This Week's Top Stories | Rishi Sunak Becomes UK's Prime Minister

new man. We begin in the United Kingdom, which is about to get its third prime minister in less than two months. Just a short time ago, the ruling Conservative Party announced that former Finance Minister Reci Sunac won the race to become partner leader and Prime Minister. Will become this country's first ever prime minister of color forst ever

Asian prime minister and first ever Hindu Prime minister. Richie Suna not only the first person of color to walk through turn doubting, also the youngest prime minister here in about two centuries. Really a history of day. A former investment banker, he and his wife are reported to be among the country's richest people. It is the greatest privilege of my life to be able to serve the party I love and give back to the country I owe

so much too. Yeah, that's right. The UK's new Prime Minister is former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, and he's Indian, he's Hindu, and he's only forty two years old, which means he will probably serve well into his forty two and a half's easily. And let's not forget, let's not forget another important first. He's also the first prime minister who's an absolute snack. Yeah, look at you, Rishi. And before you thinking oh is he don't forget who came before?

Don't forget. We're moving on up. Of course, of course, not everyone in the UK is happy about Richi Sunak taking the top spot and making history. And it's not because of his policies or because of his personality. No, there are some people who have a problem with something else, as as this caller to a British radio show so eloquently explained. Is the real problem here, Jerry that Richie Senac as a brown man and you don't trust him

at the top of this country. Well, did you imagine him going to the Scottish nationalists and being the prime Minister of the Scottish nationalists. Could you imagine me becoming the prime minister of Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. No, these things matter. Sorry you don't like it, but this is predominantly We're talking about England, right of the English people, Yes, are white english people and they want to see a point minister that reflects them. Yeah, yeah, this guy has

a good point. Can you imagine if white English people wanted to rule countries when no one looked like them. I would never then can you imagine that wrong? What would that wrong? To be a mine? Now? You know what's so funny to me? It's funny how racists always say colonization was fine, it was a business, until they feel like they're being colonized, and all of a sudden's like something needs to be done, something needs to be done, not even being colonized. The guy is British. What's wrong

with you? You You know? And if you ask me, British racists are looking at this whole thing all wrong. This could be a good thing for you people. After four years, you'll finally get to legitimately blame a brown person for your country's problems, you're living your dreams. Wake up. I

mean there was a part of me. There's a part of me that feels a little bad for England's racists, not because because I remember remember they voted for Brexit specifically to keep Britain white, and that vote started a seven year chain of dominoes that has now led directly to an Indian prime minister. Ah. Yeah, they're probably like, oh, this is certainly a rich irony at my expense in it. Yeah,

And here's the thing. Keep in mind, this caller even says that he is touring so this is the same party as Rishi Sunak, right, which means they probably agree on all the same policies. He just doesn't like that he's not white, which I don't understand. I truly don't understand. What are you scared of? What is this? What is

this call is scared of? Does he think Snaka is gonna walk up to the podium on his first day in office and be like, it is the greatest privilege of my life to be able to give back to the country I owe so much too, and to show my gratitude, I just want to say I'm selling Da dyak underto India that that the time you bat liens are planned, the all time happy divaches, it's not gonna happen.

You're racist. The mid term elections, you know that all important day in November where you vote for a Senator or a congressman and then a bunch of positions you're not even really sure a real But this November, this November, there's one governor's race that could change things, not just for their state, but for everyone. And I'm talking about Arizona. It's the state for people who like Texas but wish

you'd had more scorpions and old people. Right now, in Arizona, Republican Kerry Lake is in a neck and neck race against Democrat Katie Hobbs, and if Lake wins, it could change the course of American democracy itself. So let's get to know her better. In our latest installments of Fringe Watching, meets Harry Lake, candidate for Arizona governor and Boston, who's gonna send you back to Starbucks until you learn the difference between a flat white and allat tell you moron.

Of all the newcomers to mega politics, Carry Lake is making the biggest waves. She defeated a mainstream Republican in the primaries. She's endorsed by Donald Trump himself, right, and she insists on saying Merry Christmas, even in July, and every time she opens her mouth, every single time she speaks,

you can see why the Trump crowd loves her. As governor, I would issue a declaration of invasion finished President Trump's squall, blow up the cartel's drug tunnels and surveillance drones, and deploy the Arizona National Guard to stop illegals from entering. Between anti American history that's being taught inappropriate sex education and the racist critical race theory, or as I like to refer to it, all woke curriculum. It is teaching our children hatred. It's time to take a sledge hammer

to the mainstream media's lies and propaganda. During Pride Month, Lay tweeted, they kicked God out of schools and welcomed the drag queens. They took down our flank and replaced it with the rainbow. Katie Hobbs thinks there are different genders. Why don't you go out and try to milk a ball and tell me how that goes. GOP strategists say she's taking Trump's message and morphing it into her own. You can call me Trump in address any day. No, no, why didn't she say that? Now I'm picturing a Trump

in address. I didn't want that image in my head. I can see it now. The balls are just dangling in the breeze. Look like two tiny mandarins. Uh oh, and each one has a comb over. Why didn't say that? Why? But yeah, as you can see, carry Lake is full on magarific. She hates illegal immigrants, drag queens, and the mainstream media. I mean, did you see how she just smashed the ship out of those TVs, which, for some reason, all from thirty years ago? Already? Why are why are

those TVs are old? But? Is her whole campaign just an excuse to clean out her garage? Big government? It's just like these this lawnmower that I no longer need. Yeah. Also, for the record, if you disagree with what you see on one channel, you don't have to sledge hammer the whole TV. You can just change the channel to something different. We have that technology now, it's the future. Now. If you've only been following her for this election, you might

think she's your standard right wing Republican. You know Maga, this hang, Mike Pence, that normal stuff. But what makes Carry lake story fascinating is not who she is, but who she used to be. Carry Lake used to be known in Arizona as a charismatic newscaster. He's a lion. Hear him roar a staple on Phoenix TVs for more than two decades. Just over a decade ago, she was an Obama donor. Her friends described her as liberal, and yet you saw her shipped slowly and gradual over the

last decade. In several of her friends would say she found Trump to be funny and defended his craftness. She began spreading internet conspiracy theories you can take the hydro hydroxychlora quinn as a preventative. Although Lake has criticized drag queens, she was friends with a popular local drag queen for twenty years and often went to his drag shows. Yeah believe it or not, Carry Lake went from being a

popular local newscosta to hating the media. She was personal friends with a drag queen and now she says that there were dangerous to children. Plus she was a donut to Barack Obama's campaign. Adonna and now she rolls with the guy who thinks Obama isn't even American. Like I've heard of people being open to change, but this is

this is almost not the same person. Like I wouldn't be shocked if we found out that the real Carry Lake is locked up in a basement somewhere while this maga alien pretends to be her, because because this is a bigger transformation than the drag queens that she suddenly hates, which, by the way, it's particularly shitty. It's already horrible to turn on any friend, but betraying the one who taught you how to get your contouring on point that is unforgivable.

And you know, over the past few years, over the past few years, this seems to have happened to a lot of people, Like everywhere, everyone has a story about this. They used to be normal, living a chilled life. But then they clicked on the wrong Facebook post and they got sucked in by a few YouTube videos and the next thing you know, they believe the care Bears are actually a democratic sex cult that's going to penetrate your

children with rainbows. And while she sounds just like Trump on most issues, there's one thing Kerry Lake has in common with Trump that is especially dangerous. And I'm not talking about a friendship bracelet with Kim Jong. Oh No, no, no, I'm talking about her refusal to take an election. L anybody who was involved in that corrupt, shady, shoddy election of lock them up, No more stolen elections. We have this illegitimate president Biden. We will no longer accept rigged elections.

Who's with me on that? You've said that you think Trump won Arizona? Do you still believe that? I believe Biden is the president, just like o J is innocent, the system is corrupt in Arizona. The Republican candidate for governor is refusing to say whether she'll accept the results of the upcoming election if she loses. Will you accept the results of your election in November. I'm going to win the election and I will accept that result. If you lose, will you accept that I'm gonna win the

election and I will accept that result. I'm gonna win the election and I will accept that results. I'm gonna win the election election and I will accept that results. You realize, thanks to Trump, every Republican running for office now it is just like a winey little kid who refuses to lose a board game. All right. They used to be like, we are the Party of Personal Responsibility, and it was like, well, it looks like you you lost the election. Do you take responsibility for that? It's

not my fault. They were stolen. I'm your governor. And by the way, by the way, it's ridiculous to compare Trump's election lost to o J's murders. Right. I mean, for one thing, o J had a much better legal team, and also that was the system doing its thing. But maybe maybe you think carry Lake's election denials don't sarned you. You know, maybe you're thinking, hey, I don't live in Arizona travel the only issue that affects me there is whether the tea stage. But you'd be wrong, because you see,

Arizona isn't just where your aunt gets all her turquoise jewelry. No, it's also a key swing states that helped push Joe Biden over the top in and if Carrie Lake becomes governor, she could have the final say over who wins it. And it doesn't sound like she's going to be shy about getting the result that she wants. In the last twenty four hours you said the election was stolen. Would

you have certified Arizona's results? Hell, would you be willing to put the country into position potentially of a constitutional crisis by not certifying Arizona's results? If you're a governor, that come down, I think. Let me ask you, Van, would you certify a crooked corrupt election? Would you certify a crooked corrupt election just to make peace? Yes? No, that's not how I operate. You know, things aren't looking good when the future of your democracy is being decided

in the home depot parking lots. Ll just think about it. Think about what carry Lake is saying. She's saying that if the election in is stolen for Biden the same way the last election was stolen for Biden, then she's not going to approve the results, and that would be chaos. I could throw America into a constitutional crisis like it's never seen before. Who knows, maybe even another civil war,

which is bullshit. Think about it. Some local news cost that gets way into too into Trump fan fiction, and now I've got to grow up mutton chops. I mean, can I pull it off? Yeah, but it's got to be for the right reasons and I know you might be saying, all relaxed Trump, try to do a cool past time, and it didn't work. Yet the only reason it didn't work is because they were various Republicans in

key positions who didn't go along with it. But if those people get replaced by people like Carry Lake, it's a whole different story, because you see, you don't need to storm the capital when your friends have the keys. The mid terms, you know that time of the year when your baby is at the highest risk of being kissed by Ted Cruz. There was a major debate last night that could change everything, and we'll tell you all

about it in our ongoing coverage of Vote Demock. The big question leading up to election day right now is who will control the Senate when the dust settles, And with so many close races around the country, it could still go either way. But a pivotal moment may have occurred last night at a debate in Pennsylvania. On one side of this neck and neck race, you have Democrat John Federman Lieutenant Governor and Bounce a on the sets of Jerry Springer, And on the Republican side you have

doctor Oz. Not to be confused with the Wizard of Oz, who also lived in a mansion that wasn't in Pennsylvania. After securing the Republican nomination, doctor Oz has been trying to distance himself from the Maga side of the force and reposition himself as a bipartisan voice of reason to try and scoop up all the centrist voters on election day.

You know, he's basically doing that that TikTok thing where you flip your head down and then when you come up you act like you suddenly didn't want to hang myke pants, you know that thing. But here's the thing, here's the thing. Being pro Trump and pro reasonable is a lot harder than people think, which was apparent when doctor Oz had to explain his position on abortion. Should

abortion be banned in America? Sixty seconds? There should not be involved in from the federal government and how states decide their abortion decisions. As a physician, I've been in the room when there's some difficult conversations happening. I don't want the federal government involved with that at all. I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that's always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward. So states can decide for themselves. Oh yeah,

that's right. Dr Oz said abortion rights should be decided by women and their doctors and local political leaders, which was pretty slick, right like I did, because he started that sentence like he was on the side of women when he snuck in the politicians at the end like a teenager buying condoms at a gas station. He was like, let me get those cheetos and the root beer and you can get the terms, and we're gonna get a

deserved out of back. Because let's be honest, if your pro choice what doctor Oz is suggesting is bullshits, right, I think we can all agree there is only one politician who should have a say in your abortion and that's Hercial Walker, because it's his, it's his, it's probably his. Ladies check they're all his now. Unfortunately, the Democrats couldn't exactly take a victory lap off the Dr Oz's performance at the debate because it was their own guy who

was getting most of the attention. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman started off the hour long debate assuring voters he's still capable of doing the job of senator five months after having a stroke. Let's also talk about the elephant in the room. I had a stroke. He's never let me forget that. I might miss some words during this debate, two words together. But it knocked me down, and I'm

gonna keep coming back up. Fetterman's use of a closed captioning device during the debate, where he read questions in real time on a screen above the moderator's sparked debate on social media, with some observers seeing a strong performance a mid recovery, while others cast him his unsteady Federman especially lost his putting on the subject of fracking when questioned about interview where he said he would never support the industry versus his current position supporting fracking. I do

support fracking, and I don't. I don't. I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking. You know, what's interesting to see is how people have reacted to this clip, because on the one hand, obviously that was a part of the debate that tripped him up, because he has had a shaky record on whether he's four or against the fracking, but also beyond that, people wondering about the stroke, and it was interesting to see if people support him, they're seeing a guy who's overcoming a

temporary disability. But the people who are against him see a guy who's not mentally fit to be senator. And I guess because of polarization. It's like that with everything these days, you know, everyone seeing the world from two different sides. Like if you're a die hard Christmas lover, you hate the Grinch, But if you don't like Christmas, then yeah, he's extremely faible and you smash. Everything is subjective.

Everything look at that mouth. And I personally feel bad for John Federman though, because he had a stroke, and on top of that, after the debate, dr Oz trying to sell him a supplement that would cure him for and I you know, if you ask me, I don't know why Federman ever admitted to having a stroke. This is American politics, and he could have just done whatever he wanted, Like he's running for the sentence of Pennsylvania. He could have just showed up to the bed and

be like, sorry for my words, everyone, I'm drunk. If I asked, the entire state would have been like, hell, yeah, man, savior, go Phillies. Yeah, I love this guy. But the truth is, Fetterman's limitations right now are just something voters will have to consider when they make their choice, like maybe they don't care whether Federman is capable of debating. Maybe voters prefer his policies, or maybe they just want a senator who can block the door the next time it's getting

storn by riots. Is that could be very useful? So all up to them. While China is spreading around the world in secret, there's an even biggest superpower who just announced her plan to dominate the globe. Fans of superstar singer Rihanna have been clamoring for new music from her for years, and now it appears their weight is almost over. Rihanna shared a fifteen second teaser on Twitter of our new single titled Lift Me Up. It's for the upcoming

Black Panther movie Waconda Forever. This marks Rihanna's first single as a lead artist in six long years. For her fans, Thank you, Thank you, Jesus. Brianna's releasing new music, and on top of that, her song is going to be part of the new Black Panther movie. Are you kidding fair? That's gonna be so great? I mean it's gonna be

great for us. It won't be great for the Wakandans because it's gonna be hard to concentrate on fighting the bad guys when a Rihanna song starts playing and it's gonna be like it time to defend our Oh surely are you hearing this right now? Are you getting this? Do you understand how big this is? Rihanna plus Black Panther What I haven't experienced this much Black joy since since that time Obama featured on that Cardy B track. Oh man, it was just like what wrap wrap That's right,

I'll tell you what makes my pussy went voting. Vote everybody, vote what I will say, though I would say, you gotta admit Rihanna is keeping us thirsty. We've been all begging. We've been begging for an album for six years, and now she's like, okay, okay, I'll give you one song and we're like, thank you, thank you, Just one's before we go. I wanted to remind you that peaceful protests in Iran are risking their lives to be heard right now.

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