DSR Daily August 4: Critical Primaries in Michigan and Beyond

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I'm David Rothkopf. I'm joined by Riley Festler and Minestine. In each and every day we go through a bunch of stories that Riley and Minner have come up with, that usually are about how awful Donald Trump is, and then I get triggered, and then by the end of like 20 minutes I'm too exhausted to go on anymore.

Let's see if that's what happens today.

“Riley, why don't you kick us off, but here's the thing.”

Why don't you start with a story that's not about Donald Trump? All right. Just throw us a curve ball, okay? Well luckily today is primary election day across the five states, including Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and a Washington, and these races feature high-stakes house, Senate, and

gubernatorial contest that will help determine control of Congress in November.

Our key democratic races, such as Michigan's open Senate primary and Missouri's first

congressional district, highlight a fierce debate over party identity as a matter of establishment candidates face off against progressive challengers. Meanwhile, key Republican matchups test the reach of President Trump's endorsements. Oh, sorry. Had to do that.

Just got almost all the way through. Hopefully that out. Yeah. That would be pretty funny actually. President Beep.

Yeah. Go on.

“Besides different conservative factions with a recent redistricting efforts playing a pivotal”

role across several states. Yeah. Most of these, we won't pay much attention to everybody's going to be mesmerized about Michigan and mesmerized about the Michigan Senate race and mesmerized about whether Dr. Abdul Elsaid Beep's haily Stevens, he will, according to the polls.

And if he does, all the establishment Democrats will freak out and I've had some calls from them and emails and they're like, oh my god, this is terrible. This is the end of the world because, you know, some people associated with the democratic socialists of America support Dr. Elsaid. Here's a couple of things.

First of all, he's not DSA, although he has spoken at DSA events. Secondly, he has said he doesn't back crazy DSA proposals. Thirdly, what he is is a progressive supporting proposals that have been kind of at

“the mainstream of the Democratic Party for, oh, let me check my watch.”

A hundred years, okay, proposals that are four things that they have in every country that is developed and can afford them other than ours, like healthcare for everybody, dignified retirements, you know, good education.

His winning over a woman who's taken just a ton of corporate money and 30 million dollars

from eight pack simply suggests that the people of Michigan, if this is what happens, want to go back to core issues, they don't trust people who are on the take from big money. And they want the issues in their lives resolved. I mean, this guy is a career public health official in the state of Michigan. He actually knows what he's talking about.

So, look, all I can say is if this turns out the way it is and you're turning on the TV at night and all of a sudden they're all these stuff, oh, battle for the soul of democratic party, the democratic party is coming up, that's not true. Despite my state, our primary system allows people to pick the people they think they want as their candidates in those states.

And if it's working, you produce new people with new ideas that reinvent the party and keep it up to date with the needs and the wants of the American people. That's good thing. And if the candidate, you get in Texas is different from the candidate, you get in Michigan, it's different from the candidate, you get in Iowa, it's different from the candidate,

you get in New York City or Seattle or Los Angeles. Well, of course, that's the idea, it's not a national election. We're in a mid-term election. We're supposed to be electing people by constituency that represent those constituencies. And if, at the end, there's some more progressives in Congress, that's a good thing.

with our system and it will give progressives more influence, not all the influence. They're balancing factors here.

“So if you're a centrist, besides the fact that you really ought to go and figure out what”

that really means. But if you're afraid of health care for everybody, there are a lot of other things that all Democrats agree on, including Trump and corruption and so on and so forth. So all I'm saying is calm down, look for what's good in this, look for what's positive in this, look for what can energize Democratic Party in this, look for what can help us beat

Donald Trump and don't listen to people who say there's only one solution. And if you don't go this way that it's not going to work, those people have something that they're selling something. They're not paying attention, they don't understand how the system works.

So what's the second story, man?

I know it's a horrible story, so just bracing myself because we got through one story that was not completely horrible.

“Yes, unfortunately, this is a horrible heartbreaking story.”

Edwin Lopez, Cornejo, a 41-year-old Salvadorian migrant, died in ice custody over the weekend after experiencing a medical emergency at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. According to his mother, he suffered from underlying health conditions and reported facial numbness prior to his death, prompting local officials and lawmakers to demand answers about

his medical care.

The tragedy marks the second death at the facility in less than a year, renewing calls from

New Jersey leaders to shut down Delaney Hall amid broader concerns over safety standards in ice facilities. This is tragic. The people who run ice, the people who run DHS, the people who run this administration. This is what they want it.

They want people to die. They want people to be afraid of the process. They want people to self-deport. They don't care if their casualties. Their plan involved their being casualties.

Is that criminal? Yeah, yeah it is, is it inhumane? Yeah, it's also inhumane, but these people who are behind this, the homens, the Mark Wayne Mullins, especially the Stephen Miller's and the Donald Trump's. Their monsters, and they've created a system of concentration camps in America to which we drag

many people who are contributing to our society, many without due process, many who don't deserve this treatment, and we treat them abominably. And it's the abominable treatment that you may be offended by, that they see as a feature and not a bug. It's disgusting.

“And one of the reasons that it's so important that Democrats win in 90ish days from now”

in the elections is so that investigations can take place, and that people can be held accountable

because we can never, ever allow this to happen again.

It totally runs contrary to the American spirit. It also runs contrary to the law in this country and around the world. So you want to save lives like this one, go out, canvas for people donate money, vote, help your friends vote. A new report from the Reuters says that the five month war with Iran has heavily depleted

U.S. stockpiles of key, long range strike weapons and defensive interceptors, including attack homes, PRSM, Tomahawk, and Patriot systems, military officials, and an analyst warn that these doonding reserves could compromise national readiness and weakened deterrence against major adversaries, such as China and Russia, despite White House and Pentagon assertions of sufficient capabilities and record production rates, internal government debate persists

over the strategic risk of continuing strikes without crippling and global reserves. The global reserves are crippled, this story makes it very clear if there were a real war with a major threat, whether it was over Taiwan, with China, or there was some expansion of Russian intervention in Europe, or there was some other major conflict. We wouldn't be able to fight the war.

We have wasted billions upon billions upon billions of weapons in a war that we shouldn't have been in, in which it now looks like we are going to end up with some kind of a deal

straight-of-formals, which was not the condition prior to February 28.

“Where Iran is seen as much stronger than it was because of that control, where Iran's nuclear”

program is relatively intact. It was a war we shouldn't have started. It's an illegal war. It is a failure as a war, but its consequences go beyond that. It has created economic hardship for people in the United States and people around the world.

It has made the Middle East less safe. It has raised the likelihood of expanding regional conflict in the world. It has made it harder for us to support allies that deserve our support like Ukraine, and now you see this. It has put us at risk.

It has been national security, malpractice of a sort we have never seen in the United States.

Is that surprising? When you consider that the Secretary of Defense is not qualified for the job, is unfit for the job, is the most incompetent Secretary of Defense we've ever had. Because it's surprising when you could say the same things about the Commander-in-Chief, when they're purging the military to get rid of anybody with a differing view.

Of course it's not. And by the way, this is not a surprise.

“I remember sitting at meetings in the Biden White House with senior officials when they were”

being pressed to provide missiles like this, some munitions like this to Ukraine.

And they said we can't do it, we don't have the stockpots.

We can only provide a limited number of attackom or other kinds of businesses. And they, at that time, raised the alarm and said our production capability when it comes to munitions is inadequate, and we need to change it. Because if the war expanded, if we needed more of these weapons, it would take not months. That years to replace them.

And Trump and the military knew this when they launched into this war in Iran. And now we are here. And if anybody tells you we're going to fix this overnight, no, it's going to take years and years and years to be fixed if we can fix it at a huge cost. And the rest of the world knows, this is front page news.

“By the United States of America is weaker than we thought it was.”

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The House Ethics Committee has recommended that representative Chuck Edwards be centered following an investigation in a persistent, inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers. While the bipartisan panel found no evidence of physical touch or explicit sexual propositions, it reported a report detailed a pattern of hostile work environment behavior, including

showering the staffers with lavish gifts, making comments about their appearance, and inviting them on intimate dinners and vacations. Edward and his defense team have strongly rejected the findings, arguing the committee misapplied House rules, though the House will not vote on the Ruppermand until September. Well, who could ever have imagined that there would be a sleasoyed in the Republican party?

Who could ever imagine that in Donald Trump's Republican party, you would see person

“after person after person doing this kind of thing?”

But there is a twist, apparently this guy was such a sleasoyed that they've decided to censure him. They've actually decided to do something to stand up to him. Are they forcing him to resign? No.

Are they doing the things that the Democrats do when people violate these kind of basic standards of trust? No. Are there countless other cases like this currently going on, where you still have the president

defending disgusting behavior?

Like the case of representative Max Miller, where the president said, "Well, he's a good guy." There's two sides to every story, even though there is plenty of evidence that Max Miller mistreated his wife. In fact, a prior girlfriend had his restraining order on him and described how he mistreated her, but once the president says what we've got to wait, other people, other members of Congress

come out and defend him. There are plenty of cases like this and if you're surprised, you shouldn't be. Donald Trump, serially accused of sex abuse, found liable by a jury in New York of having sexually abused a woman and having defamed her. But dozens of cases like this at the center of the Epstein scandal and their public and

party has said, "Oh, we don't care about that stuff." There was a poll just the other day. We don't care about that stuff. We're perfectly happy to have leaders who have defective, deformed, warped, criminal, disgusting character making decisions.

And how could that possibly go wrong for us while you have all the other stories to look

“at to explain how that could possibly go wrong for us?”

Pete Hegset, though, with the Department of Defense, looked up the charges that we're made against him, so character matters, folks. It actually matters whether people are good people, whether they respect the law, whether they respect values, whether they respect each other, whether they respect women, whether they respect people of diverse backgrounds, whether they honor the traditions of the country.

It matters. You guys are like the rising generation and I get some hope because I know you guys are like nearly Puritanical and you have no tolerance for violations of these kind of standards. And I hope we have a nice return brief, but a nice return to a kind of Puritanism, where if somebody has done something wrong, they're disqualified as a candidate.

Can you back that rallying? I support that, yeah. That's surprised.

“We've drifted so far from that, but it's amazing.”

It's amazing the world we live in, where the country is run by a bunch of gangsters and thieves and rapists and motherfuckers of every variety and we're like, oh, yeah, that's those guys again. Those guys who we let run our lives, well, time to stand up, time to be heard, time to exit them from the stage, to escort them from the stage, I didn't ask men up because I know

she likes all that.

I love Puritanism, and I always said that.

Yeah, no, I know. I like that. It was she dresses as a pilgrim sometimes, just as a sign of solidarity with past Puritans. Right. What else would I do?

Well, why shouldn't you? That's good. That's a lot of American heritage. To be honest, I feel like so powerless to get things back to the way they should be. It might be worth a try.

Well, the work probably not, but at least we're trying something. Yeah, well, we've got to try something. We've got to, you know, Democrats, when they start nominating people and if a candidate comes along and they've got some little hiccup in their past, dump them, take, just dump them. Let's just move on.

Let's not have these discussions anymore. Okay. You want to open the door, because, you know, somebody who did something dopey, you know, in a few years could provide.

It didn't help that Bill Clinton was a jerk. You know, he was a good president in some ways. I worked in that administration, but it didn't help that he transgressed. It didn't, because then the Republicans were like, see, those guys, you know, that is a license for us to do what we do, it's a slippery slope.

“And all you stoners out there are like, hey, what are you talking about?”

That's okay. I'm not talking about that. You can be stoners.

Personally, I've never, I've never used any kind of mind-altering substance, because why

would I need one? You know me well enough. My mind is altered, my mind is altered from the start. You do this every day instead. I do this.

Who needs it? This is a high, like, nobody, well, boy, what a high. You know, it was a high last week doing that show, like we do on Fridays now at noon, where people joined in. I hope people join in on that one.

This Friday, and I enjoyed that. You know, there was a lot of back and forth. And, you know, and then none of us need drugs. What I would say is, tune in to the Friday live show in order to keep men and Riley off of drugs and off the streets.

Well, it's a wrap up with a final story, a coalition of 25 Democratic-led states.

I did, I didn't notice that you said, I would never, I won't comment on it.

Yes, yes, see, do be as character. He is not my candidate for president, do I? They've sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade, seeking to block a new 10% to 12.5% tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners, the lawsuit alleges that federal trade officials used forced labor concerns as a pretext to rapidly recreate

broad and global import duties that courts had previously invalidated, while the White House maintains the section at 301 measures are a lawful response on bread trade practices. State leaders contend the un-targeted levees exceed a presidential authority and un-constitutionally the raise costs for American families. Yeah, they're going to win too, by the way.

But Trump doesn't care because they'll remain in place for a while, and, you know, if he loses in the court, he will have had the levees in place for a while, and has sent

a message to the world, hey, I'm a tariff guy, and then he'll say, oh, we can't possibly

pay these back, that's way too complicated.

“But, I think, you know, I used to be trade-if, did you know that?”

I was a trade official in the U.S. government. I was the head of the International Trade Administration for a while, which is the trade part of the Commerce Department, and so I know a little bit about some of these things that I have to tell you. I think they're going to lose, and it'll be great.

Every time the Trump administration loses a case, an angel gets its wings, that's a reference to what movie, Riley. I don't know. Okay. Tell him, Mina.

It's a wonderful life. That's correct. That is correct. And that's the thought we'll leave you with today. Every time the Trump administration loses on anything, every time the corrupt establishment

loses on anything, an angel gets its wings. So, if you're in a state where you can vote today, to help get us closer to that, think of all those angels who will soon be flying around thanks to you. We'll be back with more podcasts or video shows or blogs, or I mean, a Vodcast, there's a lot of truck at this is, are we Vodcasting?

Is that what we're doing now? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're Vodcasters, Riley, you know, as a kid, wanted to be a Vodcaster and you are.

Oh, yeah. That was my biggest dream. It was a big dream, centerfields for the Reds or Vodcaster. Well, here we are. In any event, we got lots coming for you this week, so join us for all of it.

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