The Chaser Report - Sami Shah on Big Queensland Energy

Episode Date: December 9, 2021

In this Afternoon Edition our lawyer's favourite guest Sami Shah aims his sights on the member for Manila, George Christensen. Sami discusses Christensen's recent appearances on InfoWars, where George sent an S.O.S on behalf of Australia to the rest of the world. Listen as Sami and the team ask if George is right, or just alt-right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is The Chaser Report. Hello and welcome to an afternoon edition of The Chaser Report. We have Charles Firth, May Domite, Gabby Bolt and Sammy Shah coming up in just a moment. Sammy, what are we talking about today? I was thinking we'd talk a little bit about our old and dear friend George Christensen. Oh, wonderful. Oh, wow. Have you run this by the lawyers?

Not yet. We usually wait until after I'm done defaming everyone and then, yes. Charles, during this ad break, can you just text the lawyers and give them to me head? Yeah, I will. Sammy's coming in hot. The Chaser Report, now with extra whispers. Where to start, Sammy, with the enigma that is George Richardson? Oh, he's such a, he's the gift that keeps on giving.

Firstly, I would like to commend the Division of Dawson. I have never been to the Division of Dawson. It's a corner of Queensland. Some who have been there have described as the armpit of Queensland, which is a remarkable description given that the rest of Queensland is the butthole of Queensland, but he, they voted him in four times now. Yeah.

And, you know, now he's retiring to focus all his time on conspiracy theory podcasts and trips to Manila. But the fact that over four elections they have repeatedly gone, you know what? We've looked at all the options in the field. This is the best person to represent

us. They must be a really special place. So here's thing. Here's what we know about young George is he's taking time out of posing with a leather whip on the cover of a magazine and carrying a gun on the cover of his

on his Twitter account and gone and done a podcast with Alex Jones. Now, a lot of people have criticized him for appearing on Alex Jones' podcast. Have you guys ever heard Alex Jones' podcast?

Oh, yeah. I'm familiar. In brief amounts, it's hard to listen to them all about a minute without your brain exploding. Well, I mean, look, the man's a truth seeker And he's a truth-saier.

And if you can't handle the truth, Dom, then that's just on you. Because as Gabby, you can clearly see, is a fan of Alex and his opinion that frogs are being turned gay by chemicals. I personally was very moved by his opinion that Hillary Clinton and Obama both smell like sulfur. That's true. That is very true. I haven't been close to either of them, but I've heard the same from many scientists and Democrats. Charles has been right up next to Hillary Clinton. Did you smell any sulphur?

No, but lizards don't really smell that bad at all. This took a turn. I like how Gabby went, oh. But can you just remind me which one Alex Jones is? Because I do actually get my right wing nut jobs. Yes, fair enough, absolutely. So is he the gruff, the one who's, you know, like, Yeah, he says.

American Allen. That's right. He's Alan Jones with a physique. And more chest hair. Is he Info Wars? Is that the same? I think so. Yes, Alex Jones is Info.

Because I've got a whole lot of merch. A friend of mine once bought me basically the entire merch shop range from Info Wars. And so there are things like the Ascent of Man, you know, going from 8 to human. And then there's a 5G tower and the human crumples into the ground because they've been destroyed by 5G. That's how it works. That's science. I don't understand why you just don't rebrand that as Jaser merchant sell it at all.

I know, my son, where's their t-shirt? How do we not start a disinfo wars? We should totally start disinfo wars. It's a great idea. Yeah, with theories that Daniel Andrews is the demon, that what can we say was staged? Because Alex Jones's whole thing is the Sandy Hook school shooting. wasn't real and that they were all crisis actors. Now, the Whitlam

government, that was completely staged. The whole thing is literally a sound stage in Canberra where they filmed it. For three years. But he got sued by the families of the survivors of the Portland Chudet Massacres. Sorry, Charles, survivors, go on.

Oh, sorry, yeah. Not actors that speak. He got sued by the actors in that false flag operation. And they They won and I think he had to pay out millions of dollars, didn't he? Like, isn't he broke? I don't think people like this are broke for very long. The supporters are there.

Look, if my Patreon can reach at this point, I think it's $500 a month, then I'm sure Alex Jones' Patreon is doing gangbusters comparatively. Isn't it beautiful, though, Sammy, the way that all of these fringe people from around the world seem to have found one another, because traditionally, you're nut jobs from Australia and the US wouldn't work together. But in the age of Zoom and podcasting, they all... They all join up, and you see Alan Jones having a big audience over there. You see George on Info Wars.

Matt Canavan's been on some jubis podcaster. It's just like the sort of international patriarchy. It's almost as though it's a conspiracy theory come true. It's really quite beautiful, I think. I think, you know what it is? It's one of the things where if this was a dating app that put Alex Jones and George Christensen together, we would be applauding the algorithm for being so accurate. Yes.

Because what a beautiful and considered pairing of two like-minded souls. Just too grotesque human beings. And I know you shouldn't body shame people. But at some point, that's not even a body. It's just a lump of hair and muscle that is liquefied. And, you know, some poor women in Manila clearly have to deal with that. And that's their burden. But we also have to consider the fact that he's been a representative of Australia.

in the Philippines now for a while. But anyway, he went on, George Christensen went on Alex Jones's podcast and they did what they do in Alex Jones' podcast. Talk to all about comparing Australia to the Third Reich. I think there was a comparison to the Holocaust thrown in for good measure because you can't have any conversation with Alex Jones' podcast without throwing in the Holocaust as a reference point.

And overall, he has now been really controversial for the federal government, which has done everything it possibly can to not have to thoroughly punish him for this. So it seems like, yeah, it's the lesson from all this means, it seems to be, that if you really are a batshit crazy guy

who spends all his time on Alex Jones's podcast, it's not that bad. The prime minister won't be too upset about it. But so George Christensen, the other thing that's extraordinary is this notion of everyone going to Australian embassies in protesting. It's not usual for a member of the government

to ferment dissent internationally against their government. That seems a little odd, even for George. But here's the question. Why isn't that being called out as an act of anti-Australianism? Anytime I say that, oh, you know, we've got a little bit of racism in Australia,

I'm called anti-Australian and I should leave it if I don't love it. But George Christensen can literally advocate for people to protest the country that he is from at the embassies around the world. world creating problems for the embassy staff, diplomatic staff from Australia, and he will get voted back in. If he was to run again, the fuckwitz and Dawson would vote him right back in again. They would learn to read or hire someone to sign their name for them on a ballot paper

and vote him back in again. No, I just want to drill down on that, Sammy, because what is going on there that he's been able to be elected four times? I feel like we've skirted over that, what the hell is going through their mind, their collective minds? Like, in the last parliament, like before COVID, he spent more time in one year in Manila than he spent in Australia. Like, he literally is the member for Manila. There's the whole thing about the AFP warning Turnbull and all that. All I can conclude from that is that the good voters of Dawson would also rather be in

Manila. He's a winner. If you live in Mackay, if you live in Mackay, I suspect that. Even the most dubious bar in the Philippines Looks like an amazing destiny Anywhere looks better Anyone who gets to leave Mackay to go anywhere As a winner

They think of George Christensen as cosmopolitan Yes, he's the Donald Trump of Mackay He comes back, he brings trinkets from them That he buys at the duty-free on the way back And by trinkets I largely mean STDs And they applaud him for it Yeah, eat prey Bundy The Chaser Report

Less news More often And I mean It's pretty extreme He's on with Alexander And he says They call Australian This quarantine regime

The Australian version of Tiananmen Square And I guess This is why George isn't Travelling so much anymore He doesn't want to be locked up In hotel quarantine Well I mean

What is the Australian version Of Tiananmen Square Because if Tiananmen Square Was a human rights atrocity That took place Which the Chinese government Now covers up Do we have an Aussie equivalent to that?

Do we have something that, you know, other than, of course, the first few hundred years of our history and all of that. No, no, but Sammy, the thing is that they're still being covered up that we can't talk about it. That's a good point. You know, it's the, and anyway, they're not really Australian atrocities because they've all been excised from the immigration zone. Oh, yes, of course.

Yeah. All our prison camps. Nauru, Christmas Island. They're not really part of Australia. They're on Australian. They're on water matters in that they're surrounded by water. So we can't really comment. We can't ask.

Sorry, they're what? Sorry, they're girt by sea? They are. Actually, how does it work that the Philippines is made up of thousands of small islands? Anyway. So here's the situation we're in right now, where, you know, the state, we've had lots of politics and prime minister Scott Morrison has had to condemn the statement by George Christensen.

Barnaby Joyce has, of course, had to take time out of getting COVID to condemn the statement. By the way, can I just make a fuck. can point here about fucking COVID and how useless it is when it comes to attacking right wing people. From Donald Trump to Peter Dutton to now Barnaby Joyce, COVID for some reason, seems to go really light on anyone

right wing. Any right wing politician seems to have some natural inbuilt fucking ability to defend themselves against COVID that the rest of the world does not have. The only one was Boris Johnson who nearly died of COVID. But nearly is not good enough, dog. You either grab the job or you go home.

Woke up from that and named his child after the NHS doctors who saved him and then went on to defund the NHS further. I mean, but he named his kids after two NHS doctors, so it's not like he doesn't appreciate them. That's true. And this might be the only way he could remember his kid's names is what's the name of the NHS doctor who saved me? Oh yeah, okay, that must be my kid as well. But yeah, at this point, what the fuck, how is these, does believing in conservative politics give you antibodies towards COVID that we don't know about is somehow thinking it trickle down economics is going to save the world, give you a prevention against COVID, long COVID?

How is this happening? No, right-wing conservatives are just very experienced in diseases. They're just incredibly well-versed in getting sick and displaying their sickness to us. Well, I mean, look, if anyone's going to develop a whole new strain of COVID within his body, that will somehow become a STD slash COVID hyper thing, it'll be Barnaby. You know, we will all suddenly see a mutated COVID where it'd like to be a physical person walking around attacking us with this reason sharp claws. Yeah, COVID Ria or saying.

Yeah. I mean, I'm just not sure who, George Christensen's strain that is inevitable once he heads back over to the Philippines. I'm just not sure. And then if he gets together with Barnaby, can you imagine those two strains mutating? This is one of the weird things about Queensland, by the way, Sam, because I know you're always interested in this.

Queensland has its own strain of Omicron, right? And I heard Anastasia Palisheye on the news this week, and I swear to you, it almost sounded as though she was proud of it because it was a Queenslander. Like literally, it's kind of like it's, it's, we're the first, where the first have this strain of homicronous cause something else, it's Queensland grown and I think it's morally ambiguous for Queensland. It's something is from Queensland.

They kind of have to love it even if it's a variant of COVID. Surely if it's from Queensland, it would be the big coronavirus. The big spike. Yeah, yeah. Is that why they love George? Because George is a big thing. Yes, the big politician. That's it.

That's what it is. And I think about Clive Palmer, George Christensen. Who else is over there? That's a monstrosity and a human specimen of grotesque gluttony. I think, yeah, most... She's Perth. Sorry? I thought Gina Reinhardt was, but I think she's...

No, no, that's... But she's got a big Queensland energy. And you've got to respect that. You know, there's a very Queensland-esque vibe to her. Big Queensland energy. I think we found our episode title. So the question then I had So I've got a theory about George Christensen

Which is that he's leaving politics And the reason why he's sort of doubling down On appearing on Info Wars and Alex Jones And you know posting all these Facebook conspiracy theories He's trying to build up his social media following Using the resources of the federal government And then when he leaves politics He can actually make good coin being a sort of QAnon influence.

I don't think that's a theory. I think that's literally his plan for the past year. Yeah, that sounds just like you're reading exactly from his playbook at this point. Oh, right. So he's announced that I'm going to become... It seems pretty clear from his socials. But Scott Morrison has said he should go quietly into retirement, which of course is the literal last thing this man will do.

We won't really get rid of him. You'll have a Skyed News show within five minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll be called outsiders. and inside the outsiders or outside the Manila inside Manila Australian waters

Yes So no I think we're at that stage now It's the end of the year It's one of those things We needed something to kind of wrap up 2021 in a way that encapsulated everything about this shit year

And I think George Christensen Giving a hand job to Alex Jones Has been the perfect metaphor For what 2021 And Australia in 2020 one has largely been about. I think, thank you, George. You know, it's a work of art.

It really is. God bless you, George. God bless you, indeed. Let's give the last word, shall we, to George and Alex, in celebration of their bromance. God bless you, sir. We need more leaders like you all over the world. Thank you very much, Alex. And good on you for standing up for freedom as well.

Thank you for all the time and God bless. Isn't it wonderful when, just across the sands of time in different time zone, two right-wing widows who believe in conspiracy. who is find each other. And that's the true story of Christmas. The two unwise men getting together rid of podcast studio. That's the episode title. Thank you very much, Sammy.

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