Pietro and Floyd look at Clive Palmer’s new endeavour, the Trumpet of Patriots, and how it is actually a net negative for freedom, despite all of Clive’s Trump-imitating rhetoric. They discuss what this means for the upcoming Federal election, and how it could impact the far better choices, such as the Libertarian Party.

They also discuss Trump’s recent tariffs against the world, and Australia specifically. They look at Albanese’s response, as well as those of Dutton and Shorten. Most importantly they discuss what tariffs really are, and how they are another form of taxation of regular people in disguise.

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Pietro is joined for the first episode of 2025 by Joe McCracken, Liberal Party of Victoria Member of the Legislative Council, and centrally privy to all the latest drama of the Victorian Liberal leadership spill where Brad Battin has replaced John Pesutto.

Joe goes into many of the details of how the spill eventuated, spurred on by Moira Deeming’s defamation case win over the former opposition leader in early December, and the subsequent battles over whether to reinstate her within the party room (for which Joe voted in favour twice).

They also talk Commonwealth Games debacle, the disasters left behind by Dan Andrews which Jacinta Allen is trying contend with, the 2026 election and what it may hold, and much more.

They also look into how the Liberal party has and hasn’t aligned with it’s purported free market and free individual values, and where they rank on the strict report card of ardent libertarians.

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Pietro and Floyd take a look at recent events here in Victoria, namely the outcome of the Moira Deeming defamation case against John Pesutto. Yesterday it was ruled that Pesutto did indeed defame Moira by implying she was a nazi-sympathiser while she was part of the ‘Let Women Speak’ Rally in 2023 and the protest was gatecrashed by neo-nazis.

There is increased intrigue around this case because Moira had been framed not only as a nazi, but the entire protest was deemed (no pun intended) to be ‘anti-trans’ and ‘transphobic’, a severe crime in the eyes of the ever-increasingly woke-left.

The two look at what this means for the Liberal Party in Victoria, what this means for Australian politics more broadly, and dive into whether ‘woke-politics’ is no longer as powerful as it was over the last few years.

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