Elon Eyes European Domination With Raheem Kassam

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Tara is joined by British political activist and adviser Raheem Kassam to discuss and compare the current states of right-wing populism in England and the United States. They shine a light on the rising influence of the Reform party and its ideological leader (Nigel Farage) in U.K. politics, analyze Elon Musk’s political moves in Europe, and talk about what will be different about Donald Trump’s administration the second time around. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Raheem Kassam Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.0	Learn more at Disneyplus.com. Hi, I'm Tara Palmeri. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is, somebody's got to win.
1:22.6	Elon Musk is on a war path for world domination.
1:27.7	He started with the U.S. inserting himself into our politics, and now he has moved on to Europe,
1:33.8	with an eye on the United Kingdom and Germany, two of the largest economies and superpowers, obviously.
1:40.1	So this weekend, he got into a Twitter spat with the Prime Minister of the UK, accusing the British Prime Minister Kirstammer of covering up a child sex trafficking ring when he was the chief prosecutor six years ago.
1:56.0	Obviously, the Prime Minister denies this and has accused Elon Musk of spreading disinformation on X.
2:02.5	But of course, Musk went even further. And he called on King Charles III to dissolve the
2:08.2	parliament and remove the labor government. Now, he clearly doesn't understand how this works.
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