DSR Weekly Wrap-up: Trump’s NATO Tantrum Reaches New Lows

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Thank you and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothguff. I'm joined by Riley Fessler and Minestine. Hi, Riley Fessler and Minestine.

Hello. Hey.

“It's Friday, that's why there's so enthusiastic.”

They've got so much energy. It's a big weekend here in Washington, D.E.C., it's the weekend of Nerd Prom, the White House correspondents dinner. I can say with some degree of assurance that no one from this organization despite our long affiliation with Washington and covering these issues or working in the government or being near the government or walking by the White House or sometimes even referring

to it in conversation will be attending this fiasco because Trump's going to be there and he's going to yell at the press and he was last night, he was at a party that was thrown by the Ellison's, the new owners of CBS and Paramount, Warner Brothers and Discovery and little everything. The Ellison's own all the media set this tiny little bastion of independence and there

were protests outside when Trump went to attend this and then at the dinner they're going

to be, you know, people there for ostensibly to honor the first amendment including Trump,

Brendan Carr, his FCC chairman, who's fighting the first amendment harder than any other FCC chairman, ever Pete Hagsett, the Secretary of Defense, fighting the first amendment harder than anybody, ever other members of the White House team who kicked out the press

“and salted the press, abused the press, look I think plenty of people in the press deserve”

to be insulted and abused but that does not mean that they should be silent simply because of the fact that they don't agree with the president of the United States or his lackeys. So the whole thing is going to be a sham, I felt bad because I know that you went out to get a nerd prom dress, I assume you'll just be wearing it around the house. Was going to do that anyways, I was not regardless, so had to head down to the local

arbyes have a real party, you probably run into Riley, they're Riley loves arbyes, can sit or is it really the finest option for a risky sandwich, is that correct or got us true? Yeah, super good, super good. I used to like the Roy Rogers double R bar burger, it was a burger and then it had a little bit of, I think, ham on the time, it was pretty, that was those were the days of real high quality fast food anyway, it will be exploring those options

instead of attending nerd prom and all of the parties surrounding it, but don't you worry, we're plugged in and on Monday we will have plenty of stories about nerd prom. If the whole idea of the White House correspondence dinner and Trump attending really sets you off, please let me direct you in the direction of yesterday's words matter with Norm, Orange Dean, in which in addition to making multiple pleas for scorched earth Democrats,

Norm, on least, quite the rant about this event, and he was right, every syllable of what he said was right. Anyway, why don't we dive in a little bit to the news the past week,

and I'll start us with an interesting report by Reuters, who say the leaders, they say they have an internal Pentagon email, discussing options for punishing our lovely NATO allies over their lack of support in the Iran conflict, including suspending Spain from the organization. Are the Europeans have already responded this? Do you know, they have said, yeah, right, essentially, that's not going to happen. Even the leaders in Spain,

basically hand-web this away and we're like whatever, we're not going to respond to a leaked email.

And also, there's no provision to do that. Yeah, what they're talking about, it just can't happen, and I don't know, I think Trump is the NATO summit is in six eight weeks. I don't know, it's in June, and it's in Turkey. And I think there is a pretty good chance that Trump doesn't

“go. But if he does go, I think he's gonna have a real chili reception. And that's why he won't go,”

because he doesn't like chili reception, he doesn't like being challenged. He likes people to polish his balls. Oh, did I say balls? So sorry, of course, I meant golf balls. But he likes it when

people are all nice to him. And NATO isn't, you know, going along with his bullshit, Pete Haddsett,

this morning, by the way, Riley, held a little event. And what she said, you know, NATO had a silly, little event last week, you know, where they got together and talked about how they're going to handle the situation in the world. And he said, if they really want to do something construction, constructive, they don't get into boats, meaning in the straight-of-arms. I was trying, as I was listening to him, say this, to think of who possibly would have a less credibility with NATO than

Pete Haddsett. Even Vladimir Putin has credibility, because, you know, he's actually in a war, and he's attacking NATO with freedom and democracy. And maybe there's some guy living in a cave, somewhere out of touch with society, possibly out of his mind, maybe drunk on fermented berries, who's got less credibility with NATO than Pete Haddsett. But I'm not even sure about that.

“I think old Pete is the bottom of the barrel, and that when he talks, NATO laughs, or they snicker,”

where they just ignore it, which is what we should do. So let's go to NATO. Well, I have a weird one. Spirit Airlines has been facing liquidation threats, because of high-jet fuel costs associated with the ongoing conflict with Iran. And instead of, they're also the fact that they've been a failing airline for many years. Also that. Have you ever been on Spirit Airlines? Yes, for sure I have, but I don't know that it is terrible. It's big yellow planes,

but inside they're like cattle cars. Anyway, go on. Well, instead of the government being like, all that's too bad. Sorry to hear that. Trump is considering a taxpayer funded takeover, aiming to rescue them from bankrupts and reselling for profit once a global oil price is stabilized. Right, but what does he want in the deal? He wants to, for some reason, this President thinks it's a good deal if the U.S. actually gets a piece of the action. I don't think he understands the

concept, or maybe there's always some back door where he's getting a little takes.

But part of this deal is that he wants the U.S. to then owe 90% of Spirit Airlines. Apparently, the guy just doesn't believe in markets. You know, markets have a way of dealing with companies

“that are not successful. They go out of business. That's what capitalism is about. Whatever your”

feelings may be about capitalism. Sometimes it works. And in this particular case, it would serve the world if Spirit Airlines disappeared. You know, things Trump's idea is a bad idea. The left wing crazy Wall Street Journal, which has a piece today, attacking this whole thing and referring to this with the slur that Trump is trying to recreate the Trump shuttle. You guys are not old enough to remember the Trump shuttle. But for a while, they're Trump bought one of the

airlines that handled shuddling between Washington and DC, so he could influence important people.

So that if you went into the bathroom, it looked like they had marble fixtures in the bathroom

and gold. Of course, it was plastic. Perfect Trump. You know, this classic illustration of Trump and Trumpism. And anybody who ever flew on the Trump shuttle would like to forget it, but the Wall Street Journal reminded us of it this morning with regard to this dome idea of saving Spirit Airlines. But, you know, every every government, every administration is allowed to make mistakes, Riley, and, you know, every once in a while, even Donald Trump will have

a dumb idea. It's hard to imagine. It's hard to imagine, you know, he's one of the smartest

“people who ever lived. That's what I keep hearing. And that's what you're always saying when”

the camera is off. Yeah, but the cameras are up here. Many people, many, many people are saying people. Yeah, it says it's huge. It's got a huge brain. Well, why don't you go? What we've got some progress on ceasefire talks, supposedly. In addition to Israel and Lebanon agreeing to a three week ceasefire extension, Iran's top diplomat is supposedly going to travel to Pakistan this

weekend to resume talks with the US, but there are some asterisks needed because in the wake of the

ceasefire extension, has below a shot down in Israeli drone and Israel issued a evacuation warning for Lebanese town. Wait, has below, has below, let me ask you a question. Is this has below

“you speak of involved in the peace talks between Israel and the Lebanese government?”

As a matter of fact? No. No, so the peace talks are not actually between the parties who are at war. That's, I imagine the peace talks are the Lebanese government saying can you please stop taking our territory and Israel saying no, we won't. Yeah, and, and, and, and, you know, so they extended the ceasefire between Israel and the people Israel is not fighting with. Okay, well, that seems like a great idea. I think the Iranians probably are carrying on good faith negotiations via

the Pakistanis who of course report to the Chinese and some of whom have a deal on the side with Steve Lipkov for the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, but that's a whole other story. And, you know, maybe that ceasefire, which will be just extended indefinitely until they come up with some fig leaves. So the Trump can say, see, I won and the Iranians will actually emerge in a better position than almost every respect. Admittedly, they've been bombed. There's no

question about that, but in terms of their strategic influence and in terms of the hold on

“power of hardliners, I think they will emerge in a somewhat better position. And who knows, you know,”

maybe maybe that'll be sooner rather than later. We'll Trump go back to fighting in Iran. Nobody wants it in the US. No, but I mean, two thirds of Americans went pulled against it. The Republican party doesn't want it. It would be disastrous for the economy. It's already disastrous for the world economy. They're really, really scared of the long term global impacts of this thing. And I think people want to put a red on it or just walk away from it.

If the Trump could just walk away from it and just change the subject and say, let's go golf, he would do that because, you know, I think he's fresh out of tricks. Anyway, thanks for bringing us up to date on that. He got something else going here a minute. Now, the government is on the way to the top of the world. And the government is on the way to the top of the world. And the government is on the way to the top of the world. And the government is on the way to the top of the world.

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betting on Maduro's removal just hours before the mission began.

“The mission he was on. Yes. Yes. I mean, I think it's an important fact here that he was on a mission.”

And he was betting on it. And I don't know. Have you seen either of you guys seen any interviews with the kid who invented Polymarket? Yes. He's a weird, weird guy. Yeah. He's talking as 20s, right? He's like a billionaires in his 20s. He's invented this kind of thing. And John Oliver did a great take down of him. And it yesterday, when asked about it at a press spray, as we call him here, Trump said, well, everything is gambling these days. Trump, of course, has a long history with

the gambling industry and is one of the few people who was given a casino license, which is effectively

“a licensed print money because casinos are rigged. They don't actually, you know, play games that”

work out in favor of the guests. Every once in a while, guests wins a lot. Everybody else loses a lot. Casinos make a lot of money. It's, you know, only an idiot could lose money in the casino game. But that's our Don. That's our Don. He's a big idiot. Riley, I know where the house loses. The only one. What a, what a schmuck. Anyway, schmuck in chief, Donald J. Trump. Riley, this is really getting me down. It's Friday. I need a lift. All right. Well, we've got one

important story and one story that I know you really wanted to talk about. So we'll get to the, okay, we've got to the story of substance first. Okay. The EU has finally approved a 106

billion dollar loan to Ukraine. Overcoming months of political strife between Ukraine and

Hungry in Slovakia. Hungry in Slovakia had given the Greenlight for the deal now that oil is once again flowing into the countries through the Drizbo pipeline. And this was a deal. They had struck a while ago but then Orban and his infinite wisdom backed out of the deal and I moved the pissed off pretty much

“everybody. Well, yeah, because he's a Putin puppet and he was there to screw things up, right?”

But that's good news. That's a substance story of good news. You know, 110 billion dollars,

whatever it is going to, what is, what is the amount of money? 106 billion US dollars for exactly

billion euros. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's a good story and hopefully the new Prime Minister, Bulgaria, Oblomad, committed fuck this up. They had an election in Bulgaria this past weekend. And although he's called a member of the Central Center, Liberal Coalition, he's quite pro-Russian. And you know, the Russians probably put their thumb on the scale on this process. Because they want somebody like Orban who can take advantage of the use requirement

for unanimity on certain kinds of decision to block aid for Ukraine. Will he do that? We don't know. But he's not there yet. And so they thought, let's get this thing through. So we can help Ukraine. And Kudos to the EU. Well, this is a special David request. A vineyard tycoon who is also a big game hunter was trampled to death by elephants while on a hunt in Gabon. But he wasn't hunting the elephants themselves. His group startled them and you can pretty much imagine what happened next.

If every big game hunter in the world were trampled to death by elephants, it could not happen to soon. There are a few, if you have ever been anywhere near these creatures and Riley lives very near them because he lives near the zoo. But particularly in the wild, the notion that somebody would for pleasure murder them in cold blood for no reason should discuss you to the core.

And I am always happy when I see people who are out there doing this despicable activity. And by the

horribly wrong for them. We are definitely on the side of rooting for the animals and against

the real beasts involved to treat these people with guns. Personally, as you know, I don't think guns should be legal. I don't see there is any purpose to having guns. Nobody has to hunt. They don't need them to protect themselves in many countries.

“Even in Japan, if you want a gun, you have to keep it at the police station, you want to get it,”

you have to go to the police station and explain why you want to get it. Take the gun out,

use it, bring it back to the police station. That sounds civilized. And many other countries, you don't have a middle. You just don't need it. And every single fucking day in the United States, some horrible tragedy takes place because of idiots with guns and because more importantly, the industry that makes the guns is paid off the politicians in Washington and persuaded

judges to interpret the Constitution incorrectly. The Constitution, which says that there is a

“right to bear arms for members of well-regulated militias. Does not specify for anybody else?”

And, you know, a former Supreme Court justice, a former Supreme Court chief justice, said this idea that anybody could have a gun anytime was the greatest fraud perpetrator done in the American people. It was right. So, we shouldn't have them, sorry, if you like your guns, you think, oh yeah, how could you say this stuff? Sorry, just have I feel. It's just have I feel. And I'm right, and you're wrong. And, you know, if you're watching this on YouTube and you want

to share how wrong you are in the comments, go ahead because everybody else in the comments will

“tell you how wrong you are and I won't have to. But, of all the ways to abuse guns, other than”

actually harming innocent people in society, going after animals in the wild is one of the most despicable. So, we end the week on this up now. The Europeans are doing the right thing, standing up for democracy, standing up against the Russians, helping Ukraine who are people who have shown themselves to be extraordinarily courageous and who today are actively fighting for democracy and our security far more vigorously than anybody in the government of the United States.

That's good news and points to the elephants for trampling this mother fucker today. Have great weekend everybody. We'll be back on Monday. We have one more podcast coming up a little later today focusing on whatever is going on in this Iran more with a bunch of experts. So, you can tune into that. And of course, over the weekend, you can tune into everything else that we've been doing. It's a great time to catch up and subscribe if you haven't on YouTube,

please and subscribe if you can at the DSRNetwork.com where you could just for a few bucks a month help support this independent media so that men and Riley and I and all of our experts every week can stand up to the bullshit that the Ellison family is trying to jam down your throat. Anyway, have a great weekend. Bye bye. einfach das Shop noch deiner website, bis hin zu Social Media, und über Eiderts wischen.