The Shane Gillis Situation Has Divided The Internet & Trump Crowd Attacks Woman Over Epstein Shirt
PDS Published 10/13/2026
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Woman just got beat up at a Jake Paul fueled Trump rally for demanding to see the Epstein files. the Shane Gillis SNL controversy is divide the internet. 911 calls for Chris to Pike. They just got released.
And they prove that no one knew anything about what was going on. Kimberly Guilfoyle is resigning. The new white House press secretary doesn't appear to have a working brain. someone was thrown off a roller coaster at Six Flags.
But it's even worse than it sounds. talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news, starting with this.
See this had a protester getting beat up at a Trump rally. And Trump's response was to call them fat.
Right at the Donald Trump Jake Paul midterm rally, and yes, the world is this weird and stupid.
Where have you But specifically, this all happened as Trump was campaigning for Republicans in Ohio and someone in the crowd, they wore a shirt saying, Release the Epstein right. Now.
She stood up. During Trump's speech.
The people around her began to grab her, shove her, pull her hair, and even puncher while the rest of the arena cheered.
And then security intervened.
You had them not escorting the people who hit the protester, but they dragged the protester and all this chaos, it was apparently big enough and loud enough that Trump started paying attention and began to mock her and refer to her as a man as she was being carried He's a paid protester.
They're all paid.
They get paid by the lefties in order to destroy our country. They're scum. But he's going back home to mom.
Going back home. He's going back home to mom. Look at him.
Look at him. Terrible. Don't we love law enforcement? Oh, he's got to go on a diet.
He's a fat guy. Wow. Gotta go on a diet fast.
We all do.
Now, with that right, it feels like it goes without saying, but have to mention it.
There's absolutely no evidence that this protester was paid to be which is even something Fox News admitted in its article on the they actually even reported that while the protester was made to leave,
The man who struck her got to stay in even high five the other attendees that were around right.
As far as the protesters side of the story, she only gave a brief statement to TMZ as she was being walked Why did you decide to protest today? Donald Trump?
And with that, it was definitely the most chaotic moment from the rally.
It wasn't the only time that a protester interrupted Trump while he was speaking in and so you had Jake Paul, of all people who, in addition to being there, was also on Air Force One with him calling this get confused by the left.
The protesters, do they not have jobs? That's all they do. Just carry signs around while we're doing the work.
Jake. You can Niven opportunistic con artist. Cock.
It is such a shame that you getting your jaw broken to the cheers of millions because you're such an asshole. Didn't stop you from using that boot licking mouth of one.
You're criticizing a protester for being there in a room full of people who are there. Who had or made the and two.
How are you going to call out people who do not work or do not contribute when you fucking fled to Puerto Rico, so you don't have to pay taxes on the money.
That, by the way, you also make by convincing your audience to lose money with your gambling you just continue to be an ever growing net negative on society.
The longer that you continue to exist.
I just have to tell you that since you are surrounded by people that make money or gain position or gain fame from you who are never going to say these things to Your fantastic marketer,
A great social manipulator, but you just are a bad human no number of side projects you do to try to shield yourself or PR is ever going to actually fix what's inside your heart or what's supposed to be but with a story.
Right? It was the fight in Trump's remarks that definitely drew the most backlash.
People, noting that this appear to be a group of mostly men attacking a woman protester with a crowd applauding the violence and adding.
The president of the United States and MAGA are okay with physically assaulting Others also thought it was incredibly telling that the crowd was angered by a shirt calling for the Epstein files to be right.
Saying things like demanding accountability for pedophiles gets you assaulted at a Trump saying, you know, it seems like the same people who were once begging for Trump to release the Epstein files.
They're now beating people up for fighting for that cause.
Then also with that, I'll say this does come Islamic because there's still fighting for transparency on that Right. Epstein might not be dominating the headlines like he once was.
But representatives like Thomas Massey, and they are constantly trying to keep this issue in the spotlight.
And the discharge petition for the second part of the Epstein File Transparency Act has 216 of the 218 signatures that it and so, both Massey and Khanna, they're really trying to up the pressure on their colleagues to join on and force a vote on this Right.
Just this week, you had a campaign with the Democratic Senate candidate in Iowa, and there he calls on Republican Representative Ashley Hinson, who's also trying to grab that Senate seat
To take the petition to the finish I'm calling on Ashley Hinson to text or call Thomas Massie to get on our discharge petition, just like Brian Fitzpatrick has, Nancy May says, and other Republicans have.
This is about whether you stand with the pedophiles, with rich and powerful donors, or whether you're going to stand with young girls.
So that we can give survivors the right to get the documents, and we can give state attorney generals the right to prosecute these individuals.
Because like we talked about last week, Democrats are in part trying to make Epstein a part of the midterms. right.
In addition to affordability with gas, electricity, health insurance, in addition to Trump's war of choice, in addition to a million other so it ends up not being surprising
To see kind of focusing on someone who is seeking higher office in an effort to not just get the signature, but highlight how Republicans are dropping this Epstein and as it stands now, only four of signed the discharge petition and the rest of the names, they're all Democrats. it's a messy.
He's trying to get voters to encourage the representatives to sign. And last week he have 216 signatures, but we need 218. Two Democrats who were out sick have pledged assigned.
But any two Republicans could sign the petition.
Your representative so something probably less for you, but people around you to wonder about when they're casting their But ultimately, we'll have to wait and see and we'll know soon if any of this moves the Right.
Because as much as people care about the situation and they should care about it.
And it also raises just so many red flags around Trump and a lot of elected Republicans just that are in there not doing their lot of polling shows that this election is about affordability.
It's about privacy. It's about Trump's war of choice with Iran.
That's fucked so many things in the I guess less though we can throw on to the list.
Do you really want to vote the same way as Jake those two, they do seem kind of like birds of a feather, right?
People with God complexes that are more focused on trying to extract as much wealth from the people in the country, while LARPing
As someone that very much cares about but hey, that's also just my but then jumping from that to other news, let's talk about this whole Shane Gillis controversy and backlash. Right.
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Because, well, people had takes on this and that from the whole show.
You had a lot of people honing in specifically on the monologue specifically on the part where you said, I haven't been to the gym in so long. I didn't know women just dress like whores now. I'm sorry.
There's no other way to describe Have you seen it? I've seen it. The shorts. Have you seen the shorts? with the men, going on to describe women's workout shorts and how they fit. Right.
So then from that, you had people like Schitt's Creek star Dan Levy Quick React and call Gillis out the next day. Women wearing short shorts. The gym does not make them whores.
It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. he had Levy's was going viral.
Others seeing that other is also just seeing the clip and other people sounding or with that, including yesterday former SNL cast member ago. Well done.
Referencing the monologue by posting a gym selfie and joking whore reporting for duty.
Also later in the day, you had current SNL star Michael Che alluding to the monologue in a text only grid post. Writing. Got to do more press this week to promote the special.
Wonder what every fucking question is going to be about. Thanks a lot, Shane.
And that's how you had people like country singer Maren Morris also reacting, posting a TikTok of herself giving Gillis the middle finger and adding the caption, me being a whore at the
With all that kind of being just a small example of a lot of people that were out there expressing their disapproval from both men and but then also part of the reaction ended up being people talking about people who like the monologue.
And so for example, you have Travis Kelsey today facing backlash because he apparently like the monologue clip on Instagram. Friends with people.
Seeing that as a formal stamp of approval, they started sounding off, saying things like Travis Kelsey liking that horribly misogynistic SNL vid. Maybe that's just the kind of humor they have in Cleveland. within.
Also someone quoting the Taylor Swift song Cleveland saying my baby likes what he likes, and it's disgusting misogynistic SNL skits and rape fantasies.
And so then also with all these conversations and debates that have been playing out around this monologue, you had a lot of people trying to analyze what the reaction say about the zeitgeist and the state of woke culture.
Or with some arguing that there's an added sensitivity right now with the monologue coming amid the Cornell gang rape allegations.
Also others arguing that these kinds of jokes create an environment where women are harassed, assaulted, or just treated like shit.
And then also with this, you had people pointing out that Gillis, his ex-girlfriend, Grace Brassell, she recently posted an Instagram video with several clips of herself crying.
And she wrote in the caption, Last year I was in a relationship that fully stripped me of who I and adding that she's been terrified to talk about what she went through. also with this, there have now been opinion pieces being made about Gillis joke.
This article in The Hollywood Reporter arguing that it was simply the wrong place, wrong time, and not built for the SNL audience in 2026. Given the show's liberal cast, sketches and audience.
You also write things like an essay in Vogue with the headline I'm so over comics who simply don't like women, anyway the writer arguing there's never a great time for lazy, misogynist humor and saying this isn't about being triggered or offended.
It's about a lot of male comedians continuing to rely on this category of jokes that just are not creative or funny.
But then also, of course, in addition to that, on the other side of this, you had a lot of people kind of loving what they were Right.
Arguing that part of the appeal of a Shane Gillis hosting something like SNL and doing that monologue is that he's not doing it for the audience. or rather, he's not doing it for their audience.
He's doing it for his audience.
That's as you have outlets like the New York Post publishing a story yesterday about how the left is, quote, desperate to bring back cancel culture, there. Yeah.
The piece saying that comedy is meant to poke fun at our society and yes, scantily clad gym influencers trying to be idiots at the gym is part of Right there. Yeah.
Some people echoing that sentiment, also saying, right, all of this is not that deep, people like YouTuber Caleb Hammer, for example, saying it was the most tame stand up set I've ever seen.
Why do we let these people control our culture? and you also had folks like Tim Miller from The Bulwark tweeting.
So you were offended because the SNL host monologue was a little crass and you are annoyed someone might impugn your Judd King. have a great idea.
Maybe you guys should get together for a podcast I can listen to while I cut myself and contemplate the sweet release of death. mean, as far as jingoism.
So, you know, a big part of the conversation is like, none of this is going to be a big deal for Gillis anyway.
Or with a lot of people noting that any sort of controversy like this actually usually benefits the comedian.
If he wasn't getting it already, it's kind of a ticket to get a Netflix special these days.
And especially as you've had Shane Gillis paving his road to get to this point, by I mean, being fired by SNL in 2019, he's very likely very insulated from any sort of negative impacts Yeah.
But with this whole situation I would love to know your thoughts, opinions and reactions in those comments down below. Right.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle has officially resigned as the ambassador to Just hours after the Trump White House called for her to step down amid an absolutely wild corruption scandal,
Which also, you know, it's bad when even the Trump administration's like, okay, this is too much. This is too the situation was a wild one. Right? I did that deep dive for you last week. But here the TLDR Right.
It's at the Wall Street Journal.
They published this totally insane report detailing Guilfoyle is just bizarro quid pro quo relationship with Trump donor and loyalist
Eric Deters, where he essentially would pay her for access to the Trump one of the biggest allegations was that she asked eaters for $100,000
To pay her personal credit card bill days before her confirmation with that, while you had dealers bringing receipts providing the Wall Street Journal with numerous text exchanges, Guilfoyle attorney said that she disputed the authenticity of the message, though they also didn't provide any specifics.
Reclaiming that. She was paid to speak at a series of events before her nomination. And that deters Oder a balance, a claim that he strongly denied. With announcing yesterday that he's now even planning to sewer for defamation.
And so that whole article, the whole situation, it caused an many calling for Guilfoyle to be removed from office, even possibly prosecuted for and then over the weekend, you had the Wall Street
Journal publishing another article detailing leaked audio of Guilfoyle in January, where she bragged about her close ties to two Greek tycoons and said that they were paying her
To go on luxury trips around the also specifically with this, Guilfoyle was trying to convince an American businessman to help her get into an upcoming dinner for Eric Trump that she was blocked
From attending, with her telling the businessman, know, I can deliver the world's you, which you deserve.
Adding at another point, I'm going to make you a lot of fucking and then on top of that, in the same recording, Guilfoyle also acknowledged that she had flown on a private jet of a chief executive of a Greek construction
That is incredibly notable a key thing because according to yet another Wall Street Journal report, Guilfoyle had allegedly pushed the governments of Bulgaria and Albania
To do business with the CEO and buy billions of dollars of American natural gas from his company. but he also wasn't even the only businessman funding her on the recording.
She also said that she was planning to fly to Paris on the jet of a Greek shipping tycoon, with sources telling The Wall Street Journal that he also paid for her stay at a luxury hotel. with all this.
A spokesman for the US Embassy in Athens denied the various allegations, calling the claims unsubstantiated and arguing that Guilfoyle career is guided by deep and abiding but also when asked yesterday if he was considering firing Guilfoyle, Trump responded.
Well, we're looking at it. Yeah, we're not happy. right. And then this morning. This is already going to be another thing we talked about today. The new white House press secretary Katie Zachariah.
She made this major announcement in her just disastrous first press we got to talk about that more in a second. But here's what you We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign.
She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well.
Then about an hour later, you had Guilfoyle announcing that she was resigning in this Twitter post, thinking Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for giving her the opportunity to serve as ambassador to Greece
And touting what she claims were her achievements in the and then also that are going on to address the recent allegations against her, these allegations are false and I intend to vigorously defend my name,
My reputation and my saying I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right and defending the values that make America exceptional, then adding, I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service.
And then. This is honestly one of my favorite parts.
When reporter is Ash Trump about Guilfoyle this morning, he gave her kind of the I don't know did she get coffee for US treatment. She was almost a member of your family.
How surprised for you to learn about these allegations. Wasn't a member of my family.
She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago, but she knew I said no. She she went to Greece.
She was doing a good job, but we didn't like what we were reading. just a reminder.
This is a woman who is engaged to your son for four They split up less than two years as far as what happens next, especially with Guilfoyle, we're going to have to wait to see and also see if Democrats continue their push for accountability.
Now that Guilfoyle step and also we'll see if the State Department's Office of Inspector General continues its investigation into her but also Guilfoyle might not be the only person with her head on the chopping
That's because you are already seeing tons of people speculating that Zachariah Wright, Trump's new press secretary, she might get the accident because her
First and only press conference so far was just so fucking She bombed so hard this morning. She was incredibly nervous.
Out of breath, shaky.
Spoke in this very canned and awkward manner, like clearly reading from a script while also regularly stumbling over her words, pausing regularly and just generally not being good at the talking thing.
Which is the whole job for the press secretary. The idea of not spending evenings with my kid kids are is completely unacceptable.
So my president. Excuse me. My husband. That's a that's a good one.
My husband is out here is out here for the had a historic one day war,
And now we have a booming economy and a great relationship with Venezuela.
This is a president and administration that is looking out for you, the American people.
And I'm thrilled to officially be part of this incredible journey together.
And with that, I will take your questions this whole press conference, it barely went over 14 minutes, which is way
Shorter than Caroline Levitt's briefings, which lasted, on average around 45 in this, she literally took questions from only three reporters, all of whom were from conservative outlets.
She even appeared to be reading their names off of a predetermined here in our new media seat. We have Nick Gilbertson from Breitbart.
Curious. Hello. We will take Peter Doocy.
Elena Shirazi but even then, like in what seemed to be this pre orchestrated BS thing, she wasn't even able to answer all their questions.
Want to ask you a policy question. Has the US stopped sharing Intel with Ukraine?
I'll have to get back to you on so basically you had her for nearly 15 minutes just touting Trump's policy, saying that in her new role, her goal was to amplify all of his wins.
That is, she talked about how she plans to balance her family of four kids with her new demanding job before then scuttling off the podium, claiming that she was cutting the briefing short because Trump was departing for Alaska
And would take questions on the white House South but that also didn't go very well for her because Trump himself mostly talked to the reporters there, with Zechariah just kind of lingering
Awkwardly in the background, though he also did praise her for his press how she you know, the new president says she did.
I thought you it's very but then also the situation got weird because when Zechariah was asked a question, we saw this She's got she's an attorney. Where did she passed the bar exam? Which gave.
Right in that line of questioning. It came after journalist and lawyer Judd Legum.
He reported he was unable to find any evidence Zechariah had ever passed bar exam or had been admitted to the bar in any state.
After graduating from Pepperdine University Law School in 2011.
And that's despite the fact that she's repeatedly and publicly claim that she is an attorney for years right?
Calling herself a lawyer on LinkedIn and having Fox News and other cable news channels using that as her title when she made appearances as a conservative commentator.
In her answer there doesn't really clear anything Well, she reportedly lived with her husband in China from 2011 to 2013.
There's no indication that she took her past any US bar exam while she was into that. It just added to all the people that were panning and mocking Zechariah online.
You would be speculating that she's just not going to last and that reportedly includes multiple advisors and officials who told reporters they don't think that she did a good job, with one even describing the first presser as we'll see.
Because if there's anything we've learned from Trump 2.0 right.
This administration is that they very much prefer loyalty over the actual ability to do the you really you only ever get kicked out when you've just you fucked up on a spectacular scale.
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But then also, we're nowhere near done talking about fuck ups, because we then have to talk about these 911 calls regarding Christa Right in Pike.
She's a convicted murderer whose execution was botched by the state of Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, leaving her still very much alive but well, now you've got audio recordings
Appearing to show that prison officials not only botched or execution, they botched saving her life afterwards as so, to start from the beginning,
The first 911 call came from inside the prison at 8:40 p.m., about an hour after the lethal injections you had the caller like, oh, hey, we got a lady here. The execution didn't work.
She is still breathing. We need an ambulance.
The thing with that call is it didn't come from the central control at the Tennessee Department of Correction like it usually and that caller, they didn't know the security code used to verify that they're actually calling from the
And so the dispatcher starts calling around like, is this real or So we have a medical Culper service at the Riverbend Prison saying that they carried out the execution and the subject didn't pass away.
And they need an ambulance because she's not breathing normally.
We are trying to find out if that is an actual thing that is happening, and we need to send an ambulance and or if you need police assistance, or if this is someone that is just basically prank calling or like swatting us.
Meanwhile, you had an official from the fire department being informed by the situation and you can hear in his voice just how perplexed he is by We got a call at the prison, but they said they don't have a code.
How do they not have a code? Right? They should know the code. There's nobody there that knows the process. That's the one place you definitely need a code.
So, you've got the 911 dispatchers reaching out to the prison themselves to verify the report.
But then it sounds like even central control had no idea what they were talking We got a call about a failed execution at you guys facility and we just calling to verify.
Who called I'm being told that nobody from our facility called you, so there's not really anything to speak of at the Okay, so we don't need responders, so we're trying to figure out.
So no response. Yeah. We didn't call anybody.
I would have been the one to call you and then someone gets on the radio and tells first responders. We have been informed that it is a false call.
There is no medical assistance needed at Riverbend Prison. but then from that, just a few minutes later, a first responder replies.
Somebody is outside the gate of the prison telling us that it's not that, it's that it's real and demanding us to go They say there is some sort of
State official, but I need somebody from that prison to get out to the the paramedics, they apparently can't just barge in there.
They need to be escorted in by police and specifically state so then you get the dispatcher going back on the phone, like, where the hell are the we're now getting the fired assistant
Who's out on scene saying we need to send police hot because there's someone at the front gate that's telling them that this is real and they need to enter, but they can't enter without police because we never got codes.
But then finally it appears that someone at the prison rubbed two brain cells together and they got the code to dispatch. central control. Just telling us that it is actually real.
Still going to have after her. right.
But the key thing is, by the time those paramedics finally got inside of the prison, a half an hour had passed since the initial 911 30 minutes
Where you would pike unconscious breathing and in need of immediate lifesaving and so with this whole communication breakdown out in the open, now you've got many demanding answers about what went especially because back
When the failed execution first happened, the prison claimed that it had followed, quote, every step of the state's lawful established execution protocol and could not have done anything beyond what was carried so one of the big questions for a lot of people is well, okay.
Was that just a lie or is it the protocol itself that's to Right.
And that's in part because The New York Times reports that last year, Tennessee's manual laying out the procedure for lethal injection, that got cut in half from 104 pages to 44 and appear
To lack directions for handling botched executions, With some directions made vague or vanishing altogether, including the requirement that execution teams practice
Inserting an IV Which is key because some speculate that Pike's IV line caused the poison to pull into our tissue instead of entering our
Whatever the case there, she eventually woke up at the hospital with her lawyers saying that she had pneumonia and a blood clot in one arm, saying that she hadn't eaten.
She couldn't swallow, she couldn't move her arms in her hands and swollen to resemble inflated surgical I think she is angry and confused about everything right
And there are so many questions that need to be answered But one of those questions has to be how much suffering is enough?
Krista has endured child sexual abuse, physical abuse, rapes and more than 20 years of solitary confinement.
And then September 30th happens. We have to ask how much suffering is Right. And with all that.
As of last weekend, Pike, she got discharged from the hospital, and she's back in prison, where she spent the last 30 years of her other lawyer saying that she continues
To receive medical care at the prison, they are tracking her recovery as far as what happens next, that remains to be but then also today we've got to talk about another woman who survived being poisoned.
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Except it wasn't the state that was trying to execute her. He's a nobody. He's a coward. I don't think he deserved a second chance.
A second chance for water.
So that's Berkeley engineer Rong Yuan talking about the man who poisoned her and by extension, her family. man who's gotten away with it nearly scot free.
To actually get the full story here, we got to go back to 2017, where you had on being hired by Berkeley Engineering and Research as a metallurgist. when she first met her coworker David Chu, another metallurgist.
The things were a little tense, with shoe telling yuan that she wasn't allowed to use the facilities. Material characterization lab.
She figured that he was worried that she'd misuse or break the equipment and try to reassuring him.
Hey, I know my way around a lab and even repaired similar equipment before taking the job. but the thing is, he wouldn't budge. And so yuan wasn't allowed in the lab.
We'll definitely not a great way to start the job, yuan decided hey she would just go about her business and she would go about his and everything would be fine.
Except then a few weeks later, she started getting sick at first it was hair loss and dry heaving with the neighbor actually having to Russia to the ER with yuan saying that it felt like she was dying.
And she actually had to be taken to the E.R. two more times before the end of the year. And by late 2018, she was a frequent flier there.
Yuan was vomiting all the time at a miss, a bunch of works, a several specialists went through countless tests and even flew to China for treatment.
You saying that she was worried that she had stomach cancer, but nothing was popping up on any of her tests.
Parents, even came to the United States from China to stay with her, worried that she had something terminal.
And then actually, it was her mom that helped point you on in the direction of foul play.
One day in January 2019, yuan was at work and she took a sip from her water bottle and was just hit by that at that point, all too familiar feeling that she was going to die
But then that night at home, her mom took a sip from that same water bottle and noticed this strange sour taste. when she washed out that bottle, it didn't make it go away.
With yuan saying that, she started to wonder if someone was tampering with it. so then you're buying a spy camera from Amazon.
And within weeks she got footage of Shu dumping something from a small white container into her water bottle.
When she then turned over that video to the police and they tested her bottle, they found out that it was spiked with cadmium. Right.
A toxic heavy metal yuan, it turns out, had been drinking water with 3.5 million times the federal limit for cadmium in it. it wasn't just her.
Yuan and her family use water from that bottle to cook at home as well.
And so she, as well as both her parents, tested positive for cadmium poisoning, that, then leading to March of 2019, with David Chu being charged with premeditated attempted murder and two felony counts of poisoning.
Except as the months went by, the court granted Shu more and more leniency.
At first, he was released on house arrest and GPS monitoring, and then he was granted six hours out of the house to take his daughter to ballet and gymnastic classes. right.
And then another six hours on Sundays, and then another day to spend with his kids. And then his house arrest just got lifted entirely. And then he was allowed to travel in the U.S.
With that, then bring us to September of 2023 when, despite his charges carrying up to a life sentence, ended up taking this plea deal that ended up with him serving just two years of probation.
Two years of probation for poisoning a woman, getting a woman so sick that she thought she was dying for nearly two years. And he got probation.
And also, when yuan asked for half $1 million in restitution, she was instead awarded just over $7,000. But the reason that we're talking about all this now is because she was probation.
That's up.
And a judge just granted his request to have the felony conviction expunged from his record.
Records, under state law, every person on probation is entitled to expungement if they complete every condition of their probation, with only a few exceptions.
And poisoning, as we've now learned, is not one of those exceptions. now, that said, dismissing the conviction, it doesn't make it go away entirely. But she was record still show an arrest and conviction to law enforcement.
And if he's charged again, it could be used against him. but it's also not going to stop him from working in the field. And as yuan says, working with other people who could be next.
So that's why you have yuan. Speaking about her experience. And to come out of my comfort zone, to be interviewed by you, to tell the public.
What kind of effect we have to the family and how broken this system is.
And to this day, yuan says that she has no idea why she targeted her. But there's also no doubt that he's impacted her life forever.
In fact, she recently published a research paper talking about the long term effects that she and her family have suffered from cadmium poisoning.
You had her dedicating it to her father, who passed away last year from heart failure. Writing before poisoning, my father had only well controlled hypertension.
Walk six miles daily and carry a 50 pound bag of rice to the second floor. then adding by late last year he was bedbound and couldn't even eat.
Anybody was saying she hopes that her report will lead to doctors understanding the signs of cadmium poisoning before it's just too late.
And while also with this she said there's technically the option had taken shoot to civil court.
Her attorneys, they actually ended up talking her out of it, by saying that it would be this long, expensive battle that may not amount to anything. and so with this story, one, I think it's important to highlight who David Shu is.
Right. There shouldn't be something that just gets swept under the rug. two.
It obviously makes me furious at the system and also the people involved that allowed this judgment, this plea judgment to go through.
This is fucking insane. and three.
I think the insanity of this whole situation, it lends itself to the argument that attempted murder should be prosecuted almost at the same level as murder.
Or you're punishing people less? For. For what? Failing at the thing they wanted to do. that ends up feeling a little bit like, hey, you'll get em next time, buddy.
Don't worry. You'll get back out there. This whole case, this whole situation is pure insanity. right.
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And then going right back into the news. The first of our last stories today. It's crazy. right.
Because you have witnesses saying that they were looking a man in the eye as he came out of his seat, turned sideways in the air, and fell to his death
In the middle of a roller coaster as Six Flags just launched a man out of his seat.
It's that ride at Six Flags over Georgia. It takes you 200ft in the air. Reaching speeds is 70mph.
And first some people saying that when they saw this man getting flown from his seat, they thought that maybe it was part of the Halloween experience at Six Flags puts on this time of
Then these people quickly realizing that's not what was When I knew was when he initially, like, hit back down and we felt his thud.
People reached out trying to grab him. We couldn't. We couldn't not. There was no there was too much force to grab him.
Reports are saying that he hit several other riders and then the coaster itself multiple times before he eventually landed on the roof of a haunted house
At least part of it was apparently caught on Goliath souvenir so then with all this the ride was stopped, the other riders were taken off and they took the stairway within, officials also evacuating the rest of the park as and so right now,
You've got this investigation going on to figure out what exactly went because you had some riders reporting that the workers did check their safety but that's as you also had others saying they had some concerns I looked over at her and I told her.
I said something going on. I said, I keep it, keep clicking. Yeah, it kept clicking like it was unlocking and locking.
And so now with this, they've actually also closed nine other similar roller coasters in their park I'll also say one of the big things that this is coming right after they just retired their X2 roller coaster in California
After lawyers said that it gave over 100 people brain they're actually dealing with the lawsuits behind that as we then also today, you've got the news that the Trump administration cut down more than 400 trees in D.C.
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Over the weekend after a judge explicitly told them not to. And the judge is livid. saying in what universe did anyone in your office think that was acceptable?
Because you've had Trump wanting to renovate a public golf course in DC to one that he claims would be worthy of hosting professional golf tournaments.
But preservationists, they sued to block the project, especially because it would involve cutting down a ton of old trees.
That led to Judge Reyes warning the government to not cut down anything without notifying the court first. but then they just cut down over 400 this weekend with plans to remove another 230.
You had Cruz rolling in, doing the work all before the court could intervene.
You have the situation where the court really can't fix anything because you can't uncut down trees.
Robert, in the emergency hearing that a government lawyer arguing they did our best and providing notice. And that is when you had rates blowing right. Saying they did quote their worst.
And that's how it's not clear how they tried to tell the court because she, she made it clear they never called or emailed about then to make matters worse, apparently they knew about it for a while.
Where you would Park service officials admitting on the stand that the plans were approved on October 5th. Then they got the go ahead over the weekend.
And they just, I guess, add insult to injury, the trees were reportedly perfectly healthy.
And so, in addition to Ray making it clear that the administration has lost all credibility in court, she ordered a halt to any further removals.
Have many wondering, is that actually going to matter when Trump and his goons have shown, you know, they don't care what the courts are going to do? seemingly when they're told not to do something, they just do it anyway.
In many cases like this, it's stuff that's irreversible. And then they just push the, the argument what's done is done. And we can't go back to the status quo.
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And then finally today, you've got Silicon Valley becoming a cult, with some AI researchers allegedly taking up smoking because they are so confident that the tech is going to cure cancer.
I'm not joking with you. This is not an onion right. This claim is coming from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar.
He went on CBS's Face the Nation and dropped this apparently this was meant to be some sort of flex and just how confident they are in AI's
Drop in some philosophy about people having a quote, God shaped hole in their heart and important to understand that many of these folks in Silicon Valley who are building this technology have filled that hole with the machine god of AGI.
And clearly he doesn't know anything about the machine God. Because artificial intelligence is strictly heresy.
It be fair to say he wasn't praising the decision by researchers and instead calls it a textbook example of buying into hype too and it feels like it doesn't even need to be said.
But I'll say it just in case.
Medical experts are calling this a very, very dumb It's a fast track to some nasty cancers that have actually been on the decline for years so it's definitely sending a bad message, since they have no way of knowing
That it's though easily the biggest critique of all this is that the researchers, they just got their reasoning you don't start smoking because AI is going to cure You start because you're not going to have to face the long term consequences.
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