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Hello, and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff, your host, joined by your other host, Riley. Fessler, Minestime.
We're going to look at the news.
He was going to kick us off.
“I'm going to start us today where we start most days with Iran.”
A US delegation led by JD Vance is set to hold new piece talks with Iran in Islamabad, but Iran has not confirmed participation as a fragile ceasefire near his expiration. Fears among Gulf states have intensified after comments by Dmitry Edvidev, were made, insinuating that the Iran United States talks appear to focus too much on the state of our moves and not enough on achieving broader regional de-escalation.
And with all that being said, this morning, Trump said he does not want to extend the ceasefire with Iran, arguing the US is in a strong position and expects to secure a favorable deal. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He says one thing, he says the other thing, he was on CNBC. He's like, I'm not going to extend, but it's going to be a great deal.
It'll be good for them. It could be great for them. He sounds a little bit like, you know, some snake oil salesmen because he says snake oil salesmen. And he wants to deal, he desperately wants to deal, but he wants to appear tough. So he's got us talk at about sides. He's got to say, oh, this is great deal. It's going to be great for them. It'll be great for us. It's going to happen any minute.
But we'll bomb the hell out of them if it doesn't happen so that I have leverage, so that I can get to the great deal because I really want out of this deal, and if I don't get out of this deal, then I'm going to have problems here at home. And this is kind of more existential for me in the Republican Party that it is for Iran, because Iran knows they can wait us out, but I don't want to acknowledge that.
Also, I don't want to look bad, so I want to be able to say that something good is coming out of this whole thing. And so I'm going to go and I'm going to present it this way, and then the people will buy it,
because they always buy what I say, because I'm a great salesman, and it's going to be a great deal.
And what a great day, it's going to be, and then I'm going to go on, and I'm going to take a Cuban next. And if that sounds just like a whole lot of bullshit, that's because we're in the whole lot of bullshit phase of Trump trying to extricate himself from a mess of his own making.
“I mean, also on CNBC this morning, and why did he go to CNBC?”
What do you think he was doing? Who did he want to talk to? He didn't want to talk to Fox. He wanted to talk to the markets, right? He wants to tell the markets calm down, calm down, everything's going to be fine. But the markets are kind of like, dude, we know you're going to get out of this thing sooner or later. So, you know, we're a few months ahead of you. Anyway, you know, the Iranians haven't said they're going to show up yet. So, how do we know that this is actually going to turn into anything sometime soon? We don't.
Could be a few days. Could be a couple of weeks. Could be, oh, we're making progress. I'm going to extend, even though I said it wasn't going to extend. Could be bomb bomb bomb. Now let's try again. It's unclear. What is clear is that they want to get out of this thing. And that's that is been our position and we remain with the position and the fact that they sent JD events again is a sign that, you know, they're serious, they're serious about this.
So, we'll keep an eye on it and we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it in beepsay radio tomorrow. We'll talk about it on a need to know this week. We'll talk about it in a variety of places to give you expert perspectives. But let's move on to another story. Another cabinet official is gone. Labor Secretary Laurie Shaw as Deremer has resigned from the cabinet following a wave of you guessed it.
Misconduct allegations ranging from a favorite of this cabinet and a fair wit...
She officially transitions to a private sector job and it tributes investigation the enormous contact to a deep state actors and not us, not affiliated with us.
“Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling has been attached to lead to the department in her absence.”
They're coming to our friend.
Well, let them come. We're not actors. We're the real thing.
But as far as this goes, Riley's right to point out is a batter in here. You know, drunken corrupt incompetent abusive people get it caught up in their drunken corrupt incompetent abuse.
“It's not just by the way in her case, but also in the case of her husband. One does have to observe that Trump has let go three people in his cabinet in the course of the past couple of weeks and they've all been women.”
And there's so many deserving men. I mean cash, Patel, you know, he should have been fired long ago. He should never have been hired. He's a dead man walking. He's that could be around much Pete Higgs. I guess they're afraid to fire this incompetent also drunk also with the sexual abuse history, etc. You know, in in the middle of this they are of K Junior complete or even lunatic.
I predict all be fired before the end of the year, but it is kind of weird that Trump feels compelled to a fire women first kind of reflects his misogyny and his overall weakness and so on.
“Yeah, I was going to say, is it weird, though? I feel like it's not. No, no, it's all this is all very much in keeping with Trump and company.”
Well, we're going to take a mid a mid story break to talk about something that might give us some hope. So some brevity are not brevity of breathing moment. Uh, I thought you said we're getting for a levity levity for a breathing moment, which I combined into one word, which was brevity, which is not what I meant. Yeah, well, that happens. That happens. Some day too, you could be president and they'll happen all the time. Anyway, please don't let me stop you. Virginia voters will decide today whether to temporarily reach raw the state's congressional districts, a move that could shift to Virginia's house delegation from a narrow democratic majority to as many as 10 Democrats and give Democrats a strategic edge in the national battle for house control amid a trumps redistricting push.
Well, redistricting is in good, but in today's worlds, that's considered good news. Well, look, if we look at this point with the country poised at the precipice of disaster with a lunatic corrupt incompetent running the company country anything that gets us closer to democratic control constraints on the president and the ability to control local events, that's what happened to also end up controlling elections. That's good news. And so let's hope not quits bits bit that the people in your parents adopted home state of Virginia, do the right thing in this election, and that we have some good news tonight, because God knows we could really use it.
Anian has a new scheme to take over in full wars, which is a story close to my heart, and we know they tried it before and a judge slapped it down because because you're a big info worse fan because of a big onion fan and you know, I was on in full wars once I didn't know that and that I was on one of those shows once. Anyway, go ahead. Well, they have a new scheme supposedly this time it will actually work to acquire info wars and turn it into a parody site, which it somehow already isn't. And this new deal will provide financial support for the Sandy Hook families, the families of victims, though Alex Jones continues to legally resist this takeover. And as a reminder, the whole reason is happening is because he got sued into oblivion and had to liquidate all his assets to pay off these families.
He was lying because he was lying and said it was all fake. And he's one of the worst people who ever lived and any bad things that happens to him is a good thing for the world.
Having said that, you know, the idea that the onion will take it over and tak...
That also, at the same time, tweaks with every moment of its existence, Alex Jones, all the info wars listeners, it's beautiful.
“It's just one of those little moments, little bit poetry in our day, we'll give a little bit of a spring in our step. It's good news.”
You know, what's your last story? I'm closing the loop on our stories. We're ending back with CNBC.
Donald Trump said he said this to CNBC that he will remember companies that choose not to seek refunds for tariffs. He imposed that were later rolled illegal by the Supreme Court.
CNBC saying he's going to remember them like watch out or he's going to be grateful because they didn't seek the refunds.
“I think he's insinuating that if you don't seek the refund, there'll be some like a favor or a reward for not seeking the refunds.”
Right, it's usually when he says I'll remember you, it's negative, but in this particular case, it's like, hey, let us keep the money that we illegally took and they'll be some other benefit for you in the long run. You've already passed the cost onto your consumers, so they're already fucked. So why don't you let the government keep the money and then we'll, I don't know, you know, give you some other regulatory goody. This is corrupt, it's horrible, it's on brand, and because there are so big giant awful stories in our day, this smaller nonetheless ugly story is going to fall for the price, but I'm glad you brought it up because it does show how this
“President in this country works in so many ways to make our lives miserable and undermine our institutions and do the wrong thing whenever they can. Whatever they have the opportunity to do the wrong thing, they do it.”
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Riley Menna, see you later, bye bye, thanks.
