RFK Jr. The Defender - Rescue the Republic with Bret Weinstein

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?

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 It's been a while since we've done a podcast.

00:00:03.000 I've been busy.

00:00:06.000 My 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.

00:00:22.000 I hope all of our listeners show up.

00:00:26.000 It'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.

00:00:52.000 Europe is now openly censoring all of the social media platforms.

00:00:57.000 The 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.

00:01:28.000 And 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,

00:01:47.000 without 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.

00:02:08.000 They're protecting Europeans, of course, totalitarian. 0.99

00:02:12.000 The 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.

00:02:38.000 This rally is a call to the barricade.

00:02:44.000 So, Brad, why don't you talk about what's happening?

00:02:48.000 Sure.

00:02:49.000 Well, frankly, you set it up beautifully and you see it clearly exactly as I do.

00:02:54.000 I'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.

00:03:07.000 And this rally, and I don't know that rally is the right word.

00:03:12.000 I 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.

00:03:21.000 This, 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.

00:03:46.000 So, as you know, we have a great lineup of Speakers and comedians and musicians.

00:03:53.000 I would encourage people to go to the website, which is jointheresistance.org, and take a look at our eight pillars.

00:04:00.000 They will recognize that almost any patriotic American would agree on all of these things without question.

00:04:10.000 We need to make war happen. 0.99

00:04:13.000 The last resort.

00:04:15.000 Obviously war is occasionally necessary, but one must exhaust all other options for it to be morally considerable.

00:04:23.000 We need to restore informed consent.

00:04:26.000 This 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.

00:04:39.000 And we have now thrown informed consent out the window, which was made quite plain during the COVID madness.

00:04:46.000 The 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.

00:04:59.000 The fourth is the academic industrial complex has to be shut down and we need to return our truth-seeking institutions to their original mission.

00:05:10.000 We need to end lawfare.

00:05:11.000 We need a rational border policy.

00:05:14.000 We 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.

00:05:22.000 And we need to restore family sovereignty and take the government out of the business of telling parents how to raise children.

00:05:30.000 So all of those are obviously things that any rational person should agree to.

00:05:34.000 And my concern about the rally is that people won't understand how important it is.

00:05:41.000 That 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.

00:06:01.000 And 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.

00:06:13.000 This 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.

00:06:32.000 This was something brand new.

00:06:35.000 And the guests are going to be Fred Weinstein.

00:06:39.000 I think, is your brother, is Eric going to be there too?

00:06:42.000 I do not believe so.

00:06:44.000 Tulsi Gabbard, me, Russell Brand, Zubi, Laura Logan, Dr.

00:06:51.000 Pierre Corey, Dr.

00:06:54.000 Robert 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.

00:07:20.000 Yeah, it's going to be a great show.

00:07:22.000 It's free.

00:07:23.000 Obviously, getting to D.C. might be a hassle for a lot of folks.

00:07:26.000 But if you can at all make it, it's going to be a great show.

00:07:29.000 And if you can't make it, we could obviously use some help.

00:07:33.000 There's a donate tab on our site.

00:07:35.000 And probably the most important thing, if you can't make it, is to spread the word.

00:07:40.000 There 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.

00:07:51.000 So my message to them is this is the election to come off the bench.

00:07:57.000 We need it.

00:07:58.000 It's not clear how much democracy is left in four years from this point.

00:08:03.000 It's already been hollowed out.

00:08:06.000 So I think this is the election to come off the bench and make yourself heard.

00:08:10.000 Yeah, and people can go to www.jointheresistance.org.

00:08:16.000 That's www.jointheresistance.org.

00:08:20.000 You know, I was interested in Vice President Harris's boasting during the During the debate about how important NATO is,

00:08:41.000 she 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.

00:08:56.000 And she doesn't understand that.

00:09:00.000 And 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.

00:09:19.000 A group and from John McCain's coalition.

00:09:29.000 Those people are joining her campaign, not because they've changed.

00:09:35.000 These are the people who gave us the Patriot Act.

00:09:37.000 These are the people who introduced to us the surveillance state, the extraordinary renditions, the torture.

00:09:48.000 The 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.

00:10:02.000 These are the people who created that.

00:10:05.000 They're the people who gave us the war in Iraq, a war that has led directly. 0.96

00:10:12.000 That war in Iraq, we ended up killing more of Iraq. 0.99

00:10:15.000 We went in there on false pretenses that they created, these same people, that they were weapons of mass destruction.

00:10:23.000 We obliterated this country that had done nothing bad to us, that was a traditional ally of ours. 0.74

00:10:28.000 Saddam Hussein was not a good man, but he was a bulwark against Iranian expansion in the region. 0.99

00:10:34.000 And we had supported him and armed him in his war against Iran.

00:10:39.000 And we destroyed that country.

00:10:42.000 We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did. 0.94

00:10:46.000 We transformed Iraq into a proxy for Iran, which was exactly the foreign policy outcome that we'd been trying to avoid for 30 years. 0.84

00:10:56.000 Iran 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. 0.94

00:11:12.000 We drove two to four million refugees up into Europe and destabilized Europe for the next several generations. 1.00

00:11:21.000 That led to Brexit.

00:11:22.000 It led to The rise today of totalitarianism across Europe and the destruction of democracy.

00:11:31.000 These are the people who created that mess.

00:11:34.000 They were exiled even by the Republican Party.

00:11:37.000 They were traditionally all Republicans.

00:11:40.000 They were exiled by the Republican Party.

00:11:43.000 And now they're getting their way back into power and control by By endorsing Kamala Harris.

00:11:56.000 And she welcomes that endorsement rather than repels it.

00:12:01.000 And she thinks that that's a good thing.

00:12:03.000 And the Democrats are proclaiming it.

00:12:05.000 They become the party of war, the party of surveillance, the party of censorship.

00:12:09.000 This is exactly the opposite of the Democratic Party that I grew up with, the Democratic Party of Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy.

00:12:18.000 It's become the party of Wall Street, of big tech.

00:12:22.000 Big pharma, big data, the big banking industry, the Fed, and the war machine.

00:12:33.000 They are the primary proponent today on clamping down these totalitarian controls on our country.

00:12:41.000 I'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.

00:13:01.000 Well, I appreciate that.

00:13:02.000 I think I've been working one side of it and you've been working a different side of it.

00:13:07.000 Watching you join with President Trump is really, it's the one vessel that might actually have a chance of succeeding here.

00:13:17.000 But to your point about Cheney and the other neocons joining the Democratic Party and the Democrats welcoming it, I agree with you.

00:13:25.000 This is the inverse of the party that I signed up for.

00:13:29.000 But there's something interesting here, because it's not even that the parties have swapped places or something like that.

00:13:37.000 You have now Dick Cheney and Barack Obama supporting the same ticket.

00:13:43.000 Now, 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?

00:14:07.000 But to have those two polls now joined together inside one party, it's a change from what the American public is used to.

00:14:18.000 The duopoly that we're used to thinking about and rolling our eyes about is now really housed in that one party.

00:14:25.000 And 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.

00:14:35.000 It's also frightening.

00:14:36.000 I 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.

00:14:45.000 I'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.

00:14:58.000 I would say they were cut loose largely beginning in the Clinton administration.

00:15:03.000 And that they have now found a home over under the GOP banner.

00:15:10.000 And the neocons have moved over under the blue banner.

00:15:14.000 Do you see that?

00:15:15.000 You see that same picture?

00:15:17.000 I mean, I think we're in the middle of that realignment now.

00:15:20.000 I 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.

00:15:44.000 And that's put them in the position to serve the interests of Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.

00:15:51.000 Which 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,

00:16:08.000 and 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.

00:16:26.000 Pipelines across the Midwest and use the eminent domain to steal agricultural land from regular people.

00:16:34.000 And the Republicans are now becoming the party of the environment, of habitat protection, of species protection, of wildlife protection, of clean water, clean air.

00:16:46.000 Restoring our soil.

00:16:48.000 If you really care about climate, the most important thing you could do is restore our soils.

00:16:54.000 If we restore our soils, it can absorb enough energy to put us in pre-industrial levels in terms of carbon in our atmosphere.

00:17:03.000 And that's what we ought to be doing.

00:17:06.000 And agriculture is the biggest producer of carbon gases.

00:17:13.000 So in two ways, you reduce carbon, and then you do all these other good things.

00:17:18.000 I was at a talk the other night with J.D. Vance, and he was talking about the evils of mountaintop removal mining.

00:17:27.000 Well, that is an inversion.

00:17:30.000 Tucker Carlson taking on endocrine disruptors, that's an inversion.

00:17:36.000 I 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.

00:17:51.000 The Republican convention, Sean O'Brien spoke for the first time in history, the head of the Teamsters, and the biggest union in our country.

00:18:04.000 And so we have this really—we're in the middle of a huge realignment.

00:18:14.000 I've made the point that in 2020, The Republicans, President Trump got roughly 50% of the vote.

00:18:23.000 President Biden roughly got 50% of the vote.

00:18:26.000 But the 50% of the vote that went to President Biden owned 70% of the wealth in this country.

00:18:31.000 The 50% that voted for President Trump owned 30% of the wealth.

00:18:35.000 The 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.

00:18:48.000 Today, that is becoming the Republican Party.

00:18:52.000 There are still some of the union heads that are traditionally Democratic.

00:18:58.000 If you look at the rank and file of almost any union in this country, it's going to be Republican.

00:19:07.000 We're seeing this incredible realignment happen right now.

00:19:15.000 Probably most of my old friends are in the Democratic Party.

00:19:22.000 They haven't seen it yet.

00:19:23.000 And they're just horrified by anything that is Trumpy and a Republican.

00:19:29.000 It's like we all have this capacity to judge ourselves by our intentions rather than our actions.

00:19:36.000 And 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.

00:19:50.000 You 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.

00:20:09.000 And as you know, and I know, During COVID, the government was the biggest promoter of misinformation.

00:20:17.000 Everybody knows that now.

00:20:20.000 Not only the biggest promoter of misinformation.

00:20:25.000 Kamala Harris has said the same thing, that if you promote misinformation and misinformation, we're going to punish you.

00:20:32.000 You've abused your privilege.

00:20:36.000 In other words, the First Amendment is a privilege.

00:20:38.000 It's not a right.

00:20:40.000 That's not correct.

00:20:42.000 You know, the First Amendment protects misinformation and disinformation.

00:20:47.000 It protects lies.

00:20:49.000 It protects every kind of information.

00:20:51.000 And 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.

00:21:02.000 Yeah, I think it's important to say people don't really understand intuitively why it is that you have to protect misinformation and disinformation.

00:21:11.000 Malinformation is, of course, an insane absurdity invented by these people in order to get out of jail free. 0.98

00:21:17.000 But the point is, and this was made so clear during COVID, Nobody knows what the truth is.

00:21:26.000 There's not a book or an oracle you can consult to know that.

00:21:30.000 The 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.

00:21:57.000 I 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.

00:22:06.000 I'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.

00:22:18.000 And 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.

00:22:32.000 And it is making people sick.

00:22:34.000 And many of the processes that are being disrupted in nature get pushed to a point that they can never be recovered.

00:22:41.000 So, you know, we're talking about destroying the birthright of future generations and not even talking about it.

00:22:48.000 And 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.

00:23:00.000 So they prefer to be called conservationists, which frankly I think is fine.

00:23:04.000 But 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.

00:23:16.000 It's been just absent.

00:23:20.000 So what would you think?

00:23:21.000 I've been playing with a couple of things.

00:23:23.000 I don't know whether they'll stick, but GOP doesn't really fit anymore.

00:23:27.000 I was thinking the GNP. It's the Grand New Party.

00:23:34.000 Well, that sounds good to me.

00:23:38.000 I guess I don't really care what they call themselves.

00:23:43.000 Yeah.

00:23:44.000 I 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.

00:24:08.000 To the extent that they're being given reasons to vote blue, it's symbolic.

00:24:14.000 And that if you really listen to what's being advocated for, it's an inversion of what they once believed.

00:24:19.000 But 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.

00:24:33.000 And frankly, Those people are victims.

00:24:37.000 They've been hypnotized by something.

00:24:39.000 They're not driving this.

00:24:41.000 So 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?

00:24:47.000 Well, 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.

00:24:57.000 They're the ones who care about the environment being polluted and the habitats being destroyed.

00:25:01.000 And, you know, wouldn't you be happier...

00:25:06.000 As soon as the spell breaks, I think we're in a very good position.

00:25:11.000 I agree.

00:25:14.000 Well, Brett, thank you very much.

00:25:16.000 Thank you for putting this together, and I look forward to seeing you in Washington.

00:25:19.000 September 29th, 2024.

00:25:21.000 What time do the festivities begin?

00:25:24.000 They begin at noon.

00:25:26.000 I'm really looking forward to seeing you there.

00:25:29.000 Yeah, there's going to be some amazing speakers, and it's going to be, you know, the beginning of the revolution.

00:25:37.000 Exactly.

00:25:39.000 Good to see you, Brad.

00:25:40.000 Thanks so much.

00:25:40.000 Very good to see you.

RFK Jr. The Defender - September 17, 2024

Rescue the Republic with Bret Weinstein

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