DSR Daily Live August 21: Special Guest Wajahat Ali

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In this episode of DSR Daily Live, host Wajahat Ali joins the panel to discuss recent political developments, including the controversial behavior

Key takeaways

• Natalie Harp's behavior is described as obsessive and potentially dangerous, with parallels drawn to pop culture tropes like 'Fatal Attraction' and 'Bunny Boiler'.
• The timing of Caroline Leavitt's departure from the White House coincides with revelations about Natalie Harp, suggesting a strategic narrative shift.

Main topics

• Natalie Harp's alleged obsession with Donald Trump
• Decline of legacy media in the age of information overload

Notable quotes

This is boiled bunny territory. This is old school Glenn Close and fatal attraction.

He's losing MAGA. That's not just the independents. That's just not liberals. That's just not people who didn't vote.

Conclusion

The episode underscores the urgent need for independent journalism and truth-telling in an era of

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:10) Welcome to our one live show week where we go over some of the news of that's batting around right now and Then talk about some other things and we do it with a guest. So our guest today is our friend watch Ali of the left hook raconteur Stirrer of shit shit stirrer. Do you stirrer Speaker 2 (0:35) of shit? Yes Speaker 4 (0:36) shit and a man who's got some perspectives you want to hear, and, of course, Riley Fessler, who will tee up some of the news stories and will go from now to about, I don't know, 245 or something like that. But here's the thing. Since you guys can all join into the live chat, if you've got questions, comments, those kind of things, we'll keep an eye on that and try to be responsive to them as... They go, it's like people say, Wodge, I love Wodge. What is that, Wodge? Do you have people paid to join this thing? I Speaker 2 (1:13) do. That is the paid Wodge cohort. I Venmo them. Some of the seniors, I send them checks, and they're like, Wodge. And then- Well, it says here, Speaker 4 (1:24) it says, today is my day off, so I'm stalking Wodge like his own Natalie Harp. Wow. Speaker 3 (1:31) Wow. Speaker 2 (1:32) That Speaker 3 (1:32) was Speaker 2 (1:32) actually my account. Speaker 4 (1:34) That was Riley. Speaker 2 (1:35) I don't know if I should take that as a compliment or blink twice. I don't think any of us want a Natalie Harp in our lives, except Donald Trump. Speaker 4 (1:45) I'm worried about Natalie Harp to pick up on the news. I don't know if you've read the letters that she's been sending. The Daily Beast had a couple of them. And I have to say, quite apart from, yeah, it's not a good idea to have somebody around the president connecting him to foreign leaders who has no security clearance. The other thing is she seems freaking crazy. And I'm worried, you know, that she's got a lot of pressure on her right now. This could end bad. I'm not kidding. I think this could end badly. Speaker 2 (2:16) This is boiled bunny territory. This is old school Glenn Close and fatal attraction. That's I was Speaker 4 (2:22) on Jen Welch's show yesterday. And Jen Welch refers to Natalie Harp as the bunny boiler. Speaker 2 (2:27) Yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's a deep cut for us who grew up in the 80s and recognize that old pop cultural trope. She seems like a bunny boiler. She seems like obsession, but without the wish. Like, you didn't even need to make the wish. And she's like, no, no, I'll obsess over you. The letters, the fact that she's called the human printer, the fact that she's called the human blinky, the fact that she tried to jump into, allegedly, the trunk of a car because the car. car was moving away. You Speaker 4 (2:58) haven't done that? Speaker 2 (3:00) Not yet. Not yet. The fact that she stayed overnight in the locker room just to be close to him. The fact that she was flagged as a potential security threat for her obsessive bunny boiler ways by a secret service. And like you mentioned at the start, I'm so glad she doesn't have security clearance. And my take on this is Interesting that we're finding out about all of this. It coincides with another blonde leaving. There was a Sophie's Choice moment for Donald Trump, and there could be only one blonde, to quote another 80s movie, Highlander. And the blonde that was chosen was Natalie Harp, but the blonde that was let go, David, was Caroline Leavitt. And isn't it interesting, David, that with the exit of Caroline Leavitt, we're learning so much about Natalie Harp? It's so fascinating to me. You Speaker 4 (3:53) think that that's just a coincidence? Just a coincidence. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, five, six people left the White House this week. You know, I mean, the past two weeks, right? You had the White House counsel, you had Caroline Leavitt, you had the public liaison, Percy and a couple of other people. And I don't think it's quite a coincidence that they are leaving as this story is breaking. Speaker 2 (4:16) Correct. Correct. I think. Speaker 2 (4:20) Yep, there's some sour grapes. You're seeing, I mean, look, it's a cult. The cult still belongs to Donald Trump, but not to jump on any other news items. I don't know what Riley has stored up with the DJ with the five stories, but. You see, they see the same polls. He's at 33 % approval rating. They see the fact that 10 backed Trump candidates lost, the highest number ever. They see the fact that he's older and more cankled. They see the fact that people are ready to pick Speaker 4 (4:51) up. Speaker 2 (4:51) He's also Speaker 4 (4:51) got that weird thing in his pants. No, no, in the back of his pants. In the Speaker 2 (4:56) back. I don't know where you can take that. You can do any number of directions. I mean, like Speaker 4 (5:01) that contraption or box. The diaper. Speaker 2 (5:04) Well, it could Speaker 4 (5:05) be a diaper. It could be... Speaker 2 (5:07) Did you see his gnarled... They did a close-up of his palm that came out yesterday. It's like decaying. It's like we're witnessing Weekend at Bernie's. You spend Speaker 4 (5:17) a lot of time studying him very closely. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this guy is decaying. I think you loved him. Speaker 2 (5:22) I'm not enough to be his human blanket and printer. But I will confess that sadly this man has lived in my mind. far too long because he is, after all, the freaking president of the United States of America, David. Speaker 4 (5:38) Yeah, there's people here saying, do the voice. You do the voice a lot. Speaker 2 (5:42) Natalie's the best, David. If you could only be as loyal as Natalie, if you print out some flattering printouts, then I'd also have you as my human blanket. You might be a little bit more coarse than Natalie. She has soft skin, blonde, 33. You know you get into that too easily, Watch. I'm a Speaker 4 (6:00) little freaked out. I'm a little freaked out by how much time you're spending in that particular fantasy. All right, Riley. I like that Watch has designated you the news DJ. So give us a story or Speaker 3 (6:14) two. Speaker 4 (6:14) Pew, Speaker 3 (6:15) pew, pew. Well, you guys covered all the salacious stories. Mine are just lame now. Believe Speaker 4 (6:20) me. Watch, ladies and gentlemen, watch. Whatever he says. Watch, we'll make a solution. I'll make that. Speaker 2 (6:27) I accept the challenge. Yeah, okay, go on. Speaker 3 (6:30) Well, our decaying president is campaigning in South Carolina to support Republican Senator Darlene Graham. Who doesn't know Speaker 4 (6:39) anything. She doesn't know anything about national security. Speaker 3 (6:41) Who faced national security questions during a recent debate ahead of her primary runoff against Representative Ralph Orman. Meanwhile, Vice President Vance traveled to Ohio, a great state. to address economic policy and assure voters about plans to manage national debt. They are out. Speaker 3 (6:59) The campaign they're Speaker 4 (7:01) out on the campaign trail I watch it's not looking good for them. No, but cook report is moving things over People are now saying the Democrats to take the Senate. It looks like the Democrats I mean again, you know, we've all been screwed in the past I don't know a couple of years past ten years past twenty years by polls But it looks like Democrats are at least it's conceivable. They can pick up 35 or 40 seats in the house and Every time a seat has switched in this calendar year, it has been from Republican to Democrat. Zero seats have switched the other way. So, you know, it's a Friday afternoon. It's a little bit sunny here for now. Are you a little optimistic, Baj? Speaker 2 (7:45) I am in the sense, if you're asking about the midterms. despite the attempt, and they'll be more shameless and naked, to rig and juice up the elections because he's already done a press conference announcing his plan, which was a 17-page plan that they came up with in February. Voila, it's happening in real time. But there's so much discontent. And these poll numbers, David, him at 33%, that means he's losing MAGA. That's not just the independents. That's just not liberals. That's just not people who didn't vote. He's losing MAGA. He is underneath with white male non-college voters, Latinos, young voters, the economies and shit. He gives the worst answers because I think as he's getting near death, the true Trump is coming out. I don't care about America's financial situation, affordable housing. What do you say about bipartisan affordable housing? Big Yon. And he's getting more gay, if you've noticed. Literally, he just keeps talking about men and their faces and their thighs. Not that Speaker 4 (8:46) there's anything wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's just Speaker 2 (8:49) really interesting. The most homophobic anti-LGBT administration is probably the gayest administration I've ever seen in my life. Well, they did. Speaker 4 (8:59) Look, they ran with YMCA as their theme song. Are you surprised? I'm not surprised. And Speaker 2 (9:07) also testosterone shots, right? And then also, I mean, talking about the national security angle, our national security is effed. He's openly lying about the Strait of Hamas being open when it's closed. The USS Lincoln is coming back because sailors tried to jump off. But Speaker 4 (9:24) he said they weren't there long enough. They said they weren't there nine Speaker 2 (9:27) months, folks. Morale is low. It must become high. And then also, I don't know if you caught this, but a week ago. It was about seven days ago. J.D. Vance, the vice president, seems to be encouraging the collapse of the U.S. dollar and suggests moving the U.S. dollar away as the global reserve currency. And this coincides with reports of crypto. and World Liberty Financial being given, if you will, the green light. There Speaker 4 (9:57) are Speaker 2 (9:57) rumors Speaker 4 (9:57) that you are a Bitcoin billionaire, Waj. Speaker 2 (9:59) Those rumors also have me as a moderate Muslim. Both are incorrect. Both? And the fact that he's made billions of dollars off of crypto. So have you ever seen a vice president kind of cheer on the demise of the dollar, David? Speaker 4 (10:14) No, but, you know, folks, to be serious about this for one moment. The dollar's in trouble. The Secretary of the Treasury this week is intervening. He is trying to keep interest rates down. It's not working. The world says, holy mackerel, the U.S. debt is $40 trillion. It doesn't look like it's getting better anytime soon. They're going to spend $1.5 trillion on defense, which is a $500 billion increase at this time of real stress. The country's... not run by a particularly stable group of people. They like crypto. People are not sure what the motives are of this administration. And, you know, on top of that, the entire stock market is being propped up by an AI bubble. And there is a big backlash against AI right now. And if you take all those things together, you could have this fall, as we've talked about in some of our podcasts, you know, maybe some market trouble. And that would be. You know, you talk about bad to worse. That would be bad to worse for the economy and for the Republicans. Speaker 1 (11:22) If you're enjoying this episode and want to get even more out of the DSR Network, you need to check out our Substack. The DSR Network Substack is the absolute best way to follow Deep State Radio, the DSR Daily, Words Matter, Need to Know, Scylla Consciousness, AI, Energy and Climate. and The Daily Blast. Sign up to get notified every time a new episode drops and stay up to date on the latest news and expert analysis. Right now, we're offering 20 % off of a DSR Network membership. Paid members get an ad-free listening experience, select episodes two days early, 50 % off of David's need to know Substack, and more. To get your 20 % off, go to dsrnetwork.substack.com slash august26. That's dsrnetwork.substack.com slash august26. Speaker 2 (12:12) I mean, exactly what you said, David. I have... Long said, and I'm a simple English major, that I don't trust this crypto or AI. To me, it looks like a big bubble. It looks like a Ponzi scheme. And the fact that the government and the Trump administration and Lutnick and his friends are all