The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 420 (Best of 2/23/26-2/27/26)

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

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So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay, this sucks. All my search history is work-related stuff for the last two weeks. Boom. That's how we're, I know we're in a recession. Not one. Recession indicator.

reset okay but also that also tells me that the only way I find new information is scrolling on reels so it does my search history for me and right now on reels what's your reels dominated by right now it's a lot of did you guys watch the A&TM documentary I've seen parts of it I haven't seen the full thing though so so basically it's like Tyra's a sociopath and then she drops it there's gonna she's gonna be involved with season 25 at the end so I feel like they had enough like drama and controversy and TMM America's nice next time model. Yeah. Are you going to be on top? That's from heated rivalry, actually. But you're going to be on top? Great. She literally, like, there were so many moments in the documentary spoiler where they were like, oh yeah, this model's mother died from a gun, or got paralyzed from a gunshot wound. And then she had to do like a gunshot fucking shoot the next day. So there's all these reels of people being like, when I tell Ty, the day after I tell Ty, my dad died from hypothermia and it's people like posing in the snow or like whatever like even some of the former models have come like participated in this trend like I tell her Tyra something

traumatic and then next day I have to do a photo shoot directly related to it that for real happened like her that for a model's parent had died from a gun not died but like had been fully like paralyzed from the waist down by a gun violence and then she had to pretend like she had been shot in the head on a photo shoot. Like, like, after she told Tyra. Yeah, and there were several times where like, there was this one woman who claimed,

who didn't claim, like, there was this one woman who was like, hey, the sex that I had on screen that ruined my relationship and my life was actually sexual assault because I was blacked out. And the producers didn't stop it. And then she, a few years later, had gone on Tyra's show

and specifically was like, I haven't watched the scene. I don't want to see it. And then as soon as the cameras hit on Tyra's, show Tyra put up the scene and was like, so what did you think about that? Like, she's a fucking psycho. She's crazy. And now all she cares about is ice cream. And I'm like, what is she putting in the ice cream? Right. What is she doing? Which she has like a new brand of ice cream. She lives in Australia and she like is in ice cream. And she, she, there's literally a clip of Tyra Banks being like,

what I, I feel like my work as a model in the 90s, you know, stands on its own as its own like iconic whatever, but my real, my real lasting, like, legendary thing will be ice cream. That's, this is insane. Oh, my God. It's called smize and dream.

And Justin said, one of the former top models that started an ice cream brand before Tyra. That's also shit. Also, Tyra would never let them eat ice cream on the fucking set. Yeah, yeah. That's wild. Yeah.

Yeah, I feel like she, she feels like she owns anything that anyone who was on that show did. Yeah. She's like, that's mine. I'm surprised she wasn't, like,

gonna sue people for saying, like, we were rooting for you. We were all rooting for you. Because that was, like, a one clip of the thing I saw where, like, that model was like, um, she was fucking with me the entire time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, so she, she, I don't think she's, like the type to sue.

She's not like Disney or the Kardashians. She's, like, the type to want more people talking about her. So she, like, will take from other people, and she'll put shit out there just to like get more screen.

Like she wants more people to like say that and do that because it puts her in their mind's eye. She's so, she's so weird. She's so insane. Yeah. Modeling. Man, it's like it's, it's as if it's as fucked up as it's always seemed and sounded. Right. No one is talking about Naomi Campbell's involvement with Epstein.

Like what is happening. Like all over the place. Yeah. All over the Epstein files. There's so many. Many people like that. There's a lot. There's a lot.

There's a lot. I was like the president. A lot of white men to get to first. Yeah. Let's go with them. You're right. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm surprised they haven't. I'm surprised they're right. Hasn't been like, well, what about Naomi Campbell? Right. I think she knows too much. Yeah. She's like, really? They don't want to go down that path?

She's like, given how terrible I've been, I'm technically a white man now. So. And she's like, and I learned how y'all move. So I have, I have things. Yeah. She's at Bohemian growth. She's like. Yeah, right.

I know where the bodies are buried at Bohemian Grove, literally. Yeah, exactly. Her and Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas, like, are all hanging out in the summer. You're like, this is what you fuck with now? Lindy, Megan, we got to ask. What's something from your search history? This is real from this morning because I, sometimes when I have a lot to do, I'm very stressed. Like today, I like to wake up and immediately start watching traitors on television and not doing any of my work.

And so I don't know if you watch Traders, but this morning I googled, is this Alan Cummings real castle? It's not. It's not. No, of course it's not. He's not quite that stacked. He might be, I don't know, but they, why would he invite these derelicts into his home? But I think that's the fun that like an accent, like a European. accent has on Americans.

You're like, yeah, it's probably his castle. I don't know. Well, he lies to your face. He says it's his castle in every episode. Yeah, yeah. But is that not the whole point of the UK? Is that the person you'd least expect owns an ancient British manner? It's not that weird.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I will say, Alan Cumming is a great porn star name. Oh, yeah. And the way he's with this singular. Yeah. Alan Cumming.

Because the way he says it with that. Scott, it's Alan Kumming. You're like, oh, shit, okay, flavor patrol. I see that. You know, I bet he's never heard that before. Yeah, I know, right? Brand new. He's like, I was going to change my name to Alan Conrad. No. It would have never worked. Megan, how about you? What's a summer from your stretch history?

Mine is just a little bit of a journey through my emotional state on Sunday, the last day of the Olympics, and it was the U.S. versus Canada men's hockey final. I'm not a big hockey watcher, although I'm really excited because Lindy in my hometown, Seattle, got a PWHL, which is the new women's professional hockey league. The Seattle Torrent and the captain for the U.S. team, Hillary Knight, plays for Seattle. So I'm really excited to get. She had a great comment after the fuckery that went down. Yeah. Just yesterday she was like, now I have to sit here and take responsibility for somebody else's actions. And that's like not.

And I was like, yes, sister, you tell them. So I went to go buy her jersey, sold out. And I love to see that. But that's not what my search history says. My search history is men's hockey start, then hooking, question mark. Fighting aloud in Olympics. And then I went for, which it's not. And yet they kept doing it.

So I guess fighting aloud in Olympics, period. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I took my dogs for a walk because I was getting stressed because despite me not really following hockey or caring that much about it, I nevertheless picked a guy I wanted to win, and then it was stressful, and then I was in too deep immediately. You have a rabid competitive spirit.

Yes, and it kicks in instantaneously. It could be like the Nuggets versus the Rockets or something. If I just, I don't know, offhandedly, like, oh, I hope Denver wins. Oh, it's over for me. Because if Denver loses, it's like, now my reputation's on the line. Are you a Denver sports fan?

No. I'm from Seattle, but they took my team away. Oh, sure, sure, sure. I kind of don't acknowledge. So you don't fuck with the thunder then. Yes, I don't acknowledge the M&BA until I get my team back. Anyways, so I went for a walk, and then my searches on my walk were U.S. men's hockey team score. U.S. men's hockey team score.

U.S. men's hockey team. Score. Score. Score. And it's like a lot of refreshing. Yeah. Then I get home and I stopped Googling, and then we won. And then I googled Jack.

Hugh's teeth because I noticed that he was bleeding out of his mouth, but I had missed that he had lost them in that game. And I was like, Jack Hughes teeth lost today. Question word? Answer, yes. And then it starts kind of falling apart for me because I start seeing a lot of chatter online about these guys on our team. It turns out some of them aren't so good. I'm like, Kachik Brothers. Oh, yeah. Kachik Brothers MAGA. Kachik Brothers. Anti-trans Commission Donald Trump question mark? Wayne Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky, MAGA. And I think we all know where my searching ended up. It all fell apart.

I went from, I've never turned so fast on a team that I was excited about than I did with the men's hockey team. I was really excited. The Jack Hughes, the Hughes brothers, I thought had a good story

because their mom is one of the coaches for the women's team. And I was like, wow, it seems like a couple of good guys. And then they were like, nope, I want to go to a strip club in Miami. and then after that I want to eat cold quarter-pounders with our freak president.

And do the women's team hang out with Stanley Tucci? Yes, the women's team got to have a lovely Italian meal with Stanley Tucci and champagne supplied by Megan v. Stalian, our nation's top Megan. What the? So who really won? Yeah, you know what I'm saying? It used to be Megan McCain for me. Yeah, how far her star is fallen, you know?

Oh, man, it's funny, too, because I remember when their dad Keith Kachick was playing. And I was like, I remember seeing, I used to play hockey, but I've completely checked out from checking it with like the NHL. And I'm like, is Keith Katchik still playing? And I was like, no, this is motherfucker fifty-five or whatever. No, he's got two scumbag sons now. Oh, I love to see it. Dude, these Seattle Torrent jerseys are dope as tough. Aren't they good looking?

Such a good color scheme, like the emerald green, blue with the cream. It's good. It's good. Catch me at Dick's driving rocking this shit. On Broadway, baby. Deep cut. Look, I'll always give it up to Dix because they got the best fucking fries in the game. They're allowed.

It's crazy what they do to those French fries. They're floppy. I don't like them too crispy. I like the way they do them at Dix. And they keep the skins on as well. I don't care for any of that. Yeah, I definitely go a crispy fry over a floppy. It's an acquired taste.

But I like, you know, Dix, obviously, great Seattle company, hometown heroes. So I like, I do like to teach the controversy. I appreciate that some people like the Dix fries. Personally, I like a crispy fry. The Dix fries are floppy brown and just saturated in oil. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I do like a Dix burger. Yeah, yeah.

They're all good. They're all good. I think the floppy fry is definitely not a popular choice. No. Most people like Krispy. So whenever I go and the default is flop, oh, baby. And I have to root for the underdog, so I support you. That's fine.

That's fine. You don't have to. You don't have to like what each other like. You know, Megan cannot watch heated rivalry, and it's okay. You're literally the first person who said that. Thank you. I was just trying to bring something relevant up. Carl, what is something you think is overrated?

You know, this might be unpopular currently, but I'm just going to go ahead and say the Olympics. I think maybe because I'm thinking ahead to when the Olympics come to L.A. Yeah. 28 and I'm just like fuck the Olympics. Like I don't, it's always a nightmare for any city that it comes to.

They use it to give more money to the cops. They use it to displace homeless people and vulnerable people. No city is, you know, the IOC is like wildly corrupt. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You know, it's like, yeah, we won hockey.

And now, you know, all those guys are just hanging out to state of the union address. It's like, okay. Yeah, I don't know. Especially the chairman of the LA Olympics, Casey Wasserman. Yeah, at least we got to step down. The IOC is like, we're standing by our bowl.

At least we got like one of the Mount Rushmore of Epstein files people. Like we've already given like, yeah, like LAPD is already getting like weaponized robot dogs. Like what are they going to get when they we have the Olympics here? Oh, man. They're going to be flying on hover packs or some shit. I, there's aspects of it I enjoy, but I feel like the Olympics is maybe got to go. We're going to spend so much money on it. And, yeah, I feel like it could be better spent elsewhere.

Yeah. Every block in L.A. will have its own bespoke LAPD helicopter hovering over it at all hours of the day. Yeah. Yeah. And they'll refuel in midair, so they're never down. So cool. Yeah. Yeah.

I think I'm just thinking of a head to the L.A. ones and how it's going to be a nightmare. Oh, my. I don't even know how they're going to do it. The airport's so fucking small. They're still trying to figure out how to get everything connected. I just, it's going to be a fucking night. nightmare. And it's like, yeah, curling's fine. I will, I watch them. It's like, well, I did. Suffering has to happen for this. Yeah, for you to slide rock down ice thing. At what cost.

Yeah. Because I mean, you always see like those like listical things where they're like, look at these Olympic venues now five years later. And they're all just like in some terrible state of Mad Max. Yeah. I don't think it's great for any state. Also, it's like LA is LA. We're already a glow major great city. It's one thing if it's like, you know, it put Barcelona on the map in 92. It's like, okay. Well, we don't, we don't, we need less people.

Yeah, no, Carl Lewis put Barcelona on the map in 92. That's what the fuck I'm talking about. Dan and Dave. Oh, wait. Yeah. Oh, no, those guys just. Just Dan, right? Fucked me with that last name.

O'Brien. I was, I was riding off of that and like, whatever grade I was. I thought I was fucking with Dave because I was named after Miles Davis and I use that very tenuous connection to be like, oh yeah, and Dave is all me, baby. One of them had the last name, O'Brien, and then my best friends at the time were guys named Danny and David. They were brothers named Danny and David. They really got a lot of use out of that. And then they blew it.

They fucking blew it. What the fuck? The fuck is up with these guys. I think that's a good. I think that's a get overrated. I can't imagine much good coming out of this. I guess just fuck Casey Wasserman really is. Yeah, that's the, the crazy thing was like, I think didn't Karen Bass was like,

yo, he needs to, I feel like he should resign. And he was like, still in charge. Nah. Yeah, he's like, I'm good. Like, and this is, it's like, it's shit like this where you're like, bro, there's fucking, like, nothing matters anymore. If this guy is just really going to be like assert that he's like, well, I know I'm good.

Well, the thing is, I know him. Galane Maxwell. Yeah. He was like, well, I knew, this was all before the 2008 conviction. So, like, I have plausible deniability. It's like, look at the Epstein files. The crime span fucking starting the fucking 80s and shit. Right.

Yeah. Like, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right, boy. All right.

We'll see you. We'll see you. It does feel like America is just turning more and more into Russia. And we're like this, I'm just trying to picture because like the, the anecdote that always sticks with me about Moscow. under Putin is that like the rich travel in ambulances so they can just like cut through traffic. Right. And like I feel like that.

I feel like that's coming to L.A. Well, that's like how Miami is. Yeah. Yeah. I mean like they're always like inexplicable. Like every time I've gone there to visit family, there's like inexplicable police escorts and nothing's happening in the city. You can just hire them.

Yeah. They're just, they're just fucking tapped in. So they just, you know, demand it. And I'm like, okay. Yeah. Seems bad. All right. Yeah, wow.

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Going to get us all killed, baby. It's terrifying. You know, we touched on just the, like, the senility of it all constantly, like, when last week he was, or, yeah, it was last week when he said, like, and this man said, President, I want to kiss you. And you're like, what the fuck? Why is that even a thing to say? It's like, oh, of course, because your brain circuitry is completely smashed the bits. Strongman, steel magnate. Yeah. Yeah, he's going Biden mode. Yeah. For Biden mode. I feel like maybe rhetorically that's what needs to be said.

So like MAGA people start freaking out more. They're like, dude, this guy looks like Biden. Yeah. Fuck, dude. He's Biden maxing. Yeah. He's Biden maxing, dude. Dude, you're getting sent.

He's totally mocked to Biden. Sinility mugged right now by Biden maxing. But yeah, dude, the cortisol spikes are fucking humiliating. Anyway, so I think, you know, we've obviously posited, as many people have many times that he's an alternate reality and not just due to like the cognitive decline or like the acute narcissism, but also because he's more than likely. It's almost it's it is actually guaranteed that he is being shielded from the truth by his aides who don't who as a way of like personality management. Because like look, we see it all the time. There's like the regular sycophant bootlicking meetings

that we'll talk about where just like everyone sits at a table and it's like show and tell of sycophants being. Yeah, the telephized ones where they're like, And, sir, I've created this cheer for you, and I've brought in the Alabama Roll Tide marching band to, like, they just all, like, have prepared remarks about how cool he is. Sir, this is a scroll on papyrus where I have listed all of your many great achievements, sir. I've overwritten the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yeah, whited it all out. But, like, we see that, right? And, like, there's the cancellations of public appearances.

Like, he didn't want to go to the Super Bowl, but it was like, I was too tired. But really, they were saying it's like, no, because he was going to get booed. And, like, we don't, like, he's, he doesn't, he doesn't handle that well. These are little pinpricks to the outside world. Right. Like, you can't, you can't let Truman out to do a walkabout after, you know, from the Truman show. Yeah. You got to keep him in his bubble. Exactly.

And also, like, the polling. He always talks about polls like that, like, We see the polls and they're like, yeah, yeah, people are not really into this, but he's like, they all, the polls are always wrong. I've seen the real polls. And you're like, what? What do you mean? I'm sure someone's just writing shit down and telling you that's a poll.

I'm pretty sure that's what it is. So like, now I'm just sort of like, this is putting us at increasing risk for something truly catastrophic to happen based on whatever alter, like, obviously with all the dangers he presents already, that to add to that fake information to create a worldview where he's, actually more powerful or more potent than he actually is or has more support for something than he actually does. I'm like, it's getting worse and worse, especially as we hear about Iran. And he was just speaking at an event on Monday. And it's even clear that he's being shown, being shown alternate numbers all the time. So like he talked about the economy and like the thing that he said he could

fix, but that was never going to happen. He loves to again claim that this is like, there's nothing to see here. This is actually the greatest economy. any one has ever seen. Right. Look at the stock market. Yeah, exactly. The Dow is 50,000. Like, oh, God, that's all because that's what he needs to hear. So here's just a clip of him, again, asserting that the economy where by all, you know, measurable, all measurable data, it seems to indicate this is not a great economy for working people. By the way, this does feel like he, this speech is when a comedian is going to like do a big event or like host the Oscars and they have.

like go out on the road to like, you know, test material and test. Oh, for the state of the union? Yeah, this feels like he's just doing state of the union shit. Like to be like, how's this going to go over? What do people think? Am I getting, are the laughs at the right place? I mean, yeah, it's a joke in that you're saying the economy is good. Right. It's a setup and punchline in of itself. But yeah, we have the greatest economy ever, apparently. We have a country that's now doing well. We have the greatest economy we've ever had. We have the most activity we've ever had. I'm making a speech tomorrow. or night and you'll be hearing me say that. I mean, it's going to be a long speech because we have so much to talk about.

Oh, he seems quite convinced by that. What a tease, by the way. He almost fell asleep while saying when he had a speech coming up. I understand that tomorrow. It is what it is, you know, apparently. Okay, so then this is also very interesting, right, is like the polling. There's the latest polling that was just even shown on CNN. and was showing how he went from 41% approval with Latinos in February of last year to now 22%.

45% approval with voters under 45 in February of last year to now 27%. 41% of independence approved a year ago to now 26%. It's those are, I'm no political expert, Miles. You know that. Those numbers are bad. They seem low personally. Again, not an expert. I wouldn't want that.

I know podcast numbers, and if my downloads were going, I'd be like, oh, something's different there. Half? Yeah. Yeah. Go halfsies on those numbers? Yeah, yeah, right? And again, this is at the same event talking that extra special shit about how, you know what, the poll say this, but I've actually seen something different. And I'm sure he literally has been shown something different.

Poles are tough. You know, when you get a fake poll, I get them today. I saw one today that I'm at 40%. 40%. I'm not a 40%. I'm at much higher. I mean, I'd love to run against that. Higher? The real polls say you kill everybody.

It wouldn't even be close. I believe that, right? The real polls say that they're showing like, sir, those are all wrong. Look at these. You're locked in. And they're like, fuck, how do we fuck the rat fuck the election to make this happen? because it ain't happening electorally

or through any kind of democratic process. I hope he believes that so that he doesn't break the election. Yeah. Well, he's going, they know they have to.

You know what I mean? Like, even if he doesn't, but I'm sure this is part of him being like, dude, if he really gets, he's going to start lashing out

at everyone, we've already have all this, all these messes we have to clean up, barely keeping this fucking circus together. But again, it's like if he's being shown

things that are saying, dude, you're not as wildly unpopular as you are. No need to change course. The economy that you said you'd fix is actually looking worse and worse and worse. The amount of debt that is being added is catastrophic. Then I'm like, then what are they telling him about Iran right now? You know, as like we're seeing all this like buildup and rhetorical, you know, sort of setting of the table to try and manufacture consent for some kind of armed conflict over there. Yeah, I think they can get them to do whatever they want. Yeah. I think. I think that, like, AI video of him winning gold for the U.S. hockey team was probably something they actually showed him.

You're like, sir, you blacked out again and check it out. Look what you did. Oh, that's crazy. So the referees also have sticks and have a puck while I play? Yeah, yeah. That's how good you are, man. The refs had to get in there against you and also have their own puck. Did I shit on some people again?

No, not this time, sir. No, no. In a manner of speaking, you did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look here, stick work. Look at... Canadians are scarce. That look of determination.

But yeah, just like even, I think everything we could just get just an even darker and darker and darker as you have things like, again, an Epstein scandal that they're trying so hard to just put their heads in the ground and act like isn't there to now whatever they think they're going to get some kind of like wartime bump in approvals, like some common George Bush. Right. Like, and I'm like, this is a completely different era. Like, people are fully soured on like military intervention abroad for no fucking reason.

So that you think this is, people are going to suddenly be like, oh, thank God, we're going to Iran for no reason and more people can die for no fucking reason. Yeah. Also, was George Bush's popularity? Like, I feel like it was really strong in the aftermath of 9-11. And then he went to Iraq. and it started taking a shit, right? Like once it became clear that like the whole thing was a lie and, you know?

Right, right. I feel like that, I don't know, maybe those numbers aren't reaching Trump, but like I'm pretty sure that that was in the end not good for his popularity. Right. Because, yeah, there was, nobody really thought it. I think people got on board in the run up because they thought it was going to be like the first one. Right. Yeah. Nobody thinks that. It was just getting it up to because I think right before the invasion, it got up to like 64%. And then approval. Yeah, like it was going up. They saw was going up with

the saber rattling. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah. So we're going to do a little bit of that. But again, the problems like that was, that was those are, that was, those are peat. That was like an era of relative peace for Americans. And the context is completely different, especially now when you have things like the economy crushing people and being like, what the fuck? Like, I'm getting priced out of milk. Yeah. That if you're not addressing those things and thinking merely people go, I don't need food or a job, I need to feel good that we're going to bomb Iran.

Like my favorite NASCAR racer is probably going to win. I don't need food. Right. You know, right, exactly. Get free nuggies. Dude, I'm sitting pretty with these tendies, man. But yeah. And I think this goes to show like that the absolute clowns are in this cabinet.

now and have no idea how anything goes. And it's just sort of like, well, we know we can at least get the wartime profits. We get the military industrial machine humming again. And those people will get money. And we'll just invest in that and just kind of keep moving our money around until we walk out of here with money so big. We can hide forever. Yeah. It's generally not good when people aren't telling you the truth and you're not working with actual

information. And like- Seriously. Well, people are so extremely pissed about the Epstein files. Like it cannot be overstated. Regular people left and right. Everyone is so angry about this. They're going to lose their minds if we bomb Iran.

A fucking 21-year-old MAGA supporter pulled up to Mara Lago armed and got killed by the Secret Service because of the fucking Epstein files. Yeah. Like there are such huge fucking issues that have to be addressed. And again, this just goes to show like the people. who are running things have just such a perverse understanding or intentional misunderstanding of how it all works to be like, no, man, line goes up, we get our money, we get out. And if we have more money, we can protect ourselves from poor people with violence. And that's, that's, yeah, I think they just truly don't get it because, like, when do these people interact with, like, poor middle class people

ever? No, I've always said, like, we're helping our friends make money. Like, we're good guys. What's going on? Why are you mad at us? I can't release. files, some of my very good friends are going to get hurt was his exclamation to somebody by MTG was that's what he told her. Right. Some of my very good friends are in there. Did he not know he was like, I'm just like, is that one of the pieces of information that

they were withholding from him that he was also? I don't know. I mean, because the way, again, because you also hear it in his rhetoric around the Epstein files. He goes, like, I've been told I've been totally exonerated. He's always like, I've been. told. Yes.

And you're like, and I believe it. And I, because you know they're not going to be like, sir, man, you're all over this shit, man. Like, what the fuck was going on? Looks bad. You need to figure out what you're going to say. Absolutely. He's like, Jeffrey's fine.

He's living somewhere. Delane is fine. They got a body double in prison. I'll be fine too. Yeah. Chill out, everybody. Oh, my God. Have you heard yourself?

It was, that was the first one where it was like, oh, he's like not getting. any information. Like he was literally like, why don't people just move on? Like, yeah, we're all moving on. And if you ask questions about that, you're actually not my friend anymore. Yeah. Like that was literally like the energy he brought into it. Yeah. That's the energy he brought into the Epstein files. Yeah. Months and months ago. He's like, you're a bad person if you keep talking about it. Yeah. And you're definitely not a Republican. And you're like, okay. And you're not coming to my birthday party either. Not with that. Keep that up. It really, but yeah, it does remind you of like the end of downfall.

Like that meme that has been so popular for so long of like when they finally come clean with Hitler and are like, about the Soviets surrounding Berlin. Yeah, that they're losing the war and they just like haven't told them to that point because everyone's so scared of him. And so they like tell them and he just like flips out. Like that's kind of what you hear about like how Trump reacts when things go badly. Yeah, because that whole thing too was like. In that scene, right, he believes there's a whole other army regiment coming to support the defense of Berlin. And they're like, uh, Steiner's not going to make it here with his men.

Yeah. And it's like, come on. So we're cooked, bro. Like, we're cooked. Yeah. It's, uh, you can only imagine. You can only imagine. And then like, you know, Pete Higsef is now saying shit like, oh, we're going to be ordering pizzas, like all kinds of ways to throw you guys off from the pizza.

tracker at the Pentagon. Oh, good. So he's, he's invested in Calci. Yeah, right. Exactly. He gets that that's how we want to follow stories now. Yeah. Will they won't they? Will people die needlessly based on the amount of pizzas being ordered? Please tell me. Please tell me. All right. Let's talk Mexico. Yeah. Because big things are happening over the weekend on Sunday, El Mancho, leader of the Holisco New Generation cartel was killed in a military operation conducted by the Mexican government with help from the U.S. government. Intelligence-wise. That's, I think a lot of people will have you thinking that it's like, the U.S. did that

shit. It's like, they were probably like, here's some. They used the Havana syndrome weapon to give everybody those blades. Yeah. Everybody got a Havana syndrome gun down there and they used it. But yeah, it was like it just the subsequent power vacuum caused all kinds of panic. Cartel members were rioting, setting fire to cars, gas stations, buildings, like a prosecutor got killed. Like some of his like henchmen were also killed in the, the, uh, operate the mission, I don't know,

hate job, whatever you, whatever it's called when the state takes your life. And, you know, the videos. Military action. Military action. Yeah. The videos were involved. Officer involved. Officer-involved military.

It becomes such just like such just like define, like uniquely spaced words. Blameless. When the government put a hit out. Like if the government's also a gang, they put a hit out and then their goons clapped them. But yeah, so like the videos are all over. I mean, like all over the internet.

Just shit on fire. People are running like in just like there was like so much chaos happening in airports. And but then there were people being like, there's gunmen in the airports. And when I say people, people most likely looking at Laura Lumer's fucking Twitter account where somehow her prox, because she has a fucking Pentagon press pass now. Yes. That it gives an air of legitimacy to the nonsense that she tweets, especially when she's like, the U.S. has helped conduct this operation. But again.

Laura Lumeru handcuffed herself to the Twitter headquarters when she thought she was being shadow banned. Yes. Right. Yes. Normal alert. And then last. year during the election was like kind of people thought they were having an affair like people thought they were having an affair she was

spending a lot of time with trump i think she based on his memory she was probably just trying to remind him constantly that she existed right yeah yeah they're like no it's like i people think it's an affair he's so senile it's like you you need a fair levels of interaction uh to stay in his mind but yeah she said again tourists were being taken hostage like out of their hotels by armed gunmen planes were on fire just sensation nonsense and it got to the point where the Mexican embassy had to put a like a statement out to directly address her lies. There's not like it's false that attacks against civilians took place at the Guadalajara airport. It's false that attacks were carried out against the general population

in Halisco. It's false that members of organized crime were holding U.S. tourist hostage. There's a fake photograph of a plane on fire in Guadalajara that was used, Guadalajara that was used. False that government took over the facilities of the Guadalajara airport. It's false that the U.S. military personnel participated in the arrest of El Mancho in Mexico. So again, this is like sort of nothing, nothing could have gone wrong when you kick out actual journalists from the Pentagon and you give it to these like weird grifters online. Just online shit posters. Yeah, for sure.

And I think saying this shit obviously serves two purposes, the first that it helps like paint Trump as a strong man, you know, because let's be real, he was basically this happened because he was demanding Mexico do something about the cartels or else I'm going to fucking conduct military operations in your country. And second, it helps keep the perception that Mexico is a very bad place. And by comparison, America is actually great. Please stop reading the news about how it's not. Those are lies.

Look at the three video clips of a gas station on fire. You don't need news. just watch Sicario. That's all the news. Yeah, the documentary Sicario. And I think that second sort of benefit was what, like, Utah Senator Mike Lee clearly thought he was doing because he posted a, like, CCTV camera of these guys, these mask guys setting a gas station on fire.

And he posted cartel hitmen wear masks. Leftists aren't complaining. Damn. That's actually, fuck. I don't think I can oppose ICE anymore. Yeah. He did get my ass on that one because the bad guys wear masks. Yeah.

I'm going to write a letter to the cartels and let them know my disappointment. Show yourselves, cowards. What are you hiding from the law? COVID didn't go away. Okay, cartel. Yeah, exactly. Are those N95s? Oh, my God.

Okay. But, you know, like this, like everyone, even Chuck Schumer, like, people. Like, people were just poning him on Twitter. When Chuck Schumer is even getting you, it said, yes, cartel hit men wear masks. That's why ICE shouldn't. And, like, everyone just started, like, hopping on it. He ended up. That's actually not why.

That's not the logic. What do you mean? Those are two separate things. Yeah. Christopher Murphy from Cadetic said, oh, dear, Mike, I literally couldn't make our argument better than you do. The bad guys wear masks. The good guys don't. And you're like, well, all right.

I mean, I guess. We're actually just learning that cartel hitman wear masks, and that is why ICE shouldn't. It's like, what? So, ice is the cartels. In many ways. So, yeah, that tweet went bye-bye pretty quickly. But, yeah. Oh, Mike.

Yeah, yeah. Because that's from his personal account, based Mike Lee. It's not his official senatorly account. It's his other one that he shit posts from. Wait, really? Yeah, yeah. It is an account called based Mikely. Yeah, it's at based Mikely.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you post from. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Anyway, because, yeah, you got old, old dudes thinking their 23-year-old shit posters. I'm like, yeah, do them based Mike Lee. It's like, dude, you're fucking just get the fuck out of here. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Is this based? Can I get a, can I get any feedback from the interns if this is based, if this is living off my base reputation? This is Pepe the frog meme? Cool. No, all right. All right. All right. All right.

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Specifically, he's like, hey, you know, man, why you got to wear pajamas all the time? slippers looking sloppy. I remember when you could smoke cigarettes on an airplane and you wore a business suit while saying racial slurs and harassing flight attendants. That's the golden age we want to bring back. Well, apparently the Tampa airport has taken things a step further with a new policy. It's clearly a troll post, but just so dumb. This is what they posted, quote, we've seen enough. We've had enough. It's time to ban pajamas at Tampa International Airport. after successfully banning Crocs and giving everyone the amazing opportunity to experience the world's first Crocs Free Airport, it's time to take on an even larger crisis.

Pajamas at the airport in the middle of the day. We know this decision could be disruptive to someone in your life. It's time to have a difficult conversation with them. You can do this. We and Phoebe believe in you. The madness stops today. The movement starts now. Help Tampa International become the world's first crox free and pajama free airport.

Do your part. Say no to pajamas. You know, they really know how to tap into what the people care about. Really? Yeah, you know, planes are literally falling out of the sky because of Sean Duffy and Elon Musk's mismanagement of the Department of Transportation. But no, it's really the pajamas. The air traffic controllers are wearing pajamas is the thing that we think in the tower. So that's a big thing. I like how this is like this sentence sounds like a thing we should be saying about your friends who are still MAGA at this point. It's like, we know this decision could be disruptive.

to someone in your life. It's time to have a difficult conversation with them. You can do this. We believe in you. Cut these motherfuckers out of your life because they literally stand for all things evil in the year. Ever. But they have anyway. But here they are. The madness stops today. It just feels like the whole country's in crisis. Everyone I know is depressed and like on their last nerve, you know, barely hanging on. And that who would this appeal to? Who would even get a chuckle out of it. First of all, they the right does not, Donald Trump is the only

funny person. And that's 98% senility that's doing that's driving that humor. Yeah. There's also like what he's saying, somebody should only say sarcastically. So he gets extra like, like, he gets lucky with how funny he is.

I mean, I, right. I mean, I think of him as like outsider art. Like, it's like, oh, you've stumbled on to something interesting here. I guess smearing shit all over these Gatorade bottles is an interesting take on consumer culture. Yeah, he's like evil Daniel Johnston or something. Yeah, exactly. There's something about this airport pajamas meme that that makes me sick.

I hate it so much. I hate the punctuation. Pajamas, period, at period. The, like, I'm sorry, is this 2009 Twitter? Like, what's, you put the clapping? It's cringe millennial. It's cringe millennial Twitter. As a cringe millennial, my culture is not a costume. For this fascistic airport.

I guess this, I mean, this pisses me off for all the obvious reasons and also for the reasons Lindy named. But it's like, I'm sorry to be too serious about this, but it's like people are dressing for the experience they're having at the airport and on plane. You know, it's like, yeah, you can wish for a golden age of travel. Back then, you were treated as a human being with a seat that your butt fit in and they gave you actual food. And nobody was, you know, scanning your genitals with radiation to see if you were packing a knife in there. And, you know, it's like, why do I have to get dressed up just to have my Fourth Amendment

rights violated? Like, come on now. This is stupid. And then, you know, you get on the plane, everyone is pissed off and angry because they've all been treated like garbage all through security. Everyone's on a hair trigger in there. They're getting, they're being treated like garbage at the gate. They're getting, and I say this with love because we know our nation's flight attendants are God's strongest warriors.

But, you know, they're sick of everybody's ass as well. People are getting in fights. Everybody's drunk. It's like, you want me, and I have to wear a gown. Yeah, right. To this. I'm dressed, yeah, I'm dressed like how you would see me come out of my house if I heard there was a car crash in the middle of the morning. Like, what the fuck?

Hello? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, everybody looks profoundly hungover. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. No, I just, people are wearing their pajamas because they're clinging to one shred of comfort in an absolutely hellish nightmare experience that also you're constantly aware this might be the time when you die. When they finally, there aren't any air traffic controllers left and you are going to fall out of this guy and die.

And producer Victor has a good point in the chat. He said also a lot of people go to sleep on the plane. Like half the time I'm like, bro, I'm just time. I want to time travel there, so I can not pay $14 for hummus. And like the worst part of it all is that like you can't ever get mad or they'll put you on a list that says you could never get on the plane again. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't ever want to be on the plane again. And yet there's no other way for me to get anywhere.

And so you have to just be disrespected and be like, thank you. Thank you so much. So much. Also. Also. And it's giving Next Top Model documentary where Tyra made Danny close her tooth gap. And then seasons later, she made some other girl created a tooth gap. If you fly like business class to Europe, they give you pajamas.

Yeah, right. They'll make a bed for you. While you're in the bathroom, we made your bed. I remember like looking back at them, what the fuck do you make in a bed for you? Right. They'll give you those hot sleep mask. I can't bring my own bats And I have plain phobia

Like I can I freak out on planes The only way I can imagine it worse Is a bunch of dudes With annoyingly good posture in suits and ties Just like for mention rows of those guys How are you doing today sir? Staring and looking weirdly strong

Like a middle school principal Like dress coding you Like checking for spaghetti straps Yeah I was like getting the ruler out To make sure your skirts long enough Above the knee That's about over six inches above the knee Yeah I went to come to high school

Super. Great. Fucking Sean Duffy. Fucking Sean Duffy. Moving on, though, to just something that's really interesting because we live in a world of, like, synthetic movements and synthetic media. Like, you know, the Melania documentary being propped up by, you know, bulk ticket buys, the fake turning point USA halftime show. There's a lot of these things that want to give people the sense that this is a shared reality and that this is people are behind it when really just a lot of shit. up by algorithms and like disingenuous engagement. And Nikki Minaj seems to be part of that too now, because she's had a hell of a year.

Like after increasingly losing relevance as a musician and her constant defending of her sexual predator husband, people have not really been picking up what she's been putting down recently. And her MAGA transformation was solidified with an appearance on Erica Kirk's show or whatever the fuck that was a panel. It was a turning point panel they did. And from there, she slowly became one of MAGA's, hottest new tokens, culminating in an appearance with Donald Trump himself.

But a recent analysis of the Twitter, we call it Twitter in this house, Twitter activity reveals that she's been propped up by bots and coordinating with other MAGA influencers. So this was in Politico where they got this full-on analysis of like a lot of the social media activity on Twitter that says, quote, the report compiled by the disinformation detection company, Saibra, identifies a coordinated network of bots, more than 18,000 of them that drove algorithms to spread Minaj's posts on X. The analysis, which looked at social media activity from November 11th to December 28th, provides a window into how the rapper was able to capture millions of views online and position herself as a celebrity the White House found value in

partnering with. The report found inauthentic accounts repeatedly amplified Minaj's post with praise that used highly similar language, as they put it, particularly in response to posts where authentic accounts were criticizing Minaj. So, like, when real people are like, the fuck are you talking about? Are you for real? The what? What are you saying? There would be things like this, Nikki, you are brave for living your truth. People might not always agree with what's being played out. But as an artist and watching your growth as a person, it's inspiring. This was from a comment of a, I guess, Nikki Minaj fan at LAX. 76,

six, two, eight, three, five, six, five, five, five, very real, very real. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they're all using, they say, supportive comments, generated by fake profiles are predominantly brief, repetitive, and low in semantic complexity, consisting largely of praising keywords

and positive hashtags, rather than original or substantive engagement. You're like, huh. Yeah, although low syntax complexity does not bar them

from being mega people, but yeah, yeah, sure, sure, yeah, the semantic quality, yeah, that might be, we could maybe look at that a little bit closer. But again, like she posted her support for Trump and then talked about the

prosecutions of Christians in Nigeria. Gavin Newsom's perceived in alignment with the transgender community. The bots were there to back her up. Syra's report shows. They also amplified her posts related to the music industry too, because I guess she's trying to really keep herself going there. It's interesting, speaking of her tweets about the music industry, because she's willing to be like, call out Jay-Z, but you'll note.

she will never go so far as to utter Beyonce's name. Yeah, yeah. So there's still a sliver of reason in there somewhere. You know, like, look, the barbs. The barbs just ain't what they used to be on Twitter. You know what I mean? There was a time when you're like, bro, watch out for the fucking barbs. They have nothing to do.

And now the beehive, they're like, that's legit, I think still. So I don't know if we have a synthetic defense program against the beehive. It's just, I don't know, this one just makes me kind of sad. I was a huge Nicky fan. I saw her in concert in New York. I saw her at Barclays, and it was really fun, and she, you know, was so talented. Yeah, still am. But even in her pre-Maga days, she had just this inability to, she's always had a scarcity mindset.

You know what I mean? So she could never like be okay. Celebrate other people too. Yeah, especially other women rappers. And so I feel like that was the start of her downfall. as she started getting gassed up by like worse and worse people, I feel like it corrupted her mind more and more. I'm not trying to make excuses for her. Obviously, her husband is a nightmare of himself as well.

But the way she goes after women in particular is really disappointing. And then to be kind of co- to sort of willingly jump into this movement of people who like under their own legislation, you wouldn't be in this country. Right? And you won't be allowed to vote under like their new plans. And you're like, you have an axe to grind about Jay-Z and Cardi B. And somehow that's turned into you appearing on stage with Erica Kirk, who is the most menacing individual I've ever laid eyes on in my life. Okay.

And it just absolutely took a hammer to her legacy. And it's frankly quite sad. Yeah. Although I don't like feel bad for her, but it's sad to watch. No, but you see this all the time. And a lot of rappers do this because like the second they start orienting towards Magum, I'm like, okay, what do you need a pardon for? Who needs a pardon? Exactly.

Yeah. The first thought. I'm like, there's no fucking reason for this because you believe your proximity to the administration is going to render you some above the law status. And clearly with Kenneth Petty's record, I don't know what they're, I don't know what's going on. I don't know who she knows or whatever's happening. But it's also like, lady, you were born in Trinney. You're from Trinidad. Like, are you seeing anything that's going on?

But again, it's just that same proximity to the power that they're like, it's fine, it's going to protect me. And I can completely turn my back on everyone else who's going to be affected by this because at least I can carve out a little spot. Yeah. And it's like, oh, go ahead. No, no, you go. Well, you just immediately become the coolest, most powerful person in that arena compared to everyone else. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's basically what I was like what I was going to say, like the, it's that sort of, oh, someone annoyed me or hurt my feelings one time. and I have such a fragile, tattered, wounded ego that the first person who's nice to me, like I have no discernment. Like, I don't care at all. Whoever's going to be nice to me

and tell me that the person that was mean to me is bad, I'm going to move toward them. And then they're going to also pay me to be their friend. Of course. Especially as her other revenue streams are drying up.

So it's like, yeah, this is an easy way to just like launder rich MAGA guys' money directly to Nikki Minaj through TPUSA. I think what's interesting is like if they're doing this whole campaign with the bots and all this spending all this

money and you know I guess there must be someone putting a bunch of time into organizing this. It's like the goal is that do they think that they can trick Nikki Minaj fans into becoming MAGA? Is that working?

I mean no but I think like that's a bit a finer point on what you and what we're saying. It's like It's not just that, like, I mean, she becomes the most popular person immediately, but also because she's black, right? Like, they're constantly on this hunt for, like, black validators or POC validators to be like, oh, it's not that bad. And also because they've flattened, like, identity to be like, well, if you could get one black person, that'll, like, went, that'll win over.

Yeah, that, like, it's like how they were running Allen Keyes against Barack Obama in Illinois, as if there's no difference between those two guys. They're both black men, so it's the same. I mean, like, that's as nuance of their thinking is about, like, identity and race. And so I think that's, like, one of the reasons why, like, Nikki Minaj had a very easy time ascending to the highest heights of loserdom on the Magaside is because they're like, oh, nice. Yeah, because they're like, oh, I've heard of her. They're like, I've heard of her. It's not like these other people.

They're like, nobody's really fucking will walk a faca anymore. Right. But they don't see. They don't see what we all see, which is. that her doing that lowers her a skin of literally everyone else. She turned her back and like, nope. It doesn't, it might win over like six mentally ill barbs on Twitter, but it's not going to win over like huge swaths of the community because she's an insane person.

No, and the reaction from black people was like, what the fuck is, what is she doing? Like, get the fuck out of there. But also, hey, that's, that's enough to let us know where the fuck you're at. If you're willing to just be like, ah, well, this is the right wing grift I'm doing now because nothing fucking matters to me. me except my damn soul. To your point, though, Alex Broussowitz, who's a media and political advisor to Trump, considers Minaj, a very close friend told Politico he is confident there are no bots involved with the social media, the rapper's presence.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Nikki has never used bot activity to promote herself on social media because she doesn't need to. She has one of the largest band bases of any musician that's alive today, which reads like some shit they read in some dock, like some kind of analysis where they're like, these are the people with great social media presences that we could maybe leverage their blackness to create cover for our white subp-like naked and open white supremacy.

And it's not working because later goes on to be like, they're just mad because she's, they even said, she's getting Democrats to like open their eyes. And you're like, that's really, you really think that's happening. Name one. I will. I'll tell you later. I'll get back to your office on that. You wouldn't know him. He's, I met him at summer camp.

Yeah, his name's Byron Donaldson. Who else? Tim Scott, I believe. Huge, yeah, huge, huge. Eric Adams. I hope Mort Burke, it worked on. Yeah, it was actually, yeah. You're like, yeah.

When she's spitting like Roman, then I'm just like, wherever you want me to go, queen. Since the monster verse, I've based every decision of my life on what Nikki andosh would do. Honestly, that would have been reasonable. Oh, man, it's funny to think that some of the best verses on that monster track are now like MAGA people.

Dude. Rough. Crazy. Yeah. Look, it happens. It happens. But, hey, everybody, you keep your head on a swivel and know the bullshit when you see it and call it out and tell your friends. Look, this is, because again, this is so funny to me because so much of like what conservatism is on the internet now is just pretending that a bunch of people are fucking with it.

when they're not. And it's like trying to give the perception that it's so much bigger. And that's the one other little green shoot of hope I have is that there is so much just being propped up in like the digital world and like the aesthetic of social media to make you think this is mainstream. Yeah. It's not. It's not. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how to process this because I heard it from Candace Owens. But like Candice Owens made that video where she was like, I did some some YouTube math and like actually only six thousand. people watch the kid rock half-time show.

Now, look, Candace, okay, I don't, we're not relying on Candace as a source, but I believe it. I mean, I believe, like, based on the reality that I see around me. I don't know. Yeah, yeah.

And like, the people who are like proud being like, we're watching the Turning Point USA. It's like, there's like five videos of like people at their homes doing it and like all the kids in there look miserable. I'm like, oh my God.

I want to. to watch bad bunnies. Yeah. What the fuck? I'm going to get cooked at school tomorrow. I'm fucking posted this shit. Right. All the children are like,

I thought he was going to be a kid. He's 60. Yeah, yeah. This is sad. This said it was rock for kids. Yeah. This is not rock. He's not a kid.

Wait, you said the TPUSA halftime with kids pop? No, no, no. Kid rock. Oh, God. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly. Zykegeist, please like and review the show if you like the show.

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