The Daily Zeitgeist - You Can't Arrest A Sitting PresiTrend 11/12: Trump's Cabinet, The Rock, Harris Campaign Debt, Trump Conviction

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

In this edition of You Can't Arrest Me, I'm PresiTrend, Jack and Miles discuss the first round of disconcerting Trump cabinet picks, The Rock setting the record straight about his punctuality and pee bottle controversy, how Kamala Harris blew through 1 billion dollars, whether or not Trump's felony conviction will be dismissed and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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President? President? President? President. President. My name's Jack, that's Miles. Flawless. Yeah, we're already there.

It's like, what? But no, just throw the case out. Fuck you mean the case. What do you mean? I'm convicted No, see you're good. You're hearing you are convicted. How about that? I'm the fucking president. Gotta go. We'll talk about that soon Yeah First up we're getting some cabinet picks, baby a lot of people for waiting to see

Was he gonna like follow through on you know do the thing you know Harris promised to have a Republican in her cabinet so is he gonna have he's so anti-war He's so anti-war remember that's one of the things he's gonna stop all the wars He's gonna stop all the wars and then you have a fucking Hawk Marco Rubio as our Secretary of State. All I could do for Hawthorne. He is at least it doesn't fully want to just be like fuck NATO. I don't know. I look it could have been like again a sentient barf bag, but no, it's Marco Rubio. Chief of Staff will be Suzy Wiles who ran the campaign.

Marky Rubs. Has anyone called him Markie Rubs? I feel like that's kind of a fun name. Nah. And I don't think you should either. Markie the Rube. Yeah, maybe. But anyway, Susie Wiles is going to be the first woman to serve as chief of staff, so

history being made there. Deputy chief of staff for policy is Teenage Mutant Ninja Gurbals, aka Stephen Miller, which is not the most powerful position, but the formal title of the office has little to do with how influential this person is going to be in terms of immigration policy. The EPA director, Lee Zeldin, who, you know, Congress, former congressman from New York, I don't know, he has a law background. So maybe that'll come in handy when you have to undo everything. And the EPA, the EPA director will just be in charge of destroying the EPA.

Yeah. U.N. ambassador Elise Stefanic for everyone in APAC is celebrating because she couldn't be more of a freak than that and again she'll be the UN ambassador Nikki Haley that was unfortunately Nikki Haley's former position it looks like she's being offered fuck all but again Nikki Haley that's that's what happens because you really thought you could just be like I'm against him no I'm for him I'm again what are has anybody listened to the like pro Trump

Podcasts like they you know like there's all these like young what's that this one? Yeah? No, we know nobody's listened to this one. Oh No the Like all the young got like the full stop or whatever Oh full send full send podcasts all that shit like'm just wondering, are they are they suffering back? Are they are they like, yeah, Nikki Haley, your fate, you know, like what fun is it being the podcast, like a bunch of young guys who are like, yeah, fuck everything. And then being like the president's great. I love the press, you know, like what do they just go back to like, I don't know, you know like what do they just?

Go back to like I don't know 24 7 or what? What is that? No, actually? I might we'll have to see we will have to see well I don't think so I doubt that they're gonna be like dude. That's so wild, dude He said he's gonna be like a more of like a pacifist, dude I'm seeing a bunch like neocon war hawks under the staff and that's not what he said. That's like kind of a kind of a sus move. Yeah. Department of Homeland Security, guess what? Puppy side is on the menu because that's where Kristi Noem is gonna end up in charge of DHS. She can make hard decisions you know. Yeah obviously. Miles she actually likes to make. Please let her make a hard decision for you. Yes, yes.

If the puppy is sick, if the puppy has a little limp, if the puppy is annoying. Yeah, in a way, it is probably the more terror. Like a lot of people thought it could be Marjorie Taylor Green. And people are like, oh, thank God it's Kristi Noem. It's like the person who will dispatch a puppy for being too puppy-like. That's the person who we're going to put in charge of this, like fucking agency we need to do away with. Anyway, and then the other thing we found out is that Mike Huckabee will be

the ambassador to Israel. So, Hey, for all y'all waiting for the rapture, baby, the end times. People know that, right? Like the one of the big reasons that evangelicals are pro-Israel is because they think it's going to bring about the end times and the rapture that the Bible talks about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he, he's one of them. And he's like Mike Pompeo, Mike Pompeo, who is our others for the Secretary of State. You just need to be Mike and in government. And that kind of what where you're coming from Mike Pence Mike Pompeo

Mike Huckabee. Yeah, exactly But yeah I'm like there's also like more stories about like Mar-a-Lago just sounds like this fucked up like real-life Hybrid of like those HBO shows like Silicon Valley in succession or it's like just Fucking knifing each other people trying to get the president's attention like just fucking knifing each other, people trying to get the president's attention. It sounds like he's giving a lot of attention to total political novices,

like influencers and like business people. And I don't know, we'll see where it goes. The one thing that people are like, you know, kind of maybe concerned with in terms of like Republican majorities is that like he's picking a lot of people from Congress and the Republican majority is very slim, but I don't know. I mean, I think a lot of these people that he's picking are coming from pretty red districts or states. So it might not be that I don't

know. We'll see. We'll see how that all looks. But anyway, I mean, the first Trump presidency, like the way the people jacking for influence were people who like golfed with him and like, you know, guys who had like roofing companies and stuff then like Florida and you know, there were some billionaires sprinkled in, but now it's going to be now that it's just like everyone who's a billionaire is like on board. It's going to be real, some real high level knife fighting happening at Mar-a-Lago. Is this going to trigger like a like billionaire fight to be like,

you guys are cutting us billionaires out of your scheme to completely take all the money out of this country. We want it. And they're like, no. Yeah. And then what do they do? They're like, we got to bring you down now. We're the other billionaires. Like, I mean, because that this, you know, the thing about billionaires is they like us like something stable because

that keeps the money printing machine on. When you start throwing everything into chaos, that's this is kind of what happened last time they were they didn't the business leaders weren't you know, they weren't obviously principled enough to really say anything against Trump. But they're like in private, they're like, we'd rather not the fucking chaos because that doesn't make me as rich. Yeah. But now they're fully bought in. I think it's going to continue to be really good for billionaires, probably

good for a wall street and fucking terrible for everybody else. Let's see if anybody can articulate that. Yeah. The Joe Rogan of the left, perhaps the rock. We have to get to the main story of the day. Yeah. The rock has blasted a report claiming that he pees in water bottles and is eight hours late to set specifically on his latest film.

Red one. I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one looks cool. Yeah. He was like, oh, that's that whole story is bullshit, brother. But then he admitted he does pee in water bottles and was late to set in the same. So I was like the set and peeing in bottles. No, but also, yeah, I was like, sit on a peanut ball. Yeah, yeah. He it just like he speaks like a person who's not been. On planet are speaking to a real human being in maybe a decade.

Oh, even more, even more. There's a report in the rap that alleged that The Rock was constantly late while filming his new Christmas movie, Red One, and quote, made a habit of peeing in a water bottle to save time, upsetting crew members. Insiders told the rap that Johnson showed up as much as eight hours late

Eight hours late to anything is like you just Miss don't come. Yeah, it's not even late. It's just that's like a different Yeah, like cuz eight hours to a different thing as all Americans who toil know that's like those are the blocks of you know Typical shifts it's like an entire workday late. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're of, you know, typical shifts. It's like an entire workday late. Yeah. Yeah. We're like, yo, you show up at five. You're like, bro, you're supposed to be in at nine. I know I'm late.

Sorry. Traffic. What? What? No, what the fuck is this? You mean traffic. What are you doing? I'm peeing in a Dasani bottle.

What the fuck's wrong with you? All right. I'm ready to work. I'm ready to work. So with Vanity Fair, he set set the record straight calling the article bullshit, but also admitting that he was late and did piss in bottles on set Yeah, that happens. I've said a thousand times. Hey, I'm here come and ask me and I'll tell you the truth, which is Your reaction was it's bullshit, but then you're like, yeah, it happens. Just ask me Yeah, don't like take other people's word on that it's bullshit. But then you're like, yeah, it happens. Just ask me. Yeah.

Don't like take other people's word on that. Just ask me if that happens. So he asked about being eight hours late to say it said, he said, yeah, that happens, but not that amount, by the way. There, that was a banana's amount. That's crazy. Ridiculous. I also just like somebody who is behind a small villages worth of like publicists and PR people being like, I'm here. I'm an open book. I'm a man. Ask me, man. Yeah, I'm 40 years old thing. Isn't that unusual on movie sets? Because

you hear a lot about this. Yeah, there may not be a toilet very close by. Now that everything's shot on digital, like there used to be big breaks built into shooting a film so that they could rewind, like change to a new reel. There's no longer that. And so you're just shooting the whole time. Robert Downey Jr. reportedly pissed in mason jars on the set of Zodiac and left them lying around as a form of protest because he didn't get enough breaks

zodiac famously like one of the not the first big digital movies but like, you know early in the game I was actually so familiar. Did you know the Robert Downey jr.iston Mason jars? No story. No, I'm not. I was so familiar with that story. I actually had added it to the movie. I thought when Jake Gyllenhaal's character went and visited him, he was living on a houseboat like with jars of piss laying around. Oh, you last time I watched it, I was like, wait, where's the jars of piss? Hold on, honey. Rewind that real quick. Where the fucking piss jar go. And then David Foster Wallace once wrote a profile of David Lynch and said that he was constantly peeing in public because he drank so much coffee.

So he relaxed in between shots. Diuretics, man. Yeah. Easy. A prodigious coffee drinker apparently peas hard and often, and neither he nor the production can afford the time It'd take him to run down to base camp so yeah, hey when you got to go and there's a Million dollar clock running. Yep, and now you can piss in public like I'm just like the rock exactly pissing in bottles Like I'm just like the rock. Exactly.

Pissing in bottles. I'm just like the FedEx delivery driver who delivers stuff to me. Yeah. I'm I'd say I'm blue collar. Pissed in a bottle once. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the Harris campaign.

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And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. We're back. A lot of people have probably heard this story by now that Kamala Harris's fundraising went to pay wealthy millionaire celebrities, including Oprah, who at one article claimed charged the campaign $1 million to show up. It's important to note that that article was, I guess, was in The Spectator.

But it was from the Washington Examiner. Yeah. The detail that they quote was sourced from a Washington Examiner article, which I'm wondering, like, is this what we're going to get going forward? Is like centrist news outlets using right wing media because like what? What? They were right. They won. Right.

Well, cause you also have a lot of people like Democrats, like latching onto this story too, and being like, what were they doing? And it's like, I mean, I, but again, I think the details that I think most people were like, they paid Oprah $1 million. I think most people are getting hung up on that detail. But I think the broader issue, which does actually need a little bit more scrutiny here, is how was all of this money spent?

Like exactly. How was it spent? So they raised a billion dollars, ended up $20 million in debt. So one detail that I think I hear they paid Oprah a million dollars and I'm thinking briefcase of cash and you say vote Harris. Yeah, like Oprah is going to be like, I'm actually holding out my vote to see what happens. Just whoever can give me one million dollars famously. Just one million dollars, yeah. It was actually a media event and Oprah's company handled production.

So the Harris campaign paid Oprah's company, uh, not saying that makes it better, but it does explain where that money was going because they had like, uh, they spent more than $15 million on event production with like concerts. And, concerts and so there were seven swing state concerts that involved high-priced performers. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, John Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin, who seemingly ended up costing the Harris campaign more than $20 million on event production alone. So this is what they were spending their money on, is like putting on these events that didn't move any needles like whatsoever.

I didn't even know that they happened. And I was paying attention to the election for a living. I mean, I think it's also, it is important to note though that like a lot of people, there have been like these articles like according to FEC filings, a lot of people haven't fully been able to find these same figures that the Washington Examiner is saying. So I think it's important to like, I think it is clear a lot of money was raised and a lot of money was spent getting into like what exactly those amounts are.

I don't know if we're totally clear on, but it is true. We saw the scale of some of these events and the performers that are there and they're not that that's really this proper infrastructure. You have to set up for that kind of shit. It's not it is not cheap. But yeah, I think just it does just sort of again the larger the broader question is like what was the what was the plan here? Because to your point, these concerts,

okay, you're already talking to a group of people that are probably bought in already on the idea that Donald Trump is bad. So if we're just doing wish fulfillment events for Harris supporters to feel good about their support, okay, but is that actually an effective tool in terms of like, again, it's not like you like the courting, the right thing was going to work, but maybe just turn out your base with like properly energize them in a way that

isn't just sort of like saying, Hey, look at these celebrities that also agree that everything. And maybe when miles says, turn out your base, we could like turn that into a fun turnout for what like kind of? Activation moment your BAS s okay. It's actually turn up your base turn down your treble Okay, let's turn down the trouble and turn our base. Okay, that's five million dollars DLC Harris's budget was closely guarded by campaign manager Jen O'Malley-Dillon. So it's unclear how funds were allocated exactly.

Just seems that they were not allocated well. We'll get to a New York Fashion Week event in tomorrow's episode. Yeah, where we can get an idea of what they thought was popping. Yeah, it's really unbelievable. Yeah. You know, the dark money was popping. Yeah, it's really unbelievable. Yeah. You know, the dark money was everywhere. I think the stat is that Harris spent seven point five million dollars a day or her campaign spent seven million dollars a day.

Trump spent two point five a day, which is still like, holy shit. That's a crazy amount of money. But I assumed it was all being spent on like ads and door knocking, you know, like paying people to do or not. I'm sure. But then what are, what are these consultant fees look like? Cause people are making, people are making money off of this. Not like people are like, Oh my God, you know me, I have a set rate for you. The DNC that's a bargain. Cause I'm on the right side. No, everybody's cashing in on this. Um,

and that's why I think it's like doubly offensive to see these like fundraising texts keep coming around to people. And it's like, fucking what? Yeah. Fifteen point nine billion dollars, which is what was spent on the election in total this year is more than half of the cost of ending hunger in the U.S. It's just four billion dollars short of the $20 billion necessary to end homelessness in the United States. But yeah, and in other countries like the, you know, the UK and Germany, their elections cost one 40th of the price of us races per

person. Right. Yeah. Just, I mean, this is like, look, this is the day everyone's like wow billionaires are really getting in the race like yet because they they just cornered it with all this bad spend and just general money that they flooded into the races but yeah there's that there's that there's also so Donald Trump convicted felon we were really leaning on that that we're like can't be president gonna be convicted felon he is convicted felon any we were really leaning on that. We were like, can't be president, he can't be convicted felon. He is convicted felon. If any is president, now what? Yeah. The now what is a question being asked by both sides. The judge in that case has paused legal proceedings after a request from both his lawyers and prosecutors.

So to put that in legal terms, everybody's trying to figure out how the fuck to deal with this shit. It's just like the rest of us. See? Judges and lawyers, they're just like us. Just like us. But yeah, sentencing was scheduled for November 26th, but the Tuesday hearing was in response to Trump's motion for the conviction to be overturned. And the indictment dismissed on the grounds the case included some evidence the prosecution should not have been able to use per the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity essentially you can't put me in jail I'm the I'm

president yeah you know exactly what do you exactly what are you gonna punch a man with glasses what are you gonna arrest a man who's president? No, I guess not. Oh wow. You're wearing glasses and are the president? Yeah. Oh yeah, we can't do anything. The prosecutors say they want to find a way

to balance a jury verdict of guilty following the trial that has the presumption of regularity and the office of the president. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like, you know, he's going to get it thrown out on the grounds of you can't tell me what to do on president, which maybe, maybe that's just our first glimpse of what this shit is going to look like. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be just a lot of ignoring what's happening.

Cause like there was even like a tweet where like Elizabeth Warren was like, this, he's already breaking the law. And it's just so, you're like, yeah, hey, so what are you gonna, can you, well, what are our options here? Because if they aren't doing it through the normal avenues of like the legal system, then maybe people need to get a little creative here on how to manifest the displeasure of voting people

in a way that can be felt rather than being like, well, the judge threw it out and that's it. And that's it, that we have no other options as people. There's no other ways to demonstrate. If the courts didn't do it, then let's just go back to work, everyone. Elizabeth Warren wrote a tweet that started, Donald Trump and his transition team

are already breaking the law. I would know because I wrote the law explaining what the law is about how incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement. And Amanda Yee quote tweeted that and then screen capped a tweet from at ARR, guys like me are mad for turtle meat

is his display name miles And said the last decade has been the Democrats clinging onto the rulebook going but a dog can't play basketball Well a dog fucking dunks on us over and over. Yeah Less of that air chud. Yeah exactly All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this tuesday afternoon we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show video episode yeah well video will be up on friday yeah but a fun episode nonetheless yeah it'll be like watching the video episode with your eyes closed it's like reading a a book, then seeing the movie. Exactly. And trust me, the movie will not disappoint.

There's some very good video clips in tomorrow's episode. Anyways, until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. [♪'s okay. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Gracias Come Again, a podcast by Honey German, where we get real and dive straight into todo lo actual y viral. We're talking music, the awards, the gossip, and all things trending in my culture. I'm bringing you all the latest happening in our entertainment world and some fun and impactful interviews with your combos on the issues that matter to us, and it's all packed with gems, fun, straight up comedia, and that's a song that only nuestra gente can sprinkle.

Listen to Gracias Come Again on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey everyone, this is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Leighton and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen

to podcasts. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was assassinated. Crooks everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a Mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974. George Foreman was champion of the world.

Ali was smart and he was handsome. The story behind the Rumble in the Jungle is like a Hollywood movie. But that is only half the story. There's also James Brown, Bill Withers, BB King, Miriam Makeba. All the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa. It was a big deal. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts.