Tuesday, June 25, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 11:02)
How’s This for Irony? British Snap Election Set to Take Place on the 4th of July — What’s Behind It and Why Americans Should Watch It Closely

Part II (11:02 - 17:06)
The Far-Right and Far-Left in Europe: The State of European Politics and the Conservative and Liberal Binary as It Heads into Crucial Summer Elections

A right-wing Europe is here to stay by The Washington Post (Ishaan Tharoor)
After the European Elections, President Macron Makes a Gamble by The New Yorker (Adam Gopnik)

Part III (17:06 - 27:03)
Israel is a Divisive Issue for the LGBTQ Community? The Left is Imploding, and Intersectionality is the ‘Omnicause’

The Gaza War Is Dividing the L.G.B.T.Q. Community by The New York Times (Liam Stack)
The ‘Omnicause’ Is Collapsing by The Wall Street Journal (Andy Kessler)

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, June 25, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.4	It's virtually impossible to miss the fact that we are in a presidential election year
0:17.8	in the United States.
0:19.0	We're looking at national elections.
0:20.6	You add to that that every single seat in the US House of Representatives
0:24.6	is up for election or re-election and about a third of the Senate and then you go
0:29.4	to the statewide elections local elections. Americans are being bombarded with all kinds of messaging about the election.
0:37.0	And of course, the greatest focus, the greatest intensity is directed towards the presidential election,
0:42.0	and that's why Thursday night
0:43.5	the first debate in the 2024 cycle between the expected Democratic nominee
0:50.1	the incumbent president Joe Biden and the expected Republican nominee
0:54.0	former president Donald Trump. Well you know we're going to be talking about it
0:58.2	on Friday and that's because it is inescapably big news.
1:03.0	But I'm not really going to talk about the American election today.
1:06.4	I want to shift attention, go across the Atlantic
1:09.2	and understand that big, big developments are happening
1:12.4	in elections in Europe as well.
1:15.0	And this reaches as close as America's closest ally there in Europe.
1:19.4	You can look at the United Kingdom, the UK, Great Britain, where Riesi Sunak, the Conservative Prime Minister, called
1:26.6	an election which is going to be held, how American does this look on July the 4th.
1:31.1	So on July the 4th, the people of Great Britain are going to be going to the polls.
1:35.8	This was because the Prime Minister called the election earlier than is required in the British
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