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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you all for being here on this Thursday episode.

A lot of news broke since Monday.

So let me give you guys some quick hits before talking about the main topic you should know.

A little bit of news to keep you more informed than the average person.

In Poland, the Nationalist Party candidate, the Law and Justice Party nominee for President

Carol Norwicki won the presidency in an absolute come from behind victory. Law and justice

is a nationalist party in Europe, not my favorite because they do a lot of like public

outreach that's not

really. They come out as a very anti-immigration policy, immigrant politicians and political

party, but they're very pro-immigrant really. It's a lot of PR that's bigger than the actual

policy. Anyway, Norwicki's win though is notable because he was double digits behind in the polls as recently in April and had an absolute monster comeback.

And it dispels the myth that Trump is so toxic to nationalist and populist candidates around the globe.

This is the third straight presidential election with the Law and Justice Party won in Poland.

And on the other

side of Europe, nationalist populist firebrandt Gitzvilders removed his party from the coalition

government and it collapsed the coalition and will force early elections later on this year.

Here's how that went down. So the Netherlands is a multi-party system. They have lots of parties. I'm talking they have more parties than Gen Z has genders. Like it is a lot of parties. In 2023, Gitzvilders, who is the longest serving Dutch politician and always a political outsider for being a hardliner against mass immigration and the Islamification of the Netherlands that had his party,

the Freedom Party, surprised everyone and come in first place. But in order to form a government,

you need 76 seats in Parliament. His party only had 37. So we entered a coalition government with

three other center-right parties and populist parties on the condition that he could not be

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