The Daily Zeitgeist - Election Update: Nevada!? “Fake” Ballots? 11.5.20

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

In episode 753, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Bitchuation Room host Francesca Fiorentini to discuss Nevada election results, Trump campaigning alleging fraud, low energy scams, ballot counters needing to be paid more, and more!FOOTNOTES: Nevada 2020 election results Georgia Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign Lawsuit That Produced Exactly Zero Evidence of Fraud On Fox & Friends, Pam Bondi warns about "fake ballots" in Pennsylvania. When pressed on it, Bondi just says "there could be" some, and mentions a bunch of stuff that is not "fake ballots." Ric Grennell ran away from an MSNBC reporter when asked to provide any evidence at all of the fraud accusations he just levied  An actual photo of the wagon and box that carries a device that allows us to go live.  Ballot-Counting Live Streams Show the Invisible Labor Behind Democracy Nevada, With All Due Respect, People Want You To Please Hurry The Hell Up How ballots are actually counted, explained by 3 election officials Driven by unfounded ‘SharpieGate’ rumor, pro-Trump protesters mass outside Arizona vote-counting center Watch Pastor Paula White-Cain’s intense prayer for Trump 2020 election win WATCH: Schoolboy Q - "W.Y.G.D.T.N.S. " Produced by The Alchemist Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. He calls people Jack. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah. And because it's cool. Or it's Here's the Deal Jack O'Brien. Yeah, Here's the Deal Jack O'Brien.

Thank you for the live punch-up. Here we go. Francesca. Well, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! One, that's another vote for blue. Two, looks like Trump's term is through. Three, I think the GOP might have lost this presidency. And for another vote for the D5, we're close to 270.

Trump thinks we can stop votes for Biden, because it looks like Joe has won. Okay, Shout out to At Waffle House For that Possible Premature Football spike

Of an AKA We will not know Until the fuckery's Results have fully Come in But You know I think it might be

Called by the time People hear this To be honest Yeah Well there's one thing Where it's called And then another If Trump completely

Just fires up the base To be like Reject it But yeah Shout out to you christy can be true yeah it can all be true and also we can have a little fun with brian mcknight i think everybody's being very careful with their calls uh because they don't want you know to be accused by the right of being like in the bag, but then by being very careful with their calls, they're going to give Trump more time to start some shit. Anyways, we are thrilled to be joined

in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented Francesca Fiorentini. What's up? That was the sexiest this election's ever been, Miles. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, Liz Jenkins' viral tweet. I have a feeling inspired that one.

They're tweeting, like, what is it? Was it Nevada? How the counting's going down in Nevada? Yeah. Very slow. Very slow, sensual. But we would give them a pass if it was Boyz II Men doing it. Right.

Did you see the clip? Brian McKnight. No, it was Brian McKcknight oh my the clip is the clip is wild like i i couldn't tell are the people are the women who are sitting around singing to the song just part of the audience or are they like backup singers because oh for the official video where it's like a lot when it's like the live performance yeah the live performance that yeah where he's making like very sensual and loving eye contact with the camera as he sings to me yeah i don't know we'll just have to pretend he's always this one he's like there i feel like half of these videos are just um you like a circle poof in the middle of a stage that's rotating. And there's hot women with their backs to one another. And then it just spins.

This seemed more like... Just Brian McKnight in front. No, this one's very much more traditional. It feels like a VH1 live TV performance. Got it, got it, got it. It felt like he was performing it on Oprah or something to me. I don't know why it felt like uh like a he was performing it on oprah or something to me yeah i don't know why it felt like that to me uh anyway francesca what have you been up to these past days how have you spent uh the election oh god i mean yeah fitting just

mostly angry i think you know there's no other way around it i know it calm and then anger just sheer anger i've had less anxiety than i think a lot of people um but i'm just like just like 2016 i feel like this we're reliving 2016 but but actually democrats might pull through but the anger at kind of everyone in the not just the gop but the establishment is very much still alive like nate silver uh needs to go away forever ever and ever and ever and ever we were still mostly right yeah you didn't understand the algorithm like it just he's no no more pollsters we all knew this yeah and so i'm just kind of angry i'm angry at the democratic party of course for like this

squeaker i'm just angry about the squeaker but other than that like kind of zen because i i feel like you know we knew that we were gonna have to wait so what did you think though based on like all the messaging that was happening because i feel like most you know leftist progressives were watching this and be like what the fuck is this message bro like you're you guys are fucking up so bad yeah like about like if you're trying to energize a large intersectional base of people to like have a i don't know a huge i guess turnout it just didn't seem like the messaging was there. It was just very much like, look, y'all get it, man. Like, he's shitty.

All right? Come on. Come on, Jack. That was enough to get the most turnout in the history of America in terms of the raw number, which I kind of dismissed as a stat because our population is bigger every time there's an election. But also, it's the biggest since 72 in terms of percentage of the population. If you just take the percent of eligible voters times the percent of the population that was registered to vote, it's 33% of the population, which is more than like reagan when he had a landslide in 84 so make it obligatory man load us up on vans buy us off with a sandwich the way they do in south america it's obligatory but uh what happens when voting is obligatory is

politicians have to talk about poverty so like the democrats would actually have to do that right um so that's good but yeah yeah 33 is awesome and sad at the same time no but didn't you hear francesca if you like your private health insurance you can keep that yep we've all met those people you know when you're just like hanging around the fireside with the homies around your oil drum fire yeah around your oil drum fire and you see the light in your friend's eyes and he's like you know what even though i don't have a place to live like i just love the billing system of kaiser yeah i got the book from the library and i got this knife that's pretty sharp.

So I'm just going to ask that you take out my appendix for me. But yeah, I was going to say Trump is also like Trump had more a bigger percentage of the population vote for him than Reagan did in the 84 landslide election. So there were a massive number of people motivated on both sides. It's just they were both motivated by Trump, I think. Right. And if Georgia ends up getting going blue, blue, I'm curious to know what the agenda is going to be for this administration, where yet again, black and brown votes, you know, had to pull up in force to try and tip this thing. Because, again, the upholders of you know de facto racism also came out in full force but yeah i'm curious to see what those priorities end up looking like for somebody who's like yeah we don't have to really look at police reform please vote for me

vote for me oh yeah those are going to be the story if arizona and georgia pull for pull out for biden those that's just the story That's the whole story and the fact that Trumpism is not going anywhere anytime soon. But I'm sure we're going to get into it. There's a mandate from black and brown people that things need to get done, if anything, if you want to look at it. I mean, that's how they should be looking at it.

But we'll see. It does seem like Biden's response has been like, well, I got to govern for these people on the right as well. So I have to take white supremacy into account. This wasn't his like sort of soft victory speech. Like I'm the president has to be for everybody. Both sides. Right. Jack.

So if you want a public option and get price gouged in the private side, too. Yeah, yeah. Whatever you like. This is the thing, though, with those speeches. Like, yeah, I mean, they're good enough in terms of where we think we're going to get, you know, pull through in Pennsylvania or we think we're going to pull through in Arizona and we keep counting the ballots. Like, that's good enough for now. But you're absolutely right, Miles. Like as soon as MAGA supporters come out in real force and as soon as the president actually realizes he's lost and

is like, no, no, no, it was all fraudulent. Then that like middling mealy mouth, like let's just we're going to win. Like, you know, you need to ratchet that up. Yeah. Hardcore. And we'll see if he even has it in him or if it's going to be just kind of like, you know you need to ratchet that up yeah yeah hardcore and we'll see if he even has it in him or if it's going to be just kind of like you know you can't it got the election yeah we got it right right it like there needs to be some manner of systemic change uh and that's my position yes big structural chain man owner of wow look at you i've got a i've got a plan and uh all right francesca what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are what you're up to all that good stuff oh god this is this is pretty good because i did uh election like punditry and coverage for a really big Argentine YouTube channel that

does like comedy and news together every day. And the guys are like, they're so smart. They're lightning fast. They speak really fast. And I lived there for many years, for five years. But man, my Spanish is so out. It's just rusty as shit. And and so like here i am trying to explain like bueno yo siento okay and like meanwhile this guy like this argentine dude explained the entire american system better than i could and i was like why do you need me but in one word basura yeah yeah but the real thing is like um if you're semi-bilingual and you want to read more in Spanish, it's so hard to just be like, oh, yeah, let me attempt to read 100 years of solitude, you know, like 100 years of solitude again for the 12th time after I fucking have no idea what's going on. Because magical realism and like being an English language speaker do not work. Like it's very difficult

to understand so i'm like i was looking up young adult spanish language books because i can't read hard shit so i've read all the um hunger games in spanish so fun and i super on my like level of reading reading level and so now i think I'm going to read The Fault in Their Stars or something. I might even do Harry Potter in Spanish because I've never read it in English. But trying to get, if anyone has suggestions for like a good YA, even in Spanish, I don't know if they've got their, you know, I don't know if there's like a famous Latin American YA writer. But that's why I need just like sixth grade shit.

Talk about crushes and like, know i don't know getting your period for the first time la broma infinita i think might be good infinite jest that book dude i read okay get this sorry not to go on but i read haruki murakami the wind-up bird chronicles in spanish and actually it made total sense because i didn't understand a word i read the whole thing and i was like no same thing um What is something you think is underrated? Underrated. This one always is hard for me. Open racism. Yeah. Like it's get more into it, y'all. Crushing it like, yeah, like you can sort of get away with it now. And I think you can totally get it.

Like somehow we're missing that open racism actually wins elections, um, is incredibly effective and mobilizes a bunch of people. I think there was GOP. Understand it. I'm just like, never ceases to amaze me. Obviously I'm being facetious.

We shouldn't get into open racism, but holy shit, how it's worked wonders. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's underrated how how powerful it is in in the united states for sure yeah more than like the mismanagement of like candidates or you know a direction of a of a election or campaign like the pain that caused i think just that confirmation of just how you know pro-white supremacy a lot of people are whether they fully understand the nuances of their support of trump or not but just to see like

on a binary like yeah i like that better that was probably like the hardest thing to just like sort of be confronted with again but like i was saying i think yesterday too i don't know in a way like sort of helped validate my sort of cynicism about the america about the country too without being like i'm just like a doom and gloom america hater more than like no no this is where this is where we're at y'all like this is this is what it is yeah and i think the ways that um michael harriet of the root had a good tweet thread this is not my the the tweet i like but just explaining the ways that, yeah, if he grew in percentage points, Trump grew in percentage points with, uh, black voters and Latino voters, it's because, um, racism, you can be racist and be any race. Uh, and everyone pretty much lives in a system of white supremacy and we are racist whether we know it consciously or unconsciously and it's always been a meal ticket for model minorities or people who want

to throw their communities under the bus to supposedly get ahead economically and socially and he tracks like italians and irish and how like italians were some of the most racist because they were the the on the receiving end of so much racism themselves they then turned around and were like well we're going to distinguish ourselves from black americans by being extra racist so it's like yeah it's worked in the past and so it doesn't doesn't boggle my mind to see latino and especially white lat Latino voters going for Trump. I mean, have you if you've seen the like Sammy Sosa pictures of like him with the extra like kind of terrifying skin whitener shit like that, dude, that's it looks great.

It's just like extra. He's getting way more powerful like white supremacy um and yeah internalized like white supremacy yeah and i think that's that speaks to a lot like a survival mechanism which is like i just maybe need to cozy up to my oppressors to have a less turbulent time uh and sometimes people really feel that that is the easier path uh for i guess perceived comfort or because not liberation uh while they're definitely a group of people like no that's not that ain't liberation that ain't it um cozying up to my oppressor is not liberation right uh what is something you think is overrated, Francesca? Propositions. Propositions and measures on fucking – like on these ballots.

Like we're in California and so much is being thrown to ballots that shouldn't be. We just passed Prop 22 giving an exemption to Uber and Lyft and like baking in some impossible, like an impossibility, a way to basically never rescind it, you know, has to be overturned by seven eighths of the state legislature. So much is put on these on our ballots that we shouldn't opine on. Look, I don't even know if we should opine on like I don't even know if we should all vote for president, even though I just said maybe we should. It should be obligatory. Democracy might be overall overrated.'s what i've learned just maybe we shouldn't have an opinion and that's the thing with these propositions it's like you get a glossy flyer

you don't know you kind of feel like it's definitely one of those you know if you don't know the answer on the scantron test, just like fill in any bubble. Right. Leave it blank. Just fucking leave it blank. Yeah. Yeah. But then we've got like California made almost zero progress. I know there is a little bit, but almost zero progress on a statewide level when it comes to our ballots and propositions.

Why are we why are we weighing in on dialysis? Why are we weighing in on random ass shit that should be left to legislators yeah i think it's like having any kind of industry be able to get into these you know ballot initiatives is just it's the the darkest shit that we have especially like in our our voting systems because you look at how much money they spent i saw some stat like they put more money than bernie's fucking presidential campaign raised uh went into like over 200 million dollars went into this shit when you think of like again we talk we've been talking about this proposition we're like spend the fucking money to treat these people like employees not fucking automatons that just need like like oh we'll give them a little bit of oil and fuel and water and they'll be okay like these are human beings who are putting in their labor

to fucking kick the money up to these fuck anyway so it's just it's it is really disheartening and i think a lot of people a lot of the times i whenever i like a lot of people have asked like what about this one this i'm like always just look at the fine print first when you get these mailers because i'll always tell you paid for by something and sometimes it'll be euphemistic like the alliance of you know concerned uh ride share providers they're always concerned yeah every time someone's concerned you're like are you though yeah i feel like that's a dead giveaway that you're dismantling what we're talking about. Oh no, this is a, the, this is from the coalition of concerned capitalists and profiteers, the CCCP.

And, uh, you should really check it out. But even with their, like the dialysis one, it was like paid for, like by the cult, like the fucking dialysis industry.

And you're like, of course, I'm just be like, yeah, if they want it, say, fuck you. Anytime these people come and they're backing something, always say, absolutely, I don't need to back fucking Pacific Gas and Electric or Uber or whatever. their little pinky toe into their fuel, into the gas tank and just be like, that's part

of it. And then you'll be like, hey, if you give up three of your toes, you get a thousand more dollars this week. All right. I'm running out of toes. Well, do you have a kid? Yeah. How old?

How old? How old's your kid? 14. Okay. Yeah, we can work with that. They got all their toes. Uber is thrilled to partner with kroger brands to give out like money coupons for groceries for a thousand miles driven for people

who aren't in a state you know that does ballot initiatives it's basically like they do a yes or no vote on some legislation right and my question is like on the dialysis right so that became a question where somebody wanted to regulate more strictly dialysis clinics and basically have a doctor make it mandatory to have a doctor on the premises of dialysis clinics for the health of the people who are receiving dialysis. And that becomes a ballot initiative in California in a state where there aren't ballot initiatives. That would presumably just like go to the desk of one of the politicians. Like what what is the difference there like does the ballot initiative seems to be a workaround i think it's a workaround of the legislation to and you can easily manipulate i mean look you can manipulate the legislature the fossil fuel industry has been doing that

here in california for years um we can't get the most minimal regulations when it comes to the environment here. But I think it's an easy way to sidestep the legislature and just kind of dupe people by putting something that sounds like government outreach, overreach, or sounds like freedom, whatever it sounds like. Sounds like freedom. It's like getting people to participate in their own oppression by convincing them with a bunch of advertising dollars of something. I guess my question is just like, is the alternative that they're just using that money to pay off the politician to like do the same thing?

Probably. And like where I just want to know, like there are some legislators in Oregon high as fuck on psilocybin for the psilocybin uh legalization that was passed and like good on them like i know like big shroom lobby came through yeah absolutely i mean nithya who has now officially like it's been announced she won her election against shitty ass david rue um one of the things that somebody was pointing out when they were writing about that is that one of the things that was new this time is that it happened in an election year so you had like more people paying attention to it more people voting whereas that election usually happens in an off year and so it's like much easier for people just to like people who are like moneyed

interests to get elected because they just sort of manipulate the vote but that was something that was determined by a ballot initiative like in 2016 i think that it would be an on year instead of an off year so like i do i guess i'm just like wondering what that balance is yeah it's a double-edged sword where like sometimes it you can get like a populist thing through that otherwise wouldn't have gotten through like psilocybin or you know something like voting when people are actually voting um yeah i mean in red states it's actually really great because they for example have passed medicaid expansion in places that don't want to expand Medicaid. They've passed minimum wage laws that they've passed, reenfranchising, you know, former felons in Florida.

What happens there, of course, is that then their Republican legislatures are like, no, no, no, no. See, popular will not into the popular will. And then they overturn it. So it just depends on what state you're in yeah yeah yeah but yeah it it it fucks up both because again i remember when i was working more on campaigns like one i worked on was for to get higher clean energy standards in the state by like 2030 and then it was a small group of people who were just like this is something good this is like what we need to do this is like like 2007. And then you get inevitably,

you're like brace yourselves for every utility company to just obscure the entire message, which wasn't even like about getting to renewable energy standards that were like going to help put the state on a path towards like, you know, doing a good job offsetting carbon emissions. It was like, they are trying to raise your electrical prices with a fatally flawed argument like that like they love that term too fatally flawed um

but yeah it's just it all it sucks and like with the uber one it's exactly it's the when it cuts the other way the fucking the state the pilot they were like no man fuck that the courts decided you have to these are employees man you have to started treating them like that. And they're like, oh, yeah. Well, now we're just going to fucking hypnotize people with, you know, mid roll ads on like streaming services and glossy mailers. This is the thing about like, you know, California is a blue state. We can't have any finance like campaign finance laws that allows that to be illegal for a corporation to put that much money behind something. Right. Or front shadow groups that then do that like come on well what's next our federal elections right and then i mean that's a that's first amendment shit come on you gotta you gotta give corporations the ability to spend billions of dollars to express themselves yeah They are citizens. If corporations are people, then they should die at some point.

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nevada is basically callable are people who haven't called arizona yet so like we were talking about up top i feel like people are scared to call the election to be the first to call the election because uh they just know the the hell that that's gonna unleash from from QAnon and the president. And but yeah, so there's people who say Nevada's callable. There's people who say Arizona's callable. If you put those together, you have Biden at 270 electoral votes, you know, but nobody is saying both of those things at the same time because I think they're scared. Oh, yeah. yeah well it's it's led to this really interesting thing because when arnon mishkin the guy who uh controls fox decision desk you know was like very firmly was like no i'm not calling it for the i'm calling it for biden yeah there's this whole story

that came out of or yeah arizona was for biden uh and there was all this pushback apparently like jared kushner was like desperate and like calling people at fox news trying to be like don't like why are you trying to do that but i think that was also it seems like a lot of people were saying that was a decision from fox to not allow the president to begin gaining momentum on some like fuckery based narrative of like what happened here i was headed down they're like no we're not doing that and that's why they were maybe a little more aggressive with that call yeah i mean have they said that or that's just a theory as to like why that's a theory been aggressive well i think that i mean because if you look if they did capitulate and we're like oh yeah trump won or maybe just

didn't even call it that would make the at least the numbers that a lot of like channels were putting up in the electoral college score, so to speak, look a little bit closer. And then people have been like, what's going on. But I think by having Arizona so solidly saying like, Oh,

we're saying that's for Biden already sort of changes the narrative in the sense of like, Oh, victory is imminent for the Biden campaign. Most likely if Arizona just went, well, it also makes it so that he can't have a unified message of stop the count, right? Because Arizona gives Biden the White House. And so if you stop the count there,

Biden's ahead. So now you have to do, Trump has to do this thing where he's like, stop the count in these states in particular, and then keep counting in this other state in particular. And it just sounds transparently like bullshit. I think that it's probably a coincidence and not like Fox News's grand plan to undermine the Trump administration just because they've actually done this before their decision desk has called states before anybody else. And oftentimes it's for the democratic candidate and i i feel like they have the license to do that because a they have a really good like uh polling department like they actually are very independent from the opinion section but also they don't like they're the one place that's not worried about being said to have a liberal slant, you know, so they can just do what they want because they don't they're not worried that Fox News is going to call them liberal.

Well, now they're all their followers. Hate them. Yeah. This is why Fox News sucks. Right. That's why this we're seeing. They're screaming it. Yeah, they're screaming it.

I mean, but but it's like the rubber is really hitting the road here when it comes to is the moon made of cheese because the president said so? Yeah. Or is it not? And this is but it's just numbers. It's like, do we have this is the moment of alternative facts, right? We haven't really had to stare it down so starkly because it's been four years of a Trump presidency. And so he can just make it up and Fox News will go along because that's the propaganda. But this is a test of loyalty and you risk putting your entire network. I mean, God, they've already completely ruined themselves. But when it comes to fact or fiction, numbers are not numbers. 270 electors are not 270 electors because the truth is they want to stop counting, but no one's gotten to 270.

So you kind of have to start count, continue to count. And if you stop right now, Biden wins by all by all measures. Right. Except no one's gotten to 270 yet. So it's like it's do you put your entire network like at the behest of the Trump administration or not? Do you burn your credibility or not? And whatever credibility you have left. Yeah, what's left.

Yeah. So it is a surprising move, though. I'm actually proud. Yeah. I mean, even reading like how desperately, apparently all these reports of how desperate Jared Kushner was, like trying to get Rupert Murdoch on the phone and be like, look, man, I'll suck your dick.

Yeah. Like, I feel like in a movie where like, if you're doing like the, we're going to drink, you know, Maga tears, dramatization of this,

like Jared Kushner was like running down a hallway. I'm like, I can like bang into it. Like Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Murdoch. And he's like,

I'm sorry, Jared, we can't help you today, mate. And then it's like, the rich bastards always win like i don't know what you know that dynamic is like but that's what i see in my head and you realize too is these lawsuits and all these other things keep failing and they're flailing is getting more intense you know you hate and love to see it murdoch's gonna be fine i'm just like thinking of his money making enterprise like he is going to be fine.

He doesn't need Trump to keep making bogus bullshit right wing propaganda content. It'll actually be kind of a great tool if they are part of the so-called resistance and opposition. They can because they'll finally be the victims that they've always said they are right yeah yeah that's what i'm saying they can never they're they're terrible at being in power they're only good at being the out of power group because that's all they have like all this not it doesn't make sense to cry like unfair and foul play when you're at the wheel of everything it just doesn't work like that it's like well then fucking do it you had every fucking chamber locked up and the one time the

one thing they're good at is they get to like spend as much money as they want to and not tax anybody because they're not criticizing themselves so they get to like spend irresponsibly like they accuse democrats of doing and that's like their one superpower when they're they're in power but yeah i i'm glad to hear that you think rupert murdoch's gonna be okay i was a little worried um trump apparently called him on election night there was like a call from the president donald trump to rupert murdoch where he's like what the fuck are you doing with this call and rupert murdoch was like i'm, I'm not pulling it back, homie. It is what it's...

This election night? Tuesday. Yeah, when they called the Arizona thing, he allegedly called him and complained that he had called it too early. And also, I do want to say that Arizona has now also been called by the AP,

who are notoriously pretty conservative about calling things. Yeah, they're like the anti-CNN. Right, right. So, I mean, you got the AP calling Arizona. You got our favorite guy, Nate Silver, who has been saying that he didn't even think Arizona should have been called, but he's like, Nevada should have been called. Nevada is far enough.

So now it seems like we're there and it's just a matter of the official announcement being made. Also like Georgia too. Yeah, and Georgia. Shout out to Georgia because what we're looking at now is they're saying there's 47,000 votes, over 47,000 outstanding votes left, and that's more than most people thought was. Yeah. If that's the case, Biden has to, he can win those by an even lower margin. Yeah.

They're saying that that one might end up being like Florida in 2000 close. And then Moot. Don't say that, Jack. Why? Well, but it won't be the deciding state because Arizona and Nevada get him there. And then they say Pennsylvania is not even going to be particularly close. Biden's going to win by quite a bit. Yeah.

In terms of the mail-in vote, Biden only has to win 60% of the outstanding mail-in vote. When the mail-in votes they're counting, he's winning at a rate of 78%. In Georgia or all over? In Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania. Got it, gotsylvania got it got it got it and like where they're pulling from are not uh republican strongholds like there are there are trump votes out there but what's out what's left on the plate is like that doesn't look red to me

there is a very very calming map and an important one to look at which is looking at the vote by population and not by giant red swaths and states. And just everyone needs to look at that map and just remember that land doesn't vote. Cows can't vote. They should be able to. I'm not saying that livestock shouldn't have the vote. That's the slogan in 2024 for the gop uh but i mean all this stuff all this stuff is can probably be safely forgotten about by the

time you listen to this assuming somebody has uh called called the election by then the trump campaign let's let's move over to the shadow realms where they are. It's wild. I was watching CNN this morning and they were broadcasting from Las Vegas. And the dude who was like talking about how like there are dead people voting in Nevada was like the angriest kid from like pickup basketball court that I played at in college like this dude who I was

like always like that there's something off about that man like he grew up to be one of these Trump people like everything's a foul yeah everything exactly man no but just like boil over yeah yeah this entire election though I mean because it really. Yeah. Yeah. This entire election though,

I mean, because it really is a game that has rules that, you know, there is a, there's cheating and there's not cheating. Everyone's using the same analogy of like playing sports with a sore loser, i.e. the kid who used to babysit who like,

you'd let score on you a million times and then you'd score one thing. You'd be like, no, I'm timeout. Yeah. Except this is an analogy. It was actually that guy was the guy who was making the speech. My friends were like

all texting. They were like, holy shit. Wait, no, you're, oh. Oh, is it literally him? It was literally the guy. Yeah. Yeah. No, literally the guy. I just thought this was a clever No, no, no, no, no, no. That man. Yeah. Yeah. When I was, no, no, no, no. That man. Yeah.

Yeah. When I was an undergrad, he was in law school and was just the biggest asshole at the court. Yo, let's go. Let's go play twos or something with him. Get him on this show. Yeah. Like, I don't think I exchanged a word with him. He was just such an angry asshole that he was like notorious among our friends as being like the guy who there's always no matter what like smear if you play any sport at a park there's always that person no matter what the sport is there was when i would

play soccer at the park there's a guy we call full kit wanker uh or old messy because he would wear an entire head to toe barcelona messy uniform and he had a balding p-tail he would wear an entire head-to-toe Barcelona Messi uniform, and he had a balding p-tail. He would do all these fucking... He would always act like you fouled him and shit, and he was so, like, past it, and he was just awful to play with because he fucked the flow of the game up

and, like, made it all about him. So, yeah, I'm glad to see that you could actually watch that evolution of park asshole to fucking screaming political or whatever my friend did research on him and apparently like his he had a relative who was a politician there's like some uh his dad not acknowledging him because he was an out of wedlock child thing going on it's uh all sorts of now you made me feel sorry for him oh no no no no don't john snow of pickup basketball yeah the john snow exactly except instead of funneling it into uh stoicism he funneled it into just being angry and full of shit uh which as bannon put it they are you know utilizing the

steve bannon method of and this is a quote, flooding the zone with shit. That's how Steve Bannon describes what they did with the Trump administration, with the Trump campaign in 2016. It does seem like they are really itching to do something that we brought up from the year 2000, the Brooks Brothers riot, where a bunch of preppy Republicans uh blue blazers like broke into the miami-dade uh courthouse where they were counting doing the recount and basically got it suspended by being like here this is voter fraud what you guys are doing and that actually was the end of the vote because then the supreme court froze the recount process so they're trying to do something similar to that, but they don't seem to have the wherewithal,

at least not as of yet. And they also don't, like I was saying earlier, Florida was a recount that was on literally a knife's edge. It was depending on if you counted the votes that had been pushed in too much or were pushed the wrong way, Gore or Bush won. It was just that close. Whereas now, it's across four states that Biden's going to win by kind of a lot.

Well, that was for a recount. Yeah, that was a recount. It looks like Revolt wasn't over stopping the vote counts right there the sequence is all fucked up but everything in the i mean everything in 2000 was so shady like and and oh yeah immediately jumped to the supreme court right that had to go through i mean did it have to go through the through the florida supreme court or was it a federal court that was an appointee you know know? And then, so just like the, the, the, the gears were absolutely greased upwards to like hand it over to the Supreme Court.

Jeb Bush, of course, as the governor. And I want 20 years of my life back. I've said this time and time again, but give me my years back. Please clap. Yeah. Thank God. Please clap uh thank god this motherfucker is not good at this stuff that he's also people don't have exactly right he's not coming from a dynastic political family either we're like you know the homers are all working

in spots huh you don't know trump you don't know where you don't know my dad's been he was a nazi but like with this you know what I mean? Like it would be like, Jack, if you're trying to get into basketball, like you have familial connections where like you could probably find a way to maybe end up in some backroom team, not as a coach or whatever, because like you're familiar in that industry. Not as like anyone important, you know. Nah, nah, nah. I think I could be the starting point guard for Philadelphia 76ers. I think I could be the starting point guard for the Miami Heat. You know, like with Trump, everyone's like, dude, fuck this dude.

Like there's not the same. He's not coming from the same place. And already he's fucking up already like the table that a lot of these Republicans had set. He's so tacky about it. This is the thing that the Supreme Court has told him multiple times. They're like, oh, yeah, you can ban asylum. But like, don't be so flagrant you know just give us another case we'll totally say yes to it but you know like uh pass it through some lawyers that actually know what the fuck they're doing yeah and then we'll be all good and they're like nah bored i'm tired

of that already like you know they've been told multiple times they're just bad at being fascist and that's what's so scary because it's like a blueprint for the future on how to be a better one yeah right like how to not be a fascist and like okay avoid all these things be a little more slick de-racialize all your language and then you you can get a little more momentum but yeah i feel like most court like with like anything a court uh or judge sees from the trump like any apparatus at all in terms of lawsuits are like going to like, okay, let me just go through this. Okay.

Most of these sheets are blank that you've had. This one just has a swastika on it. And then this one says black and Brown bad. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. So we got to stop the vote. Your honor.

We have to stop the vote. Yeah. Jesus Christ. They're just being dismissed immediately. Like they're like, yeah, no, we'll look at it. You know, obviously this is timely. Let's look at it. Yeah.

None of this is anything. You don't even have an argument here. Have you guys talked about yesterday? I don't know if you talked about, but yo, they sent Eric Trump and Giuliani to Pennsylvania. Yeah. For a crickets press conference. I forgot who Eric Trump was this morning. That's my first sign that my brain is broken,

but also that we're moving in the right direction. I was like, wait, that's not one of his son's name. Yeah. Yeah. Eric Trump. That's when you know he's in it to win it. And Pam Bondi and all they got just they're just the lowest energy scammers yeah i mean like they can't even you know like i you know a good scam when you see one you're like oh shit okay i can see how you can

sneak that one by these people are like they they only have the first thing they want to say out loud that's like incendiary and have not done any thinking about what follow-up questions could occur and how to navigate that um because their best lawyer is in jail dude if cohen michael cohen were on the case i feel like i'd be more scared right even scaramucci i feel i could do a better job right now uh but Pam Pam Bondi Bondi Bondi toys she was on Fox and again coming on saying that they're like she was at this part there are fake ballots in Pennsylvania okay and she says this on Fox and you know Steve Doocy uh asks a follow-up question because you know that's a pretty like if true then huge if you're saying there are fake ballots and we would love to see some receipts and the way she just pivot i don't

know just listen to this really low energy scam that discounts on november 4th that discounts every legal vote that came in yep so that that means all the red the good residents who are all supporting us in pennsylvania their votes don't count by these fake ballots that are coming in late. And back to the observation, they're not letting us watch the process. Pam, did you just say fake ballots? There could be. That's the problem. What the fuck?

Yo, 911, this man is breaking into my house. I'm sorry, ma'am. Did you say someone's breaking into my house i'm sorry did you say you're breaking someone's breaking into your house there could be well they could yo well you just well you just called 911 ma'am so i need to know did somebody go i don't know that's why we we need to figure that out you guys are supposed to find out right even that even that makes more sense this is like you know oh well some people tried to use a coupon at target a day late ergo everyone who

got a coupon before all invalid no no no they owe us money and it's like and again we're we know what she's saying she's saying any mail-inin ballots that are received after the date of the election are fraudulent somehow. Right. Which is, by the way, like hundreds. It's not that many. Like it's not enough to swing things one way or another. I'm so spoiled in California because in San Francisco I was voting and like I remember I was like so excited about this election. Do you think I voted early?

Hell no. ago i was voting and like i remember i was like so excited about this election do you think i voted early hell no i voted by mail put my ballot day of in the mailbox and was like they'll count it like i was so cocky and because they will and they did and so many late ballots were actually way more progressive and whatever still didn't get the candidate i wanted but the point is is yes day of mail-in happens yeah right yeah i mean in in a just world it's very easy to vote in a just democracy well then they're they're like fucking scam show continued even today where they were in nevada and rick grinnell who used to be the fucking acting dni the director of national intelligence mind you this man was the ambassador to germany before this and the germans were like yo this dude has the energy of like the viceroy of like a colonizing power uh like hit like this dude is not an ambassador he's on some weird shit um he's some stephen miller shit right yeah he was he was

out here in mb and on in nevada being like there's just there's more fraud out here because that's part of their angle and you know shout out to jacob soberoff at msnbc he just kept walking with him and asked the most basic questions right you're out here holding a press conference with matt schlapp who don't forget was also part of the brooks brothers revolt um, he was basically out here making all these accusations. And like a journalist says, OK, hold on, sir. I have a question for you. Hey, Rick Grinnell, we're live on MSNBC right now.

Can you talk about the evidence? You're claiming thousands of illegitimate votes here in Nevada. What's the evidence? You should go in and ask the question of the clarity. No, no, no, no, no. Which you haven't done yet. You guys just made the claim. No, in fact, you also said there's no election observers there's democratic and republican election observers

inside mr grinnell former dni grinnell acting dni where's the evidence of the fraud you haven't presented any evidence of fraud where's the evidence they presented no evidence of fraud so he fucks off into a van what he says you should ask them and he's referring to a case where this woman said that she went to go vote day of but then they said her mail-in ballot had been returned and she's like well that wasn't me and they're like okay so you're saying fraud someone filled out your shit for you she's like yeah it's like okay would you like to make a statement then and we can start this we can start a proper uh investigation she's like nah not really and then when the secretary of state looked at the

signatures and things like that, they matched. And she was like, she kind of sort of gave up the argument right there. And very narrowly, a lot of Republicans have been using that example to be like, you see the guy, Joe Gloria, who's running the Clark County account over there. At first he said there was nothing, but then when someone followed up and mentioned her, he said that they had already investigated. So what is it? And, you know, it sounds like he didn't mention it because it sounded like somebody who's making a stink. And then when they pressed it, they're like, oh, never mind, never mind.

So it's all just really, really. No, I just found my wallet. Yeah, I found it. And Rick Grinnell, I mean, shout out to somebody who has no business working in any kind of office. Just one look at his Instagram account. I just had to go in there because there's something about him. He just he's the most basic man of all time. Like he's got his like, I'm in the Mediterranean with my ice cream.

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and we're back and yeah there's all sorts of interesting people coming out of the woodwork on the trump side of things it's like a you know third act where they're bringing all the cameos back from like the just wildest people we've also got his his pastor his spiritual advisor advisor oh god oh powering up the prayer group yeah that is wild she's speaking in tongues uh she's got one shoulder stylishly exposed but um for christ yeah it's paula white and he died for my drip paula white is uh is pretty an incredible figure right she believes in something called i think prosperity christianity but basically like if you're already rich that's because god wants is pretty an incredible figure, right? She believes in something called, I think, prosperity Christianity. But basically, like, if you're already rich, that's because God wants you to be rich. So don't worry about it.

She's got a couple churches that went bankrupt. She owed, like, $500 million. So she's really perfect for Trump. There's no one more fitting to be speaking in tongues for him. Yeah. Grifters just attracting the grifters. And when you look at like comparatively i mean you know not to make light of like people's situations but like you know when

you compare her like capitalist tongue show whatever that was to like legitimately people like asylum seekers around the world like singing and praying together that trump is ousted or like villages in india where kamala harris's family's from like you know make like all dedicating energy to sending good vibrations like i don't know in the vibe wars i think i think biden might be winning the vibe wars too yeah but it's just fucking it's really all unsettling yeah i mean in that version of like prosperity gospel like that there's a high stakes for an election because like god is determining like who who wins and loses like that's what that's what happens in that version of of the world and that theology is like god is like yep no you win this this one

and is uh overseeing the recount or account sorry, sorry. I shouldn't say recount. Yeah, Jesus feeding and helping the poor and the lepers? Ew. It's just very, it's like the mean girls of Christianity. Like, you're poor? Ew. That's actually not what he did. Jesus actually went there and was actually just shooting jumpers with paper towel rolls.

That's what he was doing. That's what Christ did. Like, there were some calls to just ban Trump from Twitter yesterday. I feel like that should maybe be more of a thing that people are calling for because what's happening right now is pretty scary, right? The the QAnon cult, like the people who have been, you know, we've already had people who are Trump supporters sending bombs to Obama and Hillary Clinton.

And we've had people who are Trump supporters driving to Walmart and shooting over a dozen people to death. We've had, you know, Trump supporters are already activated already an activated violent mob and inexhaustible it just feels like the only reason we're not making a bigger deal about this and the danger that they pose and that the president poses is because of white supremacy like we're boarding up our city

buildings ahead of the election because we're like wow black lives matter protesters they're gonna come and like break into fucking tender greens um but that's where i would loot by the way right yeah of course way too expensive yeah yeah yeah for how how little a piece of salmon you get for that yes are you serious well i might as well just hit the seas myself but i i don't know i'm i i just feel like this should maybe be as soon as somebody calls the election we should just boot this motherfucker off of all social media platforms because there's he will continue to incite violence yeah and we've seen social media platforms because there's like... He will continue to incite violence. Yeah, and we've seen social media platforms

used to incite wild, massive nationwide violence in other countries when the person inciting them wasn't even the president or the president was just allowing it to happen. So like... But the thing you got to understand is in the fine print of Facebook ads, if you spend $3 billion with us,

we'll give you at least four genocide starting misinformation tweets or arrests. And then we'll pull the plug after that. We'll give you 7000 radicalized dads. And yeah, I haven't been on Facebook, so I'm very curious. And I'm like, maybe I should just create like a shadow account where I, you know, I'm just like, you you know Sally McSally and like Sally loves all the right wing stuff and so right just want to see like uh what they're being fed because that is so what we have to look forward to I mean Jack you're right I think that part of the reason we don't admit I think from from even from an FBI level from a law enforcement level from uh just everyday people level of that, like

white supremacy and extremism is actually incredibly scary is that we're actually scared. Like that we don't, there is no plan to really deal with the extremists and like people should be afraid. And nobody wants to admit that they've like let this, the cat out of the bag a long time ago. that they've let the cat out of the bag a long time ago. It's been out since Obama, and there's actually no real plan to rein it back in.

It's just like the weird family secret of the country where don't let people know that the entire thing is white supremacy over here. We have successful black people, and that helps create the mirage that this place isn't as violently white supremacist as it actually is but that's the thing and i think every time those reports come out you would just look and be like i think this is the actually the biggest issue in this country and most people do say that but like the meat like a lot of there's a certain class of people who just cannot embrace that truth that simple fucking fact and it's difficult so

it's treated like this like you know like i don't know who the father of that child is when everybody's like i it's pretty clear you're not the father i'm right okay whatever well we'll pretend that it's not a big deal yeah and i think it also is like the reverse of those things they uh the tests they do where they like show people different faces and like white people inherently fear a brown face like before they like they automatically like preliminarily associate uh a brown face with like a threat like they've done that test to you know argue as to why like police shouldn't be armed because uh they are irrationally racist and like racist at a precognitive level i think we see the opposite of that in like the you know media industrial complexes inability to see white supremacy as the threat that it actually is.

Well, yeah. How could people, you know, you look at these newsrooms and the makeup, you know, demographically, what are they going to say? Oh, we might have a problem in our own community. Yeah. You know, but they can't. That's not that's those are the write ups you're seeing from publications that are a little more sober eyed or from coming from minority journalists who are like there needs to be a reckoning internally in white america about

what is going on here like yeah and instead instead of normalizing the richard spencers and the buttoned up white knots white supremacists who are still just nazis and it's almost like people are treating you know uh like you know uh militia groups as if they're like tacky, like corny, like, oh, my God, what's so like Timothy McVeigh, you know, in early 2000s, like, no, no, no, or 1990s. Like, it's still around. They're still here and they're still crazy. Stop trying to cherry pick the one Nazi that knows how to form a sentence and like is like the fucking captain of the debate team like that's not that's not your job your job and that's the thing with media generally and you guys know this but i just want to say as someone who's worked who works in

media journalists are really bad at talking about trends and structural problems. They are really good about like, hey, look at this one black woman who's the head of the KKK in Idaho. You know, like they want the anomaly. They want the story in the headline. So, of course, they're not going to talk about the avalanche of militias. They want like the one BLM organization that's like, yes, we are. We are armed, you know, like we are just like the white militia. So you're seeing a skewed. This is why the mainstream media, not from the right wing, but from from a progressive point of view, from the left wing, from a reality point of view, the media is always going to be skewed because a story is in a story that persists over decades.

That's just a fact. And so how do you report on that day by day? And it takes, and you, you know, it's hard. Not hard. It's like, it has to be a decision from that organization to do that. Yeah. But I mean, they did manage to spend a decade and a half after September 11th reporting on any extremist group that had ties to Islam.

Yes, indeed. Yeah. All right. One last thing I want to talk about is just how underpaid poll workers are, because they're getting shit for being slow. Exactly, yeah. they're getting uh they're getting shit for being slow which exactly yeah like for like if we had just let them count when they got the votes in like that none of this would be happening we'd already know who the next president was uh reminder most of these rules were set by republicans in these states yeah so that they could make these complaints yeah you fucking idiot set them up and

knock them down that's what they do prove that the government is ineffective by gouging it from the inside out and being like see see corporations should run everything right yeah yeah um yeah same with the

same with the USPS um but it's also a task that has a lot of steps even and like is complex even when you don't have armed people outside of your uh ballot collecting uh station like banging on the doors and shouting at you to stop counting um it's actually like a pretty awful job they have to check that uh the voter is registered, hasn't voted already, that their signature matches,

and then they have to make sure there are no tears, blood, or semen on the ballot. They don't mention semen, but they mention tears and blood, or any quote, sticky stuff. So I'm assuming... Weed? Yeah, maybe that sticky icky.

Got weed all over it. Can you imagine? Louis DeJoy is fighting a lot of self DeJoy, just trying to like thwart that. Just like he's in the back somewhere, just, you know, beating it is what I'm trying to say. All over the ballots. He's going tubing on the ballots.

He's going tubing on the ballots. That's my producer drop. Tubing on the ballots. Tubing on the ballots um that's my uh producer drop tubing on the ballots it's good though i just want to say jack that it's good like just like everything with the trump administration in this moment is that we're finally like understanding the value of certain systems and structures uh instead of just kind of out of ignorance saying we don't care about them you know like we all know what the attorney general does now and how important that role is. You know, we all know there's a head of the USPS and how they probably shouldn't be a donor of the, you know, the same administration that they're serving. And now we know about poll workers and election boards and how they kind of are strapped for resources and need support rather than just kind of like,

yeah, I don't know. Like I've been saying this whole time, like, I don't know what happens to my ballot. Yeah, I guess fairies take it. But it's like, no, no, no. They're poll workers and they're election boards and they do a lot of work. Arizona and Pennsylvania offer, despite like just very long hours, they offer a daily stipend with a minimum amount of less than $100 a day. 11 states offer poll workers the hourly minimum wage. So it's terrible. They're not paid nearly enough. But they are like the node at which our democracy rests on.

But that's America, you know, like completely de-emphasize you know wages for things that are so massively important to the country running you know with essential workers it's like again it's like the same pattern give them as little as you can oh yeah like we would be fucked if these people stopped working and putting in the hours and dedication that they do to their jobs and then even this with poll workers the fucking people who were entrusting with this like this so-called sanctity of our elections it's still like yeah i don't know man i guess wow it's crazy these people it's like we love it these people are so dedicated to this this process we can pay them fucking dog shit and they will still treat their job seriously it's fantastic man

yeah and then you think of all the money that gets spent during the course of an election um just and they won't pay the workers who actually do the work of counting the votes uh that give us the end results um and now in this election cycle like we mentioned like uh maricopa county election workers in arizona had to be escorted to their cars by the police last night because there were, you know, QAnon protesters chanting and rallying for hours outside. So shout out to poll workers. We appreciate y'all. Yeah.

Thank you for doing the careful work that our entire society rests on. Thank you for triple scanning those Biden votes. Yeah, brother. I just want to say that I didn't lick the envelope. I put water on it, so don't worry. I thought you were going to say something else. Yeah, I put just straight semen. I put Jeffrey Toobin's semen.

Francesca, it's been a pleasure having you. Is that the Ken Bone of this election? Jeffrey Toobin? Jeffrey Toobin It might be I hate Ken Bone I can't explain how much I dislike that man He's a libertarian right?

So you can go fucking Undecided libertarian I say this guys before we end Run off I think there should be a runoff no violence in the streets let's do a runoff because there's anything we need it's more biden and trump debates yeah and just take joe jorgensen out of it okay fuck that woman no i'm kidding sorry i'm being great but like yeah joe you had your day in the sun now it's over okay howie howie hawkins

green party like you know uh i i like support what you stand for don't know what your party's all about but run off and then we just close them gaps yeah yeah um but kanye should still be allowed to should still be allowed to run for sure no I that's kind of what I'm just like getting wistful like when you get to the end of a really good book where you're just like ah it's gonna be over soon like what am I gonna do then I'm gonna miss it

so much so I totally agree let's do a run off Jack this is the calm before the storm this is like when Frodo and what's Fred yeah yeah fred they just read and fred and fred the wizard frodo and fred the wizard sam i'm sorry sam i was thinking barney barney and fred same energy i'm so sorry for the lord of the rings fans. I don't give a shit. No, they're typically very forgiving and not weird or dogmatic. You know, in Frodo and Sam, like, isn't there's always a moment where, like, the hero, like, has a wistful moment and then a giant slaughter and or fight ensues?

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, no, we we probably are headed for a very dark period if Twitter and Facebook don't ban Donald Trump. Well, Francesca, it's been a pleasure having you, as always. Where can people find you and follow you? At Franny Fio on Instagram and Twitter and listen to the Bituation Room podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, yeah.

Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes, there's this great tweet from Noor NF Wazwaz. She works at Vox saying, America needs a two-state solution. So that's a little, you know, hat tip to the Israel Palestine, uh, two state solution. I would agree very wholeheartedly. I don't know. Look,

secession is not possible, but I mean, it'll be very difficult, but I'm not opposed to it. I do think there should be just like a gay and fabulous America and like greater Idaho. Um, they want, Idaho wants to be greater.

Apparently there's a whole greater Idaho movement. I'm just like, take it, take that. Yeah. Have that. But we all know we need a one state solution in this country. And that is simply the popular vote.

Yeah. So. Miles, where can people find you? What's tweet you've been enjoying? Of Twitter, Instagram, PlayStation network network miles of

gray and also the other podcast for 20 day fiance just talking about 90 day over there and escaping some tweets i like one is just interesting analysis just facts from uh at aaron bastani says the age of top democrats is unreal joe biden 77 speaker of the house nancy pelosi 80 house majority whip jim cliburn 80 house majority leader stanny hoyer 81 uh the baby Joe Biden, 77. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, 80. House Majority Whip, Jim Clyburn, 80. House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, 81. The baby among top Democrats is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at 6'9". And the country's median age is 38. So, yeah.

You know what I mean? I hope there's more steam behind taking Nancy's gavel away. But we'll see about that. And then another one is from Donald Trump Jr. Just a straight tweet because this is a desperate young man. He says, the total lack of action from virtually all the 2024 GOP hopefuls, quote unquote, it's pretty amazing, man. They have a perfect platform to show that they're willing and able to fight, but they will cower to the media mob instead. Don't worry, real Donald Trump.

We'll fight, and they can watch as usual. So this man is having a night as well. And then also, I just got to give it up to the cold brew god himself, Chris Crofton at the Crofton show. He was the name of the pastor again. Trump's pastor. White girl. Oh, yeah. Paula White.

Paula White. I can't believe her last name is White. And I'm just noticing that. She got Molly. She got White. Hannah Montana. So he's saying classic Chris Crofton construction. And I'll just play it for you

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That was amazing. Oh, I hope Suede the Remix God hits us with a good remix of that one. Yeah, yeah. I think iMarquias already has one. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Did you guys see this woman on Instagram doing like the...

She's like doing this facing the camera, like acting where she says, I'm not ready to die. Yes, give me the vaccine. And then she cut to her with a hat on. So you can tell she's a different character and she says i am ready to die and i will not take your vaccine so that you can robo chip me and then like cut to like fake blood on her face and she's like i'm like i'm still ready i'm gonna do it and then like cut to her in heaven and she's like basically being killed for one not wanting to get the vaccine that obama's gonna use to microchip us all

uh and somebody tweeted my white people are so fucking weird and if he tweeted i swear to god i'm finna make millions with my slavery amusement park since white people want to be oppressed so bad. Seriously. It's funny, though. You see that people who are in the dominant part of the society or who are typically doing the oppressing, they're so bad at making things about oppression because it's just so abstract to them.

They're like, I don't know. I think this is what it is, a TikTok video where I put fake blood on my face rather than like, whatever. I think it's a mask. People need to watch that uh video though i think it's the most important piece of content uh made by and about america uh do you think last week and for those people that were screaming in like michigan and nevada for to stop the votes Do you think the first question asked was somebody trying to speak to the manager? I'm saying, if they were all just Karens,

we might have a real problem on our hands. All you need is one black woman to come out and they would fucking scatter. They're like, oh, I'm your manager. They're like, ah, never mind. I don't know. Is there another manager? Okay, I don't know how to... Calls the cops. Yeah. and then reductress tweeted a picture of a rotting pumpkin and it said five rotting pumpkins that will make you say same um you can find me on twitter jack underscore o'brien you

can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what are we riding out on? As we wait for results to trickle in

and new numbers to trickle in, what are we riding into the Biden presidency on? I'll keep it to the news. As we wait for the election results to come in, this is a track from Alchemist featuring Schoolboy Q, everybody's favorite crip. And it's called W-Y-G-D-T-N-S, meaning, when are you going to drop that new shit? Because I think that's what we're asking every secretary of state right now across the country. When are you going to drop that new shit?

When are you going to get some new numbers back. So check this one out. It's a great laid back sample and you know, Schoolboy Q always delivers. Alright, The Daily Zyka is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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