The Daily Zeitgeist - The Big Trend Theory 8/19: NOT Justin Bieber, Trump, Comcast/MSNBC, Washington D.C.

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

In this edition of The Big Trend Theory, Jack and Miles discuss that Justin Bieber impersonator in Vegas, Trump's new (totally not influenced by his meeting with Putin) attacks on voting, an update on Trump's declining health, Comcast getting rid of MSNBC, the (fictional) war for the soul of Washington D.C. and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Lord hath not called him home. There are a few people. I think there's a few people ahead of me. In his enormous wisdom and judgment, the Lord hath not called him home. I would actually, I take that back. God, calls a few other people home before. Yeah, yeah. When the Lord does it, it's going to be the greatest day on Twitter.

You know what I'm saying? And we don't know what I'm talking about. Oh, have sex. That's what it means. I grew up in the 80s and 90s. When the Lord finally does it for me and I finally get to do it. Bro, God's fucking. All right.

Let's talk about Justin Bieber impersonator. I don't know if you saw the video. Yeah. Oh, me or the audience. Everyone. Everyone. Oh, I just watched it. Yep.

It's, he doesn't look anything like Justin Bieber to me at all in the video. He looks like, okay, he looks like what our parents would believe is Justin Bieber. You know what I mean? Like, where like if you've seen one photo and then you process that through your like sort of age-addled brain, that you'd be like, yeah, that's, I think, yeah, they're saying that's Bieber, that's Bieber. Yeah, but they were, it was like a Vegas club who were familiar enough with Justin Bieber to be singing along to a Justin Bieber song. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. And I guess they were just drunk, because they just fully bought in. So, dude, so there's a French guy who just went up on stage, I guess he has a bunch of the same tattoos as Justin Bieber. Yeah, he's, no, this guy, he's. He's not well if you want to look like Justin Beaver to that point. And I got the same tattoos. But he, I don't think, like it feels like it could be a situation where he got all the same tattoos because he was such a Justin Bieber fan.

Like, he doesn't look enough like Justin Bieber for him to have like been told, yo, you look like Justin Bieber. And then him getting all the tattoos is what I'm getting from this. He is trying to will himself into being a Justin Bieber impersonator. Anyways, but there's a thing that's done on the articles about this where the headline is like Justin Bieber impersonator wows the crowd. And the picture that goes with the headline is a picture of Justin Bieber. Right. And so I was like, yo, this guy looks killing it. Apparently, I've caught a bad angle on the impersonation because this guy looks exactly like Justin Bieber.

I was wrong, but I think just, you know, all newspaper, all, all like online articles now are chosen algorithmically where they'll probably write like five different headlines, give five different, you know, images to accompany them and then just see which one like gets the most clicks. And obviously the one where it looks like you're breaking the story not of like a Justin Bieber impersonator scamming some people for five minutes, but. of that Justin Bieber has an actual doppelganger is going to get the more clicks. Dude, this, I mean, shout out to this dude. He fucking finessed the excess nightclub at the win in Las Vegas, ran up a $10,000 bar tab. Eventually he paid it because they were like, what the f.

I just liked that they basically were like, oh shit, Justin Bieber's coming in. Then he got on stage and then did, like, not just one song, he did a couple songs. And then apparently that's when the, The staff was like, hold on, bro. This ain't Bieber. This ain't, okay, we got to get him the fuck out of here.

He spent too much time on stage. Yeah, it was immediate. So there was a DJ who was like, yo, look at this crazy thing that happened to me. Like, you see the video where he's like, man, that's so crazy. Like, Bieber's here. Oh, he wants to like perform on stage. And he's performing and he like comes off stage. She was like, that was so crazy.

And his friends, like, it was, right? Because that wasn't, that was fake. And he was like, I know, man, that was so crazy. Wait, what? And, yeah, that it becomes clear to him and everyone. All right. Donald Trump and with Vladimir Putin over the weekend. And as we've mentioned, every time they get together,

they like to score some alone time to just chat, talk, shop without the prying eyes of everybody who wants to judge their love. Yeah. They've got like a sort of a big brother, little brother sort of thing where Putin's like, hey, I'm worried about you, man. Let me put some ideas in that. How do I authoritarianism? And so we don't know always exactly.

We kind of get a sense over the coming months of like what they talked about as Trump is like, yeah, whatever he says, I just, you know, whatever he'll let me do. But in this case, we got immediate results because Trump was immediately like, we can no longer do mail-in voting. And I think he also like attacked voting machines. Expensive voting machines, the expensive ones. Okay. Is that like, cost you? Is it that they don't,

that there's fraud or they cost too much? Because I've already spent the money. Because no los dos. You know, they're expensive and they fucking suck and they're going to make it so I lose. But it's weird because he's not coming out and being like, and completely irrespective of my meeting with Vladimir, I'm bringing this up.

He was like, Vladimir Putin, famous autocrat and election fixer. has told me that I'm right to question the outcome of this election. You are being played, fool. So fucking, I mean, again, that's why all those staffers came out of their quote unquote action after that interaction because they're like, oh, God. This guy literally Putin's just like, I don't know, I think you're right.

Maybe you should, you know, it works for me. Our elections are very secure. I win every time. You know what I mean? Maybe that's something you should. should do. I wonder if that's like Trump was like, Vladimir, you got to help me, man. I'm going to get fucking cooked in the midterms. And he's like, well, just

fucking, just fucking rig the midterms. No, you're talking about. No, you're talking about, bro. Just rig that shit. It is such a bummer because it's like, on, on the one hand, it doesn't cohere to any of the rules of logic that should dictate this. Like, he's talking to somebody who is

a known unreliable narrator on this thing. XKGB. Yeah, XKGB. being like, yeah, he agrees. He said it. But then also, I come away from him doing that, being like, oh, but this is the end of American democracy.

Because, like, who is going to push back against this? Like, as he attacks voting machines and mail-in voting and, like, anything that will give him an edge, what is the mainstream media going to be, like, many question the veracity of the new Trump-branded voting machines, but you know what I mean? Like it's just like that fucking NPR or who was it? I think it was from Politifact.

Yeah, but it was like we're judging his claim that nobody else has mail-in voting as false like three Pinocchio's or whatever. And it's just like Jesus. There's nobody who's going to push back. This shit is a rap. I mean, the one thing is that, you know, obviously he's saying it's going to be done

through executive order. So to that. Um, because real, I mean, in, in the, if, if America was running normally and in, by that, I mean, in its shitty old way that it has been for a hundred, over a hundred years, 200 years now, um, you know, this is something that, this would have to be an act of Congress to sort of to change the existing federal law about elections. So, they'll do it. I mean, it allows, I mean, yeah, this is going to be one of those things. It'll probably just cause another constitutional crisis or people like, what's, who's going to listen to who are the states, do the states, do the, it allows. I mean, it allows. I mean, I mean, it allows. I mean, I mean, I mean, it'll probably just cause another constitutional crisis. Um, well, who, who, who are the state. Who's, who are the state. Who, who are the state. Who, who are the state. Well, who, who are the state. The states just do it on their own. It's hard to say. But again, these are all good things. Him saying this stuff also keeps people from not talking about Jeffrey Epstein. That's right.

It's all happening. But it's all happening at once. And he does mean that shit because, again, I think we've said this all the time. All of his policies are not going to bode well if there are elections. So the next logical step would be, well, then there just won't be any elections, baby. Or at least ones that actually matter. But which is odd because, you know, the. apparently the 2024 election was fine that he just won in that there were no like irregularities

quote unquote and you know but there's a definitely bipartisan support for mail-in ballots because originally republicans wanted by our mail-in ballots to help like people in rural areas and older voters and veterans and stuff like that so you know they just got to do whatever they got to do to keep this keep the grift going yeah i feel like we're not getting him out of office via election that seems to be more and more. Well, you know, I think the one thing that Donald Trump does have going for him is that he seems to be going deeper into senility by the fucking day. Sinility or he can't see it all.

Yeah, that fucking Oval Office meeting he had with like the most powerful leaders in Europe to talk about Ukraine, he just again talked fond over Putin, mentioned the election thing he said the ukraine invasion was Biden's war and then also said maybe I have a third term I don't know we're looking into that um so basically a waste of time then he gave the people there's this photo that he he gave like

Macron and Zelensky like a tour of his like MAGA hat collection that he had looks like a fucking museum gift shop oh 100% it looks also like again when like I don't know I remember there were like rich kids whose house like I would

go to their bedroom and I'm like damn bro you like a display for all your like baseball hats and shit on like jerseys staff like keeping the shit up yeah yeah i'm like what the fuck is this bro like i don't even have a oh you just don't have a cardboard box oh yeah um so yeah truly what i thought of everybody i couldn't have been more baffled by all the kids without ADD who's just like rooms looked nice and shit bro i'm like look i know my shit looks like a mess but i know where everything is Exactly. I know where it is.

This is just how I keep it because it's chaos in my brain. And then he had this moment, too. Like when they had this conference, he fucking couldn't, he couldn't even identify the president of Finland, which is this guy, Alexander Stubb, who's someone he fucking golfs with.

This is like a, like this is somebody he's interacted with multiple times. And at this fucking thing, he's like, uh, where are you? I'm going to play this clip for you because I just want you to know in the context of this clip,

The person he's looking for is sitting directly fucking across from him. Yeah. President Stubb of Finland. He's somebody that, where are we here? Where? I'm right here. Oh. You look better than I've ever seen you look.

Damn, that sounds, bro. President Soup of Finland. When my grandmother's memory was going, I remember that was like early kind of shit. Yeah, they have like the cute little defensive thing. It's like, oh, you just, you're too good looking. That's why I didn't recognize you. Are you growing a mustache? I'm like, no, I'm not grandma, but it's okay.

We already know. Anyway, so this is, this, she's, look, this guy just. It's me, Donald. This, I think goes along with many other, like, moments where you're like, is, can he even see these days? Right. Yeah, there, that, like, some people are like, you know, this is more evidence that he's, uh, just dissolving.

His brain is dissolving. Others think that this is more evidence that he's completely blind. I do just want to... Either one. Back to the Putin thing, we did get this on a hot mic, him saying to the other European leaders about Vladimir Putin, I think he wants to make a deal for me. You understand? As crazy as it sounds.

As crazy as that sounds. It's amazing. The guy just keeps giving me free lunches. As crazy as that sounds, I think he just likes me. You absolute fool. But yeah, a lot of people are pointing out that Trump couldn't recognize somebody who was sitting, like, literally three feet from him. And then, like, once it was pointed out, he, like, started squinting really hard and was like, oh, look at you. So, so damn handsome.

It's a real Biden moment. He also couldn't walk in a straight line after arriving in Alaska. There was a lot of... He looked like he got off the Gravitron or some shit at a carnival. He was like, Zigging and Zagin. I did go on the Gravitron, by the way You did? Yeah, on the boards

Oh, you're sick, dude You can handle those Like centricable force rights I went on it like three times Because my nine-year-old was like real into it this time He was like that's the most fun I've ever had And there were big kids Miles there were big kids going upside down on that shit

It was fun man Even though they were not supposed to I was even intimidated They were like daddy They're not supposed to I was like, I know they're so cool, right? Shut up. They're going to say head or gut.

Just keep your mouth shut. Shut the fuck out. I don't know these kids. I don't know these kids. Your kids should be safe. I wouldn't do that. Then the ride gets off. Head or gut, dickhead.

Oh, uh, oh. Turned in the millhouse's dad. I can't cry anymore. I've tried. I've cried my way out of so many header guts that I can't cry anymore. I've ran out of header gut evasion tears. Besides, I just pepper sprayed him and ran. People are also talking about how big and fat his, like, ankles and feet are because of his venous insufficiency, a condition where leg veins fail to return blood efficiently to the heart.

That is wild looking. That does not look healthy at all. But they do think that he might be trying to compensate for some blurry vision and refusing to wear glasses. Seeing trumping glasses would be so weird. I can't picture him Like the only way I can picture him in glasses is like You ever see a baby that has glasses Like a three year old that has glasses? Yeah, yeah, yeah

And you're like, oh Yeah, I mean my nine year old Had glasses at age three or four So like I got used to that But you know, you see it on another baby You're like babies aren't supposed to have glasses When you first see it And I say that out loud to them and their parents

But like that's what I picture Trump in glasses It's like, you know, just like wearing rec specs or something. Oh, like Kareem? Yeah. Jesus. But he's apparently, I mean, there was also that moment in the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit where he was trying to make the case that E. Jean Carroll wasn't his type. And then he was looking at a picture of him with her.

And he was like, and there I am with my ex-wife, Marlon Maples. Oh, right, right, right. And they were like, oh, what? his lawyer literally said no that's carol stop shut the phone yelled hold on wait you're not just supposed to shout no we're in court buddy he just like had a produces a molotov cocktail from his pocket just throws it on the ground like we gotta get out there's a fire in here what the fuck did i just tell you man but also during a 2014 trial after he had to borrow a pair of readers from the judge uh borrow the judge's glasses what a life power move what a life Let me get those. My honor. Let me get those specs. You're a billionaire.

They just let you borrow their glasses. Fucking, yeah, here you go. We want you. He admitted that he needs glasses all the time, but doesn't wear them because he's too vain. And it's actually like a cute fact about me. If only I was too vain in my ankles, then that way they would return blood back to my heart efficiently.

I only have one vein in my ankles. Yeah. He's so vain. He probably thinks the song is about his ankles. Oh, 100%. Don't you. Don't you? Um, he, uh, also wearing glasses, uh, would, would make it hard for him to make fun of people with glasses.

Uh, apparently this past February in a speech to various assembled governors during a White House business session. Uh, he took time to mock Chinese president Xi Jinping's aides for wearing glasses. You fucking, he's going to fucking, this, this feels like the kind of shit that like a, like a bad guy in a movie does. And it ends up being the end of him. It's like, he's like, man, if you only wore those glasses, he wouldn't have walked into that, you know, what, Volcano or whatever. Right. Yeah, yeah. Like, just a giant whirring fan that he was like walks face first into.

Melania. Yes, Donald. Is that you? Melania. Why do I sound like Darth Vader all of a sudden? Melania, I am your father. I mean, I could, I probably could be based on your age. That's right.

I might be. And then people, of course. are asking the question, why not laser eye surgery? It's because he's deathly afraid of lasers because I think he... There's this anecdote from 1990 where... So his theme music, I of the Tiger.

So in 1990, he was claiming I of the Tiger as his theme music, like six years after Rocky 3. Seven, eight years after Rocky 3, began blaring from loudspeakers as the bright green laser beams projected over his large head. Trump began his walk toward the 5,000 members of his staff. However, a

mishap occurred and suddenly the laser beams dropped by a meter and appeared to project through his midsection. Upon seeing this, he dropped to his knees in fear of being severed in two by the powerful beams. One of his aides had to be like, it's all right.

No, it's not like... It's light. It's not James Bond to lasers, man. There's just lights so people are speculating that's why he doesn't get laser light he also stared into that directly into that solar eclipse yeah he's probably trying to just justify he's like if i if i didn't just look into that eclipse i'd actually be able to see a lot more yeah and just like not you know wearing contacts or like wearing glasses or any of those things also like those are the sorts of things that people with dementia you know they just stop taking care of themselves as well uh a lot of the times luckily he has hundreds of people that are responsible

for doing that for him so he will absolutely not listen to you know like I'm not taking please sir you have to take your medicine no give me my diet coke just fucking crush it up in his diet coke but I don't know this just remind like the thing we were talking

about last week with like the Reichstag fire being somebody named Big Balls getting beat up by children it's just like so silly like this slide into outright authoritarianism and fascism is so dumb. Like he's such

a dumb comedic character. And like part of me was like, I mean Hitler like that guy was evil and like everybody could, but when you think about it actually like Hitler's mustache was pretty goofy looking. Like that

it was like a Charlie Chaplin mustache. It was like a comedic character mustache. But he wore glasses at least he knew when he didn't see. And I mean like I guess Trump's shitty coma. over and makeup is his like just odd ball aesthetic thing that he has made me wonder like on the one hand it feels weird that the guy who's like bringing about the fourth rake is like a toddling old guy

with a giant dumper just like mr magooing his way around fucking the country but on the other hand like i feel like maybe having a comedic aspect help like that's actually part of the gig of being a world changing evil monster is that like you have to be a little stupid looking so that people don't take you seriously enough first at first you know like Hitler was an idiot looked like shit um had had a dumb mustache the Mussolini was like a bona fide weirdo like that was something the uh on blind boy the guy from the blind boy podcast was on another podcast I mentioned this a couple weeks ago where he sort of talked about it's sort of like the satirical part of Trump

sort of allows for all this other shit to happen to. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's true. It's like a natural, you know, all these people, like, I think there would be someone else if it weren't him who's like filling this role, but there's something, like, that's part of the, it's like one of the traits of the natural selection that allows somebody to be, uh, this like world dominating evil figure is like, well, if they look stupid enough, like people aren't going to,

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Yeah, I mean, probably as a way to, like, probably please Trump to be like, well, there's NBC news. We don't even like her, Donald. And then there's MSNBC. It's like this fucking weird, that weird cousin that went to the liberal arts, all women's college. That's gone now. That's its own thing. So there's, by the way, ESPN. And just on the same subject, ESPN fucking just dropped the Spike Lee's Colin Kaepernick

documentary. Yeah, exactly, right? Yeah. Everybody's just doing their part to capitulate. Bend over, backwards, forwards, sideways, whatever you have to do to please the furor. But yeah, like MSNBC, like CNBC, a few other channels into like its own thing. So the place where you're Robert Mueller obsessed on will get all her milk toast political takes. Milk toast, I said it.

There is. soon be called MS now, uh, the MS being my source for news, um, is how they're trailing it. And so they also apparently like when they were talking about spinning it off, they're like, well, can we retain the peacock logo? Because that's just something that's like part of the MSNBC brand sort of, and that people recognize. And they're like, nah, bro.

The peacock is sacred. And it will only be limited to actual channels in the NBC family. Yeah. Get away from us. Essentially. I don't talk to me or my. my son ever again and there was i was reading an earlier report about this spin off like in march and at the time they were saying this the name for the new venture that ms now would be part of was

going to be called fucking spin co spin co yeah like cool some shit from like a fucking comic book about the media empire that keeps people completely in the dark about what's actually happening in their country um but now i guess something happened and it's now going to be called Versant V-E-R-S-A-N-T S-A-N-T so I guess like a palace of Versailles for ants or some shit

Yeah Or like Iron Man Versant You know Yeah whatever you want What you want MS now Okay miss now

Oh Also is there a mister now These are all just ideas That I'm spit on here guys Otherwise I'd be misses now That's right What's good Yeah actually

He's on vacation I thought that one was airtight Yeah, so for now I'm just Mizz now Mr. Gunt Mizz Gim Oh, he's on vacation I got so creepy-ass docked

He's a principal right School principal Yeah, was he the Or the doctor Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Because then he said Oh, your mother sure does care

about your education I think is what he says After he fucked his mom Loudly Good Lord Across echoed across the whole plantation what a what a fun movie what a time we should talk about that tomorrow when chris crofton's on the show i'm sure he'll know about it yeah he's a big big fan of 90s movies he's seen them all uh the house

oversight committee is going to uh get the first look at the epstein files allegedly quote unquote quote unquote yeah so uh congress is they'll finally get a peek at the justice department's files as part of their Epstein investigation. So apparently they will land on their desks Friday, and the Oversight Committee will see them first. This is something the administration has been fighting in every way possible, but the will of certain members in Congress is stymying that plan. And the Oversight Committee also subpoenaed people like Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, James

Combe. Yeah, Bill Barr. They want to get to the bottom of this. And I'm not sure what's going to come of this document dump, because it's a near mathematical certainty that any documents that are shared will be heavily sanitized in order to give no not even a just a whiff of an association between trump and epstein's crimes um so honestly i don't even i honestly don't even know what the fuck if that will even satisfy the people there like in the oversight committee um as we mentioned last week thomas masy and rocana

so a republican and a democrat they are they are looking to put a bill together to declassified all of the files and put then basically make congress vote on it this fall we'll see where that goes but i just think these papers that they're going to get friday is probably just going to be like just just have like the words printed on it that just say epstein files bill flintin deaf a pedo donald deaf not any kind of sex crimpedo nothing to see here goodbye epstein files goodbye yeah goodbye all right uh we have an update on uh washington dc we did talk on yesterday's episode about how safe safe now Safe. Donald Trump unleashed the FBI, the male Secret Service, the mail carrier, the postal police.

Anybody who could possibly be in any manner, the IRS was in the streets trying to stop carjackings because a guy named Big Ballas got beat up by children. And he came out the next morning and went safe, like in Rico Palazzo at the end of, naked gun he everything's good he was like guys DC is back everybody's going to the restaurants everything is cool

and it's only getting cooler yeah everyone feels safe again so much so that the restaurant industry is loving it just ask them like literally two days he was like and we did it it was just yeah it was just a little bit like his timing was it just proves like all all of these

things just prove Like, he doesn't give a fuck. He's not even trying to be believable in any way. So he unleashes federal law enforcement claims, like, the next day that everything's safe and everybody is, like, going to the restaurants. People looked at the stats and... Hey, hey, hey, what do we say about stats, man? Come on. Yeah, yeah.

We got some big Pinocchioes to hand out again because restaurants saw a decline of between, like, 22 and 30. 31% year over year on this day which they had to go year over year because this is Washington's restaurant week which allows people to

like you get to do expensive exclusive restaurants at a discounted rate so they were like all right so let's see how this compares to restaurant week last last year

and it was way the fuck down because apparently you know it's not great when there's a bunch of masked guns just arresting people and like pointing assault. Hey, well tell that to

tell that to our relatives in the middle country where they say, oh, good, good, it looks safe from here. It looks safe from here. It looks safe from here. Good for them. I mean, you just see the videos. Like, there's a guy on TikTok who just like was recording his jog through DC, like leaving his house.

And it's just like, it's just filled with fucking armed maniacs. And it, yeah, they're, you couldn't find a way to make a place feel less inviting than to just have a bunch of people. I think there's something really fucked up about bored, heavily armed people. Yeah, that's what they are. They're so bored.

I remember when I was a kid seeing my first machine gun, like I forget where I was. Oh, it was invented, right? You motherfucker. They called it the Gatling gun. Richard Jordan Gatling from North Carolina. We went down to go see it.

All right. Like, it was so uncommon, and now it's just, like, taken for granted that the streets are going to be full of people with fucking AR-15s, like, just everywhere. Like, that's so bad, Miles. I think it's bad. Oh, Jesus, Jack. I'm there. I fucking said it. You're going to get the show canceled.

I think it fucking stinks. Whoa, whoa, okay. I don't, first of all, Remington Arms Company, we love you. We love everything you do. The Bushmaster is one of our favorites. But please, please keep funding us. Please keep funding us. Again, this is all part of it.

Incrementally, you want to normalize militarized police presence in the streets. And I think the reason why it feels even more pronounced is because DC is relatively small. So you can put a lot of bodies there and make it feel like shit is fully taken over. Unlike in L.A., L.A. is so fucking big. You couldn't, even if you had like all the military there,

you'd still find these pockets or like, well, I don't see shit. This place is too fucking big and I think that's what he wants. And on top of it, they are sending like camera crews to document what they're doing so they can also have like this slow drip of clips

of like ice violently apprehending people to sort of keep up the propaganda sort of, you know, optics of it all to be like, they're doing like Instagram cops. Like basically, they just had a video where they arrested the guy who threw that sandwich at them. Yeah, mm-hmm.

They were like, we got him. Ladies and gentlemen, we got them. We got them. Yeah, I'm sure they fucking mean that. Yeah, it's, that's cool. They're so scared for like being so tough and being so concerned about how, how tough there. They're so scared of people throwing sandwiches at them. I mean, that's part of fascism.

It's malignant weakness. Yeah. So, yeah, here we are. Here we are, baby. smells great Sounds like weed Smells like weed At least it smells like weed

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