Speaker 1: On scoring leaves Australia. This is the Wider Panalty Show.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Riata Panecky Show. Coming
Speaker 2: up tonight, the Victorian Premier forced to concede that the
Speaker 2: state's bail laws are in disarray. The Queensland town in
Speaker 2: an uproar about a garbage late intensity that's popped up
Speaker 2: at a local reserve. We'll have the latest from the
Speaker 2: US with Kosher Gata and Professor Ian Plymer will unpack
Speaker 2: the climate craziness that is sending your power bills through
Speaker 2: the roof. And later in the hour special guest takes
Speaker 2: a stand for Milania Trump after she was attacked by
Speaker 2: the ideologues at Vogue magazine.
Speaker 3: And of course we never forget left.
Speaker 2: He's losing it tonight featuring stars from the Grammys.
Speaker 4: And it changes the game. DEEI is not a threat,
Speaker 4: it's a gift.
Speaker 2: But first let's bring in News Corps Senior writer Patrick
Speaker 2: Carl and Patrick Welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: Let's start with business and.
Speaker 2: Industry groups preparing to launch what would be the largest
Speaker 2: third party election campaign in Australia's political history.
Speaker 3: Amid fears of a hung parliament.
Speaker 2: The groups are expected to launch campaigns to try and
Speaker 2: influence swing voters and what is being called one of
Speaker 2: the most crucial elections of our time.
Speaker 3: Patrick. Finally, we're seeing these.
Speaker 2: Business groups actually advocate for their own interests, for the
Speaker 2: interests of their shareholders, their staff, other stakeholders, as opposed
Speaker 2: to being tied up in all these social woke issues
Speaker 2: they normally like to involve themselves, and this is actually
Speaker 2: about how these policies will impact the running of their business.
Speaker 5: Look, this is fascinating because the data is so specific.
Speaker 5: Now you can have these groups, whether it's unions or
Speaker 5: business groups, actually targeting specific polling booths and they can
Speaker 5: work out apprentices live near that polling booth and a
Speaker 5: lot of people with negative gearing investments live near that
Speaker 5: polling group. And so you're going to have this very
Speaker 5: targeted micro campaign for an election where nobody knows the result.
Speaker 5: It's all based on the fact that the ALP soft
Speaker 5: primary vote is so soft at the moment. These sort
Speaker 5: of micro strategies in very targeted area is going to
Speaker 5: have a real impact on the result.
Speaker 2: What do you say to fears that this is akin
Speaker 2: to buying an election.
Speaker 3: You're going to have the.
Speaker 2: Top end of town determining how people vote. Do you
Speaker 2: buy that because we know how much the unions spend
Speaker 2: in this arena.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 5: Look, look, those fears are warranted, perhaps in the sense
Speaker 5: that they're going to be in the game in a
Speaker 5: way that they haven't been in the game before.
Speaker 1: And it's because of the data. It's because of the technology.
Speaker 5: They will be very targeted and you'll see them really
Speaker 5: campaign hard in very very specific areas in a way
Speaker 5: that they haven't before. And you can argue, yes, they're
Speaker 5: going to have more sway potentially, but that's sort of
Speaker 5: it's a product of the technology.
Speaker 1: The world is moving forward slowly.
Speaker 3: Indeed it is.
Speaker 2: And Robert got Bleison has written a fascinating piece in
Speaker 2: The Australian newspaper about Labour's new unrealized gains tax, a
Speaker 2: tax which here calls one of the most vicious taxes
Speaker 2: ever conceived by an Australian government. This tax will not
Speaker 2: be index and has got beliefs and rights. The biggest
Speaker 2: victims will be those trying to develop a new business
Speaker 2: and asking for capital to help. Nobody will invest if
Speaker 2: they have to sell assets to pay for the unrealized
Speaker 2: gains tax and if there is a later loss, they
Speaker 2: must wait for capital profits to get the money back.
Speaker 3: Patrick's what happened to Labour's election promise.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I remember something back in twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: about no new taxes.
Speaker 1: Yes, vaguely, yes, Robert's under something here.
Speaker 5: I mean, very few countries in the world have taxes
Speaker 5: on unrealized profits, and so they're basically potentially going to
Speaker 5: ask for you to pay for money that you actually
Speaker 5: don't have, which will force people to businesses to sell assets,
Speaker 5: investors to sell things merely to pay the tax. It's
Speaker 5: not fair, it's anti aspirational, it's anti innovation, and it's
Speaker 5: anti productive in the sense that you want investment, and
Speaker 5: this is anti investment.
Speaker 2: It is definitely anti investment. And when you've already got
Speaker 2: an environment of high regulation, high tax, it's just another
Speaker 2: reason for people to invest elsewhere. And we know what's
Speaker 2: happening in the US and environment's been created there that
Speaker 2: is very pro investment. So if you're a big multinational
Speaker 2: you've got to wonder why you would invest in Australia
Speaker 2: at with the current conditions. Let's talk about Victoria. The
Speaker 2: state is buckling under the weight of record debt and
Speaker 2: premiages into Alan seems to be preoccupied with other priorities.
Speaker 2: Here's what she's been posting on X.
Speaker 3: She wrote, I want.
Speaker 2: To send a message to every LGBTQ plus Victorian in
Speaker 2: our state today.
Speaker 3: I know that right now you might look at.
Speaker 2: The world with fear and uncertainty, fear for your community,
Speaker 2: fear for your safety, fear for a future that might
Speaker 2: end up looking a lot more like the past.
Speaker 3: But I want you to know this.
Speaker 2: In Victoria, you have a government and a premiere who
Speaker 2: believes in equality and believes.
Speaker 3: In a you. Oh, dear man.
Speaker 2: Now, she has been ratioed to Helen back on X
Speaker 2: for that incoherent virtue signaling that basically means Patrick that
Speaker 2: she has been flooded with negative responses, people taking her
Speaker 2: to task for what she has written there, her failure
Speaker 2: to stand up for women's rights, women's spaces. After all,
Speaker 2: Victoria is a place where we have a male sexual
Speaker 2: predator identifying as a woman in a woman's prison.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the sort of madness that the
Speaker 2: rest of the world can only imagine it's happening in Victoria.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Look, I think most people Victoria, Australians, the world sick
Speaker 5: of the woke sort of ideology. And I think this
Speaker 5: is sort of presented as a heartfelt message of love.
Speaker 5: It's actually very cynical. I think it's actually saying I
Speaker 5: feel your fears, you have reasons to be fearful.
Speaker 1: We might go back to what was a long time ago.
Speaker 2: And that's very why because Donald Trump has said take
Speaker 2: the pronouns out of your email address if you're a
Speaker 2: government employee. That's what's requiring the Victorian Premiere down a.
Speaker 3: Year to look.
Speaker 5: There's been no hate related incident in Victoria that prompted this.
Speaker 5: This comes out of nowhere, and I would expect that
Speaker 5: the negative sort of X reviews, as you say, would continue,
Speaker 5: because it's misplaced right.
Speaker 2: Now, especially when you look at the many, many real
Speaker 2: issues happening in Victoria, and one of them that the
Speaker 2: Victorian Premier has acknowledge is ordered yet another review, this
Speaker 2: time into the state's bail laws, conceding that something has
Speaker 2: gone seriously.
Speaker 3: Wrong in me to record low polling figures.
Speaker 2: And I do wonder really whether she has grasped what
Speaker 2: the problem is here or whether she's just reading the
Speaker 2: polls and knows that crime is a big issue in
Speaker 2: this state, and coming up to an election, it's an
Speaker 2: area where labor struggled because pretty much everything they've done
Speaker 2: has weakened the criminal response, and it's in boldened the
Speaker 2: criminal class, particularly when you see these bail laws, kids getting.
Speaker 3: Out ten, eleven, twelve times, well.
Speaker 5: There were sixty times. In one case November last year,
Speaker 5: a fourteen year old was bailed for the I think
Speaker 5: the fiftieth time. He'd been accused of home invasions, driving
Speaker 5: stolen cars, and police pursuits. And we've had people die
Speaker 5: on our roads from this kind of behavior. Obviously, his
Speaker 5: rights were put ahead of the rights of everybody else
Speaker 5: to feel safe, and that's been the problem. People don't
Speaker 5: feel safe. It's as much a perception problem as a
Speaker 5: reality problem. People were having, you know, waking up at
Speaker 5: two am to thleeves in their homes trying to find
Speaker 5: their car keys.
Speaker 1: They're being menaced and terrorized.
Speaker 5: And I think if just Allen was saying this back
Speaker 5: in September twenty twenty three, once you took over from
Speaker 5: Dan Andrews, you'd say that's great, we welcome these It's
Speaker 5: far too late.
Speaker 3: It is it's too little, too late.
Speaker 2: And when you've got police telling frightened Victorians, well, you know,
Speaker 2: just leave your keys by the door so they don't
Speaker 2: come and try to confront you when you're in your
Speaker 2: own home.
Speaker 3: That is not a good place for a first world
Speaker 3: city to be.
Speaker 2: And things haven't changed here in a very very negative
Speaker 2: manner and it's hard to deny it. Now let's go
Speaker 2: to Queensland, where residents of Morton Bay have expressed their
Speaker 2: outrage over a garbage late in tense city that has
Speaker 2: popped up in a local reserve. Seriously, how hard is
Speaker 2: it to show some respect and keep your area tidy.
Speaker 2: I feel for those who are struggling, but this is appalling,
Speaker 2: said one local. Another person wrote human dumping ground. Seriously,
Speaker 2: there is no reason to live in filth. Morton Bay
Speaker 2: Mayor Peter Flattery has also condemned the state of the site.
Speaker 2: He said, when public spaces are misused resulting in serious
Speaker 2: health and safety risks and destruction of property, we will
Speaker 2: unequivocally act to protect the broader community and council assets.
Speaker 2: The rubbish there is horrendous, but again, this is a
Speaker 2: failure of government to have people living in these sort
Speaker 2: of tent cities. We are a rich nation, We've got
Speaker 2: a very generous safety net, very generous welfare system, and
Speaker 2: yet we've still got people in this state.
Speaker 5: Look, I feel firstly very sorry for the local residents
Speaker 5: who are putting up with this, and for the mayor
Speaker 5: as well. I mean, he's sort of saying the right things,
Speaker 5: and he's making the point. This is not about the
Speaker 5: politics of homelessness, which is a very important discussion I
Speaker 5: have about public safety and health, and I think people
Speaker 5: are being threatened. There are police escorts for council offices. Look,
Speaker 5: I agree with that. We are a first world nation.
Speaker 5: We have lots of safety nets. The fact that this
Speaker 5: is happening anywhere is outrageous. It should not be happening.
Speaker 2: It should And when you look at places like La
Speaker 2: San Francisco, anyone who's visited those cities in the last
Speaker 2: five years, last ten years, the homelessness issue has just
Speaker 2: got worse and worse and worse. And we don't want
Speaker 2: to be even contemplating being anything like that. And you
Speaker 2: see those tense cities all around there. I've seen it
Speaker 2: in Melbourne. Queensland is now grappling with it. Do you
Speaker 2: see this as as a wider issue with the housing crisis.
Speaker 5: I think officially there's one hundred and twenty thousand homeless
Speaker 5: people in Australia.
Speaker 1: If people are living in.
Speaker 5: Tens, I mean, look, we have a good welfare system,
Speaker 5: we have good minimum wages to protect workers. We've got
Speaker 5: most things right in ways that parts of America do not.
Speaker 5: This should not be happening, and it does go. The
Speaker 5: obvious place to go is where have governments failed in
Speaker 5: looking after and taking care of citizens who are struggling.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be happening here.
Speaker 2: Now, just quickly, let's have a look at Matilda's captain,
Speaker 2: a soccer Servers star, Sam Kerr.
Speaker 3: She's on trial in London for.
Speaker 2: Legend racial abuse of a UK police officer, and we
Speaker 2: now have the police bodycam footage showing what Kerr actually said.
Speaker 6: Honestly, you have stupid and white Okay, stupid, I'm talking
Speaker 6: over this. This is the world problem.
Speaker 3: Wait on the call, Wait on the call. Call does
Speaker 3: not look great.
Speaker 2: But as much as I'm not an enormous fan of
Speaker 2: some of the politics of some of our sporting stars,
Speaker 2: including Zam, I do think to be on trial for
Speaker 2: something like this it's just a bit too much a fine,
Speaker 2: a caution, But to actually be in a criminal trial.
Speaker 2: Is that what's happening now in the UK?
Speaker 5: It's the old rule read nothing good happens after two
Speaker 5: am anywhere in the world. Look, it does seem ridiculous
Speaker 5: that some has got to be she's playing out in public.
Speaker 5: Everyone's hanging on every word and every piece of footage
Speaker 5: in a way.
Speaker 3: Which is a brash. But that a very bad night
Speaker 3: a court case.
Speaker 1: Yes, to suggest.
Speaker 5: That's criminal or somehow caused offense, I mean that law
Speaker 5: was not brought in for white people.
Speaker 1: You can argue whether it's a good law or not.
Speaker 5: But to sort of suggest that the police officers somehow
Speaker 5: suffered dramatically from what came out of her mouth that
Speaker 5: point in time is crazy.
Speaker 2: I agree with that, But I've got to say, if
Speaker 2: you're going to apply these laws and send people to
Speaker 2: court over hurty words, then they've got to apply across
Speaker 2: the board, whether you say white or black or anything
Speaker 2: in between.
Speaker 3: It's got to apply equally.
Speaker 2: But I would just rather not see the court's time
Speaker 2: wasted with this sort of nonsense. Patrick Carline, thanks for
Speaker 2: your time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for Enoch joining me.
Speaker 2: Now is a steam geologist and author, Professor in Plymber. Professor,
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Speaker 2: Australia's largest business body, slamming labors eighty two percent renewables target.
Speaker 2: They say it's unrealistic and in urgent need of a revisit.
Speaker 3: The group says that.
Speaker 2: The government must drop its green energy targets and fast
Speaker 2: track gas exploration in order to return power prices to
Speaker 2: affordable levels and make the grid reliable again. I'm sure
Speaker 2: this is exactly what you and I have been talking
Speaker 2: about for years on this program, but it's fantastic to
Speaker 2: hear this from a peak business lobby group.
Speaker 7: Well, they're exactly right. We have nine percent of all
Speaker 7: energy at present comes from renewables. Ninety one percent of
Speaker 7: all energy is from coal and from oil and from gas.
Speaker 7: So if you want to get to eighty three percent
Speaker 7: or eighty two percent, you've got a very long way
Speaker 7: to go. And if you want to do it before
Speaker 7: twenty thirty, you've only got five years.
Speaker 8: So it's just a time problem. It's just not able
Speaker 8: to do it now.
Speaker 7: The economic reality is there's a total, absolute waste of money.
Speaker 7: We once had very good, reliable, cheap electricity, especially in Victoria.
Speaker 8: This came from coal, and we burnt coal.
Speaker 7: In Queensland and New South Wales and apparently the gas
Speaker 7: of life, the carbon dioxide, has now been deemed so
Speaker 7: we've stopped burning coal, putting carbon dioxide back into the
Speaker 7: atmosphere where it originally came from, and denying plants food
Speaker 7: for some ideological reason. So reality catches up with you,
Speaker 7: and it's catching up with a labor party.
Speaker 8: Now it's also catching up with the Libs. You have
Speaker 8: the same sort of policy.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, the Libs seem to be in denial themselves
Speaker 2: because yes they've got a nuclear plan, but they seem
Speaker 2: to be staying with Paris at a time when the
Speaker 2: entire Paris climate Deal is now irrelevant. The biggest countries
Speaker 2: have walked away or it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Apply to them.
Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about TV star Katrina round Tree unleashing
Speaker 2: on the Victorian government over its plans to destroy seven
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy hectares of picturesque farmland at the base
Speaker 2: of the u Yangs. This is the Yu Yang's Mountain range.
Speaker 2: They want to put a huge newable energy project right there.
Speaker 2: It's going to be near her her farm and the
Speaker 2: smaller country town of Little River. And we're seeing these
Speaker 2: projects pop up across the country.
Speaker 3: How much consultation is.
Speaker 2: There with the local community before these projects go ahead.
Speaker 8: Well, there's apparently consultation.
Speaker 7: And this is basically where they listen and don't absorb
Speaker 7: anything and do what they originally plan.
Speaker 8: And you have to remember that Australian governments are borrowing.
Speaker 7: Money for these projects. This money goes to foreign corporations
Speaker 7: who build the solar and wind industrial complexes, take the
Speaker 7: money out of Australia and then leave Australians with the
Speaker 7: mess to clean up. This is not very good practice.
Speaker 7: And as we should know, wind turbines are dreadfully polluting.
Speaker 7: They release from the blades chemicals which spread wide and far.
Speaker 7: When you try to get rid of the blow aids,
Speaker 7: you have to cut them up and bury them because
Speaker 7: you can't recycle them. They kill birds, they kill bats,
Speaker 7: they kill wales. This is not environmentalism. This is passing
Speaker 7: money to your cronies elsewhere in the world, giving them
Speaker 7: a fortune of taxpayers money. And every time we put
Speaker 7: new renewables into the grid, our electricity costs go up.
Speaker 7: So these are very very silly plans which are costing
Speaker 7: us dearly, especially those people in rural areas where they
Speaker 7: don't have the electoral power.
Speaker 8: That inner city greens who don't see the mess can
Speaker 8: actually drive the whole agenda.
Speaker 2: Now, the Guardian and newspaper Guardian Australia has reported on
Speaker 2: a study by Monash University about attitudes towards climate science.
Speaker 2: I'm loving how they have spun this. They he say
Speaker 2: that of those who believe the climate crisis was a conspiracy,
Speaker 2: more than a third twenty seven percent picked commercial TV
Speaker 2: and radio as their main source of news, while only
Speaker 2: eight percent chose non commercial TV or radio. Just eight
Speaker 2: percent of those who believe the human induced climate crisis
Speaker 2: was a conspiracy use public radio and television as their
Speaker 2: main source of news. So, in other words, in those
Speaker 2: who support the climate cause seem to have been brainwashed
Speaker 2: by far left publicly funded broadcasters like the ABC Spares,
Speaker 2: while those who consume a range of media seem to
Speaker 2: get a broader picture and they can think for themselves.
Speaker 2: They're not being alarmed about all of us dying within
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 3: Is that what you got out of this study? I
Speaker 3: thought it was very amusingly presented.
Speaker 9: Well, once you the word Guardian, I turn off and
Speaker 9: think of something else, because you can be guaranteed that
Speaker 9: their interpretation of data is very different from reality.
Speaker 8: Now, maybe it's not a conspiracy.
Speaker 7: Maybe there's a bulk of people out there who think
Speaker 7: about reality and maybe they look at the costs. Maybe
Speaker 7: they think of the environmental damage. Maybe they think that
Speaker 7: years ago we once had cheap, reliable electricity and for
Speaker 7: some reason, perhaps renewables, the electricity costs have gone through
Speaker 7: the roots. So I think the Guardian is heading for extinction.
Speaker 7: This article demonstrates it. So good luck to the Guardian.
Speaker 7: If you're a Guardian reader, you shouldn't be watching this program.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Finally, I let's check in with what is purportedly Australia's
Speaker 2: leading independent think tank. Independent is doing a lot of
Speaker 2: heavy lifting there. The Australian Institute recently published this video
Speaker 2: to their social media side. So if you can make
Speaker 2: sense of this, we're not.
Speaker 3: To stop exiting holding gas in Australia. It's a huge industry.
Speaker 1: It's huge industry.
Speaker 10: It doesn't bring much to the Australian economy though, if anything,
Speaker 10: it costs the Australian economy. You're right, it's an absolutely
Speaker 10: huge industry. It's not a big employer though it doesn't
Speaker 10: pay much tax, doesn't pay.
Speaker 3: Much in royalties and the profits go offshore.
Speaker 10: So I don't know why we're not going to get
Speaker 10: rid of the gas industry in Australia.
Speaker 3: It doesn't contribute that much. And is that a sound advice?
Speaker 8: Firstly, they pay royalties.
Speaker 7: Secondly, she should go to a town like Roma in Queensland,
Speaker 7: which was a struggling cattle town until gas came there.
Speaker 7: There is full employment, a town is booming and gas
Speaker 7: has done a huge amount for local communities in rural
Speaker 7: areas where there's not much employment. So these people should
Speaker 7: get out of the cities, should get into rural Australia
Speaker 7: and actually have a look and possibly even talk to people,
Speaker 7: although they need to speak a different language.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, that is not going to happen. I just
Speaker 2: cannot believe the confidence with which she spewed all that
Speaker 2: incredible professor Ian Plymer, thank you so much for your
Speaker 2: time this evening.
Speaker 3: Thank you still to KRMA lefties losing it.
Speaker 2: Plus, have the Democrats finally moved on from their d
Speaker 2: race obsessions Kosher Gator is up next watching the Reader
Speaker 2: Paney Show. And now it's time for lefties Losing it
Speaker 2: and let's take a look at the Grammars. They were
Speaker 2: just on though no one with a life seems to
Speaker 2: care too much, But we had an assortment of lefties
Speaker 2: losing it. So let's have a look at the top five. Now.
Speaker 2: While much of the attention was on the tachy exhibitionist
Speaker 2: antics of Carnie and his Australian victim or i mean wife, Biankersen, Sorry,
Speaker 2: it was the usual suspects with their TDS afflictions that
Speaker 2: sought to turn a night about music into one about politics.
Speaker 2: Let's start with an award that was nakedly political. Giving
Speaker 2: Beyonce the Best Country Album is just pure politics. She
Speaker 2: is about as country as she is a natural blonde.
Speaker 2: Even she looked embarrassed by this award.
Speaker 11: Cowboy coder, Wow, I really was not expecting this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all shocked, and no one who actually listens
Speaker 2: to and loves country music takes that seriously, because whether
Speaker 2: your lover her album or not, it ain't country folks.
Speaker 2: Now coming in at number four and the Grammy's Lefties
Speaker 2: Losing It list is Shakira, who couldn't help but virtue
Speaker 2: signal in a most vacuous and unnecessary fashion.
Speaker 11: I wanted dedicay.
Speaker 12: This a word to all my immigrant brothers and sisters.
Speaker 11: In best country.
Speaker 13: You're loved, You're worth it, and I will always fight
Speaker 13: with you.
Speaker 3: She will always fight with us. Why what do we do, Shakira.
Speaker 2: Imagine being so out of touch that you miss that
Speaker 2: Latina voters, Hispanic voters supported Trump in enormous numbers, or
Speaker 2: being so thick that you conflate illegal immigration with legal immigration.
Speaker 2: Not a single legal migrant is facing deportation or needs
Speaker 2: to be told by a Colombian songstress that.
Speaker 3: They are loved. Now to the number three position, and
Speaker 3: it goes to a queer singer. That's what she calls herself.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of her, but she did win Best
Speaker 2: New Artists, and of course she had to mouth off
Speaker 2: about the Lgbtquia plus plus community and what she calls Transjoy.
Speaker 14: Trans people have always existed and they will forever exist
Speaker 14: and they will never no matter what happens teake trans
Speaker 14: Joy away, and that has to be protected more than anything,
Speaker 14: because I would not be here with our trans girls.
Speaker 14: So just know that pop music is thinking about you
Speaker 14: and cares about you.
Speaker 2: Coming in at number two is another activist who has
Speaker 2: long been vocal in her support for the Democrats, who
Speaker 2: has urged Americans.
Speaker 3: To vote for Hillary, vote for Biden and.
Speaker 2: Kamala, and who is a single woman with little idea
Speaker 2: of the national divorce happening in the LGBTQ community, where
Speaker 2: many lgb folk are saying goodbye to the TQ activist.
Speaker 3: Here is a Lady Guar.
Speaker 2: Telling trans people that they're not invisible, No kidding.
Speaker 11: Trans people are not invisible.
Speaker 13: Trans people deserve love, The queer community deserves to be
Speaker 13: lifted up.
Speaker 11: Music is love, Thank you.
Speaker 2: And the number one left You Losing It of the
Speaker 2: Grammys is Alicia key Is.
Speaker 3: You'll remember her.
Speaker 2: She had to apologize or should that be clarify her
Speaker 2: questionable post about a paraglider whilst dressed in Palestinian colors
Speaker 2: just a few days after October seven, and who can
Speaker 2: forget her posing in a burker like it's some high
Speaker 2: fashion item at a time where Muslim women in countries
Speaker 2: like Iran are risking their lives fighting against such garments.
Speaker 2: So let's hear what Alicia had to say at the Grammys,
Speaker 2: I'm sure this is going to be riveting.
Speaker 4: This is not the time to shut down the diversity
Speaker 4: of voices. We've seen on this stage, talented, hard working
Speaker 4: people from different backgrounds, with different points of view, and
Speaker 4: it changes the game. DEI is not a threat, it's
Speaker 4: a gift. And the more voices, the more power for
Speaker 4: the sound. When destructive forces try to burn us down,
Speaker 4: we rise from the ashes like of Phoenix.
Speaker 3: DEI is not a threat, it's a gift.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 3: DEI is neo Marxist lunacy.
Speaker 2: It's racism and sexism dressed up as.
Speaker 3: False tolerance, and it has no place in a.
Speaker 2: Free society where people should be judged on their character
Speaker 2: and skills, not factors that have zero control over, like
Speaker 2: their gender, race, ethnicity. As for the diversity on the stage,
Speaker 2: Alicia Keys talked to bad name one artist who performed
Speaker 2: or was honored with an award who represents the majority
Speaker 2: of Americans who voted for Trump.
Speaker 3: Far from being an example.
Speaker 2: Of diverse voices, the music industry, like Hollywood, is full
Speaker 2: of out of touch, privileged idiots, an industry that is
Speaker 2: among the most closed minded, bigoted, and divorced from reality.
Speaker 3: You are in no position to lecture anyone about anything.
Speaker 2: Let's hear now from a member of the LGBTQIA plus
Speaker 2: plus community.
Speaker 15: Yesterday, I had the absolute audacity to say, I don't
Speaker 15: care how many executive orders you sign, you still don't
Speaker 15: get to tell me who I am.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I had the absolute.
Speaker 16: Audacity of saying, I don't care if you're elected to
Speaker 16: the highest station in the world.
Speaker 11: You still don't get to tell me who I am.
Speaker 2: Let me have the audacity to tell you, no one
Speaker 2: cares who you are or how you identify, as long
Speaker 2: as you don't impose your delusions on us. Unless you
Speaker 2: compel the rest of us to call you what you
Speaker 2: identify as what we know you are not, or give
Speaker 2: you access to our female only areas well you be,
Speaker 2: you just leave me out of it. There'll be plenty
Speaker 2: more lefties losing it content with my next guest, and
Speaker 2: my word has been a meltdown over us AID funding
Speaker 2: being cut USAID. Every rent seeking lefty is up in arms.
Speaker 2: Here is Jamie Raskin railing against Elon Musk.
Speaker 16: Elon Musk, you didn't create us AID. The United States
Speaker 16: Congress did for the American people and times like Elon
Speaker 16: Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power
Speaker 16: to destroy it, and who's gonna stop him?
Speaker 1: We are, We're gonna stop him.
Speaker 2: And hysterical squad member Elon omer is also losing her
Speaker 2: teeny tiny mind over US eight.
Speaker 13: We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump
Speaker 13: wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here
Speaker 13: we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.
Speaker 3: Oh, dear Elon, that is not a dictatorship.
Speaker 2: This is a president with a mandate imposing the policies
Speaker 2: his duty bound to impose. So what sort of vital
Speaker 2: funding are they so disturbed about being cut? Let's hear
Speaker 2: from Caroline Levett, White House Press Secretary about some of
Speaker 2: the examples where US taxpayers are spending money for US
Speaker 2: eight to do.
Speaker 17: What if you look at the waste and abuse that
Speaker 17: has run through USAID over the past several years, these
Speaker 17: are some of the insane priorities that that organization has
Speaker 17: been spending money on. One point five I have million
Speaker 17: dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for
Speaker 17: a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, forty seven
Speaker 17: thousand for a transgender opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand
Speaker 17: for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know
Speaker 17: about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want
Speaker 17: my dollars going towards this scrap, and I know the
Speaker 17: American people don't either.
Speaker 2: And let's hear from the man himself, the Later of
Speaker 2: the Free World Potus, about who is running USIID these days.
Speaker 7: Well, it's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics,
Speaker 7: and we're getting them out.
Speaker 9: Us AID run by radical.
Speaker 7: Lunatics, and we're getting them out, and then we'll make
Speaker 7: a decision.
Speaker 3: Joining me now.
Speaker 2: Sky News contributor Kosha Gaeta Kosha radical lunatics.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: This is becoming a big issue. But I do wonder
Speaker 2: whether the Democrats really want to defend the madest spending
Speaker 2: of us AI day because the more we hear about
Speaker 2: these items, whether it's thirty five thousand dollars for these
Speaker 2: or five million for that, it's hard to see how
Speaker 2: this is in the interests of the American text Pyle.
Speaker 12: This story has become I think the biggest story of
Speaker 12: the week, and It was really unexpected. Most people were
Speaker 12: never thinking about us AID to this level before. And
Speaker 12: Trump is so good at taking things that are big
Speaker 12: issues and putting them in the forefront and changing the
Speaker 12: national discourse. USAID was after there is a statutory law
Speaker 12: behind it, the Congress pass but then JFK created the
Speaker 12: agency in nineteen sixty one. Like anything, it's creeped far
Speaker 12: away from its original mission. It's about forty three billion
Speaker 12: dollars a year going into all sorts of those DII
Speaker 12: and productions and museums and those things that we heard about.
Speaker 12: It's not advancing the interests. There's even more nefarious things
Speaker 12: like funding gain a function research potentially in Muhan, and
Speaker 12: meddling in other countries' internal affairs front of money launering.
Speaker 12: There's all sorts of things coming out of it. And
Speaker 12: the fact that all those leaders took to the streets
Speaker 12: to protest Jimmie Raskin and Elin Ormo is very curious
Speaker 12: for just the dismantling and reorging of an agency. I
Speaker 12: wouldn't have expected to see them rallying for that, So
Speaker 12: there must be more underneath it.
Speaker 2: And you've just got to wonder about the political judgment
Speaker 2: of the Democrats right now. Sure they're in the wilderness,
Speaker 2: but you've got to start the rebuild, and you've got
Speaker 2: to start it straight away, and clutching to these sorts
Speaker 2: of issues seems ill advised. Now the New York Post
Speaker 2: is reporting that us AID. Us AID workers received an
Speaker 2: email Monday telling them to stay out of the agency's
Speaker 2: DC headquarters as a old musk, and the White House
Speaker 2: moved to shut it down and reorganize it under the
Speaker 2: State Department. So that is an important point to consider
Speaker 2: that it may not be gone and buried forever. It
Speaker 2: is being reimagined, perhaps in the vision that they originally had,
Speaker 2: which was to advance US interest. This was at a
Speaker 2: time of the Cold War, and like you say, it's
Speaker 2: veered far far away from those objectives.
Speaker 12: And those types of measures fall within the purview of
Speaker 12: the executive branch. And this is what we're seeing every
Speaker 12: six hours there's a new action coming out of Team
Speaker 12: Trump that he is really wielding the weight to the
Speaker 12: executive branch, where even if there's a statutory premise to
Speaker 12: it around foreign assistance, which is what Jamie Raskin is
Speaker 12: talking about, the way it is, administrator is in his purview,
Speaker 12: and if he wants to put it back under the
Speaker 12: State Department so it's more aligned with Marco Rubio's execution
Speaker 12: of the Trump policy, then that's as prerogative. If they
Speaker 12: want to shut down certain aspects, if they want to
Speaker 12: lock out people and change who's administering it, that's all
Speaker 12: in their purview. But this seems to just be the beginning,
Speaker 12: and I think it's going to get more heated.
Speaker 2: And I am loving some of these emails being leaked
Speaker 2: that are going to staff members them how they can resign,
Speaker 2: how they can go about just removing themselves from the bureaucracy. Now,
Speaker 2: let's check in with the DNC and see if they've
Speaker 2: moved on from their DEI race obsessions.
Speaker 18: Racism has not gone away since twenty people of Africa
Speaker 18: descent came upon these shores at Jamestown, Virginia in sixteen nineteen,
Speaker 18: and it's going to require us to think and behave
Speaker 18: in a new way. It is systemic, it is structural
Speaker 18: when it comes to addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and
Speaker 18: belonging Kosher.
Speaker 2: They just do not learn that seem to be in
Speaker 2: capable of moving away from their identity politics obsessions talking
Speaker 2: about systematic racism sixteen nineteen.
Speaker 3: Have they have? They just f ill to say.
Speaker 2: Where the American people are now that they don't want
Speaker 2: these racial division forced down their throat.
Speaker 12: That lot certainly seems to lack the political judgment that
Speaker 12: you just mentioned. They're out in the wilderness and they
Speaker 12: keep going back to sixteen nineteen and DEI and all
Speaker 12: these buzzwords that the other side is at rapid speed,
Speaker 12: completely dismantling. They didn't talk at all about immigration and inflation,
Speaker 12: where the majority of the public fifty to fifty five
Speaker 12: percent of the public wants there's actually a level of
Speaker 12: unification around these issues that didn't exist even five years ago.
Speaker 12: That is where they should be going and come up
Speaker 12: with maybe some policy substantive differences to things that are controversial,
Speaker 12: like tariffs or something else that would have been better
Speaker 12: than singing the DEI song sheet. But it just seems
Speaker 12: to be such a potent strain in the party that
Speaker 12: for some reason, even if they know and there are
Speaker 12: talented people in the party, they just can't seem to
Speaker 12: excize it.
Speaker 3: Now, let's have a bit of fun.
Speaker 2: I did a whole bit about the grammysy lefties, losing
Speaker 2: it during chat from the Grammys, appears to be around
Speaker 2: Beyonce's country music when that's caused a bit of a funeral,
Speaker 2: as well as Carnee West and his Australian wife Biancas
Speaker 2: and sorry, what do you make of that display? There
Speaker 2: is so much chatter about whether she's being victimized, is
Speaker 2: she being used and projectified by Carnie West. People are
Speaker 2: saying she needs to be committed, because no sane person
Speaker 2: would be humiliating themselves on a regular basis like this.
Speaker 2: She certainly doesn't seem to be happy about whatever is happening.
Speaker 2: What's your take on this, because when you talk about
Speaker 2: the culture, this is an issue that has really gained
Speaker 2: traction this week.
Speaker 12: It's hard to know, and you're right, she did look
Speaker 12: rather uncomfortable on that. So it's a spectrum of possibilities
Speaker 12: because who knows what happened behind the scenes. There is
Speaker 12: it that there's some sort of paradynamic in that relationship
Speaker 12: and she was in some where pressure or call into
Speaker 12: doing a publicity stunt. Did it maybe come from her
Speaker 12: own volition? Did she do it in that way? Because
Speaker 12: you know that you're going to generate headlines around the world,
Speaker 12: we're talking about it right now, and that mantra and
Speaker 12: know such things about publicity. Is it a sign of
Speaker 12: this shock and awe that you just want to do
Speaker 12: something to really start some kind of conversation. Who knows
Speaker 12: where it stands on that, but it is a degeneracy
Speaker 12: and just a sign of the culture not being where.
Speaker 1: It needs to be.
Speaker 2: I think the word there is degeneracy there is. This
Speaker 2: is supposed to be the Grammy is It's supposed to
Speaker 2: be a prestigious night where you celebrate the best in
Speaker 2: the music industry and you have full frontal nudity. So
Speaker 2: and you know, and it's kids who are really interested
Speaker 2: in the Grammys. I learned too many adults so just
Speaker 2: hanging on to see who wins the Album of the Year.
Speaker 2: But it's the young kids and they're the ones who
Speaker 2: are seeing that. So it really does question, you know,
Speaker 2: where is the culture at when it comes to Hollywood,
Speaker 2: the music industry, the celebrity class. Now let's move back
Speaker 2: back to politics. Joe Biden may be making a move
Speaker 2: to Hollywood, signing on with a new agent. New York
Speaker 2: Post is reporting that Biden has made his first known
Speaker 2: move to monetize his post presidency, He's going to be
Speaker 2: represented by Creative Artists Agency, quite a big player, and
Speaker 2: the Talent agency comes As insiders speculate on how the
Speaker 2: Biden family is now going to be making money. We
Speaker 2: know they reaped millions of dollars from foreign deals and
Speaker 2: some dubious Ivy League arrangements. This is an interesting signing.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine what he would want to be. Is
Speaker 2: he going to do with some sort of a project
Speaker 2: with Netflix? Is he going to be an artist?
Speaker 3: Why would he sign with him?
Speaker 12: And Hunter Biden has some experience in that realm.
Speaker 3: As we know.
Speaker 12: It is odd because on the face of it, it's
Speaker 12: so absurd, and we all can see that sort of
Speaker 12: have to go along with it because it's It is
Speaker 12: an admission of how the presidency in the day and
Speaker 12: age that we live in is monetized. It's a commercial
Speaker 12: asset and it did not used to be this way.
Speaker 3: But all presidents of Babamas were the masters, were.
Speaker 12: The masters of it, and they all monetize it through
Speaker 12: speeching speeches and writing gigs and books and those kinds
Speaker 12: of things. The Obamas went further into the entertainment world
Speaker 12: with a massive Netflix deal and they've done like two
Speaker 12: dozen films, but they do have charisma, they do have
Speaker 12: a following the Obamas. You could, even if you know
Speaker 12: that there's influence that's being bought and sold here, you
Speaker 12: can on the face of it see why they are
Speaker 12: a talent that CAAA would want to represent. With Biden,
Speaker 12: just his age, not glamorous, not charismatic. It's just hard
Speaker 12: to see.
Speaker 2: Him not coherent and them's not cognitively sound. That's the
Speaker 2: biggest housi or who.
Speaker 3: Is going to be representing.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so it's clear that it's so obvious that it's
Speaker 12: not about the content he's going to be putting out,
Speaker 12: but it's about the influence that he still has, and
Speaker 12: that's what they're going to be.
Speaker 3: Is still the product.
Speaker 2: We said all along where we came to hunt Biden
Speaker 2: and his dubious business dealings, that Biden was the product
Speaker 2: and still seems to be the product. Now we've seen
Speaker 2: a pause on the tariffs that are to be imposed
Speaker 2: on Canada and Mexico. Kosher tell me about what happened.
Speaker 2: There was this just a tactic for Donald Trump to
Speaker 2: get what he wanted. He threshns tariffs, announces them, and
Speaker 2: then these leaders do what he's asked them to do
Speaker 2: in hours, within hours. We've seen this now several times.
Speaker 2: And how long can he use this strategy, because surely
Speaker 2: they're smart enough to eventually work out what's happening here.
Speaker 12: So I think it's two things. On one level, it
Speaker 12: is just a tactic where he threatens them within hours
Speaker 12: they capitulate. It's usually relating to take back your illegals,
Speaker 12: pay for their plane flights, fortify the border, things like that,
Speaker 12: and then he'll put a thirty day poles to make
Speaker 12: sure that they actually follow through with what they've promised,
Speaker 12: and if not, he'll threaten it again. But I also
Speaker 12: think that underneath that he looks at it as an
Speaker 12: economic policy, like a genuine one. Because the US big
Speaker 12: picture is about four percent of the world's population, about
Speaker 12: twenty five percent of consumption. It's the most desirable consumer
Speaker 12: market in the world. Yeah, so that is a really
Speaker 12: big asset that he believes even if it leads to
Speaker 12: price increases for Americans in the short run, it just
Speaker 12: rebalances trade in a good way. And I think he
Speaker 12: really believes that. And with some countries like China and others,
Speaker 12: he might push it on its own merits, whereas with
Speaker 12: these countries it might be just a tactic to get
Speaker 12: them to and it's not always.
Speaker 2: The threash of tariffs has also sent some diplomats down
Speaker 2: to Venezuela and has got agreement from that country to
Speaker 2: take back their violent criminals, including gang members. Another big
Speaker 2: win for Donald Trump this way, Koshergita, thanks for your time.
Speaker 2: Stale to come Vogue Magazine's latest attacks against Milania Trump
Speaker 2: backfire Link Lawn is up next. Welcome joining me now
Speaker 2: is commentator and former senior advisor on RFK Junior's twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four presidential campaign. Link Lauren Link, Welcome back to
Speaker 2: the program. Let's talk about Milania Trump and Vogue. Voguers
Speaker 2: come under intense scrutiny over what's been called a hit
Speaker 2: job on First Lady Milania Trump's official White House portrait.
Speaker 2: I thought the image, let's have a look at it
Speaker 2: was beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's so strong and fierce.
Speaker 2: Tell me how Vogue responded to what was widely seen
Speaker 2: as a stunning official portrait.
Speaker 15: Well, it's great to be with you, Rita. This just
Speaker 15: speaks to the culture in our country where these single,
Speaker 15: miserable women who work at Vogue and get all their
Speaker 15: news from MSNBC. They can mock and dinner greate conservative
Speaker 15: women all day long with no recourse. In fact, they
Speaker 15: get elevated and praise. The Fact that Milania Trump has
Speaker 15: never been on the cover of Vogue as a first
Speaker 15: lady is absolutely embarrassing for the magazine. They've had Kim
Speaker 15: Kardashian on the cover ten times, Michelle Obama three times.
Speaker 15: Jill Biden, of all people, has been on the cover
Speaker 15: of Vogue three times herself. And she walks around and
Speaker 15: blackfish nets, a leather skirt, her hair's a mess, high heels.
Speaker 15: She looks like a geriatric hooker. Let's call it like
Speaker 15: we see it. The fact that the Lania Trump has
Speaker 15: not been on the cover of Vogue is egypt.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, just tell us what you really think
Speaker 2: link my goodness.
Speaker 3: Well, I do wonder whether they're just hurting the road.
Speaker 3: I wonder if they are hurting.
Speaker 2: The road credibility as a fashion magazine by trying to
Speaker 2: tear her down, because whether you love or a hater,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't doubt.
Speaker 3: That she's a beautiful woman.
Speaker 2: She's got a distinct sense of style, she has a
Speaker 2: fashion icon, So why would Vogue go down this road,
Speaker 2: Like how much hate do they have in their hearts
Speaker 2: to be making them so look foolish by attacking Milania's
Speaker 2: fashion sense.
Speaker 15: Milania Trump, she's stunnying. She's an international supermodel, she's self made,
Speaker 15: she's an immigrant. If she had a D next to
Speaker 15: her name, if Milania Trump were a Democrat, she would
Speaker 15: have been on the cover of Vogue ten times already.
Speaker 15: Usha vans the fact that they're making fun of her.
Speaker 15: She's an Indian American, she's self made, she's an attorney,
Speaker 15: she's brilliant. But because she's a Republican as well, they're
Speaker 15: going to Mark and dinner greet her. And that's what's
Speaker 15: happening in the culture in our country.
Speaker 2: Now, you mentioned that the other former First ladies, no
Speaker 2: matter what they look like or what their fashion sense
Speaker 2: is like, have been on the cover of Vogue. We're
Speaker 2: seeing Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden. I do wonder
Speaker 2: whether there's going to be any relenting because we have
Speaker 2: seen some relenting from major fashion labels who a few
Speaker 2: years ago were refusing to dress anyone within the Trump camp. Now, ah,
Speaker 2: they see that there's real value in having their brand
Speaker 2: associated with someone like a Milania Trump or an Usha Vance.
Speaker 3: Do you see that changing?
Speaker 2: Do you see some big brands coming forward and saying
Speaker 2: we want to dress the first lady or the second lady.
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 15: I mean these magazines and publications they can either evolve
Speaker 15: and understand that Donald Trump he won this election and
Speaker 15: a landslide. This was a decisive mandate, he won the
Speaker 15: popular vote. If they don't start reaching across the aisle
Speaker 15: and highlighting conservative women or conservatives in general, they will
Speaker 15: continue to fade into irrelevance and obscurity. And even just
Speaker 15: from a capitalistic standpoint, wouldn't you want to put Malania
Speaker 15: Trump or Ivanka Trump or Usha Vance on the cover
Speaker 15: of Vogue to reach these conservative women. But I'm happy
Speaker 15: to see other independent publications popping up who do give
Speaker 15: a fair shape to conservative women. And Anna wintor Vogue,
Speaker 15: good luck to them. I'm not sure they'll even be
Speaker 15: around in five years.
Speaker 2: Usha Vance is also a very interesting character.
Speaker 3: You mentioned her.
Speaker 2: She's a very accomplished woman, a very stylish, beautiful woman.
Speaker 2: So we've now got two really quite stunning women in
Speaker 2: the White House who are going to be I think
Speaker 2: fashion icons in their own right. Before you go, I've
Speaker 2: got to ask you about the growing fascination affection for
Speaker 2: Baron Trump Millennia and Donald Trump's son. His popularity has
Speaker 2: absolutely skyrocketed.
Speaker 3: We've heard about the role he played.
Speaker 2: In the campaign, the advice he gave his father about
Speaker 2: who to talk to, how to reach younger voters.
Speaker 3: There's talk of a dinsty emerging. Blink.
Speaker 15: Absolutely. I think Baron Trump, Kai Trump and these other
Speaker 15: younger Trumps really are the next generation in the future
Speaker 15: of the Republican Party if they want to be involved
Speaker 15: in politics at all. Of course, it's a blood sport,
Speaker 15: it's a contact sport. They might have their interests. But
Speaker 15: Baron Trump, I think he's still young, he's still finding himself.
Speaker 15: I went to NYU as well, just like Baron Trump,
Speaker 15: and if he can be so confident in such a liberal,
Speaker 15: woke environment, I think he's going to have a great
Speaker 15: life and career ahead of him.
Speaker 2: Well, he was the breakout star of the inaugration festivities,
Speaker 2: so I we'll watch to see what happens there. Leglauren,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time this evening, and
Speaker 2: that's it from me. Tonight up next is Newsnight I'll
Speaker 2: see you at eleven tomorrow.