TNE 45 Cancelling a Country

Cancel culture has evolved into canceling a whole country as financial institutions deplatform Russian trade and Western Governments seize Russian oligarch's assets. That plus the latest changes to 'The Science' on this week's Tim's News Explosion.

Joe Biden made Russia-Ukraine the focus of his State of the Union address. Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sitting behind Biden weren't wearing a mask. Pelosi who despite her calp warm-up didn't clap at the right moment said in an interview she was following the updated Science. In the US they are still forcing masks onto young children in schools. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a recent press conference told masked students they didn't need to wear covid theatre masks.

The death toll from the flash floods in South East Queensland and Northern NSW currently stands at 16. There has again been criticism of Scott Morrison MIA, he has been in isolation due to being covid positive. But there has been no criticism of Anthony Albanese for traveling to Western Australia on the border reopening day to campaign or upon returning to Sydney marching in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

WA Premier Mark McGowan is currently in Sydney attending a Federal Court hearing of a defamation case brought against him by Clive Palmer. McGowan called Palmer an enemy of the state, McGowan has replied that Palmer has created a band of angry people threatening him and his family. McGowan denied reports in the West Australian newspaper he was going to wear full PPE to attend a virtual national cabinet meeting when he was quarantining back in Perth.