Why Rihanna cares about the farmers' protests in India (and you should too)
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Tommy and Ben discuss the farmers’ protests in India, updates on the situation in Myanmar, Biden’s big foreign policy speech, Canada’s classification of the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization, debate over definitions of anti-Semitism and the double standards when critiquing Israel, and the political situation in Haiti.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsay for World, I'm Tommy Ditor. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.0 | Ben, another day in a pandemic life. |
| 0:17.2 | We were just lamenting the random reporter who tweeted that there was a 20% increase in supplies |
| 0:23.0 | of Pfizer vaccine sent to states and then deleted it and said, |
| 0:26.4 | oops, deleted, errant tweet based on miscommunication, I've never, I've never been more angry at Twitter |
| 0:32.2 | in my life and that's saying something. |
| 0:33.6 | But here we are. |
| 0:34.5 | I know it's like a loss to a whole month of my life in between those tweets. |
| 0:37.7 | I didn't say well. |
| 0:40.4 | Well, you know what's going to keep us busy recording this show. |
| 0:43.8 | We have a lot of good stuff to cover. |
| 0:45.5 | We are going to talk about the farmers protest in India due to popular demand, |
| 0:50.0 | which I think Rihanna deserves from credit for. |
| 0:52.3 | I got a little update on the coup in Myanmar to see if there's any major developments. |
| 0:56.6 | We'll tick through some of the big takeaways from President Biden's foreign policy speech last week. |
| 1:01.2 | There's a roiling debate about the definition of anti-Semitism that has big implications for freedom |
| 1:08.0 | of speech and for U.S. policies and we'll get into all of that. |
| 1:11.1 | And the political crisis in Haiti that has created a truly dire situation for the people there |
| 1:17.3 | and we'll explain what's happening. |
| 1:18.9 | Ben, just a couple quick housekeeping things. |
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