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LA Fights Back · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I combined a tome with Wirt's leg. But
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  stuff still happened. So what's up? It's getting
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  very fashy outside. It's been fashy. It's getting
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  fashier. Let's talk about Los Angeles. Starting
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  on Friday and over the weekend, there have been
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  clashes between federal law enforcement and protesters
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  in LA as ICE has been escalating their deportation
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  efforts in the city. Now, if you're not familiar
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  with LA, there's a few Latino people there. There's
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  a handful of them. At least one or two I haven't
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  personally counted. So ICE shows up in downtown
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  LA and starts to detain people at storefronts
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  while they're working. You know, contributing?
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  Such hardened criminals. About 200 people showed
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  up to protest these ICE operations, try to block
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  them, just impede their work. Because no one
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  wants them there. This is not what the city voted
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  for, it's not what the state voted for, it's
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  not what the people there want. but it's happening
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  to them because just general aggression from
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  the right. Trump has made California his punching
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  bag, like despite the quality of life in California
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  being pretty good comparatively, he's made it
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  out to be this hellhole that's just complete
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  anarchy. And for whatever reason, people on the
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  right eat it up. And so they're targeting primarily
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  places that they've been told have fallen, right?
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  So I want to be clear, before I dig into the
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  timeline of what happened in LA, I want to just
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  say up front, LA is fine. Seattle is fine. Chicago
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  is fine. These places have not been destroyed.
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  I said 200 people showed up. That's 200 people.
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  LA has millions of people living there. It was
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  like a few blocks. Like if you were in the city,
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  there was virtually no chance that you'd even
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  stumble upon it. So don't let the media overplay
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  the scale of all of this. It's important to note
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  that. What the protesters did was courageous.
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  But it didn't destroy the city. ICE ended up
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  arresting 44 people, including the head of the
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  United Service Workers Union for the region,
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  which that's not a good look. The protesters
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  were mostly around a detention facility and a
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  federal building, and that's more or less where
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  it went on for the night. On Saturday, the raids
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  continued, but they moved over into the nearby
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  town of Paramount, which is over 80 % Latina.
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  They started going after day laborers at a Home
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  Depot, because again, those criminals ruining
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  our country by... building things. As ICE showed
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  up, the community started to push back. About
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  400 people in total at peak showed up to push
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  back against it. Things continued to escalate,
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  protesters pushed back, ICE and law enforcement
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  were using less lethal munitions, which is to
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  say rubber bullets, which can still kill you.
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  It came to a head on Saturday night when the
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  president of the United States of America asserted
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  that he was sending 2 ,000 troops from the National
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  Guard into LA to quell the anarchy. 400 people.
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  400 got to send in the National Guard on top
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  of the FBI and ICE and local law enforcement
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  to handle 400 people who are not in tactical
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  gear. What a strong man. Notably, both the governor
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  of California and the mayor of LA said, don't
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  do that. That's a bad idea. There's no need that's
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  not currently met by existing forces. I would
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  say that there isn't a need to begin with. to
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  have any of the forces. Not to sit out an opportunity
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  to be a complete chud, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary
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  of Defense, jumped in to say that if need be,
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  he would deploy Marines against U .S. citizens.
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  That's not how that works. That's not how that
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  works. The White House put out a statement saying
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  that the Commander in Chief would establish law
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  and order, which is not the capacity that the
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  president is acting in when he's executing the
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  law, but, you know, what does that matter anymore?
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  And before the night was over, Trump thanked
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  the National Guard for solving the problem before
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  the National Guard even actually arrived in LA.
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  Mission accomplished. I'm recording this on Sunday,
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  and as of right now, it's been relatively quiet.
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  There's literally a livestream of the chaos in
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  the city, and it's just a livestream of National
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  Guard members standing around in a parking lot.
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  looking around at nothing. At the same time,
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  there's now pictures coming out of local community
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  members cleaning up the mess of rubber bullets
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  and gas canisters left behind by the cops. Monday.
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  Boom. Jump scare. It's the next day. I did not
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  sleep well last night, so my voice and vibe will
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  be different. I wanted to include a bit of an
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  update. There were more protests on Sunday night
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  that grew to a much larger scale. A large crowd
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  of people took to the streets to show solidarity
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  with their community against the Fed. It was
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  largely peaceful. It was literally just a bunch
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  of people walking in the streets, marching. There
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  was scuffles, obviously, that's going to happen
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  at any mass gathering like this. But yeah, not
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  a war zone still. That said, there's also clips
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  of police brutality that is going around. One
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  clip shows LAPD on horses just trampling a dude
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  repeatedly. And another shows an Australian news
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  reporter reporting. and a cop just takes aim
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  and shoots a rubber bullet directly at her on
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  camera. They're creating these scenes in progressive
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  places that did not want this to happen. They're
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  specifically targeting these places because they've
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  spent decades at this point convincing their
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  base that America has fallen. They truly and
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  honestly bill this as warfare and have convinced
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  people that it is dangerous to go to cities because
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  of violent immigrants. marauding the place. Obviously,
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  to anyone who exists in actual reality, that's
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  not happening. But they can't be like, uh, psych,
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  now that we're in office, that's not actually
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  a problem. They're trying to make good on the
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  lies that they have spun, and the way they're
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  doing that is targeting places that are okay
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  with having these people there, and getting rid
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  of them, and getting footage of tearing them
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  out of buildings, so that they can play that
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  footage for their base. Gotta satisfy the bloodlust.
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  Hello, hello, hello. If you like what I do, Thank
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  you for being here, first of all. Second of all,
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  I've got a Patreon, I've got a merch store, I've
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  got a Discord community, I've got a lot of other
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  stuff. I stream on Twitch also. Anyway, links
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  in the description if you want to support me
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  by sharing or subscribing or what have you. All
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  right, moving on. Moving on to policy. The mayor
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  of Tulsa, Oklahoma has announced a plan to invest
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  $100 million into the black community of the
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  city in response to the 1920s Tulsa race massacre.
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  Up front, the funds for the reparations are privately
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  raised. They're not taxes. And also, the reparations
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  are an investment. They're not giving people
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  a check. But what is this? What's going on? Why
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  are they doing this? The Tulsa Race Massacre
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  is one of those stories that the U .S. really
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  likes to bury. It really likes to not teach us
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  when they're talking about racial history in
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  the states. In the summer of 1921, white supremacists
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  in Tulsa were deputized by the state and massacred
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  an entire neighborhood of black people. Specifically,
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  the neighborhood was referred to colloquially
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  as Black Wall Street because of how much prosperity
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  was happening there for Black folks. A violent
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  mob of white supremacists killed hundreds of
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  people, injured hundreds more, and razed 35 square
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  blocks of neighborhood, leaving over 10 ,000
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  people homeless. This is just a thing that happened.
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  So obviously reparations didn't happen for a
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  while, and about 20ish, 30ish years ago, there
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  was an investigation into like the state's role
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  in the massacre, and ultimately they suggested
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  we should do reparations. And now the city has
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  a black mayor for the first time, and he is pushing
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  for that to actually happen. This is one of those
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  stories that's just like the move bombings in
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  Philadelphia, where the Philadelphia Police Department
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  dropped multiple bombs from a helicopter onto
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  residential buildings. The house blew up, people
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  inside it died, and it started a fire that raged
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  for over an hour while the police just let it.
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  Dozens of homes were destroyed, people were made
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  homeless, lives were lost, and we don't talk
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  about that at all. But please, keep talking about
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  Tiananmen Square, because the states have never
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  done anything like that. Let's talk about the
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  Trump and Musk fallout. We knew this was gonna
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  happen. We knew this was gonna happen. We just
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  didn't know when. After Musk left the White House
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  after having been beside Trump for the first
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  few months of his presidency, they had a bit
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  of a beef. Both of them, very masculinely, went
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  to their social media platforms and subtweeted
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  each other for several hours. Musk said that
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  Trump is in the Epstein files, which, like, didoy.
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  and also said that Trump should be impeached,
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  while Trump says that Musk lost his mind and
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  is a drug addict. Which basically just means
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  that Trump knew that Elon was on drugs, but let
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  him just dismantle the government anyway, and
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  Elon knew that Trump is a pedophile, but worked
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  with him anyway. So that's... Well done, guys.
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  The reactions from the right have been... interesting
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  to follow. At first there was a lot of disbelief
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  and confusion, and a lot of public pleading for
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  them to kiss and make up. Then that went to there's
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  no way this is real, they're both in on it somehow,
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  like this is a ploy, it's a distraction of some
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  kind, but it hasn't really stopped. It's only
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  kind of solidified, and at this point right -wing
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  figures, especially terminally online ones, are
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  staking their claim as to more or less which
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  side they're gonna fall on, Musk or Trump. And
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  now Musk is talking about making a new political
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  party, which... What? Where are you gonna put
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  it? To the right of Trump? Anyway, it's all incredibly
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  stupid and could have been avoided by just not
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  having man -children elevated to the highest
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  levels of our society? Because these men's, and
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  I do not say this lightly, are nincompoops. Nincompoops!
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  You probably remember Kilmara Brego -Garcia,
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  the man who was mistakenly deported due to a,
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  quote, administrative error. to the torture prison
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  CICOT in El Salvador, that place that we're sending
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  people without a trial. So there was the whole
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  thing where the Trump administration accidentally
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  deported a guy who wasn't supposed to be deported
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  to a prison and then said that he could never
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  come back. Notably, the prison is a place that
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  claims no one will ever see the light of day
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  once they enter there, sometimes referred to
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  as a death camp. The United States government
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  said that he was now out of their jurisdiction
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  and there was nothing they could do to bring
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  him back. The Supreme Court said, what the fuck,
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  bring him back. to which the Trump administration
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  said, nah, but now they're actually bringing
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  him back. Why? To face charges as Attorney General
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  Pam Bondi has now charged him with trafficking
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  people across the border in a 10 -year -long
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  operation. Suddenly this guy has a criminal case.
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  This specific guy. Because oops. Now the announcement
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  of these charges don't fill me with confidence
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  that they're real because a prosecutor in the
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  office in charge of actually carrying out this
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  current case quit immediately. upon finding out
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  about this. He had been working there for 15
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  years and was a high -ranking prosecutor and
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  just noked out specifically because of this.
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  Quoting ABC News, Weird. Attorneys for Abrego
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  Garcia said he's gonna fight this like hell.
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  Best of luck. World stuff. Yeah, I don't know
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  what that was. Let's talk about Ukraine. Ukraine
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  pulled off a wild drone attack this past week
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  that has been in planning for over a year and
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  a half. The drone attack destroyed dozens of
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  aircraft deep in Russia's territory in military
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  installations. And when I say deep in Russia's
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  territory, I mean like 2 ,500 miles from Ukraine.
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  They did this by sneaking drones in in shipping
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  containers essentially, and they had operatives
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  actually out in Russia. preparing for all of
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  this. All at once, these shipping containers
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  were placed in the right locations. There was
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  a hatch on the top that opened up and allowed
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  for a drone to come out that was manually piloted
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  over the military bases to take out the planes.
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  There were no casualties on either side. That's
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  fucking crazy. This is the biggest drone strike
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  operation in the war so far and a major turning
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  point. Like this military strategists are freaking
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  out about this. I almost forgot that you can
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  do like covert military operations without just
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  annihilating civilians. Russia has since responded
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  to the attack with more bombings and they claimed
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  they're gonna get revenge despite also saying
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  that it wasn't a big deal and that it was just
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  that their planes caught fire. But we're gonna
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  get revenge! South Korea has a new president.
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  Lee Jae Myung has won the presidency in South
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  Korea. He is a center left to leftish politician.
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  He has previously likened himself to Bernie Sanders,
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  but largely ran on a platform of pragmatism and
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  just stability. Because if you recall, South
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  Korea, their previous president, tried to enforce
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  martial law, much to the chagrin of literally
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  everyone. While he was in office, he was like,
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  I'ma make, I'ma declare martial law. I'ma keep
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  my power that way. To which his own party was
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  like, bro, fucking what? Lawmakers in South Korea
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  came together and very quickly said, no, no,
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  no. And he became the first arrested and indicted
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  president from South Korea. Imagine that. This
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  new president is focusing on economic reform
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  and trying to just reestablish any sense of faith
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  in the government after that. He's also looking
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  to take a new approach to foreign diplomacy given
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  Washington DC's slipping position on the world
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  stage. But let's go a little bit north and talk
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  about the North Korea. Remember a few episodes
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  ago, I talked about how North Korea went to go
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  deploy a warship and it did not work. It capsized.
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  Well, they fixed it. They done fixed it. Well
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  done guys. Yeah, there's apparently they managed
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  to pull it out of the water They used like literal
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  ropes and barges to just like and then redeployed
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  the ship This was originally reported by a North
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  Korean state -run media, but it was it was confirmed
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  by satellite imagery Congrats on the ship. Hopefully
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  Kimmy J won't be too upset But I'm pretty sure
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  he's still recovering from his emotions gaming
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  the switch to launched It's a switch But again,
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  despite some initial backlash about the pricing,
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  it was exactly what you'd expect from a Nintendo
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  console release. There was lines out the doors,
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  it's sold out, people are expecting there to
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  be shortages for quite some time. Now that it's
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  in the hands of the people! They've been tearing
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  it apart, looking more into it. We've found that
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  the Joy -Cons apparently are the same technology
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  as the Switch 1 Joy -Cons, and so they might
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  get that drift issue. There's a massive issue
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  with Joy -Cons from the first generation Switch
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  having just like stick drift issues, and Nintendo
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  just denied it for a long time, and it has been
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  a legal nightmare for them. So people are a bit
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  concerned to find that they're using the same
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  technology in the Switch 2. It is a different
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  part. but it's the same mechanism. So hopefully
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  it won't go bad, but just look out for that.
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  We also got a Witcher 4 tech demo. We saw a really,
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  really, really pretty tech demo of the Witcher
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  4 running on Unreal Engine, and it's not actual
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  gameplay. It's in -engine footage, but it's not...
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  gameplay it's more of a demo of like this is
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  what we're building like these are our tools
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  and how we want to make the game and like if
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  everything goes great this is how it can look
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  but i mean it still looks it still looks it still
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  looks really really good besides that summer
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  games it's summer game fest there's been a lot
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  of announcements i am not gonna bother trying
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  to include every single announcement here i will
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  link to several articles that list a whole bunch
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  of stuff here are my top three This is not an
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  actual top three. I haven't this is not exhaustive.
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  I just saw these and got hype. A new Resident
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  Evil. Resident Evil Requiem. A Lies of P DLC.
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  I have not played Lies of P, but I know enough
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  people who essentially have turned that game
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  into their religion that I feel I should mention
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  it. A new game by Yacht Club. The people who
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  made Hollow Knight, they're making a new game
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  called Mina the Hollower. Anyway, I lied. This
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  is the fourth and top highlight. They're making
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  a new Wu -Tang Clan game! Wu -Tang! Rise of the
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  Deceiver! They are finally making a sequel! There
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  was a Wu -Tang Clan game, like a long time ago.
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  Lightning Round! Jonathan Joss, known for his
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  roles in King of the Hill and Parks and Rec,
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  was murdered by his neighbor. According to his
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  husband, it was because of homophobia. And the
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  cops were pretty much immediately like, nah,
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  it's not a hate crime. They have since walked
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  that back due to the hate crime nature. of the
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  hate crime. The editorial board of the Philadelphia
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  Inquirer published an op -ed digging into John
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  Fetterman pretty strongly. They basically said,
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  like, you were elected to represent the people
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  and you're not doing that. A flotilla that's
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  a, like, symbolic aid ship that has a bunch of
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  international activists is making its way to
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  Gaza, basically to bring attention to the whole
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  situation and to force Israel into an awkward
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  position. However, Israel being Israel, didn't
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  really care about the awkward position. And they're
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  like, yeah, we'll stop those activists by any
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  means necessary. Boom, it's me again from the
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  next day again. Israel has since captured the
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  boat and the people on the boat. What we know
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  is that the activists were taken into custody.
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  Israel used drones to drop some kind of powder
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  on their boat, which we don't know what that
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  is quite yet. And the latest that I have seen
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  is that Israel is going to make these activists
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  watch footage of the October 7th attacks. Disney
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  has announced that they're gonna be laying off
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  several hundred more workers. A lost dog in the
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  UK returned home after about a month -long journey.
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  The dog went over a hundred miles, including
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  swimming to an island. But dog's home now. Everything's
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  okay. Mount Etna! It blew up! It erupted! Here,
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  okay, this is my... Oh, this is a great opportunity.
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  You all get to see my volcano impersonation.
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  Here we go. I'm Mount Etna! I did great. And
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  finally for today, a museum in Amsterdam has
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  opened a new exhibit showing off a 200 -year
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  -old condom. I'm not kidding. Thank you so much
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  for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps
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  Happening. Head to SKH .News for sources, bonus
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  content, and a 300 -year -old condom. My name
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  is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Monday. Take
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  care and be well.