The Chaser Report - Sam Mostyn Was Right About Everything

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

Trump was right about everything — including that the unitary executive theory should be applied to all other heads of state... and governor generals. Enter, Sam Mostyn.---Buy the Wankernomics book: https://wankernomics.com/bookListen AD FREE: https://thechaserreport.supercast.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @chaserwarSpam Dom's socials: @dom_knightSend Charles voicemails: @charlesfirthEmail us: [e-mail] CEO’s Super-yacht upgrade Fund: https://chaser.com.au/support/ Send complaints to: [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chaser Report is recorded on Gadigal Land. Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is The Chaser Report. Hello, and welcome to The Chaser Report with Dom and Charles. Charles, I know you and I wear baseball caps over a certain age. Our hair is less abundant than it once was, particularly mine. And Donald Trump himself, he wears baseball caps, both as a kind of mobile political billboard, but also, because, you know, much hair as you might have. But it's not about the make America great again,

hat so much for him anymore. He's changed hats. I don't know whether you've seen the new hat. No, I haven't seen this. It's also red. It's exactly the same design. I mean, when you've got an iconic design like that, you don't change it. Yep. But it says Trump was right about everything. And I just think if you look at the hat and you start to think about it, I mean, during the ads, can you think of anything he was wrong about? I bet you can't. We'll come back after you try. Best Podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. Hi, I'm Sabrina Dellen, CEO of the Samara Center for Democracy. Right now, we all need

a welcoming and accessible place to talk about politics in Canada. That's what's behind group chat, a new podcast that makes sense of this moment of democratic uncertainty with a few friends. I've just added you to group chat. Listen today, wherever you get your podcasts. ACAST helps creators launch, grow, and monetize their podcast everywhere.acast.com. And Charles, I mean, for so many years, we've been, there's been criticisms of all this stuff through civil liberties and whatever, but when you start just looking at the results, Charles, The man gets results. So is this like Trump was right to create a whole lot of distractions around the Epstein files

because he was definitely in them? And so he was right to... He was right to... If he started talking about other things. Yeah. I mean, I haven't heard Jeffrey Epstein's name in a long time. I don't even remember who that was. Was Trump connected to him?

I don't remember. Didn't Galane Maxwell say that it was all fine? She couldn't remember him doing it. I think she said he was a gentleman. Is that what you meant? Or, like, he was right to bring in the administration. administrators when his casino went bankrupt? Like, what are we talking about?

Do you think of me, it's a good, you need to clarify. And does it mean that he was correct about everything or that he was right wing about everything? Ah, I'm not sure. But Charles, if you look at what he's actually doing, what he's saying? So what was he right about it? Everything. Oh, everything. Everything.

If you start looking at the way that his second term is working out, you'll see that actually, yeah, okay, people can criticize. But there's a certain simplicity. Well, actually, I don't think people can criticize anymore. No, well, not if they want to get into America. Not on social media. Yeah, that's a very good point. Well, I would take case in point in Washington, D.C., right? They've put troops on the streets of D.C.

They've brought in the National Guard, they've armed everybody. There's basically... Did you see the South Park parody of this? It wasn't even really a parody. It was just basically a little tally. The tower goes into Washington, D.C., and sees troops absolutely everywhere. That's just the way it is now.

And even Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, you know, far-left radical Democrat, It's had to acknowledge, crime has gone down. Yes. And so it just raises the question, Charles. Do you want crime to go down? And if you do, what do the troops do otherwise? They're just in their barracks or training or whatever.

Why don't they go on the streets? Why don't have soldiers outside your house route right now as we record the podcast? Crime would go down if you put troops everywhere. Trump was right about everything. I've seen the light. Just put troops everywhere. But won't those troops then start committing all the crimes? Like, isn't the whole history of...

Every civilisation that when you give a monopoly of violence to a whole lot of thugs who roam the streets, that they then start taking liberties with that freedom that you've given them? But, Charles, technically speaking, what they do can't possibly be criminal. Oh, it's not a criminal, yes, because they are the law. They are the law. Yes. But, I mean, Charles, I think in the US there's a law that actually specifies that military personnel are not to be used for policing. It's got to be a line there.

You've got civilian police on the one hand and military on another. And you can't have troops. But those rules don't matter anymore. No, they don't matter because there's no crime to enforce, so they're not enforcing crime. No. And when there's a rule, all you need to do is you issue an executive order. And then the rule doesn't matter anymore. To give you an example of something that's just happened just before we've recorded.

Donald Trump is issuing an executive order requiring voter ID for every single vote cast in America. Yes, which is not actually part of his power at all. No, I mean, supposedly elections are supposed to be the purview of the states and have different rules and he can't actually. And particularly, it would make sense that one man who may well run in the next election because the rule that you can only run twice is only a rule. And as we know, rules don't matter anymore. You'd say that someone who's running potentially in an election

or wants his side to win shouldn't get to make the rule. But as against that, he just did. Look, he just did. And it simplifies things. You know where you stand. Do you think maybe Australia should start behaving like this? Like, you know, we live here in the democratic state of New South Wales. What if Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales, started just writing executive orders?

And, or is he allowed to write executive? No, no. It'd have to be our, it'd have to be elbow. No, no, it would have to be. Who's our governor general? The governor general. Yeah, because that's the executive power, isn't it? Like, oh, that's actually true.

Yeah, so it would be. Sam Moston. Sam Moston suddenly starts going. Executive order. Actually, house prices should be lower. And then that just, that's, that becomes the rule. I mean, this is the whole thing. So give you another example of that.

I really like this idea. So you could just go, um, one person has, the buck stops with one person. Petrol should be under $100, $0.50 a later. Yeah. Petra should be 20 cents. Yeah. That's an exact order. That's the law. You can't, it doesn't matter whether or not Samantha Mosin has the power to do that.

No. She just did. She just did it. Yeah. Um, you know, it's literally the opposite of you're not the possible. She's like she is the boss of you. She's the boss. Look at the Federal Reserve.

So he's just, for months, he's been battling Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Fed. Because he wants Jerome Powell to put interest rates way down. Because it's in his political interests. And also his business, I mean, Trump's businesses will do much better if they're paying much less for their debt. Yes. And Powell's like, no, I'm the independent chair of the Fed. I'm not going to do that. The whole system is that I have, you know, I set monetary policy independent of you.

And Trump's just like, well, I'm going to fire your whole board. and then see what we do and then if he has enough loyalists in there they can just do what he wants and so it all gets sent it in one person and I mean for how long have we gone and Sam Moston being that person the central bank in Australia

like the reserve bank in England it would be King Charles yeah I like that get it down you just put it all in one person and you could do and using this logic you could do things like there will no longer be traffic jams yes and then there wouldn't be traffic dam

because that would be the law You wouldn't have it. And then let's say, for instance, you like gold, Charles. Yeah. The colour gold. Yeah. You would simply basically turn the White House into the gold house. It's, I presumably, we renamed during the course of this term.

Yeah. Have you seen that enormous ballroom that they're building? Now, there's a whole... And it shouldn't be the... It should be a palace. It should be. It's a gold. The gold palace.

The white palace. It's not a house. Yeah. No. And you know, Charles, there's this whole system for... They should put a Trump logo out of the front. They will. Yeah.

They will. There's a whole system for any renovations for the... the White House. It's got to go through a committee. It's got a, it's got to, obviously can't be one president to decide and do what they want. It's got to be bipartisan. You've got to have architects and heritage consultants looking at it. And it can take years to just do one simple change, like the fence that they built around

it. Not anymore. And that big fence that's there, that took them years to negotiate that. Or you can just ignore the process. Yes. And build a giant ballroom during this term. Just life is so much easier without red tape and consultation. The buck stops with Donald Trump.

If you don't like it. well, voting against him isn't really going to be possible. I mean, you'd need your ID and you probably don't have ID. And also besides, he's redistricting all the state, all the state so that you can't really vote against him. I love it. ACAS powers the world's best podcast. Here's a show that we recommend.

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So I feel like we should apply this more to Australia because I feel like... So it's not our... It's Sam Moston. It's Sam Moston. Yeah. Yeah, let's get out. You know what would work really well, actually,

is if instead of rather than having protracted reality TV contests, Sam Moston just chose the winner day one. Like Australian Idol. And then spend the rest of that air time just making speeches about how good she is. Very long speeches. Yes. Yeah. And maybe like bringing all the cameras into the cabinet room for half a day of just her doing a thing.

Yeah. And I mean, I don't want to be consulted on things anymore. I don't want to vote. I don't want to have a say. Just let someone decide it. Is it going to be any worse? Probably not. But it's just more efficient.

Well, I think the less decision you get to make in life, the better life. And I think the bit, I think you should. have any power at all over anything. So we can all agree. I tend to disagree on that. Sam, but if we can't agree, then the simplest thing,

just get Sam Moster to decide. No, I'm going to be like a courtier to, you know, because then the way you actually caught influence. You're going to be a conciliar type thing. Yeah, you sort of,

oh, it could be the court jester. It could be the mini Moston. Yeah. And go in and then if all power is exercised through her, you just sort of go and suck up Sam Mostin's ass. And then you kind of get it all. And then you do rules like... I don't know that I like that.

All the good baristas have to live in Glebe from now on. Oh, that doesn't don't so good. I mean, Charles, the system does occasionally break down, the system of centralising all power in one person. And we saw it on Saturday. We saw on Saturday, I don't know if you were on social media, but there was a brief period there when the rumour went around like wildfire.

Oh, yeah? That Donald Trump had died. I don't know if you saw that. It was a brief kind of window. Was that a sort of wishful thinking? Like a sort of 12 hours of wishful thinking. A lot of left, he's got very excited about the idea that he hadn't been seen in public since Tuesday.

Right. And probably among them, J.D. Vance. I'm probably the most excited. The rumour I heard is that he's suffering a series of strokes. And that's what's going on. Well, everyone's looking at his hands and what's going on. Yeah. So the problem is when you've got everything centered in one person,

let's call them a dictator because that's just a word. It's not a bad thing. It's just the system where one person has all the control. If you know somebody who's right all the time, that it makes sense for them to make all the decisions. That's, I mean, spoiler way, that's the end of Game of Thrones. That's how the chaser used to work for years, wasn't it? The people who were the most right got all the say.

I don't know if you've made it at the end of the Game of Thrones TV series, but basically, you know, Brand knows everything, and therefore he just gets to decide everything. That's a system in Westeros, because he just knows everything. Yes. But the problem is that when you have that, when the dictator dies or is unwell or something, then you have a terrible problem.

I feel like we've discussed this before. Trump's not going to die. Or maybe we haven't discussed this before, but I have a theory about this, which is, and you've got to look to North Korea. Oh, of course. Very similar style of, you know. I mean, I think North Korea and America

increasingly look very similar in terms of their style of government. Kim Il-sung never died. No, Kim Il-sung never died. He's the eternal president. And I went and saw him. I saw his dead body. Not that he's dead, no. I saw his alive body.

It was alive, just not moving very much. Very waxy. Moving in suspended animation. But if you went back tomorrow, we were just resting. There'd be a sort of millimeter of difference. It just takes a long time. So he remains alive and he is the eternal president.

And then they all serve, like Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-un, serve at the behest of this live government, live president. And I think that that's what's going to happen with Trump. Like even if Trump, you know, dies in this world, right? He will, like, J.D. Vance will not do things in Jadie Vance's name. He'll be like the way Stalin exercised power through Lennon. It was like, Lenin is this amazing thing. I'm just carrying out his wishes.

And that's exactly what Daly Vance will do. But it won't be Jadie Vance. It'll be Donald Trump Jr. Oh, well, yeah. Name recognition, Charles. Yeah. But don't you think, don't you mean it's likely that J.D. Vance will get a look in, you know, at least temporarily. Like, if it happens before 2028, you'd think that,

JD Vance would at least get a bit of a look in. Charles, you're assuming the rules would apply. You're assuming that the US Constitution's rules about who succeeds at the president. I mean, if President Donald Trump Jr. issues an executive order saying, I'm the president now. Yes. Who's going to follow on? Well, in the name of Donald Trump.

Yeah. And basically just, I mean, but also, Charles, in the, we're forgetting that we're in the age of AI and of deep fakes. I mean, that maybe that's why Donald Trump just bought 10% of Intel to get the processes, to generate fully AI Donald Trump. A large language model of Donald Trump. What would Trump do? You'd actually work out what Trump do.

And it will always be right. Yes, and it can generate videos of Donald Trump and audio of Donald Trump. Yes. And very few people, I mean, there won't be any more in-person rallies anymore. But as long as there's new video of Donald Trump and posts on, as long as there's the new content, it doesn't matter whether he actually physically exists or not.

So I feel like this might actually become very true. like I know that we're sort of joking but this is eerily because one of the things that happened in the sort of four days that Trump wasn't seen is his truth social feed started filling up with a whole lot of AI generated images of him

yes like instead of posting photos of Trump doing actual real things it was AI generated versions of Trump and they're better and you get the ones where he's with Eagles so I'd much rather see that than he's playing golf and looking a bit sad and he's buff and he looks like like Superman.

Yeah, so he's real body. That's much better. Yeah. So you can sort of see how it wouldn't, like his, whether he's alive or not, is really not the most important thing. No. And I mean, people are asking GROC, funnily enough, whether or not the most recent truth social posts were by Donald Trump.

And it said they probably are, but there are fewer errors than Trump's real ones. So maybe they're not. So you've got one AI calling AI bullshit on that. I don't understand what an error is. In relation to Donald Trump Because Trump was right Because Trump was right about everything

Yeah So I mean It's not a hat Yeah Like if he makes a typo If Donald Trump makes a typo Yeah that's the typo That's the problem

Not him Because he was right Well by By a perfect example It's cofefe Yeah I mean It wasn't a word

And then he typed the word And now it's a word Yeah So Trump was right about everything It's not just a hat It's a reality It's a reality That we live in

Because Trump He's right about everything. A priori, right. No? I feel like we need to go back to basics, Dom. We need to start covering real news. And we'll just check back in tomorrow. What real news do you want than this?

I feel like we're a little bit out of practice on this whole thing and that we should just, you know, take 24 hours and just start again tomorrow. It troubles me that you're not getting with the program, Charles. No, I'm not saying that he's not right about everything. I wouldn't say that. I would never say that. Well, I don't want to, no, don't take me. The most sensible thing you said all day.

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