DSR Daily March 12: Oil Prices Soar as Iran Conflict Grinds On

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That's code in DSR26 at the DSR network.com/buy. Thank you, and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothko. I'm joined by Riley Fessard Minustine. We're going to give you a rundown for this Thursday. Riley, what do you want to start with?

I want to start with some interesting U.S. intelligence reports, because they supposedly suggest that Iran's clerical regime at security forces remain stable and in control, despite two weeks of heavy U.S. and Israeli military strikes.

Wait, and after two weeks of spending $2 billion a day, we haven't produced any change.

I don't know that we're getting our money's worth out of these strikes. I have to say, you'd think it's possible.

“First of all, you know it's cost and more than $2 billion a day, right?”

You know that's a lot. Yeah, and on top of all of that, we're expanding all of our weapons. And on top of all of that, the price of oil is now about $100 a barrel, which means cost to people. Although Trump did send out a tweet this morning, or a true social post that said, "Where the world's largest exporter of oil?" So if the price goes up, we make more money.

It's like, what the fuck? Well, somebody's someday expired this guy economics, although yesterday, he said, he went to the hardest school to get into into the world, the Wharton School of Finance, which means he's very smart. And that his uncle was the longest serving professor at MIT, which means he has good blood.

However, none of those things are true, and being proves that every single day, one of his professors at Wharton, which by the way was not the Wharton School of Finance, said he was the stupidest student he'd ever had, but his daily lack of understanding of economics proves it. Have I digressed away from your story, Riley?

“Or have I been-- have I enhanced it with just a little riff?”

Supposedly, internal cohesion has persisted following the death of supreme leader, commanding it with his son, Mojtaba, named as successor to maintain the government continuity. These findings complicate President Trump's efforts to end the military operation as the entrenchment of hard-bying leaders hinders the identification of an acceptable exit strategy. Furthermore, intelligence assessments about the military capability of Kurdish militias to successfully

challenge the regime, prompting the administration to rule out their involvement in the conflict. After they started invading the country, one of the things that America does best in the Middle East that is undercovered story unless you follow this is we screw the Kurds.

They're always there. They're always loyal. They're always, you know, they're like our best friends

in the region. They're better friends than these rallies. And every single time we lose see the football. Every single time, you know, they step up and then we say, "No, screw you." It's astonishing. But there's no-- the only exit strategy is that he declares victory and goes home, because the nukes will still be there. The enriched uranium will still be there. The institutions of the rightly government, the theocratic government, there will still be entrenched.

They may be more entrenched. They may be more motivated. The situation in the state of Hormuz

The region is much less stable today. How do I know it? Because we did an episode of

deep state radio yesterday in which we talked to three experts and the punchline of all the experts from a range of points of view was the situation in the Middle East with Iran, with energy, with U.S. standing is likely to be worse as a consequence of this rather than

“better. That sounds bad. That sounds like a bad choice. But that's what comes when you have an”

incompetent, impulsive administration that produces incoherent actions. I don't use the word policies because there is no sign of any policy, anywhere in this. The only thing they're consistent

about is that the president likes to see them in a nice $140 pair of floor shining shoes

that do not fit. Ill-fitting floor shine shoes. Riley, do you want to pair floor shine shoes? I sure don't. Well, that is why you are a loser. You are a woe-closer. You are a woe-closer. Because I know men I've seen. She wears what? With menna. Menna wears floor shine shoes every day. Every day. You know it. Every single day. What do you have any stories today?

“Menna. Do. Mike Johnson and House Republicans are considering a second major spending and policy”

package using the budget reconciliation process. You know, they probably got Mike Johnson's floor shine shoes from the children's department. They'd have to. Because I don't know that he wears ground outside the floor. Anyway, sorry, go on. The effort faces major hurdles because the GOP holds a razor-thin majority and would need nearly unanimous Republican support. While some make some lawmakers, such as Thomas Massey, foreshadowing for my next story, so stay tuned for that,

are already skeptical of another large bill. Republicans say the package could focus on economic messaging, defense spending, energy deregulation, and cuts to government waste. But some leaders

“doubt a second partisan reconciliation bill can pass before the 2026 midterms. Yeah, that seems unlikely.”

Given that a bunch of the things in the bill will be intolerable to several, at least, Republicans, and they don't have enough votes to go and get that done. Thomas Massey being Kate and Kasean Point, where was Donald Trump yesterday in Kentucky? Why was he in Kentucky? Because he hates Thomas Massey. Yeah, to campaign for his opponents. Right, to pee on Thomas Massey. All right, Riley. Riley's on mine. I can hear him clicking floor shime shoes. Size 13. No. No.

Maybe. At least, conflict has triggered the largest oil supply disruption in history, reducing flow through the straight of hormones to a trickle due to Iranian tanker attacks. And on that matter, you are trying to decide whether it's the straight or straights of hormones. You warned you warned me before we got on. But it's one straight. It's just, it is the straight of hormones. Don't be misled by the name of the band dire straight. Go on. And actually on that note,

there was a story that broke right when we started that's the new supreme leader has said he will keep the straight closed, so this will not be alleviated by him. Despite a record coordinated

a release of 400 million barrels from the IEAS strategic reserves, Brent crude prices have

surged past $100 per barrel. Regional production has plummeted by 10 million barrels daily as export terminals close and storage facilities reach maximum capacity. These disruptions have forced nations worldwide to implement emergency price caps and drastic demand control measures to mitigate soaring energy costs. You know, I heard everything that you said there and it's very serious stuff, but it also made me think of the post that I saw on Blue Sky yesterday that Brent

crude sounds the name, sounds like the name of a gay porn star. I'm not doing this comment on that. Yeah, I'm not just on the pulse of the news. Well, that's, that's, yeah, I mean, look, you know, I mean, I could focus on that. I could focus on the fact that energy experts say this could be the most consequential disruption of global energy supplies ever. Okay. Now for some of us, like

in the late 1970s and I don't include either of you two in that group. However, sadly, it

do include myself. When there were disruptions back then, you had to wait and a gas line in your car and you could only, like, if your car had a odd number of license plate, you could only go every other day to get gas and if an even number of license plate, you could only go every other day to get gas. Anybody who remembers, you know, the, the, the, the lake though of October 7th

“or other recent disruptions does remember $5 a gallon gasoline. For sure, we're going their”

folks, you know, two, three weeks after Trump was going around going, it's under $2, it's a dollar 99, which wasn't true, but he was saying it. Because he thought it was so important, he took an action for which there was no reason, no clear goals, no plan, no achievable outcome that was beneficial to the United States, and it is going to blow up the cost of gasoline of energy products, of food because he used petroleum products to make fertilizer,

likely cause a global recession. So, you know, it's, it's not just that we want to achieve any more goals, it's that is really going to fuck up the global economy to, to fairly well.

“But there is a silver lining, do you know what the silver lining is, guys?”

What's that? No, Dave, no, Dave, what is still a lining? Yeah, yeah, right, exactly. You'll probably win the Academy Award Bending Pool that we should start as a way to pay for gas. No, the silver lining is that despite everything that Donald Trump

has done, on behalf of the fossil fuel companies that paid him a billion dollars so that he'd

get rid of all the green energy subsidies in the United States, it may just be that by, you know, a couple of weeks from now, Donald Trump would have done more to promote renewable energy, green energy, and electric vehicles than any president in our recent history because his policies are so fucking bad that people are going to say, well, I'd better buy electric car or I'd better have solar panels on my roof. And, you know, it's totally inadvertent, but it is a little bit

I like to think, like the gods are tying with it. It's like we have our plan and you may want to have your plan mortal, but no matter what you try to do, we're doing our plan. And, you know, that's the silver lining. Although that may be of no comfort to you when you're waiting in line, although you're, you guys are zoomers. You're like, I'm not buying a car. I'll just do burn. Yeah. I haven't had a car since the pandemic.

Un-American, it's un-American. Every American should not just own one car. They should own multiple gas cusslers. Right, Mena? You know, I do. Yeah. Sorry, Mena. Driving down Pennsylvania. I'm willing to bet that at some point in your life, Mena, you have toide with the idea of scooter travel. Anything to do? Anything to not be in a car. I have considered. You have, have you scootered? Do you rent scooters? No. No, because I know Riley does,

“because he is that kind of nerd. No, I've actually never, never written one. Really?”

Absolutely. I'm not, I'm not a rent rental rentable scooter. I've never tried one. Our fuse.

Like your, your predecessor, like back in the day when we just had one producer here grant, he was always late to like meetings because he, the scooter, he was renting. We're breaking down on Connecticut Avenue. So, you know, see this item? Yeah, no. I'm always late to meetings for a different reason. Yeah, it's, because the bus you're taking does it show a lot of bus,

attended university in Europe is showing up there because we love mass transit in Europe.

“I'm sure you would take the light rail if we had light rail in the United States. Oh,”

if only. If only. Yeah. Well, but Republicans feel light rail is bad. Yes, too. I don't know why that is. It's too liberal. Well, yeah, it's woke trains. All right. Affordable is woke, actually. Well, we'll train that. Yeah, well, woke transit systems. Exactly. All right. Yeah. I'm sorry. All right. What else? Come on. People aren't here free. In fact, every time we do this and we joke around, some cranky old bitch someplace in the United States sends us a note. And by the way,

I use that and I completely gendered neutral way. I just saw menace cringe that I said that. But

it's like, oh, my God. Did he really say something? I'm talking to our listeners. Hey, look,

any listeners, like, oh, no, you guys can't have fun doing this every fucking day. I'm like, come on. We've been doing this every day. Give us a break. If you don't have a few minutes in your morning for a little lighthearted banter, which may have some nutritional content, if you see how carefully planned and scripted it was. Because everything we say here is on a teleprompter in front of us, right, Bina. Correct. Yes, it is on the teleprompter in front of, all right, go on. All right.

As alluded to earlier, Thomas Massey is facing a major Republican primary test as Donald Trump campaigns in Kentucky against him and back's Challenger Ed Galleron. There are few centers on Massey's opposition to several Trump backed policies, including a major tax and spending bill and US military action involving Iran, which Massey argues conflicts with Trump's original campaign promises. The race has become a broader test of whether GOP voters in the district

prayer prioritize loyalty to Trump himself or to the broader Trumpism agenda Massey claims to represent. The rest of the state is also the school of the school of the state, and then the

“state is often the state. No, not. The state is so my safe space. Do you mean that all of you?”

Yes, exactly. The state is so the state is so the state is the state that is simply You can understand, the GALOB Studio, Job or Unzoom. -Castin? -Cras? I don't feel like I'm doing it. -Stay on the lead? -Safe.

With this steuer. And there's a lot of flexibles. Now let's move on to the stepstone.de/alljobs.

Stepstone is the most important talent for all the jobs.

Trump is a trader, a trader. Why is he a trader? Because a trader thinks that the American people have a right to know. About why there was a cover-up and what the facts were, behind the biggest sex trafficking ring,

maybe in American history, that involved a lot of powerful Americans who may have been involved in the cover-up, including the president of the United States. What did we learn yesterday? We learned yesterday from Jeffrey Epstein's accountant,

that Epstein and Trump paid off via legal settlement, the woman, who was a 13-year-old girl at the time, who made the accusations the Trump raped her.

“Why would they pay her off if the accusations were not true?”

Why would they not defend themselves in court against untrue accusations? We have to ask that question, but I think we all know the answer to that question. The Social Security Administration's Inspector General and Congressional Democrats have launched investigations into allegations that a former department of government efficiency affectionately known as Doge Stafford misused a sensitive personnel data.

A whistleblower claims the former misused hand. You mean he's still in, right? Still, everybody's social security.

A whistleblower claims the former employee retained a quote,

“"God-level access to SSA systems and kept copies of the new-medent database”

containing records for nearly every living American on a personal thumb drive." All the SSA spokesperson has strongly disputed these claims as unverified, lawmakers expressed concern that the breach could represent a structural failure of the U.S. identity system. Do you think he would have done this if anybody had been willing to go to the problem with him? Probably not. I mean, you know, if he was not a complete social outcast

loser in high school, because who else says I have God-level access, right? I mean, who else says, "Oh, yeah, I'm God-level in my access to all this government data." I don't know. Doge, you know, we don't talk enough about Doge.

A year ago, we were all going Elon Musk and Doge are the most powerful people in government

and they are transforming the way our government works. And now, if you say Doge's to anybody, they're like those fuckers, destroy the government, fired good people, wasted money. And in fact, the costs of Doge were higher than the savings generated by Doge, it was a complete start-to-finish fiasco. Meanwhile, where is Elon? You don't happen to Elon this week? Because he's planning his big IPO of all of his kind of fraudulent companies, and I say that in quotes Elon,

don't sue me. I'm sure there are parts of those companies that aren't affected by fraud.

Elon passed $850 billion in net worth. Just takes away from hitting the being the world's first

trillionaire. He's a racist. He's failed at government work. He's lied often to people about his various companies. He didn't invent any of these companies. He's riding off of other people's achievements. He doesn't actually understand the science of any of the things that he does. But because he is a shameless promoter willing to say anything to investors to get ahead, and because he's got a little bit of that investor ferry dust on him because they've said,

well, we'll put some money on Elon because he can make us so many. He's going to be the world's first

trillionaire. One of the world's worst people, the world's first trillionaire. I'm going back to bed.

“At the weather sucks here, the world's a mess. I just, well, no, I'm not, you know why?”

Because we've got a little consciousness from later today, which, parathetically, is coming from Elon's home country, but has nothing to do with him. And we've got words matter with normal ones. See, one of your very most favorite DSR shows YouTube hits. So join us for all those things. Join us here tomorrow. We'll work on lifting our spirit so we can lift your spirits tomorrow because it'll be Friday. Although, isn't it Friday the 13th again

tomorrow? Was it just like Friday the 13th a month ago? What's going on here? Where are there all these Friday that it feels fitting? Yeah, it does, but it's kind of creepy. Well, anyway, and then tomorrow we are coming dressed in our red carpet finest, our Academy Awards finest, and we will hear, you know, Mina has a movie podcast she does. She will give us her predictions for the Academy Awards. So you can win your Academy Award to bedding cool. Of course, like

everybody else, her predictions will all be sinners one battle after another, one battle after another, sinners battle after another, sinners battle after another, Jesse Buckley, sinners battle after another,

“and golden from K-pop demon hunters. Do you think that I summarized the format?”

That's true. It's me Brazil. Interesting. Interesting. Well, we'll have to discuss that tomorrow. So come back. Who'd want to miss that? Okay folks. See you soon. Bye-bye.