WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 20 December 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:03.960 Welcome to the Lake Debate. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.479 Good evening and welcome to the Not So Late Debate. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.480 I'm Liz Storer and I'm so glad you've joined us 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.600 this evening. And on my left and right you will 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.439 see mister Joe Hildebrand Gabriella. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.400 Power joining us this evening. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.920 Coming up tonight, we've got a cracker show. Our Sky 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:32.000 News favorite Nationals MP Keith Pitt is bidding farewell to Parliament. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.839 Very sorry to see him go. He's one of the 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:40.360 good ones. Labour's new anti New Clear ad takes hysterics 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.680 to an all new high, claiming that nuclear power will 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.160 cause cancer, strokes and heart attacks. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.519 This is not a joke. You've got to stick around 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:51.879 for this. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.440 It'll be gracing your own screens. Shortly, an Environment Minister 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:01.200 Tanya Plivsk under fire for claiming that Late hasn't approved 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:07.000 any new coal mines. All that coming up, but first today, 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.920 the Victorian Liberal Party met in Parliament to decide whether 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.600 Moira Deeming's membership should be reinstated. You would be very 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.640 familiar with the story of Moira Deeming. She was attending 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.280 a rally in March of last year called Let Women Speak. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.279 It was all to do with women's rights. The rally 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.360 was gate crash by a pile of nut job neo 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:38.240 Nazis and weirdly, literally without any foundation. The leader of 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:44.160 the Victorian Liberals, John Persudo, decided to penalize her by 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.240 kicking her out of the party, claiming that she had 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.280 something to do with these neo Nazis, that in fact, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.680 she had Neo Nazi sympathies. As you will recall, also, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.960 just a week ago, Moira won her case against John Pursuto, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.320 with a judge ruling that there was absolutely no foundation 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.760 to these nonsense claims that she had anything to do 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.520 with the neo Nazis who had gate crashed a rally 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:14.960 she was attending. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.960 And yet, would you believe it, the vote. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.920 In the Victorian Liberal Party room to restore her membership 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.679 this morning did. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.200 Not get up. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:30.079 The vote was tied fourteen fourteen, and John Pursuto, talk 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.239 about a man who can't simply say sorry when he's 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.799 so comprehensibly been proven wrong. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.200 He used his casting vote to. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:46.360 Make it fifteen fourteen, therefore meaning Moiradeeming's membership will not 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.919 be restored to the Liberal Party. The Parliamentary Liberal Party, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.600 Gabby I cannot believe this move. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.119 I don't know how he even. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:00.840 Got fourteen votes deciding No, you've just been told by 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.320 a judge you don't have a leg to stand on 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.120 John Persudo's costs. He's got to give More Redeeming, not 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.239 only three hundred thousand dollars, but he's got to couple 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.240 her legal fees. We're being told this bill could in 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.680 total come to about two million dollars. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.000 We're going to come up with that. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.240 But no, he's a dead man walking, and I'll be 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.680 so pleased to see him go. The way he's treated 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.480 More Redeeming has just been appalling. This is all John 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.680 Pursudo's falt. He started this entire sarga. He kicked her 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.360 out of the party, he lost in the court case 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.480 that was handed down last week. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.080 He refused to apologize. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.800 He's had every opportunity to make up for his mistakes, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.120 to embrace her, to let her back in. And this 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.240 is clearly dispersonal. This is about his egos, about his pride. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.920 He doesn't want to keep someone like more Redeeming at 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.080 her back in the party where she has just been. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.160 She has shown true leadership every step of the way 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.320 throughout the last year, year and a half, however long 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.520 this has been dragging on for you know, as I 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.320 said that, the way she's been treated has just been appalling, 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.600 and she's shown to be such a strong leader. But 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.440 you know what John Pseudo is doing, it's just tearing 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.720 the Liberal party apart, which is not a good thing 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.200 for the Liberals when you've got a federal election coming 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.440 up just around the corner. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.720 No, it's it's disgraceful. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.920 And this will definitely play into that, Joe, because victorians 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.159 are watching this play out. If this is this is 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.480 a man who just should eat humble pie. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.200 And yet I was astounded to find. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.600 Out he's got that much support in the party room. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:36.440 How many more people? What do they genuinely believe that 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.880 she does have neo Nazi sympathies? 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.920 Why else would you say no, even. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.880 Now we are standing by that she shouldn't be allowed 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.200 back in, even that we know the premise on which 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.960 she was kicked out is entirely false. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.200 Well, it's politics, so the facts have absolutely nothing to 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.920 do with it. It is all about positioning. It is all 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:01.719 about Perseudo's judgment. And again, every single step of the way, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.440 he was given two choices and you know two roads, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.520 one paved with gold with a beautiful rainbow at the 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.719 end of it, and another one through a dark and 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.680 spooky forest. And every single time he chose Plan B, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.920 he gets it wrong, and got it wrong every single time. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.440 He didn't need to even if he wanted to express 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.440 his admonition or whatever of more redeeming. He could have 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.880 made it known that he'd said that, you know that 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.760 he didn't share her views, or distanced himself from or 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.200 distance the actual party from her position, but let it 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.800 come into the front. He could have done that. The 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.440 thing is that in Victoria, obviously it is much more 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.400 is much more of a left wing state. John Pursudo 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.520 is from the moderate left faction of the Liberal Party. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.320 More redeeming is from another. The moderates have the numbers 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.000 in the Victorian Liberal Party room. And so again he 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.520 could have easily taken a far less severe action than 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.960 actually kicking her out of the party. He overreacted. He 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.479 seemed to react emotionally. I don't know if you thought 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.680 he was getting all these trans votes off the Labor 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.800 Party that would otherwise have gone. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.200 To Indeed, what does he think he's getting out of it? 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.279 It's very difficult to say. I think I think it 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.840 was just terrified of the Liberal Party being seen in 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.720 the era of Dan Andrews, of the Liberal Party being 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.080 seen as you know, reactionary or I don't. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.159 Know, seen now. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.960 And then then he goes to so then then more 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.520 Deminic takes legal action against him. So then he then 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.640 he basically defames her and says things that are not 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.279 not able to be verified and not true. And of 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.240 course again so he's he's sloppy with what he says. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.719 His testimony to the trial was criticized by the drug judge. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.440 But he's actually offered a chance to get out of 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.560 the court case that is facing him. I think she 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.640 offered to settle for something like eighty thousand bucks or 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.200 ninety thousand bucks, I forget what it was. He knocks 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:56.080 that back. He then goes to trial, goes to the court, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.240 goes to the case Losers is up it for three 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.400 hundred thousand plus all the legal costs, God knows what 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.760 they are. And then again still doesn't get it. And 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.880 so we still still won't say sorry, still want to 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.040 know you could have said, right, okay, well that's it. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.520 The law has made it clear. The just is, may 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.960 I respect the justice system more as welcome back to 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.280 the party. He doesn't do that. Instead, he goes around 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.240 and saying, oh, no, this isn't going to affect me 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.680 because I'm a fighter. I'm a fighter, which reminds me 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.520 of Margaret Thatcher's great quote, which is, if you. 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.840 Have to go around say their names in the same if. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.720 You have to go around that is, you have to 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.240 go around telling people how strong you are, you're not 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.160 very sure correct. In other words, if you have to 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.600 tell people you're a fighter, you don't tell people you're 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.440 a fighter exactly. You just fight and you decam. So 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.680 he's stuffed up there and then right up until this vote, right, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.840 so it's fourteen all. Now, this is actually not this 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.000 is actually a massive blow to his leadership because his 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.280 majority in the party room is supposed to be a 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.160 hell of a lot more than fourteen, and so this 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.040 means that whole bunch of his supporters are turning away 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.440 from him and going towards Maredeeming. Of course, by now 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.680 is just a trojan horse for anyone but Persudo for 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.239 screwing the leader. He's then got the fourteens vote, tied 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.760 his one chance to save his leadership is to use 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.720 his casting vote for a magnanimous gesture to say yes 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.720 on my own volition, with my own vote, my own 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.880 personal vote. I'm going to welcome Maradeeming back in the 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.920 Liberal Party, and this will create peace in our time 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.120 and we can now unite and focus on the one 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:40.040 threat that should matter to us all. And what does 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.360 he do? He votes against it? What does he think 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.840 he is going on? Fifteen fourteen? He thinks that's going 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.000 to be the end of the matter, votes against it, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.080 even when clearly all the momentum is on her side. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.160 You know, he shuts the tiny little shutters to the 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.880 tsunami that's coming towards him and thinks, I'll just go 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:56.800 back and watch it, Telly. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:57.439 Now that's that. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.200 And so again, every single step of the way, he 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:04.000 has made the absolute wrong decision, not based on any facts, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.560 not even based on any morality, but based on his 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.960 own best interests. So his judgment is so poor he 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.079 is actually killing himself, killing his own leadership, as in 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.240 the part of his stubborn. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.280 Would want such a man who has displayed such director 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.160 to be premiere of Victoria. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.839 Goodness me, if there was any hope it. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.920 Is gone, but rumor has it both the left and 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.520 the right of the Labor Party and Victoria are working 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.200 on a new leadership team. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.480 Strength to their arm. Did I say liberal, you. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:39.920 Said Labor Party and the Labor Party. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.240 I'm also working on a new leadership team. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:45.360 But yes, they. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.720 Areship team in Victoria. Let's be honest, easy mistake to 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.720 make staying in Victoria. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:52.040 Now. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.960 A kindergarten has sent an email to parents saying we're 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.560 not having Mother's Day and Father's Day anymore and a 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.240 bid to be more inclusive. We're just going to have 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.280 one day and call it Family Day, because you know 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.440 it's really inclusive when you're excluding ninety seven percent of 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.000 the population. The email read, Thus, next year, we'll be 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.679 holding Family Day to honor all caregivers, all significant figures 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.520 in your children's lives. Children will be encouraged to express 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.600 gratitude and recognize those who play a supportive role in 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:28.080 their lives. We won't be holding titled celebrations like Mother's 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.720 Day or Father's Day, but we will have a fabulous 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:38.080 family Day celebration. I am so sick of this scaddy, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:44.080 the erasure of mothers, fathers, anything gender specific. We saw 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.640 this in the bill that Parliament recently passed regarding anyone 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.840 under sixteen can't access social media. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.120 Not one mention of parents in that entire bill. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.000 We also know alban ezy ones universal daycare, give us 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.800 your kids and get back to work asap, ladies. I 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.800 really don't like what this government is doing. And the 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.000 early childhood Management Services in Victoria is. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.439 Partly funded by the government. No surprises there. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.760 In terms of this erasure across the board of mothers 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:20.360 and fathers. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:21.920 It makes no sense as well. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.480 So what the rest of Australia, the rest of the 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.480 world get to celebrate Mother's Day, Father's Day except these 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.000 kindergartens the then allowed to use the words mothers and fathers. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.400 It's actually disrespectful, you know, being a mother, being a father. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.120 Be probably one of them yet to become a mother, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.720 but it would be one of the most It's the 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.600 most important job really in the world. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.400 People. I have so much pride to raise children. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.679 To have that taken away from you no longer allowed 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.440 to be even not allowed to mention the words mothers 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.040 and fathers. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.400 What's next? They even going to get rid of Family Day. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.400 It just seems like it's this slippery slope, and of 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.600 course it's coming from Melbourne. I feel like nearly every 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.160 one of these stories are we debate these issues. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.680 It's cultural Marxism, the home of cultural markets. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.280 It absolutely is. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.240 But it's crazy. I mean to be honest, I think 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:10.840 the Mother's Day and Father's Day are a bit of 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.560 a wank. And you know, it's just an excuse to 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:14.200 do something. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.720 Now, you'll change your minds when your kids rolled, you 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:17.960 can afford your presence. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.840 My dad loves. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.280 There, you go. It's just a waiting day. But again, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.320 just the idea that someone would see this as something 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.520 that needs to be done just strikes me as someone 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.480 who just does not have enough real problems, Like the idea, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.160 how can I make the world a better place? I 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.720 know I'll get rid of Mother's Day. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.640 Deliberately enforcing ideology on three and. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:43.640 Four year olds. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.560 It is so ridiculous. And so there's there's now going 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.720 to be instead of Mother's Day and Father's Day, there's 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.319 going to be two family days. So hey, kids, it's 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.720 family Day the first and then. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.240 They're just handing the one, just having the ones, so 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.280 they're harving the celebration. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.600 And then so everyone else. So the kids are going 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.400 to go to their thing. It's going to be Mother's 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:14.160 Day everywhere else but at the at Thedergartens, but at 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.840 Eltham North, at s Heana Preschool, everyone's just going to go. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.079 It's just nothing and what the kids want to get 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:19.760 your family. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:26.000 What's also what's really galling is that over half of 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:31.600 the kindergartens that fall into the ECMS have already implemented this. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.480 So this email by Saint Helen's has brought it to 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.040 everyone's attention Saint Helen. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.800 Or I should say, has brought it to everyone's attention. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.240 But ecms have come out and said, oh no, over 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.160 over fifty percent of our kindergartens, our preschools have done 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.920 this already. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.040 That's even worse. What do you mean that this. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.920 Is just something that you've rolled out whole sale on 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:59.800 little minds. Absolutely no talk about it to the parent, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.440 who I'm sure hated. In fact, there have been plenty 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.480 taken into their socials to say, how dare you raise us? 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.520 I am my child's mother, I am my child's father. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.720 Who the heck do you think you are taking our 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.120 day off us? 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:15.760 No? 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:16.920 Thank you. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.200 Also the grandmothers and the grandfathers that want to get 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:21.040 around this as well. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.560 What they're not allowed to be part of it? 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:27.080 Well, interestingly, Saint Helena's, if I'm not mistaken, Saint Helena 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:32.560 was the mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.240 Roman emperor, so she was. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.480 Very much f Elena would be robbing. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.480 She is the one who went to Jerusalem and mapped 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.760 out the Via dollar Rosa. I think this is which 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.320 is meant to be the path that Jesus took with 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.520 the cross, which actually has no bearing on any historical 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.880 evidence whatsoever. It wasn't actually the right path, but she 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.720 just sort of walked around and said, oh, that looks nice. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.440 I don't bet it went there. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:05.120 And she's incredibly important to the Catholic Church as a mother, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.640 but she doesn't get any Mother's Day. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.440 It is just absolutely appalling. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.440 This is where we are now in the name of inclusivity. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.200 No mother's, no father's, the end of story, according to 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:24.080 the ECMS in Victoria, disgusting. But to the United States now, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.120 where we told you last night about this ginormous omnibus bill, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.080 the Dems are trying to get through the House. It's 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.680 just a month to the day now before the Trump 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.040 administration takes over in the White House and they're very nervous. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:44.160 So they put together this fifteen hundred page omnibus bill 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:49.200 which had everything in it from funding for twelve biolabs, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:54.240 refunding of the government's censor censorship agency, the GEC. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:55.560 It stops the. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.960 Trump's doj from investigating Congress. It gave the representatives a 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.840 forty percent pay rise, and I'm just getting started. 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:10.200 This thing was huge, but it was going to go through. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:16.440 Until Elon mask tweeted on X his Scott Jennings telling 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.080 us about what ensued after Elon Musk hit send. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.600 Yeah, he's very influential. I actually talked to a member 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.800 of Congress today about this whole situation, and he said 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.880 that when Musk sent out his tweet, the first tweet 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.440 about this whole deal, like. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.280 He's never seen so much pork in his license. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.480 Instantly, instantly, the phone started ringing in the congressional office 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.720 and people from the district started calling. And so that's 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.400 real power that, you know, the power to communicate and 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.280 then have it instantly translate into in that case, grassroots action. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.960 So you can see why members of Congress are you know, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.480 running around freaking out a little bit about about what's happening. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.000 Elon mask has two hundred and seven million followers on 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.640 x so plenty of Americans were alerted to what the 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:07.040 Democrats were up to with this gigantic nonsense bill. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.320 So this meant that it fell. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.199 Over All the MPs were hearing from people saying, if 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.720 you pass this, we will get rid of you. So 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.600 the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, got busy very quickly. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.760 He's a Trumper. He was also working with JD Vance, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.480 now Vice President elect. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.040 And check out this picture that. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:34.560 Elon Namusk posted illustrating the size of the original bill 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.560 and what they had managed to do to. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.880 It within a matter of. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.959 Hours, that how much they had reduced it by and 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:50.040 yet did that pass. No, there were thirty eight Republicans 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.120 that turned on their own party. All the Gems opposed 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.879 it save for two, but that was predictable. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:56.639 Here's JD. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.680 Vance talking to the press just minutes after the new 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.800 and improved bill also failed. 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.280 The Democrats just voted to shut down the government even 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.080 though we had a clean cr because they didn't want 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.679 to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.639 or during the first year of his new term and 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.280 number two, because they would rather shut down the government 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:27.160 and fight for global censorship. They've asked for a shutdown, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.320 and I think that's exactly what they're doing. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:35.320 They've managed to even turn this down, even though it 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:40.360 was largely all the things that they had wanted to 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.480 implement in the past. They simply did this to spite 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:50.160 the Republicans. And now they are absolutely losing it, saying 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.080 we are justified in doing this. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:55.320 Read on a bill. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:02.119 They signed it, and you know what, they got scared 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:11.840 because President Musk told them, rather than Musk said, don't 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:17.760 do it. Don't do it, shut the government down. Imagine 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:18.800 what does he know? 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.240 He knows a heck of a lot, lady. 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.600 And now all the Americans that you were trying to 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.879 pull this bill on know as well. But when I 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.200 say they're losing it, I mean they are really losing it. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.840 Everybody agreed, and then it was blown up by Elon Musk, 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.160 who apparently has become the fourth branch of government. And 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:44.280 that's just an intolerable way of proceeding under representative democracy. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:46.920 And the hysterics continue. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:57.240 The Musk Johnson proposal is not serious, it's laughable, extreme maga. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.600 Republicans are driving us to a government the shutdown. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.119 Now, it may be disappointing that the bill didn't get up, Gabby, 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.119 but one thing I noted about this new and improved bill, 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:13.040 While it was massively reduced in terms of spending, it 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.240 was essentially exactly the same. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.960 Yeah, So I'm a little bit confused on that. Oh. 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.600 I think they're all upset that they didn't get their 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.040 pay rise, I should say, because that was one of 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.000 the things that got cut out. But isn't it amazing 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.000 just to see fifteen hundred pages just get reduced to 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.960 just over one hundred and all the things that they 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.880 got that they got rid of, Kamala's electric bus program, 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.320 those twelve bio labs that you mentioned yesterday, the pay rises, 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.240 and now they're having a hissy fit. And I love 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:43.720 how they are hysterical about Elon Musk. They're so threatened 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.679 by him because what is the smartest guy possibly in 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:47.879 the world, and because. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.640 They alerted people to what they were trying to do. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.120 Incredible politicians are getting caught in the acts right now 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.199 because Elon Musk is just shining a spotlight onto what 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.520 they were actually doing. And it was amazing to see 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.359 how quickly this all played out from him posting that 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.159 on X and how quickly people were picking up the 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.160 phone and calling their representatives, and now this is what's 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.840 playing out. But you know, of course the Democrats had 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.160 to reject it, so they're essentially just voting against disaster 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.560 relief aid for farmers, and you know, because they didn't 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.960 have the pay rise in there, and they're mad and 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.800 they wanted someone to blame, and so instead of blaming themselves, 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:25.200 it's what Elon Musk's fault. 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:27.760 At least this way, Joe, it's the Dems that have 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.639 shut down the government, not the Republican. 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:31.720 So I remember the good old days, but it was 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:33.560 the Dems who were trying to keep the government open 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:35.600 and the Republicans trying to shut it down. 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:38.400 Forty eight hours ago. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:40.760 Oh no, Barack Oba was president. 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:42.280 God love it then as well. 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:47.280