Hello. I built a shaded grass habitat. But stuff
still happened. So what's up? A group of the
dumbest idiots ever say that war with Iran is
a great idea. We're still doing it. We're still
bombing Iran. We're working with Israel and bombing
Iran and also Lebanon quite a lot. This war is
already spiraling out of control. Global oil
markets are spiking. The price of gas across
the US has gone up 27 cents in a week. Now, the
price of gas in the U .S. is far from my top
concern with regards to this war, but that's
where we're at. At time of recording, at least
1 ,300 souls have already been claimed by this
war, many of whom have not been soldiers. I posted
a whole video on YouTube last week about the
different operations the U .S. is currently undertaking
with their military across the world. And in
that video, I talk a lot about the attacks on
the elementary school that we used as the opening
gambit for this strike on Iran. It's horrific
and it's cynical, and right now Israel and the
US are targeting oil refineries and other critical
infrastructure like water plants in Iran. This
is going to have a massive ecological impact,
and also, of course, is going to have a massive
impact on the people living there. It's a mess.
And it's a mess that could have been completely
prevented if not for, like, a handful of old
dudes who wanted to do this because reasons.
I mentioned Lebanon. Israel is also going after
Lebanon. They love to be like, we're going after
Hezbollah. So while launching attacks into Lebanon,
while also sustaining the attacks on Iran, while
also continuing the genocide in Gaza, Israeli
military was like, hey, like everyone in the
south of Lebanon, evacuate. So they're going
out of Hezbollah. Gotta warn the civilians so
they get out of there because we are the moral
side. Israel then launched an operation into
Lebanon to retrieve the 40 -year -old dead remains
of an Israeli airman from a prior raid. It tracks
that 40 years ago. They also were doing this.
They went into Lebanon and killed 41 people and
didn't find the remains. Ground Israeli troops
went into Lebanon, dug up a grave, and killed
41 people, only three of whom were soldiers.
The rest were citizens, including children. And
the grave they dug up didn't have the remains.
But we're going after Hezbollah! It doesn't look
like this is winding down anytime soon. Trump
is apparently now considering boots on the ground.
That thing, that is a bad idea on top of the
bad idea. I do want to be clear, this is unpopular.
It's not like there's, there's like half of the
country that's like, yeah! We're doing this war!
Like even if you take all of the weird MAGA people
who 180'd on not being the president that's gonna
start a war and then now he starts a war, it's
a tiny minority. Unfortunately that tiny minority
is the one that's in power. But what's interesting
is that we're watching this play out again in
real time. 4k footage of literal war. While our
government is like, no, we're the good guys,
everyone. We're doing great and everything is
going fine. And then we can see what's happening.
So it's a far cry from the WMDs in Iraq, which
barely sold back then. But this time it's definitely
not selling. I think at this point, hopefully,
more people have come to the conclusion that
the sanctity of life doesn't vary based on longitude.
I've got a new crime for you. Driving while trans
in Kansas. Transis. Sorry. It's not, it's...
Sorry. Lawmakers in Kansas recently passed a
bill that directly attacks transgender and intersex
residents of the state. The bill does a handful
of things, but I'm going to focus on the two
big key points. One, it invalidates the driver's
licenses of trans residents in Kansas, and two,
it puts a bounty on people using a bathroom other
than their sex assigned at birth. Because that's
where we are. Aren't you glad that we have a
war going on in Iran? The bill. What does it
do? The first thing it does is it redefines what
gender means for the state, and it says that
gender means sex assigned at birth. Then it goes
on to be like, okay, well, we've cleared that
up, and that means that any government document
that doesn't match your sex assigned at birth
to whatever is labeled as gender is invalid.
Now, the bill immediately invalidated driver's
licenses. So if you are a trans person in Kansas
and your driver's license did not have your sex
assigned at birth on it specifically, suddenly
you can't use it. No grace period, no automatic
update that has the changed letter for the one
the government wants you to have on a piece of
plastic so you can drive a car. Just fuck you.
Your license isn't valid now. This also applies
to birth certificates. The other side of the
bill is the bathroom side of the bill. Because
we can't get over this for some reason. This
manufactured outrage about transgender people
using certain bathrooms. The bill makes it a
penalty to use a bathroom that is not matching
whatever the fuck is between your legs if it's
a multi -occupant bathroom. So if you've got
two separate bathrooms in a public area and one
is men's and one is women's, and you have a penis
and you go into the women's bathroom, it doesn't
matter how many boobs you have, that's still
a violation of the law. I want to be clear that
penis and boobs does not define man or woman,
but funny jokes, haha. How is this enforced though?
Like, who's gonna be standing in the bathrooms
and checking your junk? Well, apparently it's
gonna be enforced by enticing citizens to narc
on each other for a thousand dollars. Not unlike
when Texas passed the abortion bounty bill, where
people could report people who got abortions
for ten grand. It's the same thing, but you can
report someone who you think is trans. for a
thousand dollars. Specifically, it states that
you can file a lawsuit up to two years after
an incident in which, quote, the plaintiff was
aggravated by the invasion of such individual's
personal privacy or is otherwise harmed by a
violation of this law by an individual of the
opposite sex. Said more plainly, I don't like
that this trans person came into the bathroom.
Give me money. I'm gonna spend no time trying
to refute the claims from the right about trans
people and bathrooms because it's a false foundation.
And I'm very, very tired of having to have conversations
on the basis of the dumbest, most angriest, most
bigoted people among us. Like, hey, maybe if
you don't have the capacity to see the world
from multiple points of view, you should shut
the fuck up. About policy. I will say there are
multiple trans residents of Kansas, along with
the ACLU, that are suing for this obviously busted
bill. Trans rights are human rights, and I would
love, love, for our politicians to talk less
about genitals. Just in general. What happened
to Kristi Noem? I'll tell you what happened to
Kristi Noem. I'm the light Yagami of news. The
moment that I had finished writing a draft about
a story about all the crimes that Kristi Noem
has done while in office, she got fired. for
those crimes. So, back to the drawing board!
13 months after becoming the head of the Department
of Killing U .S. Civilians and then calling them
terrorists after the fact, Kristi Noem has been
replaced. Technically, she has been moved to
a new position, and we'll get to that in a minute,
but she's going to be replaced by Mark Wayne
Mullin, who's from Oklahoma. He's a senator.
He's also a huge pussy. Markwayne Mullen is going
to be replaced by an appointee from the Oklahoma
governor. It's not going to be a special election.
Now, Kristi Noem and her bull, Corey Lewandowski,
have been causing a lot of trouble for the Trump
administration, sort of in general. So, of course,
she's been a huge lightning rod, but with the
whole, like, sending masked agents into people's
houses to abduct them thing. But what got her
was embezzlement. Storps corruption of some financial
kind essentially what happened is this there
was this huge ad spend from the Department of
Homeland Security like right after she got appointed
they spent 220 million dollars on an ad campaign
for the Department of Homeland Security this
ad campaign was largely just dressing Kristi
Noem up so that she could try to look cool on
camera? Back in November, ProPublica blew this
open because it turns out that the company that
was contracted to make these ads was an eight
-day old shell company. In the paperwork, the
ads were going to be done by Safe America Media
LLC. Sounds reputable, but it turns out they
weren't all that reputable, and Safe America
Media LLC was actually outsourcing to the Strategy
Group. The Strategy Group? Turns out is owned
by a husband of one of Gnome's staffers. Essentially,
Kristi Gnome funneled 220 million dollars into
the pockets of herself and her friends. And then
she went in front of Congress when they were
like, hey, what's this all about? And she was
like, I didn't do that. But what got her wasn't
that she did that. What got her is that during
the hearing where they're like, hey, what's going
on here? She said that Trump signed off on this
ad spend. The ad spend has been criticized even
in conservative circles because it is fucking
stupid and it basically just seems like she's
using taxpayer money to set herself up for a
future political run at something. And also,
Trump doesn't like it when people put the spotlight
on themselves and not him. So Kristi Noem goes
in front of Congress and says Trump signed off
on this ad spend and he said, no, I didn't. Hours
after Trump contradicted her, she was suddenly
moved to a new position. What position is that?
Oh, Kristi Noem. will be our first special envoy
for the Shield of the Americas. Fuck. Because
this administration is indistinguishable from
the smelliest middle school cafeteria table in
a sundowning suburban town, they're starting
a whole thing called the Shield of Americas.
You know, like the superhero franchise. These
fucking Axe body spray brained ass people had
a summit where they basically brought in a bunch
of leaders from South American countries that
are friendly to Trump. The Shield of the Americas
Summit is a play on summits of the Americas,
which was cancelled since we've been blockading
Venezuela and causing havoc in the Americas.
But Trump instead invited a whole bunch of world
leaders to his Miami resort and told them that
he wants to start doing more military operations
in South America against drug cartels. And it
was here that the Trump administration was pushing
the quote, and I cannot believe I said quote,
Don Roe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine is a 200
-year -old US public policy concept that basically
states if a non -Western country, like someone
from Europe, comes and meddles in the Americas,
we can take that as a slight against the US.
It basically says we are the authority here,
stay away. Teddy Roosevelt extended this and
had a thing called the Roosevelt Corollary, which
was Basically that but more. It basically said
not only can you not fuck with the Americas,
but we can fuck with the Americas, in fact morally
we should, to preserve a stable society. So as
Trump gathers with a bunch of friendly South
American states and omits non -friendly ones,
the left -leaning ones, we're watching as they're
talking more about a quote Friendly takeover
of Cuba. So pardon my skepticism when I hear
about the Don Roe Doctrine and talking to a bunch
of South American countries about letting us
use our military there more often while only
going to the countries that we like and omitting
ones that we probably want to invade. Sorry,
that we would do a friendly takeover of. If I
recall correctly, the ask was for affordable
health care. No, I don't have anything about
that in here. Open AI? More like open a -bye.
They can't all be winners. Last week I talked
about how OpenAI and Anthropic were having deals
with the US Department of Defense to give the
US military their AI systems. Anthropic and the
DoD kind of got into it because Anthropic was
like, hey, you can't use it for literally anything,
and the DoD was like, but we want to use it to
spy on people. During all this, OpenAI was like,
hey guys, we're gonna work with the DoD too.
And we don't care as much as Anthropic does.
As all this came out, people were like, hey,
fuck that, actually. And so they started to protest
against OpenAI by mass uninstalling ChatGPT.
In the first week, there was about 2 .5 million
uninstalls. Now for the people who are participating
in this boycott, great. Anthropic beat OpenAI
on the App Store for a while, and the numbers
are impressive in terms of uninstalls. don't
stop. And also, for this to actually be truly
impactful on OpenAI's bottom line, it needs to
hit the corporate contracts. A lot of tech companies
that have both direct -to -consumer and also
business contracts, they do the direct -to -consumer
offering borderline as advertising. Like, yes,
you can get an individual plan or whatever, like
your own subscription, but it's mostly to get
people to use the software so that they go to
a company and they're like, oh, we should use
this software here. And that company sets up
a contract and... There's the money. For example,
CNOTION. Mostly it's just LOL at OpenAI. But
go ahead and uninstall that chat bot. That's
a good idea. Though I would say that switching
from chat GPT to Claude is a very lateral moral
move. It's not much different and Ananthropic
does want to work with the DoD still. Lightning
Round. A man from North Carolina has challenged
the world to disprove his claim that he has the
world's smallest penis. I don't live in North
Carolina. Privacy -focused email service ProtonMail
is in hot water after they worked with authorities
and gave information over about a user's account
that led to the arrest of a stop -cop city protester.
It's still lightning round, but real quick, ProtonMail
is a Swiss company, and they worked with the
Swiss authorities who were in turn working with
the FBI. ProtonMail did not give information
directly to the FBI, and they say in their terms
of service that they will comply with lawful
requests from the Swiss government. So they did
follow their terms of service, and that doesn't
make it wonderful! But anyway, yeah, no, still
not great. Lev Parnas, the father of Aaron Parnas,
and guy who was previously a Republican agent
tasked with digging up dirt on Hun - Biden will
be running as a Democrat in the state of Florida
for Congress. Given his history in trying to
undermine Democrats, I think he'd make a great
Democrat. A surgeon in the UK performed an operation
remotely on a patient thousands of kilometers
away. That's cool. It worked. It's also cool.
And finally for today, the next Xbox is codenamed
Project Helix. And Microsoft says that it's going
to be, quote, very premium and very high end.
I am also very premium and very high end. Thank
you so much for listening to today's episode
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