care if they were developed for an American
palate. It was developed by Mexicans. And I had the saddest burrito at a spot this weekend.
It made me want to cry and it made me think of Anthony Bourdain.
Sorry to make it weird, but like Bourdain, he was depressive. Obviously we know that.
But every time he had like a bad meal, he said it,
sometimes it would just throw him into this like depression or he'd be just sad.
That's what eating a bad burrito does to me. I'll be like, wait,
what was bad about like, was it the ingredients all stale?
Yeah, we just no no no no it was just like
unflavorful and
Unenjoyable Wow that sucks and especially Sanford's the home of the mission burrito like what no
I used to live like up the street from the best burrito and the love like the love they put it
You've got to have melted cheese on the tortilla what you can't just throw cold cheeses
Cheese on to the fucking play. I hate fucking I'm gonna sound the alarm on that one
Sorry, we can't do that. Um, okay
What's the meeting is underrated Francesca?
underrated, Francesca? Underrated is getting involved locally.
Over the weekend, I volunteered with Centro CSO, which is a long time immigrant rights
organization in Boyle Heights in Los Angeles.
And we distributed Know Your Rights flyers outside of like different grocery stores and
like door knocking.
And me and like a crew rolled deep and we like it was like 15 of us and we're just kind of like
You know some of us spoke Spanish some of us didn't and it was so nice to just like get offline start actually doing real work
I mean, you know, I'm not saying we change the world, but you know inform me
No, that if ice is in their neighborhood, they have rights. They don't have to open the door
They have to see certain things make sure these people are for real
I mean we are in such scary times and there are great organizations
that are already fighting back.
And even if you can't personally go, those organizations, Central CSO
definitely can use your your dollars as well.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I mean, yeah, it is like such a
sort of like breaking that inertia of panic right now is like really hard.
And I think of like you have to just start small.
Like I think a lot of like,
because the task seems so gargantuan in front of you,
you're like, all right, so I'm gonna learn
how to make napalm, right?
Is that what I need to start?
It was like, no, no, easy, easy.
Let's take steps though.
Let's take it.
You can work your way up to that if you need to.
But right now it is so beneficial to either,
whether it's donating your time or just energy
or expertise or whatever,
there's always something you can offer
if it's not X, Y, or Z.
That's why I love the Tesla protests,
because on the one hand, I feel like,
they're both simultaneously lightweight and not lightweight.
They're lightweight in that they're just,
we're just going to a dealership super accessible holding out
some signs people honk but also like they are getting under Elon's skin. Yeah.
And you know it's awful like a woman was what was it charged with a felony for
putting gum on a cyber truck. Yeah. In Florida mind you but like still it's like
okay we know these actions piss them off so if you ever think that like protesting does not have an impact it
definitely does yeah yeah my underrated is the active pursuit of joy look this
is a lot's happened with the fire okay you're giving up joy is everything the
actual pursuit of joy?
Joy no longer brings me joy.
So I Marie Kondo that.
No, I'm saying it's underrated to actively pursue it.
So like a lot of the times too,
I find myself just trying to be in a state of gratitude
and to be like, oh wow, like there are these simple pleasures
that I'm surrounded with.
And I think we take for granted all the time,
which is very easy to do, but you can be like, oh, you know, the laughter of a child, like a scrumptious
meal, whatever these small things add up. But then there's also things I think deep
within us that are specific to things that bring us joy. For me, very specifically is
music. And over the last few years, I've completely like lost touch with like making music. And that was something huge part of like what I did all the time.
And with the fire to.
Lost all my musical equipment, I lost all the music I ever recorded.
I lost all these creative projects, like nothing to make music with.
So over the weekend, I picked up some digital turntables
and I'm like getting back into DJing,
which is something I did in high school and college
on vinyl because I am washed.
And I realized too, like,
it was something I always knew I wanted to do,
but shout out my therapist who was like,
then go like move towards it, even if it's small,
even if it's incremental.
And the fucking joy that washed over me,
just like firing up music and like playing with it again was so fucking
affirming again, and I remember when Alec Harikot-Sandis was on recently
He was talking about like it's so central to like a resistant like having a good
energetic fuel tank for resistance and part of that is filling yourself with joy and reminding yourself what is worth fighting for, what makes you happy.
And that played a huge part in me being like, music, I gotta figure out how to keep doing
it.
I don't need to necessarily get into a band or start making beats, but I need to engage
with it again and that actively, not passively, actively, and whatever it is.
Look I think the rebuild needs to include
a little music den for yourself.
My brother is a public school teacher in Oakland,
but he is also a musician.
He's been a musician since high school
and has always tried to carve out time.
It's kind of his happy place.
Granted, he doesn't have kids, but the point is,
I have a lot of, we're taught to kind of give up stuff
that doesn't make money in this,
especially in this country.
If you live abroad, there's more of a balance on like,
oh yeah, you can just be a hobbyist on some shit.
But especially if you have the ability to either play
or make music as someone who doesn't have those abilities,
I'm like, that's like a fucking magic trick.
Like you need to do that. Yeah, man
Just get ready for these Madonna remixes. I'm like first of all, I'd be very excited one of my favorite
Oh, no, that's not Madonna's a Janet, but Caitronauta's Janet Jackson remix of oh, yeah
So we know Miles Gray SoundCloud like from years ago there is
So wait, there's no Miles Gray SoundCloud like from years ago? There is, there is a Miles Gray SoundCloud.
I'll let people know about it.
I'll let you know about it.
There's like some tracks I made when I was, this was like, I was like 26 or something
that's on there.
There's like three songs on there.
But that was like such a drop in the bucket.
Like I just had a hard drive.
Cause I used to make music purely for myself.
Like I had, I, when I was working in politics, that was like my job. And I sort of was able to soothe my wounds
of being like, being part of like the machine,
that like a democratic politics.
And I was like, ah, like I was drinking and making music
to like be able to do my job every day.
And that was just purely for that.
And I miss, I just miss making things for the pure joy.
Anyway, I encourage everyone, whatever it is, it's drawing, it's cooking, it's whatever, just fucking, like just miss making things for the pure joy of it. Anyway, I encourage everyone, whatever it is,
it's drawing, it's cooking, it's whatever, just fucking,
like just actively do it.
You'll be surprised.
Because I certainly was with this simple trick,
I'm overcoming depressive bouts.
Okay, here we go.
We're gonna take a quick break.
We'll be right back to talk about the news.
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What a fucking weekend, man.
Donald Trump is saying all kinds of wild shit.
We have, did you see that clip of him
when they're talking about the tariffs?
And he's like, what about the 15 countries?
Like, who said 15 countries?
Did you hear it from me?
All countries.
It's all countries.
What?
What are you, okay.
Like pure, like angry grandpa
who feels like they're out of control.
Did you hear me say it?
Well, guess what?
For me to be in control again, now I'm saying this brand new different thing.
Now how do you like that?
Who's this Trump guy?
Oh, this Trump guy thinks he knows everything.
I'll show him.
Sir, you are Donald Trump.
Who?
Says who?
You?
The lying press?
You're like, oh my God, we are so far gone right now.
Did I say I was Donald Trump?
Fuck, I guess not.
I never heard of him. Exactly, exactly.
I am Iron Man, okay, great.
Well, here's your McDonald's, sir, go into your room.
But another thing that he's talking about
over on the weekend was on NBC News.
He called into NBC News on Sunday and basically was like, I am, he was quote,
not joking about seeking a third term in 2028.
He said it's too, it's too, it's far too early to think about,
but there are methods for doing so. Yeah. I mean,
like there's like very Putin type methods to keep doing this.
I mean, God, I hate, I hate how much now we're like, according to the constitution, as if
like, this is our only defense or like, but the 22nd amendment prevents this.
We, we, I mean, this is, we walk ourselves into these corners and we're like, well, as long as you don't touch
social security, been touched, you know,
as long as you don't touch Medicare, like,
and the same thing with this third term,
it's like you've got people already like,
and even just having the discussion is a sign of weakness.
You know what I'm saying?
Where it's like, no, there will be no third term.
We have checks and balances.
Don't worry about it. Like we got this, you know what I'm saying? Where it's like, no, there will be no third term. We have checks and balances. We don't worry about it. Like we got this.
You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.
But the media is so shook.
Do you think there will be? And he, of course that's what he wants.
I think, I do think, cause the question is like, my mom's like, you know,
well, so do you think there won't be elections? And it's like, no,
there will definitely be elections. To the extent that, no, there will definitely be a letter.
To the extent that they are free and fair is the question.
I mean, Putin has elections.
You have to maintain some sort of vernier. Right.
Orban has elections. Yeah.
They want the illiberal democracy.
They want people to still suspend belief that they're living in democracy.
It's like, hey, I went into the booth and I marked up a piece of paper and I attended it in.
Ah, I guess I was on the losing team again
for the last 25 fucking whatever the fuck.
It's wild.
On NBC News, they're like,
they're like, what the fuck is this guy talking about?
And they brought up, they're like, are you talking about,
we've heard a theory, like a plan be floated
where JD Vance would run for office.
And then if he won, then passing the role to Trump.
And then Trump said, yeah, that's one way.
And he's like, but there are others too.
And then when they asked-
Good idea, thank you.
Yeah, and they're like, okay, well,
what are those other ones?
Do you mind sharing?
He's like, no.
So whatever, take from that what you will.
It's bone chilling and hilarious at the same time.
It's really disorienting.
I mean, again, it's like stop giving him,
I mean, number one, stop giving him ideas
and stop pretending like this is at all normal.
I mean, it's the same, we're in the same shit.
We're in the same spiral.
We've never gotten out of this spiral of like,
well, I wanna build a wall.
Well, you know, that's actually illegal.
You can't do that. It would require seizing a bunch of private spiral of like, well, I wanna build a wall. Well, you know, that's actually illegal. You can't do that.
You know, it would require, you know,
seizing a bunch of private property, blah, blah.
Anyway, next discussion, it's like, ooh,
how do you wanna make the wall?
Like, how high do you wanna build the skulls?
You know?
It's just, you know.
Will there be decapitated heads every 20 feet
or every mile?
Yeah.
Heads on pikes?
Are you thinking about real crocodiles?
Like, this is the kind of way we see these discussions. But again, I mean, it's it's like
the media is so fucking hard up for like real fascism and
It's I think that's the one thing, you know, we've talked about it since the reelection
But like the one thing I had not truly seen coming was how much?
news organizations,
to say nothing of like universities and law firms,
are kind of like, you know, folding over.
And- Yeah.
Well, that class of people are just,
they're far too wealthy, they're far too comfortable,
they're insulated from any of the real horrors
that like people experience at the margins of society.
So to them, it's like abstract enough
where they can like pearl clutch,
but also be completely reckless
with how they discuss these things and be like,
this isn't us.
There's a piece Daniel Besner wrote in Jacobin last week,
which was, I think, a good exercise
in reminding ourselves that this is us, actually.
These are, we're using our own laws
to do everything we are doing now.
We are using agencies that have been created by the United States government to do all
of these terrible things. And we have a track record for many, many years of disappearing
people, of displacing people, of throwing people out of the country for being, quote,
political radicals. So I think that's an interesting, that was sort of point.
Columbia University going after students for protesting
Nazis. Yeah, which is amazing to learn that history. Right. It's it's just truly I think
and I think it's important I think for people to really understand it's like that's we have
to really address this as being like an actual American issue rather than like, what is this
fucking Nazi Germany? It's like no, this is America actually
Yeah, and that we have to reckon with our own laws in a way that you know doesn't give cover to people like
Like Marco Rubio who's using this, you know again these ancient not ancient but like, you know, these whatever law from the 50s
That's like yeah, you can just unilaterally revoke someone's student visa
right these should not be on the books.
And this is what we mean by like Trump-proofing
or fascism-proofing the White House and the executive.
It's like, Biden didn't do any of this stuff.
If you truly were afraid of fascism,
you would make sure that we are-
Lock the gates.
And the entire Democratic Party,
it's like, let's make sure you cannot operationalize
some of the worst, you know, pieces of legislation that have done the worst crimes against Americans
and none, whomever, in our history.
I mean, you know, it's the same shit where you're like, oh, California didn't vote to
abolish slavery and prisons.
Cool, cool, cool.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, well, also too, like it gives people like Liz Cheney the ability to
like act like they're on the side of good and like, this is not us. And they're like,
fool. Are you for real Liz? Come on now. You don't just because the Overton window has
been blown open doesn't mean you're suddenly like a force for ethical treatment of people.
So anyway, we'll see what happens. Here's the thing. If they try to do it constitutionally
to give Trump a third term,
let's all remind ourselves as a basic civic lesson,
the constitutional amendments require two thirds
of fucking Congress or two thirds of the states
agreeing to a constitutional convention
and then needs to be fucking ratified
by three fourths of the states
if they wanted to do it legit on paper
and that shit ain't happening.
So we will see.
Elon fucking handing out million dollar checks
over the weekend in Wisconsin
to try and tip that state Supreme Court race
because right now there's a liberal majority,
a fourth year liberal majority and fucking everyone,
liberals, conservatives, they're putting,
there's like, I think they said the most money that's ever been spent on a race of
this kind and like by margins of like by huge numbers.
Musk has already put in around 20 million of his own money.
20 million, insane. Yeah.
I thought he was initially he, and, and now the courts,
the current court ruled that he could still buy voters off, right?
They would like, I think the court just didn't decline to hear the case that was brought
by the state attorney general against Musk.
They're like, yeah, we don't, we don't, we'll see what happens.
So someone gets rich.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's I mean, like he's got obviously cases in front of Wisconsin because they're like,
nah, no more dealer, no more Tesla dealerships for you.
So and labor, I mean, you think about everything too,
like what Wisconsin is as a very purple state
and how thin the margins are every presidential race.
This is like a very consequential state Supreme Court
to have, you know, in control of the right wing
because all this stuff like abortion,
like those decisions are made at that level too.
So you want, and labor, like there's just so much that both parties see that it's like,
we have to maintain the majority
or we need to regain this majority for X, Y or Z.
And if you're in Wisconsin,
you can do same day voter registration voting is tomorrow.
I mean, I don't, I think tomorrow.
Or officially the poll, yeah.
And, you know, I was looking into it
because I'm like, there's always a reason
that Elon puts a bunch of money into something.
It's really self serving.
I don't even really think it's about kind of the broader like MAGA project.
I think it's just about himself. And then you look into it and, uh,
Wisconsin barred Tesla from owning both a manufacturing plant.
So having a manufacturing plant and having dealerships, because they saw that
as consolidation in the car industry, right?
And I don't believe every state has this law,
but Wisconsin does.
So we currently have an active case
before the Supreme Court, and he wants that
ruled in his favor.
I mean, and it's wild to think,
but this is what we have to be fighting for,
is like breaking up these big companies, and whether it's in media, whether it's in tech, whether it's in the
car industry of like, look, you can't just run both the manufacturing and the dealership
and you know, the distribution and the creation.
Now obviously media has completely destroyed that.
Look at the streaming services, look at tech, look at everything.
But like this is if we begin to claw back corporations control over our lives
That's where it happens if you really believe in like capitalism like
competition, you know, like
All the medium, you know small businesses. Well dealerships can be small businesses dealerships can be medium-sized businesses
You have to be supportive of those kinds of things
So look there's always an angle for Musk
and it's never like, I believe in the broader project.
No, he's like, I got cases.
Exactly, it's I got cases, I need ruled in my favor,
so I'm gonna buy a fucking judge.
That's funny, did you see Jim Cramer over the weekend?
He's like, I hate the free market.
I hate free trade, I'm pro-terror.
It's like, you just shut up fool.
Like you are- My God.
You fucking humiliated yourself fucking 17 years ago.
Let's not forget.
Yeah.
And every day since, he's still on air.
I mean, he has such a fetish for that.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
Elon, fuck you.
Fuck off, I guess.
But yeah, it was wild.
He just started off this fucking thing, handing out two $1 million checks to people in like
the new, I don't know,
it's like Tammany Hall or some shit all over again.
It's like, yeah, exactly.
So we shall see there.
Signalgate got a little bit dumber.
I don't know if you saw Michael Waltz's latest defense
of what happened.
Like this, everything's been like,
it got stupid when he's like,
we got Elon looking into this.
And I said this last week,
I'm like, looking into your fucking thumbs?
To what end does there need to be any kind of like
forensic digital analysis on how you added someone
to a group chat?
He might be a good person to look into it though,
only because he wasn't included in the Signal chat,
so he's probably pissed.
What'd you guys talk about?
Were you guys talking about me?
At one point, yeah, am I not part of it?
It's amazing how they are defending the use of Signal
and all of this stuff.
And anyway, but what did Waltz say?
Well, it's also kind of funny too,
to see Republicans having a really hard time where they see like Republicans like kind of having a really hard time
where they're like, this kind of was like a thing we ran on was like getting mad at people for not
doing security, right? But anyway, here he is on Laura Ingram's fucking show. I'll just,
I'll just play this. It's like mind blowing what he's now. He's like, he's like, I don't know what
the heck happened. You, you added him and you know him. So even stop saying this shit about,
I never met the guy because you guys are in 4k together
in Paris amongst other things.
So anyway, here's Michael Wallets defending the indefensible.
I'm sure everybody out there has had a contact where you, it was said one person and then
a different phone number.
But you've never talked to him before.
So how's the number on your phone?
I'm not an expert in any of this, but it's just curious.
How's the number on your phone?
Well, if you have somebody else's contact and then it, then somehow someone's not saying you that it gets sucked in sucked in
This is like classic like first of all, I'm not telling I'm not saying Laura Ingram's a victim here
But it is very classic like men's plane wrong, you know, yeah plane lie like well, you know
When things get sucked in yeah Yeah, sucked out, sucked off, yeah.
So that's what happens.
And he's like sort of looking at her,
like this is the line, you know what happens.
And you must just know, go along with it.
Sucked in, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all the time, it all happens all the time.
But like, the question still stands.
How was it even sucked in?
This person's number was on your phone, which is fine
You people have journalists numbers on their phones all the time
Yeah, you can't simultaneously say that he is a liar and he's a piece of shit and he's no good
So they're caught between this. Yeah, you can't be he's trying to do the Mariah Carey
Oh, I don't know her all of a sudden, you know, you know him
Okay Mariah Carey, oh, I don't know her. All of a sudden, you know him. Okay, so he denies knowing the guy,
ever talking to him, even knowing who he is.
His number got sucked in
through the fucking Matrix or some shit.
Kristen Welker had Jeffrey Goldberg on her show
to be like, what do you, what doth thou say to that?
What do you make of those explanations?
say to that. is the explanation. My phone number was in his phone because my phone number is in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me
or spoken to me.
That's simply not true.
I understand why he's doing it.
But this has become a somewhat farcical situation.
Yeah, to put it lightly,
but especially like when now we're like,
Jeffrey Goldberg, one of the biggest cheerleaders
of the Iraq war, we're like, yeah, Jeffrey, tell them.
And then like, what the fuck's going on?
Where are we?
Who are we?
But I mean, this is the thing.
It's like everyone has their limits.
Jeffrey Goldberg is a square neoconservative,
probably very pro-Israel,
probably completely on board with the strikes on Yemenemen. He was a he was a prison guard
In israel for the idf. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah wild he wrote a book
Okay, that was about like his time as a prison guard
Where he I have to pull it up because it's the quote he uses is very very
Freaky to describe this book, this like memoir.
I think we might have to read this horrible thing.
Yeah. So he was okay. So he was there. He said during the time he met this devout
Muslim in a refugee camp and he described this, because like this whole book is about him talking
to this guy and like them exchanging ideas. And it was meant to be like a feel-good thing about
the prisoner and the prison
and the jailer sort of having this relationship.
He described this guy as quote,
the only Palestinian I could find in Khedziyot
who understood the moral justification for Zionism.
That's the person that he like paraded around in his book.
Anyway, so many layers to this.
That is so fucking evil
I I don't even have words for that like no, it's terrifying
It's terrifying like and this book like when it came out everyone was like this is fantastic
obviously because no one had the no one was really openly being critical of
The kind of that honestly just points to like the sort of sickness that is a
That honestly just points to the sickness that is a Zionist colonial mentality of believing that no matter what, even when you are the literal prison guard overseeing perhaps atrocious
illegal behavior in that prison, you are actually still the victim.
It justifies anything.
You're trying to have this like co-equal
discussion with the one prisoner who you think maybe, maybe this guy gets it.
You know, the rest of the animals don't.
I just like, yeah, so that's cool thing is like, this is someone, sorry, what's the book
called?
It's called Prisoners, a Muslim and a Jew across the Middle East divide.
Shut the fuck up.
Yeah, that's the book.
Stop it.
Yeah. Because already that a Muslim and a Jew blank,
that is like, again, this is whitewashing language
when it comes to the occupation.
It's always like, so long as this one Muslim
and this one Jewish person get along,
that's all you need to understand about this issue.
And once they can like break bread and be brother,
it was like, ugh. But yeah, in terms of the like, you know, signal break Brad and be brother, it was like,
but, but yeah, in terms of the like, you know, signal gate stuff, it just, it shows you the lengths of like,
this person would be completely on board if you did your war planning,
then had a separate text and told him about it.
And he could write a little fluff piece about like how incredible you were and
how much better you were than Biden,
even though Biden also struck the Houthis five times,
even though they don't give him any credit
if any is due for that.
So it's like, but you know, they didn't,
they did it the dumb ass way.
And now they're losing the people
who would otherwise whitewash their crimes.
Yeah, I know.
It's like, you need people like him
and you need the Atlantic to be able to rah rah
the militarism.
Like it's, anyway, it's odd, odd enemies
when they should be friends.
Strange bad folks.
You guys should be friends.
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And we're back. So we've heard a lot about town halls with Republicans and people getting real upset
with the GOP members of Congress.
But also, Democrats have also faced crowds that were raucous and they try to do their
best to be like, no, we're fighting.
And they're like, no, you're fucking not.
What are you talking about?
They're like, okay, well, gotta go.
Thank you so much.
It's been real.
But the latest sort of sort of opt out of facing
your own constituents comes to us
from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
where both senators, David McCormick and John Federman
like teamed up together, okay?
This is the Republican Senator from Pennsylvania
along with Federman.
They were doing a paid group appearance
to talk about the power of mentoring.
And it was during a promotional event
for the book that McCormick and his wife wrote together.
They were supposed to appear in Pittsburgh
and they caught wind of the fact
that people obviously have issues with them.
Both of them, actually.
McCormick, obviously for just being like a rubber stamp for anything Trump does.
And then Fetterman for also being a rubber stamp,
I guess for whatever Trump does now.
Because they wanted to see both
of their Republican senators and get mad at them.
So this whole event, there was a $32 entry fee
and you got a free copy of the book,
but then the senators moved it to
another location when they saw that there were plans for protesters to show
up and then they said oh actually we need to postpone it they said it less
than 24 hours before the event started they said quote due to an unforeseen
logistical issue. But I love that they he even thought this would be somewhat
within like the realm of a good idea McCormick was gonna get protested no matter what
because he's a Republican,
but Federman also because he is a Republican.
So imagine you're in Pennsylvania,
you're anywhere within a stone's throw of this event.
You're like, oh, this is a two for one.
I'll pay $32.
I'll go to heckle both of these fools in one place?
Yes.
Yeah, it was funny, in of like in Penn live like news,
they spoke to someone who's like,
I can't even pay $32 to see my fucking legislators.
And you're like, wow, that's true story, true story.
But yeah, I think when you have all this going on,
like just the attacks on like academic institutions
or like professors there who are also like,
what are you gonna, hello,
what do you do when they start disappearing us?
Yep. Are you gonna fight or are you guys acting like
none of this is fucking happening?
Just crickets.
They both offices for the senators declined to comment.
They were just like, nah, I'm sorry.
I saw some video of Federman screaming at some people
outside of an event.
Was that him facing his people?
I feel like he's always outside an event
chastising people for the crime of being committed
to human rights or something, usually.
Fetterman is one of the biggest disappointments.
I guess I was thinking this over the weekend,
just sort of like, because I saw some footage of him,
yeah, chastising a crowd.
And just of all the people,
it's one thing to be a turncoat, like, to be, you know,
oh, I'm a progressive, I'm for labor rights,
but then JK, I'm not.
I don't care about what you think,
I don't care about the progressive cause,
you know, yay, yay, genocide.
But I just feel like the fact that he went through a stroke
during the campaign, and one of the
most difficult periods I'm assuming of his life and the like the base that he built and
people around the country pouring out support for him, you know, taking a social media,
standing up for him, even though he literally quite literally could not speak and being like, no, he's still our guy. And then to turn around and say, yeah,
it's okay to defund Medicaid. That's going to take, you know,
healthcare away from disabled children or stroke victims like myself. Right.
Or, you know,
it's okay to bomb children in refugee centers or in hospitals or
wherever, like to then have such little empathy for other
vulnerable people is, is so sick. Like I can,
and it doesn't make me regret standing by someone who like obviously was going
through a massive, um, you know, health crisis. It just makes me realize like,
yeah, does that not change you? I guess, I guess it can make you more evil
if the price is right.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Yeah, I don't know, I mean, you look at some of the votes,
he was, like for some of these confirmation votes,
I'm like, what did you fucking think was gonna happen?
Like, if you- Yeah, well, I mean,
and that's on so many senators.
I wish it was just Federman. Yeah, all of the amount.
But like- No, truly, yeah, yeah.
Every senator voted for Marco fucking Rubio,
who's like, no, I relish in disappearing students
off the street.
That's like the biggest L for all of them.
When unanimously they're like, yeah, man,
we know Marco cut to, what the fuck did you guys think?
I mean, it also makes sense.
Chuck Schumer was out here saying that he thought
they were gonna fucking figure it.
Like the Republicans are just gonna figure it out
all of a sudden and rectify the situation on their own.
Like, dude, you're so old.
Please go away.
Make way for people who are actually gonna be alive
when all the decisions you make affect us.
Bernie should be, honestly,
the most conservative edge of the Senate right now. I'm serious. Bernie should be the most conservative edge of the Senate right now.
I'm serious.
Bernie should be the most conservative edge.
Cause Bernie's not going hard on Schumer.
Bernie's doing his fight oligarchy tour,
but notice how he gets real mad when somebody mentions,
do you think AOC should primary Schumer?
He's sticking loyal with his boy.
I'm not gonna talk about that.
Bernie should be the conservative voice
and everyone else should actually be, you know,
to the left of him in my opinion.
God, everyone's, hey, you know what?
Senators, if you're in teeny and gray,
have a nice ring to them.
And I'll get primary, I don't give a fuck, bro.
Waste your money, I'm not here to stay in office.
I'm here to fuck it up, okay?
Now, once you become a senator, you're just like,
you're just stuck
It's like what a fish fillet does to your date
I'll be like actually be what they thought Fetterman was in me like this dude's in a hoodie and reeks like blunts
Like what is he doing? And then he casted the tie-breaking vote to protect Medicaid. Like yeah. Sorry, bro. It's what I fucking do
Anyway, there's another just just for some fun story,
I don't know, fun, fucked up.
Hey, aren't police really fucked up people?
Did you hear the New Jersey police chief,
this guy Robert Farley,
who he was sworn in as chief about a year ago,
and now he has all of these terrible accusations coming out
about his leadership as police chief,
like pooping by people's
desks and spiking people's fucking coffee with like Adderall and Viagra. Yes. Yes. The
fucking chief. Okay.
I mean, police departments are honestly just like, they're like deputized frat houses.
100% with guns.
With guns.
And like truly be like, I will threaten you with violence
if you try and fucking blow the whistle on this party.
It is a crossover between, I mean, the Venn diagram
as Kamala would say between yes, a frat house and a gang.
Yeah, yeah, they're all here.
So five officers filed a complaint.
They're planning on suing the North Bergen township
because they're like, what the fuck?
Like, what are you doing?
Like, what is this guy fucking doing?
So he also did things like put firecrackers
under people's chairs.
I'm like, okay, very Bart Simpson, whatever, like stupid.
But then jabbing a needle into an officer's penis?
Oh my God.
So Michael Darin, who is an administrative duty officer, said Farley chased him around
and used the hypodermic needle to draw blood.
He also said he saw Farley do things like shave his body hair and put it on people's food.
Then Lieutenant Alex Guzman said Farley exposed himself, harassed them verbally,
pooped on the floor and in garbage cans as a joke.
And then there's another officer Rashid Siam who said he was punished by Farley for exposing
the hostile work environment when another officer was calling him racial slurs.
This is just like a day in the life of working with Steven Crowder.
I feel like this is like this guy and Crowder need to get together.
Is he pooping on stuff too?
I mean, Steven Crowder is like, oh, oh I'm gonna teabag my employees. Like that's what he would do. A lot of dick
displaying. But like I, this goes deeper than just obviously not all cops, but
like what's going on? You know what I mean? Like what's, what issue is this?
I think about a guy who I know who became a cop Once my high school and he was the littlest guy on the football team. Okay, and he didn't play much
Okay
And he like what his social media looks like now was like the power that he wish he could he was projecting as like an
Adolescent or something. That's my very armchair psych
Was he an LZ?
I mean cuz this is just like someone who is been in power who was bullied and now he is
And he was like I think he felt inadequate because he knew he was the tiny one on the football team and everyone was like
Like, you know kind of like not like fucking his life up
But like when you're juxtaposed like these other massive fucking freak kids who are playing football, right? And you're like the little guy
It's just everyone be like, aw.
Like it was kind of like that kind of shit.
Like, oh, he got in the game.
Oh, he got fucked up.
Oh shit.
Oh fuck.
Like it was that kind of thing.
He's like, I'm gonna be a cop.
Yeah, no.
He's like, I'm a cop.
I don't know.
I mean, like that's what I'm like.
That's not anecdotal.
Like you think it's like, oh, that's just Miles telling
his story about the guy he knows who became a cop. It's like we all have those stories
It's always the kid that like was a little bit weird or a little or like kind of a bully or in my case
It was just someone who was like very sweet, but very dumb
The kid I grew up with and I knew he then became a cop and it was just like, that's,
it's nice. I don't imagine him like hurting people, but I definitely imagine him not handling
evidence well and like not knowing too basic.
Yeah. Oh, well look, it's hard out here. It's hard out here. It really is. Bless his heart.
Bless his heart.
But you don't, yeah, no, I mean, uh,
Bless all the tiny cops. It seems like they might get rid of him.
Yeah.
Oh, well, we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
Okay.
And then finally, just want to touch on Idaho
because they fucking passed it.
Another very stupid transphobic bill.
So Governor Brad Little there signed House Bill 270 into law,
which updates the state's indecent exposure laws.
So the law already banned public exposure of genitals,
but now adds, quote, female breasts, male breasts altered to look like female breasts,
Oh my God.
artificial breasts and toys or products that resemble genitals.
But it leaves exception for breastfeeding.
But again, very clear what this is about.
Bullshit, bullshit first of all in breastfeeding.
They hate that shit too, public breastfeeding.
Well, they couldn't put it in there legally.
So I think that's why they were like,
look, you know what this is.
This is clearly, this is us going after
around 1% of the entire population to try and make their lives absolutely unbearable.
There is such a policing of femint, like of womanhood in this, you know, like there's something beyond like the anti-trans legislation is also like at some point they're going to be like, you know, also, if you're a woman, you should wear a skirt. It's basically going back to you shouldn't be wearing pants,
you should wear a skirt.
It's all policing of gender, not just identity,
but presentation.
And I think because trans women aren't built necessarily
for the pleasure of a straight cis man,
they don't like them.
You know what I'm saying?
It's so fucked up.
They're like, that's not, I get to say who and what is a woman based on how my tingling feels,
you know?
Or it makes me, or maybe it's making me feel things I didn't think about and I don't like
that.
Exactly. I mean, then there's the Chappelle line who definitely got duped by, you know,
a trans woman and probably fell deeply in love and then made five Netflix
specials about it.
But yeah, this is-
Basically saying, nah, yeah, right.
So there's a guy, Sebastian Griffin, who is a Nampa city council member.
So he helped put the bill together because he was at a Lakeview Park Pride celebration
and saw a topless woman.
And he went up to the officer and was like, the purses, the breasts are out.
And the officer was like,
they aren't doing anything illegal
because the officer said, quote,
that's because it's not illegal for a man
with breast enhancements to walk around topless.
And then he said, oh, now I'm gonna figure out a way
to do legislation against this specific thing.
But it's all the other side of this bill.
That's, I totally don't buy that. But again, all the other side of this bill. That's bullshit.
That's, I totally don't buy that.
But again, that's his version of like figure,
like trying to make it seem as if this is who he's protecting.
That's his villainous origin story, yeah.
Yeah.
And that was so off putting, like, what are you,
and you were there because you were celebrating
this community?
Now I can't do anything cause those technically
aren't real tits, so it doesn't count.
No.
I was there to thumbs down everyone. I was there I was there to thumbs down everyone. I was
at the pride celebration to thumbs down everyone okay that's that's what was happening. Brian's
Brian makes a good point who the fuck calls the cops on boobs like a deeply fucked up pathetic
human being yeah exactly anyway so uh the Idaho Senate minority leader Melissa Wintrow she she
was like well hold on not this bill fucking violates the First Amendment first off.
But then also saying that like, what about truck nuts then?
Because you're saying it would also ban toys or products that resemble genitals.
She said truck nuts are quote, they're gross, they're offensive
and kids on the road see them.
So why wouldn't the police get a call and say that offends me?
Pull it off the truck, because now this bill will allow it.
And she goes, and I talked to police and they
said, quote, indeed it would.
I love first of all, I actually maybe this is the first anti-trans legislation I agree
with because anything to get truck nuts off the road, fucking truck, it's so funny.
Should really be illegal.
They're disgusting. And I don't know what, like the kind of people who have them, like
I remember my buddy of mine's cousin had him and he was like, why do you have them? He's
like, cause they're fucking funny, man. Like that was sort of like the thing is like, they're
fucking hilarious to me. It's like it. And I'm like, that you see a fucking nut sack
on the back of your car?
Dude, I want Prius Labia. You know what I'm saying?
Like I've got a Prius.
I want Labia.
Just like flapping off the back.
Dude, so much.
It'd be great.
What would you have to build it out of?
I don't know.
Yeah, my headlights now have a clitoral hood.
And that's how when it's time to turn just pull them up and there you go
Hope y'all like this, but most men probably won't even know what the fuck they're looking at
So there we are. Those are new ideas for you
If you want offensive things for your car that you know, just also gets people upset about truck nuts
Francesca, thanks for joining me
I guess where do people find you?
YouTube.com slash Franny Fio, F-R-A-N-I-F-I-O,
subscribe to the Bituation Room podcast, or listen to it.
What else?
Wherever you get podcasts.
What else you got going on?
What do you mean?
Oh, I also have a show called America Unhinged,
streams Tuesdays and Thursdays on Zateo on their YouTube show
with Wajahat Ali. And you know, it's it's it's cooking. We hope we last longer than
100 days because it was just the first 100 days. But thanks to your support, maybe we
can continue it. So yeah, America Unhinged, 5pm, 8pm, Eastern Tuesday, Thursday.
How many days in are we into this presidency?
We're like 64
Yeah
Oh so fast and so slow at the same time. I know
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