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There Are Nations in Crisis—Just Not Ours

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JL;DR SUMMARY The panel discusses global political upheavals by examining South Korea's thwarted martial law and France's governmental instability, contrasting them with perceived U.S. constitutional crises. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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DemocracyConstitutional CrisisFrancePolitical InstabilitySouth KoreaU.S. PoliticsMedia CriticismMartial LawGovernment CollapseIntellectual Discourse

Places mentioned

South Korea
"So South Korea, one of our leading allies on the planet Earth, most important allies on the planet Earth, a hedge against China, a representative of the world of commerce among like-minded democratic states, has a president, got not elected in 2022, didn't have really much of a parliamentary majority, couldn't get stuff through the parliament."
India
"I think the last time you can go back to martial law being declared in something that was nominally considered a democracy was Indira Gandhi in India in 1974 and 1975."
France
"Let's now go to France."
Japan
"He is an opponent of the North he has worked to improve the bilateral relationship with Japan and he has also worked to improve the bilateral relationship with Japan and he's in a situation too where North Korea is increasingly belligerent and mysterious."
Italy
"She just was visiting her ancestral home in Italy and she's making a couple of other stops in Europe before ending up in Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame."
Paris, France
"She just was visiting her ancestral home in Italy and she's making a couple of other stops in Europe before ending up in Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame."
California, United States
"He's like from a county in Florida, so we can assume that Susie Wiles, the incoming chief of staff, had something to do with it."
Florida, United States
"He's like from a county in Florida, so we can assume that Susie Wiles, the incoming chief of staff, had something to do with it."
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