ReinZeited 4/11: Justin Jones, Alvin Bragg, McFlurry, Frank Ocean, Chuck Schumer, New Films, Kellyanne Conway

State House. Yeah, that one. That one kind of boomeranged and in the process, they're just made Justin Jones and Justin Pearson like figureheads, and it truly was like the Obi Wan Kenobi Darth Vader, things like if you strike me down, I will just become more powerful than you'll ever know. Uh. And yeah, he's back. Like it's funny because when he got when they voted to expel him, he's like, I'll see y'all Monday, and you know what he like, they've they've they called that session to get

him back and his ass wasn't there. And I was like, yeah, this is fucking cool. But it just again shows you that how stupid the Republicans are and that like they're just going for this thing like get the noisy black activists people out of here and thinking that that was going to solve their problem by being all fash like that, without realizing that the power rests with the people of that district to figure out like who's going to replace him? Yeah,

so yeah, I don't know. I feel like we're going to see a lot of that, where it's they do a fascist thing, there's public outrage, and then sometimes they take it back. I mean we're seeing that now pretty much. Yeah, it's about it's just about adjusting our vocabulary. Sorry, not just like ah, those those old conservatives rather than these right wing extremists that it's become so normal now that we're fully like, oh yeah, that's extremist shit, rather than

that's the everyday talk of the part. Alvin Bragg is suing Jim Jordan for intimidation. Yeah, because you know, he's been screaming like since Trump has been indicted, and he's like it's a weapon nice you know, court system, and like we gotta pull him up here to know what

the fuck's going on in New York. But yeah, Alvin Bragg sued him basically to say that I'm going to try and keep you from interfering with this fucking case, because that's all you guys are doing is meddling from DC and like inciting people and just making all kinds

of problems. So apparently it's a fifty page suit filed in the Southern District and accuses Jordan of quote a brazen and unconstitutional attack on the prosecution of mister Trump and a quote transparent campaign to intimidate an attack the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, who we've known him, is already in Him and his family have received death threats. The judge and his family have received death threats. So, yeah,

it feels like, you know, something that has to be done. Unfortunately, because you have a whole group of you know, the MAGA faithful that are just willing to cause as much instability as possible. Yeah, are they like doing anything legally because I know that they had tried to like subpoena the guy who was in charge of the District Attorney's investigation in a Trump before. Have they like pulled any of that shit, I'm not. I mean they're trying to

do stuff. I don't. I don't think anything has worked. It's just been a lot of like we're gonna do it and then a lot of people are like you, Lea, it's like really legally murky. Even what you're trying to do there, you're not allowed to do it, but I'm not okay. But again, same same pattern as before. We're gonna storm the capital, we're gonna kick them out of the legislature, We're gonna you know, yeah answer and then

you just say that yeah and yeah. Eventually, again, like abortion, you might catch the car and it might be a really bad thing for you in the end. But yeah, so far, Yeah, the the attacks don't seem to have stopped at all, because it's they're they're all just they're all singing from the same hymnal. There's a new mcflurry, strawberry shortcake mcflurry, which sounds good in my in my mind's eye, in your mind's eye, until you use your your your eyes eye, until I use my eye eyes eye, captain.

I keep an eye out and I say no, no, captain, And I see what what they what this looks like. So this is a thing that has been a very popular McDonald's menu item internationally. Yeah. Um, so when I hear strawberry shortcake MC flurry, I'm picturing and this is crazy strawberries. I'm picturing pieces McDonald's. Jock, it's Jack, it's McDonald don't expect real pieces of fruit at McDonald's. The strawberry shortcake mcflury has what appears to it's it's like

little pink pieces of of like fruity pebbles. It looks like in there and this is this is the product photograph like it's in a glass cup, like it's in a glass that Don Draper would drink whiskey out of. So like the you're trying to make it look as good as possible, but it looks like fruity pebbles flavored with as you pointed out, like fiberglass insulation. Oh yeah, definitely, Poe there was a fiberglass insulation cereal like it would

look like this. It has pitched at one point. Anybody who's done a little bit of you know, building or housework, you know that very unique pink you of ever less insulation. It's nailed it. I think pebbles. M yama, yemma, yemma. My lungs are already thanking you. But like the to me, it looks like did you ever eat like Colonel crunch bars like that had like a Neclaire topping on the outside and there, or like the strawberry shortcake ice cream bar that the top. Yes, yes, it's like, yeah, that

is that's what it is. And it's just like those like flavor rocks. I'm back on board, baby. That's why I'm like when I saw that, because that was that was like my go too. It is so weird. I loved getting that the ice cream truck that and um a screwball because I had the piece of gum at the bottom of it. Yeah. But yeah, the strawberry shortcake, like it's that sort of topping within it. I'm I'm all for that. No, I mean it sounds like it's great.

It sounds like it's a I'm already struggling to not go to McDonald's like multiple times a week because because I believe my baby son wants that for me. It's the rationalization I'm using. But now it turns out it's probably not good for my long term health, so this may just have to be a tree short term happiness though. You got to balance your short term happiness in there. Thanks Dad. This recipe was developed by McDonald's chefs and features real lemon juice, bits of lemon pulp, and real

cane sugar. What is this? This is the strawberry shortcake because I mean, yeah, I mean when you taste like real strawberry shortcake, the like white cream dressing has like a little lemony white cream dressing. Yeah, is that gross? That dressing. It's like the idea of it calling it dressing like it's salad. Rawberry said, where is the lemon part at in strawberry shortcake? You know, where are you finding the wording? I'm looking in the article. I can't

find the word. Sorry. I went to Food and Wine, who are also writing about this. Rather than me looking at the sun like an absolute troglodyte, I'm are actually thinking about a different strawberry dessert because strawberry shortcake is just a lot of times that I've had it is just whipped cream, strawberries and cake, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah no that my mom used to make this thing strawberries Jessica, which has a lot many whoa hold on

that shit is really good. I love when like those kinds of like seventies kind of recipes, like throwing a name at the end of it, like yeah, we're having strawberries Jessica. Yea, what the fuck is this? That is apparently not a thing that it is called anywhere else, because when I look up strawberries, Jessica, there's just somebody named Jessica strawberry on Instagram. But I do see one that no strawberries, Jessica. It looks like a half cup of heavy cream, a half cup of sour cream, one

of two tablespoons of sugar, juice of half a lemon. Yeah, strawberries cut in half, then add one eighth to a quarter cup of vodka. Oh shit, is that point? I still explains my childhood? That explains a lot. Actually, we were bombed on strawberries, Jessicambard raise strawberry, Jessica, what Jack? I know why to size Jessica. Anyways, I will probably try this at some points. It seems like a limited

time situation sting. Maybe I won't get to it in time, but look, ants are I'm going to be there after like being up with the baby. That like sometimes I use that as like when I'm up with the baby, I'm like, you know what, though, I'm up to get McDonald's breakfast the second they offer what's your sleep? Situation looking like these days. Sleep situation pretty good. He look, we are blessed. The child on a good night sleeps

about six hours. Wow. And so right now we're slowly like not sleep training, but like emphasizing more eating during the day. So he eats less during the night. Last night seven hours forty minutes. Wow. Yeah, and he's got thighs like Christmas Hams this book. You got to see it. And he's a deep sleeper. But yeah, it's it's it's been look fingers crossed, you know. I know there's like there's sometimes there's a bit of regression, but it's like one of those things man like with when you when

you raise a kid. Right, there's so much, so many fucking books out there, and shit and half of them I feel like undermine your own ability to be confident in your parental skills. Yeah, and you're like, oh, fuck the book. I'm doing like not a single thing this book says. But meanwhile, like the kids sleeping six hours and we're you know, we're able to like maintain this

like pace of like having a newborn. And that's when I've realized, like I have to, like it's like you got to sift through the wisdom that's out there and find things that you incorporate and not being so rigid. That's the biggest lesson I've learned so far in my infancy as a parent. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't read anybody. I mean I read a couple and was like, he's a conflicting I read one, Okay, I read like this French parenting book because like always people like, oh, French parenting,

French parenting, Like what the fuck is this? And I just like, I like to see like other cultures takes on parenting because it's read by an American raising her child in France. And then I see them they smoke four or five cigarettes, yeah, have abott red wine, some housages. Um, that's kind of like how but their needs are so fucking specific, like very easy at this moment that I'm like,

I'm kind of look, I'm more into vibe parenting. I don't know if I write where it's like, you know, I get what he wants, and I know if he's sad and I'm addressing that and we're getting through it and he's sleeping and use all the good parts of your personality, yeah, exactly, And his neck is strong as shit, you know what I mean? Hey, but neck is fucking white and his kicks. Man, he's about to almost broke my kneecap the other day. And those looks I mean serving,

he's serving. He serving Christmas hand. Christmas hand, ladies and gents. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. I remember actually when our first was like that age, and I was like, you know, you spend so much time and they're just like sitting there and they're like, well, maybe he's gonna absorb the I read so many like books to him that like that. I don't know why. It's just like so much wasted energy. But I don't know that's something to do. It's stimulating.

I think at the end of the day, like I took that when like you should read to him, I'm like, he does not speak English. So guess what. I'm gonna hold up this stuffed animal and I'm gonna wrap like dmxle rics to him. Because he laughs at that, Yeah, you know what, that's what it is. Right now he grows up and his first words are then I'll know we have a problem. But I have a feeling it's just about he's getting the eye contact, he's hearing words,

he's getting dynamic sounds, you know, just work. We're doing bit by bit. Yeah. Um, Frank Ocean headlining Coachella five just brought him up. Coachell is coming up, yeah, and this is gonna be his first live performance in six years. People are also reading the tea leaves on his statements like just being he said like he's thinking about maybe starting to plan to work on more durational material. Oh. People are like that means an album, it means everybody,

um hmm, or it doesn't know. We don't know. It could be a performance art piece. You don't know. Yeah, I mean last time he dropped he dropped blond on us. He also dropped it with a hour and a half long performance art piece. Right, We're like, this is the album, so let's just dig in and get used to it a classic, Like yeah, seven days later, I look, I hope he will show up. I mean yeah, I don't

know why. I'm like, it's just like one of those It's like a meme in live music of like, yeah, sure if Frank Ocean's going to be there, but at this point they're way too close to the day for him to back out now, so please join for that. Kanye pulled out a like pretty late. I think one time we got canceled pretty late, but it wasn't this close. No,

and they lined someone up. I mean like it would be very easy to find replacements because most artists would you know, bite your hand off at the offer to like headline Coachella. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I think that's part of me, just like being like fuck man that lineup. There's a lot of people Coyote, They're doing a show in between weekends, and I'm gonna go try and see that so I can still at least he hidus Kyote in La. Yeah. Nice, Chuck Schumer, send a majority leader

Charles E. Schumer. Yeah, Amy Schumer's cousin. Let us not forget Okay, let us not forget the connections between comedy and the Senate. Yeah, this is the first time I'm learning he's sent a majority leader. I just know him as Amy Chumer's cousin. Oh that that wastrel um. Yeah, he is offering he's gonna put up a resolution next week,

basically in response to Donald Trump's like repeated calls. He's like he you know, he put on truth social saying like he's like, Congress should quote defund the dj and FBI until they come to their senses for investigating me. And so Chuck Schumer is like, oh, okay, here, I'm gonna do something. I mean, I could be putting forward gun legislation, but here, let me put the Republicans in a weird spot. I'm gonna put up like a resolution that would condemn these calls of Trump to do that

and would support that would support federal law enforcement. So I'm gonna make you guys choose between Trump and federal law enforcement and let me know if that's check or checkmate. Yeah exactly when I'm like, okay, sure, like they don't give a fuck. No one's gonna fucking like. I bet half of them will vote against it because they're more concerned about Donald Trump's reaction to their vote than anything

but a bit of a congressional gamerie as it were. Yeah, it is fun to watch Ron de Santis not be able to like say anything about any of this kind of say stuff. He shook daddy. I don't know. I don't know why they think this is a good like. I don't know, man, if you're really gonna go for it and you want to take over the publican party like like be like you know Jip Moretti in that season a Boardwalk Empire when he pulled up and people are like, Yo, this guy's a real problem. We thought

we had a problem. This motherfucker is a problem because I mean Trump's I'm like whatever, I don't give a shit, do whatever the fuck You're gonna be over there. It's gonna be a fucking knife fight in the general election anyway. So yeah, yeah, I'm just saying, learn the lesson of Corless. Williamson took Arizona to the finals. Uh do they win the championship that year? Would have been the number one pick. Came back for another season, Yeah, and just was like

the fourteenth pick. Yea, like not it happens. So I don't know, get get while the getting's good, you know, not Arizona. Did I say Arizona? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, all right, every come on, Jack, you gotta go. Yeah, go to bed, Go to bed. There's some cinema that so Boa is afraid is the new ari Aster movie the dude who made Hereditary and midmar which I know film fans are really strong, strong opinions on those films. Have you seen it?

I've only I haven't seen any of them because I just like Hereditary was too scary, and I was like, I'm a positive, and really I walked away from it because he too scared. Yeah, I was like, yeah, y'all got something to do because I'm crying. But pretends someone calling from the other end. Yeah, he's like, where no one's in hearing now? Now a positive? Actually turned the TV off? Actually get you throw the TV out the window? Fire. But yeah, this one so this very mixed reviews. This

is Joaquin Phoenix. The trailer looks like an acid trip. Um, this a good trailer though all his movies look very interesting to me. I'm just a baby, and also I don't have that much time to watch stuff that my kids can't watch, so right right, Um, I don't know. And they didn't like the opening of Hereditary. They were like, not feeling it. I told you, I told you they ain't built for it, Jack, because they aren't ready for that. Tough enough. Uh. And then Charlie day uh Is has

a directorial debut come out called Fools Paradise. Um, it looks kind of fun, worth a look. At the trailer. But it's basically he plays somebody in an institutionalized person who looks like the star of a movie, and they just like swap him in. It's a Dave Yea, a movie star. So we're just going for off the rack ip now, huh taking a straight off the rack and you're just swapping it out if you want this big. I remember Kevin Klein does that like an automobile factory

with like robot arms hu. And then you kept looking at Sigourney weavers thigh and that's how she knew something was up. It's just like you never looked at me like that. Wow. Yeah, Well that the movie was good. I remember liking that, like as a twelve year old. Oh yeah, I remember films. I don't know why I was the same way. I was like, I want to buy Dave on va Jess. I'm like, I'm a big Ivan rightman fan? Yeah? Um. And finally, influencers are trending.

Kelly and Conway v worried, V worried. We were talking about this Biden's army of influencers that he's gonna use to sway the election, and Kelly an Conway is like, yeah, actually that's a that's a that's kind of worrying me as a person who wants to bring an ethno state

to the United States. Here this is her speaking about, you know, just kind of what's at stake, especially when messaging to young people, because I'm not sure what the stat is, but there's something about like around over ten or so fifteen million Gen Z kids that are going to be like a voting age by the time the general swings around in twenty twenty four. So I'm sure you look at those and you're like, oh, yeah, they hate guns and they like body autonomy and the climate.

So this is Kelly an Conway just kind of gaming it out loud on Fox. So we can't be beaten on this policy wise. I think we've already won the policy arguments on the economy, on educational a number of issue he's killing. Maybe you've got some work to do on the young people who think differently on abortion perhaps or guns or climate change. But even there maybe some work.

Messages are usually cynical place. I'm really the thing I'm really concerned about with this, Laura, is that the Left becomes a turnout machine with young people because influencers have this dominant effect Lemming like effective people just all them wanting to be part of the same crowd, and if they succeed in that way, we're not doing a great job competing for ballots. We're just been competing for votes. Our candidates lost their early voting. Anyway, enough of that,

I think you actually assess versus competing for votes? Is that like they stole the election? Talking point? Is that? Really?

I don't know. It doesn't matter Jack, because at the end of the day, she's saying stuff like we're on the wrong side of things like abortion, guns and climate the work and they're lem but they're lemmings though, Yeah, you're not going to solve it if that's your and your next thing is, yeah, they're they're lemmings though it's not because of the fucking existential threat that these issues

posed to people. Yeah, we can do a better job of appealing to these lemming dipshits because they've backed they've painted themselves into the anti woke corner, right, you know what I mean, there's never we're never going to hear them say. You know what, folks, I think we had the whole body autonomy thing completely wrong. We had it all wrong. We should not have we should not have

gone so hard on restricting abortion access for people. That was that was, that was that they just have some work to do, just have some work to do to basically negate their votes. That's what it is. And they use the guys of like, oh god, what are we gonna do about messaging? But we see it, we see the business of like Republican state houses and stuff. They're all in for negating the votes. That's all. That's the solution. It's not to meet people where they're at. So, yeah,

we've keep doubling down, folks, and we'll just watching horror. Yeah. All right, Well those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, April eleventh. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye bye,