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“It's a holiday week, but we are still here.”
Still on the case. Still following the news. And the news leads this morning to Middastye. Well, following a Supreme Court defeat regarding mail invoting restrictions, President Trump aggressively renewed his push for the Save America Act, a signature election bill aimed
at severely limiting mail voting, requiring photo ID and mandating proof of citizenship. Some blasted the ruling on truth, social, and publicly pressured five, hold out Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins to back of the stalled legislation. The president. Mitch McConnell, who's like dead, he's like, he's just got out of the hospital like
he barely. Yes, okay. Not doing well, for sure. The president's hyper-focused on the bill has already disrupted the broader GOP agenda, setting up a potential legislative confrontation, after he previously canceled a housing bill, signing
ceremony to prioritize the voting measure. So here we are at the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.
“When sometimes we look back at the beginning of our country, I think, unfortunately”
we were to have had so many leaders who were subtle thoughtful about big issues, where they flawed, yes, where they real human beings, yes. But if George Washington hadn't been a man of character and said I don't want to be king, we would have ended up with no democracy whatsoever, and similarly others there were among the best in the brightest of that period in time.
And now where are we 250 years later? Of the 345 million Americans, the worst one is our president. Not the second worst, not the third worst, a man of no character, a man who a court has found guilty of sexual assault, a man who is a serial fraudster, a man who is the most corrupt
president in history, a man who is never kind to anyone who shows no normal human affections,
a man who has narcissistic and obsess and twisted and ignorant, the worst man in the country, and his major project right now in the 250th anniversary is not, let's look back, let's reconnect with our American principles. His major project is to destroy American democracy, with the safe act, with Jerry Mandarin, with the 5th manipulating elections, with getting billionaires to support bad candidates, with the FCC cutting back on people's first amendment rights, sending troops into voting places.
Every tool he's got, he is trying to use to take away the fundamental freedom that we are supposed to be celebrating on July 4th. The worst man ever, your president, ladies and gentlemen, hail to the shithead, oh sorry, sorry. This is no time of day to be using vulgar language, now though that Riley is offended because no one in date, no higher would ever use that language.
We've never heard of swearing in Ohio.
Yeah, because when you were growing up, they were like a swearing jar, no, exactly, it wasn't even necessary. Because there was no swearing, and you would have got to grow, the jar would have been empty, would have been a waste of a perfectly good jar. What do you have as a story? The Trump administration is expected to formally declare it will not extend the U.S. Mexico Canada agreement, and issued a 10-year countdown toward the trade zone's expiration in 2036.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, there was NAFTA, I was there for that, I was in the government for that. Then Trump hated NAFTA, right?
Just correct me if I'm wrong.
So Trump renegotiated the agreement, didn't he?
“Yes, even though it ended up being essentially the same agreement, but it was called the Trump agreement, right?”
So the one that he's not renegotiating is the one that he negotiated? Yes, because it's terrible and we hate it. That's paradoxical. Maybe it's associated to my earlier comment about him being the worst human being who ever lived. Or certainly the worst to have ever run the United States of America.
Anyway, I'm sorry, did I interrupt you? It was rude of me, forget me. I forgive you. The decision kicks off a mandatory review process amid ongoing negotiations with the U.S. Currently, sideline in Canada to press Mexico for stricter automotive content rules and protections against Chinese goods. Although President Trump, as per usual, favors steep tariffs over renewing the pact,
U.S. and Mexican officials remain aligned on the treaty's core manufacturing flawed and are actively discussing how to resolve them.
You know, I was looking back and the first president that Trump announced or talked about when he became president again for the second time.
And a man he said he emulated at a great deal was William McKinley. And William McKinley, he liked very much because he lived in the gilded age. And one of the first things he did was he renamed the Mountain Denali in Alaska as Mount McKinley, as it had been named before, because he loved this guy McKinley. And what was this guy McKinley known for?
This guy McKinley was known for, and here it's pretty self explanatory, the McKinley tariffs.
“Because he thought that the best way for us to develop as a country was to protect our markets and put heavy tariffs on four things.”
And they were a disaster. But Trump doesn't actually read history. He just found another president that likes tariffs. And so he said, yeah, I'm going to do what he did. By the way, McKinley also was one of the people who oversaw America's sort of emergence as a neocolodialist power.
And you know, going in Spanish, American War, and going in and seizing new territory and so forth. And Trump loves all of us about him and the fact that he lived at the gilded age. Except he doesn't know that the gilded age was a time of robber barons and corruption. He doesn't know that the tariffs didn't work.
“He doesn't know that the neocolonialism was sort of grabbing on to a global trend that ended 20 years later,”
because it was seen as so inhumane.
And so it's quite interesting that Trump picked the guy who was kind of one of the first
leaders the U.S. had when it emerged as an international power. And that guy happens to be somebody who made wrong choices. And you know, is a bad example. Although also if you studied with McKinley, you would learn that he would have hated Trump. There's a theme here, but perhaps McKinley has another story that will take us in a different direction.
Definitely in a different direction. A sweeping overhaul of the federal student alone system will take effect this week, dismantling the bar war friendly Biden era saved plan, and streamlining repayment into fewer, more restrictive options. The changes entered? That sucks. Yeah. Correct. That sucks.
The change introduced, the changes introduced, strict new lifetime federal borrowing limits capped at 257,500 dollars for graduate and professional students while transitioning alone oversight to the treasury department for stricter collection compliance. As interest rates climb to multi-year highs, lower-income borrowers are bracing for sharp spikes in their monthly payments despite a temporary interest discount offered for enrolling in automatic billing.
You know, you listen to this and you think, oh, well, this is something about, you know, boring financial stuff. What it is is about making it harder for people in the United States to get ahead. It's especially making it harder for poorer people in the US to get ahead. It will increase income inequality in the United States. I mean, you know, I don't know if you've looked at a list
Of private colleges in the United States, but nowadays a good private college...
costs 70, 80, 90, a hundred thousand dollars a year. That's four years of undergrad.
“If you go to Harvard Law School, or you go to some other high-end graduate school, that can cost”
150,000 dollars a year. So at a moment where people who are going to some of the better schools in this country are incurring a debt of $600,000, $700,000 after fucking taxes,
which means parents got to earn $1.5 million per kid to put them through college.
When that's a crisis because it's going to reduce the number of well-educated Americans instead of doing what every other country in the world has done, that is a developed country, and that is to make available good options for higher education at no cost. We are making it less likely that the people in our society who want to get ahead will be able to get ahead. I refer you to my earlier comment about this worse person ever. And by the way, hidden in this
story, minute didn't mention it is where were these loans before? They were the Department of Education.
Why are they being taken out of the Department of Education? Because Trump wants to shut down
the Department of Education. Why? Because education is bad for him. Because if you are smart, if you are educated, you don't like him. Look at the polls. The higher the educated group, the less they like Trump. The less educated the group. The more likely they are to like Trump, but I got bad news for you done. Even they have caught on to what a horrible person, horrible president, horrible American, horrible human being, you are.
Well, speaking of speaking of, I have an interesting report from the Great American State Fair.
Well, yes, where did you go yesterday? Were you down there? Were you listening to the great
musical tunes of Lee Greenwood or and Cash Patel's girlfriend? Cash Patel's girlfriend exactly. No. Take your correspondence. Stay fair, correspondent. Riley Fessler says,
“and it's too hot to go to the State Fair. That's what I say. But the opening weekend was”
plagued by low attendance, dismal weather, and a lackluster set up that many visitors likened to a partisan campaign event. The fairs chaotic of bare bones, execution followed a wave of pre-event boycotts with nearly a dozen states and multiple musical acts pulling out to protest president Trump's politicization of America's 250th anniversary. While prominent corporate sponsors have filled the empty spaces and a few staunch supporters praised the effort. Most attendees expressed
disappointment over the disorganized and half-baked celebration. But they're also they have like unstaged Dr. Oz and Dean Kane, and they're like, oh my god, look at the crowds. It's fantastic, not knowing that people who are filming them turn their cameras around and what did they see? Nobody was there. They were just lying. Imagine you're standing in an empty space so the guys going, oh my god, they're huge crowds. It's such bullshit. I mean, they're not even good at
being fascists. You know, this is the gang that couldn't shoot straight. They're terrible at whatever they do. And that's because they picked the worst people to do the worst things in the worst
“possible way. That's their secret formula. So you know, in keeping with this thing Caroline Levitt said”
that Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner are going off to lead our negotiation. What's the problem with that? You might ask, well Jared Kushner's not the government doesn't know anything about nuclear negotiations. Steve Whitkoff is a real estate guy golfing buddy of the president who has failed at every major negotiating task yet. So once again, the worst people doing the worst things in the worst way. Okay, one more story. I can't take it. My fucking head is going to explode like a volcano.
One more. We have one more story and it's also related kind of to the fourth of July, but more broadly related to the disintegration of our entire country and everything stands for. The Trump administration has altered exhibits at historic sites in Philadelphia's Independence National Historic Park, removing almost all mentions of slavery from a Thomas Jefferson
Portrait description and a virtual tour kiosk at Independence Hall.
of sanitizing US history ahead of the country's 250th anniversary were implemented under an executive
“order to eliminate content that quote unquote inappropriately disparages past Americans.”
While a federal judge initially ordered the National Park Service to restore the original exhibits before July 4th and appeals court has paused the ruling, leaving the revised descriptions in place for holiday visitors. What a fucking country, everybody. This is not sanitizing history.
This is lying about history. History is history. History is what happened.
History is who these people are. One is not capable of telling the story of the people who found
“at this country without understanding their flaws. Frankly, we benefit from understanding their flaws”
both because we understand that flawed people are capable of doing great things and because we understand what they understood, which is why when they wrote the Constitution, they made it possible
to amendict. They wrote about a perfectable system. Thomas Jefferson wanted to include
statements that were anti-slavery in the Declaration of Independence and in order to get all the 13 states to agree with that they cut it out. This is part of who we are, but we lie about who we
“are for like Donald Trump and the reason Donald Trump lies about who he is is because he's a serial”
sex abuser, fraudster, multiple bankruptcy victim, multiple impeachment subject, failed President ranked at the very bottom of the list of all the presidents who ever served in the United States by hundreds of historians. Of course, you're afraid of the truth if you're him because the truth fucking hurts, man, is a bad dude? Well, look, you would not be listening to DSR Daily if you did not appreciate truth about history, what's great about this country, what's flawed about this
country, how you want to fix what's flawed about this country and if you didn't think the biggest problem we've got right now is the president and the people around him who are trying to destroy this country. So I don't have to lecture you, vent on your own. I would doubt the following. We're recording this before the Supreme Court has handed down its final decisions of the year today. We'll talk about those on later episodes of DSR this week. So, enjoy all that, everybody.
Enjoy this holiday week and we'll see it real soon. But for now, let's thank Minna and Riley for doing a great job of coming up with great stories that have made us all feel terrific. Thanks, guys. Nice job. It's our pleasure. I do what I can to keep things a light early in the morning. I'll see you later. Bye! I'm also a member of the United States and I'm the founder of Yaui, a member of the United States, who is a member of the United States and has been a specialist. My role is to be a copy-file by copy-file in order to make the other platforms I've tested with the famous friends. I've been waiting for all of you to be careful. All tools for the development of the government are important to be able to understand from the law, find the right in the dashboard.
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