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“on this Thursday. A day where we're looking forward to another one of the great speeches”
we get sometimes at night from our president who's going to talk to us about Iran. I hear that's going great and also about elections. I hear there are mess and corrupt and he's going to fix it. That's fantastic. That's got me rare to go for the day. Anything else you think can cheer me up here, guys? Well, I'm going to story to kick us off about how
amazing things are going in Iran. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. The U.S. launched two massive
waves of airstrikes against Iranian coastal defenses and command centers yesterday forcing a reinstated naval blockade that has driven Brent crude prices to a one-month high of $84.95 a barrel. Iran retaliated by targeting U.S. military bases with missiles and drones with terrons top negotiator declaring the conflict a quote unquote existential war with America. U.S. officials are actively debating and preparing for more intensive
operations, not ruling out sending ground troops to Iran. Yeah, well, that's interesting.
“And of course, you have to report that because that's what people are talking about. Will”
the United States send any significant number of ground troops to Iran? Why? Well, because
the major disruption that that would cause in global energy markets would tank the global economy could burst the AI bubble, would send the world into a recession and would have bad political repercussions at home. And theoretically, somebody in the White House knows that. It does bring up an important point though. The point is that if you listen to an analysis of what's going on in Iran, from somebody who's just in Iran expert or who's
just a Middle East expert or who's just a military expert or who's just an intelligent expert or who even is just a political expert here in the United States, you're not understanding all the moving parts because the energy side of this, the economic side of this is just
“as important. That's why we did a special episode of Need to Know, which I really recommend”
you listen to. With Amaz Haqstein, who was top advisor in the Biden White House, who handled both Middle East issues and energy issues, he handled energy issues also in the Obama administration. He knows this stuff inside out. And you got to see how the pieces fit together, not just because that'll help you understand what's going to happen next. But if you listen to the whole episode, it's only half an hour. You'll also get to the point where you say, and that's
why we know what the solution is going to look like to what's going on in Iran. And you
do want to know what the solution is. So go to Need to Know. You can get it in the DSR feed. You get it at the DSR at Substack. You can get it at the Need to Know feed. It's Substack. You can get it elsewhere. We're going to fully distribute this episode. I strongly urge you to give it a listen. Well, Acting Attorney General Todd, by answer, face to a grueling a Senate confirmation hearing that left his appointment to the top of departmental
justice post or poor pumpkin. Highly uncertain. Really? Is it highly uncertain? Probably not. Who probably still get it? But in a saying society. You just want to say it a little. You're just want to add a little drama. Yeah. You got to act like it's not. No, in a saying society, who would, who would conceive of nominating this dude? You know, who would vote for a guy who is involved in, you know, with just reprimanded by the court for this absurd
slush fund deal and the tax deal that they gave Trump or who gave Jelaine Maxwell, you know, the nice trip to the comfy prison camp or who, you know, is leading, you know, the cover up of Epstein or I mean, I could go on and on. I ended up to your story. I'm so sorry,
Riley.
pastoral as Donald Trump's personal defense lawyer and his involvement in the controversial
“now canceled one point a billion dollar IRS settlement fund. Additionally, the nominee”
had to defend the department's independent track record and take responsibility for administrative failures regarding the release of redacted Jeffrey Epstein at documents. Look, he lied constantly. He was rude to constantly. He should have just been like, you know, I just believe that when you're doing a hearing in front of the Senate and you're seeking a job from the Senate, there ought to be a trap door under your seat or or electrodes or something.
And if you're rude to the Senate, if you like, oh, well, fuck off. I'm not answering
the door opens, then underneath it like from gold finger, one of these movies, sharks, swimming around and you just go down into that because it's it's so disrespectful, but, you
“know, quite apart from that, all he is doing is playing to Trump. He doesn't even care whether”
he gets confirmed. I mean, I'd like to be confirmed, but he's going to keep this job anyway is acting. And, you know, as he said during the hearing yesterday, I am the president's lawyer. He tried to correct himself, but truth will out and that's his job. He's Donald Trump's lawyer. He does Donald Trump's bidding. He goes after Donald Trump's enemies. He tries to make money for Donald Trump. He's defends the indefensible. You know, he's, you know, here's a guy who wants to be
the head of law enforcement in the United States who, when asked, do you think it's okay to pardon people who attack law enforcement at the Capitol? He goes, I don't make judgments on that. Why do these people get away with it? The Senate just thought I have a rule. You know, if you don't answer the question, you don't get confirmed. Democrat Republican, you got to answer the questions. It's gotten to the point of ridiculousness. This hearing, yesterday, with the first
day of hearings illustrated that, more to come. Well, speaking of the Epstein files being mishandled, our vice president was yapping about a yesterday. Oh, he's a great man. We see that he's like to see that the vice president who has given a mansion by the American people right in the middle of DC. For the duration of his vice presidency feels that's just not adequate. And so is buying a
$9 million mansion in Virginia horse country so that, you know, he and his kids can have a nice time.
“Also, did you see the story that secret services kind of pissed off because he's making them take”
his kids to golf practice? I mean, what a guy, what a guy. Great man, great dad. Great man, I can't wait for him to be president, president and JD fans. Well, before he becomes president, he admitted on Joe Rogan's podcast that the Trump administration and these are his words, absolutely screwed up the columns regarding the handling and delayed release of the Epstein files. Vance defended former Attorney General Pam Bondi against claims of malicious intent,
arguing she simply overstated the contents of the files while trying to navigate an intense political moment. He maintained that the administration was not attempting to hide anything despite intense bipartisan backlash over the Justice Department's heavy reductions and failure to meet transparency deadlines. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I really have to tell you about our sub-stack. The DSR Network sub-stack is the absolute best way to follow deep state radio. The DSR daily
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DSR Network.substack.com. That's DSR Network.substack.com. Thank you and back to the show. What a lying toad he is. Almost everything you've just said there's a lie and I apologize to toad sometimes at night I can hear them ribiting in the backyard and so there are a lot of toads around
Here.
that really eroils me because I've been in Washington for too long is an old thing that you hear
people talk about in democratic administration, in Republican administration and that's we got the comms wrong. Inevitably, no you didn't. What you got wrong was the substance of the situation. It's not the comms of the Epstein case that's the problem. It said somebody under oath credibly accused the president of the United States of raping her when she was 13 years old that the president was deeply involved with one of the biggest sex trafficking rings ever
with a guy who ran it that other people in his cabinet were involved with it. That there are all sorts of strange circumstances around the sweet heart deals that Epstein got. What happened to Epstein
“when he finally ended up in prison, Epstein's death, what happened at Epstein's ranch right now?”
The United States Justice Department is not cooperating with an investigation into what happened in his ranch in the southwest and the guy who's not cooperating the head of the Southern District of New York is the one that Trump wants to make the head of the Office of Director of National Intelligence. It's not the comms. It's the crimes. That's the problem. And the fact that they think it's the comms shows that they're oblivious to the crimes. They accept
the crimes. They want to protect the president from accountability for the crimes. They want to
protect other people in the cabinet or other powerful people from being associated with the crimes.
“It's not the comms. It's the crimes. Well, I have to say there's some exciting new renovations coming”
to the White House and surround the area. Oh, that's great. Yeah, no, he's doing a great job. Because all the others are finished and it looks great. Oh, and why not do some more home. There should be a HGTV show. White House makeover lunatic edition. And then, oh, yeah, no, everybody would watch it. Who doesn't watch? Yes. Sorry. SNL did a property brothers of redoing the West or not redoing your demolition, the West Wing and putting up
a ballroom and it was pretty funny. One of their better sketches. Yeah, now that you mentioned it, I saw that. So my idea was not that original. But, but Riley has a story. And so he's going to tell us what the latest round of renovations are going to do. Wait, let me guess. Heart shaped bed in
“the Lincoln bedroom mirror on the ceiling disco ball in the lobby of the White House. Am I close?”
That would be maybe even better. A federal design panel is reviewing a Trump admin proposal to install a permanent security fence around Lafayette Square Park following clashes and vandalism during recent protests near the White House. However, the plan faces a strong pushback from critics
and lawmakers who argue the barrier would restrict First Amendment rights and limit public access
to a historic site for demonstrations. At the same time, President Trump is also bypassing congressional and commission reviews to rapidly construct a permanent black granite helipad on the White House salon to accommodate new marine and one helicopters that they say would otherwise destroy the grass. You know, it was bad to elect a criminal to be president. It was bad to elect a racist to be president. It was bad to elect a misogynist to be president. It was bad to elect an ignoramus to be president.
It was bad to elect a man who holds the rest of the world in contempt and is grappling with an almost terminal case of narcissism to be president. But this guy who is all those things is also the master of the tack attack, the tackiest, most vulgar, the man with the worst taste in America. This is a guy who took casinos and made them look cheap. If you've ever been
At a casino, you know what an accomplishment that is.
and makes it look cheap. He's taken the oval office and he's made it look like a Venetian 15th
“century board delo and he just can't stop. Sometimes he does what he's doing for self-aggrandizement.”
Sometimes he does what he's doing because of his strange fear of being attacked in the White House.
Sometimes he does what he's doing because he hates the first amendment. Sometimes he does what
he's doing because he doesn't know what else to do and he's wandering around the White House. He's had his fucking cheeseburgers. There are no meetings for him. Nobody wants to talk to this lunatic who is going through, you know, advanced stages of dementia before their very eyes. So he gets ideas. We can't afford that. He gets ideas. Hello, get me Natalie Hart. Natalie, I want to tweet out about a new helipad. Build the helipad. Don't ask anybody. We'll deal with the
“problems later on. Let's stare down these two. Let's build a ballroom. Let's build an arch.”
Let's read, you know, do the reflecting pool. Let's rename all the airports after me. Let's put
my face on money. Let's put my name on the Kennedy Center. You know, there was a time in American history boys and girls and it wasn't a long time ago because and I noticed this is kind of really like flip your lids. But you know, it's July 2026. Donald Trump has only been president. You know, like 18 months? 18 months ago Joe Biden was president. If somebody had come to you and said a president Biden wants to use crazy glue to put or need gold, gobble the
gook up around the oval office. People with butterfly nets would have shown up at the White House,
put them into a patty wagon and locked him in a padded cell. But it's not one of those things.
It's all of those things. Every day, because we live in the world's worst reality show, executive produced by the world's worst reality show host who thinks everything is a TV show and every idea he has is genius. Hey, calm down. Take a deep breath. Everything will be fine. I'm sure the next story will make me feel much better. Our next story and our last story. So you're welcome. Only one more is that. I know what this story is. And by the way,
it's the last story ever. We should just stop doing fucking stories after this story because it's so stupid. It's about another one of the winners in our government. Pete Hegg Seth announced that the US military. Riley wants to be Pete Hegg Seth. Riley loves Pete Hegg Seth. He's the most
“masculine of men. He really is. I love his pecs. Go on. Well, it's funny you should mention that”
because he announced that the US military will begin annual testosterone testing for troops ages 30 and older as part of a new screening program for hormone deficiencies. Hegg Seth, a staunch proponent of warrior ethos and masculinity, much like Riley, framed the initiative as a way to restore and optimize troops natural abilities on the battlefield rather than artificial enhancement. Service members will have the personal choice to undergo testosterone replacement
therapy if diagnosed with a deficiency though the defense secretary did not clarify if the Pentagon would cover the costs of the treatment. Okay, moment for everybody to rub your heads and go, what's the fuck is going on? Riley, how old are you? I'm 27. 27 years. So you got three years until we start our mandatory testosterone testing here and we have to see what your testosterone levels are. Yeah, because I have to say it's pretty woke of them to offer hormone therapy. It seems
is that not just a kind of gender affirming care. It is gender affirming care and you're some right to point that out. I mean, where do you start with this? Obviously, our pedag Seth has got some real problems with his masculinity. I mean, I mean, I don't know what is like, his dreams are at night or what happened to him as a boy, but he is real insecure about
His masculinity.
about, he has pushed out women from command roles. This is the first promotion list that's going
“around that doesn't have a woman going up to flag officer rank. He just doesn't think women”
belong in the military. It doesn't think people of color belong in the military either, because he's a racist, misogynist, imbecile. But this just takes you to a new level. This idea, which by the way is is repudiated by doctors. There are a lot of stories about it in the newspaper. Doctors don't know that taking testosterone supplements is going to help with anything. Also, if you take
too many testosterone supplements, that's got very bad consequences, including potentially
cancer and all sorts of things that can happen to your private parts that we don't want to talk about here. But the idea that somehow what the military needs is more testosterone is so contrary to any understanding of human nature. Also, what warrior ethos does he think he's doing? How does he think wars are fought these days? Does he think that he's in the midst? We talked about this yesterday, and I think he's watched the 300 to many times, or I mean,
God knows we got to keep him away from watching the Odyssey, because then he's going to think
everybody needs to wear form-fitting armor or something. But he thinks the warrior ethos is
“we got to go out there and have big bulging biceps. That's how we will beat the Communists.”
Not that there are any Communists, or there is any thread. Not that he's dealing with the fact that the United States military has lost virtually every war that they've entered into in the past 80 years. We've won some battles. We've lost the wars. Not that he's worried about the performance of the military, and not that he understands the future of the military. Do you think you need a lot of testosterone to launch a cyber attack? Do you think you need a lot of testosterone to launch
the drone attack? Do you think you need a lot of testosterone to run a major AI program handling targeting, or God forbid autonomous weapons systems? He just doesn't understand what business he's in. He thinks he's in the UFC, and so what he wants to do is contribute to, you know, the idea that what we really need in order to advance our military is to focus on foe science, to bring that military up to the physical standards they were in 500 AD.
I mean, I mean, how dumb, how dumb is all of this, and why aren't people mocking this to the degree to which they should, and why are members of Congress supporting this, to the degree to which they should? I don't know. We're just numb to it all. We're just, he is one step away, I'm making prediction here, before the end of the year, Pete Hegsa will demand that every member of the United States military
stuffs a pair of athletic socks down the front of their pants, because that will then send the message that they are manly mad, and it will scare away the Chinese. They will go, we're afraid, because these men have big bulges in their pants. We know that's where you're going, Pete.
“How did we end up with these guys like Pete and J.D. Vance and RFK Jr?”
I mean, Riley, how did we end up the Midwest is responsible for this? You are from the Midwest. How did this happen? J.D. Vance is from Ohio for about six, isn't he? He is, but he hates Ohio, so, you know, we don't take, well, I don't know. In fact, that he's from Ohio, I hate Ohio. I'm just telling you. Sorry, Riley. I just, I, you know, I mean, you know, clean up your act.
All right, well, that's it for today.
and then if you haven't blanched enough, watch Trump tonight, because he's going to give a speech
“that I think will scare the patooty out of us with not just more Iran blather, but, you know,”
allegations based on recently declassified reports of foreign interference in the 2020 election.
Who was in charge of the 2020 election, Mita? Just help our fans out there. Who was in charge
back then? We should blame that election on. Was it the same person as now? Wait, it was.
“Interesting. That's correct. I hope he will blame him. He will go, "How did this happen?"”
This thing that didn't happen. Must have been the people in charge. This thing that didn't happen.
I've got to have to take over all of our elections to ensure that this thing that didn't happen doesn't happen again. Wait, couple. Just goes and looks in the mirror and shakes his finger.
“Thanks, it's finger. Joe Biden made you do this. Obama made you do that. Okay. Okay, everybody.”
Enough fun. Get to work. We'll be back here tomorrow. We've got this great need to know that, you know, I strongly encourage you to listen to today with MS. Hoxton. We had great deep-state radio yesterday with your favorite Joe Serencian. And, along pinkus, we had a great silicon consciousness that we did earlier this week talking about the AI bubble bursting. We've got another one coming on Friday on AI energy and climate with our friend David Sandalow, which you've got to listen to.
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