The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 46 (Best of 10/15/18-10/19/18)

Episode Date: October 21, 2018

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So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Let's talk about the Arizona congressional race between Democrat Tom O'Halloran. Yeah, Tom O'Halloran, he is an incumbent congressman in Arizona, Democrat, and he's running against a woman named Wendy Rogers. But that's not really the point here. So apparently last week at Tom O'Halloran's campaign office, two young men came in. They said they were college students and they came with a jar of money and they said, we would like to make a donation to the Tom O'Halloran campaign. And they're like, okay, cool. Give us your jar of money.

They had about 39 bucks in it. And they're like, oh, can we get a receipt for this? And they're like, oh, yeah, sure, sure. And they're like, we're from the Northern Arizona University Communist Party, like young communists. Can you put that on the receipt? Like they really wanted a receipt that basically said, I take money from communists, essentially was like something they were like, they're like, I need I just need this receipt. So the second they were like really insisting on that, they knew they could smell some shit. They knew some dumbness was going down.

And the finance director for his campaign, Lindsey Coleman, was not here for the dumbness. She took the money, drove immediately to the local republican like field office and just there's like a video of it where she's like hi i had two young men who came in they said their names were like something and something uh like they tried to donate money to our campaign but i felt like something was wrong she's like oh wait there he is and one of the guys in the campaign office like sees the camera and goes in the door he gave a false name to them they're like oh i think his name was jose or something and and the guy's like no that's oscar and they're like okay well then oscar came and said his name was this other thing he's like and that's illegal uh so this is kind of where they're at now uh where they're like resorting to the dumbest

fucking tactics to try and get any kind of advantage. As we've seen just with voter suppression is obviously the most aggressive one. But then it all trickles down to shit like this where you're like, hey, make it look like he took communist money or whatever. And like, are we living in the 50s? Like, you think that's going to swing your race? I mean, I don't know all of the factors that are being weighed in this race that if somehow tying him to communism would do it. But it just felt like really odd and a sad attempt at trying to get one up on your opponent. Yeah. What was their plan then?

They were like going to run a smear campaign to be like, he takes money from communists. Quite literally, yes. And then they would be like, wait, those guys work for the Republican Party. And it's just so it's really sloppy. Well, so brave of them then for pretending to be communists when they're actually Republicans. Thank, yes.

Brave. I think, yeah, you're right. We're overlooking the real, the real heroes in this story. Not the finance director. I wonder if they were dressed like, like Castro era gorillas from like the 60s.

The cigar. Cuban Revolution, yeah. One guy's dressed like,'s dressed like Che Guevara and the other dude is like Stalin or something. And there is video that you can check that somehow got out of Lindsay Coleman,

the finance director, just going in and being like, hey, we just had some Oh, there he is. It's so weird and the guy immediately goes, yeah, and then walks into another room and closes the door and tries to hide. It's so bad. And this is like, just so you know, it's illegal. I'm going to probably tell the FEC and the police about this because this is nonsensical. Yeah.

The president was on 60 Minutes last night, came out of his Fox News hibernation for the past couple of years where he did not talk to the mainstream media and only appeared on, you know, basically Trump run media. Yeah, home field advantage. Yeah, he was enjoying a two year home field advantage, came out on 60 Minutes and people were kind of mixed on how it went. TV critics that I read basically everywhere said that like advantage Trump. He used his mastery over media to just and then the things he did was just lie and, you know, bully her by speaking over her and not letting her get a word in edgewise. Yeah. Well, but, you know, Leslie Stahl, I'll give her credit because she definitely would press him on answers. Because then, like, for example, like they were talking about climate change. And she was like, well, what about the scientists?

Well, you know, they say that maybe it's not changing. She's like, who is this they you're talking about? And he's like, people, you know, or whatever. And she's like, well, what about the science? Like, you know, she, she was definitely, she, she stood her ground, but I guess because he didn't like shit himself during the interview, it was as flawless victory. According to some people, I don't know. Though one of the most interesting things I saw was like in the beginning of the year, I think at some point towards the beginning of the interview, they're walking through the white house and there's this photo hanging up. That's Trump playing cards with like all the past. Yeah. Painting an oil painting, a gift from Daryl Issa

of Trump playing cards with all like these past Republican presidents. Fucking Abe Lincoln is even in it, like looking confused. He's like, I'm sorry, what is this? What is that you're drinking? And it looks like George W. Bush might have like a Han Solo type, like he might have his hand on his blaster underneath the table. Just interesting to know that that's the kind of art that we're putting in there of like old timey, like the dogs playing poker photo. Yeah, it's the equivalent of the dogs playing poker picture. But yeah, they talked about all kinds of stuff. You know, once the pleasantries ended, there was a moment where, you know, she was interested about talking about Kim Jong Un because he's always talking about how North Korea is like over.

It's not a threat anymore, but there's constant reports coming out that's like they're actually not disarming in any meaningful way. And then she was like, also, why do you keep saying you love this dude? He's a fucking monster. And this is this is one of the exchanges about kim jong-un he presides over a cruel kingdom of repression gulags starvation reports that he had his half brother assassinated slave labor public executions this is a guy you love all these things i mean i'm not a baby i know but why do you love that guy? Look, look, look. I get along with him, okay? And I love him.

Okay, that's just a figure of speech. No, it's like an embrace. Well, let it be an embrace. Let it be whatever it is to get the job done. He's a bad guy. Look, let it be whatever it is. I get along with him really well. I have a good energy with him. I have a good chemistry with him.

Look at the horrible threats that were made. No more a good energy with him. I have a good chemistry with him. Look at the horrible threats that were made. No more threats. No more threats. I don't know. It's so scary. It's like the guy, to me, it just points to there's a murder house in your neighborhood, right?

And they used to just put a bunch of signs up. We're murdering people in here and we love it. And now he's like, hey, but there's no more signs in the yard. Yeah, right. They're still in the neighborhood. They painted the house. They got rid of the car in the front yard. Yeah, there's still blood curdling screams coming from there.

But you know what? They're not advertising it. Yeah. It's such a weird cop out to explain like why his diplomacy has failed to like just get us any results and then when he's just talking i love him that like well he was literally doing he was like yeah we have good energy i mean it's a problem so that exchange i think illustrates one of the things people were saying that like it seemed like she was trying to get him on a technicality.

Like, well, why did you say you love him? And he's like, that's just a figure of speech, which I think I don't know. I can see how that would be appealing to people who already like him. Basically, there's plenty of stuff to get him on. Well, I think because I think for the what they're seeing, if the optics aren't, oh, my God, he just got godded, then the interview is a flawless victory. Right. That's for sure. Because if he's not doing like, well, I don't – because he didn't backtrack on anything.

Or like get up and walk out. Right. Which he's been known to do. And that would have probably got him applause too. He's like, oh, such an unfair interview. I would have walked out. As a person who loves energy and crystals and all that kind of – and vibes. I'm a vibes guy.

Me too. Me too. Oh, it really just – really resonated with me when he's like, I've got a good energy with him. And I'm just like, you know, we have – and I'm just like, oh, I never can say that again. We got good vibes, man. We got good vibes. Oh, I'm like, oh, no. Don't take vibes. Don't take vibes from we got good vibes oh i'm like oh no don't take vibes don't take vibes no vibes um uh yeah then uh then inevitably the conversation had to swing around towards putin

and again trump you know he can't say a bad word about vladimir because whatever he's got hanging over his head uh and it was interesting it was one of those moments that was kind of funny because normally he used to just cause headlines by when someone like journalists pressed him about, well, what do you think about their meddling or these assassinations? He'd be like, they never happened. They deny it. It's fine. Right. And this time he was sort of like, like trying to half acknowledge what all the intelligence people have been screaming in his face for two years. So this was another interesting soundbite regarding Vladimir.

Vladimir Putin. I think I'm very tough with him personally. I had a meeting with him, the two of us. It was a very tough meeting and it was a very good meeting. Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations, in poisonings? Probably he is. Yeah, probably. I mean, I don't know. Probably. Probably. But I rely on them. It's not in our country. Okay, why not? They shouldn't do it. This is a terrible thing.

Of course they shouldn't do it. Okay, that's the only collusion. Do you believe that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election? Well, they meddled, but I think China meddled too. But why do you say China meddled too? And you wanna know something else? Why do you say China? Why don't you just say the Russians meddled? Because I think China meddled also. And I think, frankly, China.

This is a bigger problem. You're diverting the whole Russian thing. I'm not doing anything. I'm saying Russia, but I'm also saying China. Oh, Leslie, credit to you for just trying to be like, this is wild, sir. You're really just doing this whataboutism shit. They meddled. They didn't interfere. They meddled. I'm sorry.

Can you please get out your dictionary? What is meddling? I do think that that's, again, smart from a just slick appearances perspective because meddling for whatever reason it reminds me of the democrats demanding an fbi investigation that they were like okay fine and like three days done on the kavanaugh hearings uh meddling it's like that's the word the democrats have been using from the start and it's like such a soft word it's like they were just messing around in there because we're like i think on the left people were not willing to full-throatedly be like no this shit fucking happened yeah this is how bad it was so meddling felt like a safe word to use right no one could

be like what you mean meddled nobody meddled if anything they were tinkering around right they tinkered i think that's what they looked under the hood yeah uh you know touched a wire yeah and that's it'll straight up be, they fucking tried to destroy the democracy. This to me is like one of the trickiest things, because at what point as American citizens, do we acknowledge our meddling in other countries, all of these other countries and their elections and getting leaders appointed

and things like that. And then taking down leaders that we don't find appropriate. And then all of a sudden we have one election where somebody from the outside probably actually was successful in their meddling. Right. And now it's the craziest thing that's ever happened. Yeah. Yeah. It's – yeah, we always think –

It's really tricky. Yeah. At what point do you begin to have a reckoning with the foreign policy of this country for the last, what, 100 years essentially? Right. Being like, yeah, yeah, whatever you need. We can obscure things. You got socialists popping up? All right. Here's some guns. For newish listeners, the US and the CIA in particular have been meddling with foreign elections and, in fact fact basically swinging them for whatever candidate

they wanted to win for a long time yeah when you think about all the instability in central america and people like well what was going on with ms-13 it's like do you know what we did el salvador like read about google u.s involvement in fucking any country and something is going to pop up right or there's going to be some dark chapter where we helped with either arming people or trying to just get them in deep debt so they did whatever we needed to. That's just the history of this empire and how it would stretch its claws around the globe. the Baltimore Sun was making is that, you know, regardless of how you viewed the interview, ratings are the main thing that matters to Trump. Like, that's all he cares about. He would constantly brag about the Apprentice's ratings when that show was on the air. And his ratings have apparently been falling on Fox News shows, like to the point where they can no longer carry his interviews in full on Fox

News. And so the loss of primetime coverage is like really bothering Trump. And in fact, he had to like at a recent rally, he called out the Fox News hosts who have primetime shows by name and was like kissing up to them because he's's so sad that they're not covering him as much anymore. So his base is getting bored because he only says five things on a rotation. So he decided to, well, I'm going to go to the left and the mainstream media was there waiting. And I think that the mainstream media needs to do better

and just come a little bit stronger. And it seemed like Leslie Stahl was prepared for a traditional politician interview, and she was interviewing a carnival barker, a reality show person. I feel like there could have been an actual hog. Like, no, I don't want people, listeners, to, like, mistake, like, what I'm saying. I'm not comparing in any way, like, the interview.

I'm saying, like, Trump would give the same interview to, like, an animal sitting in a chair across from him. Or an animal. Like, he's just going to say, exactly. Or an animal. Anything. Like, a glass. Like, oh, yeah.

You know, like, he doesn't matter. If sound came out of the glass, he'd be like, okay. It doesn't matter what's being asked. He's going to say what he wants to say, and it doesn't matter. And you need someone to really kind of come in guns a-blazin' on him. But unfortunately, that makes him walk out. Right. But still, you have to try to, I think. Well, yeah, it's weird because Leslie Stahl seems to have a kind of unique relationship

with him, too, where he's, like, normally I feel like if it were any female journalist from, like, that was representing the mainstream, the non-Fox journalist, it would have been a total just argument or whatever and more talking over where, you know, she even said, like, it seemed like he was enjoying the sparring. And at times, like, I remember she was the one who he sort of like showed his hand to her at one point where she's like, why do you always deny these stories or whatever? And he's like, because if when I do, everybody believes it. And like he tells her just bluntly like why he's lying. She's like a Trump whisperer.

Yeah, in a weird way. A liberal Trump whisperer. But then can also be like, come on, bro. What are you talking about? Like, you know, have this sort of rapport with the president. And then what's funny is the way, like, towards the end of the interview, she started pressing him about all the family separation policies and how bad that was. And it was starting to get, he was starting to bicker about it and obviously didn't like being linked to his own policies that are so fucked up. And then just gave her a total own when he just checked in with what his job was and what

her job was. So listen to this fucking bomb. I disagree, but I don't want to have that fight with you. I would have another fight with you. Leslie, it's okay. In the meantime, I'm president and you're not. And we're having fun, right? Oh my God. My dad's bigger than your dad. My dad would beat your dad up. He's a cop. So we have guns at the house. I can bring one. I wonder if that is part of the problem is that he did the interview with her because she speaks to him like he's a real politician. And that's how she's coming at it. And it's almost like when you talk to a kid like the kid is an adult, they kind of like that and they try to act more like it. But the kid is ultimately a kid and they're going to behave like a kid. But maybe that's where she gets her rapport

is she treats him like any other politician. And that's what you get when you treat Donald Trump like any other politician. You get, well, I'm the president and you're not. And you're not. So fuck you. I wish somebody would Photoshop

Donald Trump's face onto John Cusack standing outside the window with a boombox in his hands in the rain, just listing the names of the primetime Fox News. When you said that he was listing them by names, I was like, how desperate is this place? How good are these people, folks? The Fox News hosts. They're great. Elizabeth Warren, just more evidence that we are all living in Trump's world now. Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test that proves her Native American ancestry. This is part of an ongoing story where she had contributed to an academic journal for minority students. And people were like, what is your claim to being a minority student? She was

like, well, my family has Native American ancestry. And Trump, ever since then, she didn't use it to get into any schools, which is part of a myth that exists out there. She didn't use it to get into any schools. She put it on one journal. And ever since, he's called her Pocahontas and claimed that he would give a million dollars to the charity of her choosing if she could ever prove that she actually had Native American ancestors. Which is amazing. So, yeah. So you cut to – well, first of all, I just think it's so fucking shitty, right, that Elizabeth Warren had to go to the point where she had to prove her ancestry to prove Trump's racist basically. He's like the James Randi of racism.

Yeah, right, right. It's like, prove me wrong. And it totally falls in line with his birther streak of just being like, you're not American, you're so-and-so, or you're not a blah, you're lying about being Native American or whatever. It's just his whole tactic or whatever. So I'm just glad that she actually got a legit DNA analysis done by someone at Stanford, and it showed that six to eight generations back, she did in fact have a Native American ancestor. Like you're saying, Jack, at a rally pretty recently, he said,

hey, a million dollars if you can prove it to a charity of your choice. I got a million dollars straight up cash. Right. And then so they confronted him with this information. So let's let's hear on wax him using actual English words to say this out loud to people who heard it and put it in their memory and his denial of it yesterday. And we will say I will give you a million dollars million to your favorite charity paid for by Trump. If you take the test and it shows you're an indian you know and let's see what you choose right no i have no who cares who cares i didn't say that i. You better read it again.

Read what? This ain't a fucking contract. Read it again. He's going all Ricky Henderson, like, talking about himself in third person, like, paid for it by Trump. Yeah, paid for it by Trump. I mean, part of me, I will believe it, the fact that he doesn't remember because his brain is melting. So I could believe that. And I also could believe he doesn't want to remember because where the fuck is he going to get a million dollars? Right. I don't think

he has a million dollars. I mean, I'm sure he could put it together through weird donations and stuff. He'll be like, send out a fundraising email. He's like, we have to show Pocahontas that Trump is a man of his word and pay the million dollars. Counting on you, MAGA Army. I think also just the way he was like, and prove

you're an Indian. It's like, oh, God. An Indian. And then met by cheers. Well, I think also just the way he was like, and prove you're an Indian. It's like, oh, God. An Indian. And then met by cheers. Yeah, well, you know, because that's all the tactics they use is just, you know, discredit and demean whoever has anything to say with an ounce of truth to it. Update on this story. Elizabeth Warren, you know, named her charity, was like, hey, anyways, you said this, so this is where the million dollars goes, homie.

And he responded that he would be glad to if he could administer the DNA test, which seems like, you know. What, is he going to take it to do a polymerase chain reaction centrifuge process to fucking get her DNA? Yeah. No, he would do that, actually. He's a very principled scientist. I would love, though, if he was like,

okay, we'll go to a lab, and the scientist is going to walk me through it so I know I'm handling it the whole time. Okay, what do I do next? Administered by Trump. Exactly. Oh, I need a micropipette. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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Whose man? Your man. Whose man is this? Come get him. Come get your man's Australia. Apparently the worst couch surfer to have crashing at your place ever yo so there's a document that was leaked from the ecuadorian embassy that was basically like a ultimatum for julian assange sort of like yo we're gonna have to curb your internet access unless you start fucking doing a couple things apparently it started getting hot when the whole catalonian

uh secession thing was going on in Spain and he was being real vocal about that and just other just general things going on around the world. He was really cheerleading from the sidelines for things like that. And that was causing problems for Ecuador because other countries are looking at like, yo, you're housing this dude at your embassy. Like what's going on? What's good? So they're like, okay, we're going to have to take away your internet access for a little bit because we have to sort this out and it's not good for Ecuador.

So they gave him a list of things that they were really adamant that he needs to begin following through on. And these rules are fucking amazing. So just real quick, Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks and he had to seek asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London because he was brought up on rape charges in Sweden. Right, and they were trying to extradite him. Yeah, they were trying to extradite him,

so he's just hiding out, basically. That's where he's been this whole time. Whenever you see him, he's just basically been in this embassy cooped up. And I guess they're starting to really get fucking tired of this shit. The guests are like fish. They go bad after five years or whatever. Right. The fact that this is one of two stories this week where it's like, yeah, embassies are

basically like a home base where you can just do, like rules are different or something. It's like international waters, like a little island of international waters in the middle of a city. It's kind of crazy. Anyways. Oh, anyway, so they look in there and they're like, look, Julian, we got to talk, man, because you are messy as fuck. First is, please stop commenting on contentious political issues that can make shit hot for Ecuador, whether that's diplomatically or directly with Ecuador. So they're saying, you can talk, but don't start weighing in on shit.

And then thinking we're going to like, you know, put our chests out to protect you. And that's where I would expect the message to end. Yeah, of course. It's like, that's it. And then we're fine. We don't mind housing you. Great. Then it was like, look, bro, starting December 1st this year, you got to start paying your

motherfucking bills. Like you got to start paying for some shit. Like we can't pay for everything. Wait, what are start paying for some shit. They're like, we can't pay for everything, my man. Wait, what are they paying for? I think it's food and things like that. And I think apparently at a certain point... Oh, you gotta get a job. They're like, yo, exactly.

They're like, you need a job, my guy. And let me tell you why I need a job. Because the next thing they're talking about, start taking care of your fucking cat. You are not taking care of your cat. They're like, you're doing the minimum. The hygiene is shitty. You're not grooming this cat. The cat is just fucking running around. Please take care of your cat. They're like, you're doing the minimum. The hygiene is shitty. You're not grooming this cat.

The cat is just fucking running around. Please take care of your motherfucking cat. Then the last one, clean your motherfucking bathroom. That's another thing on the list is, please, the hygiene of the bathroom must be addressed and the bathroom must be cleaned regularly. I mean, I can imagine. I was a single man in college and I know what my bathroom got like at certain points. I mean, if you've been living in an embassy for years, I can only imagine what that happens to you.

You're probably a little depressed. You're probably just letting shit slide. Angry at the world. You're literally letting shit slide. Yeah. And now stepdad has to be like, look, I appreciate you. Look, me and your mother love you very much. Hey, I love your mom.

And I do this because I love your mom. But you got to take care of your pets. I wonder what's going on with the pet that they had to articulate that in this document, this agreement. Right. I'm going to guess it's a litter issue, probably. Yeah. He's probably not taking care of the litter box.

And then I wonder if he just thinks, yeah, it's like a hotel. When he's like, well, why don't you take care of it? He's like, I'm not cleaning the bathroom. It's like, we already take care of you not being arrested. Yeah, right. How's this? We'll work on you not getting arrested. You clean up after your fucking cat.

Oh, the cost that he has to be in pocketing up for is his food, laundry, and any other costs relating to his stay. Oh my God. He really is treating this like he is living with his mom and he ain't got to do nothing. Well, because yeah, These are the ultimatums You hear from a parent Who's tired of their Parasitic child

Right Like you don't clean Your bathroom You're fucking I get that times are tough And you graduated college In 2008 And the economy was terrible

But you've been here For 10 years Your cat's running amok Your friends come over Get high all day Making the place a mess And also I'm not Paying for your food

Yeah the next thing Is definitely gonna be like You also have to pay For your own Xbox Live. Right, exactly. Stop using our Netflix account. Yeah, it's messing up my algorithm and suggesting shows I have no interest in.

We made you your own profile, Julian. Yeah, is it that easy to hit left and then select when you launch Netflix? No. But he's not bringing in any paychecks, is he? Like, what's he getting paid for? Is WikiLeaks, is it like an ad-supported business or anything. It's not a thing that he charges people money for.

Sure, the Russians will slide him a couple dollars or something. He can just do a GoFundMe. Enough people staying for WikiLeaks that I'm sure he could find a way to pay for his own laundry. You better pick up a broom and start offering to clean stuff. Another thing they're saying, he must have quarterly medical checkups and he has to pay for those too. They're like, you need to take care of yourself too. Wow.

I feel like that is a very shady way of being like, look, all this stuff is probably going to get leaked. We ain't going to tell folks you don't take a shower. Right. Right, right, right. But we are going to tell you that you have to go to a doctor and whether or not you choose to shower before that checkup is up to you.

It will be heavily implied. You smell like shit. You're the stinky kid at the embassy. We're just worried about your health because we assume that you shower like an adult. So it must be something happening health-wise. Could you imagine it ends up like that? What was that story from a couple months ago? That dude in upstate New York who was like 30 or 31

and he was like suing his parents. Oh, Michael something. Yeah, like his parents were going to evict him and then he represented himself in court to be like, nah, my honor. This is bullshit.

I'm working on my app. Yeah. He's like, I can't get a job in six months. Are you crazy? Like that eventually Julian Assange is going to have some

like weird magistrate court in the UK. Right. Or I don't know. They would probably govern that in Ecuadorian lobby court, whatever they do over there in the embassy. Julian's like Lawrence on the couch. It's going to be like Julian Hive on TV. Hey, yo, get that man a blue Best Buy shirt.

Working on my app. Let's move on to our second embassy story of the day. Yeah, the darker one. The darkest one in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey and the story about Jamal Khashoggi. Because we're getting now more details. The audio hasn't been released widely, and hopefully it is not. But now the New York Times is reporting that, you know, it's been confirmed. You can hear him. Basically, they attack him the second he gets in, begin beating and torturing him.

They cut off his fingers. Then, you know, they basically dismember him while he's still alive. And you hear one of the people say, hey, I find that it helps to listen to music while you do this. Jesus. To someone outside the room or in the room? No, to the other people dismembering him with them. Like, hey, when we dismember political dissidents,

I find it helps to listen to music. Yeah, I listen to P.O.D. Right. Yeah, this whole thing just gets darker by the second. And, you know, we touched on it yesterday because Mike Pompeo went to Riyadh to try and get some answers, quote-unquote, from Mohammed bin Salman.

That wasn't going to happen because in the photo they were just like, hee-hee-hee-hee, yes, we're friends. And then afterwards, Mike Pompeo was like, look, I don't want to talk about facts. And the journalist was like, what do you mean? He's like, well, the Saudis really didn't either when I asked about the disappearance.

And then he's like, that's because they want to do their own thorough investigation into what really went down. So I guess we're meant to believe that they don't know that. I mean, I guess for the optics, they're trying to make it seem like, oh, I don't know what happened. Yeah, we're going to have to get down on that. But I'm sure them investigating themselves will render the truth.

I doubt that. But it gets more complicated because, like you're saying, Jack, like those tapes and stuff come from the Turkish government. Right. Because they were the ones who, like, had sources in there to be able to get this intelligence or whatever. They were the ones who had sources in there to be able to get this intelligence or whatever. And the more Mike Pompeo and Trump and Mohammed bin Salman were like, yeah, I don't know. We got to look into this. What are we going to do? And then Turkey always being like, what about this tape?

And we have this evidence. And it comes out and just makes it harder and harder to buy the Saudi Arabian version of events. Because, yeah, then the details just get more and more gruesome. Yeah, it's fucked up. And one thing Super Producer Nick Stumpf was pointing out is that Khashoggi had spoken to somebody and said that he initially was basically told to shut the fuck up by MBS,

Mohammed bin Salman, like after he said something negative about Trump. So it's, you know, and Trump is home use with MBS and I don't know, it's not, it's not proof that Trump ordered the hit, but it's just very,

I don't know. It's almost like there's no bottom to how bad this administration goes. Right. Yeah. Well, then not to mention that like the second, like right after Mike Pompeo arrives in Riyadh, $100 million comes into U.S. accounts from Saudi Arabia to help fight in Syria because Trump's been complaining about how nobody wants to pitch in on needless military excursions and things like that. But the State Department was like, well, you know, this isn't a tit-for-tat kind of thing because Mohammed bin Salman actually committed this money back in August. But everyone who was around that was saying the details were never really ironed out as to how the payments would get there and when and what the timeline was.

So it's amazing that the second he pulls up, $100 million comes in the account. timeline was. So it's amazing that the second he pulls up a hundred million dollars comes in the account. And then you have Trump in like the white house saying, well, hold on. Let's not, let's not Brett Kavanaugh, this guy quite yet. You know, we need to find out the truth first. And now we're getting like defenses from the, you know, American government, or at least buying the Saudis time to figure out what their next move is going to be in terms of explaining this. Cause it's, yeah, it just gets darker and darker and darker and more other governments are just like yo we don't we told y'all and other people had many a lot there seemed to be a lot of intelligence around this too and even jamal hashoggi himself was like everybody told him like yo i'll go in there oh did they well

yeah i mean a lot of people were very worried they They're like, if you go in there, like, don't be foolish, man. Like, you know that you are a threat to Mohammed bin Salman, and walking into the Saudi consulate could be a fucking disastrous step. And tell everybody, like, do whatever you have to do to protect yourself so you don't just, no one knows that you don't have this appointment. Because, yeah, he was lured in there, and he was murdered. Yeah. appointment because yeah he was lured in there and he was murdered yeah and yeah so hsog had like given a speech in jetta where he'd given a foreign policy talk lightly critical of

then president-elect trump and then mbs's media advisor basically reached out and said you're not you're not allowed to tweet or write your column or give comments to foreign journalists. The GOP, the grand old party is what that stands for, the Republicans, seem to be, I guess you can't say they're shifting focus, but they're definitely sharpening their focus when it comes to how they are portraying these midterms and their opponents. If the midterms are like a Fast and Furious drag race, they basically hit the Nas tanks of racism

to try and get to the fucking finish line right now because it's fucking wild right now. See, now this is content I can relate to. Yes, here we go. From my Fast and Furious people out there, don't blow your fucking canisters so quick uh but yeah the rhetoric is this i mean we always saw since trump it's always been pretty racist and xenophobic but now like it's hitting every mark so there are ads even coming out now with george soros looking like some like it's the most anti-semitic shit where he's

like some master of puppets and he's like behind colin kaepernick taking a knee or like just people who want health care and stuff and he's like just throwing money at shit uh which is a very odd thing he's forever will be the gop's boogeyman i guess yeah uh and then like matt gates who's a congressman in florida i mean he's also getting into this he like tweeted some video of like these people in in Honduras who were receiving small amounts of cash. But he was saying, is this George Soros giving immigrants money to charge the border? And it's like, yeah, because they- No. Yeah, right, exactly.

And it's like, the answer is no. Because yes, all these people just want a couple bucks before they endure the grueling journey on foot to go to the border to better their lives. But there is no reason he would do that. Or maybe it's because the hurricane Michael response in his district has been laughable. You know, like everyone you're starting to see, like, to me, it seems like they're starting to get real about what these midterms are looking like. And they're like, OK, should we just pull out all the fucking stops now? Like, just do whatever at this point, because our backs are against the wall. And that's what it reeks of because it's getting more like even aggressive. There was someone who was up for like a – I forget what kind of county board position in North Carolina.

He like suggested that like if you vote for Democrats, they want to make pedophilia legal. And like, you know, it's standard shit. I'm just saying we need to relook at pedophilia. Let's just make sure we're all on the same page here about what it is. Just checking in. Yeah. That's all we're saying. Yeah, and then on Thursday morning, Trump got on Twitter and was going full race war on our country by Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop the large flow of people, including many criminals, from entering Mexico to the U.S.

And just sort of going on this idea that essentially Democrats are leading immigrants by the hand to the border, which he had to explain because the logic of it is wild. Immigrants by the hand to the border, which he had to explain because the logic of it is wild. And then going on to say, like, if they don't do anything about it, then he might have to send the military to shut down the southern border and he can blow up any trade deals we have with Mexico. And again, this is, I think, just to drum up some kind of, you know, xenophobic fear of like, whoa, look, they're coming for the borders. And Fox was so willing to just, you know, go full tilt on this messaging. Sounds like there's a problem. Yeah. They're like, all right, what's the play?

Okay, Democrats are leading a gint mob to the border. That's immigrant mob from Moe from The Simpsons. Anyway, these are two Fox News clips where you're seeing them really underscore this point that the Democrats are actually the ones who are behind i guess migration i don't know this caravan issue lays at the feet of the democratic party up on the hill i like i said they've they've been educated what these loopholes are but they don't want to close the loopholes they want this president have have a fail on this issue but i hope the american people are paying attention because this isn't the president's failure this isn't the secretary's failure. This isn't the secretary's failure. This is the Democrats' failure because they know the issue and they refuse to fix it. They're putting their political ambitions ahead of public safety, national security, and border control. Simple as that.

Why would it be the Democrats' fault when they have- No power. The Republicans have all the power in the government? They have zero. I mean, that's insane. And he doesn't even, he can't even say failure, right? Yeah. That's Thomas Homan, who was the head of ICE. Got it. Who is, you know, America's

number one racist. And then there's another one, again, had to come in and underline this fact, this time from a pundit with a Hispanic last name. So maybe that will give some credence to this point. We're going to continue to see these caravans of people because we have politicians like Nancy Pelosi

who encourage them to keep making this trek. So Nancy Pelosi is encouraging people because they're saying, I don't know, we just want what's fair for people. Or the fact that they oppose a law that just brutally separates families and gives them this really awful option to like, you guys can go to jail together people or the fact that they oppose a law that just like brutally separates families and like gives them this really awful like option to like you guys can go to jail together or you split your

kids up and then maybe you can get your kid back i don't know what do you what do you want what do you do this is similar to a story that was happening maybe a couple months ago where they were talking about a quote caravan of people who are making their way to the united states border right and then that just totally fizzled out and then now they're just doing it again every time it's like it reminds me of like in the 80s there was always stories about like these waves of killer bees that were coming towards the mexico border that were gonna invade the united states yeah like it's just whenever there's a slow news day or whenever they need to get their – Remember they were African killer bees for a while?

Yeah, that was – yeah. And then that inspired Wu-Tang to bring out that killer bees out. It does remind me because the Democrats have no power, so it's so funny for them to be like these damn – so I was going to say it's like you just robbed a store or a bank and your dog is chained to a tree outside and you're like i think the dog took all the money out of that place right pretty sure you should probably look at him i don't know this is money this is my money actually from before i'm a different robbery yeah and i think again like you're saying jack like they're running out of rhetorical points to actually convince

someone to vote republican that they're not just being like, all right, let's just go after the full-on racist base and just try and turn them out as much as possible. Because there's nothing really convincing about this unless you respond to this fear-mongering shit. And it's just like that old barbarians at the gate argument that has been used for centuries now. It's like the oldest shit in the book. And can I just say, there are plenty of monstrous people in this world, but Mexicans aren't one of them. They are wonderful people.

People like Tom Homan, who looks like a guy who would scam you outside of a carnival to change your tire. Right. It's like, yeah, that's who we need to avoid. I know. But I saw you shoot my tire out. No, no, no.

That's a failure of the tire. All these people complaining about this stuff, too. Love a Mexican restaurant. I mean, just they want to wear the hat. They want the happy birthday song. They want the whole thing. Yeah, which is funny. Even when it's not their birthday.

I know. I guarantee you Republicans are leading, and it's not actually my birthday, but I'm going to say it is, in a restaurant to get free whatever. That's the mentality of a Republican in general. Or they're like, hey, honey, I'm going to propose to you. Take your ring off. Take your fucking ring off. I'm going to propose to you and we're going to get this fucking meal for free. And then I'm going to sing I Can Show You the World.

Also, also, also, you say I'm a vet. I'm an armed vet too. Yeah, it's always them doing the false valor shit. Yeah, I mean, like the lack of moral scruples would suggest that that would be the restaurant tactic of some of these people. The other strategy they're employing is just outright voter suppression. Yeah. So they're. That one's way worse.

Yeah. So, I mean, it seems like it's effective. Yeah. I read something even scarier recently or yesterday, which is that as they are getting closer to the midterms and they realize how bad their platform has been since Trump, like for regular people, they're actually starting to co-op democratic ideals and say that that's what they're going to do when they get in office just to get votes because they can't go up there and be like, we're literally taking away all your health care and giving all these corporations money.

So they're like, you know what? They're just trying to find ways to reword what the democratic platform is so that they don't look like the monsters that they are. And that's even scarier because that's not fair. If you're going to be a monster, be a damn monster. Exactly. Just go full monsty. Yeah. But like Georgia is one of those states where that has like a secretary of state running for office simultaneously while they're in office holding the position of vote master of a state and then

also running a campaign. And in Georgia, we've talked about this before, Brian Kemp, who's the Secretary of State. I think last week we talked about the number of registrations that were just put on ice because of their exact match law, which disproportionately affects voters of color. And then earlier this week, there was a group of about 40 black senior citizens who got on a bus to take them to do early voting by like this group called Black Votes Matter. That's a nonpartisan group. They're not there to tell these people how to vote. They're just like, we'll give you a ride to the polls. You're at a senior center.

It's probably like this. We'll make it easy. But somehow that bus just got stopped and they pulled all the people off the bus. And like the reasoning was really really whack they were just sort of saying like at first they thought that the senior senator was like they considered the activity political activity even though there was no mention of a party so what though but that would be a reason why they could interfere with it because yeah because like certain non-profit groups they can't actually put their flag in a party or either side they can't be partisan so they'll just be, we're here to advocate just for voter participation. We'll never say vote Democrat

or vote Republican. And so they were like, oh, this is probably what's going on. They're like, absolutely not. There's nothing to suggest that they were doing it. The only thing was that because a Democratic Party chairwoman helped to organize it, they were trying to use that fact to do it, although there was no evidence that anything untoward was happening at all so they were like hey we got to get off the bus uh look we can take you back to the center we can get you to vote and it was just a really transparent act of just voter intimidation yeah but like luckily for these elderly people sadly actually not lucky sadly this wasn't the first time someone has probably tried to stop them from voting uh and they were very resolute

they're like no we'll be back but this was bullshit. And it was very clear what the fuck was going on. I mean, once they were like, what is this? What do you mean? Like, they're just taking us to vote. And because it's a bus that says like black voters matter, that you're going to be like, hold on, what's going on here? Because I think there's Stacey Abrams votes and not Brian Kemp votes. Right.

This seems like just overall the sort of projection we've been talking about where it's like they claim voter fraud. That is one of their issues. And then meanwhile, they're like that just seems like the move for Republicans is yelling and pointing at the other side, accusing them of doing the thing that the Republicans are actually doing. them of doing the thing that the Republicans are actually doing. Well, right. Because they're saying we can't win over voters of color with our racist rhetoric. So they're cheating by appealing to more people. Right. Or something is the, it's really what's going on.

It's like you get caught sleeping with your wife's sister in the middle of it. And she's like, I can't believe you're doing that. And you're like, you're sleeping with my brother right now. She's like, you don't have a brother. And like, exactly. You always. But you would. Yeah, you would. You would. Also, you're not very family with my brother right now she's like you don't have a brother and like exactly you always but you would yeah you would also you're not very family oriented when you talk to me like and then you blame it on the dog yeah 100 and also the dog robbed the bank but yeah it's just the one thing though that is great is that with these midterms a lot of secretaries of states are on ballots and that's one way to really curb voter suppression because

a lot of republicans are holding these secretary of state seats. And that's another reason why everybody has to go and vote in these midterms. Don't just vote on the big ticket, people. Really look at your ballot and understand if your secretary of state or whatever office is running the elections in your state are people who are regularly purging voter rolls or engaging in that kind of right wing fuckery that is meant to disenfranchise people and exercising their constitutional right. Wait, how is that keeping them from doing voter suppression? Because you can vote – now we can vote in new secretaries of state. So like if you – in a state like, for example, if Chris Kobach was still secretary of state and not running for governor, now would be a perfect time to boot someone like him the fuck out.

Right, right. Because we need to get these caravans back in this country right yeah exactly well that's the other thing they claim that there's like some shadowy billionaire behind the scenes paying people to like do the liberal agenda when it's like they are run by the coke brothers sheldon adelson right who is the murky dude who's actually throwing money at everything. They're the party of shadowy billionaires and they have invented one whose name is way more recognizable. I feel like an idiot.

I still don't even know who George Soros is. I've heard his name a thousand billion times. A wealthy currency speculator who became very wealthy and is a philanthropist, but they've used him being Jewish to start all kinds of shit in Eastern Europe. That's it? He was giving a lot of money to left-wing causes, so they're like, him being Jewish to like just start all kinds of shit in Eastern Europe. And yeah,

it's, he was giving a lot of money to like left wing causes. So they're like, Oh, that's let's always use him as the boogeyman. Yeah. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back.

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I get it. I understand the benefit of an ESA. But this story is very interesting to me because last week there was a woman who was on a Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando to Cleveland. Okay, I already know enough. America's two greatest cities. Two greatest cities. They are actually. I love Cleveland.

Love Cleveland. Love Orlando. Love Penny Hardaway. I don't know why I'm talking like Trump. But essentially she told the airlines, like, hey, I'm bringing an emotional support animal on. And they're like, okay, fine. That's fine. We allow emotional support animals on.

She pulls up to the airport with not a dog or a cat, but a motherfucking squirrel, an emotional support squirrel. So when she got on the plane and they saw it, they're like, oh, hold up, hold up. You can't bring this on. She's like, why? Like, we have an actual policy of like no rodents on this plane. So I'm sorry, you may have to find another way to get your squirrel to your destination. And she was not having it, made a huge scene. It was like, well, you have to, like, I'm not getting off.

Me and this squirrel are going to Cleveland. And so they had to clear the plane and the police had to remove the woman because I think, I don't know if it was because they were like trying to like, it's like, hey, no one can shoot a camera phone while we like rough up this squirrel owner or something. Right. Anyway. And then the flight took off two hours later. I just really liked this story because I liked the idea of a person with their emotional

support squirrel who is so ride or die about their squirrel. And they're like, I'm sorry, we, this is my squirrel. And I think a squirrel would be a cool pet if you could get it to not shit everywhere. I had a friend who found a young baby squirrel that was abandoned in his yard. And it was so in need of food. And he nursed it to health.

And he had it for four months. But the thing was wild. It would just jump around his house and then just shit on you. Oh, interesting. And it was a terrible pet. But like he was, the little squirrel was very comfortable around humans.

And then I was like, have you taken this to a vet or anything, make sure it's not rabid? He's like, nah. I was like, I gotta go, my man. This is not the place for me. How does that story end? He tried to get it onto an airplane? Yo, the squirrel, no, the squirrel died.

Because like it went outside or something and it was too cold one night or something. It was a really weird story. It could have been a cover-up. But that reminds me of yesterday when we were at lunch, Anna Hosnier was talking about how a lot of the rich Saudis like to pal around with emotional support falcons on the plane. Oh, yeah. And then she showed us that photo of the dude bought out of flight

and there were 50 falcons on the plane with their little leather mask on so they don't wild out. That's the sort of shit you learn from super producer Ana Hosnia's podcast, Ethnically Ambiguous, is that falcons are the dogs of the Middle East. Like the flex pet. Yeah. Like how many falcons you got? Right, exactly.

How quickly can it catch a hare? Right, yeah. Also, falconry is dope. Like how many falcons you got? Right. Exactly. How quickly can it catch a hare? Right. Yeah. Also, falconry is dope. We interviewed a falcon... Falconer? Falconer. Back in the day it cracked. And they talk about their hobby as just being going hunting, but with a living gun.

Right. You've trained to do the hunting for you. Yeah, you probably feel like Aquaman or some shit. Or Birdman who has command of the birds. Who was not a man who was bitten by a radioactive bird. Aqua. Bitten by a radioactive aqua. One of the members of the dance group Aqua who did Barbie Girl.

Famous for Barbie Girl. Yeah, who was not bitten by them to turn into Aquaman. Although I would watch a weird cartoon based on that. So wait, what are the laws? Doesn't, like, with emotional support animals, don't things have to, like, honor people with animals like that to be able to, or no? I think it depends on the state.

I know, like, in California, right, if you have an emotional support pet and they're like, oh, we have a no pets policy, I think you can argue that, like, you should be able to rent the unit. I'm not entirely sure. I don't know about voter renters rights. Right.

But I do know that Falcons need passports. Right. According to a Geneva convention. I think the reason the squirrel part of it seems so weird is because like, I don't think there's any like pet store where you can buy a squirrel. Right. Like squirrels. I'd imagine she trapped that thing.

Yeah. Unless like, you know, it's like someone has like a squirrel business at the back of their house where they've been domesticating them. You know, if you want a squirrel, you go over to Roger's house. Right, right. He's got them on deck for like five bucks. I think they should have a, has to be purchasable at a standard pet store to be considered an emotional support animal.

Well, then you could buy a rat at a pet store. Right, well, that's what I'm saying. I wouldn't have a problem with a rat because people have pet rats. But they have a no-rodent policy. That's what I'm saying. How do they reconcile it to? I think their policy needs to be adapted to just trainable animals. Yeah, be more inclusive.

If you have a wacky pet, be like, can it do tricks? And if it can, you're like, all right. Yeah, there you go. The squirrel's not just going to run wild and shit. It clearly understands basic commands. Right. And I don't want them to be able to bring emotional support snakes on, but that's just because I don't like snake people.

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