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The Daily Zeitgeist

Proving The Haters Right, MAGA = The Borg Is Cool! 01.22.26

The Daily Zeitgeist

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4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In episode 1993, Jack and Miles are joined by English professor, author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, and host of Nerd from the Future, Ramzi Fawaz, to discuss… Trump Continues To Prove The Haters Right, Minneapolis PD Says Off Duty Officers (Of Color) Being Targeted by ICE, The Right Is Trying To Claim Star Trek and more!

  1. Trump: We've done more than any other administration has done by far—in terms of military, in terms of ending wars, in terms of completing wars, nobody's really seen very much like it.
  2. Trump: These are professional agitators and professional people that want to see our country do badly. But that's not happening because we have the hottest country.
  3. Trump: I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could have done some damage. But you know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain.
  4. Trump: "Your lover isn't going to be killed anymore, so you can act like a real lover. You can walk right through the middle of the town. And DC is beautiful again too."
  5. Minneapolis PD Says Off Duty Officers (Of Color) Being Targeted by ICE
  6. William Shatner eats a bowl of cereal while driving and more star snaps
  7. William Shatner boldly devours cereal while driving his SUV in Studio City
  8. Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion
  9. William Shatner Pokes Fun at Stephen Miller for Calling on Him to Control ‘Star Trek’ Franchise
  10. How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke’s Campus to Trump’s West Wing
  11. ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Debuts With Positive Reviews And Political Nonsense
  12. Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons
  13. "Star Trek is inherently right wing and Christian and no amount of modern rewriting or changing of canon can remove that."
  14. Elon Musk and Stephen Miller’s culture war against Star Trek is built on ignorance
  15. Hollywood Flashback: ‘Star Trek’ Showed TV’s First Interracial Kiss in 1968
  16. How ‘Star Trek’ Survived the Vietnam Era and Took Over the World
  17. Star Trek's Prime Directive Had A Grim Real-Life Inspiration

  18. William Shatner responds after Ted Cruz says Captain Kirk was likely a Republican

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0:00.0

When I was in college, I was having the psychedelic experiences during lecture.

0:11.1

Oh, really?

0:11.9

You took drugs?

0:13.1

You took psychedelics before class?

0:16.3

That's amazing.

0:17.6

But what did that do for your learning experience?

0:20.2

The lecture lasted about seven hours longer than it actually did. That's amazing. But what did that do for your learning experience?

0:24.2

The lecture lasted about seven hours longer than it actually.

0:27.5

And I never did it again.

0:28.9

Oh, that is amazing. I remember I had an art history lecture that I went to just like, not like really far,

0:35.6

but I took a couple bites of some mushrooms before I went into class and

0:39.3

I could have swore the thing was going like all day that is amazing and then I was like this is not

0:44.6

great I'm not in my mind I didn't come for a conference yeah but part of me was like dude fucking art

0:49.3

bro and like you're gonna look at this art and you're like gonna trip in and shit and no I was so

0:54.0

uncomfortable this is so interesting my favorite class in college was called the philosophy of art and criticism

1:00.4

and uh we had a teacher who kind of fucked with the student the very first day because this student

1:08.6

was very not about the debate version of class. Like he had a very

1:13.1

narrow mindset and he was trying to tell us what art is and what it isn't. And the teacher was like,

1:19.3

so it's funny how like you don't really notice anything until you point out a flaw in it. He's like,

1:25.4

do you notice the chair you're sitting in right now? And he's like, no. He's like, yeah, because there's nothing wrong with it. He's like, you're telling me what, what is art, what is an art, what makes that chair a chair? And then he kind of just kept blowing this kid's mind because every time he came up with some sort of rule, He would like talk around it. And the kid, as he was leaving, he's like, I feel like I fucked up.

1:44.5

Am I tripping or something?

1:45.7

And he was just like really questioning everything.

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