Joe Biden's Superpower

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House, argues that being a politician is not an insult. In the Joe Biden view of the world, it's the explanation for his philosophy and success. Plus, the querulously quitting Qantas CEO. And, once again, we hit the BRICS. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, September 5th, 2023, from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.7	It's the GIST I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.7	I'm back from VK, but one item stuck in my craw, make me a bit cray cray.
0:14.9	It's the bricks.
0:15.9	Gotta hit the bricks again.
0:16.9	Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
0:19.2	I talked about them before I left, and then they went and added Saudi Arabia around.
0:23.9	Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia, and United Arab Emirates were hard human rights abuses, a
0:28.8	prerequisite or just a quirky coincidence.
0:31.6	Now, Argentina, they've been relatively clean on that score for decades, but they do
0:35.7	have 100% inflation, and I probably don't have to tell you about the Saudis or the Iranians.
0:41.2	The Egyptians aren't too much better, but what about Ethiopia?
0:44.8	No shade on Ethiopia, and seriously, there is no shade on Ethiopia.
0:48.0	But the Prime Minister Abbi Ahmed did win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, since then he's
0:53.6	incredibly accused of overseeing a campaign of war crimes and ethnic cleansing and prosecuting
0:58.8	the war in the Tigray region.
1:01.0	I'm putting aside morals, though.
1:03.0	I'm just focusing on the economics.
1:05.4	This is an economic consortium.
1:07.3	Ethiopia has a lower GDP than Idaho.
1:10.2	I'm glad it's doing better.
1:11.9	Power to the Ethiopians help.
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