The Daily Zeitgeist - Posse ComiTrendus 6\10: Los Angeles Protests, Trump's B-Day, 'The Blueprint', Greta Thunberg, Sly Stone

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

In this edition of Posse ComiTrendus, Jack and Miles discuss Trump deploying the military in Los Angeles, Trump's B-Day bash, the Dems' new podcast that cuts through the noise, the release of Greta Thunberg, the passing of Sly Stone and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, yes, yeah. Wow, it's time. It's time. It's time. For everyone to learn. What is the Possecomitatus act?

What that is? It's when they say, we gotta bring some people in to restore order in this damn place. But yeah, specifically, you can't use the US military for civilian, well, I don't know if that's what my purpose is. Nah. But again, doesn't matter. Laws don't matter. That's the thing I'm always saying. It's like when people are like- On the other hand, Miles, nah.

I don't matter. That's the thing I'm always saying. It's like when people on the other hand, Miles, like little Wayne just put out a song with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the beat. Y'all nothing makes sense anymore. And it sounds like a children's song. Like the beat it's called. It's about is called Peanuts to Elephants. And the beat is like has elephant honking in it. Yeah, it sounds like a like a like a beat that didn't make the Rafi rap album. Yeah, for kids. It's like, yeah.

There's this show that my kids were into for a little bit called StoryBots, and they would have little songs about animals. Oh, yeah. And there's one that's like dance, dance, dance with the elephant. And it's got like the and it feels like it's just a take off on that. Yeah. Um, well, I like it maker, you know, sometimes people are like, I just want to, I just want to go out of like the normal thing I do. Oh, okay.

Maybe that's not good. That means something you're not good at. No, I'm, I'm an artist. So I want to go out of the color outside of the lines. Oh, so the thing we like about you is how well you color inside of those lines. No, no, no, no. He's like the opposite of push it to you. He's like, always try a new shit and push it.

He's just like, no, he's like, yeah, yeah. Every time you know what I say to that idea. Yeah. All right, Miles. Yes. Speaking of Posse Conno Trendis, Pete Hagseth has admitted that they're planning on leaving the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles for 60 days. At least. He said this at a congressional hearing talking

about how it would cost around 134 millions last 60 days. They were so on point with this that a bunch of the National Guard were sleeping on the ground and in humvees over Monday night. They well planned, just really meticulous, well done. But at a time when everybody on the ground who is paying attention, everybody who is not in some weird conservative media bubble is like, this shit doesn't make any sense. Yeah. I mean, then even at that same hearing, they're like, how much is this little fucking thing

going to cost? And he was even like, what do you think? $134 million? He was really trying to get around that shit. $134? Maybe, give or take. $134? $34 million. $4 million. He was really trying to get around that shit. Maybe give or take. $134 million. Yeah.

$34 million. And also like with the Marines being deployed, like everyone, even like I see from like military, like, you know, former military that are like, you know, I'm really looking at what people in the military are talking about, about it. They're like, where the fuck are they going to go? The LAPD just said, like, we have no idea how we're going to coordinate with them. Where are you putting them? Where do they whatever? They'll just sleep in a fucking parking garage, I guess. But again, this is all just to create the headlines that the Marines are being deployed. The National Guard is here. Two Waymos are on fire. They're going to visit the site of the Waymo fire and just pay their respects.

Oh yeah, it's the new ground zero. We're going to set up a fucking, you know, a statue of the Waymo. They're going to just dig two gigantic pits where those Waymos burned in memoriam. But yeah, we talk about this more in tomorrow's episode too. The narrative that LA is not okay needs to be dispelled. I encourage every single listener when people go, man, LA is a mess, huh? Your response should be LA is actually fine. The news is just focusing on any micro, like little act they can frame in their camera to be like,

this is what the entire city is going through. That's not what the entire city is going through. Or you say, yeah, it sucks for them that they sent fucking military police and to start shooting them and reporters. Yeah, it's fucking Gaza. Yeah, that's that sucks. That sucks. But yeah, that's not great.

I had to like correct my family. Like, don't you better not be saying riot ever. Yeah, ever. Yeah, because that's not what is happening. But yeah, here we are. It's it just gets going deeper and deeper. And yeah, like this thing that was been planned for fucking months. Yeah, yeah, they they're just they're dying for for this to happen. They're they're trying to make it happen, whatever they can. And it's it's and it's but it falls like it's it falls right in line with all the shit Trump does just does it fucking think anything even this was even though this was make it happen, whatever they can. And it's, but it falls, like it falls right in line with all the shit Trump does.

Just does it fucking think anything? Even though this was planned for months, doesn't mean it's gonna go off the way, I'm sure he'll say whatever he needs to about it because that's what he does regardless of the actual lived reality of it. Anyway, I can't, my body's like in full 20, 20. He wants there to be fighting, he wants there to be like, I mean, I know I saw like on the daily mail,

they were like dead body found. Like now that there's been a body found like was the result of the looting. And then it's just like, they found a dead body in Los Angeles last night and they have no idea what if it has any Relation to anything. Yeah, the biggest city and they found a body And but there will be shit like that where they're just looking for whatever they can Yeah, Alex steed, you know friend of the show. He was like he was there yesterday and he was saying how all the

Like he was there yesterday and he was saying how all the press, as soon as something, some kind of actiony thing was happening, that's when the press suddenly got up off their asses and had their cameras rolling to only capture moments that seemed sort of like aggressive or violent or yeah, any kind of interaction with police and screaming people. But they did could give a fuck less about like all the normal people, all the street vendors, just fucking selling food and shit. People just driving out in the park, just being like, yeah, we're just here to show y'all that this many people aren't fucking with it.

But again, it's RIP Waymo. Yeah, Brian the editor points out, he's found four dead bodies in LA, no big whoop. Like that's, it's just yeah That's what we do here you stumble over dead bodies and then we're the intro to a You didn't work in LA if you haven't seen a dead body. Yeah, come on now I saw mine outside of a family fair. Did you really yeah in a park in North? No, it was wild. I mean very quickly the adults are with like, OK, no, no, no, no, no, no.

And I was like, and I was like, what the fuck is that? And I was like, oh, is that person sleeping? And then later on, they're like, no, no, we're not going to go through this right now. Anyway. All right. Well, as Trump is, you know, gearing up to try to, you know, start a civil war in Los Angeles, he's also planning a big party for his birthday. Yeah, holy shit. But also, Miles, you were pointing out, so there was a, he stumbled up

the stairs to Air Force One, not a big deal. Like it's, you know, he, he recovered pretty quickly, unfortunately, and just like got back up. But you were pointing out the really remarkable thing about it was that Rubio was the next person up the stairs and he stumbled at the same place to try and like get cover. Stumbled up the stairs. Yeah. Yes. He also did a kind of thing. It was very like just just next level. Ask history. The art of boot throating, ask history is truly next level. But anyways, hot off the heels of using the military to brutalize American citizens, he will be throwing a big parade featuring military vehicles

rolling through the streets of DC. Some of them will likely be decked out with fun decorations threatening to hang Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates as they found a transport, a tank transporter, and they left it up for a day. But the whole parade is estimated to cost about 45 million, which seems low based on the fact that there's going to be a bunch of costs like repairing the damages to the city because tanks are double the weight limit allowed on DC roads. Yeah. Yep. People are going to love that.

People are going to be the people of DC are going to love when they're having to shut down the fucking streets to repair all the fucking tank damage from the roads. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's gonna be great. Everyone's so excited in DC. I have friends and family there. They can't wait. They can't wait.

Yeah, everybody's so excited to celebrate this great night. They're lining up now to get their place so they can make sure they have a front row seat to see old Shithead. They're claiming that it's a celebration of the Army's birthday, that thing that we've always celebrated all along. And it just happens to be Donald Trump's 79th birthday. So it's like the

episode of the office when Michael Scott makes everybody go to an ice skating party, like on work hours, makes it mandatory. But this was like Monica Crowley just going along with the Marco Rubio thing and just the next level ass kissing. The State Department's Chief of Protocol, who's in charge of the parade, suggested that everybody in the crowd should sing the happy birthday song to Trump. June 14th is a special day, she said. Of course it's the President's birthday, so I'm sure the crowd will break out into a happy birthday.

Please, God. Oh, you're fucked, Monica. Please, God, damn it. You should not have fucking said that out loud. Now you have him thinking people are going to regale him with happy birthday. Do you have the money to pay that many people to show up? Hmm. The army has suggested that around 200,000 people will be at the parade, um, which a political scientist and former.

Sure. About that. Sure about that. That's how many people's going to come to his birthday. One political scientist and former hotel manager has said that he looked at hotel bookings online. So he does the thing where he can like test how booked hotels are like cheap ish rooms. And for that time period, he's like, I'm not seeing anything. Like nobody's coming to this shit. Yeah. Like nothing like plenty of rides that we canceled. Yeah. Right. Exactly. I don't know. That's going to be such a fucking weird. I can't like also too,

especially when everyone is so enamored with Donald Trump right now, you can't, such things he think is gonna show up? Attendees have to be scanned by metal detectors to enter the area surrounded by 18 and a half miles of anti-scale fencing, 17 miles of bike rack concrete barriers, and you'll get to be surveilled by drones. Oh, well we get that in LA right now.

There's predator drones in the sky above Los Angeles right now. That's so fun. Yeah. There's even Cobra attack helicopters. I don't know if you saw that one flying downtown. They're getting the LA experience. I've just been seeing the standard helicopters, but I don't really look up at helicopter, look up in the sky anymore because maybe I have to keep an eye out. There's some terrifying military-grade hardware just floating above our heads right now.

And then also the LAPD told people last night in a helicopter, they were like, uh, we've, we know who you are. We're going to be at your houses, like acting like they were scanning people's faces from like above. Now people weren't sure if like they were actually meant that, or they're just trying to troll people, but either way, the fact that it's that we even hear that and we're like, that's maybe possible. It's fucking frightening. But again, this is why, this is why we have to fucking

resist this shit. Yeah. Anyways, I've never been so wanting an event to go badly and to be sparsely attended, maybe in my life. I mean, it doesn't matter. They'll find a way to make it look like there's a lot of people there for him. But we would love it if nobody showed up. You know, there's going to be the like version, the fact that Fox shows everyone and then like the zoomed out version where people are like, no, dude, they crammed everyone into this one block. And then they didn't show the rest of the parade route where there's fucking nobody and there's only people screaming shit at the tanks. Yeah. Um,

and I hope for, they said there might be thunderstorms. So, but again, they've gutted most scientific research and the NOAA. So who knows if even those fucking forecasts are accurate, but I, please, please be thunder. Uh, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Over the past six years of making my true crime podcast, Hell and Gone, I've learned one thing. No town is too small for murder.

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we stand, you know, takes, takes one daily show to know another one and this one is, uh, yeah, this one's good. You guys, it's called the blueprint. It's called the daily blueprint. No, just the blueprint. They, they left that daily. They don't want to get, they don't want to get on. They don't want to fuck with us. Yeah. Maybe it's the daily. I don don't know, whatever the fuck it's called. They don't want to catch these ants? Well, even the beginning, the DNC sort of head of communications who hosts it,

is like, we're going to cut through the noise to give you the real story. I said, excuse me? Excuse me? We are suing you now. That's what we do, and only us ever in the history of the spoken word. But yeah,

after our very successful lawsuit against the New York times is the daily exactly. Exactly. Same colors, blue and yellow. Interesting. Interesting. Very interesting. But like the videos suck. Like they're so, I don't even need to play it. Like it's a blue print. Yeah. Yeah. For the blueprint. Oh, I really liked it. Did you really like that? What was your favorite part? She like kind of sounded like she had learned the words phonetically and like it

was the fiftieth time that she had read through the script. Yeah. Where you're not even saying words anymore. Yeah. They like couldn't really know what she was saying anymore because she'd said them so many times. It was putting the emphasis in the wrong parts of the sentences. Yeah. They're they talk about how unpopular Trump's policies are rather than talking about like the actual costs and any tangible way.

They talk about like polling saying that people don't like his policy. Like, so the only thing they can do is deny that, like the popularity of what he's doing and like play the horse race game. They can't even like get the consultants. Well, cause they can't even offer a solution because they're like, we're gonna be beholden to that when we campaign, if we articulate that

as the democratic party. It's so fucking sad. Coverage of Trump shit is just like, and this is something that polls in the 30s. It's like, well, why are you talking about it like you're fucking ESPN saber metrics people? Sorry, that is the... Like just talk about that he's doing things that are hurting people. Right.

That is the noise that you're talking about. Like you say you're cutting through it. No, you're just amplifying the noise. That's not the real story. Yeah. It's like, we're going to get the consultants out. But like, you are the consult. Like it is nothing but consult. It's consultants all the way down. The host of this show is one is like a democratic consultant. Yeah. Just an full on part of the establishment

and just going, because right now, right, this is all part of like, what do we do? How do we get our media game better? There's another story about how they were telling people to use Twitch and Snapchat more. I'm sorry, like a third of the senators are over 70. Like, what are you gonna, what the fuck are you talking about? That's not the fucking problem.

Again, they keep doing this thing about it's, oh, okay, so their election results showed us, we just need to talk about the issues differently rather than realizing our stance on the issues is the problem here. Our lack of follow through on things we say is the issue. And it's just so bad. It just further cements like this notion

that Democrats are like rich people that have never spoken to a non-wealthy person under the age of 50. Because it looks like their idea of what a YouTube show is based on a couple of vlogs they saw. And you're like, this is not, I don't know who this is fucking for. They also talk about Trump sending in the troops,

but not about what people are protesting about. Just the act. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I guess it's also fun. It's like, oh, that's weird. So if caging people was bad in Trump's first term, why did it continue in Biden's administration?

Shut the fuck up. That reads as we agree on this policy rather than opposition to it. But hey, what I'm just, I'm just trying to, there's just so much noise out there. I'm just trying to get to the real story. All right. After being kidnapped by the IDF, Greta Thunberg is now back in Paris along with three other activists. She and 11 other activists,

including the onion night from game of Thrones, a French member of parliament, Which one's the onion night? He's like kind of balding guy with a beard. He was like one of the main consigliari's for Daenerys. Oh Davos? Davos, yeah. Oh, I didn't know he was called the onion night. Yeah.

Oh, okay. All right, Davos. The man. But he was on the boat and they were just like we're going to bring aid to the people of Gaza who are Actively being made to starve to death on purpose so that set sail on part of a freedom float Tila coalition to bring aid to Gaza and were So we're doing this because no matter what

odds we're against, we have to keep trying is what Thunberg said. And then they were boarded and kidnapped by Israeli soldiers. And I think they're told to like throw their phones into the sea too. There's like all kinds of wild shit going on. Uh, Israeli's foreign ministry, uh, called it the selfie yacht because of course they want to, you know, denigrate anybody who's trying to show anybody what's actually happening here, whether it be through citizen journalism or through actual journalism. They have a way of dealing with those people. They just like, you know, kill them. Yeah. Yeah, that's wild. Yeah, she said her treatment was dehumanizing there the the fort the Israeli forces were ordered to show the people like these activists just graphic October 7th footage to be like, yeah, so now you get it.

And they're like, straight up clockwork orange shit. Yeah, right, right, right. And so Thunberg along with the three others are there but the the remaining eight activists are there to actually, because the other, the people that came over, they basically were like, okay, we'll take immediate repatriation. The other eight were there to actually sort of legally argue against what had happened. So they are remaining in Israel for the moment. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, the Flotilla Coalition has basically said, this is just the beginning. This isn't going to stop because what the fuck are you going to do? We're having an Omni Crisis on the planet at the moment. Yeah. And then we want to say RIP to Sly Stone, who passed away yesterday from Sly and the Family Stone, just a great musician. One of the best.

One of the best in terms of like multicultural bands. People really sleep on like how he was really bridging the gap between like black and white people with his first bands in the Bay Area. I honestly think that his performance of like dance to the music into higher at Woodstock is probably one of my favorite live performances I've ever seen in my life. And it shows man, the part where he's getting he's going into high like they play a little bit of higher and then he does this breakdown where he's just getting the crowd to sing

like higher. And he's like just talking about how we all need to participate, you know, it's 1969, the Vietnam War is happening. His energy to commander, it completely to me changed how I thought of how live performing works and like what is actually really magical about like, quote, rocking in the crowd. I say it sucks because the whole thing isn't on YouTube,

but it is on daily motion. Just search sly Woodstock because there's like a 10 minute clip. It's fucking amazing, and it's life-affirming. Great advice. His family members revealed that prior to his death, he had recently completed the screenplay for his life story. So maybe we'll get a Slystone biopic written by Sly Stallone.

Sly Stallone? For Questlove. Sorry, Slystone. Hold on, Jack, now I'm I'm so it might need a rewrite by sliced alone music. I don't know. Like maybe, maybe I'm in it. And if you want me to stay, I'll be right. The ball, uh, quest love just made a documentary about him. That's all. It's supposed to be really good. Yeah. So go check that out. And yeah, that's gonna do it for us on this Tuesday, June 10th, we are back tomorrow

with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines where you still can't get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Report ICE. The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Katherine Law.

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