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, 2025

In 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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Starting point is 00:02:07 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?
Starting point is 00:02:28 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.
Starting point is 00:02:50 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.
Starting point is 00:03:11 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.
Starting point is 00:03:34 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.
Starting point is 00:03:55 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.
Starting point is 00:04:14 And it's 2025. Great, fantastic. Dude, it's such a flawless start, but this is how this podcast works. We're open, we're transparent, and we are flawed human beings. I'm Miles Gray, and I am thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host. Who you might be here and here and there throughout the next two weeks.
Starting point is 00:04:31 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
Starting point is 00:05:02 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,
Starting point is 00:05:14 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
Starting point is 00:05:46 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
Starting point is 00:06:20 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.
Starting point is 00:06:55 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
Starting point is 00:07:24 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.
Starting point is 00:07:43 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.
Starting point is 00:08:01 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
Starting point is 00:08:15 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
Starting point is 00:08:40 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
Starting point is 00:08:58 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?
Starting point is 00:09:28 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.
Starting point is 00:09:59 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
Starting point is 00:10:36 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.
Starting point is 00:11:14 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?
Starting point is 00:11:45 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?
Starting point is 00:12:23 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
Starting point is 00:12:56 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
Starting point is 00:13:20 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.
Starting point is 00:13:38 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.
Starting point is 00:13:54 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
Starting point is 00:14:22 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,
Starting point is 00:14:53 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.
Starting point is 00:15:28 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,
Starting point is 00:15:52 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
Starting point is 00:16:18 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,
Starting point is 00:16:51 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.
Starting point is 00:17:07 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
Starting point is 00:17:40 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.
Starting point is 00:17:57 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.
Starting point is 00:18:19 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.
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Starting point is 00:22:22 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.
Starting point is 00:22:36 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.
Starting point is 00:22:50 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?
Starting point is 00:23:02 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
Starting point is 00:23:21 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.
Starting point is 00:23:58 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.
Starting point is 00:24:22 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.
Starting point is 00:24:45 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
Starting point is 00:25:10 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.
Starting point is 00:25:28 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.
Starting point is 00:25:39 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.
Starting point is 00:26:00 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?
Starting point is 00:26:13 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?
Starting point is 00:26:24 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.
Starting point is 00:26:50 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,
Starting point is 00:27:11 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
Starting point is 00:27:35 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
Starting point is 00:28:13 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-
Starting point is 00:28:40 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.
Starting point is 00:29:00 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,
Starting point is 00:29:28 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.
Starting point is 00:29:49 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.
Starting point is 00:30:12 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.
Starting point is 00:30:35 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
Starting point is 00:30:55 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.
Starting point is 00:31:15 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,
Starting point is 00:31:37 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.
Starting point is 00:31:59 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
Starting point is 00:32:27 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,
Starting point is 00:32:53 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.
Starting point is 00:33:08 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.
Starting point is 00:33:18 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.
Starting point is 00:33:43 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?
Starting point is 00:34:01 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.
Starting point is 00:34:19 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
Starting point is 00:34:46 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?
Starting point is 00:35:03 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.
Starting point is 00:35:38 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
Starting point is 00:36:00 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?
Starting point is 00:36:46 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
Starting point is 00:37:07 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,
Starting point is 00:37:22 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
Starting point is 00:37:59 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.
Starting point is 00:38:22 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.
Starting point is 00:39:04 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.
Starting point is 00:39:23 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,
Starting point is 00:39:43 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
Starting point is 00:40:07 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
Starting point is 00:40:21 the militarism. Like it's, anyway, it's odd, odd enemies when they should be friends. Strange bad folks. You guys should be friends. Okay, let's take another quick break and we'll come back to check in with the Democrats who are also too chicken shit to face their constituents.
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Starting point is 00:44:37 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
Starting point is 00:44:55 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
Starting point is 00:45:16 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.
Starting point is 00:45:37 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
Starting point is 00:46:05 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.
Starting point is 00:46:22 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,
Starting point is 00:46:42 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.
Starting point is 00:47:01 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.
Starting point is 00:47:23 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
Starting point is 00:47:43 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
Starting point is 00:48:23 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,
Starting point is 00:48:52 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
Starting point is 00:49:09 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
Starting point is 00:49:26 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.
Starting point is 00:49:46 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
Starting point is 00:50:03 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?
Starting point is 00:50:22 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?
Starting point is 00:50:50 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.
Starting point is 00:51:15 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.
Starting point is 00:51:41 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.
Starting point is 00:51:59 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
Starting point is 00:52:30 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
Starting point is 00:53:09 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
Starting point is 00:53:44 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.
Starting point is 00:53:57 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
Starting point is 00:54:15 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.
Starting point is 00:54:47 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.
Starting point is 00:54:59 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.
Starting point is 00:55:29 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,
Starting point is 00:56:05 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.
Starting point is 00:56:24 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-
Starting point is 00:56:47 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,
Starting point is 00:57:10 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,
Starting point is 00:57:29 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.
Starting point is 00:57:42 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.
Starting point is 00:58:16 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.
Starting point is 00:58:39 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.
Starting point is 00:59:07 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
Starting point is 00:59:27 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?
Starting point is 00:59:56 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.
Starting point is 01:00:22 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 Anyway, you can find me at truck nuts everywhere. Check it out Alright y'all we will see you tomorrow for a Fantastic episode and you know, it's it's gonna be a banger You're gonna hear these two voices yet again. Have a great day. And you know, it's, it's going to be a banger.
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