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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
All the exports from the Mic Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk said,
be in a sillier package. I am van Heart today.
The Taronga election. That's right, Taroga. You had an election
you didn't know?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, yeah, that might be explained why you didn't vote
crowd strike. Had any of us heard of this before?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
We couldn't pay for our petrol on Friday night, but
before any of that. Yes, So, Joe Biden's presidential campaign
has come to an early end.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Literally just moments ago. Biden's pulled the trigger. This is
officially what he said under the headline of Joseph R.
Biden Junior. My fellow Americans, over the past three and
a half years, we have made great progress as anation.
Today America has the strongest economy in the world. We've
made historic investments in rebuilding our nation, in lowering prescription
drug costs for seniors. So he's campaigning till the end,
and in expanding affordable health care to a record number
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of Americans. We provide a critically needed care to a
million veterans exposed to toxic substances. Past the first gun
safety laws and thirty years appointed the first African American
woman to the Supreme Court, and past the most significant
climate legislation in the history of the world. America has
never been better positioned to lead than we are today.
I know none of this could have been done without you,
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the American people. Together we overcame a once in a
century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
We protected and preserved our democracy, and we've revitalized and
strengthened our alliances around the world. So politics over here
is the real But it has been the greatest honor
of my life to serve as your president. And while
it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe
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it isn't the best interest of my party in the
country for me to stand down and to focus solely
on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of
my term. I will speak to the nation. This is
the unfortunate part. I will speak to the nation later
this week in more detail about my decision. Because he's
got COVID and he's isolating in Delaware, of course, so
he's got to get back to Washington. So the country's
in a bayance until they wait for him to get
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clearance to get back to Washington. For now, let me
express my deepest gratitude to all those who've worked so
hard to see me re elected. I want to thank
Vice President Carmela Harris for being an extraordinary partner in
all this work. There's no endorsement there, And let me
express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the
faith and trust you've placed in me. I believe today
what I always have. There is nothing America can't do
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when we do it together. We have just to remember
we are the United States of America, and its signed
Joe Biden. Whether he personally signed it or not, I
wouldn't have a clue.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes, good question.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I guess a lot of people think that he's just
sort of a puppet that other people move around.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
These days, we re wrap.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But this guy used to write his speeches and he sees.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, no, no, no, that wouldn't happen.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Matthew Littman used to be a speech writer for Biden.
But the question was whether we wrote this thing himself
or not.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's all you know.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
There was a when I started with him, and this
is a long time ago, there was a group of
people around him when there was a big speech who
would have to read anything that I wrote. And he
would use sometimes one or two sentences of something that
somebody wrote for him. You know, you can't compete with
somebody who's been at this for that long, who's that smart,
who knows all these people around the world. It's a
difficult job. I lasted a long time, but he fires
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a lot of speech writers because he knows so much
more than them. It's all him when something like this
comes out.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
George Conway, kelly An's husband, Joe Biden's a patriot. He
has selflessly served as nation with distinction for half a century,
step forward to save it. In twenty twenty, we Americans
again owe him our deepest thanks and respect for putting
the country above all else. Once again, thank you, mister President.
The ironing of that marriage as Kelly and Conway hang
out with Trump, of course, and George was famously pro
Democrat Buddha Dige, Joe Biden has earned his place among
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the best and most consequential presidents in American history. So
proud to serve under his leadership and thankful for his
unwavering focus on what is best for our country. One
of the most consequential presidents in American history, He's barely
going to complete one term. You don't get to be
that consequential if you don't go eight or two terms.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think some people would think that one.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pretty consequential anyway, rewrap. This is unprecedented.
We've had an living memory a president not stand for
the nomination, but it didn't get quite as close as this.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That was Lyndon Johnson, of course, right.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Quite a bit of information to impart to you. Gavin
Newsome spoken, Chuck Schumer's spoken, while they've tweeted, and Whitmer
has tweeted as well. They all say essentially the same thing.
He's a cool guy. He's probably the greatest president in history,
and we thank him very much for his service to
the country. Whitmer's the most colorful. My job in this
election will remain the same, doing everything I can to
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well Democrats and stop Donald Trump, a convicted felon who's
a gender of raising families, cost spending abortion nationwide and
abusing the power of the White House to say to
his own schools is completely wrong for Michigan. So the
rest of them, we're just focusing mainly on Joe. Here's
how this thing unfolds. You would think the endorsement of
Harris means Harris will be the nominee, according to Frank Luntz,
who's probably the most famed pulse to going not so now.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I recognize that this is chaotic, that we've never had
this happen before, that there is no process right now.
But I can also tell you that I've spoken to
three potential Democratic candidates in varying degrees of making the
decision whether or not to challenge for this, and the
consensus is that the Democratic Party in general and Vice
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President Harris in particular, would get hurt with a coronation.
That it's better for her to earn it through debates,
through conversations, and through a convention than it is for
them to just bestow denomination on her.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
So not so easy. So typically what happens at the convention,
which is in Chicago in a couple of weeks, they
choose the winner of the primaries. The winner of the
primaries is of course Biden. Biden's now gone. So once
that candidate's gone, all the delegates become what they call
free agents. There are two types of delegates, pledged delegates
and super delegates. The pledged delegates to commit to supporting
the candidate that the state voters choose. They can't do
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that now because the candidate the state voters choose is gone,
So there's a good conscience clause. They generally go with
what the party wants. Super delegates are a game and
to themselves, but they're made up of people like former presidents,
vice president's, Democratic governors, all that sort of stuff, so
they'll tot line. So you go to what they call
an open convention if there's no nominee. If there is
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a nominee, if Harris stitches this up and goes in
as nominee, basically they do the vote and that's the
end of that. If there's no nominee, it's an open convention.
So then you have a ballot. You either get a
majority or no majority. If you don't get a majority,
have a second ballot majority or no majority. Don't have
a majority, you go for subsequent ballots until basically it's
all over. So if they go into this with a
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number of people on the ticket, it could take a while.
Either way, it's a complete and utter shambles.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So yes, you might think, with that news breaking at
about three minutes to six, five minutes to six this morning,
that we through our entire show and that was the
only story that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We talked about. But no, no, no, no, no, that there
was other stuff going on, the rewrap.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Stuff like we had to obviously cover off this massive
election landslide wind for the guy who's famous for going backwards.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, the great diachotomy of local government, it's on display
right here right now. Seemingly no one wants to address it.
The turnout in Tweronger, what a joke, it was pathetic
thirty one percent. Latest example of us not giving a
monkey's is Toweronger no democracy because the last lot was
so hopeless they got replaced by commissioners. And yet when
the freedom to choose the real winner is complacency. And
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yet the biggest issue in our economy at the moment
and our battle with inflation, is what local councils. It
is also insurance, of course, but rates play an outsize role.
And why this non tradable inflation. We're grappling with a
stuck at five point four percent. Tradeable inflation is virtually
non existent. But still we aren't cutting interest rates. We
still aren't breathing life into the economy. We're still living
through recessionary type misery. Why because people like councils are
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handing out rate rises that have offered up by literally
anyone else. They would never see the light of day
because they would be out of business. So you see
the connection. They're out smartness. They know they can do
whatever they like. Ten twenty thirty percent in some cases,
in some areas you're talking about one hundred percent are doubling.
Now do we like it? No, we do not. We
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gnash our teeth and we moan and winging, complain, and
yet what they have worked out is that they've got
little of anything to fear because no one's going to
do anything about it. You want proof, look at Tower WRONGA.
I mean, look at any local body. Election turnouts less
than half, sometimes less than the third. We literally don't care.
It was almost tragic last week when once again the
Finance Minister asked, pleaded, really pleaded with councils to do
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their bit and contain their inflationary ways. Will they, of
course not. Why would they. They've got us by the
balls because we're lazy and complacent. Are the government has
done their bit on spending, We're doing our bit by
bleeding councils.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
They claim a million different reasons for their actions, and
to be fair, some of it. I've got a bit
of sympathy with under investment. Yes it's a real issue.
But what they've done is seized the moment. They've played
on our weakness. They've jumped on the inflationary bandwagon and
charged the Bejesus out of us, and because we're slack,
they win.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm going to say though, last time we checked on
Friday it was only it was twenty four percent, So
they went up seven percent in the space of just
a few hours.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's the rewrap, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
We're going to finish up here.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
With the big cyber mountdown Friday night Saturday morning and
bike is all over and he, I mean, nobody knows
more about this sort of stuff than he does.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Of course, just quickly on this crowd strike thing, the
warning of course of malicious actors. You know, a bit
of fishing, all that sort of stuff. Less than one
percentable windows based machines was affected. So this whole hysteria around,
you know, the whole world's crashed. And they then they
Y two K. So they said, Y two K, this
is Y two K, This is like Y two K.
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My memory of Y two K has nothing happened, so
therefore this can't be Y two K because something did
happen this time. So the thing about Y two K
was we thought something was going to happen, and we
whipped ourselves into this mental hysteria, and then of course
it came around there.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well well, And the other difference is that they said
it was going to happen. They gave us plenty of
warning that it was a happened if you had a machine. Opposite,
if you had a machine, yeah, it's almost the exact opposite.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
So one, the whole world didn't stop. Two it's nothing
like Y two K. And three most of the headline
writers wet their pants for no particular reason. Two thirds
of Saturday's canceled flights. By the way, we're in the US,
so it very much depended on where you were. But
even having said that, there were only three and a
half percent of planes canceled in all of America. Only
Australia was hit hard at cancel flights were running in
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about one percent in the UK, France and Brazil, two
percent in Canada, Italy and India. And of course, if
you're in a queue, you hated it. I get that,
But the world didn't come to.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
What's one I'm just not very good at maths, and
I know I always turned to you for these sorts
of equations.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
What's one percent of what one point four billion, one
hundred and forty million is ten one forty one point
four one percent? One point four I say one point
four million.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Or fourteen million, anyway, whatever that is about?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
How many yeah people yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
To how many computers would have been affected if it
was one percent.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Out of how many?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
One is one point four billion windows.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
The other I couldn't get excited about it. That That's
all I'm saying. But if you were affected, I.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Saw soz soz. But you're life to hear that from
my posting.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
If you got stuck at Brisbane Airport on Saturday, as
friends of mine did, supposed to be back here by now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I don't know if they've made it back here by
now anyway, SOZ I am Glen Hard. There was the rewrap.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
We'll be back with another one tomorrow, assuming the computers
working at forwards.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
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