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Biden (sort of?) pledges to defend Taiwan

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Pod Save the World

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4.825.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk about President Biden’s trip to Asia, whether the US would defend Taiwan in a war with China, the latest news from Ukraine, including calls for Ukraine to cut a deal with Russia and the growing food crisis. They also cover a plot to assassinate George W Bush, fascism in Hungary, charges of anti-semitism against progressives and US policy towards Israel, MAGA grifters and Boris Johnson’s party pics. Then Ben talks to Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield about her efforts at the UN to help Ukraine and tackle the international food crisis.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Potsay the world, I'm Tommy Vittor.

0:13.3

I'm Ben Riz.

0:14.3

Ben, I normally like doing this show because I love doing this show.

0:19.2

Because to some extent we get to focus on other country's problems and not how broken

0:23.3

our own country is and how we seem to think it's normal to have a civilian population

0:27.9

that's better armed than most foreign militaries and how they're increasingly targeting children

0:33.4

in mass shootings.

0:34.5

But yeah, here we are.

0:37.5

Kick them off a show with another fucking mass shooting in Texas.

0:40.9

The NRA convention is in Texas on Friday as well.

0:43.4

So I'm sure they'll be thoughtful about all this.

0:45.4

Yeah, those people can go fuck off.

0:49.4

It's like unfathomable to me that, you know, I don't know what to say.

0:57.5

I just watched Chris Murphy, Senator Chris Murphy, friend of pod on the floor, like just so

1:04.0

angry, it looked like he was about to rip up his desk and hulk it and throw it to the

1:07.8

side.

1:08.8

I mean, I guess you just have to say, as I think Chris Murphy would, as someone who never

1:13.6

gives up on this, like you just cannot allow yourself to be numbed to it.

1:19.2

I have, you know, I have an elementary school-aged daughter and I'd like the idea of dropping

1:27.6

her off at, I drop her off at school every day.

1:30.5

And it's always like a slightly painful moment, you know, to like give her hug.

1:36.9

But you know, the idea of her not being there when I go, I just, I can't even let these

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