Hello, I increased the throughput on my copper
sheet manifold. But stuff still happened. So
what's up? I have decided that the past tense
of Prince is Prunts. Prunts Andrew was arrested
on his 66th birthday for bad stuff. He used to
be a prince, but they stripped all of his titles
and I don't feel like calling him by his actual
name, so I'm gonna call him Prunts Andrew. So
yeah, we all just kind of woke up one morning
and the British government arrested a royal.
That doesn't happen often. Can we do that? But
no, I mean we don't have Royals. But still, Prince
Andrew has been in the spotlight for a long time
with regards to the Epstein stuff. Longer than
most other people have been. And so I thought
maybe let's do like a quick timeline about how
one goes from being a decorated military royal
service member to...prince. February 19th, 1960.
A prince is born. He's Prince at that point.
It's Andrew Albert Christian Edward as white
as it gets Yeah, he got born. He did a good job
with that 1980 to 2000. He was a Royal Navy Helicopter
boy. He was apparently really good at the helicopters
with the Navy. Good job guy I don't know much
about helicopters. They fly over my fucking house
all day in 1999. He met a cheeky little guy named
Jeffrey Epstein. They were set up via connection
through Ghislaine Maxwell. 11 years later in
2010, Prince Andrew was photographed with Jeffrey
Epstein in New York City after Epstein's release
from prison. That's the first time that Epstein
was in prison. He didn't get out the second time.
At least we don't know that. For basically the
rest of the 2010s, he was dealing with more allegations
and trying to explain why he was spotted with
Epstein after Epstein was done serving his jail
sentence for the whole child molestation thing.
Running out of breath because there's too much
awful boys doing awful boy things. Sorry, it's
been a weird day. It's been a weird day for me.
2019 rolls around and he goes on an interview
with BBC where he tries to smooth things over
and explain his past and his connections with
Jeffrey Epstein and it was supposed to be a PR
move to settle everything up. And that did not
work. The interview went super, super bad and
basically set him on the path towards where he
is now. By 2025, he is a full on prince. His
titles have been stripped and he's barely associated
with the royal family anymore. February 19th.
2026? Hey, that was recently! That's when they
rolled up on his birthday, arrested him, gave
us a picture of him looking crazy, and that's
history, baby. At time of recording, he is not
detained. He is currently out and under investigation.
They are specifically charging him with an allegation
that he shared government information with Jeffrey
Epstein. That's... I guess they got Al Capone
on taxes. I have decided that the past tense
of tariff is, no shit, Sherlock. The United States
Supreme Court has struck down Donald Trump's
signature tariffs. And it's a mess. But don't
take my word for it. That's a quote. from Brett
Kavanaugh in his dissent. He wanted to keep the
tariffs because the refunds would be a mess.
That's right, 175 billion US dollar -y dues are
currently available for refunds. This is not
a thing that's gonna happen automatically. That'd
be too convenient. Let's back up. What the hell
is going on? That's... That's a good question.
Sort of in general. Last year, Donald Trump had
Liberation Day, where he put tariffs on basically
every country in the world. Now, the Supreme
Court said that the way he did that was unconstitutional
and he can't put tariffs on every country in
the world. And so he responded by finding another
way to try to put tariffs on every country in
the world. After the Supreme Court decision came
out, he went and did a press conference where
he was fucking mad. Anyway, he was like, oh,
nah, dog, there's another law that I'm gonna
use that lets me put a 15 % tariff on every country
in the world. Notably, the thing that he wants
to use has never been used before, but it also
has limitations. It can only go on for 150 days
until Congress would have to actually get involved
and approve of the tariffs, which is a thing
that Congress does. Congress controls tariffs.
They're the tax ones. They do that. But Trump
seems to still... very strongly believe that's
not the case. He also seems to still think that
tariffs are how we're going to fix everything.
And that's not the case either. To the best of
my knowledge, this is where things stand right
now. There's a big old pool of money that companies
can request refunds from. We have no idea what
that process will look like. This is very, very
unprecedented. It will be a mess. All the while,
in a couple of days, there were supposed to be
more tariffs coming out where we're going to
have to see what happens there with this temporary
tariff thing. It really comes down to will the
Republicans ever tell Trump to fucking stop.
Because beyond the fact that US citizens are
the ones that are paying for the tariffs, it's
not good for our trade partners who are like
constantly dealing with this shit. It's a pretty
great way to tell other countries like, hey,
doing business with us is more effort than it's
worth. All of the tariffs that Trump has been
making are all built on the back of a national
emergency declaration. I don't think most people
even remember that. He claimed that there is
a national emergency. that gave him the power
to put all these tariffs out. I don't think a
national emergency merits setting up fanfare
for a fake holiday to fulfill one of your campaign
promises. I feel like a national emergency is
more like, I don't know. what we're doing to
Cuba. What are we doing to Cuba? We'll get to
that in just one moment. I also just want to
say that Trump has this week announced that the
United States will be giving a $10 billion donation
to his Board of Peace. That's right, the Board
of Peace, which is an adventure by Trump as an
independent organization to contrast the UN.
It also gives him... total veto authority in
perpetuity even like after he's no longer the
president. It's a complete, it's a farce. It's
a fucking farce. It's a scam. Like you have to
pay a billion dollars as a country to permanently
join. They rescinded Canada's invitation to the
Board of Peace after Mark Carney went to Davos
and gave that speech where he said that like
the US is all fucked up now. And pretty much
the only countries that are on board right now
are smaller authoritarian leaning countries.
lining up with a large authoritarian country.
But yeah, Trump was just like, I'm gonna take
10 billion dollars from the US and give it to
my organization. Because I can. Side note, he
can't, if we stop him. Let's talk Cuba. Cuba
is currently experiencing a man -made humanitarian
crisis at the hands of the United States. Obviously
the US and Cuba have a long -running and very
rocky relationship, but over the past few years
we've been blockading oil into the island and
after we just randomly usurped Venezuela, We've
stopped basically all oil shipments to Cuba.
So right now Cuba is operating with essentially
no oil incoming. They've got a little bit of
a trickle from Mexico, they've got a little tiny
bit of reserves, but that's kind of it. Because
of this there are massive power outages. There's
food scarcity. Basically no education systems
are currently running and the healthcare system
is on the brink of collapse. People are waiting
months to get their hands on fuel. Mexico is
providing humanitarian aid and food to try to
help curb Potential starvation? And again, all
of this is just because the US, specifically
the Trump administration, more specifically Marco
Rubio, just wants to do this. Marco Rubio has
been at the center of a lot of the US -Cuba relations
for a while. He really, really loves to hate
on Cuba. Marco Rubio very famously claimed that
his family fled communist Cuba and ran to America,
and that's what makes this country great, because
he's the son of immigrants? Marco Rubio? Anyway,
he really, really... likes to pander to the Cuban
vote in Florida. That's basically how he got
to his current position. And he does it despite
his family having actually left Cuba before the
communists took over. Like years prior. And they
also even like went back to visit. It's casual,
it's chilling. At the end of the day, essentially
Marco Rubio has staked his political career on
trying to topple Cuba. He's built this whole
ethos about how Cuba was so bad to his parents
and now he got to overthrow the government because
American propaganda is very, very thick. So while
all of this is happening and an active humanitarian
crisis is unfolding and international condemnation
is rolling in, Trump has said that Cuba can end
it right now by just coming to the negotiation
table and making a deal. Side note, I am incredibly
exhausted. by the wildly rapey framing of everything
that comes out of this administration. Oh, well,
if they want to not starve to death, they could
just take a deal. Of which we set all the terms.
Anyway, they basically want Cuba to come and
agree to a deal that amounts to essentially regime
change. That's what's going on here. They are
trying to starve the Cuban populace. into submission
with our tax dollars through another third party
country that we invaded. Marco Rubio is also
reported to be in secret talks with the grandson
of Raul Castro, who is the not leader of Cuba.
He's like 96 years old and technically not the
leader of Cuba, but also technically still holds
a lot of power. Long story short, there is an
actual leader of Cuba, but the US is just going
around official channels and talking directly
to a sort of shadow leader, which is a really
cool way to do all of this. Now, I'm not gonna
sit here and pretend that I have full context
on the entirety of the situation that happened
before I was even born in Cuba. But my understanding
of the current situation is that a lot of the
people who fled Cuba when the communists took
over were ones who were associated with the then
authoritarian regime that got pushed out. And
so a lot of these people who were, quote, fleeing
communism were really just fleeing accountability
for their actions. It would be similar to like
ICE agents fleeing the U .S. Does that mean that
every single Cuban person who is in America is
an evil person? No, obviously not. But the rhetoric
around like people fleeing Cuba, fleeing the
communist regime that wanted to kill everyone
in Cuba, that is pure American propaganda bullshit.
The reality is far more understandable. There
was a faction that was in control in Cuba that
was supported by the U .S. It was very violent,
and it was overthrown, and the US didn't like
that, and we've been mad ever since. So where
we are is Cuba is facing a humanitarian crisis
at the hands of the US, and I wish I had good
words to share for you, but I don't. It doesn't
look like it's gonna be resolved particularly
soon. Please tell people about this. Like, mention
the ongoing crisis in Cuba at the hands of the
US. Like, it's just not being discussed. And
I'm not one to say that, like, mainstream media
is not talking about whatever, because I'm using
sources from the mainstream media to talk about
this. But most people that I've chatted with,
even those who are usually pretty tuned in, just
seem to not know this is happening. I don't think
that this story is being truly hidden, but I
do think that this story is not one that people
really want to focus on, especially stateside,
because it's pretty cut and dry fucked up on
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move on. Tic tac! On the clock The European Commission
would like a word with tick -tock after having
a word with Twitter recently So you might recall
that the EU recently slapped a fine on Twitter
for doing a bunch of Twitter things Now they're
gonna slap a fine on tick -tock for doing tick
-tock things. It's back up. Okay, what what's
actually going on? Alright, so the EU has this
like digital services act that basically is like
hey if you're gonna run a social network Don't
be awful Unfortunately for Elon Musk, that's
not a possibility for him, and the EU has already
sent him a warning and then a fine over a bunch
of bullshit that he's done. But currently, the
EU is warning TikTok that a fine might happen
in the future unless something changes. Essentially,
they allege that TikTok is designed to be addictive,
and they cite the infinite scrolling feed, the
notification system, the lack of meaningful screen
time management. So basically they said you have
to make your app less addictive, especially for
vulnerable people like minors, or we're going
to fine you up to 6 % of your annual take. It
remains to be seen how TikTok is going to respond,
but I will say that the letter from the EU includes
a few suggested remediations, one of which is
to get rid of the infinite scrolling feed. which
would essentially end TikTok. To be clear, that's
not a requirement. That's a suggestion. But the
idea of suggesting that TikTok no longer has
the for you page is tantamount to saying they
should just delete the app. So we'll see. Lightning
round. After having just acquired them in 2021,
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, who was
known for making a bunch of really high quality
remakes recently. That sucks. They're a very
talented studio. The US will be removing all
remaining troops from Syria after having been
there for over a decade. Some guy tried to rush
into Trump's Mar -a -Lago resort in Florida.
He had a shotgun and a gas canister. He did not
make it very far. And finally for today, a guy
in Italy seems to have trained his dog to illegally
dump trash on the side of the road so that he
wouldn't get caught doing it. Now, that's impressive.
It's also bad. Don't litter. And also... I feel
like that would take more effort than just taking
out the trash. Thank you so much for listening
to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.
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