hello i took a week longer than i had expected
but stuff still happened so what's up i'm back
i had a sinus i had a sinus infection sorry it
wasn't back last week but i'm back a lot happened
holy wow a lot happened here's some of it habeas
corpus Sounds woke to me. Stephen Miller, who
is a senior advisor at the White House, and the
answer to the question, what if we put every
vile trait of a human being into one person,
wants to suspend the right to habeas corpus.
What is it? Is it communist? A little bit. Habeas
corpus is the concept that you are essentially
allowed to challenge the government when they
detain you. to make sure that people don't get
detained illegally. It's due process, in a word.
It's essentially, you have a right to not be
illegally imprisoned. And so here we have a very
loud fascist white supremacist advisor to a fascist
administration being like, hey, let's take away
people's right to challenge imprisonment. Can't
go wrong. Miller is abhorrent. And he's abhorrent
for many, many, many reasons. But he's also just
loudly a white supremacist, and people just kind
of let that happen, which is... Whack? The dude
is in favor of re -migration, which is a not
particularly clever way to say remove everyone
from the country who is not of white European
descent, which itself is not a particularly clever
way of saying ethnically cleanse the country.
He's one of the most senior officials in the
administration, and I truly am baffled by his
existence. He's... The worst human I can imagine?
Speaking of terrible humans, 17 states and the
District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration
over an executive order from his first day in
office. The executive order is titled The Temporary
Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental
Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of
the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting
Practices for Wind Projects. That's what I named
my firstborn. I don't have children. Probably
for a good reason. So what this order does, if,
you know, I know you got it from the name, but
let's just talk about it real quick, just for
them over there. It stops wind farming. It essentially
halts permits for all wind energy, especially
offshore wind energy, and wants to review how
we're doing wind energy production domestically.
This is all because the guy hates quote -unquote
windmills. He's famously anti -windmill. I'm
saying windmill with air quotes because... It's
not a windmill. It's a wind turbine. Those are
very different things. This man is the president
of a country for the second time. A country with
an energy grid. And he's still mixing that up.
But that still doesn't get to why he hates them.
He hates them because wind turbines were built
visibly offshore from one of his properties in
Scotland. That is legitimately why he doesn't
like them. Like he's been on a tirade ever since
he lost a legal battle to prevent the construction
of offshore wind farms visible from his property.
And so because of this beef from this loser,
an entire country just loses an option for renewable
energy. Human beings with functional circulatory
systems cast votes for this man. I'm in awe.
Like this isn't new. None of this is new information.
This is just what he does. Anyway, in before
some loser jumps into the comments and is like,
this is what I voted for. ICE is still out here
doing their best SS cosplay, despite the Department
of Homeland Security almost being out of money.
The Department of Homeland Security in the US
is about a billion dollars over budget already
and is at risk of being past their budget before
the end of the fiscal year, which is a crime.
It's actually a crime to spend money that was
not allocated to your department. Nothing's going
to happen here, but it's a crime. But what are
they doing with that money? Don't worry. They're
being very responsible. For example, they detained
a 54 -year -old Irish woman for 17 days recently.
She's a legal resident of the country. She's
been here for decades and had one small skirt
with the law 20 years ago. And they detained
her for 17 days as she was returning from a trip,
checking on her sick father. Held for 17 days
because... But they're also spending your money
by causing mass panic in neighborhoods, by chasing
people down in broad daylight, unmarked and masked.
The American dream is hearing screaming outside,
running out into your neighborhood and seeing
your neighbors arrested by unidentified federal
agents. Makes me feel really comfortable about.
psychotic people who would use that to their
advantage. Very cool, very safe, very healthy.
They also arrested the sitting mayor of Newark,
New Jersey, who was with his constituents protesting
an ICE detention facility that is not wanted
in the area. Here's something cool. A bunch of
people from this locality were like, fuck this.
We don't want this, including the mayor. And
then the federal agents just arrested them. Because
states' rights, you know, it's important for
states' rights so that they can determine what
kind of a state they want to run. Unless it goes
counter to a fascist dictator. Doubly so if they
can use footage from arrests in your state to
satiate their base. Anyway, here's a bit of an
upshot. There was a hack recently at an airline
that ICE uses to deport people. A bunch of hackers
defaced the website and released information
to the press. from their servers 404 media obtained
this and they were actually able to find information
about a man who has been hidden from his family
by ice the dude was disappeared they had no information
they've been stonewalled by the government but
hackers got a hold of the manifest and were able
to give him to journalists who were then able
to inform a grieving family do more of that all
right john federman is losing it we knew this
uh and we knew he was never really all that great
But he's losing it. So John Fetterman, he's a
senator from Pennsylvania. He was up against
Dr. fucking Oz in the election. So don't get
me wrong. Like, I'm not a Fetter boy. But the
seat's better off with him than Dr. Oz. If you're
not familiar, Dr. Oz is a quack TV doctor that
Oprah Winfrey gave a program a while back. That's
his credentials. But Fetterman has honestly not
been all that much better. He successfully swindled
progressives in Pennsylvania, convincing him
he was going to fight for them, and then completely
heel turned on them. He is strongly pro -Israel.
He's like besties with Netanyahu. He was even
recently gifted a silver -plated beeper from
Netanyahu after Netanyahu used beepers with bombs
hidden in them to do a terrorist attack on a
civilian population. We've gotten recent reports
from his staffers that he's just been irate and
uncontrollable. We had that video of him arguing
with people on an airline about whether or not
he had to wear his seatbelt. And now we've got
a story from a town hall he did with a teacher's
union. Apparently during the meeting, he started
to just lose his shit, was bashing his fists
on the table and just repeatedly saying, why
does everybody hate me? I didn't do anything.
It got so uncomfortable that staffers actually
ushered people out of the room. One staffer was
outside just like shaken and the teachers were
trying to provide any amount of comfort that
they could. But hey, on the topic of not having
done anything, maybe don't do the things that
I just listed that were shitty. Why does everybody
hate me? I'm just a dick to my constituents.
Weird. Anyway, here's an idea. Shut the fuck
up and resign. I'm going to let you down gently
with this one because this is kind of hard. The
Fox News host that we made, the Secretary of
Defense, it's not going well. I know this is
shocking and surprising, but... I just wanted
you to hear it from me. It's going poorly enough
that the White House has actually removed his
choice of chief of staff and taken away that
choice from him. Pete Hegseth, a white supremacist
alcoholic wife beater who is a former Fox News
host, basically has no experience and should
not be at the head of an army, tried to appoint
some random dude that everyone hates to be his
chief of staff. Here's a quote from a White House
staffer about the guy that Hegseth wanted to
be chief of staff. Quote, He doesn't have adequate
experience, lacks the political chops, and is
widely disliked by almost everyone in the White
House who has been exposed to him. Me too. So
yeah, the White House has basically said, nah,
we're gonna pick your chief of staff. Hegseth
has just been a disaster, and I'm guessing they
just don't want to go back on his nomination,
given how hard they fought for him. I... I do
not think he is long for this role, but that's
a given. It's the Trump administration. We are
past policy. We're done. We're moving on to world
stuff. World star. Not, no. Anyway, world stuff.
Pope. We Pope. Got a Pope. We Poped it. Pop,
pop. It's a Pope. Peepaw. It's the Pope time.
I don't know what I'm doing. It's been a long
life. So Pope Francis died, but now we got a
new one. Pretty quickly. It was like a day and
a half. We got a new one. Pope Leo the 14th.
He's from Chicago. I can't, it's just a weird
concept. We now have a Pope who probably has
a hot dog order. Like he knows what he wants.
Shout out to Chicago style hot dogs. That shit's
rad. Anyway, yeah, there's not a whole lot to
say yet. It's new Pope. He's doing new Pope things.
He's, I saw that he wears an Apple watch, I guess.
That's, that's, he's just like us. The best thing
to come out of the whole new Pope thing though,
is that he has a brother who's just been. Real
excited to tell us all about it. We've just been
getting headline after headline from the Pope's
brother, where he's just like, yeah, he fucking
is real good at Fortnite and shit like that.
Side note, I don't think that he said the Pope
is good at Fortnite, but who knows? It's 2025.
Now, what's he like? I don't really know, but
by all accounts, he's like a pretty good dude
and relatively moderate. I don't have, I don't
really have high expectations when it comes to
Pope, Pope, Pope Puri, but wishing you all who
are the Pope folk, Wishing you good popes. Have
at it. India and Pakistan were escalating towards
an all -out war until very recently when they
signed a ceasefire that, at time of recording,
seems to be holding. For the past few weeks,
there have been just exchanges on either side
of the border between India and Pakistan. And
recently, the Trump admin came out and were like,
we facilitated ceasefire talks. It's unclear
what exactly happened. It seems like the White
House is pressuring India and Pakistan to come
to a ceasefire agreement. But according to both
India and Pakistan, they had direct communication
talks where they agreed on a ceasefire. And now
both sides are claiming victory. About 30 minutes
after the ceasefire agreement, there was like
an explosion in Kashmir. And so people were concerned
the ceasefire wasn't going to hold. But since
then, it's been mostly calm. This is very dynamic.
This could absolutely change at any moment, but
that's where we are right now. Really hoping
this doesn't re -escalate. We don't need that.
We've got enough going on. Technology. Apple
done stepped in it. So Apple's been fighting
a legal battle with Epic Games for years now
over Apple's locked down ecosystem of payments
on iOS. If you have an iPhone, you've probably
dealt with apps that don't let you sign up for
a subscription unless you go to their website
or apps that are more expensive if you sign up
through iOS than through their website. That's
because Apple takes a 30 % cut and requires developers
to go through their payment services. Or at least
that's what they were doing and they... They've
been fighting to keep it that way. A judge ruled
in 2021 that they can't be doing that. They got
to allow other payment systems. And Apple has
apparently been doing everything, every step
of the way since then, to prevent that from actually
happening. According to recently reviewed law
stuff, Tim Cook has been actually pushing for
them to skirt the court ruling, even if other
executives were like, hey, maybe we should just
adhere to that. So because of this, the judge
was actually like, hey, y 'all, I'm about to
hold Apple. in criminal contempt of court. To
which Apple was like, whoa, we're going to appeal?
Actually, let's not go there. Apple's lawyers
say that if they have to support the court ruling,
they're going to lose vast sums of money. I plugged
that into a calculator. I subtracted it from
Apple's current cash on hand. And the calculator
said that the result would be vast sums of money
still. I'm not a math magician, but the little
guy in my calculator is, and I trust him with
my life. Hey, don't make an AI rendition of me
for anything. Just on the outset of this next
story. Lots of stuff from 2021 this time around.
A man named Chris Pelkey in 2021 was killed during
a road rage incident. There was some road beef.
Dude pulled out a gun, shot him, and killed him.
That was back in 2021, and there have been trials
ongoing. But Chris's family decided to recreate
him using AI by feeding videos and pictures of
him into an AI that then generated his own impact
statement to speak from beyond the grave in court.
The result is like a monotone, robotic, genuinely
terrifying construction that in my opinion feels
like a desecration of this man's memory. Hello.
Just to be clear for everyone seeing this. I
am a version of Chris Pelkey recreated through
AI that uses my picture and my voice profile.
I was able to be digitally regenerated to share
with you today. But here's the part that I cannot
reconcile. Now look, this was an initiative done
by his sister and family. Like, the people who
saw the video, who are related to this guy, liked
it. I don't know him. The video makes me very
upset. But the judge liked it too. The judge
was all about it. so the judge liked it and the
family was for it they were the ones that drove
it i cannot wrap my head around the idea of being
happy that a computer has interpreted what your
dead loved one might say even going as far as
to say like it's great to see you all here today
it means a lot to me you're a computer you don't
get to Pretend you know what the feelings of
a man coming back from the dead to address a
court regarding the fate of his murderer would
be. Don't AI me, please. We're doing it again.
We're doing Theranos again. Elizabeth Holmes
of Theranos Infamy is currently in jail. She's
a jail girl. She made Theranos, which was a company
that she claimed was going to revolutionize the
diagnosis industry. Got a bunch of investments.
Turns out it was bullshit. Now she's in jail.
But now her partner is fundraising for a new
startup. An AI diagnosis startup. She's all for
it. She's promoting it from within jail. She's
also talking about rejoining the healthcare med
tech industry after she gets out of jail. Talking
about how she's writing patents from behind bars.
Yeah, okay. Hey, Rot. Rot, you made a fraudulent
company that took people's money and sold false
promises of a better medical future for people
who desperately need it. no don't come back gaming
grand theft auto 6 has been delayed until spring
2026 fulfilling one of my 2025 year predictions
which granted was the easiest one of them all
like it was gonna it was gonna happen we knew
that they insisted they said it wasn't gonna
happen but that just made it more gonna happen
stop right there criminal scum so that we can
play oblivion yeah while i was gone i'm just
talking about this because it happened while
i was gone and i need to talk about it Bethesda
released the Oblivion Remastered game. Elder
Scrolls Oblivion Remastered. Nailed it. The Elder
Scrolls IV Oblivion is a 2006 open world RPG
that is notorious for hysterical NPC interactions.
This remaster, beautifully, upgrades all the
graphics, but does not touch the game logic.
So you get to play this game that it feels a
lot more like a modern game now. But then you
go into town and every single NPC just like turns
and faces you and is like, hello there. Just
a cacophony. And then the second they're done
greeting you, they all turn to each other and
just start saying the most out of pocket bullshit
you can imagine. Just complete non sequiturs
back and forth. It is. It's an experience. Anyway,
the game is genuinely pretty good. I'm just happy
that it exists. Stardew Valley people, rejoice
in the future. The developer of Stardew Valley
was recently on a podcast where he said that
he might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2.
Now, to be clear, this is not an announcement
of Stardew Valley 2. So Stardew Valley has been
ridiculously popular. It essentially revitalized
an entire genre, and now that genre is hyper
-populated. So it's genuinely a good thing that
he's not going right to Stardew Valley 2 because
there's... too many games that are effectively
Stardew Valley 2 right now. He's been working
on a game called Haunted Chocolatier for a while,
but primarily he just keeps going back to working
on Stardew Valley, releasing a ton of free content
updates, which we like that. Thank you. But this
is the first time that he's actually acknowledged
that Stardew Valley 2 might actually happen at
some point. So get out your overalls and... Pet
your chickens. Lightning round. We've got a new
combination flu and COVID shot that is actually
more effective than individual flu and COVID
shots. So that's woo. In his own words, the MyPillow
guy is, quote, in ruins financially, as he is
required to pay a bunch of legal fees. Some dude's
been stalking Eminem for years and recently broke
into his house for the third time. He's very
in jail. There's new research into improved Lyme
disease treatment that looks pretty promising.
Still check yourself for ticks after going for
a hike. Warren Buffett is retiring at 94 years
old, showing us that he would never have made
a good senator. An eight -year -old in Kentucky
ordered 70 ,000 lollipops for himself and his
friends using his mom's phone. kind of took it,
ordered a shitload of lollipops on Amazon, and
they showed up. The perfect crime. She tried
to return them, but it was too late. And finally
for today, this is important. There is now video
of the world's tallest dog meeting the world's
smallest dog. This is important. Thank you so
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