The Daily Zeitgeist - Beverly Hills Zeit0210 6/24: Biden Landslide, Ahmaud Arbery, French Revolution, California

Episode Date: June 24, 2020

On this edition of Beverly Hills Zeit0210 Jack and Miles discuss people assuming Joe Biden is going to crush Trump due to high poll numbers, the 3 men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery have been indicted, Lindsey Graham is scared of Progressives, and California just had its biggest one day increase in Corona Virus cases. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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hello the internet and welcome to this episode of beverly hills zyto 210 courtesy of johnny davis i'm jack o'brien that's miles gray this is what's trending right now hashtag biden landslide 2020 that is not a natural disaster as far as i know i mean it's uh you know there's polling coming out that he's you know has a huge double digit lead over trump and i think a lot of people who are of the 2016 mindset of how these races work are spiking the fucking football on the fucking 20. So, you know, I get it. A lot of people who have pointed out, too,

or they're like, you know, Dukakis had a fucking huge lead, too, in 88, and things like that. But that was between conventions or whatever. This is prior to everything. I think the bottom line is don't don't look at any of that it's not relevant yeah the important thing is every person has to get out there in this very narrow context because i'm not saying that electoralism is the way to change things in this country because that's already proven to not work uh so at the very least, everyone's going to have to get on their ass to try and at least delay the spread of fascism in this country

to vote for the stopgap Joe Biden. Yeah. It's unbelievable that people are just going through process like i i remember like in 2016 i just clung to shows like uh you know keeping it 1600 which is what uh the the name of the show was before uh pod save america because they just seemed like they knew what they were talking about and they were like there's no way he's gonna win it's like no chance he's like losing all these polls uh called you a bed wetter if you uh were worried that he was gonna win that was like their nickname for people who were concerned that trouble's gonna win and yeah it just feels it's starting to feel similar where people are just like yeah he's totally fucked well i think it depends on like that one like for most people were like oh hold on let me get out of this like you know democratic echo chamber where the the same people who are giving you the punditry are the same people who

are part of the machine who are the same people who've been thinking the same way for the last few decades on how to consolidate and keep power so some of those takes ended up being like oh right because this never accounted for the fact that there are like actually a large group of angry poor racist white people too rather than like yeah but we vote we had obama for it i think a lot of people like we had like a lot of people were taking this as like this post-racial thing and yeah certain group went oh that's right we still have to fucking make sure racists go back into their hidey holes. Yeah.

Ahmaud Arbery is trending because a Georgia grand jury indicted the three men who murdered him in connection with his murder. I guess they were charged with murder. Yeah. So. Great. Yeah. Justice. Keep it going. Fantastic. Let's keep it going.

Let's now get justice for Elijah McClain and all the countless others that we're going to have to keep remembering because there are still, you know, there are still these horrific cases of police brutality, or in this case, this was just, you know, racist lynch mob that just did their own thing. But we're having these examples where black people are still considered threats and their bodies are disposable. So that rest can't continue. Although it is disheartening to see a lot of things go back to normal in a sense, like in terms of the discussions people are having. But I think that's why it's important for people of good conscience to remember that this is not like this is far from over.

Yeah, can't be over. Yeah. I just know that there have been other cases of I guess this isn't police brutality, but it seems like it was similar in the sense that these guys were in cahoots with the local law enforcement people community. law enforcement people community and they got away with it for months weren't even like really investigated for months I just worry that you know it's I'm not gonna feel

anything but bad about that until they are like officially convicted you know French Revolution is trending and not for the reason you might expect oh um what's the reason wait what would we expect that people there's like pdfs for how to make your own guillotine out of stuff you can get at lowe's yeah exactly people just being like yeah let's fully french revolution the fucking white house let's let's do let's go but uh no lindsey graham has uh put it out there

as like an accusation he he claimed that um the the democratic party in new york and kentucky the strong showing of progressive uh proves that the democratic party is uh basically the french revolution now and people are confused as to like how what what he what what is his criticism is he saying it's being controlled by the popular will sir do you under do you know anything about history even the history of this country right his tweet is as follows from at Lindsay. This is what he quote. It appears the French revolution has now come to the democratic party based on initial primary results from New York and Kentucky. If you had any doubts about who's in charge of the democratic party,

all doubts should have been removed now. Okay. A lot of people just came in with their very clear takes like, you know, at Dan Saltstein said the French revolution, you say in which rising social and economic inequality led to a democratic overthrow of a monarchy and this establishment of a republic,

that French Revolution? And the other thing people were forgetting is they got turned up off of the American Revolution. Yeah. Yeah. They were in, like, partnering. Yeah, they were like, yo, this was hand in hand. The French Enlightenment, like, it's all, this was hand in hand the french enlightenment like it's

all this was all part of a pattern but again i don't know what this is i guess for for a certain subset of americans who only know like phrases from history will just like reduce it to some weird sentiment that's completely historically inaccurate so like french revolution means like poor people are gonna kill the rich people like and that's all it means like if you have more money than a poor person you're gonna get guillotined like i think that's the subtext that they want to send out there um so yeah sure i don't know and french bad french equal bad for a lot of republicans but yeah, it's, I mean, if he says so, let's go. And also putting yourself on the side of the monarchy,

it's very like core American values. I feel like they've kind of given up on like whatever they're supposed to be about, like their fetishization of the founding fathers, just, you know, all that, so long as that stands for taxation and getting rich,

all that grandstanding about patriotism and, you know, what the values of this country, I mean, if you haven't woken up to that by now, you surely, you must know that those were just buzzwords to try and like obfuscate their racism you know and using these sort of like um you know uh unencroachable like you would dare not

attack the concept of patriotism or what it means to be an american because we're using that so you don't actually question the real motivations behind what we do which is oppression uh but you know right and i think those are all running all those defenses are like losing steam now so a lot of people are starting to be like yeah that's not really a thing but you know everybody's everybody's waking up at their own pace it seems i mean i get what he's doing. The whole Trump strategy right now seems to be vilifying the protests and making the uprising as scary as you possibly can and making it seem like his supporters are in physical danger. And we saw that with the videos that Trump was sharing of a black man attacking a white man in a department store.

And yeah, it's just that this is going to be their strategy. It's very similar to their midterm strategy where they like created, you know, horror, racism, horror propaganda about people, like, coming over the borders. And that's, I'm sure, what we're going to see for the next, you know, five months. But the thing is, like, they're using, like, dated language that doesn't even connect with the fucking group they're talking to. Like, nope, they don't even connect with the fucking group they're talking to like nope they don't even know

what the french the fucking people you know dog whistling shit don't even know what the french revolution means to a group that's not as intelligent as them you think that's gonna get them be like hold on honey did you hear this shit the french revolution the proletariat like they don't know shit like i mean honestly they'd be better off doing fucking breaking bad metaphors they're like gus fring is gonna come to shut your meth operation down and you know what you're gonna be chained in his underground lab cooking him meth that's what happens when the democrats come i think more people have some kind of like idea of what that is than things that you know what oddly enough, like they're missing out on history that

the educational system intentionally like did not do a good job of informing people on. So now you can't even mention this shit. Did not cover that so much. Yeah. Yeah. And then finally, some news is trending right now that California just had its biggest one-day increase in coronavirus cases to date. So, I mean, this is just, you know, this is a result of something we've been seeing where we don't have the data, we don't have the things moving in the direction that we need them to move in, and we're yet California business leaders, political leaders are conspiring to, you know, put your life in danger to, you know, just get a sense of like, you know, it's basically consumption disguised as purpose is something that I saw somebody tweet that I really liked. And now I forget who it is. But that idea that, you know, consumption will bring our lives back to normal.

Well, I mean, that's because, again, people are really caught up in this cult of consumption and capitalism, where if your entire worldview is based on this pattern of working to consume, to then signal to other people that you are what you are based on the things you're able to purchase as a consumer, then, yeah, I feel like the only thing they know is to be like, well, normal, everything that's been defined to me as an American is that buying shit is being alive. So what do I do now? It's weird because I even see lines like out the door for like clothing stores right now. And like people are social distancing in line.

And I'm like, what? I get if you need something for work, but it looked like a lot of people who just could not get over their habit of consuming. And like the high of doing that, they needed to recapture on some level. And it was really strange. Like when you see these lines at places that are not essential businesses and I get it, like if you want to, you know, get your haircut, whatever, but it's just another, there's another level when it's something as like, Hey man, I gotta, I gotta get in this clothing store right now.

Like I just got to, you know, because, but you know, people want to, I think people are also just very deeply in denial that things could be this out of their control and the stakes could also be that high at the same time it's it's it's a difficult thing to have to accept i'm sure if you're if you've spent a lot of time thinking you were fucking invincible and on top all the time yeah we need to i mean i think people have already been doing it but we need to normalize wearing masks and not let somebody get away with not wearing a mask when we see it. That's inexcusable at this point.

Well, I've seen these, it's almost always some white guy between the age of 20 and 60 walking around without a mask on. And I just like want to, and like what do they think it makes them different from the other people who have to wear masks wait that who do they group just people walking around without masks right well while everybody around them is wearing masks do they think that their immune system is better do they think it's that we're all just it's just such a strange thing to want to even project even if you weren't worried about your own safety and the safety of the people around you what are you trying to say well i would argue that the people who are resisting

mask wearing are themselves feel the most powerless probably when you bring it down to like that molecular level uh because they're in such deep denial like in the same way because you're like what would you think because clearly that person goes i'm not gonna get sick or rejects the possibility that they could get sick or rejects the possibility that other people are sick because that's preserving this idea a i feel like if you're so powerless this might be the one thing you can do to feel like you're in control of your life. If everybody's wearing a mask, then you got to fuck that because I'm in control and I'm out of control in every other way that I haven't been able to articulate in my own mind.

But I realize this gives me an opportunity to push back on something. And I can also at the same time, reaffirm my belief that nothing is wrong with anything right now, because that's also, I think the predominant thinking is nothing is wrong. If you're a young person, not wearing a mask, it's because nothing is wrong. And also nothing is wrong because it affects people who aren't me. And so it's all versions of like, you know, this sort of pathology of not accepting that how like sort of small we are as human beings on the planet and that like yeah there are some things that like it it seems wild because you've never experienced anything like this that suddenly it gives people probably a moment to be like am i part of like an interconnected community where i might have responsibility for my neighbor

based on my nah fuck that i'm not gonna to think about that. Fuck a mask. I'm not a fucking pussy. Fuck it. I'm going to Mervin's. Right. I mean, I always talk about how Harry Potter, The Matrix, all these movies are about the same thing, which is basically allowing us to deny the reality that we are one of you know seven billion people on a planet like that i think is the one like kind of underlying reality that all of american culture

is meant to disguise from us as like kind of our insignificance and so yeah that that i think i think that probably has a lot to do with them yeah and unfortunately there are people who grew up in this country with parents who bought you know fucking hook line and sinker the fucking american exceptionalism that's just been a myth that's been passed down and passed down through generations and generations of america's always been on top you don't fucking want to live everywhere anywhere else these are the same people who will say about a country they've never heard of that it sounds scary or it's fucked up and then blindly say like i hear it's really corrupt there and the police are like we'll kidnap people and you're like yeah right that's that's just like the world you're you were, you know, spoon fed and didn't take a second to like just be like, hold on.

I know, like on some level, if you're a reasonable human being and you've just been inundated with this kind of messaging, there will be a point where you're like, hold on. They're also like everything isn't like a movie to like because in your own life, you do realize these moments where reality hits you and you're like, oh, fuck, I was living in a fairy tale. The same thing is true about this country and the culture and what the american empire is too and i think that's i think that's hard for a lot of people to to even you know recognize yeah you're telling me puka shells aren't cool anymore i've been wearing them for fucking three centuries motherfucker fuck that make puka shells great again. Fuck that. You guys might not realize how mean that is because I am wearing Puka shell necklace and bracelet. So many on.

It's kind of violent. Shout out to Dan for editing out all the Puka shell quacking together every time I get up to the mic. Anyways, guys, be good to each other. Be good to yourselves. Wash your hands. Wear a fucking mask. And yeah, don't do nothing. We'll be back tomorrow morning with the whole last episode of our show.

We'll talk to you then. Bye. Bye. Bye. Exposed the culture of crime and corruption. They were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do.

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