WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.640 Hello. I said a variation of my usual intro. 00:00:04.820 --> 00:00:08.460 But stuff still happens. So what's up? It's the 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:11.580 Mamdani meltdown. Politicians, both Democrat 00:00:11.580 --> 00:00:14.919 and Republican, are losing their shit over the 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:18.000 New York City Democratic primary. Zoran Mamdani. 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.359 He won in like a blowout election in the New 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:24.019 York City primary against Cuomo, the disgraced 00:00:24.019 --> 00:00:27.469 former governor of New York. It's truly baffling 00:00:27.469 --> 00:00:30.870 that the man ran at all. But, Zoran kicked his 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:32.890 ass so hard that despite projections showing 00:00:32.890 --> 00:00:34.810 that the voting would have to be tallied for 00:00:34.810 --> 00:00:36.829 a while because of the rank choice voting system, 00:00:37.810 --> 00:00:40.090 Zoran won on the first round. Like enough of 00:00:40.090 --> 00:00:43.909 a blowout that Dem strategists were guffawed. 00:00:44.009 --> 00:00:46.890 I think guffaw is the only applicable term there. 00:00:47.170 --> 00:00:51.500 So Bamdani is a brown man. who also calls himself 00:00:51.500 --> 00:00:54.960 a democratic socialist and is Muslim. So U .S. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.520 politicians aren't happy. And to be clear, I'm 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.060 including Democrats. Like Democrats are really 00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:02.340 showing their hand right now and proving that 00:01:02.340 --> 00:01:04.799 bigotry belongs to no party. It's definitely 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:08.019 more rampant in Republicans, and we'll get to 00:01:08.019 --> 00:01:10.340 that. But let's start with the Democrats. So 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:12.400 Democrats are mostly leaning in on one claim 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.760 that Mamdani endorsed the phrase, globalize the 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.659 intifada, which is not a thing he ever did. The 00:01:18.659 --> 00:01:21.959 phrase is a interpret it as a threat towards 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.620 Jews, and it's all bad faith. He didn't endorse 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:27.939 that. In fact, he's made his position very, very 00:01:27.939 --> 00:01:30.239 clear that he would protect and support Jewish 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:33.280 communities and has shown that he will support 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:35.319 Jewish people in his actions already. There's 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:37.599 really not a question about his support for Jews. 00:01:37.739 --> 00:01:41.159 It's just he's not a big fan of Israel. And so 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.280 they are going into hyper super ultra overdrive 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:44.900 doing that whole thing where they just say that 00:01:44.900 --> 00:01:48.739 Israel and Jews are one in the same. which is 00:01:48.739 --> 00:01:51.700 so deeply offensive. And so Kirsten Gillibrand 00:01:51.700 --> 00:01:54.519 was on a radio show where she was taking calls 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:56.780 and a caller called in with a question saying, 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.019 hey, what about all the awful things Mom Donnie 00:02:00.019 --> 00:02:03.540 has said about Jews? And the host of this radio 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:06.939 show even tried to give her a layup saying, well, 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:08.439 you know, some of the things the caller said 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:10.860 may not be true. I can't fact check in real time. 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.219 But she ignored that. and was like, yeah, you 00:02:13.219 --> 00:02:15.800 know, he's going to have to really work on that. 00:02:15.860 --> 00:02:17.560 And that's something I'm going to work with him 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:19.379 on. And, you know, we're going to work together 00:02:19.379 --> 00:02:21.780 on making sure that Jews are supported. And I'm 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:23.139 going to I'm going to talk with him about that. 00:02:23.139 --> 00:02:25.180 And it's like, what? What? You're just sitting 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:27.199 there asserting that you're the reason that he 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.900 would help Jews. What? Despite rambling for quite 00:02:29.900 --> 00:02:32.020 some time and making her point very, very, very 00:02:32.020 --> 00:02:34.300 clear, she has said that she misspoke and is 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:36.310 trying to walk it back. Eric Swalwell is. doing 00:02:36.310 --> 00:02:39.569 the same thing. The, oh, he owes an apology to 00:02:39.569 --> 00:02:42.250 Jews, kind of, also needs to explain himself, 00:02:42.729 --> 00:02:45.990 despite not saying what Mamdani said, which is 00:02:45.990 --> 00:02:47.930 nothing. To my knowledge, Chuck Schumer hasn't 00:02:47.930 --> 00:02:51.610 said a specific dumb thing, but also is refusing 00:02:51.610 --> 00:02:53.889 to just outright support Mamdani. And Hakeem 00:02:53.889 --> 00:02:55.610 Jeffries, the head of Democrats in the House 00:02:55.610 --> 00:02:57.620 of Representatives, He also basically did the 00:02:57.620 --> 00:02:59.580 same thing as Swalwell, just being like, well, 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.319 you know, he's going to have to clarify his points 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.419 and be very clear moving forward because we don't 00:03:05.419 --> 00:03:09.219 know. So that was the Democrat side. Brace yourself. 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.800 In this corner, we have the Republicans being 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:15.599 overtly racist. What a novel concept. Senator 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.020 Andy Ogles came out swinging, calling Mamdani, 00:03:18.219 --> 00:03:21.699 quote, Zoran Little Muhammad Mamdani. He then 00:03:21.699 --> 00:03:23.939 referred to him as anti -Semitic, socialist, 00:03:24.259 --> 00:03:27.460 and communist, and then called for his denaturalization 00:03:27.460 --> 00:03:30.000 and deportation. Nancy Mace heard there was a 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.919 bigotry party going on, and she wanted in on 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.099 that action. So she tweeted, associating Mamdani 00:03:35.099 --> 00:03:37.800 with 9 -11. Donald Trump Jr. asserted that New 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:43.189 York City has fallen. And Trump himself referred 00:03:43.189 --> 00:03:47.909 to Mamdani as a quote 100 % communist lunatic 00:03:47.909 --> 00:03:51.650 because words Just don't mean anything anymore. 00:03:51.930 --> 00:03:54.050 I want to remind you that all of these reactions 00:03:54.050 --> 00:03:58.930 are to a candidate who was Overwhelmingly support 00:03:58.930 --> 00:04:00.969 like they're just ignoring the fact that the 00:04:00.969 --> 00:04:04.189 city voted for this and wants this and they're 00:04:04.189 --> 00:04:06.310 losing their shit acting as if it's the end of 00:04:06.310 --> 00:04:09.819 days when in reality It's a city trying a new 00:04:09.819 --> 00:04:12.840 policy for their mayoral candidate. The dude's 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:15.439 most radical proposals are free public transit 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.660 and city -owned grocery. Like both of those already 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:22.220 exist in the U .S. But instead of focusing on 00:04:22.220 --> 00:04:24.459 the catastrophic tax bill that's about to pass 00:04:24.459 --> 00:04:26.759 through the Senate, they're just ripping on a 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:28.920 guy for a thing he didn't say. But speaking of 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:32.379 that tax bill, numbers! I'll make it quick. I'll 00:04:32.379 --> 00:04:34.560 make it fun. So, recap. Republicans are trying 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.620 to pass a bill called the Big Beautiful Bill. 00:04:37.019 --> 00:04:40.040 It's Trump's tax and economic plan. I say plan. 00:04:40.259 --> 00:04:42.860 It's more just Trump wants it to be passed so 00:04:42.860 --> 00:04:45.680 he can sign it on 4th of July and say he did 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.639 that. He has kind of shown that he doesn't actually 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:49.279 give a shit what's in it and just wants it to 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.759 get to his desk because he recently tweeted out 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.639 saying, hey, don't go too crazy, Republicans. 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:56.819 Remember, you got to get reelected. What the 00:04:56.819 --> 00:04:59.589 fuck does that mean? He's saying I know you're 00:04:59.589 --> 00:05:02.230 doing bad shit, but don't do too much bad shit. 00:05:02.449 --> 00:05:06.040 What I'm gonna crash out I'm gonna crash out. 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.660 Anyway, I previously covered the House version 00:05:08.660 --> 00:05:10.439 of the bill. I'm gonna give some overview of 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.060 what the Senate version changes and what we can 00:05:13.060 --> 00:05:15.120 expect if this gets passed. Regarding taxes, 00:05:15.139 --> 00:05:17.180 it does the same thing as the House bill in making 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:20.060 Trump's originally temporary tax cuts from his 00:05:20.060 --> 00:05:22.500 first term. It would make those permanent. So 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:24.699 back in Trump's first term, they made temporary 00:05:24.699 --> 00:05:27.019 tax breaks to try to reduce the overall cost 00:05:27.019 --> 00:05:29.100 of the package and make it more palatable. This 00:05:29.100 --> 00:05:30.899 time around, they're trying to make those temporary 00:05:30.899 --> 00:05:33.759 changes permanent, and they're also trying to 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:35.750 claim that because those temporary changes are 00:05:35.750 --> 00:05:37.829 being made permanent they're not actually changing 00:05:37.829 --> 00:05:40.769 policy and so we shouldn't consider the financial 00:05:40.769 --> 00:05:43.949 impact of the opportunity cost of what the taxes 00:05:43.949 --> 00:05:45.970 would have been if they were not permanent. Put 00:05:45.970 --> 00:05:48.750 simply, Republicans are trying to confuse the 00:05:48.750 --> 00:05:51.870 math around accounting and that's not how math 00:05:51.870 --> 00:05:54.870 works. No tax on tips is in there but it is also 00:05:54.870 --> 00:05:57.250 temporary and there's a maximum income level 00:05:57.250 --> 00:06:00.310 before it stops counting. It offers a larger 00:06:00.310 --> 00:06:02.769 standard deduction to seniors who make under 00:06:02.769 --> 00:06:06.170 $75 ,000 because young people don't need money, 00:06:06.410 --> 00:06:09.449 famously. It actually increases the maximum of 00:06:09.449 --> 00:06:12.750 the child tax credit to $2 ,500 for a child, 00:06:13.129 --> 00:06:16.689 except it also scales that down. So the poorer 00:06:16.689 --> 00:06:19.569 you are, the less you get, all the way down to 00:06:19.569 --> 00:06:23.230 nothing. So a child tax credit for a poor family 00:06:23.230 --> 00:06:26.269 would be nothing. But for a rich family... would 00:06:26.269 --> 00:06:29.170 be more. There's a proposal to increase the SALT 00:06:29.170 --> 00:06:32.370 cap to $40 ,000 from $10 ,000 for most states. 00:06:32.709 --> 00:06:35.529 The SALT cap is essentially the limit of how 00:06:35.529 --> 00:06:37.730 much of your state and local taxes you can deduct 00:06:37.730 --> 00:06:41.050 from your federal taxes if you itemize your taxes. 00:06:41.230 --> 00:06:43.269 There was a proposal to increase it to $40 ,000, 00:06:43.269 --> 00:06:45.470 but the Senate is looking to try to cut that 00:06:45.470 --> 00:06:46.810 entirely and bring it back down to $10 ,000. 00:06:47.189 --> 00:06:50.110 This is a bargaining chip for states that have 00:06:50.110 --> 00:06:53.009 higher taxes. To pay for not even half of these 00:06:53.009 --> 00:06:56.449 tax cuts, they want to slash 1 .5 trillion dollars 00:06:56.449 --> 00:06:58.509 from the budget, which was otherwise earmarked 00:06:58.509 --> 00:07:01.610 for Medicare, nutritional assistance, and climate 00:07:01.610 --> 00:07:03.430 initiatives. It is estimated that the Senate 00:07:03.430 --> 00:07:06.009 version of this bill would kick even more people 00:07:06.009 --> 00:07:08.110 off of Medicare than the House version would, 00:07:08.189 --> 00:07:10.589 closer to 12 million people in total. It's also 00:07:10.589 --> 00:07:13.430 projected to kick about 3 million people off 00:07:13.430 --> 00:07:15.910 of SNAP slash food stamps, you know, nutritional 00:07:15.910 --> 00:07:18.410 assistance. It also increases ICE's budget by 00:07:18.410 --> 00:07:21.110 a staggering amount, and I want to be within 00:07:21.110 --> 00:07:23.670 no uncertain terms here. We are currently, right 00:07:23.670 --> 00:07:26.759 now, living in a United States of America that 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.319 has concentration camps. These ICE detention 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:33.160 centers are concentration camps. People are dying 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.019 in them due to inhumane conditions. This isn't 00:07:36.019 --> 00:07:38.100 even the first time the U .S. has done this. 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.160 Our hands are not free of sin. With that understanding 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:45.100 that we are currently doing concentration camps. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:49.060 ICE is getting an additional $350 billion to 00:07:49.060 --> 00:07:51.720 fund that. This bill would push for 10 ,000 new 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:54.300 ICE agents, each of which would get a $10 ,000 00:07:54.300 --> 00:07:58.000 signing bonus. It has funds for 100 ,000, quote, 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.519 detention center beds, which should be read as 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.860 funding for concentration camps. It establishes 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:06.959 a $12 billion grant to provide money to states 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.560 that help ICE out, and it provides a separate 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:12.740 $3 .5 billion grant to the U .S. Attorney General 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.100 for basically the same thing, but they just wanted 00:08:15.100 --> 00:08:17.899 to put a line item in there that has a backronym 00:08:17.899 --> 00:08:22.060 that shortens to Biden to have like a fund that 00:08:22.060 --> 00:08:25.019 is for deportation efforts called Biden, just 00:08:25.019 --> 00:08:26.879 because their brains are broken. Overall, it 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:28.699 is expected that this is going to add over four 00:08:28.699 --> 00:08:31.120 trillion dollars to the deficit. So literally 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.879 never let them tell you that they're trying to 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:35.980 reduce spending. All right, moving on. That was 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:38.210 a lot. We're going to we're going to. Go faster? 00:08:38.370 --> 00:08:41.889 I had every intention of making this a more streamlined, 00:08:42.289 --> 00:08:46.350 less intensive, less wordy issue. That didn't 00:08:46.350 --> 00:08:48.129 happen. So we're gonna - we're gonna - we're 00:08:48.129 --> 00:08:49.549 gonna move - we're gonna move forward. Fuck! 00:08:49.690 --> 00:08:51.649 More policy, I'm sorry. The Supreme Court has 00:08:51.649 --> 00:08:54.090 ruled that judges ain't shit. So there was a 00:08:54.090 --> 00:08:55.429 court case that went to the Supreme Court of 00:08:55.429 --> 00:08:58.230 the United States about Trump's attempts to undo 00:08:58.230 --> 00:09:00.909 birthright citizenship, which is wild because 00:09:00.909 --> 00:09:03.629 that's just like as constitutional right as you 00:09:03.629 --> 00:09:05.649 can get. But this went to the Supreme Court and 00:09:05.649 --> 00:09:07.710 ultimately the thing that was being argued was 00:09:07.710 --> 00:09:10.009 whether or not a lower -level court can file 00:09:10.009 --> 00:09:13.289 a nationwide injunction to stop executive actions. 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:15.759 There's about two dozen of these nationwide injunctions 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:17.879 right now from various judges who have been trying 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:19.879 to stop the Trump administration from unilaterally 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.460 just signing an executive order and infringing 00:09:22.460 --> 00:09:24.559 on people's rights. When the president signs 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.139 one of those orders that's not okay, the judge 00:09:27.139 --> 00:09:30.100 says no and they can't do it until it's resolved 00:09:30.100 --> 00:09:32.500 in the courts. But not anymore! Now they can 00:09:32.500 --> 00:09:35.179 do it. Fuck you. The Supreme Court basically 00:09:35.179 --> 00:09:37.659 ruled they can't stop the president from just 00:09:37.659 --> 00:09:39.799 doing the shit he wants to do, and the only way 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.200 that they can stop the president now is if they 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.919 file a class action lawsuit against the federal 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.000 government. And in that case, the people who 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.419 are in the class can be protected. So if the 00:09:50.419 --> 00:09:52.460 government is infringing on your rights, you 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:55.419 have to either be in an individual lawsuit with 00:09:55.419 --> 00:09:58.220 the government or part of a class action against 00:09:58.220 --> 00:10:01.059 the government. to actually not have your rights 00:10:01.059 --> 00:10:03.840 infringed, and only while it's going through 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.299 the courts. But that means that unless your attorney 00:10:06.299 --> 00:10:08.980 general is on board with protecting your rights 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:10.799 from the Trump administration, they're not going 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.080 to do anything. And so this creates a patchwork 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.360 legal system. We essentially just have 50 different 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.659 countries now. Because you can go across the 00:10:17.659 --> 00:10:20.620 border and whether or not your child has birthright 00:10:20.620 --> 00:10:23.220 citizenship could be in question And so to that 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:25.799 end the SCOTUS did sort of like leave some wiggle 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:28.159 room about like not fucking with birthright citizenship 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.940 But this can affect everything any policy that 00:10:31.940 --> 00:10:34.500 Trump wants to put out There's gonna have to 00:10:34.500 --> 00:10:37.399 be a lawsuit pushing back on it specifically 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.740 covering you It's gonna cost a ton of money and 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:41.960 the point is to overload the system so that nobody 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:44.500 can actually stop them Now, were there a lot 00:10:44.500 --> 00:10:46.840 of nationwide injunctions recently and a massive 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.840 spike? Yeah, there was absolutely an anomalous 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.720 spike in nationwide injunctions in recent years, 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:57.360 starting with Obama. So I would point your attention 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:00.679 to one Mitch McConnell, who famously weaponized 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.360 the courts against the presidency. And now that 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:04.940 they don't like that it's happening against Trump 00:11:04.940 --> 00:11:06.919 as he's trying to just trample on people's rights, 00:11:07.370 --> 00:11:10.210 They got rid of it. Thanks, Mitch. Your entire 00:11:10.210 --> 00:11:12.289 political career has been spent screwing over 00:11:12.289 --> 00:11:15.850 the next generation. Rot in hell. Regarding the 00:11:15.850 --> 00:11:18.149 Iran bombings. There, you know, we bombed Iran. 00:11:18.450 --> 00:11:21.029 There was a war between Israel and Iran. Well, 00:11:21.070 --> 00:11:24.730 Israel was bombing Iran. Long story short, that's 00:11:24.730 --> 00:11:27.190 simmered down for now. We don't know what the 00:11:27.190 --> 00:11:29.730 actual impact of the strike was. US intelligence 00:11:29.730 --> 00:11:33.980 is reporting both a unilateral success and questionable 00:11:33.980 --> 00:11:36.519 success. International aid groups say that the 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:39.279 uranium that was enriched in Iran is likely fine, 00:11:39.580 --> 00:11:41.720 likely got moved somewhere else, so we have no 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.110 idea. What actually was accomplished, if anything, 00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:46.490 but after there was a ceasefire put into effect, 00:11:46.809 --> 00:11:49.450 Israel decided to up their attacks against Iran 00:11:49.450 --> 00:11:51.809 in the final hours before the ceasefire actually 00:11:51.809 --> 00:11:54.110 went into effect, just to do as much damage as 00:11:54.110 --> 00:11:56.210 they could. And then they just kind of ignored 00:11:56.210 --> 00:11:59.049 the ceasefire for a while. Iran also struck back, 00:11:59.129 --> 00:12:02.110 and so Trump got big mad, and now famously went 00:12:02.110 --> 00:12:06.350 on TV and said the F -bomb, which is to say Far 00:12:06.350 --> 00:12:08.889 -Quad. He went on TV and said Israel and Iran 00:12:08.889 --> 00:12:10.350 have no idea what the fuck they're doing, and 00:12:10.350 --> 00:12:12.289 it was the most relatable he's ever been. The 00:12:12.289 --> 00:12:14.330 US is planning to restart talks with Iran about 00:12:14.330 --> 00:12:16.909 their nuclear program, the talks that Trump killed 00:12:16.909 --> 00:12:19.429 in his first term. It doesn't look likely that 00:12:19.429 --> 00:12:21.409 Iran is going to be willing to play ball. They 00:12:21.409 --> 00:12:23.769 are not going to accept the US's terms about 00:12:23.769 --> 00:12:26.929 having basically no enriched uranium. Regarding 00:12:26.929 --> 00:12:29.710 ICE bullshit, there's three quick things I'm 00:12:29.710 --> 00:12:31.710 going to touch on. The first is Kilmar Briego 00:12:31.710 --> 00:12:34.230 -Garcia, the man who was quote unquote mistakenly 00:12:34.230 --> 00:12:37.090 deported by the US government to El Salvador 00:12:37.090 --> 00:12:39.639 to a death camp. He's back on US soil because 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.159 the US government is trying to charge him with 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:44.460 a crime to undo their mistake. That's not how 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:46.740 that works, but while he's now on US soil, he 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:49.820 has petitioned to go at least to his home district 00:12:49.820 --> 00:12:52.299 to be where his wife and kid is. That has been 00:12:52.299 --> 00:12:55.200 denied, and a spokesperson for the Justice Department 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.799 said that Kilmar will, quote, never go free on 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:02.029 American soil. This man has not been found guilty 00:13:02.029 --> 00:13:04.490 of anything. Meanwhile, ICE is still abducting 00:13:04.490 --> 00:13:06.929 people off of the street. One notable story of 00:13:06.929 --> 00:13:09.750 thousands is an Iranian woman who's been living 00:13:09.750 --> 00:13:13.570 here for 47 years was abducted by ICE while she 00:13:13.570 --> 00:13:16.269 was out front of her home gardening. She had 00:13:16.269 --> 00:13:18.190 tried to apply for a visa. It was denied, but 00:13:18.190 --> 00:13:21.230 she was issued a stay of removal and she had 00:13:21.230 --> 00:13:24.409 met the requirements to not be removed consistently. 00:13:24.860 --> 00:13:28.460 For nearly 50 years, she tried for citizenship 00:13:28.460 --> 00:13:30.460 and was denied. They didn't let her because of 00:13:30.460 --> 00:13:32.240 technicalities. And people are just like, what 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:34.559 the hell happened to my nice neighbor who was 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.779 just a part of my community? She was gardening. 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.759 And then finally, there's the JD Vance meme situation. 00:13:40.700 --> 00:13:43.340 So... A 21 -year -old Norwegian guy named Mads 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:46.019 Mikkelsen, not the actor, was coming to the United 00:13:46.019 --> 00:13:49.240 States of America. Freedom. As he got to our 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.600 freedom center, the border control, they asked 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:55.440 for access to his phone. which is fucked, and 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.779 on his phone they found a widely shared meme 00:13:57.779 --> 00:14:01.179 of JD Vance, and that pissed off the officer 00:14:01.179 --> 00:14:03.659 for some reason. They took the guy into an interrogation 00:14:03.659 --> 00:14:06.019 room, interrogated him, put him into a holding 00:14:06.019 --> 00:14:08.960 cell for hours with no food or water, they forced 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.480 him to give a blood sample and fingerprints, 00:14:11.620 --> 00:14:14.519 and then deported him to Oslo. I shit you not, 00:14:14.620 --> 00:14:17.399 the US maintains that it wasn't the JD Vance 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.659 meme that got him deported, but was instead the 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:22.139 fact that he said that he had previously used 00:14:22.139 --> 00:14:25.860 cannabis in a country where cannabis was legal. 00:14:26.179 --> 00:14:28.700 The US technically can deny you for drug use. 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.080 And they did that. Who knows what this man could 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:37.620 have been capable of. He smoked the ganja in 00:14:37.620 --> 00:14:40.860 the past. You're telling me weed makes you time 00:14:40.860 --> 00:14:43.500 travel? Obviously dangerous. Get him out of here. 00:14:43.580 --> 00:14:46.919 World stuff! This is a brutal episode. I'm so 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.019 sorry. I promise there's cool stuff at the end. 00:14:49.299 --> 00:14:51.519 There have been many reports of people in Gaza 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.759 being mowed down at aid distribution sites. There's 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.080 an organization that is backed by the US and 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.100 Israel that's supposed to be distributing aid 00:14:59.100 --> 00:15:01.460 to people in Gaza. But instead, when people in 00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:03.519 Gaza have been going to these sites, there have 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.860 just been bullets sprayed into the crowd. Hundreds 00:15:05.860 --> 00:15:07.700 have been killed and the international charity 00:15:07.700 --> 00:15:10.659 Save the Children has said that the vast majority 00:15:10.659 --> 00:15:14.129 have been children. killing children at aid distribution 00:15:14.129 --> 00:15:16.429 sites. I wonder why people aren't thrilled with 00:15:16.429 --> 00:15:18.509 Israel right now, but I also want to be very, 00:15:18.509 --> 00:15:22.509 very clear that it's IDF and US, quote, defense 00:15:22.509 --> 00:15:25.269 contractors, private military forces from the 00:15:25.269 --> 00:15:29.309 US. But we're not involved in Japan. The character 00:15:29.309 --> 00:15:31.960 limit has been reached. In 2017, there was a 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:33.940 guy known as the Twitter Killer. He was a serial 00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:36.419 killer in Japan who lured women to his house 00:15:36.419 --> 00:15:39.139 and murdered them. He used Twitter to find women 00:15:39.139 --> 00:15:42.659 who were depressed or conveying suicidal ideation, 00:15:42.700 --> 00:15:44.559 and he said that he wanted to offer help. That 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:46.899 help being killing them. Now, when he was arrested, 00:15:47.220 --> 00:15:49.399 his attorneys tried to argue on his side that 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.600 he had permission to kill them. It was murder 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.620 with consent. He took issue with this and clarified 00:15:54.620 --> 00:15:56.730 that he did not have consent to kill them. Don't 00:15:56.730 --> 00:15:59.669 put that evil on me! I didn't get consent! He's 00:15:59.669 --> 00:16:01.750 dead now. They killed him. Capital punishment. 00:16:02.090 --> 00:16:06.009 In China, the women be horny. Can't believe I 00:16:06.009 --> 00:16:08.929 get to talk about... So, okay. Boy's love. Boy's 00:16:08.929 --> 00:16:12.850 love is a genre of fiction that is mostly written 00:16:12.850 --> 00:16:15.789 by women for women and stars male protagonists 00:16:15.789 --> 00:16:18.590 in a homoerotic relationship. This has been surging 00:16:18.590 --> 00:16:20.929 in popularity among women in China and the Chinese 00:16:20.929 --> 00:16:23.570 government is not particularly happy about it, 00:16:23.629 --> 00:16:26.320 labeling it obscene. And so multiple authors 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.379 of Boy's Love content in China have had visits 00:16:29.379 --> 00:16:31.460 from authorities that either interrogate them 00:16:31.460 --> 00:16:34.000 or actually charge them with obscenity. It's 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.620 apparently sparked a bit more of a debate about 00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:37.860 the role of the government in policing morality, 00:16:38.340 --> 00:16:41.139 but largely it's just fucking whack that I'm 00:16:41.139 --> 00:16:44.919 talking about Boy's Love novelists in the context 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.600 of global... politics, because there's like legitimate 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:51.659 overseas havens for hosting boys love content 00:16:51.659 --> 00:16:54.320 so that people in China can read it. Shit damn. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.960 I'm telling you, these women be horny. Cool stuff. 00:16:57.299 --> 00:16:59.000 Let's do cool stuff. Just cool stuff from here 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.279 on out. Maybe. I didn't look ahead, actually. 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:04.819 Exoplanets. The James Webb space peeper has done 00:17:04.819 --> 00:17:08.400 another amazing feat and took a photo of an exoplanet 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.240 for the first time. Context. Exoplanets are hard 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.180 to see. Because they're really far away and you 00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:15.460 have to squint. They're usually by a star, and 00:17:15.460 --> 00:17:18.539 if you look at a star, it's bright and kind of 00:17:18.539 --> 00:17:20.900 overshines everything else around it. Kind of 00:17:20.900 --> 00:17:23.140 like my head. But given how powerful the Jimmy 00:17:23.140 --> 00:17:25.440 Wimmy Telescope is, they were able to actually 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.480 filter out the light from the sun and get an 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:31.019 image of like a Jupiter -ish planet. So that's 00:17:31.019 --> 00:17:33.599 cool. If you've ever seen a photo of an exoplanet 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:35.359 before, you haven't. That's an illustration. 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.319 It's a mock -up. We don't have that technology. 00:17:38.769 --> 00:17:41.630 Meteors over Atlanta, free band name for anyone 00:17:41.630 --> 00:17:43.930 who wants that. Yeah, there was a massive fireball 00:17:43.930 --> 00:17:46.390 spotted in the sky over Georgia, seen here as 00:17:46.390 --> 00:17:48.490 a part of 7 -Eleven's increased marketing budget 00:17:48.490 --> 00:17:50.990 apparently. But for real, a meteor fell out of 00:17:50.990 --> 00:17:54.170 the sky and rammed through someone's roof all 00:17:54.170 --> 00:17:55.490 the way through their floor into the concrete 00:17:55.490 --> 00:17:58.269 of their home, which... Thankfully nobody was 00:17:58.269 --> 00:18:01.380 harmed, but holy shit, new fear. People were 00:18:01.380 --> 00:18:03.940 scrambling to figure out what exactly that was. 00:18:04.059 --> 00:18:05.740 Of course, there was just a fireball in the sky 00:18:05.740 --> 00:18:07.940 caught on some dash cams, and a bunch of weather 00:18:07.940 --> 00:18:09.700 radars were like, is that lightning? There's 00:18:09.700 --> 00:18:11.660 no storm happening. But we eventually figured 00:18:11.660 --> 00:18:14.019 it out. God hates us. Hey, let's talk about ad 00:18:14.019 --> 00:18:16.589 block for your face. A Belgian software developer 00:18:16.589 --> 00:18:18.569 has used artificial intelligence and augmented 00:18:18.569 --> 00:18:21.890 reality glasses to make a prototype of real -world 00:18:21.890 --> 00:18:24.470 physical ad block. It streams video from the 00:18:24.470 --> 00:18:27.789 glasses to an AI that tries to detect what is 00:18:27.789 --> 00:18:30.630 and is not an ad, and if it sees an ad, it projects 00:18:30.630 --> 00:18:33.190 just like a red box over it and says, like, this 00:18:33.190 --> 00:18:35.490 was an ad. This is a prototype. This is not anywhere 00:18:35.490 --> 00:18:38.109 near an actual product. I do want to note that 00:18:38.109 --> 00:18:40.910 it uses Google's AI to do the computation, which 00:18:40.910 --> 00:18:43.309 is hysterical because Google is literally an 00:18:43.309 --> 00:18:47.019 advertising company. but also dystopian as fuck. 00:18:47.420 --> 00:18:49.759 Neat, though. Lightning Round. Facebook and Meta 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.079 are testing a system that will feed your phone's 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.660 images up into their AI, even if you haven't 00:18:54.660 --> 00:18:56.220 uploaded them to the app. They're saying this 00:18:56.220 --> 00:18:58.579 is a test, and they're saying that it is not 00:18:58.579 --> 00:19:01.440 currently being used to train their AIs. Currently. 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:03.640 They're bringing back the Spider -Man trilogy. 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:06.339 There's an extended cut of the Spider -Man trilogy 00:19:06.339 --> 00:19:08.819 coming to theaters, like the original. Edward 00:19:08.819 --> 00:19:11.240 Corastine, the guy who called himself Big Balls 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:14.900 who worked at Doge, has resigned. America lost 00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:18.039 a great asset today. That's not true. Speaking 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.660 of dumb resignations, the president of the University 00:19:20.660 --> 00:19:23.319 of Virginia resigned under pressure from the 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.240 Trump administration. Because he's a big weenie. 00:19:26.539 --> 00:19:29.059 Protect your wallets! The steam summer sale is 00:19:29.059 --> 00:19:31.720 going on right now. Send help. After the Key 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.160 Bridge in Baltimore got mostly destroyed last 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.420 year, they are finally demolishing the rest of 00:19:36.420 --> 00:19:38.349 it. And finally for today, it was looking like 00:19:38.349 --> 00:19:40.750 Texas was going to have a complete ban on all 00:19:40.750 --> 00:19:43.809 THC products, but Governor Abbott actually managed 00:19:43.809 --> 00:19:46.549 to veto it. This is very dangerous because now 00:19:46.549 --> 00:19:49.410 someone might have THC in Texas and thus become 00:19:49.410 --> 00:19:51.589 a national security threat, and we must deport 00:19:51.589 --> 00:19:53.789 them all to Oslo. Thank you for listening to 00:19:53.789 --> 00:19:56.009 today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head 00:19:56.009 --> 00:20:00.170 to skh .news for sources, bonus content, and 00:20:00.170 --> 00:20:04.619 that good old -fashioned Texas THC. My name is 00:20:04.619 --> 00:20:06.619 Endeavorance. Thank you so much for being here. 00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:08.519 Take care and be well.