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[Music] Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff. I'm joined by Riley Fessler and Minestine. It's a Friday morning.
That's a good thing. But my freezer doesn't work. So, you know, that sucks. I do know everything about freezer repair and Montgomery County, Maryland, however.
In case anybody wants more information on that. Just reach us through our Discord or social media channels. Because I am now an expert. Minna, Riley.
“Would you like to know anything about freezer repair?”
That was my first story for today.
So, yeah. Basically, cover now. Right freezer repair crisis across America. The fact that there were like 11 earthquakes in the world yesterday. And these are the end times.
You don't have that probably. No, but I have one freezer broken in Montgomery County, Maryland. Yeah, that's it. Hey, hey, look, if you like reach into your freezer and all of a sudden, your breakfast sandwiches are all soggy.
The waffles are wilting. Come on. All right. Let's talk about more serious business. By the way, I was not kidding.
There were 11 earthquakes yesterday around the world. Yeah. And I'm not just the bad boy we mentioned in Venezuela. It's pretty creepy. Because I mean, I wouldn't say end times except Satan is actually in the White House.
So, you know what I'm saying? Put two and two together, people. This is serious stuff. The United Nations positive. I don't know how to transition from end times to more end times.
I'm doing my best. Okay.
“Well, I think it's optimistic if you didn't think I'm wrong.”
Okay. Go on.
The United Nations paused ship evacuations through the state of Formus after an Iranian Revolutionary
Guard drone attacked a merchant vessel off the coast of a month. The state, the strike occurred hours after Iran threatened to block any shipping routes established without its explicit permission, including the alternative corridor back by the UN and a month. This escalation threatens to derail fragile, closed door negotiations. Between the US and Iran aimed at finalizing an interim peace deal.
By fragile, did you mean incompetent or unlikely to work? Or just like barely even existed. Barely, barely even existing. Yeah. Well, look, you know, this is what to expect.
And the Iranians, you know, even though the US is like the state of Formus will be open and the Iranians will have no control and they will make no money. The Iranians now believe they do have control and they will make money. And my guess is one wire or another, they're going to cash in. Will it be called a fee, a transit fee, an administrative fee,
or will it be some big lump, some payment? I don't know. But they, they feel that they have this one by. Well, I don't want to say what I was going to say. But, you know, a sensitive place and they're going to control it there.
That's not good for us. It's not good for the negotiations. But, thems the facts alive in the straight of Formus. So, Riley, if you're weak and planned, called for a visit to the straight of Formus, stick to Iranian shipping lanes.
That's my advice. All right. I needed some fun in the sun. So it's not as good as any place. Yeah, I've not been there.
It's pretty nice. I mean, you know, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Gulf, depending on what side of it you're on. But I put on like a little island there. It's just swimming that it went to a beach.
It was, it was pretty nice. Anyway, go on. Well, following up on that earthquake story from yesterday, we have more news and unfortunately it's not good. The death toll has risen to 589 people and thousands more are injured or missing.
Acting President Del Surad Riga is declared a state of emergency
and militarized the hardest hit state of La Guaira where collapsed
“infrastructure has left millions of residents vulnerable.”
International rescue teams in humanitarian aid from across the globe are currently deploying to the country to assist local crews in the frantic search for survivors. Yeah, it's a catastrophe at an massive massive scale that really requires the entire world to be involved.
Probably doesn't help Venezuela. That their president still is going around with the interim president moniker because the president who was in charge of the country was a terrible guy is in a jail in New York City because he was picked up by the US. Probably doesn't help much that the US, which, you know,
alleges that it controls Venezuela,
I was squeezing the country for many years and it's got or many months. And you know, there are problems associated with that. Trump has said that the US will help. Haven't seen any of that yet. We'll keep an eye out for it.
Well, the US Supreme Court, clearly. I love those guys. Love that love the love those guys go on. Some of the best guys that we have. Yeah, some of some of the, there are some good people on the Supreme Court,
but they're just not in the majority. Anyway, Juan. Well, they cleared the way for the administration to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syria. Wait a minute, doesn't, doesn't.
Amy Coney Barrett have two Haitian adopted children. Yes, she does.
“Did she vote for removing temporary protected status?”
Yes, she did. Okay, just adding a little color there. Please go on. By ruling that federal statute. Barrett's courts from reviewing such decisions.
The justices also upheld the border practice of metering, deciding that asylum seekers must physically enter the country to be considered arriving in the United States. The court shielded Monsanto from state level roundup lawsuits due to federal laboring laws, labeling laws, and struck down a Hawaii gun restriction.
A move that threatens similar laws in several other states. What a basket of joy from the Supreme Court. And we've still got something like seven more cases to come on Monday and two. This Tuesday, including birth rights citizenship, some more voting rights cases. And we can bet that at least some of those things are going to go the wrong way.
But this was really quite an array for the conservative majority. As we you've chemistically referred to the radical paid off corrupt majority on the Supreme Court. That Hawaii case said that, no, of course, you can go into a retail establishment packing heat. Unless they explicitly tell you you can't. This follows closely on the heels of them saying you can't tell people who are chronic marijuana users
that they can't have a gun license. So, you know, I mean, the prospect of stoners with guns wandering into your store sounds real unsafe to me and I'm just kidding around.
“I think stoners are probably some of the safest people on the planet”
because they're just lying around and looking for snacks.
But the reality is, this is just the court extending its desire to offer.
To make gun ownership as broad as possible. And that's in a country where there are over 450 million guns. There are more guns than people. On the immigration thing regarding asylum. There was a very pointed and eloquent descent made by Justice Sotomayor,
which set, you know, noted that the laws were established letting people in in the wake of the United States having turned away holocaust refugees. Sotomayor rendered descent from the bench. Alito said, "I didn't know you were going to do that," and said, "I wish I could respond." But of course, Supreme Court Justice is telling each other when they're going to respond by the bench,
and Alito knew, and later in the day, he issued a statement saying that it was a mistake, and that he hadn't for it been informed that she was doing it, but it was real sort of bad drill on the part of Alito. And then in the remaining case, with regard to the temporary protected status people,
What you end up with is potential for deporting hundreds of thousands of peop...
because the conditions in their own countries were not good.
“Many of these people are contributing citizens to our society deeply beloved.”
And the court said that in addition to its decision, you know, based on the legal grounds that it couldn't handle this, because they were prohibited from doing so, they said there was no racial undertone to the administration's motives. But Justice Kagan pointed out that, you know, the president had said Haitians eat dogs and cats, and that he would prefer to have people come from Norway and Denmark.
And hey, nothing racist about that. She was pretty snarking in her foot, but I would urge you to read it, because the notion that this was not racially motivated was absurd, but it doesn't matter, because these people make shit up all the time. In another case, regarding Monsanto, just as Thomas made the argument that the commerce clause of the constitution,
only covers the transit of goods from one place to another, not their manufacture or sale or anything else. In other words, he was narrowly defining it, because he wants to narrowly define what the executive branch has the ability to regulate. And he was just making shit up, but that's where we are now.
“And that's why waiting for Supreme Court decisions is taken on a whole new tone,”
because it used to be in the past. You could say, "Well, president will guide this. Past decisions will guide this. The letter of the law will guide this." But with these six characters in the majority, no proof of that.
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We have a lot of things coming that we're thrilled to share with you in the future. We appreciate your support and thank you for listening. Now, back to the show. We have a stunning new development in the setting of development is that Riley's internet sucks. And that's not a new development.
That's old news. The National Park Service claims that the liner at the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was intentionally cut. Oh, come on with a blade.
Shortly after a $16 million renovation project was substantially completed,
also after President Trump said, and some kind of presser event that you couldn't even cut it with a knife. If you tried, which was a strange thing to say in the first place, but apparently that wasn't true, or maybe the park service lying. Who knows? Maybe the park service is lying.
Hmm. Folks, I would hate to reduce your faith in the United States government. But I bet it turns out that park service was lying.
“Because remember when the problem here wasn't the liner and the pieces of blue stuff floating around?”
Remember when the problem was the algae? We're not even talking about that now. Remember when the problem was that they, you know, got rid of the filters that Obama put in because Obama put them in there. They're sort of off in a pile someplace with the JCPOA deal with Iran. Because anything Iran anything Obama did, you know, we don't want to have anything to do with.
Remember all that stuff.
That this was illegally awarded contract for almost 15 million dollars to somebody who didn't have to bid for it.
And ends up being a guy who hangs around Mara Logo and looks like a bit playing mobster on the soprano. Remember all that? Yeah, we're distracting from that because this is now our thing that some vandal came in there. And six vandals have been arrested. Six alleged vandals I should say because I'm sure they were not vandals.
One of them was arrested for picking a piece of blue stuff up out of the water.
I don't know for souvenir.
Anyway, of course, we are arresting people for picking blue stuff of bad other reflecting pool. When we're letting go the thousands of people who attacked the capital on the president's orders and beat up police officers. Hmm, kind of upside down times here in the world, man, will you take that if I don't say it's the end times, but we're in the upside down times. Does that suit your world view better? Listen, I wasn't disagreeing with you.
I was agreeing with you.
“I was just like, I don't, I mean, what else can I say?”
You said it all. I said it all. I can't trust the park services anymore, like the United Trust. Yeah, well, you can't, by the way, there was another story this week where the National Park Service was instructed by the government not to release information on people who died or were severely injured in the parks. Like, why not fuck?
First of all, these people do not seem to have the memo that they work for us, that our pack tax dollars pay for them, that they need to tell us what they are doing because they work for us.
This is not only the least transparent administration in the history and the most corrupt. It's the most opaque and committed to obstruction of justice, and you see it everywhere, including in the park service.
“So, you know, if you're going, you know, into a park, you know, get your own info.”
Because you can't rely on Smokey the Bear anymore, Mina. Smokey the Bear may be a liar. And up until now, he's where I got all my news. Yeah, well, I know that. I know that.
We've had more stories here for the people before they embark on their weekend. We have one more coming from Florida, our forward-looking story. Look at your home, your home state, the state that has defined everything about your personality. Yes. I sure hope not Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the permanent closure of the makeshift alligator alcatraz immigration detention center in the Everglades.
Stating it has fulfilled its temporary purpose after processing 21,000 deportations. The facility had already been evacuated earlier in June due to hurricane season safety risks following intense criticism from civil rights groups over seizure severe inhumane living conditions inside its heavily guarded tents. Additionally, environmental groups are pursuing ongoing legal action against the administration demanding accountability for ecological damage caused by constructing the site without proper permits or reviews.
Yeah, but why do you care? Because the only people are going in, those sites are just immigrants and people color that we don't really want in America. Do they have rights, too? Do we have to care for them, too? Do we have to follow the law with regard to them, too? Isn't that a burden on the government? Doesn't that cause the government extra when they have to take care of the people that they incarcerate? Many are not committed to saving money because that's what this is about.
If you know if you throw them into these big prisons in the middle of alligator alcatraz, who knows, maybe an alligator will get in there, you know, in this weird fucked up state that you come from. They're like a hundred thousand pythons going around Burmese pythons crawling around big ones. I know there's a whole TV show about rounding up pythons at Florida. Why do you think they put it in the middle there?
I mean, right, you would never have gone there when you lived in Florida, would you? To the Everglades, I have been there. It's very lovely.
“But if I was committed to saving money, do you think I would build alligator alcatraz, isn't it just a money pit? And that's why they're getting rid of it?”
Well, that's just because all the woke liberals cared too much about whether these people live died or suffric. That's the problem with woke liberals. Oh, well, actually there's another story today, which we didn't touch upon, but I'll touch upon it. You know what happened yesterday in New York? This is going to stick in the crawl of a lot of people. But the rent stabilization board of New York, a group we have never reported on here, voted by seven to one to approve Mayor Mombani's freeze on rents on one million rent stabilized apartments in New York City.
That means for the next two years, if you live in one of those apartments, your rents are not going to go up. That's why Mombani is a popular mayor, folks. Because he's already filled 100,000 potholes, and because he's saved money on the rent, because he has making pre-K available to more people in New York at no cost.
That's why it has nothing to do with socialism, wokeness, leftists taking ove...
It has to do with a guy in his mid-30s, early 30s, going out and listening to people and saying, well, let's try to fix this problem.
“And this is the secret sauce of this movement in the United States towards a new generation of government officials.”
The secret sauce is listening to people and trying to solve their problems. Government doing what it is paid to do, government serving the people, public service, not doing the bidding of billionaires, not being corrupt, not being racist, not being violent, not starting unnecessary wars.
That is good news. That's amazing news for a Friday, and it should send you off into your weekend full of freaking joy.
Are you full of joy, Riley? I'm filled with the brim with joy, filled with the brim with joy. You're full of joy, Mina.
“Like hearing about people just having basic human empathy?”
Yeah, but that's a nice thing. I love basic human empathy. It's where we start our search each day, looking for a good news. So there you have it, ending on an up note, and it's the weekend, and it's the summertime, and it's only June. So that means there's still joy and August to go. That's good news. And you want better news? You probably don't live in Paris where it was like 115 degrees yesterday, and nobody has air conditioning. It's actually very serious problem. That by the way is associated with global warming.
We don't have global warming in the United States, because we don't believe in it, because we don't believe in science. The president of the United States says, yeah, we don't have global warming. After all, some days in the winter, it's cold. Hey, hey, the idiots, the whole problem with life, and you don't realize this till you get to be my age. Is it you think the people in charge are going to be special people? People come up through the meritocracy. People who have some kinds of special skills, and then what is revealed to you is, they're all the same as the jerky you went to high schoolware.
They're just, it's just like the idiots who are sitting in the back of your high school class that you never thought you would have to deal with again.
They're in charge of big companies. They're in charge of the government of the United States.
“That's what we have to live with. The fact that you never escaped the idiots.”
Oh, so I was trying to end up now. I did, oh, well, at least you know how to deal with that. Right, you know, just right ignore him. Okay, well, have a great weekend, guys. And we've got a words matter coming for you later today, and a silly consciousness, because everybody in the US loves AI, don't you? Talk to you soon. Bye-bye.
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