The Daily Zeitgeist - Batshit ElecTrend Officials 7/31: Donald Trump, NABJ, Sprite, The Last Supper/Olympics, Canadian Soccer Spy Drones

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

In this edition of Batshit ElecTrend Officials, Jack and Miles discuss Donald Trump's appearance at the NABJ conference, Trump's ride-or-die election officials, how to make Sprite taste better, the last supper at the Olympics?, the Canadian drone-spying scandal and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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this Wednesday afternoon. Donald Trump was a featured guest at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago where he just put on a show of trumpian um you know thin-skinnedness

and racism yeah and absolute it's yeah depending it depends on how you look at it right there's yes i think this is being looked at two ways um i think black people especially black journalists are pretty mortified by the fact that this racist piss bag was invited into their house and then immediately disrespected the women on the panel and got dismissive and just did what trump did because i think most people like we don't need more confirmation that he's racist and violent and especially towards like women of color like that's so documented i don't know what you stand to gain unless you're really on this both sides nonsense and you know that that goes nowhere um a lot of other people like wow this was so bad for trump like this is a disaster

but again we didn't need this interview to know that he is a disaster that he has terrible just bigoted racist takes on so many things um but i think the other thing that is a little bit underrated about is like he also benefits from this appearance because this is just pure uncut racist red meat for his base and this is while there's all this speculation that he is afraid to debate a woman of color and kamala harris and so he just gave them a taste of him being a total piece of shit to black women on a stage and talking over them and being like saying total nonsense like it's pretty unbelievable they started late like i think like the like they there was maybe 30 or so minutes late and he said it was like technical

difficulty because he was saying like because this woman didn't have the right equipment he's blaming one of the people on the panel but really his team was pushing back on the fact that he wasn't gonna allow them to fact check him in real time on the screens so he would just be able to go out there and just say a bunch of nonsense um and yeah there have been a lot of i mean i'll play this one this is one where he's talking specifically about kamala harris again to a room full of black journalists uh this is what his his take is on kamala harris's racial identity do you believe that vice president kamala harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman. Well, I can say now I think it's maybe a little bit different.

So I've known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. And she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. And now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know. indian or is she black she is always identified as a black college i respect either one but she obviously doesn't because she was indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went she became a black person just to be clear sir do you believe i think somebody should look into that too when you ask a continue in a very hostile nasty town yeah yeah um he's so nasty asking me questions and correcting me

that poof i am i am a japanese person poof i am a black person the magic trick is incredible uh what's you guys have to see this thing so a lot of people are just like what the fuck is actually going on here um but again yeah i think just further confirmation of what of what we knew donald trump to be um but i i think even like you just see how like all of his people his supporters even responding to it on twitter and they're just like yeah this was such a dub dude like he got in there they tried to gotcha quite like the first question was like how uh what would you like to say though the black voters you're trying to court this is a summation of what the opening question was given your history of like racist statements

yeah and he's like well you're being very disrespectful like just came out already being like this is the way you approach me is disrespectful and yeah you could you could fill in like what he was going to say in a lot of cases like just based on how he responds to women how he responds to black people how he responds to women

of color and yeah I think you're like this this is something we were just talking about like that he that there's always these examples where the mainstream media is like, well, now he's showed his true colors and like what a mistake on his part. No.

And his polling numbers go up because the cruelty and the racism is the point. Yeah. And they gave him a platform to do and made everybody just made a just embarrassed the people on stage i guess for you know harris faulkner who's the the woman on fox news um but yeah it's sure yeah what it is i mean we knew he was a disaster so i don't know what you know aside from like some spicy quotes from him it was just really just more disgusting he was saying um and like just like the people laughing in the room you're like okay

there's a lot of blacks for trump like in that room too just there's a very mixed reception but yeah yeah there was like a couple really strong claps happening like here and there but for the most part i feel like people were a lot of people were like aghast i think yeah yeah in there because they couldn't believe what is what's happening yeah in other trump news uh there's a report by rolling stone that is looking into a group of about 70 election officials in swing states that they think they're going to attack the electoral process, even if he loses, in a way that is more coherent than what happened in 2020, where it was just kind of trying to throw things together and call people on the phone and literally be like,

can you find me 500,000 votes? Yeah, so they looked into just sort of like the public profiles of some of these people and these their investigations show that these are people like fully bought in on the big lie of 2020 like and have made their worldview pretty like public through social media posts and things like that and some of them have also already dabbled in refusing to certify elections or delaying the certification of elections. Like these are people who have been just huffing election conspiracies for four straight years. And like these are the kinds of like true believer types that feel they have like a part to play in the fight against the deep state or whoever the fuck. or whoever the um and according to mark elias who's one of these election lawyers that they interviewed in this piece he sees again he's like they are way more organized and motivated

than in 2020 and so the potential for like mass refusals to certify election results is pretty is a real possibility um obviously despite there being no legal basis for them to do so but like a coordinated effort seems like that could be part of the gop's broader plan to attack the election results because if they can stop a handful of counties from certifying that would delay the entire state's ability to certify in a timely manner and then we get these constitutional crisis type things you got lawsuits going around maybe you get a judge who's down with what you're thinking or not or you appeal to the supreme court it's very cool uncertain yeah yeah we can count on them but like i mean when considering like trump's big motivation is basically to sidestep all his

like legal exposure and troubles i would obvious i would be betting money if you're like this is the only way i'm gonna stay out of jail or being completely financially ruined. I need to get in fucking office. Yeah, you're going to fucking pull every lever you can to try and cheat. Or, you know, there's other groups that are election deniers that are trying to get vote more voter rolls purged. So there's a full on attack happening that I think is right now. I don't know how much of it i think most people are on alert especially the people who are working elections but this is something that i think um it will potentially has

you know becomes a big big story uh in the coming months take your time that has been his strategy throughout his career right it's like do illegal shit and then tie when people call him on it tie them up in court um when media calls him on not having as much money as he claims to or like horrible shit that he's doing he ties them up in court and now he seems like he is safeguarding this election like in that direction where now he's he's remaking american democracy in the image of how he built his career which is like just tie up in court and get powerful people who are willing to like help you out yeah so again this is uh again this is uh i think it just shows sort of the the intensity at which the you know right wing apparatus um is like viewing this and what they feel they can do outside of the traditional thing which is just to win votes they're like no we need every voter suppression we need the people

to delay the certification because it's in the it's in those periods of the delays that the uncertainty comes up and more people begin to be like what's going on and then you can now feed different narratives about like it was stolen or that these votes were not right and you build that up and then you have a release of that energy like we saw on january 6th if that is indeed part of the plan because he's also said really weird things where he's like and i don't need your vote like he said this to other groups he's like and i don't need the votes and you're like this story really made me feel uh think about the kevin roberts quote that we talked about on i think monday or tuesday's episode where

uh in referring to uh like the election he said we are winning in ways that the other side doesn't know yet we're not going to tell you everything that's coming uh but i think we're ready to fight basically yeah it feels like they're talking like they have something in the works like this so it and you just see too the insistence that the election is already won, that the way even his rhetoric, he's like, he's like, yeah, I mean, I won't I won't, you know, be opposed to the election results if they're fair and they're right. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to win. Yeah. And it's going to take a lot for me to lose. So I don't think I'm going to lose.

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make it ready right are we talking like in the mcdonald's sense like the like fountain soda i mean there are so many ways that this could have gone um yeah i had a recipe that made sprite taste really good that was like my first what my first uh culinary success um which was just sprite orange juice and vanilla ice cream and like a punch that i made when i was a kid and it worked it works but is that Sprite taste better or you just found a tasty concoction that involves Sprite? Yeah, it's just,

and well, this article is basically just a very long article article explaining what an ice cream float is. It's just like, so you've heard of root beer and vanilla ice cream, but what about Sprite and lime lime sherbert what about that though oh okay so that's basically their interest in sprite i mean i get it because it has healing properties when done right and yeah there's constant interest in like why fountain sprite

tastes better and like i actually saw there was an article i think in the takeout like last week where they were talking about it and they're like it's because like everything is cold from the beginning like the even the bags of syrup are pre-refrigerated or something is that real make sure that's that's what they claim we're into sprite lore you know what i mean and that is a myth above sprite lore that it's refrigerated at every level and also that they take in ice dilution into account um like so like the the ratios are extra bubbly and extra sugary to keep it an extra cold yeah but hey throw some lime sherbert in it whatever you know i feel like they just signed with the same marketing company that pitched cores on their whole gimmick being how cold

their beer is. Yeah. That company hadn't had a win. We haven't gotten a second account in 15 years. They're the worst marketing agency. We pitched to Nike about having the coldest sneakers. That didn't work. They're like, oh, like

street slang? No. They're like super chilled temperature- no no like no they're like they're like super chilled temperature wise they're these sneakers and they they turn blue when they're really cold what the fuck are you talking about and the commercial is like a guy just reaches his hand into a fucking glacier and then pulls a pair out and he's like ah these are so fucking cold man just do it so what do you guys think we're thinking two million dollars just to start and then we'll get really get the ball rolling on this get out yeah the founder like the movie the founder about that marketing company that windshield wiper movie uh anyways it's basically try Sprite you this entire article could be Sprite with

lime sherbet is pretty good is a tasty treat yes see this is there and they're not playing fair by acting they know we want to know the secret to make making Sprite because better there are these little fluctuations and how great

Sprite tastes and it's like wait did they crack the code? They did not. Put a lump of Sherbert in it. Okay. All right. Yeah, I'm down. Yeah.

Now, if you tell me to put half and half in it, like we're in Salt Lake City. Now you got some. Now we're talking. Some D-sodes. All right. Something that was happening a little earlier this week that uh i just wanted to circle back to was the olympics opening ceremony attacking my faith

uh no but they're like the way the story was covered was that the o opening ceremonies did recreate the Last Supper with drag performers. Right. And I think they probably, that's the way the story went, because people involved with the Olympics were like, we're so sorry, we're so sorry, because they've got a lot of corporate sponsors. And I guess the tech company C Spire pulled their advertising from the games after the thing. So also how culturally illiterate people are too. Yes.

To be like, it's a, it looks like a group of people that can only be the last supper with Jesus Christ. That's like, I've watched, obviously you can't see a clip of it online because it's the Olympics and they don't let you put clips online. But, um,

all the screen caps that are supposed to show this moment, that is a recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's last supper painting. Like, don't look like the last supper. No, no, no. And like,

even in intent, it was supposed to be a recreation of the feast of the gods featuring Dionysus, the God of wine, who is also the father of the goddess likened to the river Sen. Well, that makes sense. Right. Bacchanal. Yeah, it's a Bacchanal.

It just seems like I don't know, did somebody say something about the Last Supper? Even then, I mean, it's not the only last... I think when your confirmation bias Did somebody say something about the last supper? Even then, I mean, it's not the only last. I think when your confirmation bias is set to the world is against me as a white Christian, then yeah, you're going to start fucking seeing ghosts. Yeah.

Mike Johnson turning off what they called covenant eyes to pull up to be like, all right, let's see what these French fucks are saying. I can't let my son know that I'm watching this. And yeah, it's just that very self-centered white Christian perspective. I think it's the same

thing like when I was talking about early Christian artwork where it was like the version of art history we get is like Middle Ages art sucked and then it got good in the renaissance it was like no it sucked after years and years of it being good it was just christian artwork was really bad for a while because of a lot of really fucked up things going on the civilization it's like I don't know. They, they,

they don't like to admit that a lot of the imagery and Christian iconography is borrowed or inspired by previous pagan religious imagery or just other religions. And so they're, they're so thin skin that people have to be like, yeah, we're sorry. We,

yeah, totally didn't mean to offend you. And it's just like, that's all they were talking about, like pagan religion that you just couldn't differentiate from your own. Right. It all kind of looks the same. They're making fun of me.

It's like, no, actually that's the thing that your art is ripping off. Right. That that's what it was. But yeah. Yeah. And then finally, it's just a cool story. Canada, I mean, it's a shame, but Canada tried to doping, how well you can hide the doping, all that stuff. Might as well have like some cool intelligence.

And maybe there already is. And they were just really bad at it. Sounds like they got a nasty habit, these Canadian soccer teams. Yeah. A few days before the opening, Canada was scheduled to play New Zealand, but on Wednesday

before the opening, a staff member for the Canadian team was linked to a drone that had been spying on the New Zealand team's practice. Then the coach of the Canadian women's soccer team was like, I did not direct staffers to do

this, but I am voluntarily removing myself from coaching the game, which they actually ended up winning 2-1. It's funny, the players are like, I swear I didn't see any footage either and they may not i mean who knows uh you know what what they may have gleaned from the the drone footage but yeah it's wild too that now like fifa who's like the governing body of like world soccer said that the head coach and to the staff members were found responsible for offensive

behavior and violation of the principles of fair play and they're banned from the sport for a year and then the canadian uh national team has been penalized six points like in the group stage play which basically makes it very hard for them to get yeah they'd have to like win everything 10 nothing or something like that yeah which is well also yeah so they remove it turned out like the voluntary removal where they're like, I had nothing to do with this, but I'll remove myself just to be cool was not accurate. And they had all fucked up. Right.

Also, uh, the players. Yeah. So the players have claimed they had nothing to do with it. Also, like they kept getting caught doing this and were like, yeah, I guess.

So there were instances of spying at CONCACAF Nations League matches, which is like World Cup qualifiers this past summer's Copa America tournament and the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 when Canada's women's team won the gold medal. So they've been getting caught doing this. The CEO, so this is the statement that I found intriguing.

The CEO of Canada Soccer says the men's national soccer team attempted drone usage during the Copa America tournament that wrapped up earlier this month. But what the men were doing and what the women were doing was significantly different and that it was his understanding it didn't affect competitive integrity so he's like yeah okay fine i mean like you can only learn to be honest you can only learn so much from spying on a practice like if maybe you're trying to get an idea of like how they're setting up positionally or who's fit or who's not but

it's just such a like unnecessary way to try and squeeze out an advantage and i don't know if they somehow like i'm not trying to cast aspersions on how good they are but it feels like you don't need to do that and hey if you are doing it can you tell people what how to make drone footage like super compelling too because god we'd love to know and then we can all spy on each other and figure shit out yeah i'll dress like a soccer ball and be like just with my little camcorder don't mind me i'm a ball i'm a six foot ball. Yeah. It's, it seems so cartoonish and stupid that, uh, it's kind of awesome.

Yeah. Like, yeah, we, we, we love to know that the spirit of cheating is still alive. That's what's important. We all look,

we're all just trying to win, baby. We're all trying to shave an edge. Always trying to shave an edge. Um, all right. Uh, those,

have you watched anything cool on the Olympics? Uh, any, any fun sports i watched uh competitive kayaking okay which is wild because as someone who's like done very gentle like sea kayaking like watching these people fucking like navigate these like man-made rapids is just sort of interesting oh the people swam in the sen though they did yeah they said the water did not taste good miles yeah we could have told them that it's a shooting yeah yeah it said uh yeah it did not taste good um was sort of the it didn't taste great olympic swimming in the sand finally happens so yeah yeah yeah i didn't but i didn't watch it i just saw the uh the headlines about that

um and what else did i watch i watched the gymnastics uh gymnastics was cool yeah the shooting is i think i mentioned that my eight-year-old caught wind of the fact that shooting is an Olympic sport because there's like the little logo above each event that like shows and it has a little stick figure like shooting a gun, shooting a handgun makes it look pretty intriguing. So we were watching that. The guy from, was it Turkey? They are so high tech like all the shooters have like these little like eye like they look like jeweler's loops on their eye and then like a they look like anime characters yeah you know what i mean like all this future tech to help their aiming future teched out and then the guy from turkey just coming out there with one hand in a pocket and

that was like the only technology he was using other than the gun was his pocket and he won silver um was pretty cool just having his hand in his pocket was just such a wild look like everyone looks like they got the wildest form and techniques or like how to hold and he was just kind of like it just felt like like how the American like if Americans were good like this asshole had his hand in his pocket and just like yeah bing bing bing all right where's my metal

does feel like we need a bing bing bing for the sport like a shooting Olympic shooting authorities reach out to me I have some notes about how we could make it like i just need to know that they have pulled the trigger in some way that it beyond just the dot appearing on the little screen you know like it like when fox was putting the little glowing on the puck just to spice it up a little bit yeah like the gun lights up after you pull

the trigger or like i don. I don't need you to make it look like a gun is being shot. Like a puzzle. Got a glamour out here. Like a laser line or something. Yeah, that would be cool. Anyways.

Your shootings aren't entertaining enough to us Americans. It's boring. It's where we're getting at. We're broken. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, July 31st. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.

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