It's Thursday, July 17th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.

So as you know, I try to avoid and ignore conspiracies that aren't true. What I try to do is

concentrate on substance. I have a special niche of correcting misimpressions. The misimpressions I see

is maybe being perpetrated through the mainstream media world. I don't like to play into the

hands of propagandists. So this is why I didn't spend too much time on the Epstein story before

yesterday. And then yesterday I kind of said things backwards, or at least my

brain and tongue were involved in a conspiracy. So to be clear, yeah, Epstein killed himself in his

jail cell. There is no evidence otherwise. But this brings me to another shiny bubble or what's

the opposite, a fetid hunk of meat, alligator alcatraz. The Trump administration wants the shock

of the outrage and Democrats or people of good conscience. Of course, they're going to be outraged.

It's outrageous. What are decent people supposed to do when they hear about the conditions in this

Florida detention center not be appalled.

That's the point.

So Trump is sort of forcing most people into a game where he is calling the shot.

So I haven't talked too much about alligator Alcatraz.

But I think I have to.

And I think that front page New York Times reporting shows that it is pretty horrific.

And even if we're being manipulated into being angered and shocked and dismayed, those are legitimate responses.

If you look at similarly, the exporting of prisoners to countries where the prisoners have no ties

and where the United States really should not be doing business, South Sudan, and today,

Eswatini until 2018, it was known as Swaziland, as I talk about on the gist list in Substack today.

The King of Swaziland, sorry, Eswatini.

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