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State of the States · Stuff Keeps Happening

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Hello. I defeated the drill at the outer wall.
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But stuff still happened. So what's up? A lot.
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I'm going to do things a little differently today.
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The first segment of this is just going to be
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dedicated to trying to cover the state of the
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situation in the states, the state of the states,
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the state state. I want to say upfront, it's
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not great. It's just not. And I wish I had better
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words, and I'm going to do what I can to give
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a glimmer of hope. But here we go. Let's start
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off by talking about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This
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name has come up a whole bunch of times in this
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series. Very brief recap, Kilmar was mistakenly,
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in air quotes, deported to CICOT, the torture
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prison in El Salvador. He had been living in
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the States for years, has a wife, child, wasn't
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supposed to be deported, wasn't supposed to be
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deported to El Salvador especially. but was deported
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to El Salvador. At which time the US government
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was adamant that he was out of their jurisdiction
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and there was no way they could possibly bring
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him back. So he was brought back and the DOJ
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hit him with human trafficking charges based
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on a traffic stop that resulted in a simple warning
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for an expired license from 2022. They did not
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dig into this until after there was already a
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media firestorm about them fucking up and deporting
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him by accident. And the traffic stop was literally
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just for speeding and the cop said you have a
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lot of people in your car. And that's what they're
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using for the basis of charging a man with human
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trafficking. So at time of recording, which is
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Saturday the... What day is it? The 24th. At
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time of recording, he's been released. Hey, Future
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Endeavorance here. Since recording this, he's
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now back in ICE custody. They required him to
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come turn himself back in. Because reasons, okay?
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He finally went back home to his family and his
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son, and now he's being informed that they're
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gonna try to deport him to Uganda. Yes, the United
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States went after this man and said, hey, we're
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going to cut you a deal. We'll deport you to
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Costa Rica if you plead guilty to human trafficking
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charges. Presumably trying to give him some kind
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of a plea deal that makes them look good for
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this. But he didn't take it. And there is a court
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order that he's allowed to make a case against
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his deportation. And so now they're trying to
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punish him by deporting him to a completely different
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continent than before. This man has not been
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found guilty of a crime. She hasn't. A little
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bit of an added bonus, Kristi Noem, when finding
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out that he was going to be released from jail
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at the request of a judge, blasted the judge,
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getting all upset and calling them an activist
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judge, a liberal from Maryland that just wants
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to get the spotlight. The judge that released
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him is from Tennessee. But literally nothing
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matters, as evidenced by this next section. Because
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on the topic of deportations, you've probably
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heard of Alligator Alcatraz, which is the nickname
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that they've given the concentration camp in
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Florida, as well as possibly the Speedway Slammer,
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another one in Indiana. So first, there's a court
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order from a judge that requires that the Florida
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concentration camp that they call Alligator Alcatraz
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must be shut down. That order is already being
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ignored. Essentially what's going on is there's
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a court case that argues that this facility is
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detrimental to the environment that it's in,
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which is the Everglades. The government threw
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this facility together in basically no time at
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all, and so there was no environmental impact
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report or anything like that, and so on those
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grounds, the judge was like, you gotta stop.
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It's not the human rights violations or the horrific
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conditions there, it's the environmental stuff,
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which is important too, but hey, maybe let's
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care about people. So DeSantis has already said
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that he's not going to be deterred by that judge
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and they're going to fight that in court. I have
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my doubts that it's going away. And now there's
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another one we're adding to the list, because
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apparently naming concentration camps is just
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so much fun. We got to give them all good brand
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names, because that's what this administration
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is all about. So say hello to the Lone Star Lockup,
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a brand new concentration camp in Texas, except
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it's not really all that new. It's at Fort Bliss,
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which was previously used to detain Japanese
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Americans during the World War II internment.
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So hey, at least we've got pedigree there. We've
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got the books which go back and learn from history.
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Here's how we can infringe on rights. Oh great,
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wonderful. Now I want to be clear. I've had a
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few people try to use their Judaism to argue
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that calling these things concentration camps
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is insulting to Jews. I want to address that.
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I'm quoting Jewish researchers in referring to
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these as concentration camps. Jewish people don't
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have a monopoly on determining what is and is
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not a concentration camp. That there are more
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than just the one instance in history. Obviously,
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we should be careful about not downplaying the
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Holocaust. That is not what's happening here,
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though. What's happening here is identifying
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that our current tax dollars are going towards
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facilities that violate human rights. One last
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thing about the migration stuff, the State Department
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has now said that they're going to review all
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55 million active visas. They're going to be
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looking through social media profiles and ensuring
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that you aren't dissenting against the United
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States. Which is basically what the foundation
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of our country is all about. Popping over to
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the Supreme Court, our favorite current institution,
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they have ruled that the Trump administration
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can cut $800 million of medical research. Now
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$800 million of medical research being cut sounds
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like a lot. until you recall that the Trump administration
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has actually slashed 12 billion dollars of medical
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research funds. This was specifically targeting
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a chunk of those funds that were being held up
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in court because they were being appealed. Because
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what are we doing? Why are we getting rid of
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medical research grants? This is not a partisan
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thing. I don't know when this became a partisan
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thing. We need to study illness so that we can
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make cures for sick. But because they hate universities
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and have been spending decades labeling them
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as, like, liberal indoctrination sites, they're
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trying to punish them by getting rid of research
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grants, which just hurts everyone. I'm tired
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of people who aren't experts asserting that the
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experts shouldn't be listened to because they
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have a bias. That bias being knowledge of the
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subject. Anyway, this is all still just this
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week. Let's keep going. Alina Habba! I've never
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actually looked up how to pronounce her name,
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and I don't care enough. So we're gonna say Habba.
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Hababa. So she's a former lawyer of Trump's,
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and was appointed to a position of interim federal
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prosecutor for New Jersey. She's been in that
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position for months, despite having no prosecutorial
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experience whatsoever, and people are like, why
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is this happening? After getting the appointment,
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she proudly said that she was looking forward
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to turning New Jersey red. Which is not a thing
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a federal prosecutor does. Anyway, they tried
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to unseat her, and they kind of did. Again, she
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was appointed as an interim prosecutor, and her
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term was ending, and they were like, get this
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person out of here, let's put somebody competent
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here. But then the Justice Department got involved
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and undid that. Like, literally, the Attorney
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General was like, no, this specific person gets
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this specific job. But a judge had ruled that
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she had that position illegally. And so her decisions
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from that position should be overturned. But
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that judge's decision to overturn the decisions
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that she made is now on hold because the Justice
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Department is putting together an appeal to explain
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why this person with, again, no prosecutorial
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experience and only really was a former lawyer
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to Trump, should be a federal prosecutor for
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a state at all. Let's jump over to how we are
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now a socialist country. That's right, Donald
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Trump has finally embraced socialism, and Bernie
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Sanders is supporting him in this, as the United
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States now has a 10 % stake in Intel. Is that
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weird? Yep. Yep. The Republican Party has just
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screamed communism and socialism at literally
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everything. And while there's... Examples of
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state stakes in companies that aren't necessarily
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socialist or communist is not typically a thing
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that happens in free market capitalism, which
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is like their whole vibe. Now, there's some mixed
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reactions from the conservatives in this. Of
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course, the Magaside is like, this is great.
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This is so smart. Forty chess. But some other
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conservatives like Rand Paul are saying this
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is they're saying the thing. They're doing the
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meme saying it's socialism. As I said, Bernie
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Sanders is actually in support of this. What
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has essentially happened is Trump was taking
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money that was already penned to be a grant to
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Intel and instead reworked it and got some money
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from a different fund to purchase stock instead.
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In theory, that could mean returns on the investment
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that are like material, like just money returns.
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In actuality, it's probably not gonna do anything.
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This was supposed to just be a grant that goes
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to Intel, and while I'm not a huge fan of just
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giving billions upon billions of dollars to companies
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that have billions upon billions of dollars,
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I think that money could maybe go towards, I
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don't know, feeding people? Housing people? But
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it's also also still a non -voting stake in the
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company. So like... The United States just owns
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10 % of a company and can't do anything with
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that, because. Not to mention, like, literally
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just a couple weeks ago Trump was harassing the
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CEO of Intel and saying that he should resign,
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and then now this is happening. But let's leave
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the theoretical world and go back into the real
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world, where there's military in the streets.
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God, I am just, this is just, it's so all over
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the place. Thousands of deployed National Guard
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are patrolling the streets of DC. There are still
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hundreds of them in Los Angeles. It is now coming
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out that the Trump administration plans to send
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the Guard into 19 more states, most of which
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are Republican controlled states, so presumably
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he's doing that so that they don't push back
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on him or even cooperate with him. The National
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Guard that is going to be going to these 19 states
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will technically be operating under the state,
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but they're given permission to... further federal
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causes. So it's technically a stop hitting yourself,
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stop hitting yourself kind of situation. But
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additionally, the Washington Post reported that
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the Pentagon has been drafting plans for deploying
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the military to Chicago, which is wild. Chicago
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is another one of those cities that the Republicans
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love to rail on, primarily because there's a
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lot of black people there. They'll never actually
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admit that, but they use dog whistles like saying
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that it's overrun with violence and gangs. Look
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no further than how frequently they love to quote
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statistics around like race and incarceration
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rates. That's what the dog whistle about crime
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comes from. To be clear, they want to deploy
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the National Guard to places that did not vote
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for Trump. DC did not vote for Trump and does
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not want that. And his response to that is they
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don't get a say in what they want. The mayors
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of these cities are pointing to the fact that
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their policies to address crime are working.
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Crimes dropping in Chicago and Baltimore and
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DC. But I shouldn't even waste breath making
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that argument because it's not about that. It's
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not about the crime. It's not about the optics.
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They don't care. They're just saying words to
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give ammo to people to allow this to happen.
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A large contingent of people who are supporting
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this just take everything that Trump says at
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face value. And when he contradicts himself,
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they take what he said more recently, or what
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he said that was more palatable, at face value.
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That's true for all of his officials. Like, Hegseth
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can go retweet posts saying that women shouldn't
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have the right to vote. But because he didn't
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go on national television and say the words,
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I think women shouldn't have the right to vote,
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They don't believe that's the case. So it's not
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about making sense. It's not about making a legal
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argument for this to happen It's not about anything
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except for giving red meat to their base by way
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of deploying the military To the places that
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they've been told are overrun with liberals Imagine
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if the actual problem was just that it was overrun
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with liberals I mean it kind of is like you want
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to go get a breakfast sandwich But the only thing
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you can find is like a an $18 like brioche breakfast
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sandwich thing That is the problem with liberals
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ruining our cities. I want my breakfast sandwich
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to kill me. Okay, I think I was just trying to
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give myself a little bit of a break there vis
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-a -vis breakfast sandwiches. Let's keep going.
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Gerrymandered. You've probably been aware of
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Texas's effort to redraw their district map and
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gerrymander it really severely for Republicans.
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I want to talk real quick about what gerrymandering
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is, especially for people who are not from the
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states. Real quick. In the United States, we
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have districts. Each district has a representative.
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Those representatives go to Congress. The districts
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are drawn on a map by the states, like the state
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legislatures. So politicians are the ones that
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are choosing the districts. And it is legal for
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them to craft districts that favor certain demographics.
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As long as a court doesn't rule it to be racist
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and unconstitutional, as long as they can sneak
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it by, they can draw whatever the fuck map they
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want. That is what's happening in Texas. Texas
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has more Democrats than Republicans. You probably
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think of Texas as a deep red state, largely because
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of gerrymandering. Now, both parties do this,
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but the reason that this Texas situation is so
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outlandish is because this is not a time where
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redistricting usually happens. We do a census
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every 10 years on the zero, and usually that's
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when the redistricting happens. But there's nothing
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legally stopping that. Which is another example
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of just how fragile the United States' systems
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are. Like, we put so much emphasis on, just be
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chill about it, dog. But they're not being chill.
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And they passed a redistricted map that is, ah,
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boring. It completely obliterates representation
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for Hispanic and Black people in Texas at large.
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And it adds five additional safe red seats to
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the state. And so the response to that has been
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that California's governor Gavin Newsom has been
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threatening to redistrict California as a retaliation
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against Texas's redistricting. And that takes
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more effort because California has extra steps
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that it has to jump through before they can actually
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do a redistricting. So where we're at right now
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is for anyone who's talking about how there's
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never going to be elections again, they are currently
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fighting to try to make it so that they win the
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next election. So I think we can use that as
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a reason why we should expect there to be elections.
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But what they're doing is trying to make it so
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that the election won't do anything. The Republicans
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are at risk of losing their majority in the House,
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possibly in the Senate. And if that happens,
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Trump's term is effectively over. So they're
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doing everything they can to make sure that the
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House cannot be taken by Democrats by changing
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the literal game. Should we have gerrymandering?
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No, right? Like, it's bad. Yeah, obviously. The
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best thing to do would be to have every state
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not do this. But that's not the world we live
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in, that's not the situation, and calling for
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decency in the face of one party literally changing
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the game is how you lose. I'm not a Democrat,
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but I can't fault them for doing what they're
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doing right now. It's the right political move.
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Alright, almost done with state stuff. Truly
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just an unbelievable amount of bullshit, and
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I skip stuff. Sock the Epstein files! We still
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don't have the full unredacted Epstein files,
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which is a thing that a lot of people in Trump's
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periphery were talking very loudly about delivering
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once they were in office. Of course, that tune
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changed. They were like, oh, there are no, there's
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no, there's no list. And stop asking. Most recently,
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there has been released audio of an interview
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with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's girlfriend
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slash human trafficking associate, in which she
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said there is no black book, like there is no
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list of clients. She also said that she never
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saw Trump do anything inappropriate. Very trustworthy
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statement from a very trustworthy person. Now,
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we knew that there was not going to be an actual
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list. This is not a movie. There's not a little
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black book that says all of these people are
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child rapists. But we also know that it's not
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like nothing went down there. So it would be
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pretty fucking nice to not be completely lied
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to for just a second to see anyone ever face
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some kind of consequences for the molestation
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of children. For the enterprise of the molestation
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of children. But the Republican -controlled House
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Oversight Committee now has a small subset of
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pages from the Epstein files, like 3 % of them,
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and they're going over them and will make a decision
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on what to release, if anything. I'm not holding
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my breath. Okay. I'm so thirsty. One sec. Okay.
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I'm gonna end this section by saying I know things
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are bleak. I know things are rough right now.
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Trust me, I have to sift through this stuff,
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figure out what I can even include. I have to
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trace things as they're developing over time.
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I know there's a lot going on right now. I know
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it feels like we are careening towards the end,
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but I want to say this. This will pass. That
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doesn't mean it's gonna pass. effortlessly. That
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doesn't mean that we're going to be completely
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fine on the other side of it. That doesn't even
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mean that we're all going to survive this. But
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this will pass. Trump is dying. Like, he doesn't
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take an expert. You can look at his face and
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see that he is dying. And whether it happens
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tomorrow, in a couple of weeks, or in a couple
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of years, the man's not long for this work. And
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while a lot of people rightfully say that Trump
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going away won't fix our problems, won't end
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all of this, I do want to note Do you really
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think JD Vance has what it takes to take over
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the MAGA throne? I see people online say that
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they would vote for him, but I also see people
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online say the dumbest imaginable shit every
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day. The fervor, the deification is all specifically
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Trump. And while, yeah, him getting out of office
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by way of leaving this mortal coil is not going
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to solve the fundamental problems of the United
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States of America, at least we won't have to
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deal with the fallout of him making an assumption
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about some dumb bullshit he doesn't understand,
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and everyone in his periphery falling over themselves
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to make that happen. There's a lot of things
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that industry leaders are doing right now, that
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they're trying to butter him up, they're trying
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to stay on his good side. There are things that
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he is doing that they are really not into, and
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they're just kind of biding their time until
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they can push back when he's gone, because they
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don't want to piss him off by contradicting him
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right now. Okay, let's take a breather, because
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Presenia. You can learn all about all of that
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at isupport .dev. Thank you. Elsewhere, over
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in the UK, they've been arresting people for
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t -shirts. Fashion police. Except it's not fashion
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police. It's, um, they don't want people expressing
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support for Palestine. Cops in the UK have been
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arresting people for wearing shirts that support
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Palestine Action, which is a group that has been
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deemed a terrorist organization by the UK. So
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wearing their shirt amounts to supporting a terrorist
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organization, apparently, enough to just arrest
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people who are otherwise just sitting in protest.
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Like quite literally, these protests are as peaceful
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as they get. People sitting silently on the ground
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wearing a shirt and holding a sign and they're
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being arrested. There's even footage of like
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an 80 year old woman being arrested. Now, that's
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awful. And it's especially awful because right
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now the famine is official. in Gaza. International
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experts have now formally declared it a famine.
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That's happening. And yet they're so focused
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on trying to arrest people for simply wearing
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a shirt in favor of freeing Palestine that they
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accidentally arrested a guy who was wearing a
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slightly different shirt. Miles Pickering, a
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visionary, designed a shirt that says Plasticine
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Action. The shirt is an anti -AI and animating
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shirt. Plasticine. Action, but cops saw that
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and they were like, ah and arrested him and then
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a few minutes later They're like, oh, it doesn't
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say Palestine action. So we can't actually arrest
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you which begs the question If all of these people
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who are currently arrested had like one letter
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different on their shirt would they not have
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been? What are we even doing anymore? I'll tell
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you what we're doing. We are sharing the East
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blue all the way to Indonesia In Indonesia, there
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has been a protest that started with students
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and has just been growing and growing ever since,
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and it is represented by the flying of the Monkey
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D. Luffy Jolly Roger from One Piece. So the government
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of Indonesia is not super popular right now,
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and when they cut 25 % of funding to higher education,
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students were like, what in the fuck? They formed
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a protest movement called Dark Indonesia, and
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they started to fly the Luffy flag. This picked
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up steam and it has just kind of become a symbol
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for general resistance and a movement towards
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something new for Indonesia. The government of
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Indonesia made this specifically worse for themselves
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by saying that this flag was like a national
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security threat and implying that people were
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being paid to do this. Where have I heard that
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before? Anyway, that just made them fly the flag
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more. So well done. Solidarity. I hope that you
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get a better life. I hope we do too. Yee -haw.
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I ate the, um, the yap -yap fruit. It gave me
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the power to yap. Moving on. Technology! A little
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while back, I talked about an effort from the
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UK demanding Apple to essentially create a security
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backdoor for the UK government to access encrypted
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data. Apple is actually kind of pretty good at
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data privacy. Like, not perfect. Far from it.
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But from the big carriers, they actually give
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you a lot of tools to do full end -to -end encryption.
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One of those tools is to fully end -to -end encrypt
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all of your files in iCloud, which makes it so
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that only you can access the files. Apple has
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data stored on their servers, but it's unintelligible
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gobbledygook. So even if a government came in
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and said, give us the files, Apple couldn't do
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anything. They're like, here's a bunch of garbage.
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The only way that garbage can be read is with
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the key that's in your computer. But the UK didn't
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want that. They didn't like that. Stop it, is
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what they said. And Apple said no. But recently,
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they dropped that request and are no longer asking
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Apple to do that because Apple was like, no,
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we'll just pull out of your market. This is not
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the first time that a government has asked Apple
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to break their own security. And the US did this
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infamously. They once had the FBI harass Apple
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to open someone's iPhone. They had a suspect's
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iPhone and they were like, we can't open it.
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We can't unlock it. Apple, you need to make it
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so that we can unlock this so that we can get
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the evidence out of it. And Apple was like, no,
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we're not going to give you a back door into
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our devices. Governments have a weird relationship
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with encryption. They're always like, encryption
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is important. And all these foreign nations that
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are impeding on their citizens' privacy are bad.
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Anyway, stop using encryption. Over in Mississippi,
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you are not able to access Blue Sky through their
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primary app. Mississippi is one of the several
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states that has recently passed an ID verification
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law for online access to content that could be
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potentially dangerous to minors. But the specifics
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of the Mississippi law make it so that Blue Sky
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doesn't even want to bother. Because Blue Sky
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can have porn on it in theory, they would have
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to verify the identity of everyone using their
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platform. And they're not going to do that. It's
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expensive and dangerous and it's being challenged
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in court, so it might not even be a thing that
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they have to do for a very long time anyway.
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In the meantime, they've just blocked access
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entirely for the state of Mississippi. I want
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to say again one more time, because apparently
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I'm not saying it loud enough. This is not the
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tech policy that we're asking for. Please, please
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stop. Please stop making me give you my ID to
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look at memes. Oh, also, uh, Grok. A few weeks
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ago, I talked about how ChatGPT had a bunch of
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conversations leaked onto the internet, and now
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it's happening for Grok. Grok, which is Elon
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Musk's AI, has an option to share conversations.
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When you do that, it creates a link. Those links
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to those conversations were then indexed by Google.
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So you could literally search, like, Grok conversation
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and find private conversations that people made
24:06
a link to share to one other person, unknowingly
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putting it on the public internet. So that's
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neat. You can just Google someone's private conversation
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with a chatbot. It's truly bizarre how frequently
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these apps are just being busted. Like, I've
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never heard of so many frequent instances of
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just like, oh yeah, user data is just out there,
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unsecured. It's almost like we're moving too
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fast and breaking too many things. Lightning
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round! Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida,
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ordered the removal of a rainbow crosswalk that
24:38
was made in memoriam of the people who died at
24:40
the Pulse nightclub shooting. This is done because
24:43
of hate, and locals have already repainted the
24:46
crosswalk. The Cambridge Dictionary has added
24:48
words such as skibbidi and delulu in the most
24:51
recent edition. I want to be clear, that's fine.
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I don't care. That's fine with me. Words change.
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Words are made up. If you're pressed about that,
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you're delulu. James Dobson, a chief architect
25:02
of the modern evangelical movement in the US,
25:05
beefed it. He did. The CEO of Target has stepped
25:09
down as Target is facing a bunch of financial
25:11
issues because everyone's boycotting them. Everyone.
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And finally, for today, archaeologists and skateboarders
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will be working together to excavate an old skate
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park in Scotland. To be clear, it's not like
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an ancient... Skate park that would be so rad.
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Oh my god Imagine you're like at a dig site and
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you just you take your little sweepy thingy and
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you start sweeping away And it's a fucking half
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-pipe awesome rad cool Thank you so much for
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listening to today's episode of stuff keeps happening
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head to skh .news for sources bonus content and
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a skate park from Scotland that I put there That's
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unexcavated My name is Enderence, we'll talk
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again soon, take care, and be well.