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Hello, and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkuff. I'm joined by Riley Festler. I'm in a Stein. We're on top of things.
We're ready to go. We know what's going on in the world. We're going to talk to you about them. Go. Let's start.
In a televised address. Hello. Hello. I'm very exciting. Yeah.
That's pretty high energy that Riley.
Go on. I'm excited. Don't worry. It'll fall off really fast.
“President Trump claimed the US military has nearly achieved its objectives”
in Iran, but failed to provide a definitive timeline for ending the conflict. While touting the destruction of Iran's Navy and Air Force, the President simultaneously threatened to escalate the war by bombing the country's infrastructure, back to the stone ages, if negotiations fail. The speech offered a little reassurance to a wary American public or nervous global
markets, especially as oil prices climb. And the strategic straightaway was remained closed to global trade. Despite high domestic disapproval readings for the war, Trump signed up with a military options that remain open as thousands of additional troops continue to deploy to the Gulf region.
Hey. Well, folks, you know, I stayed up and I watched it. And because I had to write about it, I wrote about it for the daily peace. You know, my make-and-closions were that it was a lot of lies. But woven in between the lies was a lot of incoherence.
If you didn't watch the speech, but you're aware of any of Trump's tweets about this war for the past month and where it just passed a month, then you didn't have to, because it was kind of like a mash-up of the greatest hits from two true social.
And it was, you know, threats against the Iranians, proclaims of triumph, threats against our allies, chest something about our prowess and so forth. But it wasn't what the White House said it was going to be, which was some big new update with some news in it.
There was no news in it. And it did not clarify anything in terms of our goals. It touched on certain goals just like he has before regime change, nuclear program, eliminating their capability to attack the neighborhood and so on. But, you know, every time he touched on a goal,
he would, you know, indicate that everything's fine, but he did so with a lot, like, oh, that we've got a brand new regime in there and they're much more reasonable. Well, they're not more reasonable. They're not a brand new regime.
They're just lower ranking people from the old regime, compared to being more hard-line. The nuclear program, which he repeated over and over, he had obliterated. You know, he said, I got rid of that Obama,
you know, nuclear deal, so that because that would have given them a new, he said, Epitend they got in, you know, then they were on the verge of getting a new,
and there were weeks away, so we had to attack them. And then we obliterated them, but there were still trying to do it. So now we're attacking them again, you know, and then yesterday during the days
that I don't care where the nuke's are, and then, you know, last night he's like, well,
they'll never have a nuke.
I mean, it was just, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was Charlie Brown's teacher with Trump's voice, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And there was nothing new in it.
“You know, and you have to sort of dig deeper”
to find out what the truth of this word. So you want to do that? Let me suggest to go and listen to Deep State Radio yesterday with General Doug Lute and with our friend Rosa Brooks, used to be a top policy planning official
in the Department of Defense. And they will tell you exactly the winners and losers are here. We are one of the losers. And Rans had the shit kicked out of them,
but they're still around. So this has to count as kind of a moral victory for them. Our allies in the region are losers.
The NATO alliance, which he keeps threatening
with blowing up is a loser.
The Chinese are big winners.
“Look at the current cover of the economist,”
you know, which is Xi Jinping smiling. And it says something to the effect of don't interrupt your enemy while he's hurting himself. And of course, you know, the big winner and this was the conclusion of my article.
So you don't have to read that unless you really want to. Because it was kind of funny and top of everything else. It is Vladimir Putin. What Trump's doing something for Vladimir Putin, but lo and behold, that's exactly where we are with this thing,
because prices of oil are up for Russia. We've lifted some sanctions off of Russian oil. We've lifted some sanctions off of Russian oligarchs and the midst of this thing good for Russia. We have used up a lot of our weapons in this Iran theater of operation
that will not ultimately go to Ukraine.
Good for Russia. It has undermined tensions in the main alliance designed to protect us all from Russia.
“NATO and even has Trump talking apparently”
to some of his colleagues about pulling out of NATO, which he can't do. And we discussed about deep-state radio yesterday. But the point is tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Good stuff for Russia.
So if the speech was seen as a victory speech, it wasn't mission accomplished America. It was mission accomplished, Kremlin. Republican leaders, Mike Johnson and John Thune, announced a two-track plan to end the shutdown
of the Department of Homeland Security, which has caused widespread destruction, including airport delays and unpaid federal workers. The proposal would fund most of DHS through a bipartisan appropriations bill,
while separately funding immigration enforcement agencies through a party-line reconciliation measure, allowing Republicans to bypass democratic opposition. Backed by Donald Trump, the plan aims to fully reopen
“the Department and secure longer-term funding,”
though Democrats criticized Republicans for prolonging the shutdown and creating uncertainty. Yeah, not to mention sending mass thugs into the street that have killed Americans, beaten people up, sending them off to prisons without due process,
set them into prisons where dozens of people have died in ice custody. There's a lot of reasons why the Democrats want reform here, and that's because ice are immigration enforcement people are breaking the law on a regular basis,
and frankly, they're the problem at this point. Rather than people who come to this country without documentation, who are actually trying to work, who are actually trying to contribute to our economy and to our communities.
We're living on the upside down here, and maybe they'll get this resolved, but it doesn't look like it's going to change anything. Inside the Trump administration's atrocious mishandling of borders and immigration.
Federal appeals court has a ballak to the Trump administration's attempt to overhaul homelessness funding, upholding a lower court's injunction against new conditions for federal aid, the Department of Housing and Urban Development
sought to shift nearly $4 billion
from permanent housing to transitional programs that require sobriety and mental health treatment. The court warned that this policy change would be immediately destabilizing and disastrous, potentially pushing 170,000 vulnerable people,
including veterans in the disabled, back in the homelessness. While advocacy groups expressed relief over the ruling, HUD officials criticized the existing housing of first approach and stated that they remain committed
to reforming the system. Yeah, which means in the words of the Trump administration fucking over the vulnerable. That's kind of what they're about. They don't care about the vulnerable.
And if you doubt me on this, and if you think, oh, he's being hyperbolic or oh, he's being political. Go watch the clip from yesterday. Where Donald Trump says, you know,
oh, we can't do things like daycare in the United States because we have to worry about fighting wars. You know, we can't afford to take care of our kids because we have defense, and I'll just leave that to the states.
And then he refers to daycare, Medicare, Medicaid, and healthcare as scams. He thinks that any program that helps somebody. And by that, I mean, programs who help people who can't help themselves is a scam.
Programs that help him, scams that help him, scams that help his friends, big tax cuts. Those are perfectly okay.
How do I know?
Well, the big beautiful bill contained $4.5 trillion in tax cuts almost all for the richest Americans. You know, how much it would cost to pay for pre-K for everybody in the United States,
universal pre-K, $190 billion.
That's less than the supplemental that Trump is looking for for this war, which is illegal and unnecessary. So he's happy to pay money to fight wars we shouldn't be fighting, and he's happy to pay many, many, many, many, many, many multiples of that for tax cuts for his buddies.
But to help the homeless, to help kids who need daycare, to help old people who need healthcare. Yeah, he's got no time for that. Because, as brighter one said, cruelty is the point. The US has lifted sanctions on Venezuela's interim president Rodriguez
signaling a major shift in policy under Trump and recognizing her government as a legitimate authority following the capture of former leader Maduro. The move allows renewed economic and diplomatic engagement,
“including potential oil deals and control over key foreign assets”
like sick go.
As Washington works more closely with Rodriguez's administration
to stabilize Venezuela and attract investment. While Rodriguez welcomes welcome to the decision as a step towards normalizing relations. Many former Maduro allies remain sanctioned and broader political and legal uncertainties continue.
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with the government of Venezuela. Let's be absolutely clear here. The government of Venezuela is the same government Venezuela has had for years and years and years. It was the Chavez regime.
illegitimate. Followed by the Maduro regime. illegitimate. And this is the continuation of both of those. No more democratic.
No more interested in following the rule of law. No less corrupt.
“And indeed, more corrupt because what are they doing?”
They're paying money by a kind of, you know, the oil industry protection racket to the big bully in the neighborhood so they can stay in charge and impose their will on the people of Venezuela. Does Trump care about this? Does he care about democracy?
Does he care about the well-being of the people of Venezuela? Does he care about the message that this sends elsewhere in this hemisphere? Of course not. He wants the grift.
Who knows what the grift is by the way? We don't know. We don't know where the oil money is going. There were early reports. It was going into some account and cutter that was not actually in the US. Name it was in the name of Trump.
We don't know which of Trump's friends are making money off of these oil deals. All we know is this. Trump wanted to get a quick win.
So he grabbed Maduro and then he went to Maduro's number two and said,
"Look, we can cut a deal."
You just give us a little bit of this, a little something over here. And you can stay in power. They've got to put the squeeze a little bit on Cuba because that's also on Trump's agenda. But in terms of making the hemisphere more democratic, a better place in terms of producing kind of progress, the United States traditionally goes for.
In terms of fighting corruption and in terms of not rewarding the bad guys, complete fiasco. And he's just relying on the fact that the media just doesn't talk about this stuff. It's like, "Oh, Venezuela, that's over. Let's go on to the next thing."
It's not over. And we are not on the good guys side in all of this.
“And remember the poor one, the leader of the opposition who he shook down,”
so she would give him his, her Nobel Prize. You know, she was the leader of the opposition. And what have we done? We shut her out. We've supported the government that she was opposed to,
it's ugly folks as so much of this is. Well, to end on a hopeful story to follow up from yesterday, NASA successfully launched the Artemis 2 mission from the Kennedy Space Center, marking humanity's first crude voyage toward the moon in over 53 years. The historic crew of four represents the most diverse lunar team to date,
featuring the first woman, the first person of color, and the first non-US citizen, to embark on a deep space mission.
“During the 10-day test flight, the Orion capsule will travel approximately 4,000 miles”
beyond the far side of the moon to validate critical life support systems
and manual navigation before returning for a Pacific Ocean to splash down. This mission serves as the primary precursor for NASA's go of landing Americans on the lunar South Pole by 2028, and establishing a sustainable base for future Mars exploration. Look, you know, I, when I was a kid, this was the coolest thing the US was, it was a great source of hope and inspiration for the whole country.
It really gave us a sense the United States could lead the world, and it would we go and we would explore new destinations, and we would expand the mind of man, and it was just fantastic. And then, you know, somebody said we shouldn't be spending money on this, we should be spending at an earth, and there were a bunch of accidents
including the two horrible shuttle accidents, and the program stride up.
“And to me, having grown up with this, this was as though we had kind of lost”
that sense of, you know, a higher purpose of the inspiration of going where no one had gone before of exploration and discovery. That's something that had animated not just the United States during the space age, but has animated humankind ever since, ever for all of history. And it was really moving to watch this yesterday, you know,
there was, it was, you know, oh, that's back, and oh, they're going to the moon. And we can still do these things, and you know, there was something good about it that it was not a Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos rocket. I mean, you know, not that Lockheed Martin or the good guys, but at least, it was not those brolla guards, you know, having a champagne party
after the whole thing was over. And it could lead to some real breakthroughs for the United States, not the least of which is that there, you know, this hasn't happened in 54 years.
You know, Riley here, minute, that never watched a space mission embark for the moon.
And now there's tens of millions of people, majority of Americans have never watched it. And now they get to see it and say, oh, my God, that's possible. And, you know, we wish them as has been historically the wish in the space program, Godspeed, and I'll be fasting in the watch. You can watch a lot of it streaming from NASA during the 10 Olympic Day mission,
which, as Riley indicated, will take these astronauts farther from earth than any human beings have ever traveled before, which is pretty cool. And, you know, in the midst of all of this stuff, it's kind of good news. I was when it was happening last night, I was sitting in my little jacket and, you know, button down shirt about to go on MS now to talk about Trump speech.
And, uh, launch was delayed 10 minutes.
Uh, and then once the launch took place and they kind of were watching it,
everybody really got into it.
“And so, as happened sometimes when you do, you know, TV,”
I've got bumped, you know, they said, okay, we'll have you back. Another time to talk about what's going on in the Middle East. And I was like, I don't care. I didn't want to talk about Trump.
I didn't want to talk about Iran.
I didn't want to talk about all the shit that's going on. And this was inspiring, uplifting, fantastic. And, uh, I was glad to have sort of been sitting there watching it through their feed. And, uh, I'm glad all is seemingly going well this morning. And Riley, you and Mina have carried this beard forward, but both going to see
the real scenario over the weekend. The big, yeah, it's a very, it's a very space moment.
And pop culture, I feel like we got Project Hail Mary.
We've got an actual space mission. It's awesome.
“It's, it, it, it, it's, it's awesome. And you guys both like the movie, right?”
Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, it was great. Everybody should go see it. If you are feeling really inspired after watching the Artemis 2 launch, definitely go see Project Hail Mary. Even if you're not feeling inspired, go watch it and then you'll feel inspired. Yeah. So, you know, that's good.
Every once in a while, we should find things that are uplifting. And what could be more uplifting than a spaceship to the moon? Anyway, we'll be back with more of this stuff. Little later today, of course, because it's Thursday. I'll be sitting down with our friend Norm Ornstein.
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which is the DSR network. Uh, by the way, DSR is deep state radio. It's not DJR, if that's me. This is not a ego thing. This is deep state radio. Uh, okay.
Thank you, Riley. Thank you, Mena. Thank you, everybody. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
