Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of that shit elect trend officials. Uh, they're they're here, They're not going anywhere. They might be a problem. I am Jack. That is Miles. These are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. Donald Trump was a featured guest at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual convention in Chicago, where, uh, he just put on a show of Trumpian you know, thin skinnedness and racism and.
Absolute It's depending. It depends on how you look at it.
Right, there's yes. I think this is being looked at two ways.
I think black people, especially black journalists, are pretty mortified by the fact that this racist piss bag was invited into their house and then immediate disrespected the women on the panel and got dismissive and just did what Trump did. Because I think most people were like, we don't need more confirmation that he's racist and violent and especially towards
like women of color, Like that's so documented. I don't know what you stand to gain unless you're really on this both sides nonsense and you know that that goes nowhere. A lot of other people are like, wow, this was so bad. For Trump, like this is a disaster. But again, we didn't need this interview to know that he is a disaster, that he has terrible, just bigoted, racist takes
on so many things. But I think the other thing that is a little bit underrated about is like he also benefits from this appearance because this is just pure, uncut, racist, red meat for his base. And this is while there's all this speculation that he is afraid to debate a woman of color in Kamala Harris, and so he just gave them a taste of him being a total piece of shit to black women on a stage and talking over them and being like saying total nonsense, Like it's
pretty unbelievable. They started late, like I think, like like there was maybe thirty or so minutes late, and he said it was like technical difficulty because he was saying, like, because this woman didn't have the right equipment, he's blaming
one of the people on the panel. But really his team was pushing back on the fact that he wasn't going to allow them to fact check him in real time on the screens, so he would just be able to go out there and just say a bunch of nonsense and yeah, there have been a lot of I mean, I'll play this one. This is one where he's talking specifically about Kamala Harris again to a room full of black journalists. This is what his take is on Kamala Harris's racial identity.
Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman? Well, I can say no.
I think it's maybe a little bit different. So I've known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know is she Indian or is she black?
She is always illege. I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went she became a black just to be I think somebody should look into that too. When you ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty tone.
Yeah, yeah, so nasty, asking me questions, Yeah, correcting me that poof.
I am i am a Japanese person, poof I am a black person.
The magic is incredible. Uh, what you guys have to see this thing.
So a lot of people are just like, what the fuck is a actually going on here? But again, yeah, I think just further confirmation of what of what we knew Donald Trump to be. But I think even like you just see how like all of his people, his supporters.
Even responding to it on Twitter and they're just like, yeah, this was such a dub dude, Like he got in there.
They tried to gotcha question, Like the first question was like, how what would you like to say though the black voters you're trying to court. This is a summation of what the opening question was given your history of like racist statements. Yeah, and he's like, well, you're being very disresp like just came out already being like.
This is the way you approach me is disrespectful. And yeah, you could you could fill in like what he was going to say in a lot of cases, like just based on how he responds to women, how he responds to black people, how he response to women of color, And yeah, I think you're like this this is something we were just talking about like that he that there's always these examples where the mainstream media is like, well,
now he's showed his true colors. Shit, like what a mistake on his part, and then his polling numbers go up because the cruelty and the racism is is the point.
Yeah, and they gave him his platform to do and made everybody just made a just embarrassed the people on stage, I guess for you know, Harris Faulkner, who's the woman on Fox News. But yeah, it's sure, yeah what it is. I mean, we knew he was a disaster, so I don't.
Know what, you know.
Aside from like some spicy quotes from him, it was just really just more disgusting shit he was saying, and like just like the people laughing in the room, You're like, okay, there's a lot of blacks for Trump, like in that room too.
Just there's a very mixed reception.
But yeah, yeah, there was like a couple really strong claps happy yeah, like here and there. But for the most part, I feel like people were a lot.
Of people were like aghast I think, yeah, yeah in there because they couldn't believe what is what's happening?
Yeah, in other Trump News. There's a report by Rolling Stone that is looking into a group of about seventy election officials in swing states that they think they're going to like attack the electoral process even if he loses, in a way that is more coherent than what happened in twenty twenty, where it was just kind of trying to throw things together and calls people on the phone and literally be like, can you find me? Can you do the hundred thousand votes?
Yeah, So they looked into just sort of like the public profiles of some of these people, and these their investigation, so that these are people like fully bought in on the big Live twenty twenty like and have made their worldview pretty like public through social media posts and things like that. And some of them have also already dabbled in refusing to certify elections or.
Delaying the certification of elections. Like these are people who have been just huffing.
Election conspiracies for four straight years, and like these are the kinds of like true believer types that feel they have like a part to play in the fight against
the deep state or whoever the fuck. And according to Mark Elias, who is one of these election lawyers, that they interviewed in this piece, he sees again he's like, they are way more organized and motivated than in twenty twenty, and so the potential for like mass refusals to certify election results is pretty is a real possibility, obviously despite there being no legal basis for them to do so, but like a coordinated effort seems like that could be
part of the GOP's broader plan to attack the election results, because if they can stop a handful of counties from certifying, that would delay the entire states ability to certify in a timely manner, and then we get these constitutional crisis type things. You've got lawsuits going around, maybe you get a judge who's down with what you're thinking or not, or you appeal to the Supreme Court.
It's very un Yeah, yeah, you can count on them.
But like I mean, when considering like Trump's big motivation is basically to sidestep all his like legal exposure in troubles, I would obviously I would be betting money if you're like, this is the only way I'm going to stay out of jail or being completely financially ruined. I need to get in fucking office. Yeah, you're gonna fucking pull every lever you can to try and cheat, or you know, there's other groups that are election deniers, that are trying to get vote more.
Voter roles purged.
So there's a full on attack happening that I think is right now. I don't know how much of it. I think most people are on alert, especially the people who are working elections. But this is something that I think it will potentially has, you know, becomes a big, big story in the coming Yes, remember to take your time.
That has been his strategy throughout his career, right is like do illegal shit and then tie when people call him on it, tie them up in court. When media calls him on not having as much money as he claims to or like horrible shit that he's doing, he
ties them up in court. And now he seems like he is safeguarding this election, like in that direction where now he's he's remaking American democracy in the image of how he built his career, which is like just tie shit up in court and get powerful people who are willing to help you out.
Yeah. So again this is uh. I think it just shows.
Sort of the the intensity at which the you know, right wing apparatus is like viewing this and what they feel they can do outside of the traditional thing, which is just to win votes. They're like, no, we need every voter suppression. We need to people to fucking delay the certification because it's in the it's in those periods of the delays that the uncertainty comes up and.
More people begin to be like, what's going on?
And then and you can now feed different narratives about like it was stolen or that these votes were not right, and you build that up and then you have a release of that energy like we saw on January sixth, if that is indeed part of the plan, because he's also said really weird things where he's like and I don't need your vote, like he said the stuff groups, He's like other votes.
And the story really made me feel think about the Kevin Roberts quote that we talked about on I think Monday or Tuesday's episode, where in referring to like the election, he said, we are winning in ways that the other side doesn't know yet. We're not going to tell you everything that's coming, but I think we're ready to fight. Basically, it feels like they're talking like they have something in the works like this.
Yeah, it and you just see too, the insistence that the election has already won. That the way even his rhetoric, he's like, he's like, yeah, I mean I won't. I won't, you know, be opposed to the election results if they're fair and they're right. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to win. Yeah, and it's going to take a lot for me to lose. So I don't think I'm going to lose. And yeah, it's you see the you see the tinder there for a pretty big flame out.
Yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're back, and let's talk about some non election stuff. Should we?
Sure?
Should we talk about how to make spright taste ten times better? According to Parade Magazine?
Oh wow, way get ready?
Are we talking like in the McDonald's sense, like the like fountain soda.
I mean, there's so many ways that this could have gone. I had a recipe that made bright taste really good. That was like my first, my first culinary success, which was just sprite orange juice and vanilla ice cream and like a punch that I made interested and it worked. It works.
But is that making sprite taste better, or you just found a tasty concoction that involves sprite.
Yeah, it's just and well, this article is basically just a very long art article explaining what an ice cream float is. Just it's just like, so you've heard of root beer and vanilla ice cream, but what about sprite and lime subert what about that?
Though?
Oh okay, that's basically there the interest in sprite, I mean, I get it because it has healing properties when done right, and there's constant interest in like why fountain sprite tastes better? And like I actually saw there was an article I think in the takeout like last week where they were talking about it and they're like, it's because like everything is cold from the beginning, like the even the bags of syrup are pre refrigerated or something is to make sure that's that's what they claim.
We're into sprite lore, you know what I mean.
And that is a myth above sprite lord, that it's refrigerated at every level, and also that they take in the ice dilution into account, like so like the they.
Get extra bubbly and extra sugary to keep it an extra cold.
Yeah, but lime subirt in it. Whatever.
I feel like they just signed with the same marketing company that pitched Cores on their whole gimmick being how cold their beer is yea, and like that company hadn't had a win, like we haven't gotten a second account. They're the worst marketing agency. And they're like, we pitched to Nike about having the coldest sneakers. That didn't work.
They're like, oh like street slang, no, no, like no no, They're like, they're like super chilled temperature wise.
They're these sneakers and they they turn blue when they're really cold. Okay, talking about and then.
Commercially one a guy just reaches his hand into a fucking glacier and then pulls a pair out.
And you're like, ah, these are so fucking cold, man, just do it.
So what do you guys think?
We're thinking two million dollars just to start and then we'll really get the ball rolling on this get out.
Yeah. The founder like the movie The Founder about that marketing company that that windshield a wayer movie. Anyways, it's basically try sprite you. This entire article could be sprat with lime. Surbert is pretty good.
They see this is there and they're not playing fair by acting they know, we want to know the secret of making.
There are these little fluctuations and how great spray tastes. And it's like, wait, did they crack the code? They did not.
Put a lumpus surberd in it? Okay, all right, yeah, I'm down.
Yeah, now if you tell me to put half and half in it, Like we're in Salt Lake City now, we're talking some d sods. All right. Something that was happening a little earlier this week that I just wanted to circle back to was the Olympics opening ceremony attacking
my faith. Now, but they're like, the way the story was covered was that the Olympic opening ceremonies did recreate the Last Supper with drag performers, right, And I think they probably that's the way the story went because people involved with the Olympics were like, we're so sorry, We're so sorry because that you know, they've got a lot of corporate sponsors, and I guess the tech company c Spire pulled their advertising from the games after the thing.
So also, how culturally illiterate people are too yes to be like it's it looks like a group of people that can only be the Last Supper with Jesus Christ.
That's like I've watched Obviously you can't see a clip of it online because it's the Olympics and they don't let you put clips online. But all the scream caps that are supposed to show this moment that is a recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper painting, like, don't
look like the Last Supper. No, no, I'm supposed to And like even in intent, it was supposed to be a recreation of the Feast of the Gods featuring Dionysus, the god of Wine, who is also the father of the goddess Liken to the river sin.
Right, well, that makes sense, right, back and all.
Yeah, it's a back and all, And it just seems like, I don't know, did somebody say something about the Last Supper even then, I mean, it's not the only last.
I think when your confirmation bias is said to.
The world is against me as a way Christian, then yeah, you're gonna start fucking seeing ghosts.
Yeah, Mike Johnson turning off, h what's it called covenant eyes to pull up to the be like, all right, let's see what these French fucks are saying, I can't let my son know that I'm watching this, but and yeah, it's just that very self centered white Christian perspective. I think it's the same thing like when I was talking about earlier Christian artwork, where it was like the version of art history we get is like Middle Ages art
sucked and then it got good in the Renaissance. It was like, no, it sucked after years and years of it being good. It was just Christian artwork was really bad for a while because of a lot of really
fucked up things going on the civilization. It's like, I don't know, they they they don't like to admit that a lot of the imagery and Christian iconography is borrowed or inspired by previous you know, pagan religious imagery or just all the religions, and so they're they're so thin skinned that people have to be like, yeah, we're sorry,
we yeah, totally didn't mean to offend you. And it's just like that's all they were talking about, like pagan religion that you just couldn't differentiate from your own, right it all it kind of looks the same.
They're making fun of me.
It's like, no, actually, that's the thing that your art is ripping off, right, That's what it was.
But yeah, yeah, and then finally it's just a cool story Canada. I mean it's a shame, but Canada tried to do something cool and bring drone spying into the Olympics, which I think could have taken things in an interesting direction, like having a mission impossible style, you know, intelligence war added to all the other you know, I mean, the Olympics are a arms race of science doping, how well you can hide the doping all that stuff, might as
well have like some cool intelligence. And maybe they're already is and they were just really bad at it.
Sounds like they got a nasty habit, these Canadian soccer teams.
Yeah. So a few days before the opening, Canada was scheduled to play New Zealand. But on Wednesday before the opening, a staff member for the Canadian team was linked to a drone that had been spying on the New Zealand team's practice, And then the coach of the Canadian women's soccer team was like, I did not direct staffers to do this, but I am voluntarily removing myself from coaching the game, which they actually ended up winning two one.
Yeah, but then if it's funny the players, like, I swear I didn't see any footage either, and they may not. I mean, who knows, you know what they may have gleaned from the drone footage. But yeah, it's wild too that now, like FIFA, who's like the governing body of like World Soccer, said that the head coach and two of the staff members were found responsible for offensive behavior and violation of the principles of fair play and they're
banned from the sport for a year. And then the Canadian national team has been penalized six points like in the group stage play, which basically makes it very hard for them to get.
Yeah, I'd have to win everything ten nothing or something like that. Yeah, which is well. Also, yeah, so they removed it turned out like the voluntary removal where they're like, I had nothing to do with this, but I'll remove myself just to be cool, was not accurate and they had all fucked up right also the players. Yeah, so
the players have claimed they had nothing to do with it. Also, like they kept getting caught doing this and were like, yeah, I guess so h. There were instances of spying at Conka Calf Nations League matches, which is like World Cup qualifiers, this past summer's Copa America tournament and the Tokyo Olympics in twenty twenty one, when Canada's women's team won the gold medal. So they've been getting caught doing this, the CEO.
So this is the statement that I found intriguing. The CEO of Canada Soccer says the men's national soccer team attempted drone usage during the Copa America tournament that wrapped up earlier this month, but what the men were doing and what the women were doing was significantly different, and that it was his understanding it didn't affect competitive integrity. So he's like, yeah, okay, fine, Well, I mean, like.
You can only learn to be honest, you can only learn so much from spying on a practice, like if maybe you're trying to get an idea of like how they're setting up positionally, or who's fit or who's not right, but it's just such a like unnecessary way to try and squeeze out an advantage. And I don't know if they somehow, like I'm not trying to cast as persons on how good they are, but it feels like you don't need to do that, and hey, if you are doing it, can you tell people what how to make
drone footage like super compelling too? Because god, we'd love to know. And then we can all spy on each other and figure it out. Yeah, all dressed like a soccer ball and be like just with my little camcorder. Don't mind me, I'm a ball, I'm a six football.
Yeah, it's it seems so cartoonish and stupid that. Yeah, it's kind of awesome.
Yeah, Like we love to know that the spirit of cheating is still alive. That's what's important.
We all look, we're all just trying to win, baby, we're all trying to shave edge. All right, Uh those have you watched anything cool on the Olympics, any any fun sports?
I watched competitive kayaking, okay, which is wild because of someone who's like done very gentle like sea kayaking. Like watching these people fucking like navigate these like man made rapids is just sort of interesting.
Oh the people swam in the sein though, they did. Yeah, they said the water did not taste good, so said.
Mild yeah shooting.
Yeah, yeah it's a uh yeah, it did not taste good.
Was sort of the.
It didn't taste great. Olympic swimming in the end finally happens. So yeah, yeah, yeah I didn't, but I didn't watch it. I just saw the headlines about that. And what else did I watch?
I watched the gymnastics.
Cool, Yeah, shooting is I think I mentioned that. My eight year old caught wind of the fact that shooting is an Olympic sport because there's like the little logo above each event that shows and it has a little stick figure like shooting a gun. Shooting a handgun makes
it look pretty intriguing. So we were watching that the guy from was it Turkey, who like they are so high tech, Like all the shooters have like these little like eye like they look like jewelers loops on their eye and then like a they look like anime characters. Yeah you know what I mean, Like all this celter
tech to help their aiming. Picture TechEd out and then the guy from Turkey just coming out there with one hand in a pocket and that was like the only technology he was using other than the gun was his pocket and he won silver. Was pretty cool.
Having his hand in his pocket was just such a wild look, like everyone looks like they got the wildest form in techniques or like how to hold it, and he was just kind of like it just felt like like how the American like if Americans were good, Like this asshole had his hand in his pocket and.
Just like, yeah, binkink bink, all right, where's my metal?
Does feel like we need a bink bink bank for the sport like a shooting Olympic shooting authorities reach out to me. I have some notes about how we could make it, Like I just need to know that they have pulled the trigger in some way that beyond just the dot appearing on the little screen.
Like when Fox was putting the little glowing on the puck, just.
To spice it up a little bit.
Yeah, like the gun lights up after you pulled the trigger, or like I don't I don't need you to like make it look like a gun is being shot. Got blamer out here, but yeah.
Something that like a laser line or something.
Yeah, that would be cool. Yeah. Anyways, UH aren't entertaining enough to us and boring.
Where we're getting at. We're broken, all right.
Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, July thirty. First, we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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