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How the world sees our election

Pod Save the World

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.825.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk with British Member of Parliament David Lammy about how the world views the US election. Then they talk about protests over abortion rights in Poland, fears of civil war in Ethiopia, reports about US cyber attacks against hackers to prevent election interference, how social media companies handled election disinformation and reports of a Royal covid coverup.

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0:00.0

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

0:12.9

I'm Ben Rhodes.

0:14.1

Ben, I think I can say without hyperbole, without being fact-checked by Daniel Dail,

0:22.0

without any reservations that this might be the best episode we've ever done,

0:26.8

because we are the closest to getting Donald Trump the fuck out of the White House as we've ever been.

0:32.3

So tantalizingly close to this.

0:35.3

So close.

0:36.3

I mean, you're so aware that that's going to be the result, and yet it doesn't,

0:40.9

you're not allowed to fully feel good until it's completely done.

0:45.6

I'm so superstitious that I get mad at Hannah if she says, well, the traffic wasn't bad today,

0:51.2

before we are actually like at the destination in Parked, so I am like incapable of letting

0:55.8

myself feel good.

0:57.3

But as of right now, we're recording at 117 Pacific here in Los Angeles.

1:03.0

Things are looking very good for Joe Biden and basically every state, but especially Georgia

1:07.6

and Pennsylvania, and we're just slowly agonizingly waiting for this counting to be done,

1:13.6

and like refreshing 538 or whatever your drug of choice is that I don't know, if you've

1:18.3

preferred Nate, I don't know where you're going to.

1:20.8

I basically have lived for the last 48 hours on our text chain, Twitter and cable news,

1:27.9

which is not a healthy diet other than our text chain.

1:32.0

I just, but I mean, the thing is, you know, we all know people in the Biden campaign.

1:37.9

One of the things I've been struck by is everything they've said, bore out.

1:42.8

They were very bullish on Wisconsin and Michigan.

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