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The Rita Panahi Show | 23 February · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scorns Ostrodia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Winner Panalty Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panety Show. Coming
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Speaker 3: up tonight. Senator for Tima Payman launches another extraordinary attack
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Speaker 3: against Pauline Hansen. I'll unpack that and today's other big
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Speaker 3: headlines with a panel. Another renewable energy project fails despite
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Speaker 3: a massive injection of taxpayer funds. Ian Pimer will join
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Speaker 3: me to discuss that, a major case of buyer's remorse
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Speaker 3: as New Yorker start to feel the pinch under Mayor
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Speaker 3: Zora and Mandani. Josh Hammer will cover that and the
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Speaker 3: latest news out of the US, and there have been
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Speaker 3: plenty of developments with a man formerly known as Prince
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Speaker 3: Andrew will go through it all with Kinsey's Schofield later
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Speaker 3: in the hour, and Left Is Losing It features the
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Speaker 3: delusional fantasies of the reliably deranged Robert de Niro.
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Speaker 4: No, but he won't, he won't leave. Let's not kid ourselves.
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Speaker 4: He will not leave.
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Speaker 5: It's up to us to get rid of him.
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Speaker 3: But first labor turned independent Senator Fatima Payment is making
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Speaker 3: headlines again. You remember her. This is a woman whose
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Speaker 3: family fled Afghanistan a country where women are considered second
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Speaker 3: class citizens, forced to cover up, unable to go to school,
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Speaker 3: and sometimes stone to death for crimes like adultery and blasphemy.
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Speaker 3: You think Fatima Payman would be grateful to call Australia home,
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Speaker 3: but she seems to have little bit disdained for the
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Speaker 3: country beyond its multiculturalism. And Senator Payment, Yes, has made
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Speaker 3: headlines again after these statements about One Nation leader Pauline Hansen.
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Speaker 6: Tell Pauline Hanson that if she doesn't like how things
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Speaker 6: are here in Australia, then she can really pack her
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Speaker 6: bags and go to the US and continue being best
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Speaker 6: buds with Trump.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is News Corps senior writer Patrick Carline
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Speaker 3: and Institute of Public Affairs Research fellow Colleen Harken. Patrick,
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Speaker 3: I said, you recall Senator Hanson being taken to court
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Speaker 3: suit for saying something similar about Marine Feruki of the Greens.
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Speaker 7: Yes, that was probably the longest court case of all
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Speaker 7: time when fre didn't it, That's what happened very costly. Yes,
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Speaker 7: and I thinkma Senator Payment is trying to make a
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Speaker 7: play on that. Obviously, if you watch some of the
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Speaker 7: Senate sort of hearings and you see Senator Payment talking
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Speaker 7: about Pauline Hansen. She appears to absolutely hate her, like
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Speaker 7: it is visceral, which is.
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Speaker 3: So strange because when you are in Canberra at Parliament House,
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Speaker 3: one of the things you notice is how loved Pauline
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Speaker 3: is colleague by the staff you go to the canteen,
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Speaker 3: but by just everyday people. The reaction she gets is
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Speaker 3: so different to most other politicians. So this visceral hatred
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Speaker 3: that Payment has, it's a little bit unhealthy.
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Speaker 1: If you ask me, well she comes acrosst to me,
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Speaker 1: has been quite unhinged. Look, and this issue of the
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Speaker 1: definition of racism, I mean, there's nothing wrong with questioning
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Speaker 1: our biosecurity measures. That's not racism. The thing with Senator Payment,
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Speaker 1: I always fine, is that all she given where she's
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Speaker 1: come from, which you just sort of cited, what she
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Speaker 1: should be doing is promoting our great country and all
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Speaker 1: she ever seems to do is either complain with grievances
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Speaker 1: or promote this idea of multiculturalism. And I resent and
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Speaker 1: I reject that because we are not a multicultural nation.
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Speaker 3: I don't we have multi for that at anything We're
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Speaker 3: not could be multi. We're multi ethnic, that's fine, but
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Speaker 3: we do have an Australian culture and Australian values and
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Speaker 3: that counts for something. Now you mentioned this hatred. Let's
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Speaker 3: have a look at an example of that. It's not
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Speaker 3: the first time Senator Payment has attacked Pauline Hansen. If
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Speaker 3: that is not racist, what is it?
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Speaker 8: Oh, it's not RACI or somebody bring the dictionary, because
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Speaker 8: Senator Hanson does not know the definition of racism.
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Speaker 3: The fact that you would say.
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Speaker 8: Just weeks ago to Senator for rookie piss off back
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Speaker 8: to Pakistan.
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Speaker 3: You're not just vindictive, mean nasty.
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Speaker 8: You bring disgrace to the human race, no dignity whatsoever
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Speaker 8: as a senator in this prestigious place where we're supposed
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Speaker 8: to bring a unity, where we're supposed to have that
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Speaker 8: freedom of expression. Yes, but within boundaries and confinements of respect.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so much respect that Colleen, Senator. But bet they're
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Speaker 3: trying to just hold it back. Yes, I mean that
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Speaker 3: performance you said unhinged I think, or deranged. Yeah, it
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Speaker 3: either works for that. It's very hard calling. And it
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Speaker 3: went on for several more minutes. I can't play the
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Speaker 3: whole thing. We don't have time. But and the example
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Speaker 3: she was citing did not do her argument any favors.
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Speaker 3: Why do you think she continually does this, Patrick, because
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Speaker 3: she seems to be a bit of an attention seeker.
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Speaker 3: I remember talking about her when she said we have
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Speaker 3: lessons to learn from Iran about how to treat women
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Speaker 3: and women in the workforce. I mean that was really
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Speaker 3: kidding me.
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Speaker 7: That was really weird, and it got used by around
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Speaker 7: around State TV. Yes, Propernanda. Of course I should have
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Speaker 7: came back and said, oh, that's not what I meant.
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Speaker 7: But if you look at why she left the AOP,
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Speaker 7: it was because they weren't left enough on Palestine. She's
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Speaker 7: an activist and I think some of the Green politicians
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Speaker 7: are the same. They're not actually trying to build anything,
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Speaker 7: they're actually trying to undercut it.
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Speaker 3: But that's an indictment on the Labor Party calling they
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Speaker 3: are the ones who selected her out of everyone in
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Speaker 3: WA at the age of how old she was in
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Speaker 3: her early twenties last year when they selected her to
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Speaker 3: be a senator in the Australian Parliament, and it backfired
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Speaker 3: on them. But she's still in the.
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Speaker 1: Parliament and I think she's up for election next time,
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Speaker 1: isn't she. So hopefully we won't see too much.
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Speaker 3: I don't think we will be, but for the time
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Speaker 3: being a well done Labor Party now. Support for One Nation, meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: is continuing to surge, even right here in Victoria, with
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Speaker 3: fresh polling by Roy Morgan putting One Nation at number
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Speaker 3: one in the state's primary vote at twenty six and
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Speaker 3: a half percent, ahead of Labor at twenty five. Look
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Speaker 3: at the big dive there by Labor, even a bigger
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Speaker 3: dive by the Coalition, falling to twenty one and a
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Speaker 3: half of Sankoline, the most left wing state in Australia,
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Speaker 3: has One Nation leading in the polls in the primary vote.
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Speaker 3: Did you ever think you'd see such a thing? Well,
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Speaker 3: I think we just saw.
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Speaker 1: Why. When you see people Senator Payment doing all of that,
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Speaker 1: the average Australian is looking at and going, this is
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Speaker 1: not my country, and that they have seen that over
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Speaker 1: a long sustained period of time One Nation of champion
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Speaker 1: the causes of the average Australian and national pride and
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Speaker 1: national security. So it's not a surprise that they are
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Speaker 1: rising in the polls the way they are. I think
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Speaker 1: the Coalition has maybe literally weeks a month or two
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Speaker 1: to get their act together and to give a very
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Speaker 1: strong message and clawback some of those votes if they're
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Speaker 1: going to be able to. But they've got to be
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Speaker 1: quick because the average person's listening to all of this
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Speaker 1: and going where is my country? I want my country back?
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Speaker 3: And we've seen this trend elsewhere, Patrick, and it's finally here.
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Speaker 3: We've seen it in the US with Trump, UK with
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Speaker 3: reform and Brexit. It's all across South America. You've got
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Speaker 3: countries going center right from El Salvador to Argentina to
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Speaker 3: Chile now and many parts of Europe as well. And
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Speaker 3: people use the term populism in a pejorative way, but
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Speaker 3: that's democracy. Populism is the majority wanting something to happen
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Speaker 3: that's not happening.
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Speaker 7: Look, I think Victoria's different because this government is so
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Speaker 7: bad on so many levels. We saw it last week
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Speaker 7: with the CFMEU stuff. Oh yes, there's fifteen billion dollars missing.
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Speaker 7: Let's not look into that, you know. And look, we
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Speaker 7: are the most left wing state we have been for
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Speaker 7: a long time. And I think there is a pushback
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Speaker 7: against that wokeness and about that ideological sort of viny
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Speaker 7: put over everything. We're sick of it. We are absolutely
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Speaker 7: sick of it.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a coincidence that the most left
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Speaker 3: wing state is also the most in debt at rippled economically.
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Speaker 3: But on that fifteen billion dollar CFMU scandal, the tactics
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Speaker 3: of the Allen government last week just to come out
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Speaker 3: and attack the report, to suggest that the report writer
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Speaker 3: has some sort of sinister motivation or is an attention seeker.
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Speaker 3: Nothing about the substance of the report, which is some
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Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty pages long and very detailed, or
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Speaker 3: just about this is just unsubstantiated scuttle but nothing to
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Speaker 3: see here.
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Speaker 9: I thought.
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Speaker 7: I thought Allen was trying to sort of brazen her
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Speaker 7: way through last week, and it was disingenuous, misread the
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Speaker 7: public terribly because people want answers. Fifteen billion dollars is
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Speaker 7: a huge amount of money. It's like fifteen new hospitals.
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Speaker 7: It's one hundred and fifty thousan forward rangers. As I
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Speaker 7: wrote the other way, that's probably where most of the
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Speaker 7: money went. That's our money, and we're hitting close to
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Speaker 7: two hundred billion dollars in debt because we've been mismanaged.
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Speaker 3: Now let's go to the Prime Minister. He's come under
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Speaker 3: fire for remarks he made during a speech at the
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Speaker 3: Australian Education Union event saying he likes visiting schools because
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Speaker 3: kids aren't far right. Let's have listen to part of
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Speaker 3: the speech.
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Speaker 10: I always love going into public schools as well because
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Speaker 10: for those who with arise in some of the far
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Speaker 10: right ideological positions in recent times. One of the things
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Speaker 10: about and it's the same, particularly whether it's an early
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Speaker 10: learning center or into a primary school, kids don't see race, religion, gender,
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Speaker 10: anything else. They just see other kids. You know, Hatred
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Speaker 10: and division is something that's learned. And so public schooling
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Speaker 10: is so important.
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Speaker 3: There may Colleen, there you go only in a public school?
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Speaker 3: Are you safe from right wing extremism? Never mind the
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Speaker 3: left wing extremism that's been normalized in the curriculum. And
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Speaker 3: he says kids don't see race and gender and sexuality.
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Speaker 3: They're taught to see that at school. They are fed
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Speaker 3: a diet of divisive racial gender politics from prep all
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Speaker 3: the way to to university.
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Speaker 1: And look, I mean, what an insult to people who
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Speaker 1: choose to send their children to non governments. Correct first
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Speaker 1: of all, but secondly, he needs to familiarize himself with
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Speaker 1: the national curriculum because it promotes you know, diversity, equity, inclusion,
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Speaker 1: which divides people. It teaches the kids that we're not
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Speaker 1: all one nation. It is in government schools where we
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Speaker 1: have children touching the ground and saying always was, always
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Speaker 1: will be. It's government schools where we've had children exposed
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Speaker 1: to best reality. It's government schools where teachers were cafirs
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Speaker 1: and the Australian Education Unit that we just saw promoted
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Speaker 1: the voice of huge division of the nation. He really
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Speaker 1: needs to actually go back and have a look at
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Speaker 1: the curriculum that the government is responsible for. He's right
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Speaker 1: that children are not naturally hateful of each other, and
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Speaker 1: they are being taught it, and they're being taught together.
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Speaker 3: Angls themselves correctly, and the hate the world, hate their history.
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Speaker 3: To have this just endless black arm band view of
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Speaker 3: the of the country. Now, I want to get to
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Speaker 3: Peter Malanascus because the South Australian election is underway and
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Speaker 3: the premiere is facing criticism for this defense of mass migration.
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Speaker 3: It's a statement that's been called racist.
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Speaker 11: My message to one nation voters is who's going to
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Speaker 11: feed you and bathe you and wipe your bum when
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Speaker 11: you're ninety right, because it ain't going to be your kids,
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Speaker 11: because if I get my way, they're going to be
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Speaker 11: working on submarines with high paying jobs.
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Speaker 3: Okay, the next day, Malanascus double down.
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Speaker 11: You would have heard me sort of say a few
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Speaker 11: things that I don't think too many other politicians in
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Speaker 11: the country are saying right now.
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Speaker 12: Because it's what I believe.
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Speaker 11: It's what we all believe about the sort of society
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Speaker 11: that we want to live in. In fact, I think
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Speaker 11: is what we know. This state is a rich, diverse,
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Speaker 11: multicultural society that celebrates the fact that we have that
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Speaker 11: sense of inclusion and is what makes us so great.
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Speaker 3: There you go, Patrick, migrants are often inclusion inclusion to
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Speaker 3: wipe the bottoms of the elderly. His kids are off
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Speaker 3: getting very well paid jobs on submarines. I mean, really,
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Speaker 3: how he doesn't see that so fairly? As the left
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Speaker 3: like to say, problematic statement, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: It is.
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Speaker 3: To me, it's back to the days of slavery, where
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Speaker 3: you know, we need someone to pick the cotton and
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Speaker 3: we need someone to wipe our bottoms, because God forbid
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Speaker 3: our kids should have those terrible jobs.
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Speaker 7: There's a misstep. It was a big misstep and the
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Speaker 7: fact that he doubled down on it, and if you
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Speaker 7: look at the longer equipments there, he actually is very disingenuous.
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Speaker 7: He's saying, I don't want to throw a fuel on
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Speaker 7: the fire of the cultural wars.
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Speaker 5: That's exactly what he was doing, exactly.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's never the culture wars when they're fighting, it's
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Speaker 3: only where there's any sort of defense of it. He's
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Speaker 3: actually announced another policy which I'm interested in your take
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Speaker 3: on this because I think this is actually a very
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Speaker 3: interesting announcement for retirees. Some good points here, but a
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Speaker 3: couple of big shortcomings too.
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Speaker 11: If we win the election, we are going to abolish
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Speaker 11: if labor or we're taking to this election of policy
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Speaker 11: to abolish stamp duty for all downsizes on any new bill.
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Speaker 11: So if you're over the age of sixty.
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Speaker 12: And you're in a big family home and you're thinking
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Speaker 12: about whether or not you want to downsize and stamp
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Speaker 12: duty is a cost, or we're going to abolish stamp
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Speaker 12: duty for anybody over the age of sixty who is
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Speaker 12: downsized into a smaller property if they're building.
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Speaker 3: A new home. I don't know why he'sn't a muscle
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Speaker 3: single it at a petrol station while he's making this announcement.
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Speaker 3: But what do you think about that? Policies not a
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Speaker 3: bad one.
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Speaker 7: I think, look, I can see how it could be popular, certainly,
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Speaker 7: and I do agree with you. Why is he announcing this?
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Speaker 7: Was he holding the two piles in his other hand
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Speaker 7: at the same time.
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Speaker 3: He's just relatable. It's just figuring out that that's how
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Speaker 3: people work in social media. I don't like this downsizing requirement, though, Colleen,
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Speaker 3: because what if you live in an expensive cottage in
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Speaker 3: the inner city and you want to buy a much
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Speaker 3: bigger property newly built in a regional area. Why shouldn't
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Speaker 3: you qualify or do you qualify? Because he was emphasizing
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Speaker 3: downsizing several times.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, correct, I have a lot of questions over this,
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Speaker 1: having seen one sentence of what he's announced. But to me,
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Speaker 1: it sounds like if I'm a retiree with a nice,
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Speaker 1: big home and I'm going to cash up and downsize,
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Speaker 1: that I get a benefit. I'm going to be competing
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Speaker 1: in the same market that the first time buyers are
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Speaker 1: coming up into.
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Speaker 3: So I'm just going to I'm just going to be.
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Speaker 1: Creating competition and increasing the cost of living. The cost
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Speaker 1: of housing for the people who we want to get up.
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Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't seem a lot of time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it will probably result in a lot of significant
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Speaker 3: homes being listed, but then so much more compation for
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Speaker 3: smaller properties. Very good point, Colin Hark and Patrick Color
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Speaker 3: and thank you for your time. Now, yet another one
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Speaker 3: of the Alberanza government's Future Made in Australia fantasies has
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Speaker 3: fallen in a heap. Plans to build a high tech
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Speaker 3: research and innovation facility on a former coal fired power
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Speaker 3: station site in Queensland are floundering, despite a one hundred
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Speaker 3: million dollar federal government funding pledge and a further commitment
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Speaker 3: of one hundred and five million dollars from the state government.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now for more on this As esteem geologist
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Speaker 3: and author Professor Ian Plymer i the so called Australian
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Speaker 3: Battery Industrialization Center. It's been built as as a crucial
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Speaker 3: to the success of green battery manufacturing in Australia. Why
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Speaker 3: is this plan failing even with the massive injection of
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Speaker 3: taxpayer funds.
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Speaker 9: What is failing because the basics The swan Bank Power
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Speaker 9: Station was once a four hundred and eighty megawatt power
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Speaker 9: station it relied on Queensland coal. Queensland has worked there
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Speaker 9: and this produced stable electricity for a long time for Queensland.
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Speaker 9: Then we had this ideology about carbon dioxide. No ones
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Speaker 9: have shown that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming,
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Speaker 9: and we've been waiting for thirty years for this catastrophic
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Speaker 9: climate change which hasn't happened. So the scheme we now
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Speaker 9: have is that we destroy our coal fired power stations
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Speaker 9: which gave us cheap, reliable energy. Then we put in
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Speaker 9: subsidized wind and solar power where we rely on Chinese
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Speaker 9: equipment to keep us going, and we pay the Chinese
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Speaker 9: to give us this equipment. Many of these wind and
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Speaker 9: solar facilities are owned by foreign companies. We legislate to
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Speaker 9: make coal fired electricity very expensive. Oh, the system's not
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Speaker 9: going to work. So we suddenly decide to put in batteries,
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Speaker 9: and we put in two hundred and fifty megawatts of batteries.
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Speaker 9: This is using taxpayers money, one hundred million from the
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Speaker 9: FEDS and one hundred and five million from the state,
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Speaker 9: and we put in these batteries. These batteries get loaded
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Speaker 9: up with electricity when the sun's shining. When the sun
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Speaker 9: doesn't shine, you've got a real problem.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 9: Batteries don't generate electricity. These batteries, these two hundred and
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Speaker 9: fifty megawatt batteries will release electricity.
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Speaker 5: For two hours.
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Speaker 9: Now during this time, when the sun has set, you've
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Speaker 9: got two hours to come home, get the cooking done,
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Speaker 9: get people fed, get the kids bathed, to put on
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Speaker 9: the TV, put on the heating or cooling, and if
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Speaker 9: you don't, you've got a serious problem. So this is
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Speaker 9: absolute madness from start to finish. Batteries don't generate electricity.
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Speaker 9: They actually store electricity for a short period of time.
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Speaker 9: The electricity that's generated is generated by Chinese solar equipment,
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Speaker 9: and then this electricity is released to you, the consumer,
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Speaker 9: at the highest possible cost. This is because at that
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Speaker 9: time sol is not giving you power, wind is not
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Speaker 9: giving you power. You've turned down the gas, you've turned
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Speaker 9: down the coal, and you are being skinned alive. So
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Speaker 9: this system skins you alive from start to finish, destroying
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Speaker 9: good cheap power systems, putting an expensive sole on wind
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Speaker 9: that relies on the Chinese, backing it up with batteries
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Speaker 9: which rely on the sun having shone that day, and
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Speaker 9: then giving you electricity the maximum possible price. You could
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Speaker 9: not think of the worst possible scheme for the average consumer.
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Speaker 9: That's why electricity costs have gone up, because we've got
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Speaker 9: absolute drongos trying to re engineer a perfectly good system
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Speaker 9: that has been operating for decades. Batteries just don't work,
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Speaker 9: and you've got another big problem when the battery finishes,
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Speaker 9: how to get rid of all this toxic material. So
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Speaker 9: it's not thought out, it's not engineered to work in
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Speaker 9: anywhere else, but highly subsidized terrains.
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Speaker 3: Ian on that question, what is the lifespan of these
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Speaker 3: batteries and how will we dispose of them?
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Speaker 9: Well, you're told they last about twenty five years, but
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Speaker 9: that's probably fifteen years. And the second thing is that
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Speaker 9: to dispose of the lithium ion phosphorus batteries is very difficult.
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Speaker 9: No one wants them. They can't be recycled, you can't
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Speaker 9: take them out to sea and dump them. You're stuck
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Speaker 9: with them. But of course let's not worry about that.
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Speaker 9: That's tomorrow's problem. And for some odd reason, we kick
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Speaker 9: all this down the road. We think that we in
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Speaker 9: government understand technology. We think we can invent new technologies,
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Speaker 9: but we still haven't got the technology for recycling these batteries.
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Speaker 9: So the whole lot is absolute madness.
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Speaker 3: I see in Plimer. Thank you so much for your
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Speaker 3: time tonight.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Coming up, Lefties Losing class a major case of buyer's
21:03
Speaker 3: remorse as New Yorkers start to feel the pinch under
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Speaker 3: Mezor and Mamdani. Josh Hammer is up next. You're watching
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Speaker 3: the Reader Pantiy Show, and it's time for left is
21:24
Speaker 3: losing it and his back. Yes, we've brought you the
21:28
Speaker 3: mad Hysterics or Robert de Niro before, and no amount
21:31
Speaker 3: of humiliation seems to be enough for this once great
21:34
Speaker 3: actor turned into an utter idiotic joke who has spouted
21:38
Speaker 3: all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories. Remember when de Niro
21:42
Speaker 3: claimed that if Trump won a second term, he'd come
21:45
Speaker 3: after him and put him in prison. Alas, he's free,
21:49
Speaker 3: and he's claiming now that the President will make it
21:51
Speaker 3: unsafe to vote in the midterms, and that he won't
21:55
Speaker 3: accept the result anyway, and he will never ever leave
21:59
Speaker 3: the White House US.
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Speaker 4: We have to make him leave the He jokes now
22:06
Speaker 4: about nationalizing the elections.
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Speaker 5: He's not joking. We've seen enough already. Yeah, and everybody's
22:12
Speaker 5: worried about it. But he is.
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Speaker 3: He means it, So you don't think he lives in there.
22:17
Speaker 5: He ain't leaving no way.
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Speaker 4: We used to joke the first time they get him
22:20
Speaker 4: in the moving van and he'd be sitting in the
22:22
Speaker 4: back of the movie van.
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Speaker 5: They put him in whatever.
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Speaker 4: In his desk of not leaving the White House desk.
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Speaker 9: No, but he won't.
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Speaker 5: He won't leave.
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Speaker 4: Let's not kid ourselves. He will not leave.
22:36
Speaker 5: It's up to us to get rid of him.
22:38
Speaker 3: Now, you would have seen the equally unhitched Nicole Wallace
22:41
Speaker 3: of MSNBC going along with this delusional fantasy. A Saine
22:47
Speaker 3: hosts may question the veracity of some of those wild claims,
22:50
Speaker 3: but not on Nicole. What does that mean then, Like,
22:54
Speaker 3: do you think that whatever election has had in the
22:56
Speaker 3: midterms is won't be respected you?
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Speaker 5: You'll attempt that.
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Speaker 4: We have to make sure that, like what he's trying now,
23:05
Speaker 4: that all the polling places have people that can come
23:10
Speaker 4: there safely. That might mean citizens. On the other side,
23:14
Speaker 4: whatever they try to do, citizens stay well, we're just here.
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Speaker 5: To watch watch them. Once. You watch everybody, so they
23:20
Speaker 5: walk in there and feel safe and they can.
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Speaker 3: Be organized people. Yeah, the best people with Nicole Wallace.
23:26
Speaker 3: She really called her podcast that. I guess it is
23:29
Speaker 3: shorter than the most mentally deranged fantasies with a ten
23:33
Speaker 3: year scrip on Reality with Nicole Wallace. Now, this next
23:37
Speaker 3: clip is hilarious unintentionally so. This scholar of the far right,
23:42
Speaker 3: as she calls herself, fled Trump's America for Canada. But alas,
23:47
Speaker 3: it's not as she expected.
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Speaker 13: I'm a scholar of the far right who has fled
23:51
Speaker 13: the United States to Canada, and I need help. The
23:56
Speaker 13: situation in Canada is absolutely dire for America who don't know.
24:01
Speaker 13: The housing crisis here is worse than in the United States.
24:04
Speaker 13: I lived in LA for six years and I have
24:07
Speaker 13: not faced rent as bad as here. My partner and
24:10
Speaker 13: I are here on a visitor visa, which is six
24:15
Speaker 13: months possible stay for Americans. But while you're here on
24:19
Speaker 13: a visitor visa, you can't work. So we are currently
24:22
Speaker 13: surviving off of what savings we could get together before
24:26
Speaker 13: we fled the United States.
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Speaker 3: And that's not terribly much. So this so called scholar
24:33
Speaker 3: fled to Canada without doing any planning, any research. Just
24:37
Speaker 3: how thick does one have to be to first call
24:40
Speaker 3: leaving America, fleeing the country, but then to go to
24:44
Speaker 3: an expensive country where you cannot legally work. Wonder why
24:48
Speaker 3: shouldn't go down south to Mexico a lot cheaper. But
24:52
Speaker 3: perhaps you're first to be in super white Canada. But
24:56
Speaker 3: the stupidity does not end there. Get ready to laugh.
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Speaker 13: In Canada, I think it's actually the cost of living
25:03
Speaker 13: crisis is worse here, especially when you are shut out
25:07
Speaker 13: of the healthcare system, when you can't access any of
25:10
Speaker 13: the resources that Canadians have access to. And that's understandable.
25:14
Speaker 13: You know, I'm not a citizen of the country.
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Speaker 3: Oh wait a second, Canada has rules for citizens and
25:20
Speaker 3: non citizens. You're not entitled to essential services if you
25:24
Speaker 3: are not a Canadian. Gosh, when Trump talks about those
25:28
Speaker 3: sorts of policies, it's considered white supremacy and fascism. And
25:33
Speaker 3: our idiot academic, of course, ends this video by begging
25:37
Speaker 3: for free stuff.
25:39
Speaker 13: So privileged because there are two adults, a cat and
25:43
Speaker 13: a dog. We are looking for more than a room,
25:47
Speaker 13: but one bedroom, two bedroom for free or below market rates.
25:53
Speaker 13: And I know that's a huge ask, but that's what
25:56
Speaker 13: we need now.
25:57
Speaker 3: Talking about buyers. Remorse New York to have that in
26:00
Speaker 3: spades after they elected a commies or in mamdani as
26:05
Speaker 3: men thinking they'd be getting cheaper groceries, cheaper rant, free
26:08
Speaker 3: bus trips. Remember the celebrations they were so happy.
26:13
Speaker 2: Sharia last starts now, Ron mcdanie Islamic Caledens our brother
26:20
Speaker 2: in Islam, Islamic Califedia New York starts today. God, there
26:25
Speaker 2: is just something so electric, so satisfying about knowing that
26:29
Speaker 2: my maga parents, wherever they.
26:31
Speaker 8: Are, are probably having a horrible mate tonight.
26:34
Speaker 3: Ah yes, Suariah. Now but instead of free staff, they
26:38
Speaker 3: have rubbish strewn streets, people dying of hypothermia, and soon
26:43
Speaker 3: higher taxes. They thought only the riches of the rich
26:46
Speaker 3: would be hit with higher taxes. Wrong, dead, wrong, and
26:50
Speaker 3: now the regret Israel Maya.
26:54
Speaker 14: The greatest respect in every campaign speech and every debate
26:58
Speaker 14: where you engaged we opened up is to listen now
27:01
Speaker 14: today accept the words echoing from us.
27:04
Speaker 4: Now do your job, is mayor.
27:06
Speaker 14: And leave our taxes saving only two options. You're saying,
27:11
Speaker 14: if we don't tax the rich, then I got to
27:14
Speaker 14: increase property taxes. We are not apporn in Southeast Queens,
27:17
Speaker 14: we are not part of your negotiation tactics. There's on'm donnie,
27:21
Speaker 14: you are out your god dear mine.
27:23
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Newsweek's senior editor at large, Josh Hammer. Josh.
27:27
Speaker 3: We will get to what looks to be a possible
27:30
Speaker 3: assassination attempt at marri Lago later, but first tell me
27:36
Speaker 3: about Mayor ma'm donnie's first fifty or so days in office.
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Speaker 15: Well, Rita, there's no one quote from eachael making when
27:44
Speaker 15: I fear of quotes in North American politics. Actually, he's
27:46
Speaker 15: a twentieth century newspaper columnist and social critic and about
27:50
Speaker 15: a century or so will going there. In the early
27:52
Speaker 15: twentieth century, he famously said that democracy is the theory
27:56
Speaker 15: that the common man knows what he wants and he
27:58
Speaker 15: deserves to get it good and hard. And that is
28:02
Speaker 15: exactly what is happening in New York City. They are
28:04
Speaker 15: getting it really good and really hard. Actually in factory.
28:08
Speaker 15: Not to make this too personal, I was actually sets
28:10
Speaker 15: a flat in New York City for a speaking event.
28:13
Speaker 15: But there's a terrible blizzard having in there now, and
28:16
Speaker 15: partially due to the fear as to how terrible the
28:18
Speaker 15: infrastructure is and the complete inability. Apparently there's gonna be
28:22
Speaker 15: no cars on the road, I'm told now into this
28:25
Speaker 15: Monday here, earlier this week here in New York, because
28:28
Speaker 15: the roads are about to just be completely covered with snow.
28:31
Speaker 15: Back in the day I grew up the New York area,
28:33
Speaker 15: something as prosaic as that. Back in the day, New
28:35
Speaker 15: York City was actually renowned for having the most systemic
28:39
Speaker 15: and efficient and effective snow plowing and snowshoving in the world.
28:43
Speaker 15: I saw earlier today over here back in the US,
28:45
Speaker 15: I saw Mark Levine, the New York City Comptroller, put
28:48
Speaker 15: out an all hands on deck as signal blast to
28:51
Speaker 15: the world, I come sign up to be a volunteer
28:53
Speaker 15: snow shoveler for nineteen dollars in change an hour, which,
28:58
Speaker 15: by the way, I should note, isn't Man's the guy
29:00
Speaker 15: who literally campaigned on a thirty dollars minimum wage. So
29:04
Speaker 15: what you're trying to give thirty dollars minu wage to
29:06
Speaker 15: someone trying to fry your French fries in McDonald's or
29:09
Speaker 15: be an uber driver. But now the city is like
29:11
Speaker 15: actually in crisis. People like me are not coming because
29:14
Speaker 15: we expect it to be a horrific zombie apocalypse during
29:18
Speaker 15: a snowstorm, and you're offering to pay like less than
29:21
Speaker 15: half of the wage. I mean, square that circle for me.
29:24
Speaker 15: So it's absolutely appalling there. The only thing that I
29:27
Speaker 15: can possibly say Reap is that it's good that you
29:30
Speaker 15: have a lot of Democrats, especially the ones in the
29:32
Speaker 15: state capitol Albany, who are starting to push back there,
29:35
Speaker 15: and they're starting to say to the communist and Gracie
29:37
Speaker 15: Manchion in Manhattan there, they're starting to say no. So
29:40
Speaker 15: New York City actually very well might find itself on
29:43
Speaker 15: its own, even within the States of New York, which
29:45
Speaker 15: became really really fascinating development.
29:48
Speaker 3: Well, I love this call for the snow shovelers to
29:52
Speaker 3: come forward, but you do need your ID, Josh. You
29:55
Speaker 3: don't need ID to vote, but you need ID if
29:58
Speaker 3: you want to shovel snow in New York York City.
30:01
Speaker 3: And the budget that ma'm dani is delivering is bigger
30:06
Speaker 3: than Florida, the entire state of Florida. I mean, let's
30:11
Speaker 3: just see where some of this money is going. Some
30:14
Speaker 3: of this large jess five point six million for the
30:17
Speaker 3: Office of Racial Equity, four point six million for the
30:21
Speaker 3: Commission on Racial equity and just a lazy eight hundred
30:25
Speaker 3: and thirty five thousand for the Commission on Gender Equity.
30:30
Speaker 3: This is what New York has voted for, Josh. I mean,
30:33
Speaker 3: can they really plead ignorance when they knew what a
30:37
Speaker 3: radical mamdani is was and they backed him.
30:42
Speaker 15: So I'm glad that you fled the budgetary metrics because
30:45
Speaker 15: it's actually quite revealing. This is actually one of the
30:47
Speaker 15: reasons that there is this newfound tension between the City
30:49
Speaker 15: of New York and the State of New York represented
30:52
Speaker 15: by Kathy Hogle and her Democratic Legislate of allies in Albany. So,
30:55
Speaker 15: the New York City musicumal budget last year was quote
30:59
Speaker 15: unquote only one hundred and seventeen billion, which by the way,
31:02
Speaker 15: is still the same size as you correctly know it
31:04
Speaker 15: as the entire budget off my current state, the state
31:06
Speaker 15: of Florida, where we have a rainy day fund here
31:08
Speaker 15: and money left over because Ron de Santis just totally
31:11
Speaker 15: kicks butt and this state is governed really, really well.
31:14
Speaker 15: So Mamdonnie raises ten billion dollars in the budget from
31:18
Speaker 15: last fiscal year just to this year, and that's apparently
31:21
Speaker 15: that the that ten billion dollars in his inability to
31:24
Speaker 15: close that gap. That is why he is saying to
31:27
Speaker 15: his fellow Democrats in Albany, you guys better soak the
31:30
Speaker 15: rich or else dot dot dot. I'm gonna soak the
31:33
Speaker 15: middle and working class. We have property taxes. But you know,
31:37
Speaker 15: you didn't have to raise the municipal budget by ten
31:39
Speaker 15: billion dollars. You could have left it. It was pretty bloated.
31:42
Speaker 15: I mean, I would like to have a conversation. I
31:44
Speaker 15: wanted to see I see a conversation begin about trimming
31:46
Speaker 15: the budget. I mean, how about that for a while.
31:48
Speaker 9: Thing.
31:48
Speaker 15: You know, let's get Elon Muskin's a many doze team there,
31:51
Speaker 15: you know, in city Hall in New York City there,
31:53
Speaker 15: but at bare minimbro at a bare bare minimum Kenya
31:56
Speaker 15: not inflate on top of a municipal budget that's literally
32:00
Speaker 15: the exact same size as the nation's third largest state,
32:03
Speaker 15: of the very free state of Florida. There, it is
32:06
Speaker 15: totally astounding. But again, this one New Yorkers apparently want there.
32:09
Speaker 15: I find it positively horrifying, frankly, but it's what they
32:13
Speaker 15: wanted and they're getting it.
32:17
Speaker 3: That's it. Elections have consequences, and New Yorkers are feeling
32:20
Speaker 3: those consequences right now. Now, let's talk about what happened
32:25
Speaker 3: in Palm Beach, Florida, at President Trump's Mara Lago property
32:29
Speaker 3: earlier today, where a man in his early twenties was
32:32
Speaker 3: shot and killed by Secret Service agents in the early
32:36
Speaker 3: hours of the morning. Is this being treated as an
32:40
Speaker 3: assassination attempt? Josh?
32:43
Speaker 15: So, it's very early and we don't necessarily have There
32:46
Speaker 15: was not like a big FBI press conference or anything
32:49
Speaker 15: like that. So will probably learn more exactly as to
32:51
Speaker 15: how law enforce was going to treat this in the
32:53
Speaker 15: in the days to come. It strongly looks to me
32:56
Speaker 15: like this man had every intention of trying to assassinate
32:59
Speaker 15: Dald Trump and wife Mlanian Trump. I believe he actually
33:01
Speaker 15: drove down from North Carolina. Turns out that Donald Trump
33:05
Speaker 15: was actually not even at Marlago. He was in Washington,
33:08
Speaker 15: DC at that time. There the details the story or
33:11
Speaker 15: such that he had a shotgun and a barrel of gasoline,
33:16
Speaker 15: One could only speculate as to why he would have
33:19
Speaker 15: a personal tank of gasoline with him there trying to
33:22
Speaker 15: get onto the prentises of Marlago, and apparently when law
33:24
Speaker 15: enforce saw his weapon and said drop, and he kept
33:27
Speaker 15: on raising it. That's when he was fatally shot. These
33:30
Speaker 15: people are invariably mentally ill. Think back to Ryan Routh,
33:35
Speaker 15: who was the man I believe also who was last
33:37
Speaker 15: scene actually living in North Carolina, who came down to
33:40
Speaker 15: West Pond Beach, Florida and tried to assassin Donald Trump
33:42
Speaker 15: playing on the Trumpet International Golf Course in West Pond
33:45
Speaker 15: Beach back in September twenty twenty four. This guy was
33:48
Speaker 15: a lunatic off his rockers. He was basically a Reddit
33:51
Speaker 15: comments section come to life. He was spouting off all
33:55
Speaker 15: these platudes. The question, rita, is where are these people
33:59
Speaker 15: getting riled up? Who were they listening to? How are
34:02
Speaker 15: they being radicalized to try to take down Donald Trump?
34:06
Speaker 15: Tried to tried toically in this case, successfully assassinate my
34:09
Speaker 15: late friend Charlie Kirk. Who is inspiring these people who
34:13
Speaker 15: are already vulnerable, already frankly deeply unstable and probably just
34:17
Speaker 15: mentally unwell. Who is taking advantage of these vulnerable people
34:21
Speaker 15: and then trying to instigate them to attack acts or
34:24
Speaker 15: to commit acts of violence. And frankly, that is a
34:27
Speaker 15: very grave question and has a very very straightforward answer,
34:30
Speaker 15: which is it is elected Democrats, whether it's Tim Walls
34:35
Speaker 15: and Jacob Frye in the state of Minnesota, trying to
34:37
Speaker 15: kind of borrow the Hamas play before the Middle East,
34:40
Speaker 15: trying to get these people to sacrifice themselves in an
34:42
Speaker 15: act of martyrdom for the sake of winning the public
34:44
Speaker 15: relations war. That's what we saw happen with Renee Good,
34:48
Speaker 15: with Alex Preddy there in Minnesota. There here, we don't
34:50
Speaker 15: know exactly who it is, but I can certainly speculate.
34:53
Speaker 15: I think back to the shooter in twenty seventeen who
34:55
Speaker 15: shot up half the re public congressional baseball team. That guy,
34:58
Speaker 15: James Hodgkinson was his name was. They died in the
35:00
Speaker 15: wall MSNBC viewer sometimes Rita. It's really actually as simple
35:05
Speaker 15: as that they are trying to get these people to
35:07
Speaker 15: commit terrible, terrible things.
35:10
Speaker 3: Well, when you have this endless narrative of we're living
35:15
Speaker 3: under a fascist regime and everyone's rights are in jeopardy
35:19
Speaker 3: and Trump is the new age Hitler, then it's not
35:23
Speaker 3: surprising that mentally ill people may take it upon themselves
35:27
Speaker 3: to do something about that. And I've got to say,
35:30
Speaker 3: talk about mentally ill people online. The comments I've seen
35:34
Speaker 3: on pieces about this just again appalling, but sadly not
35:40
Speaker 3: all that surprising, people saying at least he had to go,
35:43
Speaker 3: he had the right idea. Hope the next one can
35:45
Speaker 3: follow through that sort of commentary. It seems to be
35:49
Speaker 3: just so prevalent and so normalized among the left. The
35:53
Speaker 3: left has a problem with political violence. We've seen it
35:57
Speaker 3: over and over again, and it's something that is not
36:01
Speaker 3: widely acknowledged, certainly in the media.
36:03
Speaker 15: Josh, this is the issue that will tear America apart.
36:09
Speaker 15: I'm really not exactly when I say that, if there
36:12
Speaker 15: is any issue that genuinely will take this country down,
36:16
Speaker 15: I mean that very very sincerely. Look, Abraham Lincoln, my
36:19
Speaker 15: favorite here in American Hanser, gave a very famous speech
36:22
Speaker 15: in eighteen thirty eight called the Lyceum Address in Springfield, Illinois.
36:26
Speaker 15: Who's actually only twenty nine years all the time, I
36:28
Speaker 15: believe twenty or twenty nine, and he famously said that
36:30
Speaker 15: America would never be destroyed from beyond from with that
36:34
Speaker 15: that she would only be destroyed from within and would
36:36
Speaker 15: come essentially at our own hands. Now now, tragically, Lincoln
36:40
Speaker 15: actually was quite prescient he of course, loved the country
36:43
Speaker 15: through the Civil War, where we came perilously close to
36:45
Speaker 15: doing exactly that. But now here we are, over a
36:48
Speaker 15: century and a half after the Civil War, and for
36:51
Speaker 15: many people, overwhelmingly, as you correctly note, on the political left,
36:55
Speaker 15: they have made a decision where they are not content
36:58
Speaker 15: to simply let our political disagreements be hashed out in
37:02
Speaker 15: the marketplace for ideas, they will not be settled at
37:04
Speaker 15: the ballot box. And the day that more and more
37:07
Speaker 15: people finally find aside to ditch the ballot box once
37:11
Speaker 15: and for all, and to take up knives and firearms,
37:16
Speaker 15: and god forbid, it's something even worse than that ends
37:17
Speaker 15: placed there. That really is the day that the American
37:20
Speaker 15: public becomes periously close to just dying off there. You know,
37:25
Speaker 15: you know, famously this country was made as republic if
37:29
Speaker 15: you can keep it. It is what Benjamin Franklin said back
37:32
Speaker 15: in seventeen eighty seven to a curious onlooker there in
37:34
Speaker 15: the Conscial Convention in Philadelphia. And it really is up
37:38
Speaker 15: to us to keep this republic there, and political violence
37:40
Speaker 15: could easily be the death knell of this country.
37:41
Speaker 3: After now to the Supreme Court decision, on President Trump's tariffs.
37:49
Speaker 3: Tell me about this decision. The court was split six three,
37:53
Speaker 3: and just as Kavanagh wrote, a very interesting dissentic, explain
37:58
Speaker 3: this ruling to my audience, Josh, what do you expect
38:01
Speaker 3: to say happening next?
38:05
Speaker 15: So the first thing to know was just kind of
38:06
Speaker 15: before we get into legal weeds, is it's going to
38:09
Speaker 15: be a total mess if the government actually has to
38:13
Speaker 15: start offering refunds for the dozens hundreds I think it's
38:18
Speaker 15: a rough one hundred and s twenty five billion dollars
38:20
Speaker 15: in TOWERFF revenue that they have already corrected through these
38:23
Speaker 15: reciprocal taratiffs, which have been implemented through this late nineteen
38:26
Speaker 15: seventy statute, the iee PA, the International Economic Emergency Powers
38:32
Speaker 15: at So the basic legal argument here is that the
38:35
Speaker 15: statute that passed during the Jimmy Carter presidency a little
38:39
Speaker 15: over a half century ago, give or take, was it
38:42
Speaker 15: allows the president Congress delegates to the president the ability
38:46
Speaker 15: to regulate importation when there is an economic emergency. Donald Trump,
38:51
Speaker 15: because of his theory on trade, he cares a lot
38:53
Speaker 15: about the balance of trade. He cares a lot about
38:55
Speaker 15: the fact that America has been ripped off by the
38:56
Speaker 15: globals class for a long time there viewed our massive
38:59
Speaker 15: trade sits as a economic emergency, and he therefore invoked
39:04
Speaker 15: the statute to impose these tariffs. On the other side,
39:07
Speaker 15: you have the basic constitutional baseline that says that Congress
39:11
Speaker 15: shall have the ability to impose duties, so tariffs and
39:16
Speaker 15: things like that. So the basic legal question is did
39:18
Speaker 15: this statute carve out a dispensation from from the basic
39:21
Speaker 15: constitutional rule. I was very candid with with my on
39:25
Speaker 15: an audience on my show Rita. I said, this is
39:26
Speaker 15: actually a very close legal question. I also said that
39:29
Speaker 15: that the administration is correct. I do think that that
39:31
Speaker 15: Kavanaugh has the better of the argument in his descent.
39:35
Speaker 15: I am hardly shocked, though, from being candid that the
39:37
Speaker 15: administration lost. I thought that Neil Gorstitch, I thought that
39:39
Speaker 15: Amy Cony Barrett, I thought that some of these Republican
39:42
Speaker 15: nominal justice would go the other way and sought against
39:44
Speaker 15: the administration. The good news is that there's there are
39:47
Speaker 15: plenty of other statutes that seem to actually be sure
39:51
Speaker 15: legal footing for Donald Trump to dus after this. Kav
39:53
Speaker 15: Nor towards the end of his descent actually lists at
39:56
Speaker 15: least three or four different statutes. So the good news
39:59
Speaker 15: is that I'm think we might have we will probably
40:01
Speaker 15: get into this very messy, sordid business of giving out refunds.
40:05
Speaker 15: Whoever the heck tho it possibly work there? I think
40:07
Speaker 15: Trump will probably just tried to do this all over
40:09
Speaker 15: again on a different statute. I'm sure some people will
40:11
Speaker 15: suit to be clear, but some of these other statues
40:14
Speaker 15: seem to have surely legal footing.
40:15
Speaker 3: What I can tell, Well, apparently this ruling did not
40:20
Speaker 3: mention what to do with the hundreds of billions that's
40:22
Speaker 3: already been collected. You would think that would be something
40:25
Speaker 3: to actually, I don't know comment on before you go,
40:29
Speaker 3: is Amy Cony Barrett Donald Trump's biggest mistake of his
40:33
Speaker 3: first term or amongst his biggest mistakes? Because she has
40:39
Speaker 3: had she's been on she's been a frustration for the administration,
40:44
Speaker 3: let's just say, yeah.
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Speaker 15: It's a interesting question.
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Speaker 3: Look, I will say this.
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Speaker 15: I will say that the two most concernative justice on
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Speaker 15: the US Supreme Courts by far are Clarence Thomas, the
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Speaker 15: same Aliito. Clarence Thomas has been on the Core for
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Speaker 15: thirty five years, a leado for twenty years there.
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Speaker 5: All three of.
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Speaker 15: Trump's picks are correct more often than they are incorrect.
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Speaker 15: None of them is a Clarence Thomas or Sam Alito
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Speaker 15: stalwart for it's worth three. In my own personal two cents,
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Speaker 15: I think Donald Trump's worst mistake from his first term
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Speaker 15: was the first step act. This pro criminal justice forum
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Speaker 15: jailbreak legislation there was kind of ushered in by Kim
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Speaker 15: Kardashian and Kanye West. Unfortunately, is kind of a bit
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Speaker 15: of a precursor to the George floy Black Lives Matter
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Speaker 15: summer Trump Freudsworth has done something of a mayor culp
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Speaker 15: on that there. I don't think that we'll ever see
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Speaker 15: that again there, God William, We'll continue to do a
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Speaker 15: little better when it comes to judicial nominations, including the
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Speaker 15: US Supreme Court.
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Speaker 3: Josh Shamma, thank you so much for your time tonight.
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Speaker 9: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Up next, the Royal Spacing and Unprecedented Crisis will take
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Speaker 3: a deep dive into the man formerly known as Prince
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Speaker 3: Andrew kinzisco Field joins me next. Welcome back joining me
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Speaker 3: now celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey's schofield Kinsey, There's so
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Speaker 3: much to hunpack with the scandal involving Andrew Madden Windsor.
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Speaker 3: It has plunged the monarchy into almost an unprecedented crisis,
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Speaker 3: really biggest we've seen since the application of the Nazi
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Speaker 3: sympathizing King Edward the Eighth. Now, if you're wondering how
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Speaker 3: well Andrew Cope's under pressure, let's remind the audience of
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Speaker 3: how he went during this ill advised interview with the
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Speaker 3: BBC back in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 16: She was very specific about that night. She described dancing
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Speaker 16: with you and you profusely sweating, and that she went
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Speaker 16: on to have bomb.
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Speaker 17: Possibly there's a slight problem with the sweating because I
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Speaker 17: have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat,
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Speaker 17: or I didn't sweat at the time, and that was
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Speaker 17: I assume, yes, I didn't sweat at the time, because
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Speaker 17: I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose
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Speaker 17: of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at,
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Speaker 17: and I simply it was almost impossible for me to sweat.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey, I'm lost for words. Not only did he lie
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Speaker 3: repeatedly throughout that interview, but some of the lies were.
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Speaker 18: Ridiculous, ridiculous, And you see now that we've had this
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Speaker 18: dooj dro jump that now we have this interview to
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Speaker 18: compare it to. He lies about the picture. It's a
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Speaker 18: picture of a picture of a picture. Well there's Glane saying,
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Speaker 18: I'm there, that's the real picture. This interview is going
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Speaker 18: to haunt him more than he could ever imagine, with
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Speaker 18: investigators calling through these emails, now through evidence that they're
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Speaker 18: pulling out of his home, and this BBC interview.
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Speaker 3: Now I have a look at this clip of that,
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Speaker 3: say BBC journalist who did the interview back in twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 3: she now feels sympathy for it.
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Speaker 19: We talk a lot about people's sort of state of
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Speaker 19: mind and health and all the rest of it.
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Speaker 5: And I suppose I do feel.
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Speaker 19: I feel concern actually as I'm watching this story unfold,
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Speaker 19: and I suppose that two things can be simultaneously true,
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Speaker 19: That it can have been a long time coming. But
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Speaker 19: when it does, there is somebody at the center of it,
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Speaker 19: and it is a father, and there are children, and
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Speaker 19: there is a mental health question.
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Speaker 3: Kinsia, what do you make of that assessment there? Do
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Speaker 3: you feel sympathy for him and his mental health struggles
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Speaker 3: at the moment?
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Speaker 18: I mean, that's you know, I will say. In January,
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Speaker 18: Keith Mansey reported in the Times that Prince William was
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Speaker 18: deeply concerned for his uncle's mental health and how Andrew
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Speaker 18: would cope after everything was taken away. He supported the
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Speaker 18: King but was worried about the consequences. Legally, Andrew's mental
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Speaker 18: health only matters it affected his state of mind at
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Speaker 18: the time of the alleged offenses or his ability to
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Speaker 18: face trial today. If that comes to fruition morally, it
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Speaker 18: might be a different story.
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Speaker 3: Now, as sources told People magazine that Prince Harry is
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Speaker 3: getting frustrated with people comparing him to his uncle Andrew.
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Speaker 3: The insider said Harry served his country, did the job
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Speaker 3: well and never engaged in misconduct, yet lost security and
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Speaker 3: housing while Andrew was protected for years. Kinsey, what's your
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Speaker 3: take on that.
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Speaker 18: I mean, well, you already mentioned one Winsor sympathizer, a
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Speaker 18: Nazi sympathizer. We saw Harry in a Nazi costume. We've
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Speaker 18: seen him use racist language in videos. I think one
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Speaker 18: thing Harry and Meghan and Andrew haven't. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 18: just saying he's not perfect, but one thing that they
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Speaker 18: do have in common is needing to be more careful
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Speaker 18: about the company they keep. Lily's godfather and best need
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Speaker 18: in Megan Tyler Perry facing two separate civil lawsuits from
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Speaker 18: actors alleging sexual assault, battery, in misconduct. He says he's
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Speaker 18: gonna said Chrissy Tagan has a horrible digital footprint up
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Speaker 18: harassing literally harassing children online. Megan's friend, Whitney Wolford has
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Speaker 18: recently been exposed for using the N word. If the
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Speaker 18: Epstein fallout should teach Harry anything, it's that your circle
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Speaker 18: reflects your character.
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Speaker 3: Uh, it does. And yeah, Chrissy, we've got to talk
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Speaker 3: about tea getting down the track because yeah, you're right,
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Speaker 3: her digital footprint is terrible. She's deleted a lot of it,
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Speaker 3: but you never really deleted anything from the internet. Now,
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Speaker 3: people have been digging through Virginia Giuffray's memoir Nobody Girl
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Speaker 3: for more references about the former prince, and in the memoir,
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Speaker 3: Giffray revisited the night she met the Royal. Apparently Gilaine
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Speaker 3: Maxwell asked the prince to guess Geffray's age, Andrew guests
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Speaker 3: correctly saying seventeen, adding my daughters are just a little
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Speaker 3: younger than you can see. It's a little bit creepy.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, it's a lot creepy coverage of princesses Beatrice and
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Speaker 18: Eugenie have you know. I think it's been consistent. I
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Speaker 18: think the girls still love and support their father despite
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Speaker 18: horrible headlines like these. They remained publicly loyal to their dad.
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Speaker 18: They've maintained close ties to their mom as well, and
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Speaker 18: behind the scenes are often understood to help with reputational
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Speaker 18: and logistical matters during difficult periods. It was in fact
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Speaker 18: Beatrice who helped Andrew prepare for that infamous PBC interview,
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Speaker 18: but the scale and to assistance of the Jeffrey Epstein
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Speaker 18: scandal could ultimately test just how sustainable that loyalty is
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Speaker 18: going forward.
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Speaker 3: Now. On the same day that Andrew was arrested, Megan
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Speaker 3: Mikael was sharing a message to her followers. She sent
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Speaker 3: an email promoting her products as part of her as
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Speaker 3: Ever brand, saying, whether temperature drops, we start by striking
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Speaker 3: a match, a steady flame on the table, soft light
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Speaker 3: in the corners of the room, the familiar comfort of
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Speaker 3: a scent that instantly changes the mood. Just beautiful marketing there.
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Speaker 18: Kinsey, so Delulu, I want to have whatever Meghan Markle
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Speaker 18: and Prince Area are having because wow it is. I mean,
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Speaker 18: while the UK watched the Senior Royal taken into custody,
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Speaker 18: there's Megan Markle sending out a glossy email, pushing her
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Speaker 18: wickless handles. A masterclass in tone death timing. Groth that
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Speaker 18: self awareness is not a part of a brand strategy,
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Speaker 18: but you know what, what do we expect? When he
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Speaker 18: was stripped of his titles, they were front and center
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Speaker 18: at a Dodgers game being booed. As you know, chaos
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Speaker 18: sued over the DOJ dump. Here's Harry and Meghan court
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Speaker 18: side at a basketball game.
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Speaker 3: Let live in this fantasy land, kinsis go.
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Speaker 6: Phil.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for your time tonight, and that's
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Speaker 3: all the time we have. I'll see you at eleven
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Speaker 3: tomorrow night. Newsnight is up next