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The Rita Panahi Show | 26 May · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring MS Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Reader Panalty Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Reader Patty Show. Coming
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Speaker 3: up tonight, Jim Chalmers in hiding while Andrew Charlton steps
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Speaker 3: up to sell Labour's controversial budget. The Panel will join
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Speaker 3: me to discuss that and the day's other top headlines.
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Speaker 3: Tax Payers to be slugged almost one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 3: million dollars for Chris Bowen's cop activism in Plymer will
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Speaker 3: have the details. Kosher Gator will bring us the latest
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Speaker 3: from the US, including the Left's attempts to rewrite the
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Speaker 3: history of the BLM riots, and later in the hour,
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Speaker 3: Alex Stein will bring us some startling news, including the
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Speaker 3: tawdry pickup lines used by the man formerly known as
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Speaker 3: Prince Andrew and left He's losing. It features a cavalcade
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Speaker 3: of rockers, including Cindi Lauper.
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Speaker 4: Bru sick on me after our ray to control our bodies.
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Speaker 4: So now the IRA to vault, So we must stop them.
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Speaker 4: We are half the population. You need to stand up now.
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Speaker 3: But first to the gift that keeps on giving. Kevin
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Speaker 3: Rudd is casting a long shadow over Jim Chalmers and
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Speaker 3: his budget The Treasurer was an invited to the Prime
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Speaker 3: Minister's courtyard on Monday, where Anthony Albernesi took control of
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Speaker 3: the budget agenda. Jim Chalmers hasn't appeared at a press
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Speaker 3: conference since Thursday and is struggling to defend some of
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Speaker 3: his contentious changes amid a flurry of bad polls. Instead,
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Speaker 3: Kevin Rud's former chief economic advisor, Andrew Charlton has stepped
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Speaker 3: up to become Labour's chief salesperson. Jeff Chambers writes in
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Speaker 3: The Australian newspaper Albernizi, who was never close to Charmers,
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Speaker 3: has taken Charlton under his wing. Charlton isn't expected to
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Speaker 3: die wandering or stick around forever in Parliament in pursuit
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Speaker 3: of his ambitions. Joining me now from more on This
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Speaker 3: is News called senior writer Patrick Carline and Institute of
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Speaker 3: Public Affairs Research fellow Colleen Harken. Colleen. Andrew Charlton is
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Speaker 3: a rarity in labor. This is a man with private
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Speaker 3: sector experience. He's impressive his built wealth and he's got charisma.
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Speaker 3: Should Jim Chalmers be worried?
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Speaker 5: Jim Charmer should be worried about everything that he's done
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Speaker 5: in the last few weeks. You know that everything's wrong
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Speaker 5: when you're being hidden from your own party. They've lost
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Speaker 5: control of the narrative here and that's dangerous for any
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Speaker 5: political party to be in. That budget has not been
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Speaker 5: well received by anybody, and the fact that two weeks
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Speaker 5: later it's still high profile in the media and conversation
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Speaker 5: tells you everything that you need to know about it.
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Speaker 5: And they've obviously not spoken to industry because now they're
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Speaker 5: only talking about maybe carveauts, which is.
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Speaker 3: What they should have considered. Whether you agree or disagree
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Speaker 3: with the big.
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Speaker 5: Principles within it, they obviously didn't speak to anybody. It
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Speaker 5: was an ideological grab that they're now trying to work
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Speaker 5: out hand to handle, and they're bringing in other people
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Speaker 5: to try and sort at the man.
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Speaker 3: Well Patrick, the Treasurer, has really struggled to sell the budget.
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Speaker 3: He has been embarrassed in some interviews by his inability
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Speaker 3: to just understand the basic concepts of economics. He says
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Speaker 3: one thing, but then his policies are the polar opposite
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Speaker 3: of what he's saying. He's trying to achieve and even
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Speaker 3: not really having a grasp of the data, the statistics
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Speaker 3: that underpin some of these decisions.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think he was arrogant and lazy when it
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Speaker 2: comes to it. He thought this would be well received.
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Speaker 2: I think both mister Albinos and mister Charmer's got the
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Speaker 2: shock of their lives when it was received the way
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Speaker 2: that it was. They've spent the last two weeks trying
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Speaker 2: to explain it. And if you're explaining it in politics,
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Speaker 2: then you're losing the argument. Jim Charmers has not performed well,
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Speaker 2: he hasn't seemed comfortable, and now he's on the naughty
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Speaker 2: mat to be replaced by Andrew Charlton.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a man who built a business sold it at
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Speaker 3: considerable profit. And really that makes seem a standout in
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Speaker 3: labor because there you have is there anyone in cabinet, Colleen,
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Speaker 3: who's got industry experience, who's got private sex to experience
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Speaker 3: small business experience.
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Speaker 5: No, there's a high proportion of ex staff as and
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Speaker 5: union of fantastic who you know, great for the country. Correct,
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Speaker 5: and this fallow sort of would have some kind of
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Speaker 5: understanding of what it takes to make a business, you know,
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Speaker 5: and this is where that's.
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Speaker 3: Not praise him too much. No, Kevin Rudd's economic advisor,
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Speaker 3: and we remember some genius decisions there, but then it's
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Speaker 3: very hard to tell Kevin ruddno, I would imagine, So
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Speaker 3: if he comes up with some brilliant idea, you kind
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Speaker 3: of have to execute it. I've been surprised Patrick by
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Speaker 3: how little Housing Minister Clara O'Neil has been scrutinized throughout
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Speaker 3: this last couple of weeks. These changes in negative gearing,
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Speaker 3: capital gains tax, they're all supposed to be around her
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Speaker 3: policy area to make how more affordable, solve the housing crisis,
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Speaker 3: and she seems to have escaped scrutiny largely.
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Speaker 2: They seem to be hiding her as well. And I mean,
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Speaker 2: I think the truth of it is, and people work
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Speaker 2: this out very quickly, is this is not going to
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Speaker 2: increase the supply of housing, and that's what is costing
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Speaker 2: young people from getting into the market in the first place.
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Speaker 2: There's not enough houses. Yeah, we've got high immigration. There's
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Speaker 2: nothing in the budget that alleviates that they pushed this
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Speaker 2: into generational equity line, which is ideology, it's not based
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Speaker 2: in reality.
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Speaker 3: No, and that was I think their great cope, Colleen,
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Speaker 3: that they were going to have this ideological win because
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Speaker 3: as we know, bulk of the media leans left. It's
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Speaker 3: a message that they would like to sell and they thought,
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Speaker 3: particularly young Australians would swallow this up. But so many
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Speaker 3: young Australians are ambitious, they've got their own businesses, they've
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Speaker 3: got share portfolios and they know this is going to
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Speaker 3: hurt them.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Correct, And they sort of used idea language that sounds appealing,
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Speaker 5: but it does. But the policy does the exact opposite
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Speaker 5: of what they've said it would do. And the relationship
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Speaker 5: between CGT and housing ownership doesn't exist. If you look
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Speaker 5: at New Zealand, they have about sixty percent home ownership,
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Speaker 5: so do we and they don't have.
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Speaker 3: Any CGT taxes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it doesn't take very long for people to
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Speaker 5: scratch the surface and go, hang on, you know what
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Speaker 5: are you talking about here? It's all a nonsense and
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Speaker 5: you know this is election changing material. If there was
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Speaker 5: an election now, I think they'd be thrown out.
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Speaker 3: Now. Going to stick with former Prime ministers, Julia Gillard
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Speaker 3: has stuck a question about the law she introduced in
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Speaker 3: twenty thirteen, which has led to an assault against women's
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Speaker 3: gender base rights. A number of pro women campaigners attended
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Speaker 3: the hay On Why Literary Festival, where Gillard was a
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Speaker 3: panel member and introduced as an I quote kick ass woman,
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Speaker 3: but the campaigners erected a large banner which read Julia
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Speaker 3: Gillard destroyer of women's rights Colleene. One woman attempted to
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Speaker 3: ask Julie Gillard about sal Grover in her case before
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Speaker 3: she was interrupted by the moderator, Miss Adler, and the
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Speaker 3: Paddel discussion abruptly ended that.
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Speaker 5: I don't know how you can be called a kick
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Speaker 5: ass woman because it's difficult to understand what a woman
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Speaker 5: is anymore a legislation.
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Speaker 3: She can't define one correct right.
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Speaker 5: The real question here is is the legislation doing as
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Speaker 5: it was intended? It's a simple yes or no. If
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Speaker 5: the answer is yes, then we know what we're fighting against.
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Speaker 5: You know, that's a really big problem. If the answer
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Speaker 5: there is yes.
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Speaker 6: But to the.
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Speaker 5: Question is it doing as it was intended? And the
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Speaker 5: answer should be no, then it needs to be changed immediately.
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Speaker 5: Sel Grover should not be thrown through, dragged through the
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Speaker 5: courts for years on and all these other women who
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Speaker 5: are in court defending simple sentences about the status of women.
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Speaker 5: Women have effectively been you know, disengaged from the law.
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Speaker 3: We are going to look back at this period and
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Speaker 3: again about the mass lunacy. The fact that you could
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Speaker 3: have a woman like Jasmine Sussex dragged through tribunals and
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Speaker 3: courts for saying that men can't breastfeed. This is a
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Speaker 3: breastfeeding expert who helped probably hundreds of women in her
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Speaker 3: career to breastfeed their children. That a simple statement of
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Speaker 3: fact can get you into that sort of strife just
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Speaker 3: tells you there's something terribly wrong in this country. And Patrick,
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Speaker 3: the irony is rich here. This is Australia's first female PM,
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Speaker 3: whose key moment in her prime ministership was that misogyny
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Speaker 3: speech written by a man who brought in a law
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Speaker 3: that has really set back women's rights.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think Colaine's probably onto something. This is back
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Speaker 2: in two thousand and thirty and the world was different.
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Speaker 2: This was intended to sort of give transgender rights, but
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Speaker 2: what it has proven to do is put the rights
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Speaker 2: of biological men who identifies ahead of women and that's wrong.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen this court case playing out over
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Speaker 2: four years self Grover is still looking to appeal it again,
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Speaker 2: and it's because a man, a biological man wants to
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Speaker 2: be part of a women's group. And we've seen, whether
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Speaker 2: it's in sport or in prisons, we've had some terrible
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Speaker 2: things happen in prison because biological men have been put
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Speaker 2: in female prisons.
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Speaker 3: Again, putting male sexual pressures with working male body parts.
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Speaker 3: These aren't post operative men in a female prison full
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Speaker 3: of vulnerable women, many of them with histories of suffering
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Speaker 3: sexual abuse. I mean, it's almost sadistic. I cannot believe
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Speaker 3: we've allowed this to happen in this country. Now to
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Speaker 3: Victoria and were. There were chaotic scenes at Melbourne's County
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Speaker 3: Court yesterday as to arsenals received jail terms if you
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Speaker 3: ask me, manifestly inadequate jail terms. Phoenix Teams and atom
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Speaker 3: Acoit thum pled guilty to two counts of arson causing death,
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Speaker 3: car theft and arson of a car. They were jailed
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Speaker 3: for seven years and six months, with non parole periods
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Speaker 3: of four years. The pair were offered four thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: to set fire to a Sunshine North factory in February
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. The fire spread to a neighboring property,
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Speaker 3: killing two innocent men who were sleeping inside. Chaos reportedly
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Speaker 3: broke out at the court after the family of one
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Speaker 3: of the arsenals lashed out violently, plunging the court into
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Speaker 3: a lockdown. Patrick, seems like life is pretty cheap in
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Speaker 3: this state. Two innocent men died, and we've got jail
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Speaker 3: terms here and minimums of four years.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I think that they can seek parole in two
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Speaker 2: thousand and thirty. No great, And they took four thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars apparently to set fire to something and kill two
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Speaker 2: innocent people. I mean, that's outrageous, isn't it. And it
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Speaker 2: just goes to the lordlessness that this state sort of
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Speaker 2: feels like it's under at the moment. We're hearing horrible
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Speaker 2: stories almost every day when it's bombings or kids in
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Speaker 2: bedrooms with machetes or carthex or whatever. I mean, it
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Speaker 2: really doesn't feel very sick.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't. And we were promised the toughest bail laws
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Speaker 3: coline in the country. We were told that kids would
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Speaker 3: serve adult time for adult crimes, and yet this week
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Speaker 3: we had teenagers released no punishment, one of them I think,
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Speaker 3: got a community order, one of them dream and have
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Speaker 3: a conviction recorded again for arson offenses that caused millions
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Speaker 3: in damage, have left people without jobs, people have lost
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Speaker 3: their livelihoods, terrorized workers, and yet they get a slap
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Speaker 3: on the rings, barely even a slap yeah.
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Speaker 5: And the message that that sends to other would be
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Speaker 5: criminals is astounding, because if you're a young fourteen or
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Speaker 5: fifteen year old who is vulnerable to take four thousand
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Speaker 5: dollars to set somewhere on fire and the consequence of
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Speaker 5: that is very limited, there is no message to them
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Speaker 5: to don't get involved with this stuff, an easy path
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Speaker 5: out for them, and it's exactly the wrong message that
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Speaker 5: we should be sending to these youth.
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Speaker 3: Who are vulnerable.
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Speaker 5: So when people talk about protecting the youth, that is
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Speaker 5: not the way to protect them. The way to protect
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Speaker 5: them is to get them away from all of this
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Speaker 5: stuff and to send a very strong message that if
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Speaker 5: you get involved in this, you will do at old time.
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Speaker 6: But that's not what's happening.
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Speaker 3: And we've seen Queensland implement these laws just in the
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Speaker 3: last twelve months with some fairly dramatic results, and yet
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Speaker 3: we've got some watered down version that's not even being implemented. Patrick.
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Speaker 3: We've got a whole bunch of judges who've been appointed
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Speaker 3: by labor governments over the last twenty odd years, who
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Speaker 3: are soft on crime, their activists, left leaning judges with
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Speaker 3: a certain ideology, and this is the results, folks. Now,
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Speaker 3: let's talk about some tragic news yesterday of AFL great
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Speaker 3: Neil Danaher passing away. He was aged sixty five. He
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Speaker 3: had a long battle with motor neuron disease. He was
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Speaker 3: awarded Australian of the Year in twenty twenty five. Patrick,
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Speaker 3: he will be honored with a state funeral. And what
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Speaker 3: he has done for M and D awareness research, the
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Speaker 3: amount of money he raised and the fight he thought.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he is an inspiration and enduring inspiration.
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Speaker 2: Look, he's the most inspiring Australian of the year I
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Speaker 2: can remember. I saw her him back in October. His
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Speaker 2: body was ravaged by the disease, but his breastless mind,
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Speaker 2: as he called it, was full of life and he's
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Speaker 2: sort of After spending a couple of hours with him,
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Speaker 2: just talking with him and he had to use his
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Speaker 2: eyeballs to communicate through a computer, he felt uplifted. Even
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Speaker 2: though this poor man was sort of dying in front
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Speaker 2: of your eyes, you actually felt his joy and his
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Speaker 2: gratitude in a way that is very very rare.
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Speaker 3: Colin. I guess the message he conveyed is you can't
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Speaker 3: choose what happens to you, but you can choose how
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Speaker 3: you react. And he reacted with an almighty fight. And
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Speaker 3: the money he's raised, in the awareness he's raised will
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Speaker 3: down the track save lives.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he said some thing like after he
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Speaker 5: got past asking why me, it was the what now?
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Speaker 5: And he put every ounce of energy that he had
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Speaker 5: into the what now? And I think he's raised something
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Speaker 5: like one hundred and thirty million dollars or something towards research.
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Speaker 5: So a lot of people will benefit from everything that
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Speaker 5: he's done with the last couple of years.
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Speaker 3: An amazing man. Now, we showed you last night footage
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Speaker 3: of Victorian premiergus Into Alan going daugh to door in
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Speaker 3: her electorate in Bendigo, with reports is in danger of
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Speaker 3: losing her seat. While the comics are already having fun
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Speaker 3: with the footage, here is John Bernard Caruz.
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Speaker 8: It looks like a door to door saleswoman. It's in
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Speaker 8: fact the Victorian Premier just sent to Allen trying to
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Speaker 8: secure votes and.
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Speaker 9: Get off my property before I call the police when
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Speaker 9: you go and saw another machete bin somewhere.
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Speaker 8: Internal polling reportedly shows she risks losing her seat at
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Speaker 8: the election.
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Speaker 3: Oh, colleg the skits right themselves. It's just too easy,
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Speaker 3: isn't it.
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Speaker 10: I want to be that man.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've got to say it takes a brave
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Speaker 3: premiere to go to doord at all, particularly knowing the
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Speaker 3: ill feeling in regional Victoria in Bendigo. Is she going
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Speaker 3: to hold on to a sea? Patrick, It's a good question.
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Speaker 2: Look, the feeling is visceral, and it has been for
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Speaker 2: Dan Andrews before her. I think it has deepened. You've
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Speaker 2: got the whole sort of one nation push Now it's
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Speaker 2: anyone's sort of gets what will happen. But she could
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Speaker 2: lose her seat extraordinary easily.
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Speaker 3: Patrick, Carline, Colleen Harken, thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 3: The true cost of Chris Bowen's Cop President mission has
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Speaker 3: been revealed. Taxpayers will be slugged almost one hundred and
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Speaker 3: fifty million dollars for their climate change minister's cop related activities.
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Speaker 3: He was pressed about this exorbitant figure by Nashley Barr
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Speaker 3: on Sunrise this morning.
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Speaker 10: This president, should I call you.
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Speaker 11: Most people would agree protecting our environment is obviously important.
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Speaker 11: But just the Office of the Presidents he need one
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Speaker 11: hundred and fifty million dollars. So do you think it's
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Speaker 11: appropriate for public servants to be flying business class on
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Speaker 11: a three our flight.
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Speaker 12: From Look, there's always there's always a value for there's
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Speaker 12: always a value for money assessment given to every travel.
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Speaker 12: You'll always be public servants traveling representing our country. Now,
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Speaker 12: Fuji is a very important country, our region.
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Speaker 10: Mil it is four to We've just googled it.
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Speaker 11: Actually, the FS camera to Nandy you can fly business
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Speaker 11: class is.
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Speaker 10: Four to six times more than economy.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is esteem geologist, author and executive director
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Speaker 3: at Hancock Energy Professor Ian plimber In. Chris Bowen's department
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Speaker 3: has already built tax pays almost half a million dollars
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Speaker 3: in just four months to send these officials overseas. At
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Speaker 3: least three hundred and forty five thousand was splashed on
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Speaker 3: twenty five return flights. And as you heard, staff flew
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Speaker 3: business class on every occasion. Is that money well spent?
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Speaker 1: A lot of businesses have rules for travel, and that
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Speaker 1: is if the trip is longer than five hours, you
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Speaker 1: may travel business class Canberton Nandy is not a long flight.
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Speaker 1: I do not know why public servants should be up
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Speaker 1: the front of the plane. Mister Bowen is from the
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Speaker 1: Labor Party. He represents the poor people, he represents the workers,
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Speaker 1: and so he's got his snout in the trough spending
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Speaker 1: huge amounts of money like sixty two thousand dollars on
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Speaker 1: phone calls from Azerbaijann. I mean, you'd have to have
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Speaker 1: one hundred girlfriends to be able to do that, but anyway,
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Speaker 1: he managed to do it. And he's a man who
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Speaker 1: is representing the Labor Party. Now, the Labor Party should
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Speaker 1: be looking after people who are unemployed, who are people
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Speaker 1: who are at the bottom of the pile. They claim
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Speaker 1: they do, but they don't. They are absolutely robbing the
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Speaker 1: tax player blind. Now, this one hundred and fifty million
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Speaker 1: is the taxes at five the workers pay. And the
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Speaker 1: word worker is an interesting one because I doubt whether
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Speaker 1: mister Bown has had a real job in his life.
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Speaker 1: He certainly hasn't put his hand deep into his pocket.
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Speaker 1: He's certainly not representing the worker. So this is just
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Speaker 1: the biggest theft of public money that you can imagine
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Speaker 1: has happened for a very long period of time, and
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Speaker 1: I think people should be absolutely livid about this. People
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Speaker 1: who voted labor must be thinking, well, what the hell
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Speaker 1: did we vote for? Did we vote for people to
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Speaker 1: pillage the system, And this is what's happening now. To
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Speaker 1: be called president, to be called president of COP, it's
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Speaker 1: gone to his head.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I've been.
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Speaker 1: President of a number of organizations. All it means is
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Speaker 1: to get more work and people want more out of you.
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Speaker 1: But there is a serious problem now with the leadership
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Speaker 1: in this country. They cannot lead. They are ripping us
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Speaker 1: off blind we the worker pay and it's about time
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Speaker 1: the people vote labor realize that they have made a
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Speaker 1: mistake and just quietly pension of these people who are
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Speaker 1: costing us the fortune.
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Speaker 3: Well, talking about workers, a tally of employment figures has
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Speaker 3: revealed that the equivalent of one hundred and five full
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Speaker 3: time staff have been hired to work on COP negotiations.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that is just absurd. Now Australia's energy regulator
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Speaker 3: has scaled back steep electricity price cuts proposed in March,
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Speaker 3: dimming the prospect of meaningful bill relief for households. Final
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Speaker 3: determinations released on Tuesday showed materially smaller reductions than those
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Speaker 3: outlined in the Australian Energy Regulator's draft ruling. While most
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Speaker 3: households across New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia will
19:49
Speaker 3: still receive lower default electricity prices from July one, the
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Speaker 3: final outcome is noticeably less generous than the draft ruling
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Speaker 3: unveiled in March, but Chris Bowen took this result as
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Speaker 3: a victory lap for his renewable plan.
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Speaker 13: I expect the continued influence of renewable energy. You're putting
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Speaker 13: substantial downward pressure on prices, substantial doward pressure on prices,
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Speaker 13: but we'll also have challenges and headwinds.
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Speaker 3: J is this proof that renewables are the cheapest form
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Speaker 3: of energy.
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Speaker 1: Thirty years ago we had some of the cheapest energy
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Speaker 1: in the world, and that was from coal. Once we
20:31
Speaker 1: put wind and sold into the grid, the cost of
20:34
Speaker 1: energy went up enormously. It is not proof at all.
20:37
Speaker 1: It is proof that the system that they want and
20:40
Speaker 1: they used to have eighty two percent of our energy
20:43
Speaker 1: from renewables by twenty thirty. It's proof that this is
20:46
Speaker 1: not working. It's totally failed policy and it's a fantasy
20:50
Speaker 1: to think that we can live off sunbeams and sea breezes.
20:53
Speaker 1: So it's the exact opposite. We once were a cheap
20:58
Speaker 1: country with cheap power. We could manufacture things and we
21:02
Speaker 1: could travel cheaply. We now can't. What is the difference.
21:06
Speaker 1: It's these solar panels which have been riched the Chinese,
21:09
Speaker 1: and the wind turbines which have been rich to Chinese.
21:12
Speaker 1: And it's the energy companies, many of which are foreign owned,
21:16
Speaker 1: and they don't care about the average person's energy. All
21:20
Speaker 1: they want to do is to make a whacking profit
21:23
Speaker 1: and they are rubbing their hands with glee to have
21:26
Speaker 1: such a daby minister as Minister Boeing.
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Speaker 3: Well, at the next election, we're going to have some
21:32
Speaker 3: clear choices. We're not going to have this Uni party
21:35
Speaker 3: decision with both sides backing Paris and backing net zero.
21:40
Speaker 3: Coalition has walked away from that zero. They're still part
21:43
Speaker 3: of Paris One. Nation have been very clear in their
21:46
Speaker 3: policy position when it comes to energy. How do you
21:49
Speaker 3: see that debate going? Do you see it as one
21:52
Speaker 3: of the critical issues in the lead up to the
21:54
Speaker 3: next election.
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Speaker 1: I see it as the critical issue. The reason for
21:59
Speaker 1: that is that if we increase costs, then they flow
22:03
Speaker 1: through and once we increase energy costs, it flows through
22:07
Speaker 1: to every single thing we do. Embedded in everything we do.
22:11
Speaker 1: Every department in Canberra is an energy cost. Now we
22:17
Speaker 1: have the Labor Party that's trying to send us broke
22:20
Speaker 1: and trying to put workers out of a job. We
22:22
Speaker 1: have the Liberals who are half pregnant and they can't
22:25
Speaker 1: decide how they got pregnant anyway. We have the Nationals
22:28
Speaker 1: who have now changed their tune. We have one nation
22:31
Speaker 1: who have been consistent, consistent that this whole policy of
22:35
Speaker 1: Paris net zero and human induced climate change is a
22:39
Speaker 1: load of cobblers, and we know that from history. We
22:43
Speaker 1: know it from the UN, and the UN have backpedaled
22:46
Speaker 1: from the IPCC scaring that they did of us some
22:50
Speaker 1: years ago. They're now trying to wash their hands of it.
22:53
Speaker 1: We should know from history that climate has always changed
22:56
Speaker 1: and that has been unrelated to carbon dioxide. So we
23:00
Speaker 1: have quite a bit of shuffling to do yet in
23:02
Speaker 1: the Liberal Party before the moderates can decide that they
23:05
Speaker 1: will never ever win an election if they continue with
23:09
Speaker 1: his half pregnant policy.
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Speaker 3: The impliment thank you so much for your time still
23:15
Speaker 3: to karma. Left is losing alas the latest from the US,
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Speaker 3: including attempts to rewrite the history of the Baal m
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Speaker 3: Ryots Kosher Gator is up next. You're watching the Reader
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Speaker 3: Paney Show, and it's time for Left is Losing It.
23:41
Speaker 3: Here's a blast from the past. Cindy Lauper has popped
23:45
Speaker 3: a grid head up to claim that voter integrity a
23:48
Speaker 3: measure backed by eighty four percent of Americans. Well, apparently
23:52
Speaker 3: it's all about suppressing the vote of women.
23:56
Speaker 4: Hi, it's me Cindy. Don't be fooled. The Seafact is
24:01
Speaker 4: not about protecting against voter fraud. It's about voter suppression.
24:06
Speaker 4: Congress is trying to pass the Save Act to make
24:09
Speaker 4: it harder to vote, especially for millions of women. First
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Speaker 4: they come after our ray to control our bodies, and
24:17
Speaker 4: now they're coming after our ray to vote, So we
24:21
Speaker 4: must stop them. We are half the population. You need
24:24
Speaker 4: to stand up now.
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Speaker 3: You know, after all these years, I think some of
24:28
Speaker 3: that peroxide has seeped into her brain. Let's go from
24:32
Speaker 3: the ridiculous, not to the sublime, but the substandard. Here
24:36
Speaker 3: is Bruce Springsteen again, ranting and raving like a lunatic
24:41
Speaker 3: about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. He even reads this
24:44
Speaker 3: sad little rant from an autocue, the.
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Speaker 14: Richest man in an abandon the world's to death and
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Speaker 14: disease through the dismantling of us.
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Speaker 3: This is more.
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Speaker 15: We're on the front page.
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Speaker 14: But children die every day, And this is happening now.
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Speaker 3: We are undermining native and the world order.
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Speaker 14: That kept us safe and that global peace for eighty years.
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Speaker 14: Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of
25:22
Speaker 14: any unpleasant or inconvenient facts, like the sole history of
25:27
Speaker 14: the brutality of slavery.
25:29
Speaker 3: And here is Elon Musk's response on X. He wrote,
25:34
Speaker 3: Springsteen is ironically an America hating idiot and billionaire hypocrite.
25:40
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Bruce Springsteen is a billionaire. Use your own
25:44
Speaker 3: money for lefty activism, Bruce, not the taxpayers. Now let's
25:48
Speaker 3: check out this amusing AI response. This is really all
25:52
Speaker 3: Bruce deserves and staying in the music industry. Here is socialist,
26:06
Speaker 3: billionaire hating songstress Billie Eilish, you know the one who
26:10
Speaker 3: says no one is illegal on stolen Land. Here she
26:13
Speaker 3: is indulging in more hypocrisy by launching another commercial venture,
26:19
Speaker 3: pushing her overpriced perfume.
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Speaker 7: It's Billy Your Turn two is now available to purchase
26:26
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26:37
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26:47
Speaker 3: The Left's attempts to rewrite history never fail to appall.
26:50
Speaker 3: Here is the uniquely stupid or should that be uniquely dishonest?
26:54
Speaker 3: There are no other options. Sunny hostin Here's Sunny claims
26:58
Speaker 3: with a straight face that the j When you Were
27:00
Speaker 3: six ride caused more damage than the BLM riots across
27:04
Speaker 3: the country.
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Speaker 16: I just think we need to make it clear that
27:08
Speaker 16: there can be no comparison between the Black Lives Matter
27:12
Speaker 16: movement and what we saw in January sixth, So I
27:14
Speaker 16: just wanted to make that good. There were very limited
27:19
Speaker 16: destruction of property and violence during during the uprising.
27:23
Speaker 3: The truth is BLM's summer of love. The riots arson
27:26
Speaker 3: mindless violence and destruction across America, caused billions in damage,
27:31
Speaker 3: costs more than twenty lives, and saw many more injured.
27:35
Speaker 3: But this is how the media covered what they called
27:39
Speaker 3: fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
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Speaker 17: I want to be clear and how I characterized this.
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Speaker 10: This is mostly a protast.
27:46
Speaker 9: It is not It is not, generally speaking unruly what
27:50
Speaker 9: fires have been started?
27:53
Speaker 18: Oh boy, what you are seeing now? These images came
27:57
Speaker 18: and come and start. Contrast to what we saw over
27:59
Speaker 18: the course of the daytime hours in Kenosha and into
28:03
Speaker 18: the early evening, which were largely peaceful demonstrations in the
28:05
Speaker 18: face of law enforcement.
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Speaker 3: Fiery but mostly peaceful. Yes, the media whitewash doesn't change
28:11
Speaker 3: the facts. This is Minneapolis after BLM's Summer of Love.
28:16
Speaker 3: BLM's reign of destruction caused around two billion in damage
28:20
Speaker 3: across the country, but so much more harm was inflicted
28:24
Speaker 3: on communities, The killings, the assaults, all in the name
28:28
Speaker 3: of the Marxist BLM, and under the false notions that
28:32
Speaker 3: there was a spate of white on black violence, particularly
28:36
Speaker 3: from the police. Let's bring in Sky News contributor Kosher
28:41
Speaker 3: Gayta Kosha. The left have selective amnesia here, or they
28:45
Speaker 3: hope the American people do both.
28:49
Speaker 15: Maybe I don't know, it's only has to sound a
28:51
Speaker 15: little bit sick and that clips she shouldn't have stayed home.
28:54
Speaker 15: So trying to sell this thank goodness for social media
28:57
Speaker 15: where those clips will be circulating into purpatey unless you know,
29:01
Speaker 15: even that's taken away. But people know the thing is
29:04
Speaker 15: that the whole culture coalesced around that narrative around BLM.
29:07
Speaker 15: So the media doing these pantomime style segments where there's
29:10
Speaker 15: literally fire behind them and they say it's mostly peaceful.
29:13
Speaker 15: Then you add all of corporate America making their logos
29:16
Speaker 15: on LinkedIn black. Remember that it was all about you know,
29:18
Speaker 15: oh yeah.
29:19
Speaker 3: Soliday, everyone posting those black squares.
29:21
Speaker 15: Every everywhere versus signing the pins. You're going out for
29:25
Speaker 15: dinner and mobs would come up to you and say,
29:28
Speaker 15: you know, Black Lives Matter, you better say it and
29:29
Speaker 15: raise your fist. So all that was happening and that helps.
29:33
Speaker 6: Prop up this narrative.
29:34
Speaker 15: And then on the flip side, of course, J six,
29:35
Speaker 15: we know what happened, and those people were held in
29:38
Speaker 15: jail pre trial detention for months and months, and you
29:41
Speaker 15: know how that's many.
29:42
Speaker 3: Of them in solitary confinement.
29:44
Speaker 6: For ultimately trespassing, which is what it was compared to this.
29:47
Speaker 6: So the whole world sees that. And despite that, I think.
29:51
Speaker 15: The true believers, like Sonny will continue to their last
29:53
Speaker 15: breath pushing that.
29:55
Speaker 3: Nardive well, they compared January sixth to nine to eleven.
29:58
Speaker 3: I mean, these people insane. You can't reason with them.
30:02
Speaker 3: If someone is that far gone, I don't even know
30:05
Speaker 3: how you have any sort of a sensible debate with them.
30:09
Speaker 3: Now it's a Memorial Day in America and President Trump
30:13
Speaker 3: delivered a speech paying tribute to the fallen. Here he
30:16
Speaker 3: is at Arlington National Cemetery.
30:19
Speaker 19: With Reverend Hearts. We honor those who fell so that
30:23
Speaker 19: our republic might stand, those who died so that our
30:27
Speaker 19: nation could live, those who gave up their sacred late
30:31
Speaker 19: on earth, so that the sublime light of American freedom
30:36
Speaker 19: we jined forever and ever.
30:40
Speaker 2: This Memorial Day we salute them.
30:45
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, we've got Democrats paying tribute to George Floyd. Among them,
30:49
Speaker 3: Minneapolis met Jacob Frey, who posted today we remember George Floyd,
30:55
Speaker 3: who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six
30:58
Speaker 3: years ago, home and changed our city forever. He then
31:02
Speaker 3: posted another five tweets about George Floyd Kosher. He posted
31:07
Speaker 3: one tweet about Memorial Day about fallen soldiers.
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Speaker 15: I think it's going to be Memorial Day twenty fifty
31:13
Speaker 15: six and he will still be posting that he is
31:15
Speaker 15: really a one trick pony. He will go down and
31:18
Speaker 15: infamy as the mayor who's crying crocodile t here weeping.
31:22
Speaker 6: Well, he won his.
31:25
Speaker 15: Re election as mayor by the skin of his teeth,
31:27
Speaker 15: defeating somebody from the Somali community, which is a whole
31:29
Speaker 15: other issue with Minnesota. So that was kind of funny,
31:32
Speaker 15: maybe the luster of the two problems. But he knows
31:36
Speaker 15: that he's fallen out of public popularity. That whole act
31:39
Speaker 15: that he did looks incredibly foolish as time goes on,
31:43
Speaker 15: but he seems to be clinging to that, and I
31:45
Speaker 15: think he too will until the bitter end.
31:47
Speaker 3: But he is still held up George Floyd, this man
31:50
Speaker 3: with a significant criminal history, as some sort of a
31:55
Speaker 3: hero of the left. We've got statues, they've got, you know,
31:59
Speaker 3: posts like the one Frey put up weren't uncommon today
32:03
Speaker 3: and amongst a lot of prominent people, he is held
32:06
Speaker 3: up as these is hero figure has.
32:09
Speaker 15: Been mythologized almost and because of what we talked about
32:12
Speaker 15: the Black squares and the ritual signaling and the pins
32:14
Speaker 15: and all of that, that even as we know and
32:16
Speaker 15: we can contrast J six to be a Lamb and
32:19
Speaker 15: other things that we're discussing, that level of mythologization doesn't disappear.
32:24
Speaker 15: So I think forever there will be a faction of
32:25
Speaker 15: society that don't even probably know his background, don't care
32:28
Speaker 15: about any of it, but he's sort of is emblematic
32:30
Speaker 15: of what they believe is a systemic injustice and society,
32:33
Speaker 15: and you know he has earned.
32:35
Speaker 3: Well, there's been so many polls done, research done into
32:39
Speaker 3: the number of police shootings of unarmed black men in
32:43
Speaker 3: America each year, and the figures are just so wildly wrong.
32:47
Speaker 3: People think there were one hundreds something, there were thousands,
32:50
Speaker 3: when that's right, there may be ten. Because these tactics.
32:52
Speaker 6: Work in terms of wharping people's understanding.
32:54
Speaker 3: Of the things. Now, what do you get when a
32:58
Speaker 3: Marxist endorses a dude with a Nazi tattoo? You're getting
33:02
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders here endorsing Gray Platina for the Senate Kosher
33:08
Speaker 3: The more we learn about this guy, Platna. The worse
33:11
Speaker 3: it gets. How is he a Democrat candidate?
33:15
Speaker 6: It is so weird.
33:16
Speaker 15: And Susan Collins, who he's challenging is has always been
33:19
Speaker 15: in a tricky spot because she's a Republican senator in
33:22
Speaker 15: a very blue part of Maine and she somehow has
33:24
Speaker 15: always managed to win any get out And initially people thought, Okay,
33:29
Speaker 15: her pulling is down, this is ripe for the taking.
33:32
Speaker 15: And then just like Taller Vico and Texas, the more
33:34
Speaker 15: we learn about the candidates they put forward in something
33:37
Speaker 15: that structurally is advantageous to the Dems, you just laugh.
33:40
Speaker 6: Why did this happen for them?
33:42
Speaker 9: You know?
33:43
Speaker 6: Good for Susan Collins.
33:44
Speaker 15: And the funny thing too is we're in this era
33:46
Speaker 15: now where you can kind of avoid debate and just
33:48
Speaker 15: sort of coast on the party structure and the mechanics
33:51
Speaker 15: in particular states because the country is so divided.
33:54
Speaker 6: But unfortunately for him.
33:55
Speaker 15: He's all over social media and things he's said and
33:57
Speaker 15: done are coming back to haunt it.
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Speaker 3: Be scaring off established establishment democrats. You've got, you've got
34:04
Speaker 3: them all backing him from what I can see that
34:07
Speaker 3: shying away from this character. And it's not just the
34:10
Speaker 3: Nazi tattoo, and I can't believe I'm not saying it's
34:13
Speaker 3: not just the Nazi tatto. The fact that this man
34:15
Speaker 3: is a Nazi tattoo on his chest is a problem.
34:19
Speaker 3: But shocking things he's said and written too many to
34:23
Speaker 3: list here, but everything from commentary about Latin hookers to
34:28
Speaker 3: mocking US serviceman. Here he is asked whether he wants
34:32
Speaker 3: to apologize for saying a purple heart recipient didn't deserve
34:36
Speaker 3: to live.
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Speaker 20: I was wondering a few regret the posts about the
34:40
Speaker 20: purple heart veteran. If you think you need to apologize
34:46
Speaker 20: to him, what you would say to the voters who
34:51
Speaker 20: might be upset by it?
34:53
Speaker 2: Out four tools the O contry.
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Speaker 4: Any attempt to say that I disrespect latrooms is slanderous
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Speaker 4: and offensive.
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Speaker 20: Do you think you am an apology?
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Speaker 1: Do you know how many of my friends a purple hurts?
35:07
Speaker 7: Do you know how many of my.
35:08
Speaker 20: Friends go I'm sure a lot.
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Speaker 3: Oh please, I don't get how many tours you did.
35:13
Speaker 3: It is not slanderous or offensive to bring up things
35:17
Speaker 3: you have said or written. And he did say a
35:20
Speaker 3: purple heart recipient didn't deserve to live.
35:23
Speaker 15: He was annoyed by the question. You just wanted to
35:24
Speaker 15: put the beers in the back of his jeep and
35:26
Speaker 15: drive off. You could tell, But I think you know
35:29
Speaker 15: your point earlier that the Democrat Party is very loyal
35:32
Speaker 15: and organized.
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Speaker 6: It's a machine.
35:34
Speaker 15: He happens to be the face of the machine in
35:36
Speaker 15: Maine district too, and so whether it's Bernie Sanders or
35:39
Speaker 15: the other establishment figures, they're just going to back him
35:42
Speaker 15: no matter what. And he has to just get through
35:44
Speaker 15: a question here and there from a reporter, which he
35:46
Speaker 15: probably will in that fashion, and it will.
35:48
Speaker 6: Still be a very close race.
35:50
Speaker 3: Well that was I think Fox News questioning him. Most
35:52
Speaker 3: of the media is just giving him a very sweet run. Indeed.
35:56
Speaker 3: Now let's go to this report from the New York Post.
36:00
Speaker 3: They're saying that a woman who had her breasts removed
36:03
Speaker 3: after identifying as non binary has reached a confidential settlement
36:08
Speaker 3: after suing her mental health providers, reportedly for three point
36:12
Speaker 3: five million dollars. Camille Kiefel, thirty six, now filed a
36:18
Speaker 3: malpractice lawsuit against two Oregon therapists, whom she alleges inappropriately
36:23
Speaker 3: approved her for the surgery after brief telemedicine sessions despite
36:29
Speaker 3: her history of mental health issues including trauma, depression, suicidal ideation,
36:35
Speaker 3: and adhd Kosher. This was an adult making this decision
36:41
Speaker 3: and looks like it's a multimillion dollar settlement from these reports.
36:46
Speaker 3: The lawsuits involving confused children who've been sent down this path,
36:51
Speaker 3: I mean, they're going to be something else.
36:53
Speaker 15: They will be I think so far it's been twenty
36:55
Speaker 15: to thirty or so, so we expect that will accelerate.
36:58
Speaker 15: The Supreme Court had a rule last year that paved
37:02
Speaker 15: the way a little bit for this because after they
37:04
Speaker 15: granted right to the state, somebody was suing how that's
37:06
Speaker 15: actually a violation on discrimination law and the Supreme Court
37:08
Speaker 15: held it's not, which makes it a little bit easier for.
37:11
Speaker 6: More of these two come through.
37:13
Speaker 15: Unfortunately, though, I think just the instrument of lawsuits is
37:17
Speaker 15: slow and costly and time taking relative to the damage
37:20
Speaker 15: that this industry has done. So even though the lawsuits
37:22
Speaker 15: hopefully will accelerate and change behavior because that's what we're after,
37:25
Speaker 15: ultimately it may not be, as I hate to say,
37:28
Speaker 15: but it may not be as fast and as sweet.
37:30
Speaker 3: I don't see class action lawsuits happening, just given how
37:34
Speaker 3: many children have been sent down this path, and for kids,
37:38
Speaker 3: of course, the results are even more horrendous potentially because
37:43
Speaker 3: that could be left infertile, be left with all sorts
37:46
Speaker 3: of sexual function, and you know, they're making these decisions
37:50
Speaker 3: at an age where they can't get a tattoo, they
37:52
Speaker 3: can't drive. But the whole thing is go down.
37:54
Speaker 15: This path maybe, and it may not even require every
37:58
Speaker 15: single person being given just though we would hope that
38:01
Speaker 15: sometimes it just takes a few to change behavior for
38:03
Speaker 15: those coming forward. The biggest one in the world in
38:05
Speaker 15: the UK for Tavistock, there is a class action lawsuit
38:08
Speaker 15: sort of brewing, but they haven't gotten traction yet. There
38:11
Speaker 15: was that one individual plaintiff who did win that led
38:14
Speaker 15: to the closure of Tavistock, but then it was reversed
38:16
Speaker 15: on appeal. So that's sort of the broader point that
38:18
Speaker 15: even with this, you're still up against protected interests that
38:21
Speaker 15: are fighting it.
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Speaker 6: But yes, maybe one.
38:24
Speaker 15: Or two class action lawsuits will be the watershed moment
38:26
Speaker 15: that this needs.
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Speaker 3: I think once you have a handful of multimillion dollar settlements,
38:31
Speaker 3: then you're going to get a very different reaction from
38:34
Speaker 3: the medical fraternity. Now we've talked plenty about the ballroom.
38:39
Speaker 3: Let's talk about some of prisident Trump's other works that
38:42
Speaker 3: he's doing around DC, including the Lincoln Memorial Pool. Here
38:46
Speaker 3: is one DC locals take, I'm.
38:48
Speaker 6: Going to dos myself as a moving that.
38:50
Speaker 18: I've lived near Meridian Hill Park in DC for almost
38:53
Speaker 18: two years now, and.
38:57
Speaker 3: The water's never been in the pond there.
39:00
Speaker 4: This has never happened before.
39:02
Speaker 6: I was always too afraid to come here because of
39:04
Speaker 6: the homeless people. But they're all gone, and it seriously
39:07
Speaker 6: looks like Paris. I mean, I've never seen this many
39:11
Speaker 6: people out here.
39:15
Speaker 3: I mean, look, everyone is enjoying it. A year ago
39:19
Speaker 3: Trump said he was going to clean out DC and
39:20
Speaker 3: he did. Even the blue head tourists are enjoying it.
39:24
Speaker 3: The kosher I mean they go, that's a surprise. And
39:28
Speaker 3: yet there's still controversy around this. Even though the costs
39:32
Speaker 3: of some of these projects are a fraction of what
39:36
Speaker 3: the Democrats were expecting to pay when they were in power,
39:39
Speaker 3: people are still saying, oh no, it's costing this much
39:42
Speaker 3: during a cost of living crisis.
39:44
Speaker 15: This is a losing issue for the people opposing it,
39:47
Speaker 15: whether it's here, whether it's LA And we're seeing what
39:48
Speaker 15: Spencer Pratt and the success he's having. Just a simple message,
39:52
Speaker 15: clean up the streets, clean up homelessness, maintain basic infrastructure,
39:56
Speaker 15: drain the pool once in a while, clean the monuments
40:00
Speaker 15: is very popular, especially when we know how much government
40:02
Speaker 15: wastes on all sorts of things.
40:04
Speaker 6: You know, this feels like a good use of money.
40:06
Speaker 15: But if Trump is doing it d facto, there's going
40:09
Speaker 15: to be a certain level of opposition. There's nothing you
40:10
Speaker 15: can do about that. He of course knows how to
40:13
Speaker 15: troll them. It's under the EO Make America Beautiful Again,
40:16
Speaker 15: which he signed last year, so that those words tend
40:18
Speaker 15: to just really rise like Mavera.
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Speaker 3: That's even better than Maha. Yes, make America healthy again. Now,
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Speaker 3: before you go kosher, we've seen the slow decline of
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Speaker 3: DEI in corporate America diversity equity inclusion since Trump came
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Speaker 3: to power, but it is still there. Let's hear from
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Speaker 3: JP Morgan CEO Jmie Diamond.
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Speaker 20: Can we overdo DEI in a lot of case?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we did, you know, and people know that.
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Speaker 3: We overdid it. Kosher surely any level of deliberate discrimination,
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Speaker 3: which is what DEI is. It's got beautiful sounding names
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Speaker 3: but it is deliberate discrimination. Any level of that is
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Speaker 3: surely wrong.
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Speaker 6: It is, it's illegal.
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Speaker 15: But it's another thing, like we talked about with BLM,
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Speaker 15: these things get mythologized, and DEI sort of just became
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Speaker 15: a high level, sort of symbol of equity. And like
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Speaker 15: all these things that you say, it sounds good, and
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Speaker 15: I think a lot of people genuinely then start believing
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Speaker 15: it without thinking underneath, well, what does it actually mean?
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Speaker 15: Are you actually precluding white males from jobs in investment
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Speaker 15: banking as an example, or elsewhere.
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Speaker 3: So it's funny that he had as students from university, right,
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Speaker 3: I mean, some of the biggest victims of policies like
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Speaker 3: these are people who are ethnic minorities, but who come
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Speaker 3: from very successful ethnic minority right.
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Speaker 15: And that's Supreme Court ruling for Harvard. Of course, there's
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Speaker 15: one thing. So again, all these things sort of break
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Speaker 15: the back of these edifices once they take root.
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Speaker 6: But it is really hard.
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Speaker 15: It takes a long long time to completely change that culture.
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Speaker 6: It often will shape shift.
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Speaker 15: DEI can shape shift and emerge under a different name,
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Speaker 15: a different label, a different mask.
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Speaker 6: But there is progress.
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Speaker 15: I think just yesterday there was a settlement with IBM
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Speaker 15: for something similar around this, so small wins to try
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Speaker 15: and undo what they've put into police that isn't deeply
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Speaker 15: wrong and everyone knows it.
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Speaker 3: Koshergata, thank you so much, Thank you. Coming up the
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Speaker 3: tawdry pickup line used by the man formerly known as
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Speaker 3: Prince Andrew, Alex Stein has the details welcome back. We
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Speaker 3: spoke on the show yesterday about Chelsea Handler and Drew
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Speaker 3: Carey's foul mouth rants against Spencer Pratt. Well, Spencer has
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Speaker 3: delivered an incredible comeback posting on X. Isn't it weird
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Speaker 3: how the two comedians histrionically lashing out against me are
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Speaker 3: both in the Epstein files? What are the odds joining
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Speaker 3: me now? Is comedian and hosts of After Hours with
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Speaker 3: Alex Stein. Alex He's not messing around. You come for
42:54
Speaker 3: Spencer Pratt, and he's going to come back at you
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Speaker 3: with receipts.
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Speaker 17: You know, Rita. I don't think anybody has been trained
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Speaker 17: in internet drama more than Spencer Pratt, so he can
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Speaker 17: take anything they can ditch out to him. So I'm
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Speaker 17: really excited to see what happens in this upcoming election
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Speaker 17: for the mayor of Los Angeles. This is going to
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Speaker 17: be great. When Spencer Pratt gets at the.
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Speaker 3: Run off, well, the odds are looking good for him
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Speaker 3: at this stage. He's considered a seventy seven percent chance
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Speaker 3: of advancing in the La Mayor rice. But Alex, is
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Speaker 3: there really any chance of winning the thing? Because this
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Speaker 3: is La after all, And let's be honest, Karen Bass
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Speaker 3: is probably going to be re elected.
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Speaker 17: No, Rita, come on, don't be like that. First of all,
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Speaker 17: Karen Bass can even fill up the water reservoirs to
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Speaker 17: stop the wildfire. I mean, that is the bare minimum
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Speaker 17: requirement when it comes to being a mayor of a
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Speaker 17: major metropolitan city like Los Angeles. So I would argue
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Speaker 17: that all of the citizens of Los Angeles have felt
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Speaker 17: let down by the current leadership, so they want somebody
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Speaker 17: that's different, they want somebody that's unorthodox, and I think
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Speaker 17: Spencer Bratt checks all those boxes.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 3: I hope for the sake of LA and all the
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Speaker 3: same people who remain there that he wins. But it
44:10
Speaker 3: is LA. I mean, they keep voting for this nonsense.
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Speaker 3: That's why they're in the mess they're in now. Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump was introduced by Giants quarterback Jackson Dart at a
44:21
Speaker 3: rally in New York that supplies plenty of people. Darts
44:26
Speaker 3: brief speech drew criticism from one of his Giants teammates,
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Speaker 3: Abdul Carter, who said in a tweet, thought this was
44:35
Speaker 3: ai what we doing man, But not long after that
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Speaker 3: he posted a follow up saying me and JD six
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Speaker 3: are good. We spoke earlier as men. Y'all can keep
44:47
Speaker 3: y'all narratives, Alex. I'm going to say I'm impressed by
44:51
Speaker 3: this because any prominent person, whether they're an athlete or
44:56
Speaker 3: a celebrity, who sides on the concer conservative side of
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Speaker 3: politics is going to copper. They're going to copy it
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Speaker 3: from the industry, They're going to copy it from the media.
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Speaker 3: And this quarterback has taken the hate and taken a stand.
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Speaker 9: Well.
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Speaker 17: Jackson Dart is awesome. I'm a big fan ever since
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Speaker 17: he was an ol miss. But let me tell you
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Speaker 17: something read and I don't know if we're going to
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Speaker 17: get into it later in this interview, but I'm here
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Speaker 17: in West Palm Beach breaking a huge story for James
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Speaker 17: o'keef O'Keefe media group, talking specifically about how a person
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Speaker 17: high up in the Washington Nationals organization a major league
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Speaker 17: Baseball or league. Let me just put it this way.
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Speaker 17: Pete hegsehet tries to meet the players, and there's literally
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Speaker 17: somebody from the organization that stops Pete hegset from meeting
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Speaker 17: the conservative players at the Washington Nationals. So this is
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Speaker 17: a thing that is league wide. Whether it's the NFL,
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Speaker 17: whether it is the NBA, it doesn't matter. They don't
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Speaker 17: want conservative people meeting with these players and getting some
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Speaker 17: sort of conservative This is a thing that's happening in
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Speaker 17: all different sports leagues. And tomorrow we'll bring a huge
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Speaker 17: story explicitly just about this.
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Speaker 3: Well I'm going to wait with beta breath for that,
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Speaker 3: but I like what you've already told us. So you've
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Speaker 3: got people at the Washington Nationals now trying to obstruct
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Speaker 3: members of the team or members of the administration meeting
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Speaker 3: with someone like a Pete hegxeth. I mean, would that
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Speaker 3: have ever happened if the Democrats were in power? Would
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Speaker 3: anybody stop a team member from meeting a Democrat who
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Speaker 3: is the War Secretary or has any position of power
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Speaker 3: and in the administration.
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Speaker 17: Rita, you know that if any one of the players
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Speaker 17: want to meet Joe Biden, you roll out the red carpet.
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Speaker 17: But this is specifically targeted towards conservative people that have
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Speaker 17: conservative viewpoints that they do not want them connect to
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Speaker 17: other conservative voices. And it's happening with the Washington Nationals,
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Speaker 17: it's happening with a New York football Giant. This is
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Speaker 17: a not just a league wide issue, but it's a
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Speaker 17: sportswide issue. It's a serious name reader.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Now, President Trump made a few jokes about men
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Speaker 3: playing in women's sport and wondered whether any female athletes
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Speaker 3: would like to take on trans Jackson Dart if it
47:19
Speaker 3: became trans.
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at Jackson. I'd like to know, is there
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Speaker 2: any woman in the audience I think they can tackle
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Speaker 2: that guy? Because I'd like to reach you. I'd like
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Speaker 2: to shake your head.
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Speaker 19: I don't know, Jackson, you think you could play against women? Okay,
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Speaker 19: do you think you'd have any problem?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. But don't get volve, Jackson.
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Speaker 1: Don't get don't get volve Jackson.
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Speaker 2: No answer to that question.
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Speaker 1: Now, I'm looking at the legs, beautiful getting legs like
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Speaker 1: tree trucks. This is not a good thing for women.
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Speaker 1: This would not be good.
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Speaker 3: It would all be funny. Except Democrats are continuing to
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Speaker 3: push for men who identify as women to be included
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Speaker 3: in women's sport. Here is further proof that this is
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Speaker 3: a heel that Democrats want to die on. Here is
48:04
Speaker 3: Tom Steyer saying that boys and men who identify as
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Speaker 3: female should be allowed to take part in women's competitions.
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Speaker 9: You talked about trans people. I'm totally infai trans athletes
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Speaker 9: in high school. I think when you understand the vulnerability,
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Speaker 9: the stress, the danger of being a trans kid, and
48:26
Speaker 9: you understand that almost half of them try to commit.
48:28
Speaker 9: So it's like, yeah, and then you think we're going
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Speaker 9: to punish those kids. We're going to cut them off
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Speaker 9: from team sports, We're going to cut them off from
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Speaker 9: participating in the community, We're going to cut them off
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Speaker 9: from fun.
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Speaker 3: It's like, no, we're not Alex. You can't raison with
48:43
Speaker 3: these people.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 17: And you know, there's two types of athletes, Like there's
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Speaker 17: a type of athlete that wants to win on merit
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Speaker 17: and they just want to earn it because they're the
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Speaker 17: best athletes. And there's an also an athlete that wants
48:54
Speaker 17: to cheat. And we have states like California that will
48:57
Speaker 17: help the people that want to cheat atually achieved greatness.
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Speaker 17: So it's ridiculous and Tom stars just telling the people
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Speaker 17: what they want to hear. He knows that there is
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Speaker 17: a biological disadvantage when you let men identify as women
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Speaker 17: and compete against women. Everybody knows that that's just a fact.
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Speaker 17: So it's ridiculous that he says that. I don't believe
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Speaker 17: a word that he says when he says it.
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Speaker 3: Now, before you go, we have to talk about this Royal.
49:20
Speaker 3: Author Andrew Lowney has revealed to Page six that crude
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Speaker 3: pickup lines Andrew Batton Windsor allegedly used on women when
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Speaker 3: he was a prince, awarding for some the language I'm
49:33
Speaker 3: about to use is uncouth. His favorite chat up line
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Speaker 3: apparently was what does it feel like to have the
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Speaker 3: royal c penis? Let's call it a penis now against
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Speaker 3: your thigh. Lownie said the former royal had a strong
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Speaker 3: sense of entitlement and seemingly enjoyed embarrassing women. Alex, a
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Speaker 3: spokesman for Andrew, did not respond to Page Six's request
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Speaker 3: for comment. What do you make of all this?
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Speaker 17: Well, you know it's a terrible situation, but I'm not
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Speaker 17: one to throw a lot of stones. You know, I'm
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Speaker 17: famous for saying big boody Latina, so I'm a First
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Speaker 17: Amendment absolutist. I know he's not held at the same
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Speaker 17: standard as I am here in the United States, but
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Speaker 17: i feel like if we say some words and they're
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Speaker 17: not really hurting you or threatening, we should be able
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Speaker 17: to say whatever we want. So I'm on the fence
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Speaker 17: of this one is a little disgusting, But you know,
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Speaker 17: I don't know if the guy should be in jail
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Speaker 17: for that. I think it should be in jail. First
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Speaker 17: crime to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 3: Alex Stein, thank you so much for your time, and
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Speaker 3: that's all the time we have. I'll see you at
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Speaker 3: eleven tomorrow night. Don't go anywhere. Newsnight is up next