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Good to see you. Hello and welcome to DSR Daily. It's a new week. It's a short week. It's a July 4th week.
It's going to be a hot one. For 200 million Americans, I think,
“because we have a double heat dome coming in the United States.”
Are you ready for having a double heat dome, guys? I cannot wait. I will remember it. It's horrible. And it's going to be a double heat dome.
For your birthday. By the way, I'm David Rothkough. That's Riley Fassar and Minnestine. I should have mentioned that. And it's Minnest birthday tomorrow.
And so this is Minnest birthday week. Not America's birthday week. Forget that. That's being celebrated all down at the America State Fair, which is gold grade.
If either of you guys go down to the mall to see that. You know I haven't. No. I was down my way house. Although, when the Smithsonian museums were open
until 11 o'clock for the summer solstice, I did go to that.
And that was the first time I was at the mall in months.
“Because why would I be walking around the mall?”
And I saw for the first time all of the 250th, like mausoleums and golden eagles and all the stuff that they had built in the Ferris wheel. And it blew my mind. It's like you know it's there.
But until you actually see it, it's like, oh, they actually built all of this. And it looks horrible. And nobody's there. It's empty.
And Fox News is doing the reports. And here we are at the Texas Pavilion. And then like nobody's there. Or Caroline Levitz out. Here I am.
And there's nobody behind her. Because who would go to this bullshit? Nobody. It's very cheaply made. Also like it doesn't look good.
No, you have like the the the the Trump arch equipment. Looks like a high school site. No elementary school. Socialities project. You know where somebody's put it together.
Just terrible. I can't walk by the reflecting pool because there's troops. And there's a new regulation or Dictat from our fearless leader that you can't Loiter at the reflecting pool.
Which means paradoxically that you can't reflect at the reflecting pool. But there's very little reflecting being done in the reflecting pool these days. Anyway, although the president was one of things he did over the weekend was complain about the criminal algae movement.
There's criminal algae. You know, if the algae hangs out with the wrong people. If they get together into these algae gangs. And then they become criminals. And what do we do?
They've got to go to algae jail, I guess. So you because he's talking about in.
Finally, but those algae jail.
Well, you know, we got to use alligator algae for something. Yeah, how do you do it or aquatraz? Or right, we're just. I thought I closed that. I know that's what I'm saying.
We're reopening it. And it's just going to be for algae. The conditions are perfect for algae. In fact, it's a very algae heavy part of the world. That's where we should send them.
Well, that's been our show. See it. No, we probably have some news. Go on. Do something newsy.
We've got a Supreme Court news blitz today. And the first of which is a positive decision. Believe it or not. And a five to four decision authored by Justice Amy County Barrett, the US Supreme Court ruled that election officials may illegally count
mail-in ballots that arrive after election day as long as they were postmarked beforehand. The ruling, which reject that a challenge by the RNC against a Mississippi law, maintains a stability for similar voting procedures in 13 other states,
Ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
By deciding that these state extensions do not conflict with federal laws
as setting election day. The court's majority avoided a massive disruption that could have also jeopardized late arriving ballots cast by overseas military members. Yeah, that was semi-positive.
“There were three sort of semi-positive decisions that came down from the court today, right?”
Well, we're going to talk next a little bit more about Lisa Cook and a related decision. The US Supreme Court issued a landmark six, three ruling and Trump versus slotters significantly expanding executive power by allowing President Trump to fire federal trade commission member Rebecca Slotter at Will. And over turning a 91 year old legal precedent that protected independent
agency heads from political removal. And then in a contrasting five four decision, the court rejected Trump's bid to fire federal reserve Governor Lisa Cook without cause. Rolling at the central banks, the statutory independence shields its board members from such executive overreach.
Yeah, this is consistent with what the court has done in the past because the court is very protective of the Fed and its special status. The decision to allow presidents to fire independent board heads has several implications. One, let's trunk to what he wants to do, that's a good thing. Two, it lets his successor do whatever he wants to do.
And three, it creates incentives for the Congress to be clearer about the independent status of these agencies to make it more akin to the Fed if they really think that's appropriate. And so, you know, this is sort of, you know, par for the courts. The court likes to expand the power of the chief executive. It wants to protect certain things like the Fed, which it sees as sweet generous.
“And that's how you end up with these kind of contrasting decisions.”
The US Supreme Court in a third case, or I guess fourth case, declined to hear President Trump's appeal
regarding a five million dollar civil verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing
and defaming columnist E. Jean Carroll. The decision clears the way for Carroll to receive the funds, which Trump had already deposited into a court control account. While Trump's legal team criticized the ruling as part of a politically motivated witch hunt, this case is only a fraction of his total liability to Carroll. That's his attorneys are also preparing to appeal a separate $83 million defamation judgment. I'd hate to interrupt this thrilling podcast, but we have some exciting news at the DSR Network.
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Yeah, but this is a bloated Trump. I think he felt the Supreme Court would look out for him no matter what. His case here was extremely weak. His argument was, "Well, you can't make me deal with stuff like this because I'm the president and I'm doing very important things." And they just were like dismissive of that. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that what this does is essentially set into an established fact. That a jury found that the man who is now president of the United States sexually violated a woman and then defamed her and awarded her $5 million as a result.
And Trump has always denied this, but a jury found it to be true.
Found that Carol demonstrated that it was true. Found the president violated her with his hand in a dressing room in Berkdorf Goodman. And that's who runs country right now, folks. That's who runs country. And Supreme Court is not willing to pride him with kind of cover he wanted. He's going to try to bring this $83 million case up there. This suggests he's going to live.
President Trump announced that a sweeping renovation of Washington D.
This is the most interesting issue in the world right now. The major overhaul follows a May settlement with the national links trust, which resolved a lawsuit brought by a nonprofit and local residents attempting to block the federal project.
While Trump used his announcement to also declare the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool is in quote, full use, despite ongoing controversy is overhealing paint, algae blooms, big algae, if you will.
His primary focus remained on reviving the golf course to host a global premiere tournament.
“Yeah, look, I mean, this is crazy. Has he gotten all the approval see needs to do to do this? No. Does this obsession with remaking Washington?”
Sound familiar to those of you who know what Hitler and Mussolini wanted to do in their capitals? Yeah.
Is it crazy given everything else that's going on in the country?
Yeah. And are a lot of the things that he's doing now going to be undone? Yeah, they're going to be undone. And some of them will be blocked. But I do think it's, you know, it's kind of appalling. We had Doug Berg, I'm the secretary of the interior go on the Sunday shows over the weekend and say,
“we will prosecute the people who have defaced the reflecting pool. And I was like, well, what about the person who tore down half the white house?”
Or what about the person who incited an assault on the Capitol, which had that torn down and also attacked police officers and led to deaths and injuries? And at coup against the United States, why don't we prosecute that? But of course, this is all, you know, we all live in Trump's delusional mind right now. And his cabinet just serves his delusions, Trump, but out on something untrue social about this over the weekend, referring to the criminal algae action, like the only reason algae was in the pool was because of criminals, either that or that, there is something out there called criminal algae, which is kind of hard to imagine, but
“the thing, pool was built in 1923, 24, so just over a hundred years old, and it's always had an algae problem. But it'd been a better defense for him than to suggest that the reason the algae ended up in there was criminals,”
because it's always been there, because if you create a big pool of water in a hot, muggy place that used to be a swamp, it's going to get an algae in it, unless the water is moving rapidly,
which is why Obama installed filtration pumps in the pool back in the day. People have been trying to deal with this problem since it existed, but Trump's now got some manic, crazyness involved to distract from the fact that he didn't have the right to do this. And he assigned somebody to do it, know what, no bid contract, who was kind of a junior level gangster was completely ill-quipped to do the job, and it was, you know, corrupt, it was just corrupt dealing to his friends, to a moral logo member nonetheless.
All right, one more story, Riley, one more. Well, we wanted to provide an update on the twin earthquakes that hit Venezuela, specifically damaging Venezuela's Caribbean coast, leaving 1450 dead at the time that this article was written, and nearly 50,000 people on accountant for the disaster heavily impacted government built high-rise housing projects, which collapsed into piles of concrete and mortar, sparking intense community anger overshot a construction and years of state negligence. Families in their national rescue teams are currently racing against time to find survivors that despite severe delays caused by bureaucracy and a lack of heavy machinery.
It's a tragic story, the number is certainly going to go up, I suspect it's going to go up a lot. It's good to see the world responding to this thing. It was interesting to read that some people had apps, a one from Google, actually gave them a little bit of advanced notice at the earthquake, which suggests we could do more with technology in the future to reduce the casualty titles from these.
It's a terrible blow to the country that was already in terrible economic con...
As we'll continue to track everything this week, we will not be doing podcasts on Friday because of the holiday weekend.
“So, look forward to podcasts from us Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and we'll be back each of those days with Riley and Mina.”
Until then, thanks everybody, bye-bye.
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