DSR Daily April 1: End to War May (Or May Not) Come Soon

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Hello, welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkov.

I'm joined by Riley Festler.

I'm in a Stein. It's a modern Wednesday, which I would say was a Wednesday. It's feeling like a Wednesday. Feels kind of got that Wednesday vibe.

“And for our Jewish listeners, it's this evening's Passover.”

It's also for our massacistic listeners, the president of the United States, being a speech tonight on a run. Don't know what he's going to say. Everybody said he was going to give a speech saying, hey, it's all over. We won.

But then this morning, he tweeted something out saying,

"Garon wants to cease fire," and then it said. And if they open the streets of harm moves, we'll give it to them. But until then, we'll bomb them into the stone ages, which doesn't sound like super. See, it's firing at me. The funny bit of the tweet though was, or the true social post, was that it said that this was all because they were on had a new president.

But a run doesn't have a new president. It was the same president. I don't know if the same president said this. We'll see whether they say it's a lie like they have a lot of the others. But so there's a lot in the story today.

And the president apparently is also making his way up to the spring. To the spring court, as we speak, he could be there now. We don't know because the Supreme Court starts at 10 o'clock. And we're recording this a little before that. And he wants to hear how the birth rights citizenship goes.

Here and goes.

“And that's interesting. Why is it interesting, guys?”

Just give me one interesting fact about it. Just as I'm quizzing you. Mina, I defer to you on an interesting fact. It's giving spoiler alerts for the speech that's supposed to happen tonight. Now the interesting fact does no president of the United States has ever gone to listen to a hearing of the Supreme Court.

Or try to politically bully them in the way that he is obviously trying to do it. So new things happening all around us every day. Let's talk about a couple of the others. Mina, what have you got to kick us off? President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at creating a nationwide list of eligible voters

and restricting mail-in voting. A move that quickly sparked legal threats from democratic state officials who argue it is unconstitutional and intrude on state's authority to run elections. The order would involve federal agencies in cabiling voter lists, limiting the distribution of absentee ballots,

and potentially withhold funding from states that refuse to comply, drawing criticism from election experts who warn it could disenfranchise voters and exceeds presidential power. It is part of Trump's broader push to reshape US election systems based on widely debunked claims of voter fraud and is likely to face significant legal challenges before it can be implemented.

Yeah, the legal hurdle here for those of you who are not constitutional scholars is that it's unconstitutional. The Constitution is explicit. Elections are run managed by the states.

This is just another attempt to screw things up, scare people, make elections more difficult

because Trump and the Republicans are terrified. Trump has the lowest approval rating. He has ever had in his five plus years as president of the last.

“How did he get to be president of the United States twice?”

Anyway, that this is going to get struck down. The question is how quickly it gets struck down. How much it screws things up in the courts. Presidents can't just do stuff by executive order like Trump tries to do. How do we know?

Because we keep hearing these court cases getting rejected. Yesterday, there were two. There was one about his executive order sort of shutting down public broadcasting. And there was another about his, you know, e-decked building at the East Wing on monstrosity that he's building.

And the court said, no, you can't do that. Will this stop him from doing it again? No, because partially what he's trying to do is,

“as the English say, throw a spanner in the works.”

Just gun things up, screw things up, confuse things. Andy thinks every once in a while is going to get judge, I mean, can't enter somebody like her. So yes or boss, we'll do whatever you want. Constitution be there.

Anyway, it's not going to have the effect he wants. Unless that is just a screw to accept. Will Riley be in a national agency. Annergy agency has warned that global oil supply disruptions are expected to double this month

as the closure of the straight and foremost causes critical fuel shortages.

President Trump signaled that the US could wind it down. It's involvement in the Iran conflict within weeks. Asserting that a formal diplomatic deal is not a prerequisite for withdrawal. However, he also issued a stern ultimatum to European allies, threatening a US exit from NATO if they do not assist in securing regional shipping routes.

To clarify these shifting strategies that the President is scheduled to deliver a national address. This evening, regarding the future of the conflict. Yeah, and who knows what he'll say, and who knows whether he'll stay on the teleprompter, and who knows what the fuck is going through his mind. A denotable diplomat, friend of ours, said to me this morning,

you know, it turns out he's much stupider than we thought. And we all thought he was really stupider. This whole Iran fiasco, which is now in day 33 or day 34,

at a price of $2 billion a day, and that's not counting the price of raised oil prices or economic shots,

that this fiasco just goes from bad to worse. And you know, pulling out, you know, I mean, doesn't sound like a bad idea. It was a bad idea to go in in the first place, but the Iranians have to go long with that these railies have to go long with it. The Iranians have to stop firing missiles in other countries in the region.

They have to open up the straight-of-form moves, all the Iranians have to agree.

“Somebody, you know, in Iran is going to say, well, who's going to pay for having blown up our country?”

Tensions will come out of all of this. The threat yesterday by Trump, you know, to pull the U.S. out of NATO, because the allies were not cleaning up his mess, could be yet another gigantic cost of this. Trump was wanted to pull out of NATO for years and years and years. It's his prime directive from his friends at the Kremlin.

And if he uses this as an, you know, way to edge out of NATO or pull out of NATO directly, that would be one of the most costly screw-ups in American foreign policy. History. NATO has kept the world peaceful. It is a hugely important alliance.

It has been around for almost 80 years doing its job. It's not to say it's perfect, but it has been one of the great security assets of the United States and the world. And that he casually throws out the suggestion that he wants to pull out of it and thus blow it up. It shows just how little he understands about U.S. national interests or how the international system works. Or alternatively, it shows that he is not advancing our interests.

And, you know, if the war ends tonight, who's the big winner guys? Pretty clear. It's Russia. The price of oils up, they get a well, Russians, oil sanctions have been lifted, they get to do more deals. Iran has pushed back on the United States, Iran is a close ally of Russia, Russia got to understand better how the military operates.

The Russian oil tanker was just allowed into the other day to break the embargo and cube and provide them with oil.

“And then on top of all of this, the big win for Russia is that by expanding all of our weapons on this foolish war,”

we're going to have fewer weapons that we can give to Ukraine, including the much needed anti missile interceptors, which are critical.

And that's going to make it easier for Russia to continue its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. So once again, you've got Donald Trump undertaking something that looks stupid, that isn't in the United States interest, that doesn't benefit the United States. Threatening to use it also as a platform from which to go and then undermine our allies and in the end, benefiting who Russia, Russia, Russia. It's your garden star, clear for the cooling. By action, quality and neither of the price has anything to do with it.

“So, for example, a garden of 40 cm, only 78 cm, or a garden of 60 cm, only 70 cm.”

In the case of all the products in our region and in the action of action, small prices, big amounts of oil.

Federal judge rule that the Department of Homeland Security exceeded its authority by terminating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the US, under a Biden-era parole program, restoring the protections of those affected. The program introduced under Joe Biden, had allowed migrants to use the CBP1 app to live and work in the US temporarily, but was ended by Donald Trump, whose administration argued it contributed to border issues and encouraged migrants to self-deport.

While the ruling offers temporary relief, it does not guarantee you long-term legal status, and the Trump administration is expected to appeal as broader immigration policy battles continue.

You know, just another example of overreach and abuses in this area, there's another story floating around right now that the administration, Trump, Rubio and others collected all sorts of fees from immigrants. That they shouldn't have collected and sort of created a big giant slush fund, and then didn't deliver the services. In other words, just fraud at all of these people. We're going to be studying this for years to come folks. We're going to be studying what's going on in the abuses at DHS and elsewhere in this government for years, and people will be prosecuted.

I wrote a sub-stack on this overnight. It's for paid subscribers, so go join, be a paid subscriber to the need to know the sub-stack. But if there isn't a ability to sign up for free, that you can read the whole thing. You talk about this at some point. By the way, I also had a column yesterday in the Daily Reefs about Trump's ultimatum to the allies in his whole new doctrine, which is I broke it, you fix it. And we haven't mentioned here, somehow, and mentioning DHS abuses, many you decided to sidestep the whole issue of Christy Nome's husband.

“No, you were going to bring that up. I did, yeah, I think we should all collectively as a society choose to sidestep the issue of Christy Nome's husband.”

Well, Kaylee, isn't there a middle ground where we can say that he wants to do in his own time as fine and clearly being married to her for extended period of time as obviously taking its toll on him. But the fact that this is embarrassing this woman, who embarrassed him by having a public affair while running this department with the guy she hired into the place, and was flying all around, isn't, and she's such a vial person. Can't we just savor that just for one minute and not talk about the fact that her husband liked to go online with a giant set of fake boobs and pretend to be a woman.

You know, pay and sort of pay in paid sex conversations according to the report, and we're not judging him, are we? I heard some online speculation that the administration knew that article was coming out, and that was part of the reason why they got rid of her when they did, because they knew that her family was going to be like humiliated. Pretty upcoming, but I don't know. Well, I don't know. I don't know. Couldn't happen to a nicer woman. Riley. Well said. NASA is preparing to watch the Artemis 2 mission marking the first crude journey to the moon's vicinity since the final Apollo flight in 1972, during the 10 day mission for astronauts will travel in an Orion at capsule to perform a figure eight orbit around the moon and test critical life support systems.

As final preparations concluded at Kennedy Space Center, the mission represents a historic return to deep space exploration that will send humans further from Earth than ever before.

Yeah. To me, it's cool. And, you know, I mean, when I was a kid, I was ultra space nerd, and I would write NASA every couple of weeks, and they would send me all this stuff, and I got my parents to get me a big file cabinet, and I filled the file cabinet up with space stuff. And I built every model spaceship I could, and then period, let's think back on it. I would come up with good ideas, designs. I remember sending them once a design for Mars spacecraft, which I made at my desk, not with crayons probably, but it was close to that.

I'd send it off to them, and they would send back these notes like, "Dear Mr. Rothko, thank you very much for your submission. We will give it careful study." And of course, you know, when you're eight years old, that was a huge, it was a huge plus, and I really thought, like, this is incredible.

“And how we're going out in outer space, then we land people on the moon, and this is what my whole life is going to be. People are just going to be doing this kind of thing, and they're going to be going to Mars, and then it just stopped.”

It just stopped. This incredible thing, people are like, "Oh, no, we can't afford to explore the universe. We can't explore it to understand what's going on all around us. We can't afford to continue the human voyage of exploration and discovery into outer space." It's crazy. So I am really glad it's coming back even if in some, you know, indirect ways, some future mission, and it's benefiting Elon, although I think the Artemis spacecraft is built by Lockheed Martin at the Orion capsules, built by your European consortium, so this may not directly benefit Elon, which I guess is another plus.

So I think the entire mission is being strengthened. Now, again, you see, I've not recovered from my nerdy space book mentality, because I know that, and I'm thinking, "Oh, I could watch it."

“And I may be watching it tomorrow, we may be doing the podcast, and instead of paying attention to you, I may be watching Astro's floating around in space. I don't know, it's cool. You may not think it's cool, but then you're not cool.”

My brother did that too. He would not with NASA, but he developed Star Wars characters and then like mailed them to Lucas Studios and all this stuff about Star Wars and how he had ideas for how they should move forward and everything. When he was a really little kid and Lucas Studios sent him back just like a whole bunch of Star Wars Legos and was like, "These are great ideas. Keep them up. Maybe one day you can work there." My point is it's very heartwarming to hear people encourage little kids creativity when they just so badly want to be part of something.

And by the way, I had all these things, it was great, and there were other examples. There was one incident, and I don't know, when I was a little kid, and the Israelis really speed boats or something were seized by the French government and the Israelis sent in these commandos into like a port in France and stole them back.

“And so, I can't believe this, but I drew a cartoon of an Israeli helicopter with a little star of David on the side of it, stealing the Eiffel Tower.”

And I sent it to Golden Meyer, who was the Prime Minister of Israel, and I got a long note back from Golden Meyer thanking me for my artwork and saying, "And brought the Prime Minister a smile." And it was like, "Oh, I don't know." I would thought about this in a long time. But folks, if you have kids, and they are inclined to do this, do it. Reach out, touch somebody, connect, and it's incredibly rewarding. And look how I ended up.

Almost that person is Elton John, because I reached out to Elton John, and I was a little kid, and I never heard back, even still today. So.

Encourage them to reach out with creativity unless that person is Elton John, and then don't encourage them to not reach out. One of my little daughters, I will not be specific as to which one of my little daughters in pre-K went into the closet in pre-K with a crayon and wrote something on the wall, and we got a call and said, "You know, your little daughter wrote something on the wall." She shouldn't do that kind of thing, and it was kind of, it might be offensive to people.

Because she thought people should know this. There was no judgment. It's a very, very liberal school. She's very open-minded. That's not the kind of expression you probably should do.

“There are limits, guide your children, and healthy direction. She turned out okay. Is it turned out?”

And maybe it's because of that that I never heard from Elton John, but I thought it was just an opportunity to call him out publicly.

So, and waiting since 4th grade. Now, for Elton, I hate, I can't see or anything. It's kind of sad, sad, but as he has age. And even Riley's sitting there quietly, he was sitting there in a corn field going, "Oh my God, look, the corn's getting bigger and bigger." Yeah, I never, I don't remember ever writing to Celebrities or agencies when I was a kid, so I don't have any fun heartwarming stories. He didn't go down to the Wright Brothers Museum and think, "I'm going to make one of these in my own."

Oh, yeah, I mean, I went there like every other week, but I never, I couldn't write any letters to the Wright Brothers given that they were dead, so.

Yeah, that's true. That sounds like an excuse. Yeah.

“Yeah, it's not your style. All right, could I add a say on it?”

All right, go on. There's got to be one more story here.

One last story. A federal panel known as the Endangered Species Committee approved an exemption to the Endangered Species.

The Endangered Species Act, allowing expanded oil and gas drilling and the Gulf of Mexico, a rare move critics warned could endanger vulnerable wildlife. The decision backed by officials and Trump's administration, including defense secretary Pete Hexeth, was justified on national security and energy grounds. But environmental groups argue it could push species like the critically endangered rice as well closer to extinction. The ruling is expected to face legal challenges as opponents warn of the ecological damage and site past disasters like the deep water horizon oil spill.

Yeah, I would say, look, you know, there are a lot of things that Trump and his crownes are doing that can be undone. Whether it's putting his name on buildings or changing public policies or, you know, rounding people up or, you know, one of the stuff that he's doing is just crazy and can be easily undone. Clearly, damage he does to the horizon to the environment isn't one of those things. Extinct species remain extinct.

And they are conducting a war against the environment, not just drill, baby, drill, but they just don't like environmental protections and they like toxins and they don't like regulation. And there will be damage done that is irreversible because these people are not just anti science, they're anti decency. Anyway, we're going to go and follow all the stories of what's going on today, today seems like it's going to be a big news day. And I will share with you, and of course, because it's Wednesday, we've got our flagship podcast, Deep State Radio, which will come to you and talk about the war in your run and give you a very latest from real good experts.

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