On September 29th, 2024, a rally will take place in Washington, D.C. in protest of the rise of totalitarianism across all of the western republics. This rally is a call to the barricade, and will be the bridge to a new era in which we begin to turn the tide against the degradations of our civil liberties that have been brought to bear by the autocratic cabal that has now taken over the Western world. Join us at the Rally on the 29th of September in the Capitol in support of the 8 Pillars of the Rally, and in defense of our democratic order. Join me and the Rally's speakers at the Save the Republic Rally on September 29, 2024 at the Capitol on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and join us in the Fight for the Republic rally in the streets of Washington, DC on September 30, 2024. Don't miss it! This is a must-listen rally, and I hope all of our listeners show up! Thank you so much for all your support, and don't forget to share this with your friends, family, and the rest of the world! Tweet me and let us know what you think! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What do you think of this episode? 2:30 - What would you like to see happen at the rally? 3:15 - What are your thoughts on the Rally? 4:40 - How important is it is to you? 5:20 - How do you feel about it? 6:00 7: What are you looking forward to the future? 9: What is your biggest takeaway from this rally and what would you're looking for? 8 pillars? 11:00 | What does it mean for the future of the country? 12:30 | What is the best thing? 13:15 | How do we win? 15:30 16:40 | What s your biggest challenge? 17:40 18:20 | What do we need to do to restore the democratic order? 19:00 -- What are we all agree on? 21:10: What does the country need to win in 2020? 22:30 -- How can we win a victory? 26:30 Is this movement bigger than MAGA? 27:40 -- Is this a new moment? 25:00 Is there a new movement?
00:00:06.000My guest today is one of my great and old friends, Brett Weinstein, and we're going to talk about our big rally coming up in Washington, the Rescue the Republic rally, and that is on September 29th, 2024.
00:00:26.000It's a rally, and In protest of the rise of totalitarianism across all of the western republics now, we saw Brazil ban Twitter and I think a couple of other social media companies this week, and then we've watched the rise of the censorship state in Europe, the European Commission.
00:00:52.000Europe is now openly censoring all of the social media platforms.
00:00:57.000The arrest of Pavel Durov two weeks ago when he landed his plane, the head of Telegram, the founder of Telegram, really just a show of autocratic strength by the cartel, I'll call it, this anti-democratic cartel that has now taken over the Western world.
00:01:28.000And then two weeks before that, we saw the European Commission, Commissioner Brenton, or Thierry Brenton, Threatening Elon Musk with criminal and civil prosecution, if he interviewed a former president of the United States alive,
00:01:47.000without having any clue of what they were going to say, and incidentally the nominee of one of the two major political parties in this country, That the European people aren't allowed to hear that because that might put dangerous thoughts in their head.
00:02:08.000They're protecting Europeans, of course, totalitarian.
00:02:12.000The excuse, the justification for totalitarian always is security and compassion and humanity and Protecting the public, and we're seeing that now all over the place, and we've got to make America, the United States, a redoubt, a fortification against this.
00:02:38.000This rally is a call to the barricade.
00:02:44.000So, Brad, why don't you talk about what's happening?
00:02:49.000Well, frankly, you set it up beautifully and you see it clearly exactly as I do.
00:02:54.000I'm sure you have the experience Almost every day of looking at what's taking place and just thinking, I can't believe that I've lived to see the West descend into this tyrannical madness.
00:03:07.000And this rally, and I don't know that rally is the right word.
00:03:12.000I don't feel that any of the normal words are correct in the same way that Woodstock was a music festival, but that's not really what it was historically speaking.
00:03:21.000This, I believe, is going to be the bookend to the era that dawned with Woodstock, and it hopefully will be the bridge to a new era in which we repel this autocratic cabal and we begin to turn the tide on all of the degradations of our civil liberties that have been brought to bear.
00:03:46.000So, as you know, we have a great lineup of Speakers and comedians and musicians.
00:03:53.000I would encourage people to go to the website, which is jointheresistance.org, and take a look at our eight pillars.
00:04:00.000They will recognize that almost any patriotic American would agree on all of these things without question.
00:04:26.000This was a principle that was so significant that at the end of World War II, the Allies literally hanged seven doctors for violating the informed consent of their patients, even though it had not yet been codified.
00:04:39.000And we have now thrown informed consent out the window, which was made quite plain during the COVID madness.
00:04:46.000The third pillar is that we need to end the censorship industrial complex and stop the control of information and the official propagandizing of the population.
00:04:59.000The fourth is the academic industrial complex has to be shut down and we need to return our truth-seeking institutions to their original mission.
00:05:14.000We need to head off the central bank digital currencies that are going to be used as a backdoor to a Chinese-style social credit system.
00:05:22.000And we need to restore family sovereignty and take the government out of the business of telling parents how to raise children.
00:05:30.000So all of those are obviously things that any rational person should agree to.
00:05:34.000And my concern about the rally is that people won't understand how important it is.
00:05:41.000That they show up, if they at all can, that in an environment like this one, where the blue team has shown a dedication to cheating in every conceivable way, that the only way to restore the democratic order is to win a victory so large that it exceeds their capacity to cheat.
00:06:01.000And part of doing that is showing up in large numbers in the Capitol on September 29th, To demonstrate that this is a new American movement.
00:06:13.000This is not MAGA. It contains MAGA, but this is much bigger than MAGA. This unity movement is much larger, and frankly, I think a lot of us detected it galvanizing at the moment that you showed up on stage with Donald Trump, and it became clear that this was not a rerun of any campaign we'd seen before.
00:06:54.000Robert Malone, Matt Taibbi, really great lineup here, Heather Haying, Corey DeAngelis, Colonel Doug McGregor, Jimmy Dore, Mary Holland, and some really good musical performances by Skillet, TN Jet, The Defiant, Human Garage, Five Times August, Deepak, and Struggle Jennings.
00:07:35.000And probably the most important thing, if you can't make it, is to spread the word.
00:07:40.000There are enough people in this country who are fed up with our system and have stopped voting that if they were to come off the bench, they can swing any election.
00:07:51.000So my message to them is this is the election to come off the bench.
00:08:20.000You know, I was interested in Vice President Harris's boasting during the During the debate about how important NATO is,
00:08:41.000she doesn't understand that NATO has gone from becoming an institution for promoting peace in Europe To an institution for promoting war and promoting U.S. domination of the globe.
00:09:00.000And she boasted about receiving these endorsements from this week, from Dick Cheney, from John Bolton, from 225 neocons, from Mitt Romney's group, from George W. Bush's.
00:09:19.000A group and from John McCain's coalition.
00:09:29.000Those people are joining her campaign, not because they've changed.
00:09:35.000These are the people who gave us the Patriot Act.
00:09:37.000These are the people who introduced to us the surveillance state, the extraordinary renditions, the torture.
00:09:48.000The deprivation of our rights, the spying by NSA and CIA on the American people, the rise of the security, the surveillance, the censorship state in this country.
00:10:02.000These are the people who created that.
00:10:05.000They're the people who gave us the war in Iraq, a war that has led directly.
00:10:12.000That war in Iraq, we ended up killing more of Iraq.
00:10:15.000We went in there on false pretenses that they created, these same people, that they were weapons of mass destruction.
00:10:23.000We obliterated this country that had done nothing bad to us, that was a traditional ally of ours.
00:10:28.000Saddam Hussein was not a good man, but he was a bulwark against Iranian expansion in the region.
00:10:34.000And we had supported him and armed him in his war against Iran.
00:10:42.000We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did.
00:10:46.000We transformed Iraq into a proxy for Iran, which was exactly the foreign policy outcome that we'd been trying to avoid for 30 years.
00:10:56.000Iran today, we left this little country As an incoherent battle between Shia and Sunni death squads, we created ISIS. We created the spillover war in Syria.
00:11:12.000We drove two to four million refugees up into Europe and destabilized Europe for the next several generations.
00:12:05.000They become the party of war, the party of surveillance, the party of censorship.
00:12:09.000This is exactly the opposite of the Democratic Party that I grew up with, the Democratic Party of Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy.
00:12:18.000It's become the party of Wall Street, of big tech.
00:12:22.000Big pharma, big data, the big banking industry, the Fed, and the war machine.
00:12:33.000They are the primary proponent today on clamping down these totalitarian controls on our country.
00:12:41.000I'm very, very happy that you took the initiative to begin bringing all these people together from every different End of the spectrum, of the political spectrum, to stand together for democracy, for liberty, for freedom.
00:13:02.000I think I've been working one side of it and you've been working a different side of it.
00:13:07.000Watching you join with President Trump is really, it's the one vessel that might actually have a chance of succeeding here.
00:13:17.000But to your point about Cheney and the other neocons joining the Democratic Party and the Democrats welcoming it, I agree with you.
00:13:25.000This is the inverse of the party that I signed up for.
00:13:29.000But there's something interesting here, because it's not even that the parties have swapped places or something like that.
00:13:37.000You have now Dick Cheney and Barack Obama supporting the same ticket.
00:13:43.000Now, Dick Cheney was part of the administration that ushered in the Patriot Act, and Barack Obama is the president who signed the NDAA of 2012, which contained onerous provisions of indefinite detention until the end of hostilities in the War on Terror, which is, of course, an absurdity because how does a war on terror get declared over?
00:14:07.000But to have those two polls now joined together inside one party, it's a change from what the American public is used to.
00:14:18.000The duopoly that we're used to thinking about and rolling our eyes about is now really housed in that one party.
00:14:25.000And the Republican Party, while it has some remnants of the party you and I remember as the GOP, Looks to me like it is actually transforming into something different, and that's exciting.
00:14:36.000I worry about what might become of the Republican Party now that it seems to be in play, but I wanted to run this by you.
00:14:45.000I've heard you say things that are similar to what I've been saying about MAGA, that MAGA is more or less The labor movement that had been cut loose by the Democratic Party.
00:14:58.000I would say they were cut loose largely beginning in the Clinton administration.
00:15:03.000And that they have now found a home over under the GOP banner.
00:15:10.000And the neocons have moved over under the blue banner.
00:15:17.000I mean, I think we're in the middle of that realignment now.
00:15:20.000I mean, it was interesting because You know, not only that, but on environmental issues, you're seeing, you know, the Democratic Party, which used to be the party environment, but that's slowly constrained to be just about carbon, this carbon orthodoxy, this carbon kind of monoculture.
00:15:44.000And that's put them in the position to serve the interests of Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.
00:15:51.000Which are using the excuse of, you know, reducing carbon to build these giant windmills that are so environmentally destructive that are privatizing the ocean, killing the whales, destroying the fisheries, destroying small fishermen, raising the price of energy,
00:16:08.000and that these big $100 billion carbon capture projects that are A part of the methane industry and the oil industry, and they're owned by BlackRock and Smithfield, a Chinese company, and all these sovereign wealth funds that are building carbon capture.
00:16:26.000Pipelines across the Midwest and use the eminent domain to steal agricultural land from regular people.
00:16:34.000And the Republicans are now becoming the party of the environment, of habitat protection, of species protection, of wildlife protection, of clean water, clean air.
00:17:30.000Tucker Carlson taking on endocrine disruptors, that's an inversion.
00:17:36.000I gave a speech, and J.D. Vance gave speeches at the At the International Association of Firefighters in Boston, and in his speech, he endorsed collective bargaining.
00:17:51.000The Republican convention, Sean O'Brien spoke for the first time in history, the head of the Teamsters, and the biggest union in our country.
00:18:04.000And so we have this really—we're in the middle of a huge realignment.
00:18:14.000I've made the point that in 2020, The Republicans, President Trump got roughly 50% of the vote.
00:18:23.000President Biden roughly got 50% of the vote.
00:18:26.000But the 50% of the vote that went to President Biden owned 70% of the wealth in this country.
00:18:31.000The 50% that voted for President Trump owned 30% of the wealth.
00:18:35.000The Republican Party has become, you know, when I was growing up, the Democratic Party was the party of the cops, the firefighters, you know, of labor people.
00:18:48.000Today, that is becoming the Republican Party.
00:18:52.000There are still some of the union heads that are traditionally Democratic.
00:18:58.000If you look at the rank and file of almost any union in this country, it's going to be Republican.
00:19:07.000We're seeing this incredible realignment happen right now.
00:19:15.000Probably most of my old friends are in the Democratic Party.
00:19:23.000And they're just horrified by anything that is Trumpy and a Republican.
00:19:29.000It's like we all have this capacity to judge ourselves by our intentions rather than our actions.
00:19:36.000And they still see themselves as wearing the white hats They're the ones who are clamping down oppression, censorship on the rest of us, and they're shameless about it.
00:19:50.000You know, Tim Waltz has said that he doesn't think that the First Amendment protects misinformation or disinformation, that the government gets to decide what is protected by what kind of speech protected and what is not by the First Amendment.
00:20:09.000And as you know, and I know, During COVID, the government was the biggest promoter of misinformation.
00:20:49.000It protects every kind of information.
00:20:51.000And when we give government the power to be the arbiter of what, you know, speech is protected and which is, and that is the end of democracy.
00:21:02.000Yeah, I think it's important to say people don't really understand intuitively why it is that you have to protect misinformation and disinformation.
00:21:11.000Malinformation is, of course, an insane absurdity invented by these people in order to get out of jail free.
00:21:17.000But the point is, and this was made so clear during COVID, Nobody knows what the truth is.
00:21:26.000There's not a book or an oracle you can consult to know that.
00:21:30.000The process of discovering what is true requires us to be able to advance ideas that will later turn out not to be true, Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
00:21:57.000I wanted to return to your point about the environment because you're a lifelong environmentalist, as am I, and I have watched the same thing.
00:22:06.000I've watched the party that used to be the party of the environment become completely deaf to any mention of the environment that was not about carbon and anthropogenic climate change.
00:22:18.000And this is a very troubling pattern because you and I both know the number of environmental disasters and different kinds of jeopardy and pollutants is proliferating at an incredible rate.
00:22:34.000And many of the processes that are being disrupted in nature get pushed to a point that they can never be recovered.
00:22:41.000So, you know, we're talking about destroying the birthright of future generations and not even talking about it.
00:22:48.000And it is at first surprising to see this very genuine, they resent being called environmentalists because they've for so long been told that that is about climate.
00:23:00.000So they prefer to be called conservationists, which frankly I think is fine.
00:23:04.000But to see this powerful conservationist impulse emerging in the Republican Party is heartening, to say the least, because I haven't seen it in a decade anywhere.
00:23:44.000I guess the reason that it matters is because it sounds like you're having the same experience that I am, where I have a good many friends and family members who are hanging on in the Democratic Party because they haven't noticed that the rhetoric is completely decoupled from the policy.
00:24:08.000To the extent that they're being given reasons to vote blue, it's symbolic.
00:24:14.000And that if you really listen to what's being advocated for, it's an inversion of what they once believed.
00:24:19.000But as long as they're just following, you know, the symbolism, as long as they limit themselves to reading a certain set of publications in which the narrative is presented in a perfectly consistent way, they think people like you and I have lost our minds.
00:24:33.000And frankly, Those people are victims.
00:24:41.000So I would love to wake them up and I would love for them to be able to see that, oh, you think you're an environmentalist?
00:24:47.000Well, why don't you come on over to this big tent that we're pitching over here and discover that the people that you think are villains are actually speaking a language you'll find familiar.
00:24:57.000They're the ones who care about the environment being polluted and the habitats being destroyed.
00:25:01.000And, you know, wouldn't you be happier...
00:25:06.000As soon as the spell breaks, I think we're in a very good position.