The Daily Zeitgeist - I Took The Wock To PolTrend 11/9: Midterm Elections, Facebook, Twitter, Poland

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

In this edition of I Took The Wock To PolTrend, Jack and Miles discuss the results of the midterm elections, Facebook laying off 11K employees, Elon's Blue Check woes, and Lil' Yachty's new single "Poland"!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Midterm Electrend Results, aka, I took the walls to pull trend. That's what it would be called if it wasn't election results. But we will talk about Poland a little later on. You will explain it to me. Or not. Let's just let it be a mystery, you know? Okay.

Anyways, the midterms. This is our first episode since the midterms results came in. Yes. Yeah. We just don't know technically quite literally what the balance is going to be of the House or Senate as of this time. A lot of races too close to call. Dr. Oz, though. that was a big l he took we do not exist in the timeline in the schroediger's cat timeline where the dr oz is

alive inside the box and dr oz is no longer and we'll cover this on the main episode tomorrow but i do just want to give you all this little audio feast to nibble on as fox news was trying to understand why did dr oz lose when it comes to the state of pennsylvania why did dr oz lose well it looks like according to uh the exit polling it's because fetterman won okay what 57 yeah damn i didn't know were going to dig that deep into the numbers. Yeah. God is ass. But I mean, yeah, there's a lot there. I think there's a lot to take from the election, like whether that's, you know, people understanding

what kind of existential threats existed and they voted accordingly. Yeah. I mean, people aren't as stupid as the mainstream media wants you to believe a lot of the time. And preserving bodily autonomy is a winning issue, it least not uh you know it's not a losing it's not a thing where like okay the republicans bring a bunch of q election results doubting people into statewide elections and and just like ride the trump wave uh that does not appear to be the case seems to be diminishing returns on the whole whatever trump's ego tells us to say is what we say yeah uh i know there's just a lot of a lot of head scratching going on especially again for trump who like i think most if not all of his picks just completely nosedived at the end there.

So this will be very interesting to see how this affects the presidential nomination for the Republicans, because everybody's like finger pointing on the New York Post or Fox or whatever, saying it's the guy from Trafalgar's fucking polling or it's fucking Trump and his whatever. And then the other side of it is like but ron de santis one with like 20 percent our king yeah definitely a lot of eyes a lot of flirty eyes being made at ron de santis from the you know right wing media apparatus yeah i mean to the point that they're they're even saying like will trump even announce on this coming tuesday like he had planned because this is the weakest he's ever looked after after these midterms oh yeah and like laura trump was on fucking fox last night she was truly doing that you wouldn't punch a man with glasses would you kind of vibe like trying to contend with like yo that was a big l i just wanted to play this

but she's like we're ready for donald trump right folks this is her uh last night and do we need to change course and we need to do it quickly so i think if there's ever a time people are ready for donald trump to come back it could be right now we'll see what happens on tuesday um yeah that was after the result i think that was like as they were coming in yeah i mean it seemed like the candidates who could position themselves as outside of the like business as usual seemed to do pretty well like federman definitely not your usual candidate from like having policies that he returned to repeatedly that seemed to be focused on people's lives to his style that he brought definitely outside of the mainstream and it just remains to be seen in la there were a lot

of local wins former uh guest hugo soto martinez seems like he's probably gonna win but it really remains to be seen whether the democratic mainstream media pollster side is going to be like, so actually like do stuff for people seems to be, you know, actually talk to people about real issues instead of buying into bullshit media narratives. Um, we'll see if they actually learn that lesson. I could just as easily see,

uh, uh, you know, an outcome where they're like, well, Oprah endorsed Fetterman. So fetterman so that's what that's what did it for us yeah folks uh i they're the most patronizing bunch of clowns over there who act like they know better than the people who are living their actual lives on this in this

country um so i'm sure there'll be a way to kind of dismiss it entirely. But again, you know, I think for most people who may have just like been reading the news and like it's a red wave probably woke up to good news. But I think honestly, for how fucking craving the GOP is, I'm like, you know win some of these races rather than like dumping a ton of money in like these you know states where there wasn't really a chance like florida but again uh that's why i don't work in politics anymore and i'm over here player hayden from the sidelines but it does seem like one of the narratives i'm seeing is that it's it wasn't that republicans even made electoral gains what happened is that this was like a win all their pickups were like gerrymandered districts or most of their pickups were gerrymandered districts so they just played the game and cheated at the game and got away with it better than we did is the winning talking point that mainstream democrats seem to think it is yeah

i do want to shout out you know there are a lot of places where like at the like state legislature level there were some significant changes like michigan minnesota wisconsin prevented like a super majority for republicans so it also shows too like even at those smaller races people are like actually connecting you know like party platforms with what their votes might look like within the state, especially with so many people, like the rallying cry being like, oh man, gotta kick it to the states. Gotta kick it to the states

where it's all ghouls. Yeah, I think it's going to seem somewhat confusing because there's going to be big wins for right-leaning people. Caruso, that race is still too close to call, but Caruso seems to be doing pretty strong in the LA mayoral race.

And he's just like a billionaire who wants to use police funding to address homelessness as opposed to actually... Preventative shit. Yeah, preventative shit yeah preventative stuff um but i i do think the idea of if you're able to say i'm not part of that status quo the like democratic party that is like run by wall street the republican party that is run by wall street and also i'm not outside of the status quo and believing in QAnon. Those are the two things that seemed to perform.

Being outside of the establishment and also not being QAnon seemed to be the big prevailing wins. But we'll see because who knows how it's going to be spun or even like the results are still early stages. Yeah. But we'll see because who knows how it's going to be spun or even like the the results are still early stages yeah uh but we'll see we'll see what happens uh because look even if the republicans get a majority it's yeah it's gonna be a mess it's also gonna be a weird one too because if they don't have a huge advantage like trying to figure out who's like gonna lead them in the house is also gonna be a

weird knife fight that i'm i don't know so one day at a time uh but you know as it stands things are still a bit up in the air but you know there there was definitely not a red wave yeah um according to inside sources donald trump is livid and screaming at everyone over Tuesday night's midterm results. That's what a Trump advisor told Jim Acosta. He is taking the L. Yeah, he knows. I mean, you can't look at that. When all your picks, they fucking

lost. Right. Except for Walker, right? Yeah, which I think is going to look like a runoff. Runoff, yeah. And then imagine, right, that's the other fear is if Trump announces his candidacy in like a runoff runoff yeah uh and then imagine right that's the other fear is if trump announces his candidacy in between the runoff like now in the runoff that could that could harm herschel walker right but trump also not announcing on his predicted timeline which was created with the idea that he was going to be like riding a wave to his announcement like

not announcing on that would be humiliating uh to him to his like very fragile ego so that's also i don't know an interesting angle thoughts and prayers to that man's ego i i do like that they're saying they were all bad candidates candidates matter because um hopefully they continue to double down on the mega shit that people seem to be reacting badly to hopefully they're like no it was just these people particularly who were bad the message that they all had the same message and not the fact that our party has worked to systematically dismantle people's rights to health care and rights to bodily autonomy not that could yeah no no but i mean look it's it shows like now i'm like i'm gonna believe mitch

mcconnell when he tells donors we have a candidate quality problem right you know like as he was saying in the summer when people like ah we'll see but i think that was him being like he's look i'm a fucking ghoul i know how this i know how to fucking win a competitive race and just parading out a sentient conspiracy theory in the shape of a human is not going to actually win but one thing that seems to have changed is like the the idea that young people don't vote gen z turned out and voted a lot and so i think hopefully like the one way that could go is just people start respecting the values and political leanings of gen z which seem to be like much more socialist than anything that america's seen before i think

this will also be the most popular genre of bulls bullshit news story which is like analyzing like what what's different about gen z why did they turn out and the answer is the same same way they were looking at us like what is it about millennials yeah oh you we walked into a fucking just dead zone economically and have no access no upward mobility so yeah we began we began questioning a lot of things the world is ending right that's something new about this generation the world is ending and they can see it with their eyes you got a lot of gen z kids who were kids watching their parents be stressed out about the meltdown of like the 08 recession and also being like this is fucked up right and are asking questions but again they're not gonna be like is it the policies

of this country what is it about oh it must be billy eilish is it the policies of this country is it the assumptions that we make about politics and a reaction to the bullshit narratives that they see on the front page of our newspapers and news websites the dnc can hire me and i'll say like real bro i have a really easy litmus test that we can use for your candidates if i say i took the walk to poland what does that mean and then i know where they are real quick 30 minutes ago i would have been not a viable candidate but uh i am currently a viable candidate and i'm happy to say i'm not gonna do what the you know pod save guys talk about look through your phone who do you know i'm gonna look at your spotify what are you listening to that's what the fuck are you listening to old bob dylan

come on man where's your turn up music anyway but i think at the end of the day that's the biggest thing too is all the people who live at like 40 000 foot altitude because of their insulation due to socioeconomic status and things like that are looking they i think they're unwilling to accept that they have no connection to the the real world right and they're like what the fuck wow what a wave these people get like yeah motherfucker people are suffering so and a lot of the times they're fed this thing of like we'll just get out and vote that's not the only way we fix things first of all but right there's just this like the head scratching from both sides was truly something and again i think that's

heartening to see like people who you know believe in the status quo and defend it to the end are really like, whoa, okay. What the heck? Yeah, there's a lot of unlearning that has to happen and just a lot of corporate machinery that would have to get on board with that unlearning. And it hasn't always been a strong suit for the Democratic Party and the mainstream media. But we will see. We're going to take a quick break.

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was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent

revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is is rip current available now with new episodes every thursday listen on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and two stories about supposedly brilliant tech billionaires who don't know what the fuck they're doing. So Meta just laid off 11,000 people. Right. Which, that's a lot of people.

That sounds like a decent amount of your staff there. All because you want to play video game skull and hope that people want to be as far away from humans as you do i don't know i don't know somehow i think the better idea than the metaverse right now is like human like legitimate human connection right like some technology where it's like have a conversation with other people and like oh man here's your legless fucking avatar that's sweet right pretty sweet man i mean it says immersive um it's a wild how much that that stock has plummeted like just we were talking about jim cramer who's like i don't know what's happened here just a lot of bluster from the management

i think they lost 80 billion dollars a couple weeks ago and that's a lot of bluster from the management i think they lost 80 billion dollars a couple weeks ago and that's a lot of money that's that is like enough to crash the economy of a of a lot of countries around the world um oh okay okay i'm just so hard such a big number it just all feels make-believe but yeah i'll believe you good luck mark and then elon musk so like his whole big kind of um top priority when when he took over was like this verified idea which was like okay so the one kind of currency for being official on twitter is this check mark that we give out based on whether you're like a journalist or you know I actually don't know because I've never been verified. But his idea was to just kind of start selling that,

which would totally render it useless. It didn't make any sense on the surface, and then none of the details of how he was planning to roll it out made it make any more sense. But he was adamant that like, we get this out and we get this out quick. It started appearing. I saw it on my sidebar that you could Twitter verified, click this to figure it out. And then there was also supposed to be an additional official checkmark by established account names.

And that was already showing up and then like it just disappeared again. Yeah, I mean so there was the blue and then the official to say because verification isn't that word is so fucking stupid verifying shit. You're verifying that somebody has $8 this month. That's

the most you could fucking verify under this new model. That is all it verify. Yeah, there's no fucking identification. No, you're paying to lick this dude's boots. That's it. That's all you're fucking doing. And it's wild to see now, like, how much, like, you're already starting to see how it's all getting fucking wonky. Like, somebody verified, like, a LeBron James account and was like, I'm requesting a trade.

Thanks a lot, Lake Show Nation. Part of me was like, okay, requesting a trade. Thanks a lot. Like part of me was like, okay, that's fair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, man.

Uh, thanks. Thanks a lot for your service. But then again, it was done off. Like it was sort of one of the bigger examples that I saw of like, see what happens. You put a check Mark by saying people breathlessly take it.

Cause I see the blue check Mark. Uh, but apparently now there's like a, a thing you can do where you can actually like click on the person's verified thing. And you can see that like, oh, this person got they check because they're a herb and they paid for Twitter blue. Right. So there's that. But like there's already fucked up accounts like libs of tick tock or like at gaze against groomers or whatever the fuck it is with verified check marks, trying to,

again, like all that does for the visual aesthetic of Twitter. I think like, if you don't think critically, you're like, this is legitimate now. Yeah. The math. It's a math.

Yeah. And he just keeps saying about how the playing feels leveled. It's like, dude, no, it isn't. No, it's just creating additional confusion yeah and all right

should we tell the people what taking the walk into poland means or do we just let them find out for themselves miles take the walk look if you took the walk to poland you know okay and if not uh maybe you haven't heard the new lil yadi song i think i talked about this on the show because somebody tagged me in a couple lil yadi poland memes already uh but it's just this fucking earworm with the most ridiculous chorus i've ever heard where little waddy's just saying i took the walk to poland and he's not talking w-a-l-k he's not talking w-o-k he's talking about it was a world war two hey yeah no not bl talking W-O-K. He's talking W-O-C-K. No, not Blitzkrieg.

Okay. He's talking about a brand of fucking lean. The syrup. And it's just that he... I guess he can't put the bottle down, so he took it with him to Poland. That's it. Yeah, it reminds me of Hotline Bling and some of those songs that are just like so simple and dumb that they

just like sweep through the culture and everybody's obsessed with it very briefly. Except I think this one is undeniable and it's going to conquer the globe. You heard it here first. Yeah. Alright. Well, those are some of the things that are trending

on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get the booster. Get your flu shot. Yep.

Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career.

That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed.

Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Carrie Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil.

I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio

apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.