In this episode of the RUMBLE CHAT, Russell Brand is joined by T-Funk, Joey D'Odyssey, and a very special guest to discuss all things free speech, including the US Army calling back unvaccinated soldiers, Elon Musk's "X Wars" and Media Matters funding, and much, much more! Stay free, lovers of freedom, and keep up to date with what's going on in the world. Tweet with your favourite or text to 741741 and we'll get back to you with a brand new episode of Stay Free with Russell Brand! Timestamps: 3:00 - What's the difference between a man and a woman? 4:30 - Who's funding Media Matters? 9:40 - Is there a surprising funder of the media? 11:20 - Is it George Soros or George Soros? 13:00 - Who are the most powerful people in America? 16:30 - Is Donald Trump going to be the next president? 17:15 - Who s going to win the 2020 election? 18:20 - What are the chances of Donald Trump being the next President of the United States? 19:15 - Will Donald Trump be a good President? 21:00- Is it possible that Donald Trump will be a better President than Barack Obama? 22:30- Is he going to get away with it? 27:00 Is he a good or bad? 29:00 | Is he good or not good? 32:00? 35:00 What will he will do it? 36:00 Will he be a bad guy? 37:00 Does he have a good chance of winning the election? 39:00 Do you think Donald Trump have a chance of being a good candidate? 39:10 45:00 Can he be the best President? 40:00 Who s the best person? 41:00 Could he be more dangerous than Hillary Clinton? 44:00 Should he be taken away from the White House? 45, or is he a better than Bill Gates? 46:00 Would he be better than Hillary? 47:00 Are there any other candidate better than Donald Trump? 50:00 A better leader than Barack? 51:00 The future of the future? 56:00 If he s a better president than he s better than this?
00:04:55.000Like, this bit of morning Joe, it's incredible.
00:04:59.000It's incredible because like one of the things they're always saying about Trump is that
00:05:01.000he's a dude, he's dangerous, he uses too much incendiary rhetoric.
00:05:06.000Check out this for incendiary rhetoric and take your damn dog trick.
00:05:10.000Just because he hasn't done it yet doesn't mean he won't do it.
00:05:15.000Say that about anyone and anything, couldn't you?
00:05:17.000That's what I always think about nuclear wars.
00:05:19.000Like, they go, they think, oh, there won't be a nuclear war because there ain't been one yet.
00:05:22.000Well, there has been a little bit because, you know, tell that to the people of Nagasaki.
00:05:27.000When he gets a chance to do it, and if he is voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal or figurative or whatever the...
00:05:37.000Literal and figurative are pretty different ideas, aren't they?
00:05:40.000I mean, I know I'm English, and many of you are Americans, and by God, I love you for it.
00:05:44.000I love you in the holy name of our Lord!
00:05:46.000Like, literal and figurative are opposite ends of the linguistic spectrum, aren't they?
00:05:52.000Literal means, to the letter, this is what's happening.
00:05:55.000Figurative means, it's an image, it's a metaphor, it's not happening.
00:06:15.000Like, that would come over a lot better if there weren't more people incarcerated under the Espionage Act under Barack Obama than any other former leader.
00:07:40.000Touch this for yourselves using your own consciousness, which I believe to be connected to the divine and a great, powerful resource.
00:07:47.000I would put the president's stamina, President's wisdom, ability to get this done on behalf of the American people against anyone, anyone on any day of the week.
00:09:35.000This will teach students and even teachers to help understand how to spot conspiracy theories and misinformation, disinformation and online hate.
00:09:44.000Start talking about what we're seeing out there.
00:09:49.000Give the teachers the tools they need to help these conversations in school.
00:09:54.000It's interesting because, of course, in New York City, many children were kept out of school during the pandemic period in spite of the well-understood facts.
00:10:04.000I think I'm safe to say this on YouTube.
00:10:42.000And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction... Who now doesn't know that the terms misinformation, malinformation, disinformation simply mean information that is inconvenient to the interests of the powerful?
00:10:58.000Are any of you in any doubt about what that term or those terms mean anymore. It's become completely
00:11:08.000Blessed old bird in the locals chat looks like Botox to me.
00:11:11.000Are you talking about the governor there or me or bear? True nature's child.
00:11:16.000Social isolation for kids isn't good. I agree with you. Oh, no Dugganoku, they're
00:11:20.000talking about Botox with the your governor there if you're in New York
00:11:24.000City. Welcome to the chat. IceWendigo, Tokindave, XNilo.
00:11:30.000If you want to join the rumble chat, you will never see free speech like it.
00:11:35.000The free speech in the rumble chat is not like free speech I've witnessed anywhere else.
00:11:40.000Katharine says good evening from Denmark.
00:11:43.000Electric Steve's answering the Soros question there.
00:11:47.000And yeah, there's all sorts of stuff up there.
00:11:49.000Okay, let's have a little look now at the Army's choice to invite back many of the military personnel that they expelled after they refused mandates.
00:12:21.000The Army kicked out more than 1,900 soldiers for refusing a COVID vaccine.
00:12:25.000At least 19 of them have now been welcomed back to active duty.
00:12:30.000A letter signed by Brigadier General Hope Rampe, Army Director of Personnel Management, says, quote, as a result of the rescission of all current COVID-19 vaccination requirements, You know there's wars coming when the word rescission has to be introduced to your vocabulary.
00:12:46.000Former soldiers who were involuntarily separated for their refusal to receive the COVID-19.
00:12:51.000I'm just going to involuntarily separate you from the army.
00:12:56.000I'm just going to involuntarily separate you from your own reproductive organs.
00:13:03.000That is an interesting piece of bureaucratic jargon for kicking someone out of the army.
00:13:09.000Isn't it curious the way that military personnel make up such a significant portion of your country's homeless population?
00:13:18.000Isn't it significant to discover that many people that are still serving in the army are unable to support themselves and use food banks?
00:13:28.000Isn't it significant that patriotic rhetoric can be deployed but the kind of principles that that patriotism would demand so seldom is applied?
00:13:38.000Is this, let me know in the chat, yes or no or Y or N?
00:14:26.000And I increasingly feel, and I wonder if you agree, let me know if you do, that so often these foreign escapades, these expeditions abroad, are not In pursuit of American interests, but the interests of the establishment elite that are masked behind the language of patriotism.
00:14:49.000Just think of the current conflicts in this world.
00:14:53.000How is it benefiting ordinary American people to continue to fund this war between Ukraine and Russia?
00:14:59.000I'm not suggesting that Ukrainian people don't have rights, I'm suggesting that diplomacy should always be on the table.
00:15:07.000Is the American project, the American military project, about supporting ordinary Americans?
00:15:13.000Or is it protecting ordinary Americans?
00:15:15.000Or do you think it's about generating profit for the military-industrial complex who require perpetual war in order for their business model to operate?
00:16:10.000You should know that I have so much respect for people that serve in the military, for people that serve in the police force, firefighters, nurses, teachers, people that commit themselves to public service, holding the world together through dedication and devotion.
00:16:24.000That's why it's particularly painful when they are exploited and used essentially to service the agenda of the establishment elites.
00:16:33.000Remember, In a little bit we're going to be covering Elon Musk's legal battle with Media Matters.
00:16:39.000You've correctly guessed that they are funded by George Soros in part.
00:16:44.000But what you may not know is that Media Matters are part of a kind of a Democrat Party machine that ensures that many people with countervailing views are shut down and censored.
00:16:58.000I tend to think that the Army will have a huge supporting role for the joint force in the Indo-Pacific.
00:17:05.000And in that regard, what do I mean by that?
00:17:07.000I think the Army will play a core role in establishing and protecting staging bases for our air forces, for our maritime forces.
00:17:18.000If they're bringing out the rock, it means the war with China is almost certain.
00:17:23.000The propaganda machine is stepping up.
00:17:26.000Musk must prevail, says CBOB1 in the Awakened Wonder chat over on Locals, and the rock is Receiving some spicy commentary over in the Rumble chat.
00:17:38.000If you're watching us on YouTube, remember, come over and join us on Rumble, because in a minute, our content gets a little more contentious.
00:17:46.000We showed you, for example, just yesterday, that the WF has been posting its solution to homelessness.
00:18:53.000You press one if you think it was the dog, two if you think it was me, three if you think it's Gareth, who's running the show from behind the scenes there.
00:19:01.000Take another glance at the 666 in the World Economic Forum.
00:19:04.000I'm sure that's not deliberate, but someone said the other day, it's a 666 and a smiley face.
00:19:08.000So they smile their way through the satanic agenda.
00:19:12.000But that pod life that's being proposed as a solution to homelessness, Good, good.
00:19:17.000It's going the way I'd like it to go in terms of the vote for who did that fart.
00:19:21.000Like, it's now being sold to everybody.
00:19:24.000I think in San Francisco, where President Xi recently visited and Gavin Newsom, in spite of all of his liberal rhetoric, rolled out the red carpet, and that red carpet Wallpapered over homelessness, the homeless people were ousted to the periphery.
00:19:39.000Where's the compassionate language then?
00:19:41.000Where's the, hey, we have to help everybody stuff?
00:19:43.000Then, when they're welcoming a dictator, that if Trump expressed admiration for that dictator, they would say, oh, look, see, you know, Trump, he loves dictators because he wants to be a dictator.
00:20:20.000That's another function of the legacy media, to normalize innovation and advances that we will ultimately be ushered into.
00:20:30.000So this is, I would say, sort of fits under that.
00:20:33.000You know, throughout the pandemic period, vaccine passports, all that stuff became, like, you know, it became normalized, didn't it, through sort of conversation.
00:20:41.000Now, the idea that we should live in little pods is becoming sort of Presented through soft propaganda.
00:25:54.000This week, Crooked Joe Biden was in San Francisco for a summit with China, looking like he had absolutely no idea where he was, what was happening, what the hell he was supposed to do.
00:26:09.000He walked up with a man who looks like a piece of granite, right?
00:29:32.000We wouldn't know many of the things we know.
00:29:34.000about the pandemic, the inefficiency of lockdown and the let's say some of the complicated aspects of that certain medical solution that was rather heavily promoted.
00:29:44.000He's recently testified on a recent analysis showing that 99% of people dying from COVID are 100% fully vaccinated.
00:29:53.000That's obviously not a story we can cover on YouTube.
00:30:45.000Did I understand you to say that most who had died from COVID were the vaccinated, not the unvaccinated, or did I mishear what you said?
00:30:53.000In the UK, Australia, South Africa, where they have good data systems, you know, the contemporary, let's say late 2021 and 2022, the majority who have been hospitalized and died are fully vaccinated.
00:31:09.000So right now, New South Wales just put out their data.
00:31:13.000Australia is interesting because they had pre-vaccinated the whole country and then COVID got there late.
00:31:17.000So Australia was the real test of whether or not the vaccines would work, and they failed colossally.
00:31:23.000So, the most recent analysis, 99% of people hospitalized and died are fully vaccinated.
00:31:28.000United States, our CDC tracked these breakthrough infections.
00:31:32.000People reported to CDC, May 1st of 2021, the CDC was overwhelmed with fully vaccinated Americans who were being hospitalized and died.
00:32:01.000It's actually LeFariousMonster, and you better believe that I miss LeFariousMonster when I'm not subject to the profanity and filth that presumably he fills the chat up with.
00:34:28.000Advertisers are withdrawing from X and even though high profile figures are saying they will replace that advertising revenue, we have to think that this is part of a concerted and deliberate attack to bring down Elon Musk.
00:34:40.000Is Elon Musk unassailable due to his incredible wealth and influence?
00:34:44.000And what happens when a culture war that's become very adept at taking out individuals It's just mentioned Media Matters, of course, who Elon Musk is suing.
00:35:06.000We'll look at their funding and how they operate.
00:35:20.000Apple, IBM, Lionsgate, Paramount and ABC News parent company Disney pulled ads from Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter.
00:35:27.000Musk appeared to backtrack, pinning a post to his account that says,
00:35:31.000anyone advocating the genocide of any group will be suspended from this platform.
00:35:36.000Later, amid accusations he's anti-Semitic, Musk tweeted nothing could be further from the truth.
00:35:41.000In a blog post, X said the report completely misrepresented the real user experience to undermine freedom of speech and mislead advertisers.
00:35:49.000A spokesman for the company called the report contrived, saying Media Matters deliberately followed pro-Nazi accounts to get advertising to appear.
00:35:57.000Musk went further, threatening to file a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and all those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.
00:36:06.000In a statement, Media Matters called Musk a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits.
00:36:11.000The White House has condemned Elon Musk for endorsing what it called a hideous anti-semitic conspiracy theory.
00:36:18.000Thermonuclear lawsuits from a man who's able to prevent thermonuclear war through refusing to allow Starlink to be utilized to administer attacks on Russia.
00:36:31.000I mean, this is extraordinary where we find ourselves now.
00:36:37.000Of course, the times we live in, there'll be some people that watch this and just say, oh, Elon Musk, yeah, I'm sure that he is everything that he's accused of being.
00:36:43.000And other people will just say, well, this is plainly an establishment attack on a figure who opposes many preferred establishment narratives.
00:36:51.000Let's find out where we land when we look at some reporting and facts.
00:36:54.000On Thursday, Media Matters for America published an article alleging that the social media platform X has been placing ads for major companies next to pro-Nazi content.
00:37:04.000What I've noticed about how the legacy media behaves is they phrase things in the worst possible way, in the worst possible light, placing ads next to neo-Nazi content.
00:37:14.000Now it's sort of understood that social media sites are used by a wide
00:37:18.000variety of people and to police them to the point of purity would mean there would be nobody on them. Saying
00:37:24.000that ads are placed next to neo-nazi sites might just say that on X
00:37:28.000there is a whole bunch of content including people with affiliations to Nazis. In a sense
00:37:32.000conceptualizing social media platforms is difficult for us because it's such a relatively new piece of technology.
00:37:38.000Do you envisage it the same way as you would envisage geography that has a variety of inhabitants cohabiting together with a wide variety of views?
00:37:45.000What is the responsibility of the people that own the platform?
00:37:49.000Specifically, how important is it that from the moment he acquired Twitter, as it was then, ex as it is now, Elon Musk has been revealing deep state involvement, revealing the censorship of true information, opposing legacy media and establishment narrative.
00:38:04.000Do you think that this attack is entirely separate from that, or do you think there's a connection?
00:38:10.000I.e., do you think sometimes there's a figure in public life that there's an appetite to destroy and then certain interests come together to work out how can we destroy this figure?
00:38:21.000And even if it's not as particular and hooded as that, there's obviously a convergence of interests, a set of ideological and economic and political interests that come together loosely, as George Carlin would say, you don't need conspiracy when interests converge.
00:38:36.000And are there a lot of convergent interests that see dissenting voices and go, take them down?
00:38:41.000As ex-owner Elon Musk continues his descent into white nationalist and anti-semitic conspiracy theories, wrote Media Matters reporter Eric Hanernocki, his social media platform has been placing ads for major brands like I see, you could kind of make it happen by following particular people, by clicking on particular posts.
00:39:00.000next to content that touts Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party.
00:39:04.000However, according to the X safety team, Media Matter's report was done by making a fake X account,
00:39:10.000then curating posts and ads to manipulate the account's timeline.
00:39:14.000These contrived experiences could be applied to any platform, X argues.
00:39:18.000I see, you could kind of make it happen by following particular people,
00:39:25.000Like, if you're a YouTube user or a Rumble user, you'll notice that if you watch, like, a long video on meditation, then you get a bunch of meditation stuff, and you're like, oh, I don't want to do that all the time.
00:40:28.000There's an intention to destroy Elon Musk.
00:40:30.000There's an intention to take out a lot of dissenting voices, I know, because I'm one of them.
00:40:34.000And when you find yourself in that position, then pieces can be moved around on a chessboard to destroy you.
00:40:40.000And people go, oh, well, you know, it's not... But there are so many ways you can manipulate information.
00:40:44.000Look at what's just happened in the last three years.
00:40:47.000According to X, in at least one instance, For instance, the Media Matters author was the only user to see a specific ad placement.
00:40:53.000Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all the organic content featured in the Media Matters article X Safety wrote.
00:41:05.000We should not blindly trust X's defense of its ad policy.
00:41:08.000X obviously had a bias in how it measures its trust and safety, and so Public attempted to reproduce Media Matters methods to see if we found ads next to the content in question.
00:41:18.000We created an account and followed 11 of the neo-Nazi accounts in Media Matters reports, starting yesterday, November the 19th.
00:41:26.000After refreshing both X's 4U page and following page more than 10 times and scrolling through the timeline each time, we did not observe ads next to white nationalist or pro-Nazi content.
00:41:36.000We followed more extremist accounts and repeated this process after following 30 accounts.
00:41:41.000Still, we did not find ads on the timeline.
00:41:43.000We also opened each account's page and did not observe ads there.
00:41:46.000Nor did we find ads under the replies to their posts.
00:41:49.000Media Matters did not respond to our inquiry about the exact methods it used for its report.
00:41:53.000But it sounds like there was an intention, because obviously Public and Schellenberger and those guys are a little more objective.
00:41:58.000Of course, all of us have our biases, but what it appears like is that they approached this somewhat in good faith, rather than, how can we make this seem as bad as possible?
00:42:06.000Also it's extraordinary to note the power still of commerce.
00:42:10.000That ultimately, if you live in a world driven by commodity and commercial interests, you can use that power to manipulate free speech.
00:42:17.000You can use that power to shut down dissenting figures.
00:42:20.000You can de-platform, de-monetise, control, shut down any individual you want to using these interests.
00:42:26.000Disney and NBC or whoever else, they're not gods, they're not deities, they're not moral organisations.
00:42:30.000You can find plenty of things to say about You think you can't think of things to say about Apple and Apple's practices abroad?
00:42:34.000You think you can't think of things to say about Disney and Disney's practices?
00:42:36.000Who the hell are they to be judging anybody?
00:42:39.000Who the hell are the legacy media to be judging anybody?
00:42:41.000Who puts these people in these positions?
00:43:10.000I'm saying who do you suggest as the arbiter other than some sort of decentralised, unbiased democracy between us?
00:43:18.000We can't have these legacy media organisations anymore nominating who gets destroyed and arbitrating who's right and who's wrong, who lives, who dies.
00:43:29.000Why is Media Matters leading a disinformation campaign and advertiser boycott against Elon Musk's ex?
00:43:35.000Who is Media Matters exactly and what's its real agenda?
00:43:38.000In 2004, David Brock created Media Matters to push corporate news media to the left by framing it as right-wing, attacking Fox News and smearing people who appeared on it.
00:43:48.000MediaMaths for 20 years has argued against false balance, which is the inclusion of conservative, Republican or other non-liberal voices in articles on climate change, race, gender issues and COVID.
00:43:58.000It convinced a generation of liberal news journalists to reject the idea of objectivity, to stop seeking alternative viewpoints and only to quote liberal and left-wing voices on a range of issues.
00:44:09.000When you include COVID along with climate change, race and gender issues, it shows you Authoritarianism is leveraged in a space that otherwise seems like it's about social equality.
00:44:19.000We all know there are narratives around race and gender and climate change that are undergirded by compassion and similarly the Covid arguments initially used compassion.
00:44:27.000Hey we have to lock everyone up, you have to take this medication because we have to be compassionate and responsible towards one another.
00:44:32.000But do you notice how all of these ideas lead to Centralised authoritarianism.
00:44:37.000Racism, gender, climate change, all are subjects you could legitimately make arguments for, but do you notice how the trajectory of these arguments is always towards more control?
00:44:45.000It's never towards compassionate discourse towards people, it's always towards censorship, it's always towards the assumption of guilt, and Covid legitimises yet more centralised authoritarianism.
00:44:54.000It seems that while these arguments, and indeed this whole mindset, like to portray itself as being about compassion, it's ultimately, it seems to me, about control.
00:45:02.000Let me know in the chat and the comments if you agree.
00:45:04.000Is it about compassion or is it about control?
00:45:06.000Media matters does this by demonising and discrediting its opponents.
00:45:09.000First it seeks to demonise disfavoured voices, including many liberal ones, by mischaracterising their views to make them sound more extreme.
00:45:16.000The goal is to stop mainstream news organizations from quoting these individuals.
00:45:20.000Then after Media Matters has done this, it attacks the same voices as Right Wing when they go on Fox News or appear in publications like the New York Post.
00:45:28.000So in a sense, it excludes them from the legacy media.
00:45:32.000Then when they try to use other areas to continue the discourse, it says they're Right Wing.
00:45:37.000I've actually had all of those things happen to me personally.
00:45:40.000Because of the way the media's evolved, those initial attacks didn't work.
00:45:43.000So they just left it alone, really, and I was allowed to get on with my life.
00:45:46.000Other examples though are Glenn Greenwald, Tybee, Schellenberger himself, all figures that seemed to be perfectly liberal, legitimate journalists pursuing pretty ideologically well-rounded arguments and pretty cool objectives around censorship and free speech and all stuff that just used to be considered normal.
00:46:03.000Suddenly, some line crossed them and they were un-person, called right-wing, suddenly they're appearing before congressional hearings and being disparaged and the tax status is questioned.
00:46:13.000Clearly, something very unusual is going on, isn't it?
00:46:17.000During the pandemic, media mads smeared me, at Marty Makary, and other scientists for the crime of appearing on Fox News, wrote Stanford professor of medicine, Jay Bhattacharya, on X over the weekend.
00:46:29.000I told the American people that closing schools was useless for COVID and harmed children.
00:46:33.000The Media Matters business model is defamation of its perceived enemies.
00:46:36.000Before Media Matters used this strategy on Bhattacharya, it used this strategy on disfavored liberal voices on climate change like Roger Pielke Jr.
00:47:22.000If you got Field of Greens, you're gonna be like some sort of brick house, which will make sense to you at some point, for perhaps the first time.
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00:47:37.000Since I've been taking Field of Greens, my hair and nails, which were always growing suspiciously fast, have grown even quicker and healthier than ever before.
00:47:45.000I promise you, this will be one of the best things you can add to your life for better health.
00:48:08.000And Media Matters isn't the only institution that does this.
00:48:10.000Media Matters works hand-in-glove with the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party-aligned think tank that John Podesta founded the same year as Media Matters.
00:48:19.000Media Matters promotes CAP-approved experts while demanding that media not quote conservative or disfavored liberal experts.
00:48:26.000The money comes from the same people who give to the Democratic Party.
00:48:29.000George Soros gave a million dollars to Media Matters and gave three million dollars to CAP.
00:48:33.000Soros gives these donations as part of his broader support for Democrats.
00:48:37.000He gave $80 million to the Democratic Party in 2020 and $125 million in 2022.
00:48:43.000Soros was the largest donor to the Democratic Party in 2022.
00:48:46.000As such, Media Matters and CAP have always been Democratic Party front groups aimed at deciding what mainstream corporate news media outlets cover.
00:48:54.000They have successfully pushed the news media further to the left over the last 20 years since the two organisations were founded.
00:49:01.000It was Podesta, upon the defeat of Hillary Clinton, whose presidential campaign he chaired, who helped orchestrate the Russia hoax, which involved the illegal abuse of Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security powers.
00:49:12.000I'm curious how many organisations are often involved in these campaigns.
00:49:17.000And I imagine if we were to scrutinise media matters further, and what's happening currently with Elon Musk, you'd find a congregation of interests that were recognisable, and probably include the deep state, but plainly include Democrat party figures like George Soros, even demonstrably in terms of his funding, already.
00:49:33.000When Trump was elected, Cap fully embraced the so-called resistance, which didn't just disagree with Trump's policies, but also promoted the conspiracy theory that Trump had not been legitimately elected.
00:49:43.000It was and is one of the single biggest drivers of Trump-Russia nonsense, wrote Matt Taibbi on X, a story which stank of Brock from the beginning.
00:49:51.000The attacks on X make clear that the real concern of Democratic Party elites is their lack of control over the public conversation.
00:49:58.000From 1996 to 2016, Democrats felt they controlled the elite policy and political conversation through the news media.
00:50:04.000After that appeared to fall apart in 2016 and as Democrats, including Podesta, blamed social media for Clinton's loss, they stepped up their effort to take control over Twitter and Facebook, which they did, demanding and winning the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop and de-platforming Trump.
00:50:19.000In fact, that That was an incredible period of success, which already seems crazy, doesn't it?
00:50:23.000That that story was totally suppressed and we were told it was conspiracy theory and it wasn't, and a legitimate political figure, because he's not to everybody's taste, was de-platformed in a way that's pretty unprecedented.
00:50:35.000And again, this story seems like the kind of thing that you could construct If you wanted to.
00:50:40.000We all know that ISIS and stuff have social media accounts, that across the world there are all sorts of people that have social media accounts and you could, if you wanted, create the coordinate to make an attack.
00:50:51.000But no one's going to do that on Facebook because Facebook is part of the machine.
00:50:54.000No one's going to do that on other compliant legacy media conduits because they are part of the system.
00:51:00.000Elon Musk has become a figure like Trump who you have to revise your perspective of because it becomes clear that the establishment has a real strong view on And that, for me, is always an indication that something interesting is happening.
00:51:11.000Let me know if you agree with that in the chat.
00:51:12.000The strategy of Democratic party leaders, including Clinton, Podesta, and Obama, has
00:51:16.000been since 2016 to label Trump's supporting Republicans as racists, Nazis, and anti-Semites.
00:51:22.000The attacks on Elon Musk's ex must be taken in this context.
00:51:26.000The real agenda behind the Media Matters attack on X is the same as the one behind the Democrats' attack on Trump and the Republicans.
00:51:32.000Democrats want to control the conversation.
00:51:34.000Without censorship, voters can see the border is a disaster, the Ukraine war was a tragic failure, and that the Democrats have been censoring them.
00:51:43.000You have to find ways of shutting down independent media, of controlling the conversation.
00:51:47.000Unique in this space is Elon Musk and platforms like Rumble, Where people say, no, no, we're free speech, absolutely.
00:51:53.000We're going to allow the conversation to take place.
00:51:55.000What's often inferred from that is these people must have particular political views because they're favouring, essentially, our opponents.
00:52:01.000But if not censoring the opponent is favouring the opponent, it makes you wonder where the real problem is, doesn't it?
00:52:09.000Advertisers are fleeing and it's unclear if or when they'll return.
00:52:12.000Musk has announced lawsuits but there is no guarantee they'll win.
00:52:16.000This is all dangerous because X must remain a free speech platform given that after a similar advertiser boycott against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg gave up and decided to effectively let the US government censor often true content on Meta.
00:52:28.000There is offensive content on X including racism, antisemitism, misogyny and other forms of hate.
00:52:33.000Hate speech, while inflammatory and objectionable, is not harassment or a direct incitement of violence, which is already banned on the platform.
00:52:39.000As much as we may dislike it, censoring hate speech is often counterproductive.
00:52:43.000As we experienced under Twitter's previous leadership, censorship of hate speech often leads to censorship of political speech.
00:52:49.000And since hate and prejudice are based on ignorance, attacking the assumptions behind them publicly, not censoring them, is the best way to overcome them.
00:53:04.000And I see many, many things that I disagree with, and sometimes personal attacks.
00:53:08.000But we have to allow it to take place, unless it's criminal.
00:53:11.000And if it's criminal, there's already a process for that.
00:53:13.000This is hardly a new argument, and the only reason we need to make it again today is because the Democrats, legacy media and civil society groups are opposed to the freer expression Musk is allowing on X compared to Twitter a year ago.
00:53:24.000Putting pressure on advertisers is a way for journalists and censorship advocates to force companies to remove content they don't like.
00:53:30.000There are other things we must do as free speech lovers.
00:53:33.000The public, voters and media consumers should be more sceptical of mainstream news outlets which today spread disinformation on many issues of public importance from Ukraine and Israel to Covid and climate change to race and gender issues.
00:53:44.000It was the news media that demanded that the White House demand censorship by Facebook of true stories of vaccine side effects.
00:53:51.000I suppose the initial position we have to take is one of mistrust when it comes to the legacy media, and one of awareness and deep scrutiny at the way that these organisations interact, the obvious potential for corporate, state and media interests to align because of their obvious financial ties and the convergence of interests beyond that.
00:54:09.000This story, for me, is an objective example of what happens if you make a stand against their interests.
00:54:14.000And even if that stand is as simple as, we are going to allow free speech, you will be vilified and they will use every tool at their disposal, starting with the withdrawal of finances, conspiracy theorists, your right wing.
00:54:25.000But in my experience, this will escalate into ad hominem attacks and then beyond in an attempt to just silence any dissent or any potential to present a narrative outside of the one that means that they can completely control the public sphere.
00:54:37.000And even your own psychological space.
00:54:39.000I think that the end point is they want total control of every individual's consciousness.
00:54:43.000That's what it seems like it's heading towards.
00:54:45.000The Media Matters disinformation against X makes clear that giant corporate advertisers, the news media, and progressive activist groups like Media Matters and CAP want to control the information the public receives to control America's political institutions.
00:54:57.000For that to change, we must become less dependent on the content created and provided by everyone from the New York Times and Washington Post to Disney, Warner Brothers, and Comcast.
00:55:05.000And we must have great control over the content we receive through social media platforms.
00:55:10.000And we must no longer trust the news media, a trend which is already well underway, including increasingly among Democrats.
00:55:16.000Plainly, that's what they are already anticipating.
00:55:18.000They are sensing a drift away from legacy media institutions and even entertainment oriented corporations such as the ones listed there.
00:55:28.000So finding ways to control the space and ensure that they retain control over online spaces, media spaces, And indeed, ultimately, the consciousness of the individuals that are the end goal of this.
00:55:38.000You remember at the advent of the internet, you would just use it in ways that seem inconceivable now.
00:55:43.000Downloading free music, communicating in ways that even for someone my age is sort of difficult to comprehend.
00:55:49.000I was not an early adapter in those spaces.
00:55:51.000Now, the online world has been tiled over by corporate logos.
00:55:55.000Unless you're particularly adept at internet use, you'll go through Google, you'll go through Facebook, you'll go through Apple or Amazon.
00:56:00.000These spaces have now been marshaled, parametered, and are indeed controlled by economic interests.
00:56:06.000Initially there was a sort of a sense of libertarianism because they had to, by their nature, contain a diverse group of necessarily opposing opinions.
00:56:13.000But as they became siphoned off into various channels and communities, it became clear that certain corporate interests and commercial interests could manage the overall impact of that space.
00:56:23.000We saw outlier events like Brexit or the rise of populist politicians and this is continuing across the world because people are ultimately, it seems to me, opposed to globalism.
00:56:32.000So globalism has to continually alloy its agenda to supposed issues that are significant to people around gender, identity, race, climate change, important ideas where there are important conversations that could take place.
00:56:43.000But those conversations can't be turbocharged by corporate, financial and state interests that seem to have only one aim in mind.
00:57:06.000I don't know where this will head, but it seems that in Elon Musk they have an opponent that can fight them in courts, that can fight them in the public sphere, that can fight them on social media platforms.
01:00:12.000We've got a few things to cover, first of all, but I want to let you know what we're doing tomorrow.
01:00:16.000You see how January 6th was posited as an insurrection?
01:00:20.000I always thought it was a little fanciful.
01:00:22.000I thought it was, at best, a guided tour gone awry.
01:00:28.000That's what I thought it would look like.
01:00:30.000People look kind of gentle, don't they, when they're wandering?
01:00:33.000I know there was violence and even a death, of course.
01:00:36.000But what I feel like is that there's a lot of hysterical rhetoric around January the 6th and it's used to conflate the, let's call it the MAGA right, which I think is essentially a populist movement, to paint them as a kind of a fascistic organisation.
01:00:51.000We've got loads of examples of MSNBC pundits and CNN pundits and Clinton etc.
01:02:34.000A little bit of Bhagavad Gita and also we're going to look at rice resonance and what happens when frequencies played through water to demonstrate that there's an ulterior reality that we can access in our consciousness.
01:02:45.000So you've just got to press the red button on your screen and join us there over in the Awaken Wonder community.
01:02:50.000We do Bible readings, we discuss how this movement is going to grow and how we're going to not necessarily take over the world because we don't agree with globalism.
01:02:58.000What we want is a decentralized unified movement to challenge Globalism.
01:03:04.000That's what we want, and by God, we're going to get one.
01:03:06.000And people that have joined this movement lately, App Sarah 2, welcome.
01:03:11.000100lb Owl, Cora, Coleman Cubbage, Cubbage or Cubbage, you're all welcome.
01:03:16.000I'm glad you're in our community together.
01:03:17.000So we're going to, like all of you guys that are watching us on Rumble, we love you.
01:03:21.000We're back tomorrow with Lee Fang for another fantastic show, and this January the 6th story, which I know you're going to watch.
01:03:26.000If you want a little bit more from us, Hop over to Locals, press the red button where I'll be reading the holy words of the Lord, as well as the Bhagavad Gita.