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loooooooool Turnbull tells Speers he was “in the belly of the [Murdoch] beast at Sky news” and that Speers left murdoch for the ABC because he, Speers, could no longer bear it omg I can not convey how funny this moment was 
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happily for Speers there is the completely humourless Hartcher on standby. Back to the Biden win. Hartcher ponderously ponders on as he does. Trump failed on Covid, he says. Shut downs. Militias. I guess he was citing armed thugs before 3 Nov and I just missed it #Insiders
aaaand default back to the Trump perspective. Speers cites Trumps tweets. Speers plays a clip of Trump. Speers puts what he perceives to be the perspective of the Trump base to Taylor. #Insiders
Lenore Taylor spells out the factors required for an orderly transition of power. She says Trump is liking increasingly desperate. The letters of demand are signs of his desperation. The family and lawyers need to rein him in [paraphrased] #Insiders
Taylor also points to the utter gracelessness of Trump saying nothing to his base other than lies designed to tile him up. #Insiders
and at 58 minutes into a 90 minute show of what white people think, after hearing from David, David, Kevin, Arthur, Malcolm and Peter, and finally Lenore, *then* we get to Stan. Whose ABC etc #Insiders
Grant does what I call “stretching the timeline”. He brings a perspective from the civil rights era, when Trump and Biden were doing more-or-less what they are now (grift and performative progressive politics). There was more violence in the 60s and 70s says Grant. #Insiders
back to Hartcher, who describes the creepy cultish prayer people. He stresses that a quarter of a million Americans have died of the Covid, and the tens of millions of Americans who voted for Trump. #Insiders
discussion of how much violence will be caused by Trump being a sore loser [paraphrased]. Pic of the White House. Vague reference to Trump in the bunker. Speers chuckles nervously. #Insiders
heh Lenore Taylor pivots to how “way out of step” Australia is on global climate consensus especially once Biden re-joins the US to the Paris agreement. She says we can not keep being a fossil fuel economy and exporter. #Insiders
oh look Speers has a clip of Albanese on the Paris Accord handy to immediately horse race out the climate policy sense Taylor is making. Recall that people like Speers running climate policy through the conflict journalism machine has fucked us all over for 15 years. #Insiders
once again Speers goes lastly to Stan Grant. Biden re-joining the Paris Accords, what does it mean? Grant seems to be a bit of a techtopian fantasist too, like the Morrison government #Insiders
on to the disastrous mess Morrison has made of trade with China. Speers says our diplomatic relations are in the “deep freeze”. Stan first. He says it is about building alliances. He asks how China sees “the Quad”: Japan, India, Aust and the US #Insiders
strategic autonomy, apparently a Macronism. Grant says China views the world order differently to how we do. He kind of brushes past the last four years and presumes Biden can and will restore pre-Trump US-China relations. It will require deft diplomacy, he says. #Insiders
reminder from Hartcher that in February last year a billion dollars worth of Aust thermal coal built up on Chinese docks, unprocessed and undistributed, “on spurious safety grounds”, he says. It was diverted and didn’t cost the Aust economy a dollar, he claims. #Insiders
Taylor wonders aloud whether a President Biden can and will manage multilateral relations when China could be pre-emptively freezing trade relations with us as it looks to the post-Trump era. I think that was her point. I don’t really get China foreign policy #Insiders
Speers calls the China foreign policy segment fascinating and says he could talk about it all day which idk phoney foreign affairs mastery seems to be an essential tool in the mediocre white male journalist kit. Think Greg Sheridan. #Insiders
#FinalObservations 1 is Hartcher saying it is his late fathers 100 year birthday. This is his reflective moment on the times we live in #Insiders
#FinalObservations 2 is Lenore Taylor pointing to presidential pardons and the ludicrous claim Trump has made that he could pardon himself #Insiders
#FinalObservations 3 is Stan Grant also pondering the mountainous scope of Trump’s dishonesty and the hypocrisy of the US purporting to monitor democratic process in other countries #Insiders
we go out with footage “not to make you laugh” says Speers but of celebrations on the streets of Washington instead #Insiders
