The Daily Zeitgeist - Canadian ChemTrends 10/02: Vice Presidential Debate, Hurricane Helene, Canadian Chemtrails, Amazon's Return-To-Office Mandate, Uber Crash Suit

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

In this edition of Canadian ChemTrends, Miles and special guest co-host Andrew Ti discuss the Vice Presidential debate, Trump's Hurricane Helene GoFundMe, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's comments about chemtrails, 73% of Amazon employees intending to quit after a return-to-office mandate, a couple being blocked from suing Uber over a car crash because of their terms and conditions and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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podcasts. Hello, everybody, and welcome to this afternoon edition of Canadian ChemTrends. That's a bit of an allusion to a story we will be doing later about chem trails in Canada. Cause chem trails are, we're still talking about chem trails. Like it's 2008 or something. What was the first, we'll get to that. We'll get to the chem trail discussion

because obviously we are arbiters of truth on this podcast. But the truth is in here. The truth is in here. The truth is in here. The truth is in your ears. Welcome to the Daily Zeitgeist trending episode. I'm Miles, I'm joined by Andrew T. What up? Jack's a little bit under the weather.

So I had to tag in a sub. He's okay, he's okay. We had to spray a bunch of chemicals above his house. Really get him. Above his house, yeah. Just to really help, the up the immune system But obviously the first thing that everyone's talking about is the vice presidential debate We talk a little bit more in depth on that in tomorrow morning's episode But I think a lot of people the gist of it is for those who didn't watch like Andrew T

Is that yeah sure? Yeah, it's kind of like what the takeaway is. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. I would say my my usually the way I handle these things is just I figure it'll be on Twitter. And it was pretty much what I thought, which is like it was nothing. Yeah. Everyone's like, yeah, Tim, newsflash, Tim Wall's too nice to get dirty on the stage and normal. What it is, it's probably a missed opportunity to just curb

stop a freak. Yeah. So that was, that's probably bad for the Democrats that, that yeah, exactly. Cause it should have been bad for, or could have, yeah, could have put them, put them in the dirt, but Hey, it's a, but also JD Vance did a pretty good job of that. Just give us weird answers.

Look, and then we talk about it tomorrow's show, I guess style points to Vance, but in the end, his answers were so bad and chock full of lies that I think Tim Walz just walks out of there unscathed. Yeah. And it gets, it's a vice presidential debate. Yeah. You know, like considering that the highlight of last election cycles, vice presidential debate, it was that a fly was on Mike Pence's head.

Right. Gives you an indication of like how much these things sort of matter in the grand scheme of things or what we retain from it. Well, there was a chance they could have baited Vance into saying some like insane, like Catholic or just talk about his beliefs about women or anything. And that didn't happen enough. Yeah Yeah, I mean he made some he had some really he's like I had a friend who got an abortion and she does it's like Yeah, okay. It's also like then if you're Walt that you got to turn around and be like is she in hell JD right do you think that would help leave? Does she a murderer? Why isn't she in jail according to your beliefs? Why didn't you and did her cats in her life?

Yeah. Tell me about that, JD. But yeah, just got to do it. One thing that I think is relevant because, you know, right now we are still talking about recovery efforts, like, you know, just broadly that are in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. And JD Vance's answer on climate change definitely caught the attention of most people because it was such a terrible answer.

But just to sort of set this up, right, like why just in the context of what's happening in the country, right? Asheville, North Carolina was one of the hardest hit areas. And prior to that was being touted by like real estate agents and even people involved in climate research as like a potential place that could sort of dodge the chaos of climate change as a climate sanctuary if you will. It's because it's a place that's far enough off the coast and had consistent weather. It's in it's like with these wonderful mountains. But you know, again, those are like that was sort of the environment in which people said, oh, you know, this could be a good place to move. Aside from the people who already live there, but that was like sort of, you know, the outsider's perspective on Nashville. The storm showed us that there is no escaping the effects

of climate change, no matter what people think is going to happen where. The only solution is truly like radical action. So when Vance gave this response on climate, it really cements the idea that these fucks are just banking on like dying before the flames and floodwaters consume them. That's all it is. It's like, I mean, yeah, that's going to happen. But I'm not going to be here. So this is JD Vance giving a really thoughtful answer on climate change and how we should be looking at it. Then or you asked about climate change. I think this is a very important issue. Look, a lot of people are justifiably worried about all these crazy weather and patterns. I think it's important for us first of all, to say Donald Trump and I support clean air,

clean water. We want the environment to be cleaner and safer. But one of the things that I've noticed some of our democratic friends talking a lot about is is a concern about carbon emissions, this idea that carbon emissions drives all the climate change. Well, let's just say that's true. Just for the sake of arguments, climate change. Well, let's just say that's true, just for the sake of arguments, we're not arguing about weird science,

let's just say that's true. I'm sorry, weird science? Let's, yeah, let's just presume that the thing that scientists whose expertise lies in this area is saying it's, okay, let's presume that's true. Okay, go on, JD, just completely knock this one out of the park. We're assuming that's true, go on, so what's your knock this one out of the park. We're assuming that's true.

Go on. So what's your solution? Well, if you believe that, what would you, what would you want to do? The answer is that you'd want to reshore as much American manufacturing as possible, and you'd want to produce as much energy as possible in the United States of America, because we're the cleanest economy in the entire world. Which is odd because that is already kind of the Biden Harris's administration sort of goals is to bring more of that manufacturing back to.

It's just weird. You're like, yeah. I mean, this is just another place where the fact that the Democrats are so right wing plays into the fucking Republican hands, which is just like, yeah, if, you know, Biden Harris had a sensible, actual, like climate change carbon reduction policy, they wouldn't have to be like, oh, yeah, we're also doing the right wing thing. It's like, what are you talking about? Yeah, bringing right to spring bring.

Well, you know, because then you get to say like we're bringing the manufacturing back, et cetera, et cetera. And that's not the climate scientists aren't saying, well, we need to bring the manufacturing back. Yeah. They're saying, fucking cut down the carbon emissions drastically. And yeah, and I get to like, obviously the inflation reduction act definitely had like those elements. And because the bar is so low for American action on climate change, it is in like verifiably in in history the most we've done.

But there's still so much more to do. And the other thing that's also, on the back of that too, just to raise another thing, Donald Trump set up a GoFundMe to help people affected by the storm. And if your first question is, is he just gonna pocket the money? I would say you would be of average intelligence.

Because of course this guy is scamming. Like as of this recording, it's raised over $4 million, but it has all the trappings of a Trump ruse. Like for starters, he's not even appearing as one of the top donors. Like he's not even on there. Like there's Dino White and Kid Rock and shit are coming out of their pockets a little bit. No, no, he's a taker. He's, he's the recipient of the donation. He doesn't even put the $5 in the tip jar just to like get the, get the juices

flowing. And if he does, they'd be like, did you see what he put in? It was movie funny money. That was like fake money. Just so there's an appearance of a bill shaped object. Yeah. And then there's like, there's all this warm and fuzzy language, but absolutely no talk. Like there's no charity that's been designated as the recipient for all this money or even a plan regarding how the money is spent.

Let's just help these people out. Just get it. And I think the final nail in the coffin is that this thing is being ran by Trump's national finance director. Yeah. So this is we'll see. I mean, I'm sure he's just going to be like, well, the thing that would help the people of North Carolina and all Americans is if I was president. So that is where this money will go to. Exactly. In an indirect way, I am the solution. I do want to go back to a little thing. The idea of a climate sanctuary, like just this fucking like thought that you could like go to like fucking Minneapolis or New Zealand or whatever and escape the

lot of people like Michigan. Yeah. And guess what? The world where the idea that this zone might still be temperate and like livable in some way is a world where our globe and our society and our government has changed so much like this isn't gonna protect you we are all in this together you think if the other 90 whatever 7% of the landmass of the United States is uninhabitable that your quote climate sanctuary is going to be fine that property laws will exist and whatever like you don't want society to crumble to the point where a climate

you need a climate sanctuary yeah exactly you don't want society to crumble to the point where a climate sanctuary. Yeah, exactly. You can't, you're not going to claim finders keepers, you know, like actually guys, we, we bought this house like 10 years ago. So I know like this is existential for you, but like, do you mind? Like I'm trying to have my roses bloom this year and you guys are taking my water that I have. It's just, it's not how that's going to go.

The other, there's this other quote in this article in the Guardian about like this sort of idea of how these like, like there are these cycles where people move into places that they think will be like better off for the future. This was from Jesse Keenan, who's an expert in climate adaptation at Tulane, said that this flood will likely accelerate development because clearly there's been a lot of damage because like in Asheville, right, for every one person who moves away from ashville three people move to ashville which is one of the highest ratios in the u.s it goes on to say quote some people will not be inclined or unable to rebuild and their properties will be bought up by wealthy

people who can afford to build private infrastructure and buildings that have the engineering resilience to withstand floods. There is no truly safe place. This is a cycle that like, okay, acknowledge there will be a post disaster boom, but this is a cycle that has happened over and over again in America on some level. So, yeah. I think it's because we live in a world now where class

and your socioeconomic standing insulates you to a certain degree from certain like ills of society, that society hath wrought on us. But it's like, at that point, we're talking Mad Max, baby, you know? I mean, there was no, like when people have to survive, it's a completely different, completely different world. And like, to your point, we don't want to live with that. My favorite image of this is just like Elon thinking he's still in charge of the Mars colony if the rest of the globe is gone.

Like, guess what? Well, you're not. Well, I have the key to the food locker and I know the code. Well, guess what? Next time you open that shit, it's on, bro. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll we'll wedge that. You know, nerds think Fighters keeper is gonna is like is Their defense against their greed and I don't know

Revolution or whatever that's what the next case the Supreme Court is gonna hear finders v. Keepers We'll see where they land on that Okay chemtrails. Oh, I know this feels feels, just to start, when did you first encounter someone talking that chemtrail shit to you? Oh, thank you for the tee up. Talking to my face was, someone, anyone who's followed the through line of all my appearances on Daily Zeitgeist

might have picked up that I don't have a ton of, I have less respect for the medical profession than most people. Not because I think- Your DNA lab you wanted to start up? Yeah, exactly, exactly. Homebrew DNA. I'm just saying, doctors are not scientists,

neither are nurses. Like no one who has a medical education, it's like the way that thinking a mechanical engineer is a physicist. They aren't. Sure, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're not denying the way that thinking a mechanical engineer is a physicist. They aren't sure. Yeah Yeah, you're not you're not denying the knowledge that they have but it's not transposable in the way that they think it is Well, and it's not it like like you can have doctors who are Creationists who believe in you know X or Y thing which if they were, you know purely logic

Logical beings would be impossible. But whatever. So the first time I had someone pitch chemtrails to my face, I had walking pneumonia and I was at the hospital getting, essentially it was just like a big inhaler. It was, you know what it was? It was like the gravity bong of inhalers. Okay, like a nebulizer kind of thing? I guess so. I don't remember what it was called, but

it was like a big glass tube full of inhaler and they were just jamming it into my lung. Okay. And the nurse who was administrating this therapy, and I was a, you know, fairly captive audience. Yeah. You, you're sick and need a dire medical attention was was just like, you know, another reason you might be having these lung difficulties is no. Yo, stay in your lane. Crazy to have someone administering medical treatment to you talk about chemtrails. That's fucking dark. Which, by the way, yeah.

So chemtrails, I didn't I kind of had a sense that it was just like a cook thing. But yeah, it's just like the idea that like jets can spray out various chemicals into the atmosphere. Is that right? Like, I mean, yes, I think, you know, like mind control, weather control type shit. I think the thing that I really like about this and like conspiracy theories of this ilk is that like they always come up with like the most like patently transparently obvious like way.

Like if you're the government and you have a mind control chemical, right? Why would you spray it invisible clouds? Right, right, right. Having visible receipts. They're like, yep, yeah, there it is. Like it's the same shit. It's the same shit with all this, like, you know, like various

democratic election fraud things. Right. Right. If you thought these bozos could do this, why would they do it in this way? And why wouldn't do all the other alleged shit if they're if they're so powerful? Well, because that requires me to find actual evidence when I can just look for something very superficial and claim, you know, what? Why is there like a whole department devoted to then, once the conspiracy is done, creating like numerological puzzles

that they see down into the world? Right. Like, hey, we just want to know who the real ones are, you know, that get me. Like that's hard. Right. Well, the reason this is coming up, because I know a lot of times as Americans,

we like a candidate and we're like, oh man, I stay got it all figured out up there is the premier of Alberta, their conservative premier, Danielle Smith, just recently, like in front of a bunch of people was at a town hall talking about chemtrails. Like seriously, I'm just gonna play this clip where like you can actually even hear

like her constituents groaning because like, is this fool for real? Take it away Danielle I'll do what I can, you know, to figure out. I don't have enough power to prevent a foreign government from using chemical weapons on us. Like, she's accusing the United States of a war crime. Yeah, that's what's wild because the thing was in response to a constituent's question, right? She was prompted by a chemtrail loving constituent, but then her answer is like, yeah, I don't know man Like it could be deal like shut that shit down

But you know, what am I supposed to do? You know, what do I don't know if I have much power fit is the Department of Defense But anyway, whether it was her or the constituent the fact that it's like out there still is just like really funny to me But the the Pentagon even was like was forced to comment on the issue that they're like, we're not spraying chemicals on Alberta, Canada, but that also, isn't that what they'd say if they were spraying chemicals on Alberta chemical, Alberta chemical, Alberta, Canada. But again, the chem trails are just, you know, contrails there. It's a, it's a vapor trails made up of water, but too many people are like, this is it. No, this is it.

It's all population control, which is interesting because back in the 90s, there was an Air Force research paper called Weather as a Force Multiplier owning the weather in 2025. And that paper was like the beginning of you. Yeah, because it's talking about a future weather modification system potentially for like military objectives. And a lot of people in the beginning, again, like most conspiracy theories

intersect with something that actually happened because in the UK and the US, they really did spray their populations with dangerous chemicals during the cold war in order to simulate a chemical warfare attack. So they used zinc cadmium sulfide, which could be traced with UV light. And they're like, okay, good, we can track it.

And they thought it was non-toxic at the time, learned out to be potentially carcinogenic. But that was like a drill, right? Like, it's like, hey, we're doing this thing. That's all it takes, right? Is it like, they did it before and that was bad. I mean, also, I mean, look at, there's plenty of history of the united states spraying

Chemicals down on people agent orange But I think what's just so funny too is like people can never kind of agree on what the chemtrails are for And that's that's the hard bit about a conspiracy. Everybody's kind of got to be united on what they actually do because also it's like It's just like a the worst way to do something like a cloud. Yeah, like it's impossible to control. Oh, your big conspiracy got fucked up by the breeze. Like, right, right, right. If you're if you have the goal that these people are stating, this is not the way to do it. I'm not saying the government doesn't have these goals. I'm just saying this mechanism is absurd. Yeah, it's like, yeah, come on now. It's a dumb way to do it. I'm not saying the government doesn't have these goals. I'm just saying this mechanism is absurd.

Yeah, it's like, come on now. It's just a dumb way to do it. You wanna get the most people at once, hit the water supply. Just an idea CIA or FBI or NS or whatever you're thinking about. But they don't need our help. You know what I'm saying? They've been fucking poisoning people for years

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seen I think Amazon's been doing pretty well money wise people working from home but this has been a thing it's like come next year everybody is back in the office I don't want to hear shit about it well it looks like he's hearing a lot of shit because there was a survey done just like asking the employees what they think and about mmm 73% said oh yeah I'm probably gonna I'll probably quit if that's if this is for real to be fair mm-hmm that feels like some real front-nest shit like what like like a real front? Yeah, like yeah, yeah people I mean, I quit heart. That's the hard part obviously about toiling is that yeah, it's like and go aware and you're like Yeah, I mean you got me but you've seen this has happened at plenty of other cat like companies before

instituting like full time return and then they're like, oh, some people actually did quit because they realized they would take less money to have more flexibility for family time or just whatever else. I mean, people will quit, but also it will not help anything. It will simply make things worse. Like just, yeah, everyone is resentful for having a commute and like Yeah, yeah This is like they have I guess a broader strategy because they want to quote streamline operations and reduce managerial layers And that's how they'll do that by having yeah come more come in five days a week. Yeah. Yeah, I

We shall see but the thing the other thing that they're pissed off is like if this isn't like across every Amazon company or subsidiary So people who work at like one medical, which is another subsidiary, they only have to come in three times a week and they're like, yeah, that's it. That's it. So it's pretty fractured. I totally understand like the hesitance for people to do that. And maybe who knows, maybe there will be enough outrage that they go, all right, like fucking twice a week. I don't know. Please. I think the other thing we always talk about this is like so much of it is for managers to feel like they are managers and

They are managing human beings and then the other part is those commercial building leases, bro yeah, just a lot of money for that thing to just look like a Look cinema Glendale if you know what I mean if catch my drift find out more on that tomorrow and then finally uber shockingly they're pulling a bit of a disney plus um and by that i mean not family friendly brand uber no surely not surely not uber when you're here you're not family not. Uber, when you're here, you're not family. You're an independent. You're not an employee. I mean, you're not.

You're not. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy, easy, easy. Hey, I want to say to you here. A New Jersey appeals court has found that a couple cannot sue over a life altering car accident they were in, in like during an Uber ride because, and I think, cause I already said it at Disney Plus the apps terms and conditions basically preclude them from doing so. The couple says we didn't even agree to that. That was our

daughter using Uber eats and they're like well that's kind of it's sorry it's a blanket fucking agreement man like you're you go into arbitration that's it is what it is. This couple John and Georgia McGinty they filed a lawsuit in February 2023. This was a year after they suffered quote, serious physical, psychological and financial damages. When the Uber they were riding crashed into another car, there are physical scars, mental scars. And I don't think that they will ever be able to go back to their full capacity that they were at before, says their attorney. So they tried to sue, Uber's like, nah, nah, look at the terms and conditions. And a court was like, Oh, I guess not.

And now they are like, this couple is fighting back because like our kid is a minor and still it's. So what the, how the fuck does any of this work? Now I think the difference here is the outrage around the Disney plus thing was because Disney's whole brand is about being familial and family Now I think the difference here is the outrage around but Disney plus thing was because it is knees The brand is about being familial and family-friendly. Yeah like that. So they're like shit. Alright, never mind Whereas this is like all we've seen is like, oh, yeah, right your company's like we'll pay to alter state labor laws to Their lioness campaign during the last referendum

For it to like like enshrine that basically California drivers will never have any kind of rights yeah yeah yeah seriously fucking disgusting it was most lion-ass shit I've seen in quite a long time yeah yeah clipped only by all these of anti-other proposition yeah all the ones that are sponsored apartment the apartment association in California. Oh my God. Disgusting. I know this is a little bit of California inside baseball because, you know, not

every state has like voter initiated ballot. California baseball has never been stronger, bro. Yeah. Hey, shout out Shohei. Um, but there's a proposition prop 33 that's about like actually creating affordable housing and the, the realtors and landlord like groups, they have so much money that they're have an all out pressure campaign.

Now like this like single black moms is like, I'm a single mom. And I thought when I heard about Prop 33, it would be a good thing. But then when I read the finer print, I realized this is actually bad for affordable housing. And they have so many versions of this ad. They have like a former Berkeley professor with his like landlord-y ass. In the ad you were saying, they very clearly, it's like, this bill would alter existing rent control laws. And it's just like, like they conveniently leave out like in favor

of tenants. Like, yeah, exactly. It's basically it expands the municipalities ability to enact rent control. That's what it's doing. To expand the ability. It's going to get rid of laws. Yeah, the backwards ones that were exacerbating the problem. Not to be like anyway.

That's probably it is truly like comical. The list of evil people at the end of this is I know I'm almost not going to see it. No, I just want to just read up because like when you because every time you just have to look at the like, you know, the fine print on who is actually paying for this. And no one thirty three. Let's see. Businesses, landlords, realtors, like the National Realtors Association. Yeah, there, realtors. It's like the National Realtors Association.

There's no no clearer. Like sometimes you're at the ballot box. Sometimes you're at the thing and you're like, oh fuck, I don't know. Try to at least find out who's pushing for this because the tops and landlords are always on the wrong side of making your life better. I'm sorry, if you see Chamber of Commerce,

that's really the one that's pretty much goes across. Like look at the endorsements. Yes. If you see that, if multiple chambers of commerce are like, yeah, hey man, we got to get behind this thing. That's saying that's the rich people saying they're going to come for our back. It's for you.

Yeah. Yeah. The normal person. So anyway. It's fucking gross. Where were we? A bit of what is happening here. Anyway, that's going to do it for us today.

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