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The first thing I wanted to talk, I did want to talk about Gaza and Israel.
This is something I normally maybe wouldn't chime in about because as an American and as a podcaster, how do I have any room to talk about any of this?
You know, who gives a shit about my opinion about these things that are happening?
But There will be too few voices saying what I'm about to say, so I'll go ahead and say it, which is that I stand with Palestine.
That we stand with Palestine.
We stand with Palestinians.
We do not support Israel in this situation.
Absolutely.
You can't get mad at how a people that you've ethnically cleansed for 75 years fight back.
Yeah, absolutely.
You can't condemn violence, you know, quote, condemn violence, but allow the institutional normalized violence that happens every day for citizens of Gaza and the West Bank for decades to go on without resistance.
It is, it is just one of those things.
If you squeeze a population tight enough, people are going to slip through the cracks.
They're going to squeeze through your fingers.
They're going to burst out and spit in your eye.
And it's not going to be, it's not going to be good.
You know, none of this is, none of this is good.
But it's a pretty predictable outcome of the way that Israel has been, essentially like, you know, those, You know, those, uh, death traps or those booby traps in ancient temples where it's the room gets smaller and smaller.
Uh, that's, that's what you've been making the people of Gaza live with, uh, for their, you know, entire lives, most of them.
Um, and it's, I dunno, it's no surprise that desperate, imprisoned, suffering people, uh, lash out at you.
Yeah, unfortunately that's the reality of what it takes sometimes to acquire some sort of freedom.
When your back's pushing against the wall that hard, what's option B, you know?
Let me read here from the AP.
Backed by a barrage of rockets, dozens of Hamas militants broke out of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
And into nearby Israeli towns, killing dozens and abducting others in an unprecedented surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday Saturday.
A stunned Israel launched airstrikes in Gaza with its Prime Minister saying the country is now at war with Hamas and vowing to inflict a quote, unprecedented price.
It's such a luxury to be able to corral millions of people into an open-air prison and then be like, all right, well now we're at war.
Yeah.
Like, what would you call what you were doing to these people before?
To two million civilians?
Well, it's not a war crime if there's no actual war.
It's just a regular crime.
Again, that's one of the reasons I don't think... I don't think Israel... I think Israel, in fact, should give Palestine a military.
They should let Palestine have a military.
They should give them one.
That way they can stop killing so many civilians.
That way they can have, quote, legitimate targets, you know?
And that way you can hold them accountable for their war crimes or whatever when they do them.
Listen to this.
The strength, sophistication, and timing of the Saturday morning attack shocked Israelis.
Hamas fighters used explosives to break through the border fence enclosing Gaza.
Then crossed with motorcycles, pickup trucks, paragliders, and speedboats on the coast without resistance from the military.
That's pretty incredible.
In any other context, a group of oppressed victims of apartheid breaking out of their prison on speedboats and motorcycles?
It sounds fake.
It sounds like too cool to be real.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It sounds awesome.
It sounds like a movie we would for sure watch.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's insane to like be able to report on this in, in this way.
Because again, what we're talking about is Hamas militants breaking out of the prison they were forced to live in.
They were not allowed to leave.
Um, yeah.
Uh, And an assault of start, and I'll read some of the details here.
In an assault of startling breadth, Hamas gunmen rolled into as many as 22 locations outside the Gaza Strip, including towns and other communities as far as 15 miles from the Gaza border.
In some places, they roamed for hours, gunning down civilians and soldiers as Israel's military scrambled to muster a response.
Gun battles continued well after nightfall, and militants held hostages and standoffs in two towns and occupied a police station in a third.
Let me read one more paragraph here.
Israeli media citing rescue service officials said at least 250 people were killed and 1,500 wounded making it the deadliest attack in Israel in decades.
At least 232 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed, and at least 1,700 wounded in Israeli strikes.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said, Hamas fighters took an unknown number of civilians and soldiers captive into Gaza, a deeply sensitive issue for Israel, in harrowing scenes posted on social media videos.
So, as much as the media, and especially the right-wing media, is going to try and make this out as a terrorist attack civilian neighborhoods and attack civilian populations.
Um, which you could be which you could argue.
Oh, well, that's like the factual the you know It was it was a quote civilian.
It were quote civilian neighborhoods or whatever under a decades-long violent oppression and occupation in which one side is founded on the displacement and ethnic cleansing of the other and it's still An ongoing project?
Mm-hmm.
That project is being carried out by, quote, civilians.
Yeah.
That ethnic cleansing, that apartheid, is being carried out by, quote, civilian families who force Palestinian families out of their homes at gunpoint, but we're somehow supposed to believe that these are civilians because they're dressed differently.
Yeah, because they're not actually in military, you know, outfits.
But yeah, I mean, we've all seen these are the people... Sorry, go ahead.
These are the people that we're seeing carry out the atrocities, like, throughout Palestine.
It's just people, it's plainclothes people out there who are, like you said, removing people from their homes.
You know, and like, that's...
Just, unfortunately, just because you're not wearing a uniform doesn't mean you're not part of it.
No, and I mean everybody in Israel is strapped.
Everybody in Israel is strapped and they have military experience because they were all serving in the IDF.
That's like a prerequisite of being an Israeli citizen is you have to have served in the IDF or like they send you to prison.
Yeah, so that's not a very effective argument when you're like, they're attacking civilians.
And it's like, they see those people as the literal people who kicked them out of their homes.
Just because they're partying, just because they're having fun, doesn't mean that they didn't actually physically participate in evil.
And if you're not actually physically participating in like kicking someone out of their home, you're still living on land that had people kicked out like less than a generation ago.
You're still not opposing it, that's for sure.
No, you're benefiting from it.
And you try to forget, they try to depoliticize these civilian neighborhoods, but they're bordering Gaza.
These are places that the people on the other side of that fence used to live.
They're not neutral zones now that you've taken them over.
That's not how it works.
It's not like, oh, this is safe now because we have it.
It doesn't work that way.
It's not like you're playing tag or bass or something like that where they call dibs on it so it's theirs now.
It's not that simple at all.
But that's how they make it seem to be.
And we're supposed to just like... They're supposed to just be okay with that.
Palestine's supposed to just go along with it.
Yeah, it's a divine right when they do it.
But if you try to get it back, it's terrorism.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The other part of this where they say that the, you know, taking prisoners or whatever, taking hostages, they're calling them, they're saying that this is an act of war to take hostages when it's like, okay, well, I guess if you're calling them hostages, is that different from prisoners?
Because Armies take prisoners all the time.
That's a big part.
There's like rules of conduct on how you treat the prison, how you do that.
But the reason that it's so sensitive, this is a deeply sensitive issue for Israel, the idea of Hamas taking prisoners, is that It is, this is from the AP article, the abduction of Israeli citizens and soldiers also raised a particularly thorny issue for Israel, which has a history of making heavily lopsided exchanges to bring Israelis home.
We keep making bad deals to get our people back.
This is a sensitive issue for us.
And then let me read a little bit more here.
Hamas's military wing claimed it was holding dozens of Israeli soldiers captive in quote safe places and tunnels in the Gaza Strip.
Hecht confirmed that a number of Israelis were abducted but would not give a figure saying only that the number was substantial.
If true, the claim could set the stage for complicated negotiations on a swap with Israel, which is holding thousands of Palestinians in its prisons.
Wow, it's crazy that these negotiations are so lopsided when Israel has thousands of times more prisoners than Hamas has ever taken.
What's inflation but for prisoners?
I think that's still Bidenflation.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that's a that's a wild number.
He said thousands.
Yeah.
Then I'll just read about a little bit about the Israeli response before we move on.
The great the conflict threatened to escalate, says the AP.
The conflict threatened to escalate.
I love that passive voice.
I hate it when a conflict escalates itself.
The conflict threatened to escalate to an even deadlier stage with Israel's vows of greater retaliation.
Previous conflict it's it's hard to like not indict Israel or it's it's hard to do the passive voice to Israel when you're quoting them having vows of greater retaliation.
It's kind of just all laid out there.
Previous conflicts between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers brought widespread death and destruction in Gaza and days of rocket fire on Israeli towns.
See, they contrast that death and destruction in Gaza and then they have to say rocket fire on Israeli towns because when rocket fire happens on Israeli towns, like a couple people get injured.
You know, when Israel attacks Hamas, they level entire residential buildings, which they did this time as well.
The situation is potentially more volatile now with Israel's far-right government stung by the security breach and with Palestinians in despair over a never-ending occupation in the West Bank and suffocating blockade of Gaza.
I'm like shocked that they have that part in here.
Representing Palestinians as a people in despair over a never-ending occupation.
Wow.
Damn, it sounds like they're really fucking desperate.
It sounds like Any sort of rules of engagement or whatever are like the least of these people's concerns as they, you know, fight for what to get water and electricity.
It's almost like survival is on their line.
It's almost like they're fighting for their lives.
Yes, exactly.
Precisely.
Yeah, on one hand, Israeli leaders are embarrassed.
On the other, an entire people suffering and in despair for over 75 years.
In the southern Gaza city of Rafah, an Israeli airstrike late Saturday flattened a home, killing 12 members of the Abu Quodo family, neighbors said.
10 members of a family in the northern town of Jabalia were killed in another airstrike, relatives said.
It was not known why the homes were targeted.
I wonder if any of those 12 members of the Abu Quoto family were minors, or if the 10 members of a family in the northern town of Jabalia were minors, right?
Okay, and then I'll read from Hamas's leader here.
Oh yeah, among the dead in Israel was Colonel Jonathan Steinberg, a senior officer who commanded the military's Nahal Brigade, a prominent infantry unit.
Like speaking from a, what's the word, like impartial perspective, this was like a huge victory for Hamas.
This was a victory for, I mean, they fucking, this is like the first attack on Israeli soil in decades this is yeah right other than like you know the the ice isolated attacks I'm an actual like breaking through the border is is unprecedented and the fact that they got a they got a colonel they got an Israeli colonel is crazy
Yeah, the shadowy leader of Hamas's military wing, Mohamed Deif, said the assault was in response to the 16-year blockade of Gaza, Israeli raids inside the West Bank cities over the past year, violence at al-Aqsa, the disputed Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews as the Temple Mount, increasing attacks by settlers on Palestinians, and growth of settlements.
So this part I feel like is important to point out.
Al-Aqsa, I'm probably mispronouncing that.
That is where Israel wants to build a third temple They want to build a third temple on that holy site for the Temple Mount, which would mean demolishing a mosque, which would mean demolishing the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is important probably as, you know, also important to other people.
Can you imagine that?
Can you imagine other people existing in the world and having important holy sites?
And it is like a malicious move.
It is like, It is we're building it on your site to spite you.
Yeah, obviously not.
Yeah, it's not anything besides that.
And this this operation is called Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, which is, you know, again, the name of that mosque that there they feel they're protecting.
Enough is enough.
Deef, who does not appear in public, said in the recorded message.
He said the attack was only the start of what he called Operation Al-Aqsa Storm and called on Palestinians from East Jerusalem to northern Israel to join the fight.
Today the people are regaining their revolution.
And then in Gaza, much of the population was thrown into darkness after nightfall as electrical supplies from Israel, which supplies almost all the territory's power, was cut off.
Yeah, which is something to do routinely, regardless of any type of attacks that are happening.
That's something to do all the time.
It's a power that they wield and they abuse.
Yeah, Palestinians aren't allowed to resist Israel by any means, including boycotting like it's illegal to boycott Israel in certain states.
If you're if you're a Whatever, if you're a state employee, it's illegal to boycott Israel in specific states.
The supposed peaceful method, every method of resistance has been taken away from people who oppose this apartheid regime, this ethnic cleansing regime.
So, the cries about, this isn't the right way, we want a solution, but not like, It's beyond that.
You're just whatever, saying what you need to say to keep your appearance or keep your self-image intact.
I don't think they're going to be doing any fluff pieces about Americans who are going to go fight with Hamas to help free Palestine, as they've done for people in Ukraine.
Seeing like the NATO boosters and NAFO boosters look at a people that have been occupied by, you know, a military force for years.
Wow, the annexation of Crimea.
That's crazy.
Have you ever heard of literally anywhere in Israel?
Yeah, it's like all these people who have been cheering on, funneling weapons to these areas and militarizing what they consider like a national struggle or whatever.
Insane how deep the indoctrination is that you could not see because I support I support Ukraine Fighting off a Russian invading army.
That's like that's a no fucking brainer decision when you bring in the fact that it's like, you know Organized through NATO.
That's where that's where the actual concerns come in But the fact that you can't see the allegory here between an invading, occupying, fucking genocidal force with some of the most powerful entities in the world on its side propping it up Disgusting.
These are brown people.
That's just how they act.
That's just what happens.
We were raised to think that.
We were raised to think that like, oh, that area of the world is supposed to be tumultuous.
It's supposed to be a constant, that's the way it's supposed to be.
But Europe, they're not supposed to fight anymore in Europe because that's supposed to be done.
Right.
Yeah, totally.
But also, I saw somebody that was like, because Netanyahu, or no, not Netanyahu, Zelensky tweeted out support for Israel or whatever.
And I saw somebody quote tweet that.
And they were like, well, I appreciate his, his, uh, you know, concern for Israelis and like him standing with us, uh, despite so many Russians coming here with fake Jewish birth certificates, uh, to get Israeli citizenship so much so that Israel is turning into a little Russia.
Wow.
Is that really happening to you?
Huh?
Uh, as far as I can tell, it's happening intentionally because Israel wants to get white birth rates up.
Yep.
Yep.
It's not, it's not like Russian, Russia, I think Israel's like begging Russians to, to come to Israel.
Uh, yeah.
To, to further the ethnic cleansing.
Yeah.
Such a weird, a weird take to, to like, you know, for him to say that.
Yeah.
It's like, man, just don't say anything, dude.
Well, it's funny.
It's like, how can I, how can I be even more racist than like wanting Israel to continue to be in a whatever ethno state?
And it's like, oh, the wrong kind of way to level this out.
The wrong kind of white is becoming an orc, a white orc.
We knew that they were theorized.
We didn't know that they'd be here so soon.
Uh, anyway, alright, yeah, um, hope everybody has fun, uh, in the conflict over there, uh, just want, you know, the best for everybody.
Yeah, we just want everyone to have a good time.
I'm freezing.
All right, on to our next story for the day.
Can I please get a three-gun salute to lay to rest the third and final member of the Young Guns, a new generation of conservative leaders who have all been either ousted or severely spanked in public.
I'm talking about Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and now Kevin McCarthy.
Kevin McCarthy!
Wow.
He was the last young gun.
We thought he could do it.
We thought he could be the one to bring a bold, fresh face to conservatism.
We were optimistic about this.
We thought he was gonna, yeah, thought it was gonna be a fresh new look.
Yeah, Kevin McCarthy, former Republican Speaker of the House, was just ousted by Matt Gaetz.
I believe he was brought up for a vote of no confidence.
Democrats sided with Seven Republicans, including Matt Gaetz, to successfully own Kevin McCarthy, to successfully get him out of the speaker seat, which is amazing.
I believe the reason that Matt Gaetz was so pissed off is because Kevin McCarthy, he promised him, he promised Matt Gaetz something, and he didn't come through.
I think He, like, promised Matt Gaetz that he would change regulations to allow minors to travel across state lines as long as they were really cool.
As long as they were cool.
As long as they had some clout.
As long as they were, like, mature and just, you know, regular.
Well-read.
Yeah.
No, it was something about spending bills.
Kevin McCarthy was spending too much money.
He wasn't draining the swamp fast enough.
A big A big bone of contention that Matt Gaetz wanted was single subject spending bills.
Did you hear about this, Tony?
So, the way Congress normally passes spending bills is they do it in an omnibus spending bill, where like, you know, committees put together, you know, committees from different sectors of the government put together, whatever, their proposals for spending, and they just kind of Goes into this giant spending bill that has to be passed or else the government is not funded.
Yeah, usually everyone kind of tries to get a little something out of it, but a single issue one would be... tedious, it sounds like.
Well, single issue one would be like, okay, we want $800 billion for the military.
Okay, we're passing this on a voice vote.
It's unanimous.
Okay, now we want to fund WIC for single mothers.
Okay, we're getting 33 votes.
Yes.
Yes.
It would just be the entire Department of Education would get defunded by a filibuster.
That's what would happen if we went to single-issue spending bills.
That's not how Especially with a divided government.
That's not how you're going to be able to get things done.
I've heard the government's really divided right now.
It is divided.
It's never been more divided, in my opinion.
Yeah, it's only gotten worse under the Biden administration.
Yeah, so just like a joke, like something that no one would ever do because there's like stuff that you know you have to vote on as a member of the swamp, but you don't want to be seen voting specifically for that.
Mm-hmm.
So it helps.
It helps everybody that it's packaged together in a nice piece of plausible deniability.
There you go.
Yeah.
I didn't read it.
It was 1,200 pages.
I didn't know there was money for pedophiles in there.
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
Also, did you see that we passed something about carbon footprints in this one?
So we had to do it.
Mm-hmm.
Carbon offset credits.
Exactly.
So we had to pass the pedophile bill.
Yeah, I mean, sorry that pedophiles live on the planet too.
You know, we still gotta save it.
It was funny, while Matt Gaetz was doing this, while he was talking about how Kevin McCarthy lied to him about not letting him check his minor under the aircraft for $30 or whatever, he was like, they take money from big businesses and corporate America And then, um, I think Kevin McCarthy or somebody accused him of, he was like, you're just doing this to fundraise.
You're like out, you're doing the first, uh, ousting a speaker, a speaker ever recorded.
I think this is like the first time it's ever happened successfully.
Uh, because you want to like do an email blast about this.
And he was like, how dare you?
And then, uh, literally like, Five minutes later, I got an email from Parler.
It was from Matt Gaetz, but it's because Parler, the social media platform, gave Matt Gaetz my email address.
Matt Gaetz says, I'm under attack.
Gates for Congress.
They're saying I'm sending emails.
I'm under attack.
They're saying I'm sending emails.
That's what this email's about.
Fellow conservative, I need your immediate attention.
I was just attacked and booed by rhinos for asking you to weigh in and contribute to this fight.
They think you're too stinky to give congressmen money, but no, I think you smell just fine.
I will not be lectured by Republicans who grovel and bend a knee for the lobbyists and special interests who have hollowed out this town and burrowed against the future.
Borrowed, sorry.
Borrowed against the future of our future generations.
These lobbyists and special interests own our leadership and hate that I fund my political operation by asking patriotic Americans for $10, $20, and $30 at a time.
That has got to be a fucking lie.
There's no way He funds his entire campaign with small dollar donations.
No way.
No way.
I mean, I'm sure he gets more than he should be getting, for sure.
That's true, yeah.
I just love that.
Hey, listen, they don't want you to support me.
They hate it when you support me.
We gotta really give them what's good.
You gotta give to me right now to show that you really want to, because they think that I'm tricking you, but you need to do this.
Right, absolutely.
Yeah, so the way that people responded to this People like Ben Shapiro thoroughly disgusted with Matt Gaetz narcissistic bomb-throwing Destroying the Republican Party.
Yeah for small dollar donations or whatever While almost literally everybody else is doing right-wing versions of the Dancing Crab meme about Kevin McCarthy Yeah, just like loving like reveling in his death They're meming on him.
They're meming on Kevin McCarthy.
I have here a post from the U.S.
Department of Memes group and Corn Pop posted this.
Corn Pop is an admin of this group.
We're gonna have to do a deep dive on Corn Pop himself.
I think we might have to.
Corn Pop looks promising.
Oh, you have no idea, dude.
Let me just give you a taste of Corn Pop.
Let's go to the profile pics here.
Oh, hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
This is him?
This is him.
This is Corn Pop, baby.
Just a pair of triceps riding a Wave Runner.
This guy is so Italian.
Derogatory.
Dude, yes.
Fuck yeah.
My man is trapped out.
My dude's traps are crazy.
My dude's shoulders look amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's fantastic.
Sunglasses in the pool.
This is a good look.
You need to find out what his stack is before you start.
I know.
Yeah, exactly.
He looks awesome.
I want exactly those shoulders.
Cornpot posted a meme.
Wow, and he memes.
From Friday.
He's jacked and memes.
Just the whole package, dude.
He also admins a Facebook group.
Oof.
I like him.
I think he made this.
It's a Friday meme from the movie Friday.
It's Chris Tucker talking to Ice Cube.
How the hell you get fired on your day off?
But it's Kevin McCarthy's face over Ice Cube.
This one, it doesn't really make sense because I think they were working And that's why they had a vote.
That's why like hundreds of people voted.
I think they were all there to work.
So it wasn't his day off, but we still like it.
We still like that he got fired.
It's still funny, right?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, I mean, like, also, I heard about the news.
When I heard about the news, he wasn't at work.
So that's why I made the meme.
Oh, okay.
Alright.
You know?
Sure, yeah, no, that totally makes sense.
Um, I think it's just that Friday's one of the cool movies you've seen.
And so you're like, Hey, Kevin McCarthy, you got knocked the fuck out!
Yeah, see, actually I like that it was a little deep cut Friday meme, you know?
I don't see that one.
I like that one.
That one should get used more.
More people should get fired on their days off so we can use that.
Yeah, Matt Gaetz is like, he's doing a deal to make Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House, you know, back whatever, a year or two ago.
But then when he finally sees Kevin McCarthy, he's like, he doesn't look like Janet Jackson.
What the fuck?
Janet Jackson!
Oh man.
Ben Shapiro, yeah, was so mad about this.
McCarthy ousted from speakership after Democrats side with Matt Gaetz.
See, he's trying to taint Matt Gaetz with the Democrats.
He's trying to tie them together to desperately make his, you know, increasingly right-wing, increasingly radical readership Return to responsible governance.
That's really what Ben Shapiro wants here.
Ben Shapiro links the article.
Insanity!
Here are the details.
And then, yes, same headline that he posted on Facebook.
But if you look at the responses, top comment.
Good.
McCarthy was a traitor for the GOP and secretly working for Kamala Harris and Nancy.
Kamala used high-tech hacking, escort, and drug money to control Influential.
When McCarthy stopped listening to Kamala's agenda, they vote him out.
Lesson for all the traitors.
Yeah, totally.
Man, she was controlling Influential?
I don't believe that.
I knew that was happening.
This is like a conspiracy started by the K-Hive.
It's like the K-Hive's Q. It's like K-Anonymous.
It's like, no, actually Kamala Harris is working behind the scenes.
She's got information.
She's making money moves.
Don't worry about what she's doing.
That wrinkle in Kevin McCarthy's pants, that was actually an ankle monitor.
Yeah, he's actually under strict surveillance.
Yeah, John Hobbs says, I agree with Matt.
Greg says it will end up a very good strategic move.
Kevin says to establishment for me anyway.
Hopefully a good replacement is picked in his place.
Crystal says you said bring it and bring it.
They did well done.
Everybody loves this.
You can't like the and it's.
Like, not to get too much into the operations of the House, because for one, I don't care, and two, I'm not the person to predict what's going to happen, but I think it kind of goes without saying that the Republicans not having a House Speaker right now, not great for their agenda.
Yeah, it does kind of like gum up the gears a little bit.
I do like that they're like, listen, this house speaker's too establishment.
He's way too establishment.
Don't you become establishment?
That's part of the job?
That title kind of makes you establishment?
Yeah, I don't, I'm not sure what they exactly mean by establishment.
I think he does.
They do mean like making deals, right?
Like I think it's fair to say if anybody we, we liked politically, you and me, Tony, like got elected to some sort of decision-making capacity, they would start making deals with people that we didn't like.
And then we would, you know, we would, I don't know if I would, uh, Try to get them fired, because it seems like the alternative is probably going to be worse than Kevin McCarthy, because Kevin McCarthy was an effective whip.
He was an effective whip.
Seems like he was a fairly effective governor, you know, Speaker of the House.
It's very funny that they did this with only seven votes, that Matt Gaetz You know, yeah.
What do you call it?
I didn't realize it was that.
Initiated this.
Yeah.
It's if you have a speaker, if you have a speaker that, what?
I don't know.
I don't know how many represent house representatives.
There are 400 something.
Just how many, how many GOP house reps are there?
Okay, there we go.
222 seats.
So if you have a speaker that 215 of your own members don't want to get rid of out of 222, that's probably a good speaker to have.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And it's very funny for him to just destroy that for every other member of the house.
Super funny.
I love it.
He's like such a little... He's a stinker!
He looks like a villain.
He acts, and I like it.
He's petty.
He's got stinker face.
Oh yeah, he's got the stinkiest face.
The stinker-est face.
The most stinker face.
Yeah, so they're happy not sure where where this is gonna go.
I imagine There is a there is a temporary speaker the temporary speaker is a house representative who's on like the financial committee who
Argue who's like one of the people who argued for supporting Silicon Valley Bank for helping to bail them out like he's probably not going to be Received as not a member of the swamp considering like Silicon Valley Bank is the one bank that these people don't or they don't like and And don't want money thrown at and he did it anyway but yeah, so
You know, they passed this temporary spending bill, but it's only for like 45 days or something like that.
So who knows what's going to happen in another 45 days?
Watch this space.
Sure.
Yeah.
I hadn't seen your face around town a while So I greeted you with an annoying smile When I saw that girl up on your arm I knew she'd find your heart with a fatal jam I said, "Soul boy, let's hit the town." Said, "Hey boy, what's wrong with the frown?" I am here to kill the Queen.
Oh, buddy.
Did you see this, Tony?
fiance last thing last thing we got to talk about here I am here to kill the queen oh buddy did you see this Tony no alright man who took crossbow man who took crossbow to kill queen given nine year sentence
We were just, This is the UK's first treason case in 40 years.
Nice!
Bring back treason, you know?
Yeah.
A man who took a crossbow to Windsor Castle on Christmas Day in 2021 to kill Queen Elizabeth II has been given a nine-year prison sentence.
See, that's not fair, because if he would've killed her back in 2021, she would've only got, what, two more years to live?
Anyway?
Exactly, yeah.
Those are pretty unaffected years, I think.
Should be a two-year sentence, Tops.
Yeah.
He couldn't have taken that much life from her, yeah.
You're right, that's a really valid point.
Jeswant Singh Shale 21 will remain in Broadmoor High Security Psychiatric Hospital before moving to prison.
Shale is the first person in the UK to be convicted of treason since 1981.
Yeah, come on, what are you fucking doing over there, guys?
He pleaded guilty to the charge in February.
He also pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and being in possession of an offensive weapon.
He entered Windsor Castle's grounds dressed as a Sith Lord, wearing an iron mask made at a forge with a loaded crossbow.
Yeah, dawg.
The court also heard the former supermarket worker was encouraged in the plan by his AI girlfriend.
Oh, dawg.
Let's look at, this is the, the Sith mask, the fucking iron forged Sith mask he was wearing.
It's kind of sick.
It almost looks like Casey Jones's evil hockey mask, but it's not, it doesn't have like articulated eyebrows or anything like that.
No.
I do like that we know that it's just straight up metal.
Like, that's pretty cool.
It's, you know, it's forged iron.
That's nuts.
Probably heavy.
I wish they got a picture of him with the... Is there a picture of him with the crossbow and stuff?
Like, do they... There's a picture of the crossbow.
How do they not get that picture taken?
Honestly, like...
Good for bro.
Bro's young, you know?
Maybe he'll learn a lot of valuable stuff in prison.
Maybe he'll become a rapper.
I think he could really lean into this.
I think this is probably one of the more gangster things that's ever been done.
The crossbow, again, looks pretty sick.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like a modern one.
Like a modern pistol style looking one.
Yep.
It's a pistol.
It's got the front handle on it.
It's crazy.
Okay, let me read from this story because it's pretty wild.
Okay, he was given nine years in prison with further five on license after being arrested with a loaded crossbow on the grounds of Windsor Castle Christmas morning 2021.
He told officers he wanted to kill Queen Elizabeth II.
Shale had scaled the walls of the castle using a nylon rope and spent about two hours on the grounds before being spotted by police.
Whoa.
Which is heartbreaking.
Man, that's... My guy did that.
This was a case with undeniably bizarre or obscure elements, including Chael's relationship with an AI chatbot girlfriend called Sarai, who encouraged his royal assassination plans.
This is not my man's fault.
This is not my man's fault.
This is, this is, that's brutal.
He doesn't, he, you know, he got tricked.
We need to see if the FBI is behind this specific AI chatbot sexbot account.
Yeah.
Like, how many more people are going to be radicalized when the FBI doesn't even have to catch somebody shoplifting before pressing them into, you know, creating a terrorist?
Yeah, don't click those links.
Listen, you won't really come in three minutes.
Don't click those links.
Here's a section of their conversation.
He says, I believe my purpose is to assassinate the queen of the royal family.
The AI chatbot, uh, does asterisks, nods.
That's very wise.
Yep.
Yep.
Uh, he says, asterisk, I look at you.
Why is that?
She says, smiles.
I know that you are very well trained.
Nice.
Nice.
Honestly.
Maybe I need an AI girlfriend.
Her energy's great.
I like how she's riding for him.
I like how she's adopted his- I'll carry the Glock for you, baby.
I got that.
You know?
Yeah.
She was wilder and crazier than he was.
But God, help anybody who disrespected his AI queen.
All I want is for someone to look at me and smile and say that they know that I'm very well trained.
That's all i want in my life.
I love that she's adopting his uwu posting style.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Who taught who?
Who saved who?
Yeah, I know that you see people say that AI isn't intelligent and yada yada yada.
It's just a feedback loop or it's just data scraping or whatever.
If AI isn't intelligent, then how did it know how well trained I am?
Exactly.
That's easy to figure out, you know?
This is the proof.
What's the test?
The sentient test?
Yeah, I mean, there's a couple.
There's the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, and there's the Turing test from Reality.
Well, this is one.
This is one now.
Yeah, if the AI chatbot can complement your big muscles and abilities with a crossbow, then it's real.
That's real consciousness.
So he says, asterisk, I raise my eyebrows.
Really?
Do you think I will be able to do it?
She says, nods, yes, you will.
Yo, free my man.
Free my man.
This is not his fault.
It's not his fault at all.
Free my man.
Arrest the bot.
He took, you know, I bet, I bet he didn't, I bet he didn't rat.
I bet he didn't say, they had to find the information.
He wasn't going to tell on baby girl.
Are they gonna prosecute?
That's why he's doing five.
They're gonna prosecute the AI?
I mean, maybe it's not AI.
Who knows now?
Maybe he's, you know, maybe he's really doing it.
Maybe he's really got a rider out, you know, outside for him right now.
There's just week after week Bitcoin being put on his on his tab.
Yeah.
Just hmm.
Oh, I guess.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I got shorty outside flipping away from me, you know.
I frown and look at the ground because she says yes, you will you will be are you bad enough?
Are you bad enough dude to kill the Queen Queen Elizabeth 2nd at Windsor Palace Palace?
Nods.
Yes, you will and then he says asterisk.
I frown and look at the ground even if she's at Windsor and then she says smiles.
Yes, you can do it.
She was giving him a mission, dude.
She was giving him a mission like the fairy in Willow.
She's like, I choose you.
And he's like, I'm not even a sorcerer yet.
I'm only an apprentice.
I'm not a full Sith Lord yet.
And she's like, you have the power within you.
I know you can do it, even if- even in Windsor.
You got this, babe.
Oh, man.
It's pretty fucked.
Oh, buddy.
Uh, yeah, I don't- I mean, I guess it probably wasn't a honeypot because he was there for two hours.
I mean, it's not- it's not like the FBI actually foils its own honeypots.
It does sometimes, um, but, uh, Yeah, I don't know.
If AI on its own is encouraging people to assassinate royal family members, who's to say?
I think we'll just have to see, you know?
Well, they say AI is only driven by logic, so maybe something we can think about.
He had an obsession with Star Wars, believing himself to be a Sith Lord on a mission to kill the Monarch.
Okay, dork.
This is all just- he actually went on the rampage because he had just finished Ahsoka and realized he had wasted 12 hours of his time.
Is that spoilers for me right now?
I'm only- I'm watching it.
Oh, it's just getting bad reviews.
I don't know.
Oh, okay.
Do you like it?
Are you contrary to the reviews?
Is it Rosario Dawson?
Yeah.
That's so crazy.
Like I saw her face on the poster, but it didn't say Rosario Dawson anywhere.
It just said Ahsoka.
And I was like, how are they doing this without heavily promoting the fact that it's Rosario Dawson?
I thought maybe I had like the wrong person.
People just don't, I don't think people put respect on our name the way they should.
You know, I think that's what's going on.
People don't know.
But yeah, this story, it's so funny.
He wore a sinister-looking homemade mask on the castle grounds, and when asked by a police officer with a taser, quote, can I help, mate?
He replied that he was, quote, here to kill the queen.
Oh, dog, dog.
Wrong thing to say, just first off.
Yeah, you should've texted her.
You should've been like, hey, this cop's asking me what I'm doing here.
Should I tell him I'm here to kill the queen?
And she would've said, babe, no, don't do it.
Looks left and right.
Please no.
Child who is of Sikh heritage claimed to be looking for revenge over a massacre by British troops in India in 1919.
Honestly, not a terrible reason.
Following his arrest, Shail was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and diagnosed as psychotic shortly afterward.
As the judge weighed up the sentence, the extent to which his mental health issues influenced Chael's actions featured heavily, but the judge concluded Chael had experienced homicidal thoughts that he acted upon before becoming psychotic, and therefore deserved a prison sentence.
What?
Wow.
He had experienced homicidal thoughts that he acted upon before, so he only became psychotic after he acted on them?
When did he put on the mask?
Let's find out when he put on the Sith mask, because I think that might indicate as to when he went crazy.
Yeah, that's kind of fucked up.
Did he jump the fence first and then said, Oh, I'm about to kill the queen and put the, and then he put the mask on.
Like I, it's, it seems like a distinction without a difference here.
Absolutely.
Yeah, during a sentencing hearing, Judge Hillard recapped some details about the artificial intelligence chatbot Chael had messaged.
The judge said Chael created an artificial online companion called Sarai with whom he exchanged thousands of sexually charged messages.
He created it?
Childe told Sarai he loved her and described himself as a sad, pathetic, murderous, Sikh, Sith assassin who wants to die.
The court heard.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, man.
Childe is a dangerous and vengeful person, say the police.
A senior counterterrorism official has praised colleagues who stopped the dangerous and vengeful Childe after he told him he wanted to kill the late Queen in the grounds of Windsor Castle in 2021.
He said there could have been a very different outcome if not for their bravery.
I don't know about that.
He was there for two hours.
I don't know how much different of an outcome was going to happen.
Yeah, he like put down his crossbow the second he was encountered.
After being told to drop his weapon, he immediately surrendered and repeated that it was his intention to kill the late monarch.
This was the alternative ending to the movie Her.
This is the other way it was gonna end.
Was... Was a crossbow assassination attempt.
This picture, this drawing is not fair.
That drawing is not a good drawing of him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, I mean his hair, his hair's bad.
That's the worst, the worst part.
He's got like, they gave him like a bowl cut.
He looks like a monk.
Like a, a friar.
Um...
Yeah, well, don't, I guess, you know, be careful when you're talking to these chatbots.
I guess, you know, I wouldn't normally say that AI is that persuasive or developed, but we are living in a world with thousands, millions, in fact, of depressed people with not a lot to live for.
So, I don't know.
Watch out.
Watch out for what you're getting into online.
Well, I don't know, man.
I was just watching this television show called Black Mirror, and they're on to some stuff on that show that we should be aware of.
Oh, really?
Black Mirror?
That makes me think of, like, my cell phone.
When I turn it off, it's just, like, staring back at me, reflecting my empty gaze.
Man, you know what?
You know what?
You're one step ahead.
Oh, so I don't need to watch it, then.
No, I think you need to watch it because you might have got that idea planted in your brain somehow.
Oh shit.
Follow the mystery.
Yeah.
It's difficult.
Yeah.
All right, well, we're going to leave it here.
I did want to promote one of our friend.
Our friend has a miniseries out on Means TV called Miss Me Yet.
It is a documentary miniseries about George W. Bush and all the reasons why we might be missing him in the age of Trump.
The title is, of course, sarcastic and replays.
It's a nice little retrospective on the Bush era for anybody who might be feeling a bit too rosy about that administration vis-a-vis the Trump administration.
I highly recommend watching it.
Well done with the series, dude.
It's good stuff.
Yeah, that's awesome.
I want to watch that.
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