WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 20 March 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:06.920 On scoring leaves Austrodia. This is the Wader Panalty Show. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.480 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panety Show coming 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.800 up tonight, which Australian University is forcing students to take 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.919 part in a privileged walk. Nick Kator will be here 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.759 to discuss Presidents Trump and Zelenski had an hour long 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.079 conversation earlier today, with the Ukrainian leader full of praise 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:26.960 PUS President and saying a. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:28.920 Bee still is close. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.440 Batiya Ula Sargon has the details, and the fierce and 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.920 fabulous Sarah Gonzales has the latest medium meltdowns from the US, 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.080 and later in the hour, Kinseysko Field will tell us 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.400 which famous actor has been pressured to run politics. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:46.839 Left is losing it. We never forget that. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.960 Tonight it stars John Stewart, and you know the Democrats 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.360 are struggling when even the lefty comics are mocking them. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:54.520 You're a twenty five. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.280 You've got to get Trump to lose eight points of 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.960 popularity just for you to get to the point where 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.400 you're thirteen points below him. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:10.360 But first, the Victorian labor government's war against property investors 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:15.000 has intensified further with another tax hike for Mum and 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.679 Dad investors landlords will pay a higher rate under Labour's 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.039 new tax to fund Victoria's emergency services. Treasure a Jascelent 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.320 Simes has defended the tax increase by saying that landlords 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:28.520 can afford it. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.560 It is not unusual for higher rates to apply to 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:37.560 investment properties rather than principal places of residencies, recognizing generally 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.679 high capacity to pay. There is less impost on the 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.959 lower level homes and more on those that can afford 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.200 to pay more, such as commercial properties and investment properties. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.680 Yeah, they can afford to cover these extra taxes, these 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.360 tax hikes by charging more edd Does you understand that? 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.240 And let's not forget Victorian property investors are already selling 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.680 out in huge numbers because of big increases in land 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.280 tax rates, meaning the pull of rental properties is shrinking further, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.360 forcing rents higher. But they can afford it. According to 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.240 the treasure that would be the same treasurer who is 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.520 so inept, so out of her death that her staff 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.840 were told to stop using economic terms and phrases in 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.160 all their communications with the treasure as he doesn't have 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.360 a clue what you're talking about. Fantastic joining me now 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.079 for more on this, a senior fellow at the Mensis 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.200 Research Center, Nick Kaita. Nick, it's one thing not to 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.440 understand the economic terms the jargon, but it's far worse 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.160 that the Treasurer appears to be completely ignorant of basic 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.680 economic concepts. And this war on property investors, it's not 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.480 one that's going to end well for the state. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.120 No, I mean because the consequences of course that rents 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.280 go up. You know, landlord's only got one way to 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.239 pass on that additional cost, and that's by putting rents up. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.240 But it is deeply ideological, isn't it. In the Labor 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.360 Party they just hate the landlord class. I think that 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.760 was what Chairman Mao used to call it, the landlord 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.160 class because they think they're rich, but in actual fact 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.840 that's not true in Australia when it comes to the 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.680 private sector property market. You know, these are mum and 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.280 dad investors. These are people that just put a nest 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.760 egg aside for their retirement by investing in a property 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.040 and they don't have a lot of money. They've got 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.840 an asset there, but they can't realize the asset. This 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.640 really does hit a lot of people hard when they 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.680 introduce this kind of vicious tax. And you've seen, haven't 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.520 you in Victoria that a lot of these people are 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.160 getting out of the property market. It's just not worth 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.720 it anymore, and so that's pushing prices down. And I 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.640 don't think there's any great flow through to increasing the 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.560 amount of people who own their own homes. Quite the opposite. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.440 Now, let's check in with Labour's social media camp as 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:13.400 Federal Labor. This next ad is apparently about the Medicare policy, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:19.960 and this is their attempt at criticizing Peter Dutton's nuclear policy. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.600 Breaking news, after escaping a train heading to an infamous 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.599 Norway prison for the murder of John Pork, Tim Cheese 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.520 has been spotted in Australia working on Peter Dutton's risky 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.720 and expensive nuclear scheme. In a letter confiscated from Mama Cheese, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.400 Tim Cheese states Peter Dutton's plan will cost taxpayers six 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:39.719 hundred billion dollars. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.279 Look, I'm I'm lost for words. I'm not exactly sure 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.480 what's happening there. But these are official Labor Party ads, Nick. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.960 These aren't just things you know, random people on the 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.160 internet are put together. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:53.560 What's going on? 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.120 Well, I don't think it's by demographic they're aiming for reader. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.279 So you know, a lot of this stuff passes me 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.600 by and so forth, But I honestly don't get it 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.520 unless there's a reference there I'm missing. These are just crass, stupid, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.440 indeed sexist. I suppose you know, I didn't think we 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.240 were supposed to be objectifying women's bodies in the way 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.159 they seem to want to do there. It is mystifying, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.400 And maybe it's just too clever for you and me. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.599 Maybe it's actually got its target audience. It's hitting it 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.440 right in the middle, but no for me. They've got 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.359 to do a bit better than this, haven't they. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:28.760 Well you would hope so. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.000 But at least they're keeping it interesting and you never 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.480 know what they're coming up with next. I'm not suggesting 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:39.120 there's any substances involved, but that industry sometimes, you know, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.560 they do partake in illicit substances and come up with 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.760 some very creative concepts as a result. Now we've had 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.800 an update on the leftist ideology being forced on law 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.560 students at mcquarie University. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.200 Not only are they. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.880 Required to give what they is called a satisfactory acknowledgment 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.120 of country that has to be very respectful and if 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.440 they don't, they're under the threat of being failed on 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:05.799 a key part of their exam. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.559 But they're also being told they have to take part 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.239 in a privileged walk. 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.840 This is to explore how privileged or oppressed they may be. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:19.240 And Nick, look at this academics message, just casually talking 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.800 about acknowledging your positionality as a student of law on 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:29.160 this unseeded land. What is going on at mcquarie University. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.520 I think it was only last week we're talking about 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.080 how they were referring to every person in this country 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.640 who is not Indigenous as a settler or a visitor. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.919 Yeah, this is a new made up word, isn't it. Positionality? 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.200 We have to acknowledge our positionality. So I will acknowledge 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.120 my positionality as a conservative bloke who thinks all this 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.560 stuff is just ridiculous. But it's worse than that. It's oppressive, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.520 isn't it. This is a sort of thing you'd expect 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.479 out of, you know, a store, out of communist Stalin's 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.080 communist Russia, you know, forcing people to confess and forcing 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.120 people to make these statements and not just make them, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.360 but show they really believe them. No room for sort 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.920 of sarcasm here. You actually have to show how much 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:19.280 you believe this stuff. It is authoritarian and it's frightening. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.120 I think the only good thing we can say is that, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.040 certainly outside the university's this sort of nonsense is slowly 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:31.000 being revealed as nonsense and is disappearing DEI, but I 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.200 suspect he's going to hang around in places like the 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.080 Lord Department of Macquarie University considerably longer than it will 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:38.400 in the community as a whole. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.240 Yes, Nigga seems academia is doubling down on this craziness, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.600 just as the rest of the country has said we've 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.960 had enough, particularly post referendum, so expect to see more 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.680 of it because it all started in academia and they're 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.440 not backing away now. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:55.720 A little bit of a different story. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:00.520 Melbourne Beauty Clinics City Slim and Laser Clinic is suing 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.640 a Dina Logo, a client of THEIRS, for defamation after 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.680 she left a critical one star Google review earlier. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:08.720 In the year. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.320 The clinic is seeking an apology, They want the post 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.200 down and they want two hundred dollars from the customer 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.520 for writing the negative review. A lot of people write 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.360 reviews for everything they do, whether they're getting a coffee 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.600 from the local cafe or a service. Should you be 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.240 open to defamation proceedings for leaving a one star review? 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.320 There's no point in having a review system if you 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.200 can't say what you think. And I think a one 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.840 star is a fair review. Just take it on the chin, 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.120 and they're welcome to turn around and give this logo 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.720 a one star review as a customer if they want. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:47.760 This is how it should be. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.840 Nicata, thank you for your time tonight. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.520 Now, former First Lady Michelle Obame is often spoken about 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:59.319 as a future presidential candidate. The Democrats are so desperate 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.920 for any par figure to take over the party. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.599 But how popular is she? 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:10.079 Michelle Obama's launched a new advice podcast, I'MO Too Much Fanfare. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.559 It's a podcast co hosted with her brother Craig Robinson. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.880 You know, speaking at leadership conferences, things you do as 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:25.720 a coach, you realize that what we have, even in 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:30.480 our lack of resources, you know, in our household growing up. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:32.640 Just scintillating stuff, folks. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.400 And the audience numbers, I've got to say are not great. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.520 The latest edition on YouTube features Hollywood star Seth Rogan. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.600 But it's just got six and a half thousand views 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.120 in thirteen hours, not even that six four hundred. Now, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.240 I don't want to brag about my Lefty's video, but 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.240 the one from just last night's program is already sitting 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.880 on eight hundred and ninety four thousand in sixteen hours, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.440 well over a million by now. But then again, left 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.520 He's losing it is pretty awesome. Joining me now is 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.160 journalist and author Batia Unga Saga and Vitia. What did 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.080 you make of Michelle Obama's latest project? 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.280 Is it relatable? Is it likable? Useful? 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:16.440 So? 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.240 I wrote a column about it for Unheard, and then 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.840 somebody wrote to me in the comments, Oh, you're the 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.640 person who listened to the podcast. You're absolutely right that 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.560 it does not seem to have found an audience. And 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.920 the reason for that is because the same thing that 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:38.440 ails the Democratic Party in general ails this podcast. It's 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:44.079 for and by rich women. And it's so amazing that 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.320 this has not seeped in. That the Democrats have such 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.320 a problem with men and such a problem with the 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.559 working class, and yet Michelle Obama's podcast, her guests are 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:59.800 all other unbelievably wealthy people. Like her, And I mean, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.319 we just don't have the problems that the average American 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.640 needs advice on because these people are all gazillionaires. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.959 And what's amazing. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.360 And really offensive about this to me, Rita, is that 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.439 Michelle Obama grew up working class. She grew up in 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.400 a black working class household. And we know that black 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:25.679 Americans struggle to make it into the middle class. Even 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.679 black men who were born wealthy more often than not 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.120 find their way into the lower classes and end up poor. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.400 This is absolutely devastating. And Michelle Obama and her brother 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.520 Craig Robinson have the answers to how to solve this problem. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.760 They grew up working class and they are both millionaires. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.200 And yet Rita, they are gatekeeping the secrets that so 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.400 many Americans are desperate to hear, and instead they sit 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.840 around with their wealthy friends and talk about things like 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.200 when to end a friendship. And I find that a 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:02.040 little bit offensive. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:05.599 Absolutely. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:11.119 And the Democrats have become, as a one very astute 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.199 judge said, a party for weak men and miserable women. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.360 And it does seem to be what's ruining the party 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.559 right now and making it unelectable. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.880 And when it comes to Michelle Obama. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.880 Do you see her as a future politician, perhaps even 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.720 a presidential candidate. She's always spoken about in those terms, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.600 her popularity, her appeal to female voters. But I wonder 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.520 whether all of that is wildly overstated. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.679 I think it is. First of all, reportedly she hates politics, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.839 and so I would be very surprised if she found 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.240 her way into politics on a personal level. But also Rita, 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:58.480 she seems very consumed by grievance culture. Her speech at 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:03.120 the DNC this year was really shocking. I mean it 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.000 was about the you know, the myth of the persistence 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.439 of racism and how hard it is to be a 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.080 person of color in America. She's worth seventy million dollars. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.120 I mean, she's sort of the proof positive that this 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.320 is sort of nonsense, and I feel that that is 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.880 very out of touch with where most Americans are at. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.280 And I'm not just talking about white Americans. I think 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.320 Black Americans are sort of sick of this message as well, 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.319 which is why you saw a lot of movement towards 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.960 the GOP. Twenty five percent of black men voted for 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.440 Donald Trump, and his approval ratings right now with black 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.600 Americans are very very high. So I think she's quite 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.200 out of step with where the nation is, although the 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.160 Democratic Party again does not seem to have realized that now. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.560 But Tia, you were on Bill Maher's program and your 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.960 clips went viral very quickly, millions and millions of views, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.080 and I've got to say you managed to make Bill 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.520 look a little bit silly on his own program. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.120 We're approaching two months in. I mean, you must have 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.640 a feeling in your gut, look, Linnie, and tell me 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.800 you don't that this is really going badly and I 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.120 shouldn't have thrown my lot in with this team. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.720 Oh no, I feel the opposite, all. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.319 Right, tell me. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.800 Why I'm so sorry? 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:20.040 Bill? 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:21.880 No, No, tell me why. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.280 No I feel so proud of I mean, I was 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.320 never a Republican or a conservative. I was a leftist 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.440 and I am still a leftist. I'm just a maga 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:30.960 leftist now, because. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:31.680 That makes no sense. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.360 But tell me how you are, why you're so happy 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.600 with half things are going, and explain to my audience 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.160 what is a megaleftist. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.360 I'm happy because I feel like Donald Trump wakes up 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.760 every morning and thinks, how can I make America better? 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.600 How can I keep a campaign promise that I made. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.760 How can I do exactly what I promised my supporters 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.000 I was going to do. We've never ever ever seen 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.600 efficiency like this. We've never ever ever seen a president 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.760 who truly wants to deliver exactly what he promised to 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:14.160 his supporters and to the country overall. Trump throughout the 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.440 campaign was saying, our success will be our retribution, and 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.280 that's that's what we're experiencing right now. This is everything 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.120 I hoped for and more, and I could not have 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.440 believed that he would be so successful. So, you know, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.640 there was so much that I wanted to answer, Bill. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.800 I knew that I only had a few minutes. A 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.520 MAGA lefty is somebody who has realized that the MAGA 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.760 tent is big and that this president wants to represent 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.080 all Americans at a more fundamental level. Donald Trump is 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:49.120 anti war, he's pro worker, he believes in a protectionist economy, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.280 and he's a social moderate. This was the left's agenda 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.040 for one hundred years, and so I don't see why 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.360 I shouldn't get to still call myself a lefty just 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.600 because Donald Trump lifted the the best parts of the Democrats' 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.000 agenda out from under them. They abandoned labor and he 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.640 decided to represent labor. They embraced war, and he decided 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.280 to steal their anti war platform. They went totally cookie 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.720 crazy on the lefty stuff, and he said, well, you 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.960 know what looks like the moderate metal is just there 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.480 for the taking. I'm going to take it. That's where 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.240 I'm at and I feel very represented and very happy. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.800 And if more people just looked at the policies and 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:33.520 the policy outcomes, the objectives of those policies, they would 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:38.000 also identify as you do. But so many are transfixed 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.080 by Trump and hating Trump that they don't actually look 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.120 at what the agenda is. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.320 And you're right, he has taken a. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.200 Lot of what were traditionally left as policies and that 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.040 is part of making America great again. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.320 All about America first. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:56.160 It's all about protecting American workers, starting up American manufacturing again, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.840 reinvigorating that. And it's got to say had divorced from reality? 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.080 Are these lefties, even sensible ones like Bill Maher, who 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.439 think Trump voters are somehow upset by what they're seeing 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.560 and the polls are showing something entirely different to that, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:16.359 And even the polls that are traditionally favoring the Democrats 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.240 are showing their approval rating under thirty percent Patia. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:21.320 I mean, this is just. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.800 Dire straights for the Democrats to have an approval rating 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.120 in the twenties, How are they going to come back 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:29.439 from that? 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.719 It's truly amazing if you think of this split screen. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.479 On the one end, you have a president who is 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:42.280 representing the working class, elevating every hard working American. He's 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.560 getting us out of wars and bringing peace, and he's 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:50.480 bringing common sense, moderate social policy back to the table. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.240 And what are the Democrats represent? Well, they represent keeping 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.840 trend agua here in America. They represent opposition to deporting 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:04.520 rapists or citizens. They represent opposition to deporting Hamas supporters 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:09.920 who are not citizens. They represent supporting trans men, trans 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.280 women in women's locker rooms and women's sports. And they 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.919 represent protecting the fraud and abuse of our government. So 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.640 you know, of course their brand is in the toilet. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.399 Trump took everything that was good about them and instead 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.840 of saying, oh wow, a president who's actually going to 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.960 do leftist things, they decided to embrace everything that is 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:34.600 just insane and crazy. And they here's the thing, Rida, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:38.920 They turned on their own values and their own voters, 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.959 rather than admit that Donald Trump had a point and 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.960 this is truly unforgivable. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:50.520 Stuff, absolutely, and they're being punished for it. Now, let's 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.879 speak quickly about the Russian Ukraine. Well, earlier today, Presidents 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.800 Trump and Zelensky had an al long phone call, and 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:03.760 afterwards Zelensky said he thinks lasting pace is achievable this year, 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.560 and he was full of price full President Donald Trump. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.080 What a difference a couple of wakes Mike's batilla. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.879 Tell me about how that is being perceived in the US. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.120 I think people feel relieved. You know, President Trump had 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.359 to speak harshly to Zelenski when he was in the 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.000 Oval office. Most Americans approved of what they saw there. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.560 We want this war to end. We're finished, you know, 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.600 supporting foreign wars that have nothing to do with us. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.159 We hate the bloodshed, and I think a lot of 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:43.760 us feel that we hate that our support was a 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.280 big function of prolonging this bloodshed. I think President Trump 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.000 feels that this is a proxy war in which the 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.480 two superpowers do not want to be at war anymore, 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.480 and he's desperate to bring this to a close. And 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.760 I think he's doing a really good job. He has 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.480 figured out how to play Putin and he's figured out 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.960 how to move Zelenski, and so I think that, hopefully, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.399 please God, we will see movement very very soon. 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:12.960 I think he is very. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:18.240 Good at manipulating both Putin and our European allies. I think, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.160 you know, we've seen European allies coming into the Oval 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.960 Office and being very deferential, and as an American, you 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.000 just love to see it. So I'm really hopeful that 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.200 with God's help, we'll see it and ender this very soon. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.240 And it's been very good in getting the Europeans to 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.200 spend more on their own defense and to start doing 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.600 some of the heavy lifting, which has been another objective. 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.280 Before you go, I want to play you just a 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.400 small part of a speech JD. 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:47.200 Evans Gabe. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:52.200 He gave a masterclass on the failures of globalization and 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.960 how in the end it hurts advanced economies. 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.520 There were two conceits that our leadership class had when 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.960 it came to globalization. The first is assuming that we 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.919 can separate the making of things from the design of things. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.880 The idea of globalization was that rich countries would move 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.080 further up the value chain, while the poor countries made 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.240 the simpler things. Whether we were offshoring factories to cheap 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:21.320 labor economies or importing cheap labor through our immigration system, 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.840 cheap labor became the drug of Western economies. And I'd 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.600 say that if you look in nearly every country from 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.760 Canada to the UK that imported large amounts of cheap labor, 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.400 you've seen productivity stagnate and. 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:38.480 The failures of globalization are so much behind the Trump phenomenon. 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:43.159 And that's again something people failed to understand that people 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.680 who worked in manufacturing jobs, used to make decent money, 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.840 used to be able to provide for their family, have 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.040 economic security, and we've seen that destroyed in so many 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.040 Western nations, and it's been deliberate. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:22:02.280 Matia absolutely gd speeches in credible, very much worth watching 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:08.680 in full. He really makes a compelling argument there that 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:13.120 the cost that we paid for shipping all of these 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:18.720 good jobs overseas and then importing a surf cast in 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.960 here to do the jobs that remained, working class jobs 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.159 that remained, that the cost to that was not just 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:29.200 the dispossession of the American working class, it was also 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.080 a cost in terms of innovation and in terms of 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:38.680 productivity in terms of what Americans would have innovated if 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.640 they were still doing these jobs. And that is truly, 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:45.919 truly criminal, the disinheritance of America's working class while the 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:50.840 elites got rich off of cheap labor. It is the 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.800 root of the Trump phenomenon for working class people. Immigration 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:57.160 and the economy are two sides of the same coin, 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.800 and this is something that's very hard for elites to understand. 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.680 And GD lead it up beautifully. 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.760 He really is quite exceptional. I've got to say I. 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.359 Was a bit surprised when Donald Trump selected him. But 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:12.800 if he's not the forty eighth president of the United States, 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:16.400 I'm gonna shave my head live on this show. Batiel 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:18.560 Ga Sagon, thank you so much for your time tonight. 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.080 Thank you so much for you to God plus still 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:22.560 to come. 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:26.840 Left is Losing It plus the latest media meltdowns from 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:27.520