Hello. I combined a tome with Wirt's leg. But
stuff still happened. So what's up? It's getting
very fashy outside. It's been fashy. It's getting
fashier. Let's talk about Los Angeles. Starting
on Friday and over the weekend, there have been
clashes between federal law enforcement and protesters
in LA as ICE has been escalating their deportation
efforts in the city. Now, if you're not familiar
with LA, there's a few Latino people there. There's
a handful of them. At least one or two I haven't
personally counted. So ICE shows up in downtown
LA and starts to detain people at storefronts
while they're working. You know, contributing?
Such hardened criminals. About 200 people showed
up to protest these ICE operations, try to block
them, just impede their work. Because no one
wants them there. This is not what the city voted
for, it's not what the state voted for, it's
not what the people there want. but it's happening
to them because just general aggression from
the right. Trump has made California his punching
bag, like despite the quality of life in California
being pretty good comparatively, he's made it
out to be this hellhole that's just complete
anarchy. And for whatever reason, people on the
right eat it up. And so they're targeting primarily
places that they've been told have fallen, right?
So I want to be clear, before I dig into the
timeline of what happened in LA, I want to just
say up front, LA is fine. Seattle is fine. Chicago
is fine. These places have not been destroyed.
I said 200 people showed up. That's 200 people.
LA has millions of people living there. It was
like a few blocks. Like if you were in the city,
there was virtually no chance that you'd even
stumble upon it. So don't let the media overplay
the scale of all of this. It's important to note
that. What the protesters did was courageous.
But it didn't destroy the city. ICE ended up
arresting 44 people, including the head of the
United Service Workers Union for the region,
which that's not a good look. The protesters
were mostly around a detention facility and a
federal building, and that's more or less where
it went on for the night. On Saturday, the raids
continued, but they moved over into the nearby
town of Paramount, which is over 80 % Latina.
They started going after day laborers at a Home
Depot, because again, those criminals ruining
our country by... building things. As ICE showed
up, the community started to push back. About
400 people in total at peak showed up to push
back against it. Things continued to escalate,
protesters pushed back, ICE and law enforcement
were using less lethal munitions, which is to
say rubber bullets, which can still kill you.
It came to a head on Saturday night when the
president of the United States of America asserted
that he was sending 2 ,000 troops from the National
Guard into LA to quell the anarchy. 400 people.
400 got to send in the National Guard on top
of the FBI and ICE and local law enforcement
to handle 400 people who are not in tactical
gear. What a strong man. Notably, both the governor
of California and the mayor of LA said, don't
do that. That's a bad idea. There's no need that's
not currently met by existing forces. I would
say that there isn't a need to begin with. to
have any of the forces. Not to sit out an opportunity
to be a complete chud, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary
of Defense, jumped in to say that if need be,
he would deploy Marines against U .S. citizens.
That's not how that works. That's not how that
works. The White House put out a statement saying
that the Commander in Chief would establish law
and order, which is not the capacity that the
president is acting in when he's executing the
law, but, you know, what does that matter anymore?
And before the night was over, Trump thanked
the National Guard for solving the problem before
the National Guard even actually arrived in LA.
Mission accomplished. I'm recording this on Sunday,
and as of right now, it's been relatively quiet.
There's literally a livestream of the chaos in
the city, and it's just a livestream of National
Guard members standing around in a parking lot.
looking around at nothing. At the same time,
there's now pictures coming out of local community
members cleaning up the mess of rubber bullets
and gas canisters left behind by the cops. Monday.
Boom. Jump scare. It's the next day. I did not
sleep well last night, so my voice and vibe will
be different. I wanted to include a bit of an
update. There were more protests on Sunday night
that grew to a much larger scale. A large crowd
of people took to the streets to show solidarity
with their community against the Fed. It was
largely peaceful. It was literally just a bunch
of people walking in the streets, marching. There
was scuffles, obviously, that's going to happen
at any mass gathering like this. But yeah, not
a war zone still. That said, there's also clips
of police brutality that is going around. One
clip shows LAPD on horses just trampling a dude
repeatedly. And another shows an Australian news
reporter reporting. and a cop just takes aim
and shoots a rubber bullet directly at her on
camera. They're creating these scenes in progressive
places that did not want this to happen. They're
specifically targeting these places because they've
spent decades at this point convincing their
base that America has fallen. They truly and
honestly bill this as warfare and have convinced
people that it is dangerous to go to cities because
of violent immigrants. marauding the place. Obviously,
to anyone who exists in actual reality, that's
not happening. But they can't be like, uh, psych,
now that we're in office, that's not actually
a problem. They're trying to make good on the
lies that they have spun, and the way they're
doing that is targeting places that are okay
with having these people there, and getting rid
of them, and getting footage of tearing them
out of buildings, so that they can play that
footage for their base. Gotta satisfy the bloodlust.
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right, moving on. Moving on to policy. The mayor
of Tulsa, Oklahoma has announced a plan to invest
$100 million into the black community of the
city in response to the 1920s Tulsa race massacre.
Up front, the funds for the reparations are privately
raised. They're not taxes. And also, the reparations
are an investment. They're not giving people
a check. But what is this? What's going on? Why
are they doing this? The Tulsa Race Massacre
is one of those stories that the U .S. really
likes to bury. It really likes to not teach us
when they're talking about racial history in
the states. In the summer of 1921, white supremacists
in Tulsa were deputized by the state and massacred
an entire neighborhood of black people. Specifically,
the neighborhood was referred to colloquially
as Black Wall Street because of how much prosperity
was happening there for Black folks. A violent
mob of white supremacists killed hundreds of
people, injured hundreds more, and razed 35 square
blocks of neighborhood, leaving over 10 ,000
people homeless. This is just a thing that happened.
So obviously reparations didn't happen for a
while, and about 20ish, 30ish years ago, there
was an investigation into like the state's role
in the massacre, and ultimately they suggested
we should do reparations. And now the city has
a black mayor for the first time, and he is pushing
for that to actually happen. This is one of those
stories that's just like the move bombings in
Philadelphia, where the Philadelphia Police Department
dropped multiple bombs from a helicopter onto
residential buildings. The house blew up, people
inside it died, and it started a fire that raged
for over an hour while the police just let it.
Dozens of homes were destroyed, people were made
homeless, lives were lost, and we don't talk
about that at all. But please, keep talking about
Tiananmen Square, because the states have never
done anything like that. Let's talk about the
Trump and Musk fallout. We knew this was gonna
happen. We knew this was gonna happen. We just
didn't know when. After Musk left the White House
after having been beside Trump for the first
few months of his presidency, they had a bit
of a beef. Both of them, very masculinely, went
to their social media platforms and subtweeted
each other for several hours. Musk said that
Trump is in the Epstein files, which, like, didoy.
and also said that Trump should be impeached,
while Trump says that Musk lost his mind and
is a drug addict. Which basically just means
that Trump knew that Elon was on drugs, but let
him just dismantle the government anyway, and
Elon knew that Trump is a pedophile, but worked
with him anyway. So that's... Well done, guys.
The reactions from the right have been... interesting
to follow. At first there was a lot of disbelief
and confusion, and a lot of public pleading for
them to kiss and make up. Then that went to there's
no way this is real, they're both in on it somehow,
like this is a ploy, it's a distraction of some
kind, but it hasn't really stopped. It's only
kind of solidified, and at this point right -wing
figures, especially terminally online ones, are
staking their claim as to more or less which
side they're gonna fall on, Musk or Trump. And
now Musk is talking about making a new political
party, which... What? Where are you gonna put
it? To the right of Trump? Anyway, it's all incredibly
stupid and could have been avoided by just not
having man -children elevated to the highest
levels of our society? Because these men's, and
I do not say this lightly, are nincompoops. Nincompoops!
You probably remember Kilmara Brego -Garcia,
the man who was mistakenly deported due to a,
quote, administrative error. to the torture prison
CICOT in El Salvador, that place that we're sending
people without a trial. So there was the whole
thing where the Trump administration accidentally
deported a guy who wasn't supposed to be deported
to a prison and then said that he could never
come back. Notably, the prison is a place that
claims no one will ever see the light of day
once they enter there, sometimes referred to
as a death camp. The United States government
said that he was now out of their jurisdiction
and there was nothing they could do to bring
him back. The Supreme Court said, what the fuck,
bring him back. to which the Trump administration
said, nah, but now they're actually bringing
him back. Why? To face charges as Attorney General
Pam Bondi has now charged him with trafficking
people across the border in a 10 -year -long
operation. Suddenly this guy has a criminal case.
This specific guy. Because oops. Now the announcement
of these charges don't fill me with confidence
that they're real because a prosecutor in the
office in charge of actually carrying out this
current case quit immediately. upon finding out
about this. He had been working there for 15
years and was a high -ranking prosecutor and
just noked out specifically because of this.
Quoting ABC News, Weird. Attorneys for Abrego
Garcia said he's gonna fight this like hell.
Best of luck. World stuff. Yeah, I don't know
what that was. Let's talk about Ukraine. Ukraine
pulled off a wild drone attack this past week
that has been in planning for over a year and
a half. The drone attack destroyed dozens of
aircraft deep in Russia's territory in military
installations. And when I say deep in Russia's
territory, I mean like 2 ,500 miles from Ukraine.
They did this by sneaking drones in in shipping
containers essentially, and they had operatives
actually out in Russia. preparing for all of
this. All at once, these shipping containers
were placed in the right locations. There was
a hatch on the top that opened up and allowed
for a drone to come out that was manually piloted
over the military bases to take out the planes.
There were no casualties on either side. That's
fucking crazy. This is the biggest drone strike
operation in the war so far and a major turning
point. Like this military strategists are freaking
out about this. I almost forgot that you can
do like covert military operations without just
annihilating civilians. Russia has since responded
to the attack with more bombings and they claimed
they're gonna get revenge despite also saying
that it wasn't a big deal and that it was just
that their planes caught fire. But we're gonna
get revenge! South Korea has a new president.
Lee Jae Myung has won the presidency in South
Korea. He is a center left to leftish politician.
He has previously likened himself to Bernie Sanders,
but largely ran on a platform of pragmatism and
just stability. Because if you recall, South
Korea, their previous president, tried to enforce
martial law, much to the chagrin of literally
everyone. While he was in office, he was like,
I'ma make, I'ma declare martial law. I'ma keep
my power that way. To which his own party was
like, bro, fucking what? Lawmakers in South Korea
came together and very quickly said, no, no,
no. And he became the first arrested and indicted
president from South Korea. Imagine that. This
new president is focusing on economic reform
and trying to just reestablish any sense of faith
in the government after that. He's also looking
to take a new approach to foreign diplomacy given
Washington DC's slipping position on the world
stage. But let's go a little bit north and talk
about the North Korea. Remember a few episodes
ago, I talked about how North Korea went to go
deploy a warship and it did not work. It capsized.
Well, they fixed it. They done fixed it. Well
done guys. Yeah, there's apparently they managed
to pull it out of the water They used like literal
ropes and barges to just like and then redeployed
the ship This was originally reported by a North
Korean state -run media, but it was it was confirmed
by satellite imagery Congrats on the ship. Hopefully
Kimmy J won't be too upset But I'm pretty sure
he's still recovering from his emotions gaming
the switch to launched It's a switch But again,
despite some initial backlash about the pricing,
it was exactly what you'd expect from a Nintendo
console release. There was lines out the doors,
it's sold out, people are expecting there to
be shortages for quite some time. Now that it's
in the hands of the people! They've been tearing
it apart, looking more into it. We've found that
the Joy -Cons apparently are the same technology
as the Switch 1 Joy -Cons, and so they might
get that drift issue. There's a massive issue
with Joy -Cons from the first generation Switch
having just like stick drift issues, and Nintendo
just denied it for a long time, and it has been
a legal nightmare for them. So people are a bit
concerned to find that they're using the same
technology in the Switch 2. It is a different
part. but it's the same mechanism. So hopefully
it won't go bad, but just look out for that.
We also got a Witcher 4 tech demo. We saw a really,
really, really pretty tech demo of the Witcher
4 running on Unreal Engine, and it's not actual
gameplay. It's in -engine footage, but it's not...
gameplay it's more of a demo of like this is
what we're building like these are our tools
and how we want to make the game and like if
everything goes great this is how it can look
but i mean it still looks it still looks it still
looks really really good besides that summer
games it's summer game fest there's been a lot
of announcements i am not gonna bother trying
to include every single announcement here i will
link to several articles that list a whole bunch
of stuff here are my top three This is not an
actual top three. I haven't this is not exhaustive.
I just saw these and got hype. A new Resident
Evil. Resident Evil Requiem. A Lies of P DLC.
I have not played Lies of P, but I know enough
people who essentially have turned that game
into their religion that I feel I should mention
it. A new game by Yacht Club. The people who
made Hollow Knight, they're making a new game
called Mina the Hollower. Anyway, I lied. This
is the fourth and top highlight. They're making
a new Wu -Tang Clan game! Wu -Tang! Rise of the
Deceiver! They are finally making a sequel! There
was a Wu -Tang Clan game, like a long time ago.
Lightning Round! Jonathan Joss, known for his
roles in King of the Hill and Parks and Rec,
was murdered by his neighbor. According to his
husband, it was because of homophobia. And the
cops were pretty much immediately like, nah,
it's not a hate crime. They have since walked
that back due to the hate crime nature. of the
hate crime. The editorial board of the Philadelphia
Inquirer published an op -ed digging into John
Fetterman pretty strongly. They basically said,
like, you were elected to represent the people
and you're not doing that. A flotilla that's
a, like, symbolic aid ship that has a bunch of
international activists is making its way to
Gaza, basically to bring attention to the whole
situation and to force Israel into an awkward
position. However, Israel being Israel, didn't
really care about the awkward position. And they're
like, yeah, we'll stop those activists by any
means necessary. Boom, it's me again from the
next day again. Israel has since captured the
boat and the people on the boat. What we know
is that the activists were taken into custody.
Israel used drones to drop some kind of powder
on their boat, which we don't know what that
is quite yet. And the latest that I have seen
is that Israel is going to make these activists
watch footage of the October 7th attacks. Disney
has announced that they're gonna be laying off
several hundred more workers. A lost dog in the
UK returned home after about a month -long journey.
The dog went over a hundred miles, including
swimming to an island. But dog's home now. Everything's
okay. Mount Etna! It blew up! It erupted! Here,
okay, this is my... Oh, this is a great opportunity.
You all get to see my volcano impersonation.
Here we go. I'm Mount Etna! I did great. And
finally for today, a museum in Amsterdam has
opened a new exhibit showing off a 200 -year
-old condom. I'm not kidding. Thank you so much
for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps
Happening. Head to SKH .News for sources, bonus
content, and a 300 -year -old condom. My name
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care and be well.