Far Right Surges in European Elections

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss the success of far-right parties in the European Parliamentary elections and debate whether French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for snap elections in France is bold or disastrous. Then they talk about British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s shocking decision to skip a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the latest developments out of Israel and Gaza, including ceasefire negotiations, Benny Gantz leaving Netanyahu’s war cabinet, and the ethics of an Israeli hostage rescue in Gaza that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. They also walk through the horrific state of affairs in the civil war in Sudan, a foreign election interference scandal rocking Canada, a Chinese waterfall getting a little help from the government, and why Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is still very, very dumb. Then Ben interviews Dr. Rosa Balfour, the Director of Carnegie Europe, about the broader implications of the European Parliamentary election results on issues like climate change.

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0:00.0	Welcome to POTS the world on Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. Ben you see that we beat Pakistan
0:16.0	we the United States at cricket? Yes I became a fervent supporter of the US cricket team that I didn't even know existed a week earlier.
0:25.8	I didn't know we had a team either.
0:27.2	The best was that there was a guy, I think maybe the best guy on the team, who moonlight's as a cricket cricket player he's like a software engineer for
0:34.8	Oracle or something so like Oracle put out a statement being like we fully support
0:39.4	our cricketeer or whatever no way but yeah talk about following way in a category of things that will be of mild
0:46.8	positive interest to Americans, but we're like probably an existential crisis in Pakistan.
0:50.8	Yeah, Pakistan will hate us for us.
0:52.3	For decades. Yeah, yeah, Pakistan will hate us for it.
0:53.0	For decades.
0:54.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:55.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.0	Can't, I don't understand cricket.
0:59.0	People are going to get real pissed at this who are international listeners.
1:02.0	I don't understand cricket at all, I never will,
1:03.6	but I think it can last like days, matches can.
1:06.8	Yeah, they used to be this like park and Queens,
1:10.9	and I lived in Queens at the time, where they'd play these like multi-day cricket
1:14.9	matches between these like West Indian dudes who would you know take it very
1:18.6	seriously and you could go out there and just kind of watch for however long you felt like it and have no idea
1:24.4	what's going on but it's just kind of a crazy thing to look at.
1:26.7	Just dude slapping at a ball.
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