Biden confronts the war in Afghanistan
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Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Tommy and Ben talk through Biden’s options in Afghanistan, updates on the coup in Myanmar, censorship in China, the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in Israel, government transparency in Mexico, LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, crackdowns on activists in India and Egypt, and royal baby updates. Then Ben interviews Congresswoman Ilhan Omar about the dangers of reflexively tightening domestic terrorism laws.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potscape the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.0 | Ben, how about that thrilling second impeachment? |
| 0:17.8 | Did you like it better than the original? |
| 0:19.8 | I was gonna say, like, you know, rarely is the sequel better than the first, but... |
| 0:23.6 | Godfather too of impugnance. |
| 0:25.5 | But I mean, like, the same ending, so, you know... |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, predictable ending. |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:31.3 | That's my critique, predictable ending. |
| 0:34.3 | I wasn't sure if I need to apologize to the world, though, |
| 0:36.6 | it's fulfilling hopeful on those days when, like, Mitch McConnell's statements were coming out in real time, |
| 0:40.7 | but, you know, I think most times, it should be angry at the Republican Party. |
| 0:43.8 | I think by the... So, what was so weird about it is, by the time it happened, |
| 0:47.9 | I actually didn't really watch much because I was already preemptively angry at how I knew it was gonna end, you know? |
| 0:54.6 | So, it's like, I didn't want to watch and kind of go through the emotional ringer of that, |
| 0:59.2 | just to end with Mitch McConnell caving, like, he always does, and nothing's changing. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah. Well, you know, what are you gonna do? |
| 1:07.3 | We got a lot of great news for you guys this week. |
| 1:09.4 | So, we are gonna talk about a bunch of stuff. |
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