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“I've joined by Riley Festler and Minustine.”
It's a day that's just bubbling up with news. And most of it's... No, most of it sucks. But some of it's weird. So, at least it's elevated by that, right, guys?
Some of it sucks, and some of it's weird, is the summary of every show that we do. So, it's the moment we live in. And there are little bits of good news. Firstly, I'm bleary, I'm from watching lots of soccer yesterday.
Well, the world cup is on. I have it on my TV every match in the background. So, if you need any updates on that, or if you want us, you know, if you want us to do an update on the world cup, please respond in our social messages and,
and we'll do something, you know, just on that, Riley's against it, because he hates soccer. It's true. I do hate soccer. Um, I don't actually, for the records,
so please don't leave me angry comments about hating soccer. Yeah, I love it. I find it's just so entertaining just all day long. Okay, well, that was it for the good news. Let's just start with, yeah, well, you know, where we've been starting every day for the past few days,
but there's new twists, interesting information. Before starting with that, or weird, or a little bit of both, we'll die. No, there's both, there's both. We now know more details about the tentative peace agreement with Iran,
the tentative deal grants major upfront sessions to Iran, including unrestricted oil sales, a pathway to lifting all US and UN sanctions,
and at least 300 billion in regional funding
to rebuild after the conflict. While President Trump has praised the agreement, despite it falling short as initial war aims, the terms are drawn drawing heavy criticism in Washington and sparking intense political backlash from Israeli Prime Minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu. Yeah, not just them.
“I think the headline in the mirror post today was”
after fighting a war, the President drops and then the big headline in the post was Love Bomb. He drops a Love Bomb on Iran. And, you know, that's really the takeaway from this thing. Yes, it calls for a ceasefire. Yes, it's not a real ceasefire.
It's a memorandum of understanding to go into negotiations. And yes, it's better not to be fighting a war. But having said that, the concessions to Iran on oil, the concessions to Iran on release of their funds,
the mention of a $300 billion reconstruction fund.
Sure does make it look like the United States is suing for peace and paying off Iran to end this. Meanwhile, reopening of the straight-of-forms is, you know, unclear what the terms of that reopening are because Iran still asserting that they will have some kind of control
and influence over it. The President of the set is not really that interested in getting back the nuclear material. He said that yesterday in France. And so, you know, the Iranians are now going into this 60-day period as some of the commentators out there have noted
confident that they have the upper hand, that the United States doesn't want
To go back to war.
And so, this will be the U.S. negotiations with Iran
in which we have the least leverage ever. We did a podcast yesterday on this, a need to know podcasts, featuring nuclear experts, Joe Serencian and John Wolfstall.
“I think the title of it was something to the effect of the next”
decision of the art of the deal will be written in Farsi. Think that delivers the message. We've asked John and Joe to come back today and to walk us through the 14 points of this plan. So, if you're really interested in those details,
look down wherever you're looking to find our podcasts
and take a listen to that. Because it's humiliating defeat in document form as the United States has ever had. And that's saying something since we really lost in Vietnam and we really lost in Afghanistan. The U.S. is on a losing streak.
Well, Donald Trump says it doesn't matter. He says because, and he said this this morning in France, if he doesn't like the way the negotiations are going, then we will just go back to dropping bombs right.
“I think he said it. It was like in the language of an eight-year-old.”
Something like, we will drop the bombs right on their heads.
I mean, I don't know, he's feeling the pushback. And I would say between now and the alleged date that this is going to go into effect on Friday, you're going to see some twisting and some turning. This is a long way from over.
Because Trump's own party hates what he's doing here. And social and everybody else, I mean, yeah, and the war, it was the bad war. It was an illegal war. But, you know, right now, under the terms of this thing, Donald Trump is going to win the order of the lion of Persia or something,
because the Iranian government was on the ropes weeks before this thing happened. The economy was in the toilet. People were in the streets, tens of thousands of people. Their proxies had been defeated throughout the region. And now, they're getting billions of dollars, possibly hundreds of billions of dollars. They seem stronger. They have more control over the Persian Gulf.
Their proxies have newfound mission in life. The Israelis have been vilified. The United States has lost the leverage that comes from saying, well, will attack because they've shown that they can withstand the attack. No one has done more to preserve the regime in Iran than Donald Trump. No one has done more to preserve Iran's nuclear program than Donald Trump.
“Which is why I think it's going to end up not getting a Nobel Peace Prize.”
But it may get the order of the Ayatola or some kind of high honor from the Tehran government, because he's their man without him there in trouble, but he's got their bet. Well, speaking of our Bolifid president, he has announced he's delaying the confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton, his nominee to leave the US intelligence community, leaving controversial ally Bill Polty as the acting director. Trump stated he will not revive the lapsed FISA Section 702
surveillance program unless Congress also passes the Save America Act. Additionally, the president specified that he will not advance Clayton's nomination until the Senate approves its personal lawyer, Jamie McDonald to fill Clayton's current role as a U.S. attorney. Yeah, this guy has really played in 3D 40 chess, I guess all chess is 3D chess, 4D chess, because, you know, he is thinking that he can use the leverage of having a terrible nominee
who is actually not legally qualified for the job in charge of the intelligence community. In order to jam through his, I want to cheat in the elections bill for which they're not enough votes. And I don't think there will ever be enough votes. And so he's saying, well, I'll show you, if you don't give me what I want, I'm going to give you terrible guy to run the intelligence community. And by the way, on top of that, I want to have a terrible guy running the Southern District of New York,
because, you know, those guys could come after me at some point, I want him to kill all of those cases.
This is Trump getting wrapped around his own axle.
you know, not having a functioning intelligence community. It's not a really great position to be in.
“And, you know, not having good leadership. There is one way to get there. And, you know,”
I don't think it's going to work. I don't think he can force through the Save America Act. And so we're going to have as another protracted Trump's net and bad governance. And we can national security be the result. Yay. Okay. Now we're going to move into our election segment. The election segment. We should have election news. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. That's it. Thank you. Election update from DSR Central Election Correspondent Minas.
Sty. Bringing you the latest. And the latest is a few things, but start off with billionaire health
care tycoon Rick Jackson spent over $100 million of his own money to defeat Trump endorsed
Bert Jones in Georgia's Republican gubernatorial runoff delivering a rare blow to the president's primary influence despite Trump's victories in Alabama and Oklahoma. Elsewhere, Georgia Republicans rejected election conspiracy theorists burdened Jones for Secretary of State in favor of Tim Fleming. And finally, California held a special primary to fill the Congressional seat vacated by Eric Swallwell following his resignation over sexual assault allegations, sparking a highly competitive
progressive versus moderate matchup between Democrats, I show a hob and Melissa Hernandez.
“And so is that? Do we have a run. So we have a runoff coming in the Swallwell seat thing?”
Or is it resolved? It's resolved. Okay. I don't know. I don't know anything about that. I'm interested in that outcome. And great, you know, the big victory is instead of Trump, we've got a Republican billionaire in Georgia, because we need more billionaires in our government, because the government represents the billionaires and is supposed to be government of billionaires, five billionaires, four billionaires. And that's the way it's going.
And if you can spend a hundred million dollars of your own money, you too could have a
prestigious job and the ability to influence behavior in ways that, you know, screw the little that. I mean, you know, we've done this story this week of the release of this information about the ballroom, which turns out that it's actually not going to cost $300 million. Just Trump said and not be paid for by the taxpayers, but it is going to cost $600 million and at least half of it will be paid by the taxpayers. And you might say, what does that have to do with this? Well,
we also have the moment reports of the number of kids, hundreds of thousands of kids in America, being kicked off snap benefits, because the government can't afford to feed these children, because we need a place for billionaires to dance, fantastic. Something's broken in America.
“That's why I thought you were going to talk about the Washington political story.”
Because, well, I've got that one. Okay. Well, we're going to talk about them.
Democratic socialist Janice Lewis George has served to a commanding a double-digit lead in Washington, D.C.'s Democratic mayoral primary positioning or succeed outgoing a centrist mayor Muriel Bowser. The progressive council member holds an advantage in nearly every ward over moderate rival Kenny McDuffie, drawing strong support from liberal voters who embraced her defiant stance against President Trump's recent threats of a federal takeover. However,
a final winner has not yet been projected as election officials began the multi-day process of tabulating mail-in ballots under the district's complex new ranked choice of voting A perfect following day. Sonne. Park.
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We appreciate your support and thank you for listening. Now back to the show. I know that there's a bunch of the establishment journalists and establishment Democrats are going to freak out and go, "Oh my God, another democratic socialist, what's happening here?" What's happening here is the people of the United States of America, a lot of the people,
particularly to urban areas who are affected most by this. I've discovered that capitalism doesn't work for them as practice in the U.S. That's not to say, "All capitalism is bad capitalism can be good,
but it needs to be moderated by placing the needs of the people first."
“Remember, corporations were granted charters initially, the right to exist by the state,”
because they thought it would be beneficial to the interests of the state. They don't have some right to exist in their own value proposition, which is serve the shareholders at the expense of everybody else. And that's gone too far in America. In a quality is gone too far in America.
Giving billionaires control over the government has gone too far in America. And there is a generational divide where people under 40 in America say, "This is not working for me. I can't afford a house. I'm not going to participate in the American Dream. There's a study again out just in the past 24 hours
that shows how bleak their view is on this. And they want to change.
It's not that they want communists.
They want governments who actually look after them. Like Mom Donnie is doing in New York, we'll deal with issues like the price of an apartment, the price of a bus fare, or whether there's a grocery store in the neighborhood, or whether kids can go to pre-ket, or whether the potholes are filled. I mean, you know, every who just like, "Oh my God, Mom Donnie's going to be elected.
The billionaires are going to leave." And then the next headline as he fills 100,000 potholes. And it just shows how disconnected the mainstream is for the real rationale behind these stories, which is people want government that works for them.
They want government that goes back to the principles on which this country was allegedly founded of equal opportunity for people. And they are finding that some of the mainstream folks in the democratic party are not living up to this.
“And that's why you have a democratic socialist in New York.”
And that's why you have a democratic socialist in Seattle. And that's why you're likely to have a democratic socialist in the nation's capital. And I don't think people should be alarmed by this. I think they should be encouraged by this. This is a positive trend of people saying I want good governance.
I want decent governance. I want responsible governance. Don't get hung up on the labels. Although personally, I'm perfectly happy if somebody calls my views democratic socialist views or even socialist views.
I'm okay with that. Because I don't really care about the label. I care about undoing the damage that's been done to the country. Undoing the grotesque inequality economically, but also in terms of political power that exists in this country.
And trying to look after our neighbors a little better.
“Because ultimately, that's what it's about, right?”
It's about community. It's about taking care of each other. This is a message that Barack Obama used to deliver all the time. And I suspect we'll get delivered again, as we see the opening of the Obama Center in Chicago later this week.
This is the point who is government four. Trump ran that the system was raped. People voted for him because they think the system is raped. They didn't understand some of us did. That he was the one trying to rig it.
That he and his pronies were the ones who it was being rigged on behalf of. He was a demagogue trying to play that card. This upcoming election. Like this election in Washington in the one in New York in the one in Seattle, in the one in twenty twenty nine.
Is going to be, how do we unrate the system?
I think people are open to the idea of any political proof.
That is responsive to their names.
Who's going to unrate the system?
“For a last story today, we're going to dig in.”
Right, right fellow lefties. I mean, that's right. Yeah, okay. I just wanted to make sure that, you know, I was not, you know, just, you know, sort of.
Boomers explaining this all. And that you from the rising generations felt that I got it right. For our last story today, what he said. What he said.
Yeah, Riley's like, I don't, yeah.
I'm making it wrong. Yeah, okay, go on. What's the last story?
“We're going to dig a little deeper into something that you mentioned.”
Um, a comprehensive survey reveals a deeply divided nation ahead of its 250th anniversary. With 59% of Americans characterizing President Trump as a dangerous dictator. Oh, I wish, I got to say what I halfway through that word. I thought you were going to stop. You thought it was a dangerous date.
I don't know if that was on the survey. Oh, no, I can do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so the majority of Americans, almost a super majority of Americans, field Donald Trump is a dangerous dictator.
Yeah, that seems fair. Anything else? Yes. It also highlights a collapsing belief in the American dream, particularly among young adults.
Half of whom believe the concept is dead. Alongside widespread public disapproval of Trump's immigration policies and his handling of the war in Iran, despite these severe anxieties over the erosion of rights, researchers noted and enduring domestic resilience where conflicting moral visions continue to aggressively vibe for the cultural and political direction of the country.
And that's bullshit too.
The reality is there is a collective vision for the future of the country.
I can tell you what the collective vision is for the future of the country. Because all I have to do is list for you things where there is a majority, a super majority of the people in support of an idea. 90% of the American people want common sense, gun controls. 70%, 80% of the people believe everybody should have health care.
70, 80, 90% of the people feel that we should take better care of the environment. 60, 70, 80% of the people think we should have fairer tax laws. 60, 70, 80% of the people think that we need to have stronger retirement care. We need to strengthen Medicare and social security. 60 to 70, 80% of the people think that we need to provide pre-K for kids
and expand the access of people to college. Where's the moral debate? That's Democrats, it's independence, it's some Republicans. It's two out of three Americans, or three out of four Americans and all those things. We know what we want.
We're just told the American people don't want those things. Because there are small number of Americans who have disproportionate amount of power, who think that spending money on taking care of each other on hospitals or on VA clinics or on schools
“is more important than giving them the tax cut so that they can pump up their investments”
in the companies, the stock of which they are promoting at the moment, where they will make billions of dollars even if the company's fail. I mean, you're a company. And so this is a country that has an agreement. People don't want to acknowledge that there's an agreement that we need to take better care of each other.
And we also have an agreement that the system is not working. It's a tragedy that half of the rising generation in America doesn't believe in the American dream. It doesn't believe they're going to own it home. It doesn't believe that the life will be better for them than it was for their parents. It's a failure.
It should not be acceptable. And honestly, I don't think it will be. I think we've had enough. I think we're watching our aging, that we've created corrupt, racist, misogynist, criminal president as a symbol of the rapacious class that is ripping this country off.
I think people are saying, no, we've got to have a change.
And some of these election results prove it.
“Does that mean all of America is going to go that way?”
No. We're still going to be some pockets of red and mega across America. By the way, there'll still be the pockets that depend most heavily on the federal government for support for their social classes. I was disgusted to see that in the Oklahoma election yesterday, that a referendum on the minimum wage and the people of Oklahoma voted to keep the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour.
No one can live on that. No one. It's disgusting. Time needs to stop this.
That's what this is all about.
It's not about Trump or the Trump family or even their corruption or their ballrooms or their stupid wars. It's about getting back to the business of looking at the United States as a community and taking care of the people and our community. So that it becomes the kind of community in which we all want to live, where there are new opportunities, where there are protections for people who have diverse points of view or come from diverse backgrounds. And where everybody's got a shot at decent life.
Not some banana, not the brass ring, just a decent life, a home, a job, school, healthcare, digged into your retirement.
“That's what we've got to focus on again.”
Sorry to moralize, but in moments like these, sometimes a little moralizing as well.
Anyway, we've got lots coming for you today.
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People are really liking it so far. We're planning on moving all our existing members over July 7th, but a lot of them wanted to switch over already. And we've gotten a lot of positive feedback. And the top 10 on the US news after two days. So happy about that.
So people seem to really like it so far. Yeah. It's a great thing. It's a benefit to you. If you're a need to know subscriber, then you can get all the DSR content for app for us.
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