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The Rita Panahi Show | 1 October · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring lives Ostrodia. This is the wider panehe show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the reader Panehe show. Coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight Labour's home deposit scheme called an insult to
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Speaker 2: first home buyers. The panel will join me shortly to
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Speaker 2: discuss the day's top headlines. The Great Douglas Murray has
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Speaker 2: some thoughts on Anthony Alberanezi's war against populism. He'll be
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Speaker 2: here before the first ad break and we've got the
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Speaker 2: cream of the crop for you. Tonight Josh Hammer will
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Speaker 2: have the latest from the US, including Pete Hegzett declaring
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Speaker 2: an end to de madness in the military and the
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Speaker 2: return of meritocracy. And left is losing and has the
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Speaker 2: ladies of the view wondering whether they'll survive three more
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Speaker 2: years of Trump.
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Speaker 3: Every day it's every day is a shuck and owe
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Speaker 3: here and I for one skeptical that we will survive this.
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Speaker 4: First.
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Speaker 2: Victorian Opposition leader Brad Batten has pledged to keep transgender
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Speaker 2: sex offenders out of women's prisons. As premiers listened to
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Speaker 2: Alan Ignores pleas to have a transgender inmate who sexually
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Speaker 2: abused his five year old daughter removed from a female
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Speaker 2: correction facility.
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Speaker 5: Any person who wants to choose in their life what
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Speaker 5: they identify as that is one hundred percent their choice,
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Speaker 5: but not at the risk of others. And there needs
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Speaker 5: to be a line in the sand that says no,
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Speaker 5: there is certain things and not acceptable and people going
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Speaker 5: into the opposite sex prisons are putting people at risk.
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Speaker 5: That is something that needs to be considered and wouldn't
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Speaker 5: happen under a government I lead now.
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Speaker 2: The sex offender in question, a father who now identifies
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Speaker 2: as a woman and calls himself Hillary Maloney, took thirteen
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Speaker 2: videos and sixty four images of himself sexually abusing his daughter,
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Speaker 2: five year old daughter across the state one month period
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Speaker 2: after agreeing to engage in those vile acts for the
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Speaker 2: sexual gratify vocation of American pedophile Sam Booth, who he
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Speaker 2: called his master now. Brad Batten also slammed the sentence
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Speaker 2: given to this offende minimum jail term of just two
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Speaker 2: and a half years when the maximum is twenty five years,
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Speaker 2: but the judge in the case through that because the
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Speaker 2: offender was transitioning to being a woman and that transition
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Speaker 2: wasn't fully accepted by those around him. Because of that,
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Speaker 2: his moral culpability was reduced.
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Speaker 5: These are sentences that are not in line with community expectations.
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Speaker 5: That is why we will make sure we will review
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Speaker 5: all of the sentence in.
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Speaker 6: Here in Victoria.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now for more on this, ask Sky News
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Speaker 2: contributors Caroline dei Rosso and Evelyn Ray. Caroline, I'll start
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Speaker 2: with you. I wrote about this issue again in the
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Speaker 2: Herald Sun today. There is something very wrong, very sick
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Speaker 2: with the judiciary, with the bureaucracy, with the expert class
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Speaker 2: in Victoria. When something like this happens. This doesn't happen
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Speaker 2: in isolation.
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Speaker 4: No, it doesn't happen in isolation.
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Speaker 7: And what was very interesting as well as a corollary
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Speaker 7: to that, is to Cinter Allen has not been as
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Speaker 7: eager to be in front of the media as she
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Speaker 7: usually is because obviously this is something that is just
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Speaker 7: impossible to defend, impossible to justify, and I think she
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Speaker 7: knows that. I think Brad Baton summed it up perfectly
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Speaker 7: and his position, I think is totally in line with
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Speaker 7: community expectations. You know, it is not appropriate for biological
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Speaker 7: men to be in women's prisons. Like he said, you
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Speaker 7: can make whatever decision you want in life, but you
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Speaker 7: don't have the luxury of visiting those consequences on other people.
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Speaker 2: We've got to look at the cases in Victoria. I
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Speaker 2: remember more than three years ago being contacted by women
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Speaker 2: from Dame from correction facility that signed a petition to
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Speaker 2: have a male predator identifying as women removed from their prison.
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Speaker 2: They were terrified and Evelyn, no one was listening to them,
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Speaker 2: not Corrections Victoria, certainly not the labor government, and at
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Speaker 2: that time even the opposition in this state was too
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Speaker 2: gutless to take a stand for these women.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just another clear example of the hierarchy of ideologies,
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Speaker 8: you know. Put simply, this is another example of prioritizing
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Speaker 8: the trans movement over women's safety, you know, and when
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Speaker 8: women's safety takes a back seat to any ideological movement,
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Speaker 8: we as a society should be very, very concerned. You know,
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Speaker 8: we have politicians in this country who either can't or
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Speaker 8: just flat out refuse to define what a woman is.
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Speaker 9: And that is a massive, massive red flag.
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Speaker 8: These were questions that five year olds could answer up
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Speaker 8: until five minutes ago. You know, common sense unfortunately is
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Speaker 8: incredibly fleeting. But the reality is when you abandon common sense.
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Speaker 8: When you forsake truth and you replace it with these
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Speaker 8: ideological things that abandon those very foundations, the people who
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Speaker 8: get hurt are often the ones who are actually living
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Speaker 8: in truth, and it's the ones who are constantly censoring, constantly,
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Speaker 8: you know, trying to shut down any rhetoric that goes
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Speaker 8: against them. It's just it's, honestly, the people who are
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Speaker 8: most vulnerable who are going to get the most hurt,
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Speaker 8: and that's what we're seeing play out in these prisons.
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Speaker 8: I'm honestly disgusted by the result of this court matter.
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Speaker 2: Two and a half years I.
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Speaker 8: Worked in child sex crimes in Australia as a detective
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Speaker 8: and I can tell you from firsthand experience that this
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Speaker 8: isn't like a one off thing. I've seen it time
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Speaker 8: and time again where ideological movements get priority over justice.
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Speaker 4: And you know, the reason why the West.
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Speaker 8: Has prospered for so long above second and third world
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Speaker 8: countries is because we have always wielded the sword of
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Speaker 8: justice very well. That it's an incentive to not commit
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Speaker 8: crime because you go, oh crap, I don't want the punishment.
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Speaker 8: I don't want to have to reap the consequences. But
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Speaker 8: The more that we diminish these things in place of
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Speaker 8: these ideological movements, the more we are going to regress
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Speaker 8: to second and third world nations, because it's.
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Speaker 2: Quite simply is just not good enough.
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Speaker 8: And I think that, you know, women make up over
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Speaker 8: fifty percent of this nation.
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Speaker 4: I think we can make.
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Speaker 8: A pretty loud noise, especially if we have the good
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Speaker 8: men and politicians who can stand around us. And that's
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Speaker 8: what we should really be pushing for.
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Speaker 2: Now. Let's move on to the barefoot investor Scott paper
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Speaker 2: lashing out of the Albanezy government over it's five percent
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Speaker 2: deposit scheme for first home buyers which has just come
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Speaker 2: into effect. He's branded an insult. He warned the policy
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Speaker 2: risked first home buyers taking up taking on ninety five
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Speaker 2: percent mortgages, making them vulnerable to interest rate high and
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Speaker 2: inflation spikes. He writes, it's dressed up as a helping hand,
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Speaker 2: but it's really just a shove into bigger debt. Instead
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Speaker 2: of making homes more affordable, it will push prices higher
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Speaker 2: and encourage first home buyers to borrow more and save less.
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Speaker 2: That's subprime lending Australian style. Caro. Why is the government
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Speaker 2: getting involved in private home purchases. We already have companies
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Speaker 2: that provide lenders mortgage insurance. So if you want to
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Speaker 2: borrow ninety five percent ninety percent, why is the government
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Speaker 2: getting involved in this area. Well, I've spent plenty of
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Speaker 2: time in my former life doing back end enforcement work
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Speaker 2: for the bank, so I've seen this go south on
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Speaker 2: more than one occasion, and particularly.
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Speaker 4: During the GFC.
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Speaker 7: We obviously didn't have the same you know, sort of
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Speaker 7: circumstance or to the extent that happened in the US,
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Speaker 7: but there was some of it that happened here.
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Speaker 4: What the government is doing, or is.
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Speaker 7: They're pretending to help, They're pretending to fix reta And
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Speaker 7: this won't come as a surprise to you, but big
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Speaker 7: buckets have cash actually don't fix problems. And in the
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Speaker 7: case of something like housing, it actually makes the problem
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Speaker 7: worse because the supply hasn't changed, but you're putting a
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Speaker 7: big extra chunk of demand onto the market. What Barefoot
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Speaker 7: Investor said is absolutely correct. All it is doing is
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Speaker 7: putting a bigger set of golden handcuffs on first homeowners. Okay,
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Speaker 7: some of them might be able to go into this
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Speaker 7: into their mortgage, maybe with a two percent or three percent,
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Speaker 7: two or three years sorry, fixed loan. But after that,
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Speaker 7: and as is usually the case in Australia, loans become
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Speaker 7: variable if they're not variable from the beginning, so they
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Speaker 7: are absolutely subject to.
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Speaker 4: Fluctuations, and not just that.
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Speaker 7: If you're not one of the first people to get
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Speaker 7: in there and buy a house and get it done
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Speaker 7: right at the beginning, something like this is going to
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Speaker 7: have an inflationary impact. And even just the rises that
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Speaker 7: we've seen in house prices over the last three months
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Speaker 7: GUS the September quarter, it adds an extra eighteen thousand
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Speaker 7: dollars to the price of a house. So if you can,
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Speaker 7: if you can save an extra eighteen grand in a quarter,
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Speaker 7: well good on you. But I tell you what, it's
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Speaker 7: just going to make things tougher for everyone out there.
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Speaker 2: Evelyn Ray, I'm run out of time. If I can
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Speaker 2: get a response in about fifteen seconds. Do you see
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Speaker 2: any upside to this policy for first time buyers?
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Speaker 9: Absolutely no upside.
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Speaker 8: I think it's important to remember if the government owned
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Speaker 8: one percent of your home.
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Speaker 2: And you are one hundred percent of your home, well
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Speaker 2: said Evelyn Ray. Caroline de Rousso, thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for your time, tonight. Joining me now is the author
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Speaker 2: of groundbreaking works, international bestsellers, including The Strange Death of Europe,
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Speaker 2: The Madness of Crowds, The War on the West, and
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Speaker 2: his latest on democracies and death cults. Douglas, I'm keen
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Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on the war against populism being
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Speaker 2: waged by the likes of Kis Starmer and our own
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi. But let's start in the US,
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Speaker 2: where Hillary Clinton has decried white men of a certain
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Speaker 2: religion for reversing what she calls social progress.
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Speaker 6: The idea that you could turn the clock back and
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Speaker 6: try to recreate a world that never was dominated by
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Speaker 6: you know, let's say it, white men of a certain persuasion,
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Speaker 6: a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology.
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Speaker 6: It's just doing such damage to what we should be
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Speaker 6: aiming for, and we were on the path toward that.
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Speaker 2: There you go, Douglas, white Christian men holding back social progress.
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Speaker 10: Well, Hillary Clinton obviously believes in the myth that so
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Speaker 10: many progressives do, which is that you're on a trajectory
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Speaker 10: to just have more and more rights, get more and
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Speaker 10: more freedoms, and more and more liberal in their understanding
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Speaker 10: of the term, and that anything that doesn't go along
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Speaker 10: with that, including for instance, not voting for Hillary Clinton,
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Speaker 10: it revealed a terrible mock failing. And it's just always
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Speaker 10: so striking the presumptuousness of that and.
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Speaker 9: The sour grapes of it.
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Speaker 10: And they always add that thing of going back to
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Speaker 10: a world that never existed, knowing I would have thought
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Speaker 10: or being able to intuit. A lot of people don't
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Speaker 10: want to go back to a world that never existed,
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Speaker 10: but they would like to live in stable, secure societies
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Speaker 10: that were proud of their identity and history. And that
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Speaker 10: isn't a make believe world. That isn't a world that
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Speaker 10: never existed. It's one that some of us can remember
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Speaker 10: in our own lifetimes. It's impossible to imagine a world
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Speaker 10: in which Hillary Clinton said, it's unfortunate that there's been
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Speaker 10: a rise in female genital mutilations in Western societies, but
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Speaker 10: you know that's the fault of dark skinned men of
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Speaker 10: a certain religion. Wow, the talk show hosts in America
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Speaker 10: wouldn't NodD belong to that.
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Speaker 9: But as always.
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Speaker 10: Rita, it's acceptable to beat up on Christians, and especially
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Speaker 10: acceptable to beat up on white men and if white
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Speaker 10: men are Christians, then we all know. I mean, they've
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Speaker 10: got it coming, haven't they. I mean, they are standing
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Speaker 10: in the world in the way of Hillary Clinton's world,
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Speaker 10: not for the first.
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Speaker 2: Time, and that she would make these comments just two
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Speaker 2: weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination. She is just so tone
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Speaker 2: deaf and offensive in so many ways. But staying in
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Speaker 2: the US, New York Mayor Eric Adams has dropped out
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Speaker 2: of the racer. We've got the hardline socialist Zor and
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Speaker 2: man Danny polling very strongly, and he now has the
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Speaker 2: backing of Kamala Harris. Look, as far as I'm concerned,
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Speaker 2: he's the Democratic he should be supported.
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Speaker 9: Do you endorse his candidacy?
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Speaker 2: I support the Democrat in the race. Sure you have
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Speaker 2: a Douglas, the former VP has no reservations about backing
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Speaker 2: a man like Mandani.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: I mean, this is the great test for the Democratic
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Speaker 10: Party is whether or not they actually go with a
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Speaker 10: democratic socialist and somebody who has not just the terrible
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Speaker 10: track record of views and alliances, but of course zero
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Speaker 10: track record as being able to be a mayor.
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Speaker 9: Of a city like New York.
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Speaker 10: I mean, I don't think you'd be mayor of any small,
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Speaker 10: tiny city of a few hundred or village of a
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Speaker 10: few hundred people. I don't know what the Democrats think
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Speaker 10: think in putting forward somebody who's so manifestly unsuited for
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Speaker 10: such an important role. I'm sorry to see Mayor Adams
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Speaker 10: fall out of the race, although I think it's probably
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Speaker 10: the right decision. I'm hoping, as most people that don't
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Speaker 10: want Mam Daney to get in are hoping that people
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Speaker 10: will coalesce around one of the other candidates, and that's
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Speaker 10: obviously Mayor Adams's hope.
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Speaker 9: I think he's done the dignified and right thing.
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Speaker 10: He was a good mayor and he's a good man,
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Speaker 10: and I'm not sure that could be said of the
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Speaker 10: person who is currently polling well to be his successor.
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Speaker 2: Now switching to the uk KRE, Starma continues to champion
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Speaker 2: digital ID, says it will be compulsory and it's the
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Speaker 2: only way to tackle illegal immigration.
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Speaker 4: We need to be.
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Speaker 12: Really clear, you must have an ID mandatory digital ID
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Speaker 12: in order to work, because we have to stop illegal
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Speaker 12: working Douglas.
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Speaker 2: More than two and a half million people have already
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Speaker 2: signed a petition against Starma's digital ID what are your
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Speaker 2: thoughts on the merits of this policy.
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Speaker 10: Well, this is a reheated policy from the Blair era
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Speaker 10: and it's another reminder that Starma doesn't have any real
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Speaker 10: policies of his own. But presumably Tony Blair or somebody
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Speaker 10: from Blair circle has said why not give this another go.
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Speaker 10: It was fantastically unpopular twenty years ago, but perhaps people
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Speaker 10: will be with it now.
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Speaker 9: I'm not one of those libertarians who.
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Speaker 10: Objects to the idea of ID because I think that
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Speaker 10: government's going to come and snoop and all that sort
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Speaker 10: of thing. I object to it, particularly rolled out on
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Speaker 10: these grounds, because you don't need digital ID to prove
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Speaker 10: your right or otherwise to be in the UK. And
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Speaker 10: it does absolutely nothing I can see serious to crack
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Speaker 10: down on illegal migration. I mean, for instance, if you
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Speaker 10: wanted to crack down on illegal migration, you don't have
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Speaker 10: to get everyone in the.
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Speaker 9: United Kingdom to sign up to digital ID.
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Speaker 10: You could send boats out into the channel, stop illegal
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Speaker 10: migrant gangs sending illegals into the UK. You could stop
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Speaker 10: the UK Border Force acting as the helpmates of the
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Speaker 10: smuggling gangs by going out and you know, halfway through
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Speaker 10: the Channel maybe a bit more. If the boat doesn't
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Speaker 10: have to have any troubles for the UK Coast Guard
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Speaker 10: and the Royal Navy and others to pick up the
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Speaker 10: illegal migrants, say thank you very much to the smugglers
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Speaker 10: and bring the.
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Speaker 9: Illegal migrants to the UK.
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Speaker 10: Then none of that gets stopped by making every British
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Speaker 10: person get digital ID. It's a classic case of an
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Speaker 10: inept government that doesn't have many ideas, rehashing and reheating
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Speaker 10: an old idea, and I can say with absolute certainty
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Speaker 10: it is a distraction. It does nothing to deal with
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Speaker 10: illegal migration. And by the way, they're worried about illegal workers.
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Speaker 10: They could just send the police or anyone else to
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Speaker 10: all of the migrant hotels and vast swathes of the UK.
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Speaker 10: Go to the delivery companies and the uber eats companies
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Speaker 10: and all the others, and just ask if everyone's got
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Speaker 10: any idea at all, digital or otherwise, who's doing deliveries
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Speaker 10: for those people. They're very easy to do, but they
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Speaker 10: would never do that, of course, much easier to put
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Speaker 10: the whole country through this once again.
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Speaker 2: Now kiss Starmer and is ideological bedfellow. Australian Prime Minister
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Speaker 2: Anthony alber Easy have been railing against populism as represented
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Speaker 2: by parties like Reform.
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Speaker 11: Have a listen well, I don't want to see the
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Speaker 11: rise of populist organizations such as that. I met with
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Speaker 11: the mainstream opposition party here and you know, I'm involved
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Speaker 11: in parties of governance have to come up with solutions,
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Speaker 11: not seek to divide people.
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, it's so inspiring, isn't He puts you to
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Speaker 2: Slabor Douglas. These leaders say they are defending democracy itself.
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Speaker 2: Is populism a threat to democracy?
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Speaker 10: In my observation in recent years, the word populism is
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Speaker 10: always used as a synonym effectually for parties that are popular.
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Speaker 9: That's it, and populism is.
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Speaker 10: Never defined by these very second rate adults we have
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Speaker 10: running our countries. In Australia and the UK, they always
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Speaker 10: rail against populism, and I think really the problem is
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Speaker 10: they have a deep problem with anyone who is popular,
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Speaker 10: and that's because they're not, and they always use the
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Speaker 10: same playbook. We're not here to divide, we're here to unite.
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Speaker 10: We want to go forward into tomorrow, not upwards into
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Speaker 10: yester year or something like that.
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Speaker 9: Actually, Albanese starmer they're.
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Speaker 10: Very very good at dividing, very very good at it,
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Speaker 10: and they do it all the time.
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Speaker 9: So they're not anti division at all.
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Speaker 10: They just want to be able to do their own dividing,
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Speaker 10: and part of that is dismissing anyone who they don't
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Speaker 10: like as a populist. Well, as I say, I hope
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Speaker 10: at some point the voters will make it clear what
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Speaker 10: popularity really means.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's hear now from the Deputy Prime Minister of
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Speaker 2: the UK, David Lammie, who has stepped up his attacks
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Speaker 2: against Nigel Farage. He's now claiming that Farage was flirting
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Speaker 2: with the Hitler Youth.
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Speaker 12: I will leave it for the public to come to
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Speaker 12: their own judgments about someone who once flirted.
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Speaker 11: With Hitler Youth when he was younger.
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Speaker 2: That is for the public, Douglas. I know Lammy's not
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Speaker 2: the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 2: Nigel Varaje was born around twenty years after the Hitler
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Speaker 2: Youth disbanded. What is he on about there? And what
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Speaker 2: about this turning down the temperature and not having this
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Speaker 2: retrick that could lead to violence? Have we forgotten that already?
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Speaker 8: Oh?
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Speaker 10: Of course they've forgotten it that stuff never lasts more
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Speaker 10: than a few minutes, if not a few hours. You
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Speaker 10: could see on David Lammy's face there as he said it,
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Speaker 10: he was trying to work out whether he should go there.
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Speaker 10: His eyes flickered for a moment as he was trying
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Speaker 10: to work out whether this was the one to wheel out.
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Speaker 10: David Lammy as I never stop enjoying reminding people appeared
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Speaker 10: on Celebrity Mastermind some years ago and asked in the
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Speaker 10: general Knowledge round which king succeeded the eighth answered Henry
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Speaker 10: the seventh. Now that being said, it's perfectly possible that
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Speaker 10: in David Lammy's mind Nigel Farage as a boy, traveled
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Speaker 10: back in time to flirt with joining the Hitler youth.
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Speaker 10: And so we must allow David Lammy these brain farts.
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Speaker 10: But I mean, yes, again, it's just woeful, isn't it, Reta,
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Speaker 10: It's just woeful. We have prime ministers deputy prime ministers
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Speaker 10: of just.
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Speaker 9: Such a low caliber.
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Speaker 10: And they really do think that if they call mainstream
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Speaker 10: politicians who they are trying to beat at the ballot
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Speaker 10: box and in the polls, they call them Hitler flooding
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Speaker 10: with Hitler youth, fascist, Nazi everything else populist. If they
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Speaker 10: do all of that, then they can win the argument.
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Speaker 10: It's absolutely woeful and they would hate that if it
21:56
Speaker 10: was done to them. And I suppose at some point
22:00
Speaker 10: people with fewer morals, or indeed the same morals as
22:04
Speaker 10: them in these matters as little adherence to truth might
22:08
Speaker 10: well play that round at them and wow, how they'll scream.
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Speaker 2: Then, you know, absolutely before you go. I don't know
22:17
Speaker 2: if you caught this story. The NHS National Health Service
22:21
Speaker 2: has come under fire for claiming that first cousin marriage
22:26
Speaker 2: is linked to stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages.
22:32
Speaker 2: There you go, Doug, Let's never mind the moral issue
22:35
Speaker 2: or the very serious birth defects of children born from
22:39
Speaker 2: these unions. Apparently there's all sorts of economic advantages.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean the idea that the National Health Service,
22:46
Speaker 10: which is, by the ways, you know, one of the
22:48
Speaker 10: largest employers in the world somewhere around the same figures
22:53
Speaker 10: as the Chinese Communist Party's army. The idea that the
22:56
Speaker 10: National Health Service, which is so woeful provide giding actual
23:00
Speaker 10: healthcare to the British public, would think to be stepping
23:04
Speaker 10: into the realm of giving advice on the economics of
23:08
Speaker 10: certain marital unions. Actually they should stick with the health stuff,
23:13
Speaker 10: which they just don't do very well. The NHS, if
23:17
Speaker 10: it was being honest, would admit to the fact that
23:21
Speaker 10: the children of cousin marriages are more than twice as
23:27
Speaker 10: likely as other children to suffer severe birth defects.
23:33
Speaker 9: That is a shocking and.
23:35
Speaker 10: Terrible statistic and it's not like it's something we don't
23:40
Speaker 10: see in a country like Britain. It's twenty years now
23:44
Speaker 10: since the Labor mpn Crier said that in her constituency
23:48
Speaker 10: in the North of England, the hospitals had a serious
23:51
Speaker 10: problem with the children of cousin marriages of people from
23:55
Speaker 10: Pakistan and Bangladesh in particular coming to the UK having
23:59
Speaker 10: children with severe birth defects. On that this was putting
24:02
Speaker 10: strains on the National Health Service. Of course, then as
24:05
Speaker 10: now everybody decides to shoot the messenger and lots of
24:09
Speaker 10: people said a cryer.
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Speaker 9: The Labor MP was.
24:11
Speaker 10: Racist for raising this issue about the welfare of children
24:14
Speaker 10: and the standing.
24:15
Speaker 9: Of the NHS.
24:16
Speaker 10: But you know, this is a classic example of something
24:20
Speaker 10: everyone can now notice, which is that entities like the
24:23
Speaker 10: NHS effectively try to retrofit their own purpose in order
24:31
Speaker 10: to fit in with the diverse, multicultural society, the NHS
24:36
Speaker 10: must know that if it put out guidance saying please
24:39
Speaker 10: don't marry your first cousin from merepoor, even if your
24:43
Speaker 10: dad says you're going to get a great wedding dowry,
24:46
Speaker 10: don't do it because you're very likely to have a
24:51
Speaker 10: child with unbelievably problematic health issues from birth. That would
24:56
Speaker 10: be a really good thing to do. But of course, yeah,
24:58
Speaker 10: that might get the need to gets into trouble because
25:01
Speaker 10: after all.
25:01
Speaker 9: It would be true.
25:02
Speaker 10: And I mean, what right do they have to tread
25:05
Speaker 10: into this domain. It's such an indictment not just of
25:09
Speaker 10: the NHS and its leadership, but of a society in
25:12
Speaker 10: which stories like this come out now almost on a
25:16
Speaker 10: daily basis.
25:19
Speaker 2: It just shows you how corrupted that bureaucracy is with
25:23
Speaker 2: this poisonous thinking. It really is crazy. But I just
25:27
Speaker 2: want to point out to the viewers that President Trump
25:32
Speaker 2: has again praised your work at Douglas. I noticed this
25:35
Speaker 2: all over X and social media side. President Trump is
25:39
Speaker 2: saying to go out and purchase this book, impactful book
25:43
Speaker 2: on democracies and death cults. It's quite a good endorsement there, Douglas,
25:48
Speaker 2: the leader of the Free world, encouraging people to read
25:52
Speaker 2: your latest work.
25:54
Speaker 10: Yes, I was very pleased to see that the President
25:58
Speaker 10: issued that truth over the weekend as he was preparing
26:02
Speaker 10: for the meetings on the peace deal that's being put
26:05
Speaker 10: forward in the Middle East. So I was very pleased
26:09
Speaker 10: that my recent book was at the forefront of his
26:11
Speaker 10: mind on that, or anywhere in his mind on that.
26:14
Speaker 10: I think I was very flattered that that would be
26:17
Speaker 10: the case. And yes, I mean there's a lot in
26:20
Speaker 10: the book that I think could be useful to people
26:24
Speaker 10: considering the future of the region, because there are a
26:26
Speaker 10: lot of unpopular truths and unpopular facts which I encourage
26:30
Speaker 10: my readers to absorb, and which I'm very very glad
26:34
Speaker 10: when political leaders show that they are absorbing those uncomfortable
26:39
Speaker 10: truths and facts as well.
26:43
Speaker 2: Douglas Murray, thank you so much for your time.
26:46
Speaker 9: Great pleasures always.
26:47
Speaker 2: Thank you still to Calme Left He's losing ed, plus
26:50
Speaker 2: the laters from the US, including the War Secretary declaring
26:54
Speaker 2: an in to d I'm madness in the military and
26:58
Speaker 2: the return of meritocracy. Josh Hammer is up next. You're
27:12
Speaker 2: watching the reader Paney show, and it's time for lefties
27:15
Speaker 2: losing it. Let's check in on the TV series Law
27:18
Speaker 2: and Order SVU, which jumped the shark more than a
27:21
Speaker 2: decade ago. A show that's supposed to be about law
27:25
Speaker 2: and order, the first to demonize ICE agents these days.
27:29
Speaker 2: Watch this travesty as the show's heroine is arrested by ICE.
27:35
Speaker 9: Captain visiting your interfering with the federal operation.
27:37
Speaker 1: Oh no, she's not y.
27:38
Speaker 13: He releases the material witness and he's in the custody
27:41
Speaker 13: of the MBRE.
27:42
Speaker 6: Do you really want to help a rapist go free?
27:44
Speaker 9: He's ours? Okay, take him to holding once.
27:47
Speaker 1: He provides his testimony. Don't know, we'll release him.
27:53
Speaker 9: This's you.
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Speaker 13: You have been obstructing this apparition, and from the beginning
28:01
Speaker 13: that is a federal charge.
28:03
Speaker 9: Put your hands behind your back.
28:05
Speaker 2: Well, we shouldn't be too shocked. Last years for You
28:08
Speaker 2: had an episode where a white rape victim reflected on
28:13
Speaker 2: her white privilege because her rapist was black.
28:16
Speaker 13: Are you going to believe me because I can, I
28:21
Speaker 13: can afford therapy.
28:22
Speaker 1: I have that luxury and maybe one day.
28:28
Speaker 9: I'll be okay. But if that teenager cost.
28:34
Speaker 2: To prison, you may not be. Never but law and
28:43
Speaker 2: order still has a long way to go to reach
28:45
Speaker 2: the dangerously woke heights of this episode of Cocoa Melon Lane,
28:49
Speaker 2: a Netflix program for children. Remember this a boy in
28:54
Speaker 2: a tutu dancing for his two dads.
28:57
Speaker 4: Of course we know about you.
29:01
Speaker 2: You learn to get up ast. How about you break
29:05
Speaker 2: out those moves for your.
29:07
Speaker 8: Two biggest fans.
29:15
Speaker 7: If you're not sure what to choose, think about all
29:19
Speaker 7: the things you like to do.
29:23
Speaker 4: Wow.
29:23
Speaker 2: Okay, Now to Randy Windgarden, the hard left activists paid
29:28
Speaker 2: half a million dollars to be the president of the
29:30
Speaker 2: American Federation of Teachers. She's determined to whip up maximum
29:35
Speaker 2: fear and hysteria. Here she explains why she's wearing a
29:39
Speaker 2: paper clip.
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Speaker 14: There is a reason why in Norway, when the Nazis
29:43
Speaker 14: took over Norway, That's why I'm wearing this paper clip.
29:46
Speaker 14: I wear two things now, the American flag, nobody can
29:48
Speaker 14: take patriotism away.
29:49
Speaker 1: From me, and a paper clip.
29:51
Speaker 14: What did the teachers in Norway do when there was
29:54
Speaker 14: when there was a Nazi occupation?
29:56
Speaker 2: They started wearing paper clips. That's the sort of deray
30:00
Speaker 2: directorc that could incite crazy people to commit acts of violence.
30:04
Speaker 2: And never forget that that mad banshee was allowed to
30:08
Speaker 2: direct government policy on things like masking and school closures
30:13
Speaker 2: under the Bideen administration. Now, let's check in with the
30:17
Speaker 2: ladies of the view, who are all triggered by the
30:20
Speaker 2: notion that members of the armed forces should actually be
30:24
Speaker 2: fit for service.
30:26
Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth spoke to US military leaders from around the
30:29
Speaker 3: world to lay out his very retro vision for our
30:32
Speaker 3: armed forces. Watch.
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Speaker 13: This administration has done a great deal from day one
30:37
Speaker 13: to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological
30:42
Speaker 13: garbage that had infected our department. We are done with that.
30:46
Speaker 13: It's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really
30:48
Speaker 13: any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable
30:54
Speaker 13: to see fat generals and admirals in the wholes of
30:56
Speaker 13: the Pentagon.
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Speaker 3: Why is he obsessed with fat?
31:03
Speaker 15: Yeah and fitness?
31:05
Speaker 2: Gosh, I don't know, Joy, Why is the Secretary of
31:08
Speaker 2: War obsessed about fitness? Do you really think fat obese
31:12
Speaker 2: troops are ideal? And Joy's looking for some conspiracy behind
31:17
Speaker 2: this bizarro push for standards, as she sees it.
31:21
Speaker 3: So why do you think they're doing this? There's always
31:23
Speaker 3: an ulterior motive. Well, that's the major.
31:25
Speaker 6: Question, and if it has anything to do with the
31:27
Speaker 6: recruiting law, they probably just meet it worse.
31:30
Speaker 2: That was the dangerously misinformed Sarah Hayines claiming there is
31:35
Speaker 2: a recruiting issue. There was a massive recruiting issue under
31:39
Speaker 2: the Biden administration. As soon as Donald Trump was re
31:43
Speaker 2: elected in November, recruitment numbers saw to record highs. We
31:48
Speaker 2: really should have more of Sarah Haynes on lefties losing
31:50
Speaker 2: it because she's as awful as the others on the view.
31:53
Speaker 2: But she's a little bit boring, isn't she? While Sonny Houston,
31:57
Speaker 2: for example, is awful, but we'd compelling here. She is
32:01
Speaker 2: being befuddled fun.
32:04
Speaker 15: I'm actually really refuddled by why he did that.
32:08
Speaker 2: The optics were terrible.
32:10
Speaker 15: Return to the highest male standard for combat positions because
32:15
Speaker 15: the troops were fat. I don't understand how that was
32:20
Speaker 15: supposed to be an uplifting.
32:21
Speaker 2: Message for our military. You know, her complete ignorance is
32:25
Speaker 2: part of her charm. Really, she doesn't get it. She
32:28
Speaker 2: thinks having standards is demoralizing. I guess it would be
32:33
Speaker 2: for the view because all the hosts would be sacked
32:35
Speaker 2: if there were any standards, which would be devastating for
32:38
Speaker 2: this segment. Where else can I get such a ready
32:41
Speaker 2: supply of weapon grade crazy? Here is Joy Behar again.
32:46
Speaker 2: This time she's claiming America won't survive three more years
32:50
Speaker 2: of Trump.
32:51
Speaker 3: Every day It's every day is a shock and owe
32:54
Speaker 3: here and I for one skeptical that we will survive this.
32:58
Speaker 2: Joinning me now is Usweek's senior as were at large
33:01
Speaker 2: and Article three projects in your council, Josh Hammer, Josh,
33:06
Speaker 2: the ladies of the view are outraged by the notion
33:10
Speaker 2: that military personnel should be fit for service. When will
33:14
Speaker 2: the left understand that meritocracy is back and all the
33:18
Speaker 2: DEI madness and political posturing that really has no place
33:23
Speaker 2: in the armed forces? That is ash, That is something
33:26
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseett was very clear about.
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Speaker 13: This administration has done a great deal from day one
33:32
Speaker 13: to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological
33:36
Speaker 13: garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics.
33:43
Speaker 13: No more identity months, DEI officers, dudes in dresses, no
33:51
Speaker 13: more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions,
33:56
Speaker 13: no more debris. As I've said before and will say again,
34:01
Speaker 13: we are done with.
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Speaker 2: That, Josh, that was pretty emphatic. What did you make
34:07
Speaker 2: of that speech?
34:10
Speaker 16: That's what I voted for, Rita. That that is literally
34:12
Speaker 16: exactly what I voted for. In fact, I was a
34:15
Speaker 16: very early supporter of Pete heg Sets to be Secretary
34:18
Speaker 16: of Defense. I wrote numerous articles of the Daily Mail
34:20
Speaker 16: and elsewhere supporting his confirmation.
34:22
Speaker 1: That was a tough confirmation fight.
34:24
Speaker 16: Actually, it was very difficult to try to get Joni
34:26
Speaker 16: Arth by one board. So I was personally all hands
34:29
Speaker 16: on deck there. And this is exactly what I anticipated,
34:31
Speaker 16: is exactly what I wanted, because Pete Hegset is a
34:34
Speaker 16: kind of guy. Rita who served his country honorably in
34:37
Speaker 16: multiple overseas theaters. He is of a younger generation. He
34:40
Speaker 16: knows all the problems. He can directly relate to the problems,
34:44
Speaker 16: the woke adult nature of the United States military under
34:48
Speaker 16: Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. He can relate to
34:50
Speaker 16: it because he lived it, because he has seen it
34:52
Speaker 16: with his own eyes in a way that a lot
34:54
Speaker 16: of these stodgy, old fat generals that he's referring to
34:57
Speaker 16: have not necessarily been able to relate. But really, Rita,
35:01
Speaker 16: what heg Seth is trying to do. It's really not
35:03
Speaker 16: that radical. It's actually something of a throwback to a
35:06
Speaker 16: bygone era from as recently as, oh, I don't know,
35:08
Speaker 16: like twenty twenty five years ago at the most.
35:11
Speaker 1: I mean, once upon a Hahn.
35:12
Speaker 16: The United States military was unanimously feared across the world
35:15
Speaker 16: all throughout the world as the most lethal fighting force
35:19
Speaker 16: in the modern history of mankinds, maybe really in all
35:22
Speaker 16: mankind at least going back to the days of the
35:23
Speaker 16: Roman Empire two thousand years ago. But what made the
35:26
Speaker 16: units is military great? What led the US military to
35:30
Speaker 16: storm the beaches of Normandy and to take the high
35:32
Speaker 16: ground on the cliffs of France against the Nazi invaders.
35:36
Speaker 16: There those men who did that rita, they were not
35:39
Speaker 16: there because they thought it was good to be fat.
35:41
Speaker 16: They were not there because they thought it was good
35:43
Speaker 16: to be a man who would put on a female
35:45
Speaker 16: wig or chop off their body part from the name
35:48
Speaker 16: of so called diversity, equity inclusion. They were not there
35:51
Speaker 16: because they had some sort of body positivity or because
35:54
Speaker 16: they were gay at trying that enough. They were there
35:56
Speaker 16: because they were men, typically just men who were only
36:00
Speaker 16: really really good at hunting down and killing the enemy
36:03
Speaker 16: in the most effective and efficient way possible. That is
36:05
Speaker 16: the military that I strive for as the military that
36:08
Speaker 16: Pete hex have envisions and God willing Regia. That is
36:11
Speaker 16: the military under his leadership and President Donald J. Trump
36:13
Speaker 16: that we're going to get back here asap.
36:17
Speaker 2: And the Secretary of War was clear Josh that women
36:21
Speaker 2: are welcome to serve in any capacity, but they have
36:25
Speaker 2: to get there on merit standards. Aren't going to be
36:27
Speaker 2: lowered physical standards to meet any sort of quota system.
36:32
Speaker 13: Our female officers and NCOs are the absolute best in
36:37
Speaker 13: the world. But when it comes to any job that
36:41
Speaker 13: requires physical power to perform in combat, those physical standards
36:45
Speaker 13: must be high and gender neutral.
36:48
Speaker 1: If women can make it excellent. If not, it is
36:52
Speaker 1: what it is.
36:53
Speaker 13: If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs,
36:56
Speaker 13: so be it. That is not the intent, but it
37:00
Speaker 13: could be the result, so be it. It will also
37:04
Speaker 13: men that we mean that weak men won't qualify because
37:07
Speaker 13: we're not playing games.
37:09
Speaker 1: This is combat.
37:10
Speaker 9: This is life or death.
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Speaker 2: Josh. That's going to outrage all the usual suspects, because
37:16
Speaker 2: I believe that diversity is our strength, even in the military,
37:20
Speaker 2: even if that diversity is achieved through lowering standards to
37:25
Speaker 2: make certain gender or other quotas.
37:28
Speaker 16: I find this leftist notion so utterly unrelatable that I
37:32
Speaker 16: can barely contort my head to wrap myself around the mentality.
37:35
Speaker 16: Who actually thinks that the military should be there to
37:39
Speaker 16: promote diversity. Diversity of sex is, diversity of sexual orientations,
37:43
Speaker 16: di diversity of gender identities, diversity of literally anything. No,
37:47
Speaker 16: the US military is not supposed to be diverse for
37:51
Speaker 16: the sake of diversity, and.
37:52
Speaker 1: It happens to be diverse.
37:54
Speaker 16: It happens to be, you know, a nice mix of
37:56
Speaker 16: black people and white people and Hispanic people and agents whatever.
37:59
Speaker 16: They're great, fantastic there. But there's absolutely no compelling reason
38:03
Speaker 16: why we haven't necessarily pick and socially craft the military
38:07
Speaker 16: to do anything other than what we were just talking about,
38:09
Speaker 16: which is to hunt down and kill the enemy in
38:11
Speaker 16: the most effective and efficient way possible. By the way,
38:14
Speaker 16: this whole notion of trying to socially engineer the military
38:18
Speaker 16: to fit these postmodern, bizarre, oak neo Marxist standards has
38:22
Speaker 16: also had a debilitating effect on American morales. We actually
38:26
Speaker 16: look at the morale of young soldiers, marines, infantry men, sailors,
38:31
Speaker 16: and so forth who sign up for the military. There,
38:33
Speaker 16: the morales actually, at least prior to this administration, was
38:36
Speaker 16: pulling in really really low. And the US military is
38:38
Speaker 16: also missing its recruitment targets oftentimes by double digit percentage,
38:42
Speaker 16: by a very high margin, year in and year out.
38:44
Speaker 16: So this is really rapidly heading towards a near existential
38:48
Speaker 16: crisis there. America needs a strong military. We need volunteers.
38:52
Speaker 16: There's no conscription here, there's no draft there. If we're
38:54
Speaker 16: going to stand up against communist China, which is getting
38:58
Speaker 16: ever closer potentially to invading in Taiwan, on god forbid
39:00
Speaker 16: the Philippines, who knows. If we're going to stand up
39:02
Speaker 16: against all our enemies, we need a strong military. Again,
39:05
Speaker 16: Pete Haig said, gets that with every fiber as being,
39:07
Speaker 16: he's not going to cut anyone some slacks because they
39:09
Speaker 16: happen to have a certain type of genitalia. You are
39:12
Speaker 16: a certain to like sleeping with a certain type of
39:14
Speaker 16: person who's their same sex. Now those days are done,
39:17
Speaker 16: They're done, done done. I voted for this, reader of
39:19
Speaker 16: the American peop voter for this. This is the way
39:21
Speaker 16: it's going to be.
39:24
Speaker 15: Now.
39:24
Speaker 2: President Trump also addressed military leaders and he had this
39:27
Speaker 2: to say about using the military to take on drug cartails.
39:31
Speaker 17: There, our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge
39:34
Speaker 17: and combating the sinister enemy. We have to put the
39:38
Speaker 17: traffickers in cartels unnoticed, and we've done that. Try to
39:41
Speaker 17: poison our people, we will blow you out of existence,
39:46
Speaker 17: because that's the only language they really understand.
39:49
Speaker 2: Josh. He has been blowing up those boats there, the traffickers,
39:54
Speaker 2: some incredible footage of that. And he also wants to
39:58
Speaker 2: use the military to take on the law and order
40:01
Speaker 2: crisis in America's biggest cities. What do you make of
40:06
Speaker 2: that plan. He's mentioned cities like Chicago and he's talked
40:10
Speaker 2: about Portland. Could he utilize the military to do what
40:15
Speaker 2: he achieved in DC?
40:17
Speaker 17: Uh?
40:18
Speaker 1: Yes and no.
40:19
Speaker 16: The literal armed troops, like the actual men who sign
40:22
Speaker 16: up for the US Army and US Navy, cannot be
40:24
Speaker 16: used in dease to day law enforcement practices.
40:27
Speaker 12: There.
40:27
Speaker 16: There's a statue from the late eighteen hundreds called the
40:29
Speaker 16: Passi Commentatus Act that supposedly prohibits that. Having said that,
40:34
Speaker 16: there are other statutes, including the Insurrection Act which goes
40:37
Speaker 16: back even further back to the Thomas Jefferson presidency around
40:39
Speaker 16: eighteen oh seven or so. The Insurrection Act does give
40:42
Speaker 16: the president the ability to send in the National Guard
40:44
Speaker 16: to try to restore order again. You know, when certain
40:47
Speaker 16: conditions are med. You can't just snap your fingers and
40:49
Speaker 16: send it in there. But if you, if you earnestly
40:51
Speaker 16: determine that there is a state of anarchy, the law
40:55
Speaker 16: and order is not being restored, then there are various
40:56
Speaker 16: conditions on which the National Guard can be sent in.
40:59
Speaker 16: This is what center Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Rita. Lets
41:03
Speaker 16: you forget. That is what Tom Cotton was talking about
41:05
Speaker 16: in the infamous June twenty twenty op ed at the
41:07
Speaker 16: New York Times that led to the whole staff talk
41:10
Speaker 16: out there led to Barry Weis's resignation. That's literally what
41:13
Speaker 16: Tom Condon was talking about his oup that was titled
41:15
Speaker 16: send in the Troops. He was talking about the insurrection,
41:17
Speaker 16: not the National Guard. So that's what Donald Trump is
41:20
Speaker 16: talking about. He is, indeed, I think, on very firm
41:22
Speaker 16: legal ground, again depending on just how bad the city
41:26
Speaker 16: in question is. But let me tell you, I mean
41:28
Speaker 16: having lived in Chicago, having lived in other blue cities
41:30
Speaker 16: as well, it's oftentimes really really bad. Now, I think
41:33
Speaker 16: that Trump he's been talking a lot about Memphis, Tennessee.
41:35
Speaker 16: There have been some National Guard guardsmen already deployed to Memphis, Tennessee.
41:39
Speaker 16: I think Memphis is actually a great example as to
41:42
Speaker 16: what this should look like in practice, because when you're
41:44
Speaker 16: trying to coordinate with the local authorities there with the
41:46
Speaker 16: National Guard, you first and foremost coordinate with the governor
41:49
Speaker 16: of the state, much more so than the mayor. So
41:51
Speaker 16: I think I think the sweet spot here Rita should
41:53
Speaker 16: be red cities in excuse me, blue cities in red states.
41:56
Speaker 16: So that makes Memphis, Tennessee a very enticing option off
42:00
Speaker 16: In Texas, I think would be another very incasing option there.
42:02
Speaker 16: But you want, ideally a governor who was very sympathetic there,
42:07
Speaker 16: and I think it would be kind of easy pickings
42:08
Speaker 16: to go for a blue city deep in the bowels
42:10
Speaker 16: of red state if he wants to take on a
42:11
Speaker 16: challenge of really going forward in a San Francisco with
42:14
Speaker 16: the Gaven newsum, I mean, I say bringing on. I
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Speaker 16: mean that would be a fun fight for sure, but
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Speaker 16: I think it would be an easier bang for your bucket.
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Speaker 16: You'd have to expend less political capital, that is to say,
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Speaker 16: but going for a blue city in a red state.
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Speaker 2: Josh, that's an excellent point, because those blue cities, the
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Speaker 2: big cities, are almost all Democrat, even if they are
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Speaker 2: in Republican states. Austin is a prime example. Doesn't even
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Speaker 2: feel like Texas anymore. Would be fantastic to make Austin
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Speaker 2: Texan again. Now, don't go anywhere. After the break, we're
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Speaker 2: going to talk about the left turning on each other.
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Speaker 2: BLM is taking on a George Soros back foundation. Welcome back,
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Speaker 2: Come here with Josh Hammer. Josh, the left is turning
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Speaker 2: on each other with BLM suing a George Soros backed organization.
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Speaker 2: The New York Post reports the National Black Lives Matter
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Speaker 2: Movement claims thirty three point four million is being withheld
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Speaker 2: by the TIDES Foundation, back by George Soros bil and
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Speaker 2: accuses the foundation of deceptive business practices and egregious mismanagement
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Speaker 2: of its money. And this week they asked the California
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Speaker 2: Attorney General to investigate TIDES after filing a lawsuit last year. Josh,
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Speaker 2: where did it.
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Speaker 4: All go so wrong?
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Speaker 16: Well, you know, reader, they always say the revolution always
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Speaker 16: eats its own right. I mean, this is kind of
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Speaker 16: leftism one, really. I mean, I mean we see this
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Speaker 16: time and time again, how the various horts of this
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Speaker 16: leftist coalition, this intersectional coalition of aggrieved interests, I mean
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Speaker 16: they oftentimes not all those they pretty much always will
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Speaker 16: ultimately end up warring against each other. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 16: let's let's kind of take a similar example to kind
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Speaker 16: of paint this image a little more starkly there. I mean,
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Speaker 16: how about you had first the fight for same sex marriage,
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Speaker 16: gay rights, et cetera, and then you had the transgender
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Speaker 16: fight there. Well, one of the big premises of the
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Speaker 16: arguments for enhanced gay rights saints as marriagetctera in the US,
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Speaker 16: was that gay people are born this way. Right, That
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Speaker 16: was that was one of the big arguments. I mean,
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Speaker 16: Lady Gaga had had that had that song back in
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Speaker 16: twenty ten, twenty eleven, Born this way, that was a
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Speaker 16: big part of their movement. Well then you kind of
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Speaker 16: flip the screws. Then the transgender stuff comes wrong, and
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Speaker 16: it's like, oh wait, yeah, maybe you were literally born
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Speaker 16: this way, but no, subjectively you actually were not born
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Speaker 16: this way.
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Speaker 1: So I mean it literally doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 16: I mean, we see this kind of with Linda Sarsara
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Speaker 16: back when she was the head of the Women's March
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Speaker 16: as well, right, And this is someone who is who
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Speaker 16: is a Sharia loss sighting Muslim purporting to lead a
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Speaker 16: feminist march. I mean, are you kidding me? I mean,
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Speaker 16: how do you possibly square that circle? So, I mean,
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Speaker 16: here a Black Lives Matter and the Tide for Nation.
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Speaker 16: The Tide Foundation is of course the number number one
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Speaker 16: most most prominent left wing dark money organization in all
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Speaker 16: of the United States. So I mean this is another example,
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Speaker 16: of course, of the left eating its own and frankly,
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Speaker 16: as someone myself here, to me, this kind of looks
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Speaker 16: like the Iran Iraq war.
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Speaker 1: I pretty much just root for casualties.
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Speaker 2: Now, Donald Trump has another win, this time against Google
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Speaker 2: or YouTube to be precise, owned by Google. He's had
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Speaker 2: a number of these wins, Josh against ABC, CBS, has
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Speaker 2: had big wins against meta, Facebook and Twitter. And you
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Speaker 2: look at these legal wins and it's hard not to
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Speaker 2: think that there was a conspiracy of fun, a conspiracy
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Speaker 2: amongst these media outlets, those social media giants to effectively
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Speaker 2: deplatform the leading political candidate, that leading challenger to the
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Speaker 2: Democrats and to prevent his re election.
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Speaker 16: Reader, I mean, how anyone can possibly, you know, not
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Speaker 16: think that at this point strikes me.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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Speaker 16: I mean, they pulled out all the stunts imaginable in
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Speaker 16: twenty twenty. In twenty twenty four, a lot of them
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Speaker 16: tried the exact same things again, and they've been on
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Speaker 16: this extended Maya Kulpla campaign. I mean, let's not forget
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Speaker 16: that this past January twentieth, on Inauguration Day in Washington,
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Speaker 16: d C. You had pretty much all the big tech oligarchs.
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Speaker 1: That attended this.
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Speaker 16: There was Jeff Bezos, there was Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk
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Speaker 16: obviously was there. Gool was in the House. So they've
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Speaker 16: been on this extended attempt to try to appease the
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Speaker 16: Trump administration. There now, for what it's worth, I remained
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Speaker 16: skeptical that all these companies have necessarily seen the lights,
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Speaker 16: so to speak. Mark Zuckerberg has been on hitting this
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Speaker 16: beat for at least a year now when he reports
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Speaker 16: open up meta and facebooks to free speech, and Google
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Speaker 16: just recently conceding for the first time that yes, I
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Speaker 16: actually did censor and deep platform consertive voices there. So look,
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Speaker 16: I think some of that are just trying to avoid
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Speaker 16: some sort of retribution there, and that's probably where these
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Speaker 16: settlements come in as well. But I guess I would
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Speaker 16: encourage Philip my fellow conservatives to not be so easily
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Speaker 16: I mean, don't be so easily duped here. The mere
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Speaker 16: fact that they that they are coming to the negotiating table,
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Speaker 16: whether it is defamation lawsuits, whether it is conceding that yeah,
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Speaker 16: they actually did really censor in deep platform here, that
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Speaker 16: doesn't mean that these c suite left wing Silicon Valley
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Speaker 16: Birkenstock wearing freaky ceo. It doesn't mean that they actually
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Speaker 16: have had a genuine change of hearts and that they
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Speaker 16: are suddenly joining team civilizational sanity against the forces of
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Speaker 16: civilization Artison. I personally don't buy it for a second.
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Speaker 16: So you know, I mean trust, but verify, they say,
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Speaker 16: in this case, I don't particularly trust, but I'm definitely verifying.
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Speaker 2: Just quickly before you go, We've had Hillary Clinton make
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Speaker 2: another appearance in the mainstream media decrying the influence of
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Speaker 2: white Christian men. How have you seen her interjection in
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Speaker 2: the political discourse and how useful is it to be
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Speaker 2: again trying to demonize white Christian men.
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Speaker 16: Well, that's what the Democrats do these days, right, I mean,
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Speaker 16: they demonize anyone who does not fit their particular or
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Speaker 16: interceptional conception of what it means to be a good American.
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Speaker 16: And you know, white Christian man, white straight Christian men,
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Speaker 16: I guess, are really kind of at the top of
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Speaker 16: the list of someone who checked pretty much zero interceptional
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Speaker 16: boxes that they are literally at the bottom of the
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Speaker 16: totem poll when it comes to the left. I mean,
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Speaker 16: I think a relevant question is what the heck is
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Speaker 16: is Hillary Clinton doing? I mean, like literally what is
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Speaker 16: she doing? I mean, what is what is her purposes
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Speaker 16: at this particular juncture? And I actually do not know
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Speaker 16: what the answer is. I mean I guess in theory
48:31
Speaker 16: she might be looking for getting another book deal. I mean,
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Speaker 16: God knows what she could possibly write about that would
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Speaker 16: entertain a single human being. At this point there, she's
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Speaker 16: basically said everything platitoon isn't vapid under the under the
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Speaker 16: sun already at this point there. But I guess the
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Speaker 16: Clinton at this point, we just have an insatial desire
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Speaker 16: to be in the public lights. Recall also that you
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Speaker 16: know Bill Clinton, once upon a time and Hillary too
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Speaker 16: that once upon a time they actually call themselves religious Christians.
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Speaker 16: We can kind of scoff at at Bill's personal life
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Speaker 16: whatever they want. That's part of time call themselves real Christians.
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Speaker 16: So the fact that they have shifted this far where
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Speaker 16: they're openly mocking Christians near twenty twenty five, I think
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Speaker 16: really just shows how far the center of gravy of
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Speaker 16: the Democratic Party has shifted over the past few decades
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Speaker 16: as well.
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Speaker 2: Josh Amma, thank you so much for your time. Thank
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Speaker 2: you Rita, and that's it for May. I'll see you
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Speaker 2: tomorrow at eleven Up. Next, it's Newsnights.