WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 18 March 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:02.719 Lately. 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:09.920 Welcome Late Bay, Well, thanks for joining us on the 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.600 Late Debate. I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and filling 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.720 in for Caleb Bond Freier leish a lot coming up tonight, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.320 including a Melbourne council move their meetings. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.480 Online to avoid ratepayers. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.840 We'll talk about that a little later, plus when we 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.760 look at what's making news tomorrow, Victorian Premier Dicenta Allen 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.360 accused of corruption over the removal of top cops, and 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:36.440 the Australian notes that our debt nationally is blowing out 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.280 to be the worst in the developed world. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.240 We'll get to all of that shortly, but first. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.600 The Albanezi government continues its move to create a republic 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.760 by stealth with confirmation today that King Charles will be 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.360 removed from the new five dollar note. It means that 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.640 for the first time since nineteen twenty three, no royal 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:00.240 will feature on any Australian banknotes. The current five dollar note, 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.360 which depicts the now deceased Queen Elizabeth, will be redesigned 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.600 as a tribute to Indigenous people. The Reserve Bank released 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.120 a statement today saying the imagery on the five dollar 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.920 bank note should recognize the enduring connection that first nations 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.720 people have to country as an emotional and spiritual connection 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.600 as much as a physical one. So most of you 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.240 would be familiar with the current five dollar note, not 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.080 that it buys much these days. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.000 Will show it to you. Here's the five dollar note. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.640 There it is, and here's a proposal as to what 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:40.000 the new five dollar note could look like. Now, this change, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.560 of course, is at the discretion of the Reserve Bank, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.360 but it must be noted both the Prime Minister Anthony 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.000 Albanesi and the Treasurer Jim Chalmers have for the last 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:52.640 couple of years been hinting very strongly that they would 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.960 like to see a change. Anthony Albanesi was elected to 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.600 government with a mandate to hold a second referendum on 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.480 whether or not we should become a republic. He chose 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.520 not to exercise that after the debacle that was the 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:08.440 Voice referendum. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.760 He wasn't given a mandate though, to sort. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:16.559 Of unilaterally move us towards a republic minus any vote. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:21.280 Roy Morgan Research polled as recently as last October, finding 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.200 the majority of Australians still supported the idea of a 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.200 constitutional monarchy fifty seven percent in fact, which is very 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:29.760 close to the number who voted. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.400 Against the Voice. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:36.840 Yet Anthony Albanesi looks to impose republican objectives, whether we 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.519 like it or not. I would say that until Australians 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.200 vote to become a republic, we of course are a 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.800 constitutional monarchy. We should not only recognize that, but we 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.000 should celebrate it. And it's not about whether or not 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.240 you like King Charles. We've all got our views on 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.280 the individuals who comprise the royal family, but they personify 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.280 a system of government that is kept as safe and 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.360 secure for the better part of two hundred years and 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.040 that's made. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.040 Us the envy of the world. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.720 What Anthony Alberanezi is trying to do and we see 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.040 it in so many areas and now with the five 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.120 dollar note, is a republic by incrementalism. Not only is 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.639 it uncalled for, he has no mandate for it, but ironically, Liz, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.239 it's hardly democratic. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.760 I think you're giving him way too much credit here, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.040 because we've got to be clear, this is the Reserve 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:25.920 Bank's decisions. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.440 Oh but there was a lot of press. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.200 They console the government. The government says yes, we support this. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.359 I mean, geez, no cigar for getting that one right. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.800 Of course the government did support it, but at the 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.040 end of the day, the butt stops with the Reserve 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.880 Bank and this is what they've decided to do. So 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.480 the question is more who's pulling the strings at the 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.360 Reserve Bank that thinks, oh, well, we'd rather have something 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.200 indigenous and about their connection to land and country than 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.800 the monarch. But I've got to say, in recent years 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.400 we have seen in this country and I think we're 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.320 going to be seeing it more sooh with young and 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.600 starting to vote more and more coming through the ranks, 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.840 those who have been indoctrinated with this anti colonialist sentiment, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.720 and a lot more than that, the republic people pushing 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.520 for Australia to become a republic have advanced in leaps 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:18.200 and bounds. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.080 They are definitely seeing the numbers. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.039 The numbers you quoted there from the Ray Morgan Pole 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.400 were actually pretty impressive for them, the fact that fifty 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:32.960 seven which is a considerable majority, but it's not mahusive 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.880 And I think in the coming years we will eventually 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.720 see Australia become a republic. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.359 That's just where it's going. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.800 So you do wonder if the Reserve Bank is just 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.760 a bit like let's save ourselves a bit of a headache, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.400 because there's no use putting King Charles on the note 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.640 if in five or even ten years we've got to 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:52.839 swap it out again. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:53.880 It just so happens. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.760 We've got a young and on the desk tonight on 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:56.840 the Late Debates. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.160 So Freyer, what's going to happen? 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.160 Is Liz right, Will the younger generation move towards republic? 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.120 Was the five dollar note a good move? 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.000 Controversial opinion here. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.520 I actually don't think young people will support a republic, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.880 and we're seeing that in the polling numbers. They're actually 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.920 far more pro monarchy than my parents' generation were at 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.320 the same age. And I think that's partly because so 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.839 many of the institutions and the traditions and the history 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.880 of our country have been stripped away by these anti 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.520 Australian forces that you talked about, and so we want 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:35.800 to cling on to any last vestige of history and culture. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:36.119 That we can. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.920 And if we've removed the monarchy from Australia, well what 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:41.080 do we have left? 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.719 Like, what do we have left where a young country? 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:49.479 The monarchy is foundational to our national identity, our system 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.360 of government, our legal system, everything if we strip that away, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.360 this is the problem with progressives. What do you replace 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.200 it with? Absolutely nothing? So you lead it ends up 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.920 with this flattening of life. Really, and I think we've 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.760 experienced that in so many areas, the decline of religion, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.120 broken homes, the decline of meaning, and taking away the 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.240 monarchy is just another one of those stripping away of 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.480 the institutions that give life to our country. So I 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.640 actually don't think young people will opt for a republic. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.239 I may be proven wrong. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.760 I hope i'm not, But I just think that this 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.880 is an example of unelected bureaucrats. The elites at the 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.880 RBA in Martin Place sitting there going hmm, how can 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.720 we advance our cultural agenda? 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.200 And that's all this is. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.279 I agree with you that progressives don't have an alternative. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.200 They just destroy everything without providing an alternative. The only 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.359 problem is, I think they do have an alternative to 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.960 a constitutional monarchy. Listen, it's President Kevin Rudd or President 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:49.880 Malcolm Turnbull. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.279 That's what we're all afraid of. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.440 And I think that's the biggest fear with a republic. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.839 But this moved by the RBA, I mean, it's a 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.839 pretty big deal. It really, As I said, it's the 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.520 first time in over one hundred years that we don't 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.400 have a monarch on any of our Australian banknotes. For 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.640 them to do this without public consent, when indeed the 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.840 majority of people still support the monarchy, I think is 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:15.880 a betrayal of the public. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:17.880 They don't have the right to do it. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.320 Well, in some ways they could argue that they do 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.800 were because their latest opinion poll on this very thing, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.280 because King Charles became king and there was a real 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.840 boost in the interest around the monarchy, its relevancy in Australia, etc. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:33.760 And so on. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.320 Our helpful friends ran a poll just last year. Thirty 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.160 four percent of ozsi's wanted the King on the five 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:46.600 dollar note, forty three percent preferred a famous Australian of 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.120 any description, somebody anyone, but not the King, and the 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.720 rest were undecided. We make a point to that and say, well, 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.320 I mean, we've just alluded to several polls throughout the course. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:07:58.960 Of this conversation. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.880 We do use them to get a gauge on popular 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:03.840 The only. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.600 Poll that counts is a referendum. When we changed from 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.920 a constitutional monarchy to a republican you're not. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.960 Going to have a referendum on who ends up on 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.680 the five dollar hoes, Well, exactly, Indeed, it wouldn't be 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.640 worth half a billion dollars got up for debate. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.000 We're a constitutional monarchy and until the Australian public votes otherwise, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.480 that's how it is. They shouldn't be changing our national emblems. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.080 Well it's certainly not up for debate because we didn't 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:30.000 get one, thanks RBA. Speaking of unelected bureaucrats just doing 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.360 whatever the heck they want, these nameless, phaseless people. If 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.880 you needed further proof that Biden's presidency was perhaps one 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.480 of the greatest cons ever foisted on the American people, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.920 look no further than a shocking revelation that we found 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:53.640 out earlier this month thanks to the Heritage Foundation's Oversight project, 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.559 which was able after a very thorough investigation to reveal 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:04.760 that every single edict from the Biden administration during those 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:10.160 entire four years had been signed by an autopen not 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:15.360 by the man himself, with the exception of one, and 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.479 that was his letter announcing he was no longer contesting 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.880 the presidential race in twenty twenty four. Check out this 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.800 tweet of the Heritage Foundation letting everyone know. They said, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:33.640 whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency. We gathered every 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.040 document we could find with Biden's signature over the course 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:42.359 of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature, except 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.199 for the announcement that the former president was dropping out 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.720 of the race last year. Here's the autopen signature, and 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.640 they supply a few examples of that, and. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.959 Then they say, year is the signature from. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.920 The letter announcing Biden was dropping out of the race, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:04.880 which it looks decidedly difference. Now, of course, this revelation 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.720 now begets the question who was running the Biden administration. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.040 We asked it very often ourselves, as we noted his 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:20.280 worsening mental decline over the course of those four years, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.559 but in particular for the new Trump administration. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.520 They're saying, well, this calls into question. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.720 All those eleventh hour pardons that he decided to give 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:31.960 on his. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.959 Way out the door. But before we get into that, his. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:40.680 Speaker of the House Johnson relaying to everyone a conversation 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:45.880 that he had with the then President Biden, showing just 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.479 how much this auto pen was used and the gravity 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.840 of the situation, Sir. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.240 Why did you pause? Llen g exports to Europe, like, 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.280 I don't understand. You know, liquefiedinacial gas is in great 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.319 demand by ourn. Why would you do that because you 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.360 understand we just talked about Ukraine. You understand you're fuel 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.520 in Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got to get 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.440 their gas from the PM, you know. And he looks 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.680 at me, stunned with this, and he said I didn't. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.960 I didn't do that. And I said, miss President, you yes, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.640 you did. It was an executive order like you know, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.280 three weeks ago. And he goes, no, I didn't do that, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.360 and he's arguing with me. I said, miss President, respectfully, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.160 can I could I go out here and ask your 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.160 secretary to print it out. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:24.880 We'll read it together. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.800 You definitely did that, and he goes, oh, you talk 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.599 about natural gas. Yes, sir, he said, oh no, I 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.760 did you misunderstand? He said, what I did is I 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.480 signed this thing to We're going to conduct a study 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.760 on the effects of energy. I said, no, you're not, sir, 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.280 you paused it. I know I have the terminal, the 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.600 export terminals in my state. I talked to those people 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.840 this morning. This is doing massive damage to our economy, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.920 national security. It occurred to me, Barry, he was not 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.160 lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.160 had signed. And I walked out of that meeting with 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.559 fear and loathing because I thought, we're in serious trouble. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.360 Who is running the country like, I don't know who 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.000 put the paper in from him, but he didn't know. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.800 We're in serious trouble. Indeed, if these allegations prove true, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:10.439 it means that every executive order, every pardon, every official 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:15.400 act of the president over the last four years could 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:20.200 be constitutionally void. But the first lot of issues the 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.360 Trump administration wants to address is those pardons, because of 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.319 course he pardoned a lot of people that the Trump 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:32.120 administration would very much like to prosecute. So here's Trump 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.600 addressing that a board Air Force one. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.760 So I follow up on the line and the autoped 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:44.280 Are those executive orders those part ins from the former president? Now, Nolan, Well, 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.480 I think, so let's start my decision. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:47.520 That'll be up to a court. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.360 But I would say that there nullin one because I'm 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.160 sure Biden didn't have any idea that it would take 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.360 you place. And somebody who was using an autoped to 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.920 sign off and to give pardons to as an example, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:08.319 just one example, but the j six Unselect Committee they. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.439 Gave think of it, they gave parts with an atopen. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.160 I don't think Biden knew anything about it. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.040 He took to truth Social to make this post. The 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.760 pardons that sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:23.880 of political thugs and many others I hereby declared void, vacant, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.560 and of no further force or effect because of the 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.840 fact they were done by autopen who knew nothing about them, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.920 and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.840 those on the Unselect Committee who destroyed and deleted all 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.360 evidence obtained during their two year witch hunt of me 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.640 and many other innocent people should fully understand that they 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.439 are subject to investigation. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:49.520 At the highest level. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.920 And indeed, we have Missouri Attorney General and many others 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.000 now writing into the Department of Justice saying, you guys 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.960 have to do a thorough investigation. We have to get 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:06.319 to the bottom of this because the implications are unspeakably huge. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.880 To give you an idea of how rare it is 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.079 for a president to sign off on legislation and executive 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:17.240 order a pardon anything using an auto pen. The first 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.080 president to do so was Barack Obama, who was on 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.480 holiday at the time in Hawaii, and in order to 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:29.160 do so, he relied on a thirty page dossi era 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:34.400 of information that George President George Bush's legal team had 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.240 done up for him to validate the fact that, yes, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.400 he was signing it, but he wasn't signing it in person. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.880 That's how rare this is. So to find out that 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.040 this was the prevalence of it during those entire four 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.520 years is to say alarming, is a massive understatement. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.120 It is absolutely shocking, And I think the worst part 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.200 of all of this is the way that the media 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.240 in America tried to cover up this entire sham of 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:05.640 a presidency. People were asking questions. Trump was asking questions 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.040 throughout those entire four years, and the left wing media 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:14.240 continually came out. They would post edited interviews with Biden, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.080 they would do everything they could to cover up and 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:18.239 avoid scrutiny. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.120 But this is the thing. Biden, over his. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.560 Entire four years as president, only held nine full cabinets 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.800 over four years. So there was an intentional strategy by 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.760 his inner circle, his close aids that had been with 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.840 him for years. They were loyal to him. There was 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:42.040 an intentional strategy from them to avoid any scrutiny or 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.160 anyone else outside of their little bubble from noticing the 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.360 president's decline in mental state. Now, I just think how 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.520 undemocratic is that you elect a president to represent you, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.720 and in America even more so because you directly elect 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.479 Joe Biden to be the president of the United States, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.720 only to now find out that for the last four years, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.800 we actually have no idea who has been running the 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.760 most powerful country in the world. And not only that, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.280 there's been a strategy to cover up the fact that 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.200 the president is literally senile. So I just think this 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.480 throws the entire country of the United States into complete 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.960 chaos because what happens to yes, the pardons, but also 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.240 every single executive order, Like where does the law stand 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.560 right now? We need some legal scholars on here now 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:36.400 to interpret this. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.280 Yeah, So the question is not whether or not an 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.520 autopen was used, who was using the auto exactly? 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.120 And I get the idea of an autopen. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.280 I suppose a president must sign hundreds and hundreds and 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.640 hundreds of documents. It be difficult to do, not to 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:57.479 mention inefficient, but when you've got problems with mental cognition 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.880 and question marks over that seem to be the height 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.199 of foolishness to use an auto pen when people are 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.240 questioning your mental acuity, because you're going to open yourself 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.439 up to charges such as Trump has made. Now, The 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.080 New York Post wrote a very interesting editorial arguing that 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.480 Trump should leave this alone. They said, Trump's doing so well, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.919 he's getting the country behind him, and this just reeks 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:24.040 of Trump trying to settle personal vendettas area. I do 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.320 think that's a bit unwise by the New York Post 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.000 because this isn't a matter of personal vendettas, though I 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.160 don't think Trump is above that. It's a matter of justice, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.320 it's a matter of accountability, and it's a matter of governance. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.359 But talk about a can of worms. This isn't just 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.480 about the January sixth committee. This is about every decision 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.439 Joe Biden ever signed off on. As Trump said in 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.720 that grab that we watched, it will end up in 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.240 court because Trump doesn't have the power himself to make 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.480 all of those pardons null and void. It would have 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.000 to go to the Supreme Court. Whether or not they 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.960 want to take that on and open up that can 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.560 of worms be a very interesting thing. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.639 But my question for that is, if it did end 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.600 up in the Supreme Court, could Joe Biden actually testify 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.400 that he was aware or is he too senile as 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.320 he was found earlier to even be in testifying about 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.440 his own cognitive ability while he was signing. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.080 These Wait, did he sign off on the US Supreme 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:21.800 Court justices? 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.520 Oh? My god, we don't know anymore. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:25.760 I'm not sure if they should be there. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:27.360 We don't know what anymore. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.919 Well, look, thankfully some countries do have their head screwed on, 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.000 and one of those seems to be hungry. The Hungarian President, 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:41.200 Victor Auburn has announced an income tax exemption for mothers 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.720 of two and three children and said he would cap 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.200 interest rates on housing loans at five percent. Now, this 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.520 is they're heading into this national election, but I personally 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.920 think there's a lot of merit in these ideas. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:54.840 Let's check it out. 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.760 Actually, we are launching the largest tax cut in Europe 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.800 and indeed the entire Western world. With this, we are 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.720 opening a new chapter in the history of the Hungarian economy. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.439 We are creating the world's first family centered economy. Mothers 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.960 with one child will be exempt from income tax until 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.120 the age of thirty, while mothers with two or more 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:19.240 children will never pay income tax again. Even by the 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.679 modest standards, this is a global sensation. With this, we 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.080 are securing the future of Hungarian families for decades to come. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.639 In early twenty twenty two, the global fertility rate fell 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.960 below replacement rate. That means around the world we are 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:42.639 not having enough children to replace ourselves. In developed countries, 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.360 it's even worse. Every single developed country has a fertility 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:51.719 rate below replacement rate except for Israel. Even India is 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.560 now at a sub replacement rate fertility level. Now, the 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.440 problem with this is that when you have a declining 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:04.840 word population, the age dependency ratio shifts, so more young 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.000 people have to support a whole lot more old people. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.679 A lot of countries like Australia will look to migration 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.080 to fix this. Well, let's just bring in more people 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.240 and we can boost our population that way. But those 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.840 migrants also get old and after one or two generations 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.960 they tend to have the same amount of children as 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.240 the country that they're now in, so sub replacement level 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:31.320 fertility again. One country that is taking this into their 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.760 own hands is Hungry, and I think this is exactly 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:36.920 this sort of thing we need to be looking at 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:41.360 in Australia because the challenge for women, particularly and all 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.400 families in Australia is that one it is extremely expensive 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.080 to have children, but two it's not something that is 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.919 valued by our society. The extent of family policy is 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:58.479 childcare subsidies, which effectively says to women, pump out a baby, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.919 ship them off to institutional care and get that to work. 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.320 That is not what a lot of women want. They 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.359 want choice in how they raise their children. So I 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.240 think this is something we need to be looking at. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:10.880 What do you guys think. 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.679 Well, the Prime Minister of Hungary said, we want to 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.159 leave our country to our children, not to foreigners. And 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:18.879 as you said, if you're not going to produce your 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.440 own children, then you've got to import other people. Because 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:24.920 the welfare state is premised on the fact that you 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.720 will have enough young to support the old. Hungry have 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.280 tried various measures. They've offered interest free loans to families 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:36.439 with children, housing subsidies, they offered tax exemptions to mothers 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.120 with four or more children. Now it's mothers of two 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.080 or three children will get all one child. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:47.720 Also until you're thirty If you have one child, your 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:48.439 tax exempt. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.520 It's for the rest of your life. If it's two 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:51.560 or three children. 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.080 I should point out the Prime Minister of Hungary's got 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.480 five children himself, so he's leading by example. Their birth 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:01.760 rate's been falling since the nineteen seventies. As mark Stein says, 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.159