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We're Terrorists Again · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I completely forgot what I was going to
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  say. But stuff still happened. So what's up?
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  We're doing it again. We're doing it. We're doing
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  it again. All of it. All of it over again. Last
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  week, I talked about Western governments going
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  after groups of protesters, labeling them terrorists
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  and hitting them with terrorism charges. We looked
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  at a handful of groups. We looked over in England
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  where they did that because of Palestine action.
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  And now we've got it. again here at home. Oh,
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  come on now. We've got authoritarian miscarriages
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  of justice at home. We don't need to pay extra
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  for the drive -thru. The Prairieland 19 are a
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  group of people who have been targeted by the
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  Trump administration to be made an example of,
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  labeling them as members of an Antifa cell. You
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  may remember that the Trump administration signed
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  an executive order basically saying, hey, the
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  Justice Department is going to stamp down on
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  anyone espousing leftist beliefs because we're
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  going to label you as Antifa. Well, they're trying
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  to make good on that with their whole, uh, we
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  love law and order. Watch us do that at you thing.
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  So what actually happened? I'm going to quickly
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  go over what actually happened, why these people
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  are being targeted and the sentencing that they
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  got that is utterly absurd because these eight
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  people were sentenced to a total of 450 years
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  of prison. What did they do to, uh, bring on
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  such a sentence? Mass murder? Grand larceny?
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  Hoarding gold bars? We'll get back to that one.
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  On July 4, 2025, a bunch of protesters winched
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  this facility to launch fireworks in solidarity
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  with the people who were being detained there.
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  As a reminder, these are called detention centers,
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  they're effectively concentration camps, and
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  the government is holding detainees with no due
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  process. If anyone in this country does not have
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  due process, none of us do. Now, during the events
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  that unfolded after all of this started, an officer
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  was shot by one of these people. One of the guys
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  at the protest, Benjamin Song, had a gun and
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  shot an officer. The officer survived and Song
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  maintains that the shot was defensive as the
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  officer pulled a gun on another one of the protesters
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  who was unarmed and fleeing. The one shot hit
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  the officer, the officer fired back. That's it.
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  Everyone lived. From there, the Justice Department
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  would routinely go after these people, trying
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  to hit them with the biggest possible charges,
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  including aiding terrorism groups. So, October
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  2025, the first of the indictments is handed
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  down. Only two of the people were indicted. Another
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  indictment came down the next month with nine
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  people. In total, there are 19 people who are
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  being, in some capacity, charged with stuff,
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  and eight of them recently received their sentencing.
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  That's the 450 years group. Benjamin Song, the
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  one that shot the officer, got the largest sentence.
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  A hundred years in prison. He was convicted of
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  rioting, material support for terrorists, attempted
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  murder, explosive charges, and firearms charges.
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  He did have a gun. That's fair. Guns are also
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  legal. Most of the rest were convicted of rioting,
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  material support for terrorists, and explosive
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  charges, and a lot of them got 50 years of peace.
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  And in my opinion, the most absurd sentencing
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  was for Daniel Ronaldo Sanchez Estrada, who was
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  found guilty of concealing documents and conspiracy
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  to conceal documents, sentenced to 30 years in
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  prison. What did he do? He moved a box of left
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  -leaning zines out of his partner's house, and
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  presumably those zines, which were basically
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  just like pamphlets with some progressive leaning
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  ideology on them. landed this guy 30 years in
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  prison. As a reminder, the sitting president
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  of the United States, who signed the executive
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  order to direct the Department of Justice to
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  go after people with these massive sentences,
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  was found guilty of 34 felonies and saw exactly
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  zero days of the inside of a jail cell. But hey,
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  you know, they fucked around and found out, and
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  I've seen the takes from some people online who
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  were like, yeah, justice! They shouldn't have
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  done that! That's what they get! Let's just go
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  ahead and take a look at... average sentence
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  lengths of other crimes. As a reminder, nobody
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  died. One person was shot and lived. There's
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  this thing called the United States Sentencing
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  Commission, and they gather data about sentencing.
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  They've got a nice interactive graph that you
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  can see the average sentence length for various
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  crimes. So here's murder. In 2025, the average
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  duration for the sentencing for murder was about
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  24 years. Benjamin Sung, who did just charge
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  a weapon but didn't kill anyone, received more
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  than four times the national average sentencing
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  for murder. Sanchez Estrada received 125 % of
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  the average duration for murder. The guy that
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  moved some papers. Well, let's take a look at
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  child pornography. I don't like how I said that.
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  We're gonna rework that one. Let's take a look
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  at the statistics for people who were incarcerated
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  for child pornography. In 2025, the median duration
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  for child porn sentencing was about eight years.
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  Eight. Unrelated. On January 6th, 140 officers
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  were injured, and one died the next day from
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  related injuries. The longest sentencing of anyone
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  from January 6th went to the leader of the Proud
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  Boys, who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy
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  and was sentenced to 22 years. Donald Trump then
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  pardoned everyone who was involved in January
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  6th, getting them all out in about two years.
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  It was to the point that officers who were involved
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  in the trials for these people, who testified
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  against them, were warned, like, hey, these people
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  are back out on the streets and they might want
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  to get back at you. But the thing is, the thing
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  that we didn't consider, is that not one of them
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  moved a box of magazines. Not even a little bit.
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  So they have to go free. This is all developing,
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  it's all very new, but don't let this deter you
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  from going out and demonstrating. That's what
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  they want this to do. This is entirely them trying
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  to chill free speech. There's no other way to
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  interpret it. The judge himself was like, I'm
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  gonna make an example out of you. Like, which
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  is not allowed, but when does that matter? Just
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  remember, if you are going to go to a demonstration
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  and you can leave your phone at home, do so.
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  Also, if you are coordinating with people to
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  do whatever, you cannot trust an app is going
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  to ever be secure. Even if it's an encrypted
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  messaging app, it doesn't matter. All it takes
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  is one person who wasn't supposed to see that
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  phone screen while your message is up for it
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  to be compromised. It doesn't all come down to
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  encryption. You could be in the most encrypted
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  chat ever, but if there's a fed in there, you're
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  fucked. Anyway, I'm really mad about this and
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  going to move on. For the sake of my blood pressure.
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  Hey, thank you so much for being here. I know
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  it's a rough one. If you like what I do and you
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  want to help me keep doing this, it would go
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  a long way if you want to check out iSupport
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  .dev. It's got links to my Patreon, my Ko -Fi,
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  merch store, and a bunch of other ways that you
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  can support me. Let's do a real sharp pivot,
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  just a hell of a pivot. An ex -CIA officer tricked
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  the CIA for 17 years into giving him a job and
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  was recently arrested with millions of dollars
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  worth of stolen gold bars. Yo! David Rush was
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  a high -ranking CIA officer. He had fabricated
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  his resume to get that job and he was there for
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  17 years. He apparently applied to the CIA three
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  times and was rejected twice, finally accepted.
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  Each time that he applied, he added more fake
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  line items to his resume. The fake items include
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  his degree, military service, and claims of Navy
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  pilot accolades. despite not having a pilot's
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  license. So Rush works his way up through the
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  CIA and then uses his seniority to create a fake
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  operation that he then loops in a couple other
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  people into. Given that this is the CIA, and
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  if you're like on a project you're not really
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  talking to other people about what that project
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  is, it was the perfect way to cover up all these
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  loose ends. So Rush had this whole thing going
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  on, he was like, hey... We gotta transfer some
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  gold to this project, because it's gonna be used
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  to pay for operations to keep the country running
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  in the event of a catastrophe. Those gold bars
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  certainly went to something. What they went to
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  was his basement. He got caught, he's standing
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  trial now, but actually not for the gold bars.
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  He's on trial for a separate charge of stealing
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  from taxpayer money, because he claimed $77 ,000
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  worth of military leave in the past. While not...
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  being in the military. Given that he had to forge
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  his resume to get hired, that means that documents
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  are a part of this case, which means he's gonna
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  get at least 50 years. Polyamory is not for everyone,
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  but it is for some people, quite a few. I'm happy
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  for you if you are poly. Please keep it out of
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  my markets. The Wall Street Journal recently
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  published a report about Polymarket, one of the
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  leading prediction market apps. Prediction markets
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  are a pretty new thing, but they're essentially
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  a platform that people can bet on anything. Weather,
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  traffic patterns, political appointees. There
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  are even bets about the movements on the Iran
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  War, and a bunch of very suspicious bets were
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  placed right before major events occurred. But
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  in this era of hustle culture and everyone's
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  got to have passive income and side hustles,
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  it's really taking off because, hey, you can
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  make money. Look how easy it is. Just bet on
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  random bullshit. And if you're right, you get
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  money. Very reminiscent of crypto when everyone's
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  like, oh, you just buy crypto and you get money.
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  And that's how it works. So the Wall Street Journal
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  did an investigation into Polymarket and found
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  that Polymarket had been paying creators to produce
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  videos of them faking winning bets. Creators
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  were given money to create these ads, and they
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  were given access to a fake version of Polymarket's
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  website that allowed them to place fictitious
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  bets and make it look like they were winning.
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  Those videos were turned into social media posts
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  that were not disclosed as ads, and then a bunch
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  of people were paid to repost them. Now shitty
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  corporations being shitty about advertising practices
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  and creators not disclosing ads is nothing new.
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  That's a pervasive issue everywhere. But this
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  is like another level of... Really going for
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  it. The investigation went over more than a thousand
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  videos and they drilled down to find videos where
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  people actually placed bets and they pulled some
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  numbers. If you drill down into the videos that
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  showed actually placing a bet, a fake bet, mind
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  you, it was about 1 .9 million dollars worth
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  of money placed in bets. The payouts were about
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  900 grand in fake money. But when investigators
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  went back to check what you would have actually
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  gotten if you made those bets that were shown
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  in those videos, it would have actually been
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  a $166 ,000 loss. Polymarket and Kalshi are like
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  the big ones right now, and Kalshi is actually
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  partnering with major media outlets to act as
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  a data analysis platform. So the opinions of
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  terminally online crypto bros is seeping its
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  way in to market discussions, which I guess we
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  were kind of always there. But at time of writing,
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  Polymarket hasn't really faced any major repercussions.
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  Their response is basically, nuh -uh, and I wouldn't
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  hold my breath on them actually facing consequences.
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  Donald Trump Jr. sits on their advisory board.
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  The corruption would be funny if it wasn't so
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  pervasive. Like, it's a genuinely hysterical
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  amount of corruption that's just like happening
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  just out in the open, and a significant portion
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  of our countrymen are just like, nah. Anyway,
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  update on the ceasefire. Y 'all, I'm so tired.
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  This was supposed to be an upbeat episode. I
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  intended to cover a whole bunch of fun stuff,
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  and I might force myself to do that next time.
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  But as I was putting it together, it was just
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  thing after thing after thing. Yeah, I only have
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  so much brain space. I wanna talk about bunnies.
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  I don't know. Anyway, the Iran War is maybe kind
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  of sort of on... Pause right now. There's active
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  talks going on between the U .S. and Iran towards
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  peace. The memorandum of understanding that I
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  talked about in last week's episode was signed
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  by both the U .S. and Iran, and since then, it
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  has been a big question mark as to if it's going
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  to hold. During peace talks at one point, Trump
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  actually threatened to restart the war, and also
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  Israel is still pounding Lebanon and refusing
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  to leave. Iran says that the peace agreement
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  is predicated on them getting out of Lebanon,
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  so we really don't know what's going to happen
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  here. As of now Netanyahu is doing everything
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  he can to be like, nah, this isn't the end. We're
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  not going to stop doing this. But Trump went
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  on TV and seemingly accidentally said that we've
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  only got like four weeks of oil reserves left.
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  So the whole thing is just kind of a mess. And
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  we never should have been here to begin with.
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  Who would have thunk it? A few ships are going
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  through the Strait of Hormuz now, and hopefully
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  that will return to normal levels eventually.
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  But as of right now, it's all very tenuous. Man,
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  a ceasefire happened, and then they didn't cease
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  firing? Shocker! That's not what I've been saying
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  in every episode for three years! Lightning round.
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  British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stepped
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  down because he was super, super unpopular. Recently
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  elected Andy Burnham is going to likely take
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  that spot. The price of Valve's Steam Machine,
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  their computer game console kind of thing, was
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  announced, and it's much higher than we had hoped.
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  This is in line with the Steam Deck going up
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  in price, and it all has to do with the shortage
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  of hardware due to AI. The co -founder of Ubisoft,
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  Ububi, Ububisoft, uh, died in a plane crash.
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  Ububis. And finally for today, the loudest person
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  on Earth has set the world record for being very
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  fucking loud. A man from Australia yelled the
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  word now at over 122 decibels. 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 me contending for being the loudest
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  boy on the planet. That was my attempt. My name
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  is Endeavorance. We'll talk again soon. Take
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  care and be well.