WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.580 Hello. I defeated the drill at the outer wall. 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:08.660 But stuff still happened. So what's up? A lot. 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:13.859 I'm going to do things a little differently today. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.199 The first segment of this is just going to be 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.660 dedicated to trying to cover the state of the 00:00:19.660 --> 00:00:23.100 situation in the states, the state of the states, 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:26.859 the state state. I want to say upfront, it's 00:00:26.859 --> 00:00:29.559 not great. It's just not. And I wish I had better 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.719 words, and I'm going to do what I can to give 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.020 a glimmer of hope. But here we go. Let's start 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:37.960 off by talking about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.039 name has come up a whole bunch of times in this 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.759 series. Very brief recap, Kilmar was mistakenly, 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:47.240 in air quotes, deported to CICOT, the torture 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.140 prison in El Salvador. He had been living in 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:53.299 the States for years, has a wife, child, wasn't 00:00:53.299 --> 00:00:55.200 supposed to be deported, wasn't supposed to be 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.399 deported to El Salvador especially. but was deported 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:00.780 to El Salvador. At which time the US government 00:01:00.780 --> 00:01:03.020 was adamant that he was out of their jurisdiction 00:01:03.020 --> 00:01:04.760 and there was no way they could possibly bring 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.079 him back. So he was brought back and the DOJ 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:09.540 hit him with human trafficking charges based 00:01:09.540 --> 00:01:12.459 on a traffic stop that resulted in a simple warning 00:01:12.459 --> 00:01:15.700 for an expired license from 2022. They did not 00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.700 dig into this until after there was already a 00:01:17.700 --> 00:01:20.000 media firestorm about them fucking up and deporting 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.900 him by accident. And the traffic stop was literally 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:25.519 just for speeding and the cop said you have a 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:27.620 lot of people in your car. And that's what they're 00:01:27.620 --> 00:01:29.980 using for the basis of charging a man with human 00:01:29.980 --> 00:01:32.700 trafficking. So at time of recording, which is 00:01:32.700 --> 00:01:36.180 Saturday the... What day is it? The 24th. At 00:01:36.180 --> 00:01:38.879 time of recording, he's been released. Hey, Future 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.019 Endeavorance here. Since recording this, he's 00:01:42.019 --> 00:01:44.640 now back in ICE custody. They required him to 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.319 come turn himself back in. Because reasons, okay? 00:01:48.620 --> 00:01:51.299 He finally went back home to his family and his 00:01:51.299 --> 00:01:53.620 son, and now he's being informed that they're 00:01:53.620 --> 00:01:56.730 gonna try to deport him to Uganda. Yes, the United 00:01:56.730 --> 00:02:00.390 States went after this man and said, hey, we're 00:02:00.390 --> 00:02:02.189 going to cut you a deal. We'll deport you to 00:02:02.189 --> 00:02:05.810 Costa Rica if you plead guilty to human trafficking 00:02:05.810 --> 00:02:08.629 charges. Presumably trying to give him some kind 00:02:08.629 --> 00:02:11.930 of a plea deal that makes them look good for 00:02:11.930 --> 00:02:15.050 this. But he didn't take it. And there is a court 00:02:15.050 --> 00:02:17.090 order that he's allowed to make a case against 00:02:17.090 --> 00:02:20.009 his deportation. And so now they're trying to 00:02:20.009 --> 00:02:22.590 punish him by deporting him to a completely different 00:02:22.590 --> 00:02:24.659 continent than before. This man has not been 00:02:24.659 --> 00:02:27.099 found guilty of a crime. She hasn't. A little 00:02:27.099 --> 00:02:29.439 bit of an added bonus, Kristi Noem, when finding 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.460 out that he was going to be released from jail 00:02:31.460 --> 00:02:34.460 at the request of a judge, blasted the judge, 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.460 getting all upset and calling them an activist 00:02:36.460 --> 00:02:39.340 judge, a liberal from Maryland that just wants 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:42.500 to get the spotlight. The judge that released 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:44.919 him is from Tennessee. But literally nothing 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.530 matters, as evidenced by this next section. Because 00:02:48.530 --> 00:02:50.849 on the topic of deportations, you've probably 00:02:50.849 --> 00:02:53.430 heard of Alligator Alcatraz, which is the nickname 00:02:53.430 --> 00:02:55.430 that they've given the concentration camp in 00:02:55.430 --> 00:02:59.409 Florida, as well as possibly the Speedway Slammer, 00:02:59.509 --> 00:03:02.129 another one in Indiana. So first, there's a court 00:03:02.129 --> 00:03:04.189 order from a judge that requires that the Florida 00:03:04.189 --> 00:03:06.909 concentration camp that they call Alligator Alcatraz 00:03:06.909 --> 00:03:10.210 must be shut down. That order is already being 00:03:10.210 --> 00:03:12.120 ignored. Essentially what's going on is there's 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:15.340 a court case that argues that this facility is 00:03:15.340 --> 00:03:17.259 detrimental to the environment that it's in, 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:19.360 which is the Everglades. The government threw 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:21.599 this facility together in basically no time at 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.520 all, and so there was no environmental impact 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:25.400 report or anything like that, and so on those 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.460 grounds, the judge was like, you gotta stop. 00:03:27.699 --> 00:03:30.379 It's not the human rights violations or the horrific 00:03:30.379 --> 00:03:32.780 conditions there, it's the environmental stuff, 00:03:32.860 --> 00:03:35.400 which is important too, but hey, maybe let's 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.909 care about people. So DeSantis has already said 00:03:37.909 --> 00:03:41.270 that he's not going to be deterred by that judge 00:03:41.270 --> 00:03:44.449 and they're going to fight that in court. I have 00:03:44.449 --> 00:03:47.060 my doubts that it's going away. And now there's 00:03:47.060 --> 00:03:49.080 another one we're adding to the list, because 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.280 apparently naming concentration camps is just 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.780 so much fun. We got to give them all good brand 00:03:53.780 --> 00:03:56.099 names, because that's what this administration 00:03:56.099 --> 00:03:59.539 is all about. So say hello to the Lone Star Lockup, 00:03:59.780 --> 00:04:02.639 a brand new concentration camp in Texas, except 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:05.400 it's not really all that new. It's at Fort Bliss, 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:09.000 which was previously used to detain Japanese 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.319 Americans during the World War II internment. 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:13.740 So hey, at least we've got pedigree there. We've 00:04:13.740 --> 00:04:16.139 got the books which go back and learn from history. 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:18.459 Here's how we can infringe on rights. Oh great, 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.720 wonderful. Now I want to be clear. I've had a 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.279 few people try to use their Judaism to argue 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.819 that calling these things concentration camps 00:04:26.819 --> 00:04:30.560 is insulting to Jews. I want to address that. 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.199 I'm quoting Jewish researchers in referring to 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:36.480 these as concentration camps. Jewish people don't 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.439 have a monopoly on determining what is and is 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.949 not a concentration camp. That there are more 00:04:42.949 --> 00:04:46.110 than just the one instance in history. Obviously, 00:04:46.269 --> 00:04:48.709 we should be careful about not downplaying the 00:04:48.709 --> 00:04:50.579 Holocaust. That is not what's happening here, 00:04:50.740 --> 00:04:52.500 though. What's happening here is identifying 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:54.959 that our current tax dollars are going towards 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.060 facilities that violate human rights. One last 00:04:58.060 --> 00:05:00.399 thing about the migration stuff, the State Department 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.319 has now said that they're going to review all 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.100 55 million active visas. They're going to be 00:05:06.100 --> 00:05:08.240 looking through social media profiles and ensuring 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.740 that you aren't dissenting against the United 00:05:10.740 --> 00:05:13.439 States. Which is basically what the foundation 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.579 of our country is all about. Popping over to 00:05:15.579 --> 00:05:18.519 the Supreme Court, our favorite current institution, 00:05:19.019 --> 00:05:20.660 they have ruled that the Trump administration 00:05:20.660 --> 00:05:24.779 can cut $800 million of medical research. Now 00:05:24.779 --> 00:05:26.899 $800 million of medical research being cut sounds 00:05:26.899 --> 00:05:29.800 like a lot. until you recall that the Trump administration 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.220 has actually slashed 12 billion dollars of medical 00:05:33.220 --> 00:05:35.459 research funds. This was specifically targeting 00:05:35.459 --> 00:05:37.600 a chunk of those funds that were being held up 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.379 in court because they were being appealed. Because 00:05:40.379 --> 00:05:43.199 what are we doing? Why are we getting rid of 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.680 medical research grants? This is not a partisan 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.279 thing. I don't know when this became a partisan 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:52.540 thing. We need to study illness so that we can 00:05:52.540 --> 00:05:57.129 make cures for sick. But because they hate universities 00:05:57.129 --> 00:05:59.310 and have been spending decades labeling them 00:05:59.310 --> 00:06:02.389 as, like, liberal indoctrination sites, they're 00:06:02.389 --> 00:06:04.769 trying to punish them by getting rid of research 00:06:04.769 --> 00:06:07.949 grants, which just hurts everyone. I'm tired 00:06:07.949 --> 00:06:12.370 of people who aren't experts asserting that the 00:06:12.370 --> 00:06:14.089 experts shouldn't be listened to because they 00:06:14.089 --> 00:06:17.730 have a bias. That bias being knowledge of the 00:06:17.730 --> 00:06:20.069 subject. Anyway, this is all still just this 00:06:20.069 --> 00:06:23.410 week. Let's keep going. Alina Habba! I've never 00:06:23.410 --> 00:06:24.509 actually looked up how to pronounce her name, 00:06:24.569 --> 00:06:26.970 and I don't care enough. So we're gonna say Habba. 00:06:27.430 --> 00:06:29.829 Hababa. So she's a former lawyer of Trump's, 00:06:29.990 --> 00:06:32.610 and was appointed to a position of interim federal 00:06:32.610 --> 00:06:35.069 prosecutor for New Jersey. She's been in that 00:06:35.069 --> 00:06:37.949 position for months, despite having no prosecutorial 00:06:37.949 --> 00:06:40.790 experience whatsoever, and people are like, why 00:06:40.790 --> 00:06:42.569 is this happening? After getting the appointment, 00:06:42.829 --> 00:06:44.410 she proudly said that she was looking forward 00:06:44.410 --> 00:06:47.779 to turning New Jersey red. Which is not a thing 00:06:47.779 --> 00:06:50.379 a federal prosecutor does. Anyway, they tried 00:06:50.379 --> 00:06:52.899 to unseat her, and they kind of did. Again, she 00:06:52.899 --> 00:06:55.819 was appointed as an interim prosecutor, and her 00:06:55.819 --> 00:06:57.740 term was ending, and they were like, get this 00:06:57.740 --> 00:06:59.500 person out of here, let's put somebody competent 00:06:59.500 --> 00:07:01.399 here. But then the Justice Department got involved 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.019 and undid that. Like, literally, the Attorney 00:07:04.019 --> 00:07:06.819 General was like, no, this specific person gets 00:07:06.819 --> 00:07:09.350 this specific job. But a judge had ruled that 00:07:09.350 --> 00:07:12.110 she had that position illegally. And so her decisions 00:07:12.110 --> 00:07:14.870 from that position should be overturned. But 00:07:14.870 --> 00:07:17.529 that judge's decision to overturn the decisions 00:07:17.529 --> 00:07:20.790 that she made is now on hold because the Justice 00:07:20.790 --> 00:07:23.410 Department is putting together an appeal to explain 00:07:23.410 --> 00:07:26.170 why this person with, again, no prosecutorial 00:07:26.170 --> 00:07:29.470 experience and only really was a former lawyer 00:07:29.470 --> 00:07:32.769 to Trump, should be a federal prosecutor for 00:07:32.769 --> 00:07:36.089 a state at all. Let's jump over to how we are 00:07:36.089 --> 00:07:37.759 now a socialist country. That's right, Donald 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.540 Trump has finally embraced socialism, and Bernie 00:07:40.540 --> 00:07:43.160 Sanders is supporting him in this, as the United 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.500 States now has a 10 % stake in Intel. Is that 00:07:46.500 --> 00:07:52.339 weird? Yep. Yep. The Republican Party has just 00:07:52.339 --> 00:07:54.860 screamed communism and socialism at literally 00:07:54.860 --> 00:07:58.600 everything. And while there's... Examples of 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:02.540 state stakes in companies that aren't necessarily 00:08:02.540 --> 00:08:05.259 socialist or communist is not typically a thing 00:08:05.259 --> 00:08:07.579 that happens in free market capitalism, which 00:08:07.579 --> 00:08:09.920 is like their whole vibe. Now, there's some mixed 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:11.459 reactions from the conservatives in this. Of 00:08:11.459 --> 00:08:12.980 course, the Magaside is like, this is great. 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.860 This is so smart. Forty chess. But some other 00:08:15.860 --> 00:08:17.720 conservatives like Rand Paul are saying this 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.639 is they're saying the thing. They're doing the 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.100 meme saying it's socialism. As I said, Bernie 00:08:22.100 --> 00:08:23.660 Sanders is actually in support of this. What 00:08:23.660 --> 00:08:25.980 has essentially happened is Trump was taking 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:28.639 money that was already penned to be a grant to 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.480 Intel and instead reworked it and got some money 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.679 from a different fund to purchase stock instead. 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:40.080 In theory, that could mean returns on the investment 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.240 that are like material, like just money returns. 00:08:43.669 --> 00:08:45.990 In actuality, it's probably not gonna do anything. 00:08:46.409 --> 00:08:47.909 This was supposed to just be a grant that goes 00:08:47.909 --> 00:08:50.370 to Intel, and while I'm not a huge fan of just 00:08:50.370 --> 00:08:53.730 giving billions upon billions of dollars to companies 00:08:53.730 --> 00:08:56.370 that have billions upon billions of dollars, 00:08:56.909 --> 00:08:58.169 I think that money could maybe go towards, I 00:08:58.169 --> 00:09:01.309 don't know, feeding people? Housing people? But 00:09:01.309 --> 00:09:03.970 it's also also still a non -voting stake in the 00:09:03.970 --> 00:09:06.840 company. So like... The United States just owns 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.179 10 % of a company and can't do anything with 00:09:09.179 --> 00:09:11.399 that, because. Not to mention, like, literally 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.320 just a couple weeks ago Trump was harassing the 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.360 CEO of Intel and saying that he should resign, 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:18.960 and then now this is happening. But let's leave 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:21.399 the theoretical world and go back into the real 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:23.720 world, where there's military in the streets. 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.659 God, I am just, this is just, it's so all over 00:09:26.659 --> 00:09:29.100 the place. Thousands of deployed National Guard 00:09:29.100 --> 00:09:31.500 are patrolling the streets of DC. There are still 00:09:31.500 --> 00:09:34.139 hundreds of them in Los Angeles. It is now coming 00:09:34.139 --> 00:09:36.220 out that the Trump administration plans to send 00:09:36.220 --> 00:09:39.740 the Guard into 19 more states, most of which 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:41.960 are Republican controlled states, so presumably 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:43.679 he's doing that so that they don't push back 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.279 on him or even cooperate with him. The National 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:47.879 Guard that is going to be going to these 19 states 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:50.600 will technically be operating under the state, 00:09:50.980 --> 00:09:53.679 but they're given permission to... further federal 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:57.360 causes. So it's technically a stop hitting yourself, 00:09:57.500 --> 00:09:59.379 stop hitting yourself kind of situation. But 00:09:59.379 --> 00:10:01.259 additionally, the Washington Post reported that 00:10:01.259 --> 00:10:03.799 the Pentagon has been drafting plans for deploying 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.419 the military to Chicago, which is wild. Chicago 00:10:07.419 --> 00:10:09.399 is another one of those cities that the Republicans 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:11.940 love to rail on, primarily because there's a 00:10:11.940 --> 00:10:13.799 lot of black people there. They'll never actually 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.679 admit that, but they use dog whistles like saying 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.639 that it's overrun with violence and gangs. Look 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.279 no further than how frequently they love to quote 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.960 statistics around like race and incarceration 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.139 rates. That's what the dog whistle about crime 00:10:27.139 --> 00:10:29.460 comes from. To be clear, they want to deploy 00:10:29.460 --> 00:10:31.679 the National Guard to places that did not vote 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:34.740 for Trump. DC did not vote for Trump and does 00:10:34.740 --> 00:10:37.570 not want that. And his response to that is they 00:10:37.570 --> 00:10:39.509 don't get a say in what they want. The mayors 00:10:39.509 --> 00:10:41.730 of these cities are pointing to the fact that 00:10:41.730 --> 00:10:44.750 their policies to address crime are working. 00:10:45.210 --> 00:10:48.250 Crimes dropping in Chicago and Baltimore and 00:10:48.250 --> 00:10:51.370 DC. But I shouldn't even waste breath making 00:10:51.370 --> 00:10:53.549 that argument because it's not about that. It's 00:10:53.549 --> 00:10:55.549 not about the crime. It's not about the optics. 00:10:55.730 --> 00:10:58.730 They don't care. They're just saying words to 00:10:58.730 --> 00:11:01.389 give ammo to people to allow this to happen. 00:11:01.809 --> 00:11:04.370 A large contingent of people who are supporting 00:11:04.370 --> 00:11:08.240 this just take everything that Trump says at 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.940 face value. And when he contradicts himself, 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.240 they take what he said more recently, or what 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.940 he said that was more palatable, at face value. 00:11:16.259 --> 00:11:18.679 That's true for all of his officials. Like, Hegseth 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.059 can go retweet posts saying that women shouldn't 00:11:22.059 --> 00:11:24.519 have the right to vote. But because he didn't 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:27.039 go on national television and say the words, 00:11:27.580 --> 00:11:29.720 I think women shouldn't have the right to vote, 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:32.220 They don't believe that's the case. So it's not 00:11:32.220 --> 00:11:34.019 about making sense. It's not about making a legal 00:11:34.019 --> 00:11:36.419 argument for this to happen It's not about anything 00:11:36.419 --> 00:11:39.860 except for giving red meat to their base by way 00:11:39.860 --> 00:11:42.240 of deploying the military To the places that 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:45.440 they've been told are overrun with liberals Imagine 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.980 if the actual problem was just that it was overrun 00:11:47.980 --> 00:11:50.340 with liberals I mean it kind of is like you want 00:11:50.340 --> 00:11:51.919 to go get a breakfast sandwich But the only thing 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:56.000 you can find is like a an $18 like brioche breakfast 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.639 sandwich thing That is the problem with liberals 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:00.460 ruining our cities. I want my breakfast sandwich 00:12:00.460 --> 00:12:03.000 to kill me. Okay, I think I was just trying to 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:04.879 give myself a little bit of a break there vis 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.899 -a -vis breakfast sandwiches. Let's keep going. 00:12:08.460 --> 00:12:10.500 Gerrymandered. You've probably been aware of 00:12:10.500 --> 00:12:13.179 Texas's effort to redraw their district map and 00:12:13.179 --> 00:12:16.080 gerrymander it really severely for Republicans. 00:12:16.460 --> 00:12:18.120 I want to talk real quick about what gerrymandering 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:19.940 is, especially for people who are not from the 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:22.549 states. Real quick. In the United States, we 00:12:22.549 --> 00:12:24.889 have districts. Each district has a representative. 00:12:24.990 --> 00:12:27.370 Those representatives go to Congress. The districts 00:12:27.370 --> 00:12:31.350 are drawn on a map by the states, like the state 00:12:31.350 --> 00:12:33.690 legislatures. So politicians are the ones that 00:12:33.690 --> 00:12:36.649 are choosing the districts. And it is legal for 00:12:36.649 --> 00:12:40.850 them to craft districts that favor certain demographics. 00:12:41.190 --> 00:12:43.250 As long as a court doesn't rule it to be racist 00:12:43.250 --> 00:12:46.090 and unconstitutional, as long as they can sneak 00:12:46.090 --> 00:12:48.610 it by, they can draw whatever the fuck map they 00:12:48.610 --> 00:12:51.100 want. That is what's happening in Texas. Texas 00:12:51.100 --> 00:12:54.340 has more Democrats than Republicans. You probably 00:12:54.340 --> 00:12:58.200 think of Texas as a deep red state, largely because 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.379 of gerrymandering. Now, both parties do this, 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.600 but the reason that this Texas situation is so 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.600 outlandish is because this is not a time where 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.019 redistricting usually happens. We do a census 00:13:08.019 --> 00:13:11.279 every 10 years on the zero, and usually that's 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.500 when the redistricting happens. But there's nothing 00:13:13.500 --> 00:13:15.789 legally stopping that. Which is another example 00:13:15.789 --> 00:13:17.769 of just how fragile the United States' systems 00:13:17.769 --> 00:13:21.509 are. Like, we put so much emphasis on, just be 00:13:21.509 --> 00:13:23.730 chill about it, dog. But they're not being chill. 00:13:23.870 --> 00:13:27.070 And they passed a redistricted map that is, ah, 00:13:27.230 --> 00:13:29.830 boring. It completely obliterates representation 00:13:29.830 --> 00:13:32.789 for Hispanic and Black people in Texas at large. 00:13:32.889 --> 00:13:36.049 And it adds five additional safe red seats to 00:13:36.049 --> 00:13:38.820 the state. And so the response to that has been 00:13:38.820 --> 00:13:41.000 that California's governor Gavin Newsom has been 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.799 threatening to redistrict California as a retaliation 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.159 against Texas's redistricting. And that takes 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.279 more effort because California has extra steps 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.279 that it has to jump through before they can actually 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.539 do a redistricting. So where we're at right now 00:13:52.539 --> 00:13:54.919 is for anyone who's talking about how there's 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:56.899 never going to be elections again, they are currently 00:13:56.899 --> 00:13:58.840 fighting to try to make it so that they win the 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.259 next election. So I think we can use that as 00:14:01.259 --> 00:14:03.240 a reason why we should expect there to be elections. 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:05.779 But what they're doing is trying to make it so 00:14:05.779 --> 00:14:07.980 that the election won't do anything. The Republicans 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:10.659 are at risk of losing their majority in the House, 00:14:10.940 --> 00:14:13.460 possibly in the Senate. And if that happens, 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.519 Trump's term is effectively over. So they're 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:16.980 doing everything they can to make sure that the 00:14:16.980 --> 00:14:19.720 House cannot be taken by Democrats by changing 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.500 the literal game. Should we have gerrymandering? 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.279 No, right? Like, it's bad. Yeah, obviously. The 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.740 best thing to do would be to have every state 00:14:28.909 --> 00:14:31.029 not do this. But that's not the world we live 00:14:31.029 --> 00:14:33.409 in, that's not the situation, and calling for 00:14:33.409 --> 00:14:36.549 decency in the face of one party literally changing 00:14:36.549 --> 00:14:40.389 the game is how you lose. I'm not a Democrat, 00:14:40.610 --> 00:14:42.909 but I can't fault them for doing what they're 00:14:42.909 --> 00:14:45.289 doing right now. It's the right political move. 00:14:45.669 --> 00:14:48.149 Alright, almost done with state stuff. Truly 00:14:48.149 --> 00:14:49.990 just an unbelievable amount of bullshit, and 00:14:49.990 --> 00:14:53.879 I skip stuff. Sock the Epstein files! We still 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.120 don't have the full unredacted Epstein files, 00:14:56.220 --> 00:14:57.860 which is a thing that a lot of people in Trump's 00:14:57.860 --> 00:15:01.059 periphery were talking very loudly about delivering 00:15:01.059 --> 00:15:03.360 once they were in office. Of course, that tune 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.240 changed. They were like, oh, there are no, there's 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:10.320 no, there's no list. And stop asking. Most recently, 00:15:10.460 --> 00:15:12.759 there has been released audio of an interview 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.059 with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's girlfriend 00:15:15.059 --> 00:15:17.679 slash human trafficking associate, in which she 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.919 said there is no black book, like there is no 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.899 list of clients. She also said that she never 00:15:21.899 --> 00:15:24.799 saw Trump do anything inappropriate. Very trustworthy 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:27.039 statement from a very trustworthy person. Now, 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.419 we knew that there was not going to be an actual 00:15:29.419 --> 00:15:31.620 list. This is not a movie. There's not a little 00:15:31.620 --> 00:15:34.139 black book that says all of these people are 00:15:34.139 --> 00:15:36.960 child rapists. But we also know that it's not 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.519 like nothing went down there. So it would be 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.620 pretty fucking nice to not be completely lied 00:15:42.620 --> 00:15:46.899 to for just a second to see anyone ever face 00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:49.740 some kind of consequences for the molestation 00:15:49.740 --> 00:15:52.759 of children. For the enterprise of the molestation 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:55.059 of children. But the Republican -controlled House 00:15:55.059 --> 00:15:58.419 Oversight Committee now has a small subset of 00:15:58.419 --> 00:16:01.019 pages from the Epstein files, like 3 % of them, 00:16:01.179 --> 00:16:03.340 and they're going over them and will make a decision 00:16:03.340 --> 00:16:06.639 on what to release, if anything. I'm not holding 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:12.320 my breath. Okay. I'm so thirsty. One sec. Okay. 00:16:12.460 --> 00:16:14.600 I'm gonna end this section by saying I know things 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.179 are bleak. I know things are rough right now. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.080 Trust me, I have to sift through this stuff, 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.679 figure out what I can even include. I have to 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:25.039 trace things as they're developing over time. 00:16:25.259 --> 00:16:28.059 I know there's a lot going on right now. I know 00:16:28.059 --> 00:16:29.679 it feels like we are careening towards the end, 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:34.440 but I want to say this. This will pass. That 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:36.899 doesn't mean it's gonna pass. effortlessly. That 00:16:36.899 --> 00:16:38.480 doesn't mean that we're going to be completely 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.919 fine on the other side of it. That doesn't even 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:43.620 mean that we're all going to survive this. But 00:16:43.620 --> 00:16:47.179 this will pass. Trump is dying. Like, he doesn't 00:16:47.179 --> 00:16:48.940 take an expert. You can look at his face and 00:16:48.940 --> 00:16:51.220 see that he is dying. And whether it happens 00:16:51.220 --> 00:16:53.460 tomorrow, in a couple of weeks, or in a couple 00:16:53.460 --> 00:16:56.519 of years, the man's not long for this work. And 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.440 while a lot of people rightfully say that Trump 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:01.740 going away won't fix our problems, won't end 00:17:01.740 --> 00:17:04.930 all of this, I do want to note Do you really 00:17:04.930 --> 00:17:07.970 think JD Vance has what it takes to take over 00:17:07.970 --> 00:17:10.769 the MAGA throne? I see people online say that 00:17:10.769 --> 00:17:12.529 they would vote for him, but I also see people 00:17:12.529 --> 00:17:16.130 online say the dumbest imaginable shit every 00:17:16.130 --> 00:17:20.670 day. The fervor, the deification is all specifically 00:17:20.670 --> 00:17:23.569 Trump. And while, yeah, him getting out of office 00:17:23.569 --> 00:17:26.809 by way of leaving this mortal coil is not going 00:17:26.809 --> 00:17:28.750 to solve the fundamental problems of the United 00:17:28.750 --> 00:17:31.349 States of America, at least we won't have to 00:17:31.349 --> 00:17:34.549 deal with the fallout of him making an assumption 00:17:34.549 --> 00:17:36.970 about some dumb bullshit he doesn't understand, 00:17:37.430 --> 00:17:40.589 and everyone in his periphery falling over themselves 00:17:40.589 --> 00:17:42.910 to make that happen. There's a lot of things 00:17:42.910 --> 00:17:44.789 that industry leaders are doing right now, that 00:17:44.789 --> 00:17:46.509 they're trying to butter him up, they're trying 00:17:46.509 --> 00:17:48.549 to stay on his good side. There are things that 00:17:48.549 --> 00:17:51.009 he is doing that they are really not into, and 00:17:51.009 --> 00:17:52.670 they're just kind of biding their time until 00:17:52.670 --> 00:17:54.849 they can push back when he's gone, because they 00:17:54.849 --> 00:17:57.049 don't want to piss him off by contradicting him 00:17:57.049 --> 00:17:59.670 right now. Okay, let's take a breather, because 00:17:59.670 --> 00:18:04.720 I need a breather. stretch, you know? And hey, 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:06.920 maybe a great way for you to relax would be to 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.859 head to isupport .dev, where you can find links 00:18:09.859 --> 00:18:12.960 to my Patreon, my Ko -Fi, my YouTube memberships, 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.200 and you can support me. Anyone supporting me 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:16.940 across any of those platforms gets access to 00:18:16.940 --> 00:18:19.440 behind -the -scenes content, bonus content, and 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:22.480 early access to playtests of the tabletop role 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:23.779 -playing game that I've been designing called 00:18:23.779 --> 00:18:26.200 Presenia. You can learn all about all of that 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:30.279 at isupport .dev. Thank you. Elsewhere, over 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:32.480 in the UK, they've been arresting people for 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.519 t -shirts. Fashion police. Except it's not fashion 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.680 police. It's, um, they don't want people expressing 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.140 support for Palestine. Cops in the UK have been 00:18:41.140 --> 00:18:43.400 arresting people for wearing shirts that support 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.180 Palestine Action, which is a group that has been 00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:49.329 deemed a terrorist organization by the UK. So 00:18:49.329 --> 00:18:51.890 wearing their shirt amounts to supporting a terrorist 00:18:51.890 --> 00:18:54.450 organization, apparently, enough to just arrest 00:18:54.450 --> 00:18:57.069 people who are otherwise just sitting in protest. 00:18:57.450 --> 00:18:59.250 Like quite literally, these protests are as peaceful 00:18:59.250 --> 00:19:02.390 as they get. People sitting silently on the ground 00:19:02.390 --> 00:19:05.109 wearing a shirt and holding a sign and they're 00:19:05.109 --> 00:19:07.170 being arrested. There's even footage of like 00:19:07.170 --> 00:19:10.390 an 80 year old woman being arrested. Now, that's 00:19:10.390 --> 00:19:12.730 awful. And it's especially awful because right 00:19:12.730 --> 00:19:16.680 now the famine is official. in Gaza. International 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:19.220 experts have now formally declared it a famine. 00:19:19.660 --> 00:19:22.299 That's happening. And yet they're so focused 00:19:22.299 --> 00:19:24.339 on trying to arrest people for simply wearing 00:19:24.339 --> 00:19:27.500 a shirt in favor of freeing Palestine that they 00:19:27.500 --> 00:19:29.839 accidentally arrested a guy who was wearing a 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:33.059 slightly different shirt. Miles Pickering, a 00:19:33.059 --> 00:19:36.380 visionary, designed a shirt that says Plasticine 00:19:36.380 --> 00:19:39.579 Action. The shirt is an anti -AI and animating 00:19:39.579 --> 00:19:43.569 shirt. Plasticine. Action, but cops saw that 00:19:43.569 --> 00:19:46.049 and they were like, ah and arrested him and then 00:19:46.049 --> 00:19:48.509 a few minutes later They're like, oh, it doesn't 00:19:48.509 --> 00:19:51.549 say Palestine action. So we can't actually arrest 00:19:51.549 --> 00:19:54.849 you which begs the question If all of these people 00:19:54.849 --> 00:19:57.910 who are currently arrested had like one letter 00:19:57.910 --> 00:20:00.029 different on their shirt would they not have 00:20:00.029 --> 00:20:03.089 been? What are we even doing anymore? I'll tell 00:20:03.089 --> 00:20:05.910 you what we're doing. We are sharing the East 00:20:05.910 --> 00:20:09.519 blue all the way to Indonesia In Indonesia, there 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:11.839 has been a protest that started with students 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:14.319 and has just been growing and growing ever since, 00:20:14.859 --> 00:20:17.599 and it is represented by the flying of the Monkey 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:20.900 D. Luffy Jolly Roger from One Piece. So the government 00:20:20.900 --> 00:20:23.019 of Indonesia is not super popular right now, 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:26.859 and when they cut 25 % of funding to higher education, 00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:29.700 students were like, what in the fuck? They formed 00:20:29.700 --> 00:20:32.099 a protest movement called Dark Indonesia, and 00:20:32.099 --> 00:20:34.680 they started to fly the Luffy flag. This picked 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:37.019 up steam and it has just kind of become a symbol 00:20:37.019 --> 00:20:39.740 for general resistance and a movement towards 00:20:39.740 --> 00:20:42.140 something new for Indonesia. The government of 00:20:42.140 --> 00:20:44.380 Indonesia made this specifically worse for themselves 00:20:44.380 --> 00:20:46.880 by saying that this flag was like a national 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.480 security threat and implying that people were 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:52.440 being paid to do this. Where have I heard that 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.519 before? Anyway, that just made them fly the flag 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:00.079 more. So well done. Solidarity. I hope that you 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:06.569 get a better life. I hope we do too. Yee -haw. 00:21:06.849 --> 00:21:10.490 I ate the, um, the yap -yap fruit. It gave me 00:21:10.490 --> 00:21:14.769 the power to yap. Moving on. Technology! A little 00:21:14.769 --> 00:21:16.829 while back, I talked about an effort from the 00:21:16.829 --> 00:21:20.549 UK demanding Apple to essentially create a security 00:21:20.549 --> 00:21:23.150 backdoor for the UK government to access encrypted 00:21:23.150 --> 00:21:26.470 data. Apple is actually kind of pretty good at 00:21:26.470 --> 00:21:29.930 data privacy. Like, not perfect. Far from it. 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:32.700 But from the big carriers, they actually give 00:21:32.700 --> 00:21:35.440 you a lot of tools to do full end -to -end encryption. 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.339 One of those tools is to fully end -to -end encrypt 00:21:38.339 --> 00:21:40.700 all of your files in iCloud, which makes it so 00:21:40.700 --> 00:21:43.819 that only you can access the files. Apple has 00:21:43.819 --> 00:21:46.740 data stored on their servers, but it's unintelligible 00:21:46.740 --> 00:21:49.299 gobbledygook. So even if a government came in 00:21:49.299 --> 00:21:51.920 and said, give us the files, Apple couldn't do 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:54.200 anything. They're like, here's a bunch of garbage. 00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:56.680 The only way that garbage can be read is with 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:59.299 the key that's in your computer. But the UK didn't 00:21:59.299 --> 00:22:03.039 want that. They didn't like that. Stop it, is 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:05.539 what they said. And Apple said no. But recently, 00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:08.420 they dropped that request and are no longer asking 00:22:08.420 --> 00:22:10.960 Apple to do that because Apple was like, no, 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.579 we'll just pull out of your market. This is not 00:22:14.579 --> 00:22:16.200 the first time that a government has asked Apple 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:18.759 to break their own security. And the US did this 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:21.599 infamously. They once had the FBI harass Apple 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:24.440 to open someone's iPhone. They had a suspect's 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:26.119 iPhone and they were like, we can't open it. 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:27.960 We can't unlock it. Apple, you need to make it 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:29.579 so that we can unlock this so that we can get 00:22:29.579 --> 00:22:31.240 the evidence out of it. And Apple was like, no, 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:34.259 we're not going to give you a back door into 00:22:34.259 --> 00:22:37.299 our devices. Governments have a weird relationship 00:22:37.299 --> 00:22:39.619 with encryption. They're always like, encryption 00:22:39.619 --> 00:22:42.319 is important. And all these foreign nations that 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:45.160 are impeding on their citizens' privacy are bad. 00:22:45.579 --> 00:22:48.200 Anyway, stop using encryption. Over in Mississippi, 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:50.700 you are not able to access Blue Sky through their 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:52.700 primary app. Mississippi is one of the several 00:22:52.700 --> 00:22:54.920 states that has recently passed an ID verification 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:58.940 law for online access to content that could be 00:22:58.940 --> 00:23:01.880 potentially dangerous to minors. But the specifics 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:04.380 of the Mississippi law make it so that Blue Sky 00:23:04.380 --> 00:23:07.079 doesn't even want to bother. Because Blue Sky 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:10.740 can have porn on it in theory, they would have 00:23:10.740 --> 00:23:13.299 to verify the identity of everyone using their 00:23:13.299 --> 00:23:16.180 platform. And they're not going to do that. It's 00:23:16.180 --> 00:23:17.920 expensive and dangerous and it's being challenged 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:19.619 in court, so it might not even be a thing that 00:23:19.619 --> 00:23:21.400 they have to do for a very long time anyway. 00:23:21.779 --> 00:23:23.880 In the meantime, they've just blocked access 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:26.740 entirely for the state of Mississippi. I want 00:23:26.740 --> 00:23:28.880 to say again one more time, because apparently 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:32.019 I'm not saying it loud enough. This is not the 00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:35.920 tech policy that we're asking for. Please, please 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:40.440 stop. Please stop making me give you my ID to 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.079 look at memes. Oh, also, uh, Grok. A few weeks 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:46.579 ago, I talked about how ChatGPT had a bunch of 00:23:46.579 --> 00:23:48.740 conversations leaked onto the internet, and now 00:23:48.740 --> 00:23:51.079 it's happening for Grok. Grok, which is Elon 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:54.220 Musk's AI, has an option to share conversations. 00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:57.180 When you do that, it creates a link. Those links 00:23:57.180 --> 00:23:59.960 to those conversations were then indexed by Google. 00:24:00.299 --> 00:24:03.019 So you could literally search, like, Grok conversation 00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:06.400 and find private conversations that people made 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:09.220 a link to share to one other person, unknowingly 00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:11.420 putting it on the public internet. So that's 00:24:11.420 --> 00:24:14.269 neat. You can just Google someone's private conversation 00:24:14.269 --> 00:24:17.009 with a chatbot. It's truly bizarre how frequently 00:24:17.009 --> 00:24:20.509 these apps are just being busted. Like, I've 00:24:20.509 --> 00:24:23.849 never heard of so many frequent instances of 00:24:23.849 --> 00:24:27.230 just like, oh yeah, user data is just out there, 00:24:27.609 --> 00:24:30.690 unsecured. It's almost like we're moving too 00:24:30.690 --> 00:24:33.289 fast and breaking too many things. Lightning 00:24:33.289 --> 00:24:35.410 round! Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, 00:24:35.569 --> 00:24:38.230 ordered the removal of a rainbow crosswalk that 00:24:38.230 --> 00:24:40.450 was made in memoriam of the people who died at 00:24:40.450 --> 00:24:43.490 the Pulse nightclub shooting. This is done because 00:24:43.490 --> 00:24:46.170 of hate, and locals have already repainted the 00:24:46.170 --> 00:24:48.430 crosswalk. The Cambridge Dictionary has added 00:24:48.430 --> 00:24:51.789 words such as skibbidi and delulu in the most 00:24:51.789 --> 00:24:54.369 recent edition. I want to be clear, that's fine. 00:24:54.450 --> 00:24:56.849 I don't care. That's fine with me. Words change. 00:24:56.950 --> 00:24:59.089 Words are made up. If you're pressed about that, 00:24:59.490 --> 00:25:02.319 you're delulu. James Dobson, a chief architect 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:05.039 of the modern evangelical movement in the US, 00:25:05.779 --> 00:25:09.019 beefed it. He did. The CEO of Target has stepped 00:25:09.019 --> 00:25:11.099 down as Target is facing a bunch of financial 00:25:11.099 --> 00:25:14.940 issues because everyone's boycotting them. Everyone. 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:17.940 And finally, for today, archaeologists and skateboarders 00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:21.140 will be working together to excavate an old skate 00:25:21.140 --> 00:25:23.700 park in Scotland. To be clear, it's not like 00:25:23.700 --> 00:25:27.269 an ancient... Skate park that would be so rad. 00:25:27.549 --> 00:25:30.869 Oh my god Imagine you're like at a dig site and 00:25:30.869 --> 00:25:33.769 you just you take your little sweepy thingy and 00:25:33.769 --> 00:25:35.789 you start sweeping away And it's a fucking half 00:25:35.789 --> 00:25:39.750 -pipe awesome rad cool Thank you so much for 00:25:39.750 --> 00:25:41.809 listening to today's episode of stuff keeps happening 00:25:41.809 --> 00:25:46.529 head to skh .news for sources bonus content and 00:25:46.529 --> 00:25:53.329 a skate park from Scotland that I put there That's 00:25:53.329 --> 00:25:55.759 unexcavated My name is Enderence, we'll talk 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:58.240 again soon, take care, and be well.