The Daily Zeitgeist - Is Henry KissTrender Dead? 11/30: Henry Kissinger, Julianna Margulies, George Santos, The Daily Wire, White House Christmas Tree

Episode Date: November 30, 2023

In this edition of Is Henry KisTrender Dead?, Jack and Miles discuss the passing of one of the worst humans to have ever lived, Henry Kissinger, Julianna Margulies ripping her mask off (for Israel), George Santos still refusing to resign, The Daily Wire casting for a new animated series (with some curious names attached), and a brief history of the White House Christmas Trees!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yes. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Count it. Motherfucker made it to 100, though. From way downtown. I know, man. What the fuck?

That shit is good for the soul. That's like, honestly, what you say, like, you're like, that's the max, right? Like, you can't go past 100. Like, I don't give a fuck, like, what you're like you're like that's the max right like you can't you can't go past 100 like i don't give a fuck like what you're talking about but yeah the one of the most vile figures in uh western geopolitics uh has has finally just bit dust yeah so yeah real variety of tones in the reporting of his death the washington post uh was I don't know, they were like, this guy was kind of a playboy in his day.

Henry Kissinger could get it in. The way he okayed the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia. Oh, that's bae as fuck. Yo, when he fucking sanctioned the coup against Allende, oh, the carpet bombing of Cambodia.

Ooh. He was cock-blocked byixon while he was on a date with jaja gabor but as kissinger was about to lean in for a kiss gross fuck off uh his beeper went off it was the president the same man who had set them up was now blocking his national security advisor from getting to first base what a fun write-up the Washington Post. What are you fucking smoking over there? Are you smoking dust? Really? This guy is...

The body count is unmatchable. Three million. That's from his own biographer. His own biographer said he probably has the blood of three million people, many of them innocent. Easily. Just straight up worshipping has the blood of three million people many of them innocent easily just straight up worshiping at the throne of power i mean this is like this is the heavy duty um

you know moral licensing oh yeah it's just like this guy i mean you know uh innocent or not you gotta admit three million people's pretty impressive you know i mean this guy made his mark he left a mark He left a mark. He left a mark on many people who had to needlessly die in Vietnam. Yeah. It's the Logan Roy, uh, eulogy.

Exactly. Like he, he moved people. Well, it's one of those things. Yeah. He fucked people while he was doing it. So it's cool.

Like he literally fucked people. So that's cool. Yeah. Um, and this guy gets it so i mean like he's kind of like a mick jagger of ordering the deaths of innocent human beings over the phone from a comfortable office on the other side of the globe he's like kind of got that swag you know yeah the way he i mean again like even cambodia right like we dropped more explosives on cambodia in like in this very short period of time than the united states had dropped on all of europe during world war ii

yeah because you're like yeah if it's moving fucking bust it give a fuck um and like arming other i mean this guy i think it's truly like this we talk about how our inability or not our inability but the the government and society's inability to have a reckoning with richard nixon and his crimes paved the way for people like reagan paved the way for people like trump where it's like yo bro you can do whatever the fuck you want and then the war crimes the fucking war crimes of henry kissinger like have those have just completely been like oh yeah there's nothing no no no we're good we're good we're good all has like only again allowed this fucking pattern and momentum to continue to turn a blind eye to like legitimate war crimes atrocities um and all and have this like attitude

where people are like dismissive of people who aren't in government who have critiques of henry kissinger right because it's always like very patronizing what's like you guys don't understand how like power be moving here. Difficult decisions to make. What if you just started from the premise that you don't kill innocent people, though? I mean, maybe that would actually make your decisions easier.

Then you wouldn't have to be a fucking monster. The AV Club published a whole article about how Kissinger played a bumbling cartoon duck named Ducky Daddles in a 1990s kids show, which is, I don't know, it's interesting because this feels like a documenting of the moral license they have.

It was the 90s. They were on a heat check of neoliberalism was like, it's the end of history. And so in this fucking cartoon, Henry Kissinger is playing a cartoon duck and it's like, I guess supposed to be like a knowing wink to nineties parents. And those parents would then get to watch, uh,

an episode that ends with Henry Kissinger as a cartoon duck ordering a bombing raid on a hapless fox and played by Johnny Cochran. Wow. Jesus. Everybody wins in that one. Yeah, it's just fun.

It's like a Simpsons cameo for Henry Kissinger. Right, right, right. Yeah, absolutely. Just trying to normalize this shit. But let's really acknowledge the real person who took Kissinger's life. Yes. Nicki Minaj.

Yep. Nicki Minaj. Exactly. She tweeted, the fact that y'all have no idea what's about to happen because she has an album coming out it was right before his ass died and so uh you know so that people like at space ghost on twitter responded thanks for killing kissinger queen of prayer hands um which yeah i think nope yeah this is the first celebrity death we have that uh people have not attributed to the covet vaccine yeah right right right i think because

he has like appeal to conservatives too for just being like a just bloodthirsty war criminal that they're like no no i mean that guy he made it to 100 yeah they don't want to they don't want to admit he got vaccinated because how the fuck do you make it to 100 like any anything that this guy did throughout his life is sort of like you could see people being like well i guess i'm doing that because right he lived to 100 with that shit on his conscience and also like same to with that dude charlie mung, who was the Berkshire Hathaway dude that passed away. That billionaire who was trying to build the fucked up cell block dormitory at UCSB. He recently passed away at 99.

He was, like, ready to celebrate. Apparently, he was planning his 100th birthday. But that guy, like, he was famously being like, yeah, I don't like to exercise. Like, I don't exercise. I drink Diet Coke. Like, I try not to exercise. Yeah. So, you never know how long these people last you never know i'm on that kissinger diet yeah like i'm curious because he didn't like look good ever he always looked like kind of a no he started to look like a fucking snail by then yeah yeah um all right uh juliana margalise is trending because she was on a podcast and basically

outdid amy schumer with her like dehumanizing racist rhetoric yeah just as well it relates to palestine yeah i mean like she was basically doing that like sort of propaganda talking point that tries to discourage people from having any semblance of solidarity with palestinian people by being like you know like if you're gay they'd murder you right and then proceeds to really specific come after like black people like black queer people too um and saying that black people were like uneducated and like they need to leave america like if they don't like this shit blah blah blah and it's just wild to see that this kind of this kind of rhetoric goes completely unnoticed and it's fine it has no bearing or effect on your career at all and

you're like wow this is some wild shit she's like don't play soccer with your head okay and then she said something she's like as someone who played a lesbian on tv i'm offended as a lesbian yes yeah it was very very strange um and again like i think we're living in a time where this can just be like yeah yeah cool cool you said that um but merely saying like we need a ceasefire or like people shouldn't live under occupation is being uh distorted and conflated with with talking with with anti-semitism or some other inflammatory rhetoric so yeah interesting times interesting times yeah there's also like if you the pictures i feel like there israel has taken a hit in terms of like the media because of like the pictures of the hostages being freed and like

looking pretty well taken care of or saying things like yeah they they did their best to not mistreat us at all um but there seems to be a full-on offensive of like actually people are with israel and like this poll says it that everybody hates uh palestine

wants to be with israel and israel is actually popular and palestine okay maybe hamas but like harael is actually popular and palestine okay maybe hamas but like hamas is the same as palestine uh like nobody likes them even so so like why are you guys even talking about them yeah like they're so over it's like what what kind of rhetorical style is this yeah uh but yeah it's i mean we're like right now i think it's what the seventh day so far of hostage exchanges and some semblance of a pause not a sea full on ceasefire yeah um so we you know we'll continue to see where where that goes but as of right now it seems like things will just continue

george santos uh is it's looking like he might be coming to the end of his run yeah as a politician but definitely not his run in the public eye. Like, the reality shows have to be lining up, right? I don't know. Yeah, maybe. I mean, this guy, he's so messy. He's a fraudster. He's a huckster.

And, like, he is fighting for his life right now. He is, like, out here sounding like R. Kelly in the chambers of the house talking about how like everyone's attacking him and he's just a good person. Here's just a bit of it. And obviously, look, we talked about how much scamming this motherfucker did. So let's not act like you're innocent, George. I have been convicted of no crimes, Mr. Speaker. My loyalty to this country that gave me life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is true and unquestionable. I stand here today debating for the second time in less

than a month for the same exact reasons that were brought up last time. The difference is, is that one can say I've been indicted once more. By the findings of the ethics committee. Yeah. Processed that by the chair himself. Was not completely conclusive. One can say. It's like such a bad.

It's like when a scammer. Has completely hit the end. And they're like I just gotta say shit. Kind of reminds me of the shit we're talking about tomorrow with Elon Musk where it's just like we're at the end of the scam and it's just the the logic no longer

coheres I'm fighting for my life they are destroying me is that what he ends up saying? no but that's what many people say when they've been caught and it's over now. And he was trying to do some shit. I think he was trying to oust, was it Bowman or some shit, too?

And people were like, bro, please stop even trying to introduce fucking bills. Let's get the fuck out of here. But again, you see how quickly the Republicans can deal with someone when they want to, when they really, really want to. And if I'm going down, then I know these people are all coming with me. And he's like, drag it, trying to drag them along with me. Yeah.

There's one point where like Matt Gates got up and he's like, I stand not to defend George Santos, whoever he is. And then just completely cooks them. Wow. Yeah. So it's, it's all bad.

You know, but I, who knows? Like if you're really going to, if he's going to really be messy on the way i know he's probably gonna say something he's got to say something super wild before he he fully exits so yeah yeah anyway so that's what the that's what congress is doing while we're dealing with an omni crisis but yeah whatever happened to madison cawthorne is he like just in a hole somewhere? Like, because he was,

he was on the verge of saying some wild shit. He was like, yeah, I got invited to like a sex party, like my first week out here. And then they were just like, and you're no longer in office. Yeah,

no, I mean, like now the last thing that happened was he brought, he had a gun on him at the airport. Yeah. And then he had to build, plead guilty to those charges. Um, but he just kept doing that shit that was just yeah yeah there and i think so i don't know i think he moved to like florida or something so maybe he has a podcast

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shit has some people attached like an animated show yeah car, yeah. Adam Carolla? No, I'm just joking. What's he doing there? Alonzo Bowden, from who, if you ever listen to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, stand-up comedian. Oh, yeah. Brett Cooper. No, I don't know who the fuck that is.

Yeah. Danny Trejo. Yeah. That's not my Danny Not Danny And then Rob Riggle Yeah and even Kyle Dunnigan though The comedian

Kyle Dunnigan? Yeah What? Damn He's playing That's like a wild one too Oh that kills me Yeah

People are like looking around being like Yo what the that's like a wild one too oh that kills me yeah is that like a lot of blast off kyle people are like looking around being like yo what the what what what is this is there another kyle dunn again you know what i mean yeah i have a feeling no it him it him uh yeah i could see a shift you know i mean yeah we are seeing a shift Right yeah everybody's just kind of like Okay we good we good cause then the other people On there too uh Danny Trejo Patrick Warburton I mean I'm I don't know where his politics are

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Wow. Yeah, so a lot of people were like, what are y'all doing? Like, do y'all know that it's on the daily wire, but you know, uh, I guess this is like a check to check. And if you've, and if you fuck with the network, I guess it is what it is. So, uh, you know, a good, a good way to just find out where people are doing their things right now. Damn. Um, all right. The right. The White House Christmas tree blew over and Breitbart knows what this means. They said their headline was

Weakness. Biden National White House Christmas tree toppled. Oh, weakness. Okay. Yeah, man. I told you Biden's weak on the wind. He's weak on Christmas. It's funny because for all those windmills he puts up,

didn't think he'd fold so quickly to one. Am I right? Huh, weird, weird. This is before the lights were even turned on. So our writer, J.M., dug into the history of White House Christmas trees. And in 1981, Ronald Reagan refused to come out and light the Christmas tree. He did it by remote control from inside the White House. And then he did that for the entirety of his presidential administration.

Can you imagine? Like, granted, he had just survived the assassination attempt. So I'd give him like that first year. Okay, he's skittish. They would fucking destroy any Democratic president who did that shit that's so wild that he was just like well i'm gonna just i'm staying here do it by remote control the last few times i was in public i was caught lacking so yes i don't want to be you you know making on the street again nancy yeah Yeah, so what?

There was like a fucking switch? Did they even make it ceremonial? Like, and with this button press, I will light up the lights. Or the shit just turned on. They're like, yeah, he's in there. I guess he turned shit on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was the president. Must be the president who turned that one on. He cares about you, and he's a good president. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. It's been a thing since the early 1900s, as opposed to the late 1900s. The early 1900s,

when a person who worked for Woodrow Wilson came through and was like, hey, I think it would be good for Christmas if we did a Christmas tree. And then it turned out he was just the vice president of the industry trade group, the Society for Electrical Development. And they were trying to popularize this new idea of electric Christmas lights. Oh, shit. Of course.

And now we have electric Christmas lights every year. This needs to be a book called Nothing Fucking Matter matters or makes sense because it was all about making money for somebody else the whole goddamn time like yeah fucking lights are like yo we need to get this shit happening man press the fucking president bro get on the fucking light that shit also the first christmas tree so when they did like do that the first one got so fucked up during transport that the white house staff had to like literally tie branches from a healthy evergreen tree onto the christmas tree like on some charlie brown shit franken tree shit yeah wow saddest little christmas tree yeah i mean shit i got my i got my fake tree

you're a fake tree oh yeah my shit's up right now. Yeah. We got our tree last weekend. It's up. Oh, yeah? Yeah. That's it. I mean, I think once, for me, I always wanted a tree that's at least five and a half or six feet tall at a minimum. But you go to the fucking tree lot, that shit's like 150 or something crazy like that.

I'm like, no, I'll just buy the fake thing and I'll put the scent sickles on. Shout out Anna for putting me onto those home deeps home shout out to the parking lot at home depot no fuck home depot bro fuck nah i love them ken langer owner that's my guy um yeah also uh so just another great moment in the history of presidential trees, Nixon's tree in 1970, uh, the train carrying it from South Dakota derailed twice. Jesus.

And then it fell over in the wind. I didn't hear, I didn't hear Breitbart complain about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like then too, that it fucking bulbs on the tree also exploded because they put fireproof spray.

Yeah, the bulbs on that tree exploded because of the fireproof spray. It feels like the electric lights might have been way too early. I feel like they just... I have a friend whose house burnt down from a Christmas tree

when we were adults. What? Late 20s, his house burned down from his Christmas tree like his dog didn't make it. It's fucked up. Oh my God. Cause the lights like sparked up the tree and shit. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. Like I feel like they just got

the Christmas tree lighting technology like locked in. Yeah. Yeah. Like these won't start. But this motherfucker was popularizing it in like 1923. lighting technology locked in. But this motherfucker was popularizing it in 1923. This would be some shit too. I remember people put fucking

fragrances on a light bulb and shit. You're like, that might not be a great fucking combo. It's like you're putting fuel on a heat source. But I remember those OG Christmas lights from the 80s and shit that were the size of your your thumb those shits would get so fucking hot yeah i can yeah anyway so shout out led technology i guess yeah keeping us safe all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this final episode of november no good fucking ridden November. You piece of shit. You tricked me one last time, you

fucking ghostly loser. 30 fucking days. December, baby. Alright. Those are the things that are trending. 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 your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. In California, during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles,

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