The French Lieutenant's Wager feat. Dominik Leusder
Economist and host of the Eurotrash Podcast Dominik Leusder rejoins the gang to discuss the recent U.K. budget - who’s in, who’s out, who’s “hot” and who’s “not.” Also, a final look at the US presidential campaign through the lens of one Frenchman’s $30m commitment to Peanut the squirrel.
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Hitmarkers up on November for the election predictions, gone bad so soon
All the election bits really driving the point home how absurd it is these fuckers actually won...AGAIN
Anyone with a ft login here who can help me get to that 10foot article from last year?
The French guy was the gambler that didn’t quit before he won big
What do you want streetlights for? To see other blokes?
Don't think I can finish this one...
Checking in from Ohio. Our new senator is luxury car salesman Bernie Moreno, and now we'll have to replace our other senator, famed couchfucker JD Vance. Also, the sheriff that told his Facebook followers to make a list of people with Harris signs won his reelection, and posted a Ted meme in celebration.
The bit about the Trump gambler wasn't as funny for me as it was for the hosts, for some reason
Checking back in to say I'm blaming "walk tuah the poles, vote on that thang" for whatever happens
honestly I’m kind of looking forward to straight cis american men being able to fully experience the pants-shitting panic of a rubber breaking
Took years of french so I could hon hon hon at the « c’est algérie encore une fois » joke
Listening at about 8pm Pacific Time and realizing that the one French guy was probably right
'Teabagable hand drier' is absolutely cursed, well done Milo.
I think Bernie might not be winning sadly 😔
As someone who went Joey Barton the last time I was in France (not the violence bit, the accent bit), the opening of this episode brought back fond memories. Anyway, see Milo in Bath! He might riff about the ruins or the silly name. (Also, Bath Rugby FC is basically an appendage of James Dyson, who is sadly holding a lot of taxable property now.)
Hi it's election day. I did my part and voted for Joe Biden.
Sleepy Joe 🇺🇸
"The problem with Tudorism is that eventually you run out of other people's monasteries" was just an excellent final joke.
As an animal rehab facility working near the area where the peanut situation happened, it's the guys own fault. 1: The guys didn't care enough about peanut to get the paperwork in asap and just assumed he would get away with it. DEC takes this stuff very seriously. 2: Rabies vector species (the raccoon) are extremely controlled for good reason. There's like a year of training you have to go through to register to take them in and often get vaccinated for rabies ahead of time. This guy just wanted to use his animals for clout and didn't care enough about them to do the fairly simple work. Sucks for the animals but people like him make us all look bad and lead randos to think they can just do whatever they want with wild animals. Rant over but this issue has been a hot topic in my home lately and I needed to vent.
I am happy to have no idea what any of this peanut stuff is about.
Y'all are the only people I can listen to talk about American politics without making my blood turn to straight hot sauce
Ah, straight hot sauce. My favourite condiment next to bisexual ranch
On of the things I’ve been thinking about more and more (outside the obvious reactionary urge) is the purpose of transphobia in the political calculus. And I really do wonder if it is a case of a group of people whose very existence is overly gate kept and medicalised - due to their needs and wants - being the easiest group to force into private healthcare. Like, what is the purpose of GPs arguing that it’s too complicated for them to deal with patients who are on HRT for typical medical needs? The only outcome is more trans people will look for more of their healthcare to be covered privately - either DIYing more than just their hormones or paying a private practice for the privilege. Either way, a (small) population are unpeopled enough to not get access to NHS care and grow the private healthcare sector. Introduce more and more people into this stream - “well, your long term disability is too difficult for your GP to handle, so go to this private practice”, “we can’t expect all GPs to specialise in paediatrics / geriatric care” and slowly things are turned over to a privatised system. Yes - the bigotry is there to begin with that makes them target us; but oppressing us also serves the private market.
Now make Milo do Trump voice in French
Will Stancil mentioned I live in Minneapolis, I hate this man with a passion. British Will Stancil is even more cursed
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