(preview) Kerala Down

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We talk about the left's recent defeat in the famously radical Indian state of Kerala. But first, some Twitter drama involving Christian Smalls and AOC. For full episode and more subscribe to our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is something I found really fascinating and just kind of, again, speaks to how complex
0:05.7	Indian politics is from Amerioggles. But the UDF, the United Democratic Front, the opposition
0:13.5	to the left sort of government that's been in there for a while. The opposition has a lot of
0:19.8	centrist parties. The Congress party is kind of like
0:22.6	the governing one. But the coalition also includes the revolutionary socialist party, the communist
0:30.0	Marxist party, and the revolutionary Marxist party of India. There's like a million different fucking socialist Marxist parties in India alone.
0:42.9	It's insane.
0:44.6	And this doesn't even include the BJP.
0:47.3	Like that's the ruling part.
0:48.7	That's Modi's party.
0:49.7	There's a fascist party.
0:51.0	They're not very popular in Kerala.
0:53.0	So the new government is like this pretty much incoherent thing.
0:58.9	And people are trying to understand why they won.

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 2 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pod Damn America, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Pod Damn America and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.