1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,567 Hello 2 00:00:00,567 --> 00:00:03,670 I used a blue shell to secure my victory. 3 00:00:04,871 --> 00:00:07,307 But Stuff still Happened. 4 00:00:07,307 --> 00:00:08,241 So what's up? 5 00:00:08,241 --> 00:00:09,209 You're up, Europe. 6 00:00:09,209 --> 00:00:09,943 I had to. 7 00:00:09,943 --> 00:00:10,944 Last week was a lot. 8 00:00:11,411 --> 00:00:13,246 Zelensky met with Trump and J.D. Vance 9 00:00:13,246 --> 00:00:15,615 and they chewed him out about not being 10 00:00:15,615 --> 00:00:17,951 thankful enough during the four year long 11 00:00:17,951 --> 00:00:20,019 onslaught he's been defending his country from. 12 00:00:20,019 --> 00:00:20,854 Priorities. 13 00:00:20,854 --> 00:00:23,089 Blazing fast recap just for context: 14 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:25,392 Zelenskyy of Ukraine went to the 15 00:00:25,392 --> 00:00:27,227 White House to meet with Trump and Vance. 16 00:00:27,227 --> 00:00:31,264 He was intended to sign a deal where the U.S. could mine for minerals 17 00:00:31,264 --> 00:00:34,267 in Ukraine in exchange for security guarantees. 18 00:00:34,267 --> 00:00:37,303 Apparently when Zelensky got there, the deal was not actually all that 19 00:00:37,303 --> 00:00:39,739 good for him and he was like, "What the fuck?" 20 00:00:39,739 --> 00:00:42,542 And then they chewed him out saying he wasn't thankful enough. 21 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:44,244 On live television. 22 00:00:45,245 --> 00:00:45,745 To everyone. 23 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:47,280 In the world. 24 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,750 And so countries across the globe, allies and enemies of the United 25 00:00:50,750 --> 00:00:54,554 States, all took a collective moment to give their best 26 00:00:54,554 --> 00:00:55,855 "Uh-What the fuck?" 27 00:00:55,855 --> 00:00:57,157 So let's take a look at what this 28 00:00:57,157 --> 00:00:59,159 means, what the fallout is going to entail, 29 00:00:59,959 --> 00:01:01,795 and what the future looks like here. 30 00:01:01,795 --> 00:01:06,332 The United States and the European Union are—have been—besties. 31 00:01:06,332 --> 00:01:07,767 They're tied together by a bunch of 32 00:01:07,767 --> 00:01:11,171 alliances, both trade and military, most notably NATO, 33 00:01:11,171 --> 00:01:13,339 which is one of the biggest and most 34 00:01:13,339 --> 00:01:15,942 successful alliances the world has seen. 35 00:01:15,942 --> 00:01:20,113 Successful doesn't mean necessarily good for everyone, but successful. 36 00:01:20,113 --> 00:01:23,917 Now take a second and think about the EU as its own 37 00:01:24,417 --> 00:01:26,085 kind of country. 38 00:01:26,085 --> 00:01:28,021 Like it's a union, it's a bloc, right? 39 00:01:28,021 --> 00:01:30,423 It's difficult to kind of compare one to one, 40 00:01:30,423 --> 00:01:31,658 but if you think about the United 41 00:01:31,658 --> 00:01:35,195 States as a bloc of 50 small countries, 42 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:36,663 that's the EU is similar. 43 00:01:36,663 --> 00:01:39,766 And so these two groups of a ton of people 44 00:01:39,766 --> 00:01:41,935 were like, "Hey, let's just go ahead and vibe." 45 00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:44,471 But Trump has long been anti-NATO and there's 46 00:01:44,471 --> 00:01:47,774 various reasons to be anti-NATO and he doesn't 47 00:01:47,774 --> 00:01:51,744 probably have one, aside from he hates NATO because he's been told to. 48 00:01:51,744 --> 00:01:53,980 And so this isn't unexpected. 49 00:01:53,980 --> 00:01:57,250 Trump has been trying to get rid of NATO since his first term, 50 00:01:57,250 --> 00:01:58,818 but this is a massive escalation. 51 00:01:58,818 --> 00:02:02,822 What we're looking at now is leaders from the EU are making moves. 52 00:02:02,822 --> 00:02:04,991 They're positioning themselves to not have 53 00:02:04,991 --> 00:02:07,193 to have a dependency on the United States. 54 00:02:07,193 --> 00:02:10,063 From a security and trade standpoint, 55 00:02:10,063 --> 00:02:13,733 they are trying to find a new path forward, a future for Europe that 56 00:02:13,733 --> 00:02:16,269 does not depend on American alliances. 57 00:02:16,269 --> 00:02:18,738 Is that a bad thing? No, not objectively. 58 00:02:18,738 --> 00:02:22,509 No, it would be better if the US was 59 00:02:22,509 --> 00:02:26,946 partnering with their allies to bring prosperity and safety to the 60 00:02:26,946 --> 00:02:29,082 people who live in those countries. 61 00:02:29,082 --> 00:02:29,849 That'd be nice. 62 00:02:29,849 --> 00:02:31,718 But if the US is gonna shit the bed, it's 63 00:02:31,718 --> 00:02:35,522 nice to see the EU taking steps proactively 64 00:02:35,522 --> 00:02:37,357 to prepare for what's next. 65 00:02:37,357 --> 00:02:42,195 The EU does like a popcorn method for determining who the "true" leader 66 00:02:42,195 --> 00:02:44,063 of the alliance is at any given moment, 67 00:02:44,063 --> 00:02:46,165 and it currently lands in Poland. 68 00:02:46,165 --> 00:02:49,836 Their prime minister, Donald Tusk, which is... that's hilarious. 69 00:02:49,836 --> 00:02:52,372 Anyway, he already said they're gonna be taking steps to insulate 70 00:02:52,372 --> 00:02:55,642 themselves from the fluctuations of American politics. 71 00:02:55,642 --> 00:02:59,012 One of our strongest, longest, and most successful alliances 72 00:02:59,012 --> 00:03:02,415 is breaking apart because we are too volatile of a country. 73 00:03:02,415 --> 00:03:05,718 They look at our current leadership and they see that Donald Trump has 74 00:03:05,718 --> 00:03:11,424 previously stated that the EU was explicitly created to "screw the US." 75 00:03:11,424 --> 00:03:13,526 He's also threatening them with tariffs, 76 00:03:13,526 --> 00:03:16,462 just like he threatened Mexico and Canada with 77 00:03:16,462 --> 00:03:19,032 tariffs that are now retaliating those tariffs. 78 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:22,101 And the EU also said they were to retaliate with more tariffs. 79 00:03:22,101 --> 00:03:25,338 And again, they're all like, "Hey, we're allies. 80 00:03:25,338 --> 00:03:26,372 What are you doing?" 81 00:03:26,372 --> 00:03:28,107 An actual negotiation with an allied 82 00:03:28,107 --> 00:03:30,843 country shouldn't be taking place on Twitter, 83 00:03:30,843 --> 00:03:34,847 where everyone who wants to benefit from that chaos can benefit. 84 00:03:34,847 --> 00:03:37,951 But that's kind of seemingly the point. 85 00:03:37,951 --> 00:03:41,187 So let's zoom out. Let's look at a map, right? 86 00:03:41,187 --> 00:03:43,890 Here's a map of the world. 87 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:44,757 We're gonna picture it. 88 00:03:44,757 --> 00:03:48,695 If you look at that map of Earth, beautiful. 89 00:03:48,695 --> 00:03:51,097 You'll notice that there's a handful of big blobs. 90 00:03:51,097 --> 00:03:53,333 And we're gonna focus on three of the biggest blobs. 91 00:03:53,333 --> 00:03:56,369 The United States, Russia, and China. 92 00:03:57,770 --> 00:03:58,137 Yeah 93 00:03:58,137 --> 00:03:59,839 Obviously there's some other big blobs. 94 00:03:59,839 --> 00:04:02,775 Let's focus on those three because they're global superpowers. 95 00:04:02,775 --> 00:04:07,046 The US is seemingly siding with Russia in the Ukraine-Russia war. 96 00:04:07,046 --> 00:04:10,550 Russia invaded Ukraine through their sovereign borders, 97 00:04:10,550 --> 00:04:13,186 and Ukraine has been defending for four years. 98 00:04:13,186 --> 00:04:16,289 If Ukraine stops fighting, they cease to exist. 99 00:04:16,289 --> 00:04:19,092 If Russia stops fighting, they just... 100 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:20,560 Just life goes on. 101 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,795 But Trump has said that Zelensky doesn't want peace, 102 00:04:22,795 --> 00:04:25,732 and is also considering a deal proposed by Putin 103 00:04:25,732 --> 00:04:31,137 to give the US mineral rights to mine on the annexed land of Ukraine 104 00:04:31,137 --> 00:04:32,338 if they side with Russia. 105 00:04:32,338 --> 00:04:38,444 So the deal with our ally to mine their minerals in exchange for bombs, 106 00:04:38,444 --> 00:04:43,149 I don't like that to begin with, is now trashed and instead will mine 107 00:04:43,149 --> 00:04:45,785 for minerals in annexed land from our allies 108 00:04:45,785 --> 00:04:51,024 in exchange for supporting our adversary, which makes just total sense. 109 00:04:51,024 --> 00:04:55,795 So given that there seems to be a US-Russia alliance forming, 110 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:59,732 that kind of leaves one major blob from that map left. 111 00:04:59,732 --> 00:05:00,500 And that's China. 112 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:04,203 The EU wants to insulate from American political fluctuations. 113 00:05:04,203 --> 00:05:07,640 China is an economic powerhouse as well as a militaristic one. 114 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,643 They're also deeply involved in geopolitical negotiations 115 00:05:11,444 --> 00:05:14,914 and are generally stable compared to the US. 116 00:05:14,914 --> 00:05:18,284 The unbridled hatred for China is pretty unique to the US. 117 00:05:18,284 --> 00:05:19,285 Other countries have their own 118 00:05:19,285 --> 00:05:21,954 opinions that aren't super great about China, 119 00:05:21,954 --> 00:05:25,058 but the "China!" that's mostly just us. 120 00:05:25,058 --> 00:05:28,628 And so if you are a group of nations looking to find stability 121 00:05:28,628 --> 00:05:32,298 and your previous biggest ally is going crazy, 122 00:05:32,298 --> 00:05:34,901 but there's this other group over here that like, 123 00:05:34,901 --> 00:05:37,937 you work with currently, but they're not your number one guy. 124 00:05:37,937 --> 00:05:39,939 You might want to find a new number one guy. 125 00:05:39,939 --> 00:05:43,609 Now, the only real winner here is China. 126 00:05:43,609 --> 00:05:46,045 American citizens are going to lose on this. 127 00:05:46,045 --> 00:05:48,214 EU citizens are going to lose on this. 128 00:05:48,214 --> 00:05:49,949 Ukraine is going to lose on this. 129 00:05:49,949 --> 00:05:54,754 Hell, Russia kind of wins a little bit, but not really. 130 00:05:54,754 --> 00:05:56,589 They're not doing great from this war either. 131 00:05:56,589 --> 00:05:59,625 This is just beyond the wrong time to isolate 132 00:05:59,625 --> 00:06:02,862 from the world and piss off all of our allies. 133 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:04,297 But that's exactly what's happening. 134 00:06:04,297 --> 00:06:07,767 This is going to cause prices to skyrocket, markets to drop, 135 00:06:07,767 --> 00:06:09,936 and general stability to evaporate. 136 00:06:09,936 --> 00:06:13,272 For America, EU is just going to shift their suppliers. 137 00:06:13,272 --> 00:06:14,507 China is going to be happy about it. 138 00:06:14,507 --> 00:06:15,708 One final note on this. 139 00:06:15,708 --> 00:06:17,477 I previously talked about a poll that 140 00:06:17,477 --> 00:06:19,312 showed that the average American thinks 141 00:06:19,312 --> 00:06:24,150 that we spend about 33% of our annual government budget on foreign aid. 142 00:06:24,150 --> 00:06:26,552 And that is a big reason why people are like, 143 00:06:26,552 --> 00:06:29,088 "We need to pull back. We need to break these alliances. 144 00:06:29,088 --> 00:06:30,389 They are pillaging us." 145 00:06:30,389 --> 00:06:32,625 But the reality is that we actually spend 146 00:06:32,625 --> 00:06:35,528 about 1% of our annual budget on foreign aid. 147 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:41,300 And new polling shows that a staggering 89% of Americans, 148 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:44,604 including 84% of Republicans, 149 00:06:44,604 --> 00:06:46,806 agree that 1% of our budget is a 150 00:06:46,806 --> 00:06:48,975 reasonable amount to spend on foreign aid. 151 00:06:48,975 --> 00:06:51,844 Guess what? That's the number already. 152 00:06:52,979 --> 00:06:53,980 Wow! 153 00:06:53,980 --> 00:06:58,751 I think a lot of people get like military aid and foreign aid confused 154 00:06:58,751 --> 00:07:03,122 because we do send an assload of money overseas for bombs. 155 00:07:03,122 --> 00:07:06,425 Like the foreign aid budget is in like the 60 billion-ish zone 156 00:07:06,425 --> 00:07:10,596 and the military aid budget is in the hundreds of billions zone. 157 00:07:10,596 --> 00:07:11,230 Love it. 158 00:07:11,230 --> 00:07:13,733 Hey, we're going to get back to the rest of the stuff here in a second, 159 00:07:13,733 --> 00:07:15,435 but I do... I got to plug stuff. 160 00:07:15,435 --> 00:07:17,003 I'm plugging my own stuff. 161 00:07:17,003 --> 00:07:19,705 I'm not going to sell you shitty earbuds. 162 00:07:19,705 --> 00:07:22,708 I love making content for you and it's really wonderful. 163 00:07:22,708 --> 00:07:26,145 It also takes a lot of time, effort, and resources to do. 164 00:07:26,145 --> 00:07:27,814 If you want to support my work, a great 165 00:07:27,814 --> 00:07:29,348 way to help would be to share this around 166 00:07:29,348 --> 00:07:32,018 to anyone that you might think would enjoy this. 167 00:07:32,018 --> 00:07:33,252 And another way to support me would be 168 00:07:33,252 --> 00:07:36,055 to head to patreon.com/endeavorance 169 00:07:36,055 --> 00:07:37,990 and you can check out all the tiers that 170 00:07:37,990 --> 00:07:40,293 are available there starting at $3 a month. 171 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:42,328 Every tier gets access to everything, 172 00:07:42,328 --> 00:07:44,964 so you don't have to worry about not being able to see something 173 00:07:44,964 --> 00:07:46,098 because you're not paying enough. 174 00:07:46,599 --> 00:07:46,966 Yep. 175 00:07:46,966 --> 00:07:50,870 You can also go right to skh.news and sign up for the newsletter. 176 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:52,839 You can join for free to just get the newsletter 177 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:55,775 or you can support me with $5 or $10 a month. 178 00:07:55,775 --> 00:08:00,179 Anything and everything helps a ton and is deeply, deeply appreciated. 179 00:08:00,179 --> 00:08:00,913 Back to stuff. 180 00:08:00,913 --> 00:08:01,647 Gaming! 181 00:08:01,647 --> 00:08:04,584 Alright, funny card game where number goes up. 182 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:08,187 If you haven't played Balatro, Balatro, however it's pronounced, 183 00:08:08,187 --> 00:08:08,921 I've actually read that it's 184 00:08:08,921 --> 00:08:10,823 pronounced however you want to pronounce it. 185 00:08:10,823 --> 00:08:11,724 It's a good game. 186 00:08:11,724 --> 00:08:15,795 It's essentially a poker-themed, solitaire, roguelike. 187 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:18,164 It's really, really, really, really extremely good. 188 00:08:18,164 --> 00:08:21,000 So good that it nearly won Game of the Year last year. 189 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,835 It's a game that was built by a dude. 190 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:25,738 It's just a random indie game, nearly won Game of the Year. 191 00:08:25,738 --> 00:08:28,741 And this card game was rated 18 plus 192 00:08:28,741 --> 00:08:31,177 in the EU from their PEGI rating system, 193 00:08:31,177 --> 00:08:35,915 which caused a bit of a stir, like it's literally a card game. 194 00:08:35,915 --> 00:08:39,285 You just, you play, it's like a deck of cards and you play them. 195 00:08:39,285 --> 00:08:40,953 Now PEGI gave them the 18 plus 196 00:08:40,953 --> 00:08:43,456 rating because the game looks like poker. 197 00:08:43,456 --> 00:08:46,692 It's themed after poker, but it's not poker. 198 00:08:46,692 --> 00:08:47,727 There's no betting involved. 199 00:08:47,727 --> 00:08:49,462 It uses a standard deck of cards and it 200 00:08:49,462 --> 00:08:51,531 uses the hands that you play in poker, 201 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:52,532 and that's about it. 202 00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:55,568 Otherwise, it uses chips as the name for points. 203 00:08:55,568 --> 00:08:58,604 The game is so hilariously not poker. 204 00:08:58,604 --> 00:09:02,575 Like it is, it is just so far from poker that anyone who has played it 205 00:09:02,575 --> 00:09:06,245 would immediately see that an 18 plus rating is absurd. 206 00:09:06,245 --> 00:09:07,547 The developer was not particularly 207 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:09,115 happy about it and appealed the rating. 208 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:11,083 This was months ago and PEGI has now 209 00:09:11,083 --> 00:09:12,084 announced that they're actually like, 210 00:09:12,084 --> 00:09:15,354 "Oh yeah, whoops, we're going to drop that to 13 plus." 211 00:09:15,354 --> 00:09:17,723 And it was so dumb that they've also announced 212 00:09:17,723 --> 00:09:19,091 they're going to be reviewing their 213 00:09:19,091 --> 00:09:21,494 guidelines for ratings for gambling stuff. 214 00:09:21,494 --> 00:09:23,129 We love bananas here. That's all. 215 00:09:23,129 --> 00:09:25,431 I can't believe the words that are about to come out of my mouth, 216 00:09:25,431 --> 00:09:28,401 but EA is going to do something kind of neat. 217 00:09:28,401 --> 00:09:30,269 They are releasing the source code 218 00:09:30,269 --> 00:09:32,538 for four older Command and Conquer game, 219 00:09:32,538 --> 00:09:36,309 like open source, like freely licensed under GPL. 220 00:09:36,309 --> 00:09:38,411 The games are Command and Conquer, 221 00:09:38,411 --> 00:09:40,680 Red Alert, Command and Conquer Renegade, 222 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:42,048 and Command and Conquer Generals. 223 00:09:42,048 --> 00:09:44,517 Now there's already a project called OpenRA 224 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:48,321 that is an open source community project to rebuild these games, 225 00:09:48,321 --> 00:09:50,089 but this is the actual source code of 226 00:09:50,089 --> 00:09:52,291 the original games released for free, 227 00:09:52,291 --> 00:09:54,794 which will hopefully supercharge any community-based efforts 228 00:09:54,794 --> 00:09:57,430 to make like a compendium of these games. 229 00:09:57,430 --> 00:09:59,165 That would make me happy. 230 00:09:59,165 --> 00:10:01,400 I'm a Red Alert 2 boyo through and through. 231 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:01,934 What can I say? 232 00:10:03,002 --> 00:10:03,736 Kirov reporting. 233 00:10:03,736 --> 00:10:04,537 Technology. 234 00:10:04,537 --> 00:10:05,705 Skype is kill. 235 00:10:05,705 --> 00:10:07,873 Microsoft has announced that Skype is dead. 236 00:10:07,873 --> 00:10:09,241 It's going away. It's buried. 237 00:10:09,241 --> 00:10:11,243 It's gone in a month or two. 238 00:10:11,243 --> 00:10:12,378 In May? In May. 239 00:10:12,378 --> 00:10:15,214 They are shifting their focus instead to the universally acclaimed 240 00:10:15,214 --> 00:10:17,016 Microsoft Teams platform. 241 00:10:17,016 --> 00:10:20,920 Now to be fair, Skype was also fucked as a platform. 242 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,789 Like Skype has been historically messy as hell, 243 00:10:23,789 --> 00:10:24,924 but everyone used it. 244 00:10:24,924 --> 00:10:26,859 It was just the thing that everyone had. 245 00:10:26,859 --> 00:10:28,494 No one wanted to use it, but we all had it. 246 00:10:28,494 --> 00:10:30,563 Microsoft acquired Skype in like 2010 in 247 00:10:30,563 --> 00:10:32,298 what could have been an incredible deal 248 00:10:32,298 --> 00:10:35,534 and then mismanaged the absolute hell out of it. 249 00:10:35,534 --> 00:10:36,268 And now we're here. 250 00:10:36,268 --> 00:10:39,105 Imagine a world where they actually put in effort to make it better 251 00:10:39,105 --> 00:10:41,307 and then the start of the pandemic hit 252 00:10:41,307 --> 00:10:43,743 and they could have actually done very well. 253 00:10:43,743 --> 00:10:45,244 But instead we got Zoom. 254 00:10:45,244 --> 00:10:47,513 Zoom. Zoom. 255 00:10:47,513 --> 00:10:49,982 That's me being video conferencing software. 256 00:10:49,982 --> 00:10:54,286 Instagram Reels kind of mass traumatized people. 257 00:10:54,286 --> 00:10:56,322 A quote-unquote glitch on Wednesday 258 00:10:56,322 --> 00:10:58,924 caused Instagram Reels to start serving 259 00:10:58,924 --> 00:11:02,795 horrifically violent content to everyone. 260 00:11:02,795 --> 00:11:04,497 People were just scrolling on Instagram Reels 261 00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:08,401 and suddenly saw videos of people being brutally killed 262 00:11:08,401 --> 00:11:09,668 in horrific ways. 263 00:11:09,668 --> 00:11:13,205 Just video after video after video of unconscionable violence. 264 00:11:13,205 --> 00:11:16,242 A ton of people are reporting being just messed up by it. 265 00:11:16,242 --> 00:11:17,677 Some people saying they couldn't sleep. 266 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:20,346 Some people saying that they just feel broken inside. 267 00:11:20,346 --> 00:11:21,981 It's well known that content moderation 268 00:11:21,981 --> 00:11:25,251 staffers at Meta are routinely traumatized 269 00:11:25,251 --> 00:11:28,421 by the things that they have to see to do moderation work. 270 00:11:28,421 --> 00:11:31,390 But Meta has also been pulling back on their moderation 271 00:11:31,390 --> 00:11:34,560 and trying to do less of it since Trump came into power. 272 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:35,961 Then lo and behold this happened. 273 00:11:35,961 --> 00:11:36,729 Who'd have thunk it? 274 00:11:36,729 --> 00:11:38,197 They claim that they've fixed the glitch. 275 00:11:38,731 --> 00:11:41,200 But I would really like to know what a glitch is that's like, 276 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,135 yes, take all of these videos of 277 00:11:43,135 --> 00:11:45,971 people dying and serve them to everyone. 278 00:11:45,971 --> 00:11:50,042 Like, oops, we made the block button the show to everyone button. 279 00:11:50,776 --> 00:11:51,143 Dang 280 00:11:51,143 --> 00:11:52,044 Policy Stuff 281 00:11:52,044 --> 00:11:55,514 The United States has passed the Republican-led budget bill. 282 00:11:55,514 --> 00:11:58,884 It's a proposal that's going to fuck all of us over really bad. 283 00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:00,753 Now, we don't know exactly what's going to happen. 284 00:12:00,753 --> 00:12:02,755 There is no specifics on this yet. 285 00:12:02,755 --> 00:12:04,657 To be very, very clear, they've passed 286 00:12:04,657 --> 00:12:08,027 a proposal for basically a framework, 287 00:12:08,027 --> 00:12:11,163 not a line item thing that has any direct information. 288 00:12:11,163 --> 00:12:15,801 So anyone claiming that there's no tax on tips or no tax on overtime 289 00:12:15,801 --> 00:12:19,371 or any specific policy in this is lying. 290 00:12:19,371 --> 00:12:22,141 They don't, there's no information on that yet. 291 00:12:22,141 --> 00:12:24,176 What there is information on is essentially 292 00:12:24,176 --> 00:12:27,646 where they want to see money moved to and from. 293 00:12:27,646 --> 00:12:29,782 And we know they want to move a ton of money 294 00:12:29,782 --> 00:12:33,285 away from Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid. 295 00:12:33,285 --> 00:12:36,088 They've listed that as a place to move money away from. 296 00:12:36,088 --> 00:12:38,390 Or rather, they're targeting the type of money 297 00:12:38,390 --> 00:12:41,093 in the government that goes towards those services 298 00:12:41,093 --> 00:12:45,131 and they want to cut an amount from that budget that would necessitate 299 00:12:45,131 --> 00:12:47,266 cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security. 300 00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:51,036 It's complicated, but hey, it's not like someone just has a spreadsheet 301 00:12:51,036 --> 00:12:53,038 and they're twiddling some numbers. 302 00:12:53,038 --> 00:12:55,307 Like, it's a whole thing. 303 00:12:55,307 --> 00:12:58,310 Medicaid is a healthcare program to help cover people who are 304 00:12:58,310 --> 00:13:01,947 impoverished or at risk and need healthcare coverage. 305 00:13:01,947 --> 00:13:04,984 There's a lot of vulnerable people who depend on Medicaid 306 00:13:04,984 --> 00:13:07,486 and they want to cut that, but they don't 307 00:13:07,486 --> 00:13:09,288 seem to want to cut the military budget, 308 00:13:09,288 --> 00:13:13,259 which interestingly, Medicaid costs hundreds of billions of dollars 309 00:13:13,259 --> 00:13:16,061 less per year than the military budget. 310 00:13:16,061 --> 00:13:19,999 But according to Republicans, Medicaid is unsustainable. 311 00:13:19,999 --> 00:13:23,536 You know, keeping our, keeping our citizens alive. 312 00:13:23,536 --> 00:13:26,739 Can't be, we can't be wasting money on stuff like that. 313 00:13:26,739 --> 00:13:31,010 All right, this is less policy and more, what's going on here? 314 00:13:31,010 --> 00:13:34,713 If you are not paying attention to the depths of the MAGA world, I'm 315 00:13:34,713 --> 00:13:36,982 jealous of you and keep doing that, 316 00:13:36,982 --> 00:13:40,886 but they are still obsessed with the whole Jeffrey Epstein situation. 317 00:13:40,886 --> 00:13:42,254 And specifically, they are obsessed with 318 00:13:42,254 --> 00:13:44,990 the release of "The Epstein Documents." 319 00:13:44,990 --> 00:13:46,759 They basically believe that there is a 320 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:49,562 document that can be released that just says, like, 321 00:13:49,562 --> 00:13:52,198 "Hillary Clinton eats babies. Confirmed." 322 00:13:52,198 --> 00:13:55,100 Like, that is almost literally what they're looking for. 323 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:59,371 If you remember the whole "Pizza Gate" thing and they quite literally 324 00:13:59,371 --> 00:14:02,608 believe that Democrats are eating babies 325 00:14:02,608 --> 00:14:04,176 to, like, gain immortality or 326 00:14:04,176 --> 00:14:07,079 something like that, it's, it's bizonkers. 327 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,049 But they want "The Epstein Documents" because 328 00:14:10,049 --> 00:14:13,219 it's a piece of their giant conspiracy puzzle. 329 00:14:13,219 --> 00:14:16,155 And Attorney General Pam Bondi was like, "Yeah, 330 00:14:16,155 --> 00:14:18,190 I'm going to release those Epstein documents." 331 00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:19,792 So people got all excited and they actually 332 00:14:19,792 --> 00:14:21,827 called up a bunch of right-wing influencers 333 00:14:21,827 --> 00:14:25,798 to the White House to give them binders as props that were labeled with 334 00:14:25,798 --> 00:14:28,767 big bold letters that said, "The Epstein Files." 335 00:14:28,767 --> 00:14:30,603 They were waving them around like, "Haha, we 336 00:14:30,603 --> 00:14:33,639 got them! The Democrats are in for it now!" 337 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:35,941 And then they, the timeline to release the 338 00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:37,843 documents came to went and they didn't get released. 339 00:14:37,843 --> 00:14:39,678 And then they eventually did get released. 340 00:14:39,678 --> 00:14:40,946 And it was just a bunch of redacted 341 00:14:40,946 --> 00:14:42,982 documents that were already released before. 342 00:14:42,982 --> 00:14:44,617 There was, like, one new thing that 343 00:14:44,617 --> 00:14:48,320 kind of had some stuff in it, but no. 344 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,123 They are almost definitely running into the problem that Donald Trump 345 00:14:51,123 --> 00:14:54,960 is heavily implicated with all the Jeffrey Epstein stuff. 346 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,696 They're not about to just screw over their guy. 347 00:14:57,696 --> 00:15:02,468 So while absolutely Bill Clinton should be investigated, and anyone who 348 00:15:02,468 --> 00:15:04,370 is doing stuff with Jeffrey Epstein, 349 00:15:04,370 --> 00:15:07,273 like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, should all be 350 00:15:07,273 --> 00:15:09,675 investigated, do we think that's going to happen? 351 00:15:09,675 --> 00:15:11,110 Can I get a show of hands? 352 00:15:11,110 --> 00:15:11,810 So that's fun. 353 00:15:12,511 --> 00:15:14,680 They're, they're having a time over there and there's a whole bunch of 354 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,115 infighting happening now because of it, 355 00:15:16,115 --> 00:15:18,250 because they're like, "Oh, you, you betrayed us. 356 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,786 Oh, no, they're, they're working on it. Oh, no. 357 00:15:20,786 --> 00:15:22,855 My conspiracy must have this set of 358 00:15:22,855 --> 00:15:25,291 parameters. Otherwise, my life is a lie." 359 00:15:25,291 --> 00:15:26,825 And I can't deal with that fact. 360 00:15:26,825 --> 00:15:27,259 So... 361 00:15:28,027 --> 00:15:28,627 Lightning round. 362 00:15:28,627 --> 00:15:32,731 Some guy tried to smuggle drugs onto an airplane under his toupee. 363 00:15:32,731 --> 00:15:34,466 Must have not been a pretty convincing toupee." 364 00:15:34,466 --> 00:15:36,068 Speaking of airplanes, an Australian 365 00:15:36,068 --> 00:15:38,537 couple was on a Qatar Airlines flight 366 00:15:38,537 --> 00:15:41,941 when the staff put a dead person in the seat next to them. 367 00:15:41,941 --> 00:15:44,109 Apparently a woman died on the flight in the 368 00:15:44,109 --> 00:15:46,645 aisle next to them and the staff couldn't move her. 369 00:15:46,645 --> 00:15:49,114 And they were just like, "Hey, can y'all scoot over one seat?" 370 00:15:49,114 --> 00:15:50,649 And the couple was like, "Sure." 371 00:15:50,649 --> 00:15:54,987 The staff then put the dead body in the seat that they scooted from. 372 00:15:54,987 --> 00:15:55,421 Yep. 373 00:15:55,421 --> 00:15:59,258 They're doing a Fyre Festival 2, for some godawful reason. 374 00:15:59,258 --> 00:15:59,758 Money. 375 00:15:59,758 --> 00:16:02,161 A man was killed by a booby trap set up in a 376 00:16:02,161 --> 00:16:05,197 house owned by his family, but it was vacant. 377 00:16:05,197 --> 00:16:09,468 He opened the door and was shot with a rigged shotgun and died. 378 00:16:09,468 --> 00:16:14,173 The cops, being the cops, pointed to this situation and said, "See? 379 00:16:14,173 --> 00:16:16,775 This is why it's so dangerous to be a cop. 380 00:16:16,775 --> 00:16:19,945 Never mind that the dead guy isn't a cop, but... 381 00:16:19,945 --> 00:16:20,879 Let's make this about us." 382 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:24,016 A woman was caught trying to blow up cars at a Tesla dealership. 383 00:16:24,016 --> 00:16:25,684 She did it once before, and then went 384 00:16:25,684 --> 00:16:27,820 back to the same dealership to do it again, 385 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:29,188 where she got caught. 386 00:16:29,188 --> 00:16:30,389 Why would you go back to the same one? 387 00:16:30,389 --> 00:16:33,959 Jeff Bezos sent an email to Washington Post authors saying that he 388 00:16:33,959 --> 00:16:35,861 wants them to focus the opinion section 389 00:16:35,861 --> 00:16:39,264 on individual liberty and free markets. 390 00:16:39,264 --> 00:16:41,266 And the opinion writers were like, "Fuck that." 391 00:16:41,266 --> 00:16:44,336 Causing some major departures. 392 00:16:44,336 --> 00:16:47,206 This is the newspaper that broke Watergate. 393 00:16:47,206 --> 00:16:48,307 I just want to remind you of that. 394 00:16:48,307 --> 00:16:50,676 That is how far the WAPO has fallen. 395 00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:52,778 Oh, also, speaking of Jeff Bezos, he is 396 00:16:52,778 --> 00:16:56,582 sending his fiancé and Katy Perry into space. 397 00:16:56,582 --> 00:16:58,317 That's a real thing that's happening. 398 00:16:58,317 --> 00:17:02,187 And finally for today, it turns out the Pope is in stable condition. 399 00:17:02,187 --> 00:17:04,757 And if that changes by the time this is posted, 400 00:17:04,757 --> 00:17:07,826 I'm gonna be so mad, because I like have 401 00:17:07,826 --> 00:17:09,862 checked so many times over the past week. 402 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:13,999 But according to the words, he is doing okay. 403 00:17:13,999 --> 00:17:15,267 Just want to give you that update. 404 00:17:15,267 --> 00:17:16,535 Couldn't leave you hanging from last time. 405 00:17:16,535 --> 00:17:17,936 Thank you so much for listening to 406 00:17:17,936 --> 00:17:20,172 today's episode of "Stuff Keeps Happening." 407 00:17:20,172 --> 00:17:22,875 Head to skh.news for sources, bonus 408 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:27,813 content, and the world's first D5000. 409 00:17:27,813 --> 00:17:28,947 My name is Endeavorance. 410 00:17:28,947 --> 00:17:30,282 I'll be back on Monday. 411 00:17:30,282 --> 00:17:31,917 Take care and be well.