WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 19 September 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.320 On Scolus Australia. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.080 This is the Reader Panalty Show. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.280 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panety Show. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.960 Coming up tonight, the Albernizi government's or Wellian disinformation legislation 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.840 is making news in the US. Douglas Murray will be 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.600 with me shortly to discuss that and much more. The 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.760 man behind the groundbreaking research into institutional anti Semitism at 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.319 the BBC will join me later in the hour, and 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.840 Nick Cator will explain why the Tials are lurching further 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.240 left and talking about the left. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.240 Tonight's edition of Lefties. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:46.200 Losing It features totally normal folk telling us why Conservatives 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:47.320 are so weird. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.160 What is something weird about Conservatives? 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.560 There is a almost a cull tesh vibe. I feel, 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:58.120 the way they operate within themselves. They refuse to listen 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.880 to outside people you know there, refusing to learn, essentially, 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.240 I think that is a large part of it. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.080 Now we hear plenty from the tills about Conservative male 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.720 MPs in the Australian Parliament needing to lift their standards 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:17.319 of behavior, but nothing about their ideological bedfellows. The Greens 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.400 are indeed former green Lydia Thorpe who this week decided 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.880 to interrupt Liberal Senator Alex Antick as he tried to 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.280 speak about divisive welcome to country ceremonies. 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.280 Have a look at this now. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.640 The idea that AFL fans and players are expected to 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.760 listen to these ceremonies when all they actually want to 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.959 do is watch the footy is extraordinary, and one suspects 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.640 that many viewers, who in principle wouldn't have had a 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.080 problem with these practices, are getting as fed. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.520 Up Antice senathorpt of order. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:52.800 No, I just want to interrupt his speech. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.280 Seriously, can we just you know too minutes? It's an 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:02.400 antic thank you. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:05.480 Oh dear. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:10.120 The speaker was fed up, but Lydia was not done yet. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.400 Woke community meetings, woke sports matches, wope council. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:18.400 Meeting, the antics and just visunior seat colleagues. We're only 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.760 asking to listen in peace and quiet for two minutes, 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.760 that's all. It's not a big ask. Can we just 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.640 do that one? The galleys full of people watching the 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:32.920 behavior here, it's quite childish. Order, Senator Antique, you have 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.160 the core again. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.640 I think we are making the point very clearly here. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.240 Now it's two hundred and fifty thousand years, and as 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.920 we've said before, I don't need to be welcome to 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.480 my own country in nough to you, what we witch 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.560 witnessed before the match last weekend was a product of 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.320 letting this ride for too long? Have you had enough? 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.320 I certainly have. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.600 Joining me now as senior fellow at the Menzies Research 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:01.560 Center and senior columnists with the Australian newspaper, Nick Kait Nick, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.680 what did you make of Senator Thorpe's performance? The speaker 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.880 was certainly frustrated. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.400 Yeah, look at what I love about Alexander as he 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.800 goes in there and says things will be perfectly uncontroversial 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.840 in probably ninety five percent of Australia, but of course 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.160 in the Senate Chamber, Oh. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.160 No, how dare you? 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.440 And because Lydia Thorpe put on the usual display, I 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.120 think that's what she's there for, is entertainment, by the way, 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.280 But of course Alexander's perfectly absolutely correct. You know, the 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.040 welcome to country thing is a relatively modern invention and 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.360 it's completely misused. It's used for virtue signaling on the 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.680 one hand, and it's also used to make money, as 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.320 you know, by aboriginal groups, Aboriginal corporations who charge handsomely 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.360 to anybody who's willing to pay for their services. So 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:58.800 I'm with Alex on this one. Definitely yes. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:03.040 And the interruptions they're saying, I'm just interrupting for the 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:04.320 sake of interrupting. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:05.520 At least come. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.960 Up with something. Go through the motions, pretend. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.760 Now, let's go to the wacky world of academia. And 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.479 after the Australian National University reversed its decision to expel 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.520 a student who had expressed support for her Mass, we 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.120 learned that this student be Trice Tucker, is now running 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.440 to be president of the a and u's student association. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.120 Let's just listen again to that infamous ABC interview where 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.640 she expressed unconditional support for a terrorist group. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.440 You've also got to send a meshies to Hamas to 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:42.760 release the hostages, don't you. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.560 Well, I actually say that Hamas deserve our unconditional support, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.600 not because I agree with their strategy. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.800 You can't condemn what her mass did in October. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.479 I will not condemn what Hamas did. We must be unconditional, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.520 but we must be critical also. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:02.440 Nick, how will Jewish students fear if she's elected president 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.080 of the student association. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:11.599 I think they feel distinctly uncomfortable. Really, it's a terrible thing. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.800 I mean, I remember read too. I don't want to 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.680 sound like the old bloke again, but I remember the 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.719 days when universities were for the best and brightest. But 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.599 when you listen to people like this, do you see 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.160 that they're now open to the dullest and dimmest. This 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.440 woman she can't even have read. Can I just read 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.920 you one of her little messages? She says, just want 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.000 to affirm that Palestinians, it's got a four in the 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.039 middle of it, for some reason, have the right to 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.520 resist by any means necessary, as recognized under internal law. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.600 What does she mean, Well, it's if she means international law. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.880 Is she sheal is genesting that the right to resist 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:52.520 by raping, pillaging and killing babies is preserved under international law? 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.760 I think not. It's just the absolute. I don't know 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.479 that the no nothing quality of these people, and I 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.720 don't know what they're doing at university. It would seem 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.640 to be a waste of time educating them. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.599 Well, yes, there's a few things I could say here, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:15.880 but I will refrain. Before you go the tills are well, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.040 they're going to the likes of socialists like AOC and 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.159 Bernie Sanders for advice. The Climate two hundred, the group 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.480 behind much of the TILLS campaign funding, is going to 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.480 host an event titled how to Win Lessons from Obama, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.440 Bernie and AOC, featuring a Democrat spin doctor who has 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:42.360 worked on the campaigns of America's most left leaning politicians 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:47.360 and helped push the disastrous Green New Deal. Next, Sure, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.320 the Tills just merge with the Greens. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.080 I think that would make a lot of sense. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.680 Well, they are right, they are the Gucci Greens. I 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.880 think we call them, don't we. They are the green 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.120 virtue signalers, people who they don't like to cool themselves 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.360 Green it's got a sort of you know, a sort 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.359 of wild tinted through it. But teal is much more 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.320 the sort of color that's at home within in places 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:18.240 like Wentworth in Sydney had about us tay that Australians 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.840 headline writers to task on this one, if I may reader, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.720 because they described this as a socialist intelligence unit, which 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.000 I would have thought it's a contradiction in terms. But anyway, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.840 perhaps they cannot keep that one. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.320 Oh yes, that is a good point. Nick Kita, thank 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:37.880 you so much for your time this evening. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:39.080 Joining me now. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.440 Is best selling author of groundbreaking works including the Strange 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.200 Death of Europe, The Madness of Crowds, and his latest 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.520 The War on the West. Douglas Murray, Let's start in 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.320 the US, and apparently Kamala Harris grew up as a 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.280 middle class kid, and that's going to solve inflation. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.120 When it comes to the economy. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.320 Do you believe Americans are better off than there were 0:07:58.320 --> 0:07:58.960 four years ago? 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.200 So I was raised as a middle class kid. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.000 When we talk about bringing down prices and making life 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.640 more affordable for people, one or two specific things you 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:11.440 have in mind for that. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.680 Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:16.200 class kid. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.560 And now her running mate Tim Walls is also going 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.440 with that answer when asked about inflation. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:24.000 Let's start with inflation. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.120 What do you tell people who wake up frankly each 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.480 morning wondering how am I going to get buy financially? 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.920 Yeah, I tell them, Gamo Harrison, I know something about it. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.920 It being a middle class vote, Douglas. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.040 Is this strategy going to work? The media seem to 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.120 love it. The glowing coverage has not stopped for the pair, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:44.119 but is the electorate going to buy it? 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.760 It's very inting. There are really only two reasons to 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:52.040 do this line. The first is that both Harrison Walls 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.960 feel about the American public don't know who they are, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.360 and that may be actually quite a good estimate of 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.880 where they stand. Tim Watz has only come across the 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.280 American public at largest radar in the last few weeks 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.880 since he has named the running mate. And it's true 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.040 that to a great extent, you know, people don't really 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.960 know Karla Harris, and so it seems to me fairly 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.000 obvious that their teams have said to them, you know, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.640 you've got to establish yourself with the electorate and let 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.320 them know who you are. It's quite interesting that the 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:31.560 first and second most important jobs on earth are being 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.280 competed for by people who feel that the public don't 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.800 know who they are. But let me just go on 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.000 the second reason. The second reason you would say that 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.840 is because you don't have a policy, because you have 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:49.839 absolutely no idea of how to bring down inflation and 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.800 to bring down the cost of living for average households 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.280 in America. I said this to you recently, Reta. It's 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.800 something that Kamala Harris has been particularly adept at throughout 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.520 her political career, which is that you ask her a 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.719 question about a big issue, and she tells you how 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.319 big the issue is, and you say, what are you 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.720 going to do about this very important thing? And she says, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.360 I'm going to explain to you why it's a very 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.400 important thing and why people like me think it is 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:22.280 a very important thing. Their fear about actually coming down 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:26.120 to any nitty gritty on policy is presumably because they 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.760 don't have any policy, or the policy they would like 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.040 to institute is one which they don't think the American 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:32.920 electorate would like, and so they're going to spring it 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.600 on them after the election when the electorate has graciously 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.640 agreed to vote them into office. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.520 And Harris has been telling us bidics is working. She's 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.080 been saying that for some time, so to now kind 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.200 of switch it around and she's going to be the 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.880 solution to the problems caused in part by Bidenomics. Yeah, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.400 it wouldn't be an easy, easy policy to sell. Now, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.560 we've also got at the moment, this vitriol, hyperbolic retric 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:06.440 against Donald Trump. It has not stopped even really slowed down, 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.880 despite two assassination attempts in as many months. Indeed, they're 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.680 blaming Donald Trump for the attempts on his life. We've 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.160 been playing clips of that all week on this show. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.760 It's curious given the left has long argued that words 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.800 can be violence, and they've sought to blame their ideological 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:31.560 opponents for acts of politically motivated violence, even protests or riots. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.360 Old enough to remember last month, Douglas, when the likes 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.959 of Alistair camp Will wanted you arrested for riots in Britain. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.120 Look, I mean, it's an amazing thing. This Every side 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.840 in politics can get overheated. It goes without saying everyone 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.440 particular election season lobbs the biggest attacks they've got on 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.240 their opponents, and this season is no different from any 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.600 other to that extent. But the thing that is interesting 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:04.680 and different is that we have now had two assassination attempts, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.760 not thwarted near the stage of assassination, but really serious plots, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:14.000 including a headshot to the president, and the Democrats and 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.080 the Democrat media don't seem to have thought to tone 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.800 it down a bit. That slightly amazes me, because I mean, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.120 when there is an attack on somebody of the political left, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.839 it should be axiomatic. It isn't always by any means, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.960 but it should be axiomatic that people on the right say, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.240 there's absolutely no justification for this. Now, look, some people 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.600 on the right don't do that, and they laugh about things, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.320 and they laugh things off and so on. But in 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.640 actual fact, I would like to think that if there 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.680 had been two attempts on the life of Kamala Harris 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.120 in the last few weeks, that you would not find 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.120 what right wing media there is in America saying well, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:54.800 she brought. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:55.520 It on herself. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.160 I mean, that's a quite amazing thing we've seen in 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.839 recent days in relation to Donald Trump, the left wing 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.240 media in America actually saying well, yeah, here's another assassination 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.240 attempt on him, but maybe he shouldn't use such hurty words. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.800 And I find that astonishing. I also find it astonishing 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.960 that people can't understand that if you keep saying that 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.400 somebody is hitler, it becomes pretty unviable to think that 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.400 when somebody tries to kill the person you said was hitler, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.880 that you have to say, well, I think he's hitler, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.880 but I don't think people should kill him. I mean, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.280 you know, as you say, readers since we live in 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.680 an era where people say that words have consequences, that 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.439 words can be violence and much more. How about just 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.880 sticking to the old idea that words are words and 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.520 violence is violence. But there is a very important crossover point, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.839 which is incitement. And incitement laws are really pretty clear 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.880 in the US. But if you start saying that your 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.840 political opponent is going to take away every one of 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:57.360 the rights of the electorate, that they're going to never 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:58.760 go out of office, that they're going to be a 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.520 dictator for life, that literally hitler and more. Then you 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.160 probably have to take some responsibility for that. And you 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.880 know this is a long way out from the election. Still, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.680 what will happen in the weeks to come? I dread 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:13.439 to think. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:16.319 Absolutely. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.800 You almost feel like another attempt on Donald Trump's life 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.280 is a matter of when, not if. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.080 And it's just a. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.080 Terrible state of affairs. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.840 I want to ask you about what's happening in Australia 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:34.480 the UK. This war on free speech is intensifying. We 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.480 have discussed the UK in the past, but here in 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:43.520 Australia the government is introducing orwellyan misinformation and disinformation legislation. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:44.480 You've written a. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.840 Piece for the New York Post on these proposed laws 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.600 that the Albanese government says is. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.600 All to us for our safety. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.720 It's for our own good, Douglas, Is that. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:56.400 How you see it? 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.520 Why didn't they just set up the Committee of Public 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.600 Safety like Robespiere and co. It's wonderful when they when 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.120 they couatured in this language. The idea what I wrote 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.960 was the idea that the Australian government, any more than 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.240 the British government or the American government, should be the 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:22.080 arbiter of what is true and what is false, is 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.400 absolutely ridiculous to my mind. And the important point is 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.560 it's not just that this particular Australian government can't do this, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.600 It's that no Australian government should do it. It's not 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:38.480 that this particular democrat or labor administration in America or 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.560 the UK shouldn't get into this train. It's that nobody 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.640 could do it. There is nobody in the land, no 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.760 committee of bureaucrats and apparatnics you could set up that 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.480 would be able to legitimately decide rita what you and 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.400 I should be able to read and know. And as 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.280 I mentioned in that piece, I summoned up the memory 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.520 of a real remember Dan Andrews. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.920 Oh, yes, right now, get. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.840 I know it haunts us all still remember in COVID 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:17.320 when Dan Andrews decided to claim that an Australian having 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:22.480 a pint outside in the street or anywhere else, if 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.520 they were going to drink their pint of beer, should 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.400 make sure that they keep their mask on and drink 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.240 their pint through their mask. Now that was only a 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.680 couple of years ago, and Dan Andrews obviously had his 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.320 own problem since then, perhaps brought about by trying to 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.080 drink all of his drinks through a mask. Who knows. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.400 But the interesting thing is that that passed for completely 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:51.800 acceptable disinformation and misinformation by a very serious high level 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:57.200 official in Australia. The idea that other officials will decide 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.480 what Australians should or should not be able to know 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.680 after people like Dan Andrews perverted the nature of their 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.800 office in that way, It's just laughable to me. We 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.639 don't have to have long memories anymore to remember a 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.320 recent occasion or set of occasions when people who thought 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.080 they knew better than us told us things that turned 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.640 out to be utter fibbs. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.399 Oh, Dan Andrews, The list with him is along the 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.400 Victoria form of Victorian premier. I remember when he scolded 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.760 Victorians for watching sunsets at the beach. Apparently that was 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:37.719 a danger to themselves and to their neighbors watching sunsets. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.920 This madness is also happening in America to a lesser extent. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:48.000 But I've got a constitution that protects free speech. But still, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.040 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that would outlaw 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:57.240 memes and obvious AI satire videos on elections. This band 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.399 was inspired by this amusing clip mock the Democrats. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.720 I had four years under the tutelage of the ultimate 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.359 deep State puppet, a wonderful mentor, Joe Biden. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.520 Joe taught me rule number one carefully. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.240 Hydra toll as mummies, I mean, really, Douglas, are Californians 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:19.520 so thick that they need to be protected from parody 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.240 videos and funny memes? 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.000 I was delighted to see that one meme online today 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.879 had Gavin Newsome dressed as a clown. I suppose Gavin 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.359 Newsom would be confused as to whether or not we 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.280 actually think he did appear on stage dressed as a clown. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.399 But I think I trust the voters of California and 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.520 America a bit more than that. It's pretty amazing, isn't it. 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.240 I mean, Gavin Newsom would have a particular a strong 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.640 impulse for trying to stop mocking memes and much more. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.399 That's because he's absolutely right for them. But once again 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.960 you get into this thing of I wonder who would 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:03.280 be just enough wise enough to decide what mockery was 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:08.200 and was not allowed. Maybe memes about Donald Trump would 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.600 be allowed in this system, Maybe memes about JD. Vance 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.320 would be allowed in this system. But I suspect they 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.720 would crack down double hard if the meme or the 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.440 joke or the satire was about Gavin news And that's 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.800 why you just can't give censorship tools to people like this. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.840 They would not be able to resist using them to 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.960 their own advantage. And so you know, there is definitely 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.080 a problem in the information age of false information being 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.399 passed around. But my solution to that is that we 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.800 the public have to be much wiser to that, and 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.480 my experiences that most young people coming up are actually 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.760 wiser to that. We have to get wiser to that 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.639 because the alternative is some set of bureaucrats in Australia 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.399 or America or somewhere else deciding what you and I 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.760 are allowed to laugh about and what we're allowed to 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.159 find funny. And I at any rate wouldn't want to 0:19:58.160 --> 0:19:59.600 live in such a system. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.600 No, and before you go, I have to get your 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:09.560 thoughts on Hesba's humiliation. It appears to be some of 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:15.240 Mossad's most creative work, and predictably it's been attacked by 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.359 many so called progressives in the West who are calling 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:23.200 the Pager plot and act of terrorism. 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:24.439 How do you see this? 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.160 I would have thought it was a very targeted attack 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:33.320 to try to minimize casualties amongst noncombatants. 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.040 Yeah, I mean, whoever did it? And we should add 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.160 I mean, it obviously looks like it was the Israelis, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.320 but I mean, Hezbla have quite a lot of enemies, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.800 not least in the region. They've managed to destroy Lebanon 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:48.360 since the nineteen eighties, once really thriving country that Lebanon. 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.760 The Lebanon has just suffered from this miseration and violence since, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.399 particularly since Hesbula has had the grip it now has. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:58.560 So they have a lot of enemies. But it looks 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.800 like it was probably is that did it, and the 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.040 people who claim this is terrorism, I mean, I would 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:05.879 just say, you know, the definition of terrorism is a 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:10.440 deliberate targeting of innocent civilians. This is exactly the opposite 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.440 of that. This is the deliberate targeting of hesbal A 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:19.200 terrorists in the most targeted, precise, and somewhat personal way imaginable. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:20.399 This. 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:21.000 You know, the. 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.720 People who the people who say that you know this 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.000 is indiscriminate, seem not to have noticed that if you 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.000 have a Hesbalar Paiger device or a hesbeal a walkie 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.359 talkie on you, the chances are you may well be 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.119 a member of HESBLA, and HESBLA is a designated terrorist 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.960 organization and therefore you're just not innocent. So I suppose 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:44.240 Hesbola will try to spin this with their useful idiots 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.919 in the West, and these people are useful idiots at 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.760 this point or just enemies of the West, because let's 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:51.960 be frank about it, if you're the sort of person 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.919 as the people sort of howling about this on social 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.040 media and on some of the newspapers in the last 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:58.760 couple of days have been doing, if you're one of 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.320 those people howling about this, you can guarantee. They're the 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:06.640 same people who are howling about any collateral injuries in 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:11.800 any targeted strike, for instance in Gaza or southern Lebanon 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.639 in the last year or in recent years. You can 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:17.280 be guaranteed of that. And now they claim you also 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.280 shouldn't do the most precise thing of all, which is 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:24.159 making the pager devices of hes Blar operatives explode. Just 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.760 these guys should just come out and say it, which 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.320 is they want Israel to be destroyed. They want HESBLA 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:33.400 and Hamaz to win. They're on the side of the jihadists. 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.760 Why don't these people have the guts to come out 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.680 and say it, because Israel can do nothing, nothing from 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.840 the including the most targeted operation, without these people saying 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.800 that Israel shouldn't have done it. These people who are 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.360 making these complaints in the last few days are people 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.280 who want Israel to lose. That's fine, that's their view. 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.840