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The Past Tense of Prince · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello, I increased the throughput on my copper
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  sheet manifold. But stuff still happened. So
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  what's up? I have decided that the past tense
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  of Prince is Prunts. Prunts Andrew was arrested
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  on his 66th birthday for bad stuff. He used to
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  be a prince, but they stripped all of his titles
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  and I don't feel like calling him by his actual
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  name, so I'm gonna call him Prunts Andrew. So
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  yeah, we all just kind of woke up one morning
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  and the British government arrested a royal.
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  That doesn't happen often. Can we do that? But
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  no, I mean we don't have Royals. But still, Prince
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  Andrew has been in the spotlight for a long time
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  with regards to the Epstein stuff. Longer than
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  most other people have been. And so I thought
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  maybe let's do like a quick timeline about how
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  one goes from being a decorated military royal
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  service member to...prince. February 19th, 1960.
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  A prince is born. He's Prince at that point.
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  It's Andrew Albert Christian Edward as white
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  as it gets Yeah, he got born. He did a good job
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  with that 1980 to 2000. He was a Royal Navy Helicopter
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  boy. He was apparently really good at the helicopters
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  with the Navy. Good job guy I don't know much
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  about helicopters. They fly over my fucking house
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  all day in 1999. He met a cheeky little guy named
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  Jeffrey Epstein. They were set up via connection
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  through Ghislaine Maxwell. 11 years later in
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  2010, Prince Andrew was photographed with Jeffrey
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  Epstein in New York City after Epstein's release
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  from prison. That's the first time that Epstein
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  was in prison. He didn't get out the second time.
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  At least we don't know that. For basically the
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  rest of the 2010s, he was dealing with more allegations
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  and trying to explain why he was spotted with
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  Epstein after Epstein was done serving his jail
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  sentence for the whole child molestation thing.
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  Running out of breath because there's too much
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  awful boys doing awful boy things. Sorry, it's
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  been a weird day. It's been a weird day for me.
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  2019 rolls around and he goes on an interview
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  with BBC where he tries to smooth things over
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  and explain his past and his connections with
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  Jeffrey Epstein and it was supposed to be a PR
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  move to settle everything up. And that did not
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  work. The interview went super, super bad and
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  basically set him on the path towards where he
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  is now. By 2025, he is a full on prince. His
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  titles have been stripped and he's barely associated
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  with the royal family anymore. February 19th.
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  2026? Hey, that was recently! That's when they
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  rolled up on his birthday, arrested him, gave
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  us a picture of him looking crazy, and that's
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  history, baby. At time of recording, he is not
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  detained. He is currently out and under investigation.
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  They are specifically charging him with an allegation
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  that he shared government information with Jeffrey
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  Epstein. That's... I guess they got Al Capone
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  on taxes. I have decided that the past tense
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  of tariff is, no shit, Sherlock. The United States
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  Supreme Court has struck down Donald Trump's
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  signature tariffs. And it's a mess. But don't
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  take my word for it. That's a quote. from Brett
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  Kavanaugh in his dissent. He wanted to keep the
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  tariffs because the refunds would be a mess.
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  That's right, 175 billion US dollar -y dues are
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  currently available for refunds. This is not
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  a thing that's gonna happen automatically. That'd
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  be too convenient. Let's back up. What the hell
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  is going on? That's... That's a good question.
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  Sort of in general. Last year, Donald Trump had
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  Liberation Day, where he put tariffs on basically
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  every country in the world. Now, the Supreme
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  Court said that the way he did that was unconstitutional
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  and he can't put tariffs on every country in
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  the world. And so he responded by finding another
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  way to try to put tariffs on every country in
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  the world. After the Supreme Court decision came
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  out, he went and did a press conference where
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  he was fucking mad. Anyway, he was like, oh,
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  nah, dog, there's another law that I'm gonna
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  use that lets me put a 15 % tariff on every country
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  in the world. Notably, the thing that he wants
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  to use has never been used before, but it also
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  has limitations. It can only go on for 150 days
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  until Congress would have to actually get involved
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  and approve of the tariffs, which is a thing
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  that Congress does. Congress controls tariffs.
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  They're the tax ones. They do that. But Trump
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  seems to still... very strongly believe that's
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  not the case. He also seems to still think that
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  tariffs are how we're going to fix everything.
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  And that's not the case either. To the best of
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  my knowledge, this is where things stand right
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  now. There's a big old pool of money that companies
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  can request refunds from. We have no idea what
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  that process will look like. This is very, very
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  unprecedented. It will be a mess. All the while,
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  in a couple of days, there were supposed to be
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  more tariffs coming out where we're going to
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  have to see what happens there with this temporary
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  tariff thing. It really comes down to will the
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  Republicans ever tell Trump to fucking stop.
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  Because beyond the fact that US citizens are
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  the ones that are paying for the tariffs, it's
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  not good for our trade partners who are like
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  constantly dealing with this shit. It's a pretty
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  great way to tell other countries like, hey,
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  doing business with us is more effort than it's
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  worth. All of the tariffs that Trump has been
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  making are all built on the back of a national
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  emergency declaration. I don't think most people
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  even remember that. He claimed that there is
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  a national emergency. that gave him the power
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  to put all these tariffs out. I don't think a
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  national emergency merits setting up fanfare
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  for a fake holiday to fulfill one of your campaign
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  promises. I feel like a national emergency is
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  more like, I don't know. what we're doing to
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  Cuba. What are we doing to Cuba? We'll get to
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  that in just one moment. I also just want to
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  say that Trump has this week announced that the
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  United States will be giving a $10 billion donation
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  to his Board of Peace. That's right, the Board
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  of Peace, which is an adventure by Trump as an
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  independent organization to contrast the UN.
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  It also gives him... total veto authority in
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  perpetuity even like after he's no longer the
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  president. It's a complete, it's a farce. It's
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  a fucking farce. It's a scam. Like you have to
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  pay a billion dollars as a country to permanently
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  join. They rescinded Canada's invitation to the
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  Board of Peace after Mark Carney went to Davos
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  and gave that speech where he said that like
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  the US is all fucked up now. And pretty much
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  the only countries that are on board right now
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  are smaller authoritarian leaning countries.
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  lining up with a large authoritarian country.
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  But yeah, Trump was just like, I'm gonna take
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  10 billion dollars from the US and give it to
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  my organization. Because I can. Side note, he
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  can't, if we stop him. Let's talk Cuba. Cuba
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  is currently experiencing a man -made humanitarian
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  crisis at the hands of the United States. Obviously
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  the US and Cuba have a long -running and very
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  rocky relationship, but over the past few years
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  we've been blockading oil into the island and
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  after we just randomly usurped Venezuela, We've
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  stopped basically all oil shipments to Cuba.
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  So right now Cuba is operating with essentially
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  no oil incoming. They've got a little bit of
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  a trickle from Mexico, they've got a little tiny
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  bit of reserves, but that's kind of it. Because
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  of this there are massive power outages. There's
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  food scarcity. Basically no education systems
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  are currently running and the healthcare system
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  is on the brink of collapse. People are waiting
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  months to get their hands on fuel. Mexico is
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  providing humanitarian aid and food to try to
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  help curb Potential starvation? And again, all
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  of this is just because the US, specifically
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  the Trump administration, more specifically Marco
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  Rubio, just wants to do this. Marco Rubio has
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  been at the center of a lot of the US -Cuba relations
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  for a while. He really, really loves to hate
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  on Cuba. Marco Rubio very famously claimed that
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  his family fled communist Cuba and ran to America,
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  and that's what makes this country great, because
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  he's the son of immigrants? Marco Rubio? Anyway,
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  he really, really... likes to pander to the Cuban
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  vote in Florida. That's basically how he got
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  to his current position. And he does it despite
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  his family having actually left Cuba before the
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  communists took over. Like years prior. And they
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  also even like went back to visit. It's casual,
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  it's chilling. At the end of the day, essentially
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  Marco Rubio has staked his political career on
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  trying to topple Cuba. He's built this whole
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  ethos about how Cuba was so bad to his parents
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  and now he got to overthrow the government because
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  American propaganda is very, very thick. So while
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  all of this is happening and an active humanitarian
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  crisis is unfolding and international condemnation
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  is rolling in, Trump has said that Cuba can end
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  it right now by just coming to the negotiation
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  table and making a deal. Side note, I am incredibly
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  exhausted. by the wildly rapey framing of everything
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  that comes out of this administration. Oh, well,
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  if they want to not starve to death, they could
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  just take a deal. Of which we set all the terms.
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  Anyway, they basically want Cuba to come and
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  agree to a deal that amounts to essentially regime
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  change. That's what's going on here. They are
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  trying to starve the Cuban populace. into submission
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  with our tax dollars through another third party
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  country that we invaded. Marco Rubio is also
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  reported to be in secret talks with the grandson
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  of Raul Castro, who is the not leader of Cuba.
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  He's like 96 years old and technically not the
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  leader of Cuba, but also technically still holds
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  a lot of power. Long story short, there is an
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  actual leader of Cuba, but the US is just going
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  around official channels and talking directly
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  to a sort of shadow leader, which is a really
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  cool way to do all of this. Now, I'm not gonna
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  sit here and pretend that I have full context
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  on the entirety of the situation that happened
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  before I was even born in Cuba. But my understanding
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  of the current situation is that a lot of the
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  people who fled Cuba when the communists took
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  over were ones who were associated with the then
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  authoritarian regime that got pushed out. And
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  so a lot of these people who were, quote, fleeing
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  communism were really just fleeing accountability
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  for their actions. It would be similar to like
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  ICE agents fleeing the U .S. Does that mean that
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  every single Cuban person who is in America is
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  an evil person? No, obviously not. But the rhetoric
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  around like people fleeing Cuba, fleeing the
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  communist regime that wanted to kill everyone
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  in Cuba, that is pure American propaganda bullshit.
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  The reality is far more understandable. There
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  was a faction that was in control in Cuba that
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  was supported by the U .S. It was very violent,
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  and it was overthrown, and the US didn't like
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  that, and we've been mad ever since. So where
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  we are is Cuba is facing a humanitarian crisis
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  at the hands of the US, and I wish I had good
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  words to share for you, but I don't. It doesn't
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  look like it's gonna be resolved particularly
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  soon. Please tell people about this. Like, mention
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  the ongoing crisis in Cuba at the hands of the
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  US. Like, it's just not being discussed. And
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  I'm not one to say that, like, mainstream media
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  is not talking about whatever, because I'm using
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  sources from the mainstream media to talk about
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  this. But most people that I've chatted with,
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  even those who are usually pretty tuned in, just
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  seem to not know this is happening. I don't think
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  that this story is being truly hidden, but I
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  do think that this story is not one that people
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  move on. Tic tac! On the clock The European Commission
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  would like a word with tick -tock after having
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  a word with Twitter recently So you might recall
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  that the EU recently slapped a fine on Twitter
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  for doing a bunch of Twitter things Now they're
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  gonna slap a fine on tick -tock for doing tick
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  -tock things. It's back up. Okay, what what's
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  actually going on? Alright, so the EU has this
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  like digital services act that basically is like
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  hey if you're gonna run a social network Don't
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  be awful Unfortunately for Elon Musk, that's
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  not a possibility for him, and the EU has already
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  sent him a warning and then a fine over a bunch
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  of bullshit that he's done. But currently, the
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  EU is warning TikTok that a fine might happen
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  in the future unless something changes. Essentially,
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  they allege that TikTok is designed to be addictive,
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  and they cite the infinite scrolling feed, the
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  notification system, the lack of meaningful screen
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  time management. So basically they said you have
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  to make your app less addictive, especially for
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  vulnerable people like minors, or we're going
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  to fine you up to 6 % of your annual take. It
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  remains to be seen how TikTok is going to respond,
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  but I will say that the letter from the EU includes
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  a few suggested remediations, one of which is
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  to get rid of the infinite scrolling feed. which
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  would essentially end TikTok. To be clear, that's
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  not a requirement. That's a suggestion. But the
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  idea of suggesting that TikTok no longer has
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  the for you page is tantamount to saying they
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  should just delete the app. So we'll see. Lightning
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  round. After having just acquired them in 2021,
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  Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, who was
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  known for making a bunch of really high quality
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  remakes recently. That sucks. They're a very
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  talented studio. The US will be removing all
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  remaining troops from Syria after having been
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  there for over a decade. Some guy tried to rush
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  into Trump's Mar -a -Lago resort in Florida.
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  He had a shotgun and a gas canister. He did not
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  make it very far. And finally for today, a guy
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  in Italy seems to have trained his dog to illegally
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  dump trash on the side of the road so that he
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  wouldn't get caught doing it. Now, that's impressive.
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  It's also bad. Don't litter. And also... I feel
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  like that would take more effort than just taking
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  out the trash. Thank you so much for listening
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