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I'm David Rothkuff. I'm joined by Riley Fessler and Minas Stein and we're all excited because President of the United States is a big plane and he's flying back home. So we're not alone. Daddy's going to be with us.
Everything's going to be fine. Right, guys? That's right. Yeah. We've been in it.
Not me. Yeah.
I've been a conberial container.
Well, let's talk a little bit about what's going on and then let's talk a little bit about what we'll be going on. Then let's let everybody go off and have a good weekend. Well, while Trump is on that plane coming back, we'll recap. Trump and Xi Jinping concluded their Beijing summit with a verbal agreement for China
to withhold military equipment from Iran and assist in reopening the block-cated street-of-war moves. While the leaders announced new Chinese commitments to purchase American soybeans and Boeing jets, the meeting was underscored by a stern warning from Xi regarding potential conflict over Taiwan.
The summit ended on a ceremonial note with Trump inviting Xi to the White House in September, the long-term trade, parity, and regional security issues remain complex and unresolved. Yeah. I mean, you just said a bunch of things were agreed to. Trump said they were agreed to.
I don't know that the Chinese said all those things were agreed to, and we'll see because sometimes, so the Chinese say they agreed to things they don't actually agree to them. Or they intend to do them in the future and not right now.
“Anyway, I think the trip was a big nothing burger.”
Trump wanted it to distract from Iran. It didn't. Trump wanted it to raise his stature. It did the opposite. He brings along all the business people.
He thinks they make him look strong. All of them want something from Xi Jinping to the Chinese controlled every element of the meeting. Trump didn't seem really like he got what was going on. He was kind of half asleep.
He couldn't walk very well. He's six-three. Xi Jinping is five foot eleven yet they seem to be the same size. What's that about? Anyway, it was not like what Trump wanted it to be.
You could tell on the flight back that he, you know it, because he was in really bad mood. He was making up stuff and I mean, he did talk about how China had good ballrooms and
“that's why we need a good ballroom because of the global ballroom gap.”
But the low point of the trip was when he turned to a reporter, our friend, David Sanger, blew up at him saying that he was unfairly denying Trump credit for his military victory in Iran and that therefore David Sanger was a traitor. There are own David Sanger, a traitor, it's for his sad. I had no idea.
I apologize to all of you, DSR listeners for having a real traitor on the air. Anyway, of course, David Sanger didn't do anything wrong and he could barely contain himself in on the videos. He looked like he was about to start laughing at Trump, which would not have produced a good outcome because Trump was losing it.
So anyway, so much for that trip changing the narrative, we're right back to the narrative. Well, we have another big shake up at DHS and the immigration enforcement effort keeping his.
We do.
What's happened?
“Michael Banks has announced his immediate resignation as the head of the U.S.”
Reporter Patrol stating he has successfully quote, "got the ship a back-on course following
a period of intense immigration enforcement." And he is just the latest and in the DHS sphere to quit, resign or be fired to Ben. Yeah, what a shame. Truly. Yeah.
This is, you know, army of thugs, you know, it shouldn't need to be said that America is a nation of immigrants, that immigrants make America strong, that most of the immigrants
they've rounded up of committed no crimes, pay their taxes, work hard, make America better
place and that all the stuff that Trump is doing, not only cost a ton of money, but actually cost us tax revenues, cost us growth, makes it harder for businesses to succeed.
“It's not just inhumane, does that mean they're changing their plans?”
No, they announced this week they're going to continue, they want to build sort of concentration camp like facilities for these immigrants in giant warehouses. I was sucking to somebody who's just visiting one of those warehouses earlier this week and they said, "There's no light. There's no special facilities for kids."
These are just prisons and the conditions are terrible and people are dying in these prisons. It's just repugnant and as a little footnote, if you notice on the China trip, three four seats down from Trump and every meeting was the architect of all of this, Stephen Miller, who, because Trump loves the cruelty is getting more and more responsibility for more and more things that are taking place domestically and overseas in this administration.
It's despicable. Well, I've got another one of those stories that shouldn't be good news, but like in these end times, it feels like good news and that's that the Supreme Court yesterday ruled to preserve nationwide access to the abortion pill via telehealth, which is good news because there's nearly 25% of U.S. patients who utilize telehealth for abortions, obviously
just as Thomas and Alito dissented, but otherwise use of the abortion pill in not in
“person checkups is now preserved, so that's a way and I think well don't be so sure,”
man, because I think you got to go back and read those stories again. It is preserved for the moment and you know, think that's a good thing, even just for the moment. I mean, I know. No, that's not what I'm saying and everything, but like no, of course, it's a good thing,
but at my point is it's temporary and there is every reason to expect that they're going to make another run at this, just like by the way, there is every reason to expect that these right wingers will make their next target, birth control pills, they've talked about it and it's coming. So we are in kind of culture war on these issues that is not over and so yes, I celebrate
that they write decision was reached for the moment, but I worry about the future. Well, we've covered this story a bit on select consciousness, but it's nearing its end, at least in this phase, so figured we should talk about it here, because during closing arguments in an Oakland Federal Court, lawyers for Elon Musk and open AI, spared over allegations that the AI company breached its founding and non-profit mission to enrich insiders and its
primary partner, Microsoft, Musk's legal team directly attacked Sam Altman's credibility
while seeking a whopping $150 billion in damages and the removal of top leadership, including
Sam Altman, claiming the organization prioritized commercial gain over public safety. Open AI in response claimed that Musk has lost suit, it's a retaliatory move, fueled by a quote, "selective amnesia," which is a phrase I like and will be using. Well, look, this is one of those battles in which you don't know which side to root
Against more vigorously, there's certainly nobody to root for.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are both despicable, behaving despicable, and this kind of
conflict really just illustrates the degree to which the leadership of these organizations is dysfunctional, odious, corrupt, and certainly it does not vote well for the United States or for the world, that so many of the people who are playing such an influential role in the future of technologies that will change the planet one way or another are jerks, our assholes, asshole quotient, very high among the Braula Garkey that leads the AI world.
And I just hope that trials like this make that clear and remind boards that they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect shareholder value by actually hiring people who are not assholes.
“In fact, I think the SEC should put that somewhere in the code that governs how companies”
should be led, although come to think of it, a lot of great success stories in business
have also been the success stories and assholes and asholery is a foundation of business success. So that'll never happen. I don't know what it is, maybe it's the end of the week and I'm just going to coogue here with optimism that the things may work out.
Alright, give me one more story. Let's see if this clears my head. Go on. Meera, what do you got?
Loving the optimism first of all.
Thank you. But second of all, our last story for today, the US Department of Justice is reportedly preparing to indict 94-year-old former Cuban leader, Raul Castro for his role in the 1996 shoot down of two civilian brothers to the rescue aircraft. The move follows a great sound.
Okay, see where this, we can see where this is going. Keep going. Yeah, to add a little bit of the context, the move follows a breakdown in diplomatic negotiations. And comes as the Trump administration maintains a strict fuel blockade and has crippled the island's energy infrastructure.
Yeah, Cuba's out of fuel. They ran out. So much of Cuba is in blackouts for 20 hours a day. Why are they in out of fuel? Because the US is blockading Cuba.
Wait, isn't a blockade in active war? Are you saying we're actually committing an active war with another country while we were
“doing it with Venezuela while we're doing it with Iran?”
Our peacemaker president is conducting more acts of war, yes. But that's not the subtext of this story. It's that it's going to get worse. Because yesterday, the CIA director John Ratcliffe went to Cuba to meet with the Cubans. What do you think he was saying?
What he was saying was, you've got a dance to our tune. Or we're going to come down and you like we came down on Venezuela. How did we come down on Venezuela? There were indictments of Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, that justified at least in the minds of the Trump administration, sending troops into extract the leader, Maduro, and
his wife, fly them to a prison in the US. Hence, indicting Castro and finding grounds to go in and grab these people is clearly the predicate to some kind of Venezuela like military action against the leadership in Cuba. That Trump thinks might have a similar outcome, except it's unclear what happens next.
“Does the United States really want to then own the rebuilding of Cuba?”
Cuba doesn't have the kinds of natural resources that Venezuela has to lovely island to nation, but it's going to take billions and billions to rebuild it. Does Trump want to do that? What's going on here? Clearly, this is something being driven by a Florida community, Miami, Cubans, Cubans in Florida,
who have wanted a US government to go in and shake things up in Cuba since, I don't know, the Bay of Pigs. One of the representatives of that community is, of course, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
I don't know, this just says to me, Trump's really eager to turn the page fro...
He still thinks what he did in Venezuela was a success.
It wasn't anything at all, really.
“He hasn't thought through the consequences of this.”
Do should we expect the worse? Yeah, I think we should. We should expect military action against Cuba. Is that the note we're ending the week on?
That should be what we call the podcast, always expect the worst.
I was expecting that, right, exactly. Well, that's where we are.
“It's so weekend, sunny, our president is back home.”
We can all breathe as sigh of relief, and I hope you find a way to distract yourself from all of this.
We will, of course, be back, use the weekend to catch up on everything we do here.
Words matter, deep state, radio, teleconsciousness, the really, really excellent need to know we did yesterday with Rush Doshy from the Council on Foreign Relations that takes a deeper dive into the future of the US China relationship.
“There's a lot going on, if you have missed it, this is a time to go and watch it on YouTube”
and while you're there, subscribe or listen to it by wherever you get your podcasts in any event. Thank you very much. Thank you, Riley. Thank you, Minna.
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