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Hello, and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff, I'm joined by Riley Fessler, and I'm going to Stein, or here to go,
“for what's going on in the news, or is news adjacent?”
Where are we going to start, you know? We're going to start with news, not news adjacent, but we'll get there. - Yeah, no, I know we'll get there. - Starting with the news, Vice President J.D. Vance publicly criticized
the ongoing ballot counting in the Los Angeles mayoral primary,
calling the shift in votes that locked out Republican candidate Spencer Pratt, quote, "Very shady." Vance questioned why the late arriving mail-in ballots did not mirror earlier voting trends, suggesting the system was working to intentionally ensure
a Democrat versus Democrat November runoff. As a definitive update to the race, major news outlets officially projected yesterday that progressive city council member Nithia Romain has successfully defeated Pratt for the second place slots to litifying her place
on the November ballot against incumbent mayor, Karen Bass. - I mean, come on. The first of all, you know, this is orchestrated. The talking points went out, Mike Johnson said the same thing, and somebody said, "But there's no evidence,"
and he said, "Well, there's so nefarious
that there never really is evidence."
It's like, "Well, no, that's a good line of argument." 'Cause if you say the other guys are so nefarious that there's no evidence, you could say anything about anybody. But, you know, this critique is ridiculous. It's the one they use all the time.
Obviously, there is no evidence of any kind of tampering of funny business, 'cause this is exactly the way it was projected, it would work. This is, you know, a transparent process. But there are a few other reasons why you shouldn't be
so surprised by this result.
“I think the number of registered voters in L.A.”
is like 13% or so. I mean, I'm not sure exactly what the number is. It's a very low number, okay? So, of course, in a so-called jungle primary, you're gonna have greater likelihood
that you end up with two democratic candidates. Of course, the Republican candidate was a reality show host with no political experience whatsoever. There was no way you was gonna win this thing. So, you know, that, you know,
and this whole thing where different batches of votes don't reflect earlier batches of votes. Could have something to do with the fact that different batches of votes represent different demographic groups or different voter profiles,
'cause they're using different approaches to vote. Like the voters could be older, where the voters could be from someplace else, you know, and sometimes, you know,
“the ballot counting goes on for a long time”
and you get the rural votes in. People go, yeah, either Republicans are winning and then you get the urban votes in and they go, ah, the Democrats are winning. And then they go, well, that can't be true.
Of course, it's true. That's how this works. And if the Republicans were so, you know, attentive to this race, perhaps they would have noticed
that it looks like in the gubernatorial race, you're gonna have a democratic answer Republican that Steve Hilton is actually gonna be the other candidate in the bigger statewide race. So, ah, is that one rigged?
Did Steve Hilton steal his position? Because Tom Stier should have had a stronger showing someplace. Of course not. So let's ask ourselves why they would offer
up such transparent lies. One might be, one reason might be that Donald Trump likes this lie. He likes the rigged election lie. It's the reason he stormed off the set of meat to press this weekend.
But going back to our discussion of that, there is another practical reason. And that is they want to be able to challenge the votes of upcoming elections later this year.
They want to say, oh, these are rigged.
We need to investigate these.
Let's impound the voting machines. Let's send in our people. Let's get a hold of the voter rolls. Let's do whatever we can. Let's postpone this.
Let's slow this approval process of this candidate down in the courts because they can't win at the ballot box. So they're trying to cheat. So wait, am I saying that the people who are accusing
“the other side of cheating are actually the cheaters?”
Shock it. But of course, that's what's happening. The federal judge has struck down a $100,000 H1B visa fee imposed by President Trump, ruling it and unauthorized tax rather than a lawful immigration
penalty. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys, General, who argued the massive fee increase unlawfully hindered companies from hiring a highly skilled foreign workers.
While the White House expressed conference, the ruling will be reversed on appeal, proponents praise the decision for protecting America's ability to attract global talent. At some of those proponents, by the way, are, you know,
MAGA supporters to rest of the time. The business community hated this because it made it more expensive to go and get quality talent because a lot of the best and brightest people in the world
“of which we make up 4% of the global population”
lived someplace else. And so, to have them come here and to be able to benefit from their skills and their brains is not only a good idea, it's the idea on which this entire country was founded. Of course, Trump's idea of charging $100,000
is a little more nefarious than even being an illegal tax, and that's bad or not. Trump's theory was that big corporations won't mind spending $100,000, and they will pass the cost onto you and me.
So, it actually ends up being not a tax and corporations. It ends up being a tax on all of us. Why? Because Trump doesn't like immigrants. Why?
Because Steven Miller doesn't like immigrants and Trump doesn't have any of his own thoughts in this regard.
He's just always thought this was a good angle for him.
And here he is with this angle again. I mean, after all, we've just talking that Tom Holman has said that the or was a Mark Wayne Mullin, one of those characters, has said, I think both of them, that they're going to do a big surge of ice into New York City.
And, of course, they're going to do a surge of ice into a lot of places where they're democratic voters, partially to get people who belong there, illegal residents to be afraid of going out and being stopped and being harassed, the reading stories of legal residents
being thrown into jail, which might get them to stop voting. - See story A. - Miami federal judge ordered the president's legal team to explain why they should not be penalized for missing a Friday deadline to respond
to the BBC's motion to dismiss his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses the British broadcaster of intentionally editing a speech to make it falsely appear that Trump directed supporters to violently stormed the US
capital after the 2020 election. As a reminder, this has been going on for quite some time. Although the BBC previously apologized and admitted to an error of judgment regarding the edit, it argues the case should be tossed
because Trump failed to prove the network knowingly published false information or acted with reckless disregard for the truth. - Yeah, which are the legal criteria for deprimations, like that.
“- You know, I think the time is gonna come pretty soon.”
Where if you say you worked on legal matters for Donald Trump,
you will never be hireable again.
Because this team of lawyers that he's got out there are alienating judge after judge, after judge, for not following the rules, for not following the law, for not following correct procedure,
for coming up with frivolous lawsuits, for not providing evidence to support what they're doing. You know, we are really at a moment in this country's history, where a great, big, serial disbarment of these people
is what our legal system needs and would send the right message to lawyers, which is your officer of the court. You're supposed to follow the rules of the court and the Constitution.
This is an important responsibility. It is not just driven by, you know, whatever your client pays you to do. And we can't go on like this.
Will that happen?
I don't know, I mean, you know, yesterday was also today, the Trump formally sent up the name Todd Blanch to be Attorney General of the United States, a guy who is serially obstructing justice, pursuing frivolous prosecutions,
vindictive prosecutions of Trump's enemies, hiding the truth about the Epstein files, essentially acting as he did in the past as the criminal defense attorney for Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Trump, of course,
sees this whole thing as a chance to use his power as president to erase the crimes that are on his record, from his personal crimes, Epstein crimes, tax crimes, January 6th related crimes,
crimes associated with the misuse of classified documents. And to say, "See, I didn't do anything wrong." Of course, we all know better.
“In this particular case, we saw what happened, right?”
Even though January 6th, 2021 was a long time ago, we remember, we remember what Trump said. We remember what Trump did. We remember what Trump didn't do in terms of intervening with this violence.
We remember what Trump has done with regard to pardoning insurrectionists in people that called for the death of his vice president
and so on. So is he gonna ultimately win this lawsuit?
No, he's not. Should these lawyers be looking for another line of work? Yes, they should. Thank innovative press-broude technologie, with every task of special aromatic with the crime.
And there are the cube-cubs in their Chibofiale and of Chibode E. Well, I have a fun story for our next one. Fine, okay, I'm ready.
“The USDA has confirmed three new cases of the flesh-eating,”
new world screwworm across Texas and New Mexico, you are a strange sense of fun, my friend. Highlighting the challenge of containing a resurgent parasite that threatens the US, cattle, you love just the name screwworm. You think that's fun?
It's just so comically horrible. It is pretty comically horrible. There's something charming about it. Where are you about to somewhere? We about to say that one of the reasons
we're having this outbreak is doge cuts to our ability to manage these outbreaks. I wasn't gonna say that, but I was gonna let you say that. - Okay, well, that's one of the reasons, right?
This is in one of those cases where, as in the case of Ebola and so forth, we a country that lived through a giant pandemic,
the killed a million Americans,
perhaps three, 400,000 of whom who shouldn't have died who died because of the mismanagement of the administration and power them, let me look that up. Oh yeah, the Trump administration had a bunch
of unqualified teenagers come into our government
“shut shut down because they didn't think it was important”
because they didn't know anything in an area after area after area, we are not only less efficient, less safe and so forth, but people are actually dying. Just shut down USAID, 14 million are estimated
to die between now and 2030. A million have died already, 600,000 of them are children because of doge cuts. Okay, Ebola comes out, we know about it
after everybody else, we used to know about it first,
why because we cut our teams the deal with that stuff. And the same is true with regard to this outbreak of screw worm, which is very bad news for livestock in the region, if it spreads worse news, the Trump administration's like,
oh no, we're on top of it, but of course, one of the problems with this is, this is a clear example of a place where bad Trump policies doge cuts have led directly to a major problem facing who, red states,
red state voters, rural voters, people, many of whom supported Trump, who now can't sell their products because of tariffs around the world. And by the way, Trump also doesn't want to pay those back. That's one of the other stories of the day.
Who don't have a hospital near their home because we're cutting back on support for hospitals
Subsidies for Obama care, who don't get the care,
they may have wanted from the VA. And now have to deal with screw worm, which Riley apparently finds hilarious. I said what I said. Yeah, I love that about you.
Yeah, stand by, stand by. Oh, frankly, you know, it sounds funny, but it is disgusting.
“And that's why I'm glad that you refer to it as flesh eating.”
It's the kind of virus only RFK juniors brain could let. By the way, where is RFK juniors? There was an interesting story in the New York Times, the other day that says he doesn't actually show up for work, he travels around.
Now, you know, that may not be a bad thing because he's a ex-drug addict lunatic with a worm in his brain. But the guy who's responsible for our health care system, the human health care side of all of this, seems to be absent without lead.
If you want to know how we're doing on the agricultural side, just go back a couple of days and look at the hearings that involved our agriculture secretary who could not answer the simple, most basic questions that were put before.
It matters that the people who are running the country are corrupt, incompetent, inexperienced, stupid, ex-drug addicts, extremists. And in some case, just plain assholes. And you know, that's the rogue's gallery
that we've got currently running our government. And frankly, I'm darn uncomfortable about it. That's why I podcast from way down here
in the third sub-basement of the ministry of snark.
Anybody who gets that reference has been with us a long, long time, minute. - Okay, now we're gonna do news adjacent. And also, maybe a little bit more fun than Riley's version of fun?
- Yeah, well, Riley's a fun guy. lightly, he's gonna have a screwdriver and party this weekend. (laughing) - Oh, it's like the chicken pox parties,
but for screwdriver. - Yeah, it's for screw worms. Hey, look, everybody take a screw worm. Okay, let's eat it, we'll probably be fine. And if that doesn't work, I vermect it.
Anyway, go on. - All right, well, Donald Trump
became the first sitting U.S. president to attend
and at me a final's game, hooray. - Boop, boop, boop, boop. - You're getting ahead of me. - Oh, sorry. - Watching game three between the New York mix
and the San Antonio spurs of Madison Square Garden from a secure luxury sweets alongside key cabinet members. Trump's historic hometown appearance drew a deeply divided reaction, or is it? - No, it didn't.
No, it didn't. There was no division in the reaction. Listen to the video. - I know that people who are at the game because those people boot him in a deafening roar
the crowd of 20,000 people boot him when shown on the drum, jumbo trondering the national anthem. Beyond the arena doors, the heavy presidential motorcade and intensive secret service checkpoints completely paralyzed Midtown Manhattan,
creating massive transit gridlock and forcing the cancellation of the iconic outdoor fan watch parties. - With, I mean, where do I start? First of all, Donald Trump is the most reviled person
who has ever claimed to live in or come from New York City. He is despised. He gets in Manhattan, parts of Brooklyn, he gets 10% of the vote there.
“And I think those 10% don't know what they're doing.”
This guy who came from Queens and wanted to be accepted in Manhattan
has always been despised in ridicule in New York.
Now only more so. Now you moved to Florida, you know, he ditched the city why? Because he couldn't take it. He couldn't take the fact that everybody
in that city hates him, okay. And as a New Yorker, way to go New York, when his motorcade came in, you've never seen. I mean, it was like a giant migration, the number of birds that were flipped at him
as he went by. And of course he went there and they showed him during the National Anthem and Boo's broke out across the arena. And of course, he saluted, which by the way
is contrary to protocol, because he is not a uniform military member, presidents, put their hands over their heart. And Smirk, the little bit,
“because I think he knew he was being booed”
because frankly, listen to some of the videos from inside the arena, it was deafening.
Of course, Fox News covered it by saying
that there were chance of USA throughout the crowd,
not true, not true.
“And so, you know, it was deeply divisive.”
Every time his face appeared on the screen, there were more boo's. And then what did he do? Then what did this motherfucker who came into New York and spoiled this,
you know, the outdoor parties outside Madison Square Garden and everything else do. He fell asleep. I mean, dude is not well, okay? You know, he's at a next game in an arena
full of 20,000 screaming people. And he couldn't stay away. There's a problem. And I don't want to minimize that. However, for those of us who've been next fans
for the past, you know, 50 or so years,
there was another problem. And that is the Trump curse. And the next who had won 14 straight games lost last night by four points. And it was incredibly annoying.
“And I had to turn it off before the end,”
even though it was close at the end. But I just knew that this was gonna happen because Trump wrecks everything. And he spoiled that. Now, let's, you know, I'm sure his friends over at FIFA
are just wondering what's gonna happen when he starts going to World Cup games, which start after tomorrow and bring the world's largest sporting event to the United States.
Problem with that is, by the way, speaking of news adjacent, that there's something like 180,000 seats that are, you know, not sold yet or being sold on secondary markets or being dumped
because a lot of people don't wanna pay those prices. And go to the weird places that they're playing these matches. The world will watch the world cup and Donald Trump will try to take credit for it.
Final sporting news though. 'Cause I know, Mina, you were planning, I'm gonna go down to the White House. I wanna see the UFC match on the weekend, right?
“Because you wanna celebrate the president's birthday, right?”
And you love you. - We're gonna lose correspondence. - What else would I be doing? - We're not gonna lose. - Our sports news correspond in.
Where else would I be? - Right, and I know you love UFC. Do you know what UFC is? - It doesn't. You know what it is.
- It's fighting. Is it like anything goes, like mix martial arts? Like you do anything from kind of fighting? - Yeah, good, good.
Anyway, so Mina was always excited.
- And now I got a job as sports news correspondent. - Well, exactly, exactly. And based on the reaction, I know we'll get from all over our loyal subscribers. I'm sure they're glad somebody like you
doesn't care, it's actually our sports correspondent. But the bigness is this. And this is something else you can write, you know, write in your calendars so that you can light a candle or do whatever it is you do.
But it looks like the forecast is for heavy thunderstorms, the night of this thing. So it could be that Trump's birthday party on the south lawn under the 60 million dollar direction, Trump's big erection,
only big erection, possibly in the backyard of the White House, may not be usable or somebody may be struck by lightning. I've been waiting a long time for somebody to be struck by light things since he is blaspheming
on a daily basis, who knows? Maybe that's the UFC thing, maybe on his 80th birthday. You know, UFC arena surrounded by metal during a light thing storm. Our president will ascend to have it.
Well, a boy can hope. Anyway, not that I wish him any ill. I wish him to be in heaven. That's all of his beloved family. Like the wife, he buried in a golf course.
Oh, never mind. We'll follow all of this news adjacent stuff, but we won't spend as much time on it as I just did, because I know people are gonna complain because he don't like when we are frivolous.
We can't help ourselves sometimes. Anyway, thank you, Riley. Thank you, men. I thank everybody. We'll be around all week.
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