Stay Free - Russel Brand - BLOOD IS ON AMERICA’S HANDS | What Caused Trump’s Shooting & Project 2025 Explained - SF 407

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00:02:30.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders!

00:02:31.000 Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:02:34.000 This is an unusual show because we are on our way to the RNC, the Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee, an event that we had booked to participate in prior to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump this weekend.

00:02:46.000 You may have seen the video that I already made as an immediate reaction, but the show that you're about to watch was pre-recorded.

00:02:53.000 So I just want to make sure that we cover this event and let you know what our immediate reactions are to the extraordinary weekend's event and to the subsequent reporting.

00:03:03.000 Let's think about a few things.

00:03:04.000 It seems that a memo was circulated inviting mainstream media organizations to meter and control their response.

00:03:11.000 That's not entirely confirmed but on the basis of some of the reporting it seems likely the Washington Post Trump escorted away after loud noises at rally.

00:03:20.000 Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after popping noises heard at his Pennsylvania rally.

00:03:25.000 Trump removed from stage by Secret Service after loud noises startles former president and crowd.

00:03:30.000 Can you imagine how this will be exploited?

00:03:32.000 For a moment, just for a moment, compare the reporting and hysteria around January 6th in legacy media to the reporting around what has to be regarded as an assassination attempt.

00:03:42.000 Joe Biden in his speech for example said, we don't know what the motives are of the assassin.

00:03:48.000 Oh, I don't imagine that he was trying to fire vitamins in a Donald Trump's bloodstream.

00:03:54.000 I would assume that he's trying to kill him.

00:03:56.000 We've also seen, depending on people's previous political persuasion, a focus on gun laws or gun controls or who really caused this.

00:04:04.000 But don't you think that all of us collectively have to recognise that there's been a hysterical campaign of demonisation around Donald Trump, which continues yet.

00:04:12.000 Since the assassination attempt, Joe Biden's already said stuff like, Donald Trump remains a threat to democracy.

00:04:19.000 You can see all over the internet people saying, why was he playing golf?

00:04:22.000 He should have been visiting people in hospital.

00:04:24.000 And isn't that a stark and chilling aspect of all this?

00:04:29.000 A man died.

00:04:30.000 A man died trying to shield and protect his family.

00:04:34.000 One of the things that I was struck by, as well as the failures of the Secret Service, the peculiar amount of time that it took, did you see that footage?

00:04:42.000 Yeah, someone's on top of the roof, look.

00:04:43.000 There he is right there.

00:04:45.000 Right there, you see him?

00:04:48.000 Yeah, he's laying down.

00:04:48.000 He's laying down, see him?

00:04:50.000 And millions of people in our country that shouldn't be here. 0.57

00:04:55.000 Dangerous people. 0.65

00:04:56.000 Criminals. 0.99

00:04:57.000 We have criminals.

00:04:58.000 We have drug dealers. 0.57

00:04:59.000 We have people that should not be here.

00:05:00.000 And it's much tougher than it is.

00:05:01.000 It happens to be the most honest people ever.

00:05:02.000 If you want to learn more about the CCP, you can search the internet.

00:05:03.000 You can do that right now.

00:05:04.000 I was also struck by the fact that it isn't just Donald Trump who's demonized by the legacy

00:05:24.000 media.

00:05:25.000 It's also Trump supporters.

00:05:27.000 Trump supporters have been called everything from a basket of deplorables, to people that should just be shut out, to out-and-out racists.

00:05:35.000 I wonder how much the vitriol and vituperative rhetoric on other platforms,

00:05:41.000 though all of us participate in it to some degree, have contributed to the escalation of violence and hatred

00:05:49.000 and ultimately has led to this individual who's presumably troubled.

00:05:53.000 Like I always think someone who does stuff like this is obviously a kind of a damaged individual

00:05:57.000 when it's school shootings, whether it's massacres across the world

00:06:01.000 that are contiguously occurring.

00:06:02.000 It has to be an indication of pain to some degree.

00:06:06.000 And I wonder how this event will ultimately play out and how it will influence the political discourse.

00:06:12.000 It's already provided an extraordinarily iconic image.

00:06:15.000 It's likely to, I would almost say, guarantee Trump's victory in November.

00:06:21.000 But think about the many things that could happen between now and the election then.

00:06:26.000 It's likely we're going to see more hysteria, more doubling down, no attempts at reconciliation, although I thought Bobby Kennedy offered a heartening speech in an attempt to almost awaken us from our collective stupor of mudslinging and loathing, and to remember Actually, we can't continue to have a conversation so informed by violence and condemnation and contempt.

00:06:51.000 When you think of even the punditry in legacy media, Joy Reid, I'm not singling Joy Reid out in particular, but people who say stuff like, if you vote for Trump, you are voting for fascism or an end to democracy.

00:07:06.000 Donald Trump has already been president.

00:07:09.000 We know what happens when Donald Trump is president.

00:07:11.000 He was president for four years between 2016 and 2020.

00:07:15.000 What happened then?

00:07:17.000 I think escalating this to the point of saying, you know, he's the new Hitler. 0.83

00:07:21.000 If he gets elected again, he'll end democracy and there'll be no more elections.

00:07:24.000 I think that that kind of hysteria has contributed to the mindset of perhaps the shooter, but certainly it has pervaded our culture.

00:07:32.000 What I believe to be most significant about this event is America is still the most powerful

00:07:36.000 nation in the world and while it tears itself apart, quite literally in the case of these

00:07:42.000 escalating violent conflicts and now attempts on a presidential candidate's life, we have

00:07:48.000 to remember that across the world right now there are literal wars, regional wars, global

00:07:54.000 wars, the potential for yet more war and yet more destruction.

00:07:58.000 Donald Trump's life in the final reckoning is not more important than any of the children or heroes or individuals or service personnel dying across the world right now in numerous conflicts.

00:08:09.000 I wonder which of the political candidates is most likely to bring about peace in all of these conflicts.

00:08:15.000 The significance of this election is very, very high.

00:08:18.000 The feelings around these two political candidates appears to be very, very high.

00:08:22.000 If you note the way that the media has reported on this event, there is so much to learn.

00:08:26.000 Are they amplifying the event?

00:08:29.000 Are they minimizing the event?

00:08:31.000 Are they attempting to mitigate the reasons why this may have happened, or even blame Trump himself?

00:08:37.000 All of the partisanship and rhetoric for a moment ought to be put aside.

00:08:41.000 And all of us ought to look together at what it is we're invited to learn here, and whether or not we can trust the institutions that report on these situations, whether or not we can trust the judiciary, and whether or not we can trust the institutions that make up democracy, because democracy doesn't seem to be a constitutional republic, or an electoral process by which the will of the people is expressed, unless that will is very much in alignment with a very particular agenda.

00:09:07.000 We'll be reporting on this over the course of the week, From Milwaukee bringing you interviews and conversations from people directly connected to recent events.

00:09:16.000 Thanks very much.

00:09:16.000 Enjoy the rest of the show and stay free.

00:09:19.000 Thank you for joining me for what will be an exciting week at the RNC.

00:09:23.000 A man like me at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, right within the secure zone.

00:09:30.000 We can only go places in golf buggies.

00:09:32.000 If the golf buggy leaves the secure zone, it's a dirty buggy!

00:09:36.000 It's dirtier than a Hunter Biden laptop, baby!

00:09:39.000 That's how dirty it gets!

00:09:41.000 And what an extraordinary week it promises to be with fantastic interviews, extraordinary characters, other people in the rumble space collaborating.

00:09:49.000 Bongino's army, I'm talking to you!

00:09:52.000 All of Crowder's crowd, I'm talking to you lot!

00:09:54.000 We're gonna be with lots of other content creators in some peculiar conversations because this is a new space for me.

00:10:01.000 But we're together held by a holy light in some extraordinary places and spaces because while the news cycle might be defined by the sudden realization amidst our legacy media cohorts, Colleagues?

00:10:16.000 Acolytes?

00:10:16.000 Enemies?

00:10:17.000 How do you regard them?

00:10:18.000 Fake news?

00:10:18.000 The enemy of the people?

00:10:20.000 The amplifiers of the message?

00:10:21.000 They have of course recently discovered that, you know, Joe Biden is elderly and inept and if Joe Biden isn't running the country you can then extrapolate from that that some other groups are running the country.

00:10:34.000 You can also see that they must have been holding back information and deliberately obfuscating the fact of his entropy.

00:10:42.000 Why?

00:10:43.000 What's the agenda?

00:10:45.000 We've learned a lot and we're learning fast and it's not just about the personalities and the individuals and the changing narratives it's about the serious matters that are concurrently taking place because many of these blunders occurred at a NATO conference Where the future of the planet is being discussed and the ongoing tendency to increase hostility, or at least fund increasing hostility between Ukraine and Russia, it seems to be that's being perpetuated, not being discussed, not being mitigated.

00:11:19.000 And our new Prime Minister, if you're an English person or a Scottish person or a Welsh person, sorry about that, like me, then, you know, Keir Starmer's out there.

00:11:28.000 And it's business as usual and business as usual is business.

00:11:32.000 It's Russell Brown at the RNC.

00:11:34.000 Have a look at some of the things you can look forward to this week.

00:11:38.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be there for another 10 minutes or so, then we'll be exclusively streaming freely on Rumble.

00:11:46.000 And you might want to consider becoming an Awakened Wonder, because I spoke to Candice Owens.

00:11:51.000 The interview's up now.

00:11:52.000 She said some extraordinary things.

00:11:54.000 Have a look at this.

00:11:55.000 It's pretty dazzling.

00:11:56.000 It's pretty baffling.

00:11:58.000 It's Candice Owens.

00:11:59.000 What would you expect?

00:12:00.000 Candace on Russell Brand, take one.

00:12:00.000 Have a look.

00:12:03.000 So it's a wonderful thing to be persecuted because you're telling the truth.

00:12:07.000 She used Christ as king in an argument with Ben Shapiro.

00:12:12.000 I did not use that phrase in an argument.

00:12:15.000 Does this make any sense to you?

00:12:16.000 Have we all been lied to?

00:12:17.000 Have we all been deluded?

00:12:18.000 I was severely propagandized in school.

00:12:21.000 Why don't we learn about the Bolsheviks? 0.71

00:12:23.000 Why don't we learn about Henrikh Yagoda?

00:12:25.000 He was the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century.

00:12:28.000 Who determines what history is?

00:12:30.000 Who decides what narratives prevail?

00:12:33.000 There always has been a war on the spirit of man. 0.97

00:12:35.000 We ask, Lord, that we be able to put aside egotism, narcissism, hedonism, all of the temptations and obstacles placed before us by a culture that would prefer us dumb and distracted. 0.99

00:12:48.000 Why do you keep saying everyone's wife's got penises? 1.00

00:12:52.000 I never said Obama's wife had a penis. 1.00

00:12:54.000 That came from you. 1.00

00:12:55.000 I never said that!

00:12:56.000 You did!

00:12:56.000 I heard you!

00:12:59.000 Now let's get into the content.

00:13:02.000 First of all, I suppose, let's just catch up with the latest array of Biden blunders before looking at Keir Starmer's conversations with Zelensky.

00:13:11.000 Then we'll get into what you're here for.

00:13:14.000 Project 2025.

00:13:15.000 Is it real?

00:13:16.000 What's the hysteria?

00:13:18.000 And are we now reaching a point of polarisation That means that almost secession, decentralization, devolution, whatever you want to call it.

00:13:28.000 How can you have one establishment claiming to represent a population so plainly fractured?

00:13:35.000 We'll be looking at the case for secession and how 2025 in fact advances that argument.

00:13:41.000 But first of all let's have a look at Zelensky, perhaps understanding for the first time who exactly he's reliant on to keep those black rock checks coming. 0.88

00:13:51.000 And now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination.

00:13:59.000 Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.

00:14:04.000 We're actually going to beat Putin, and actually I'd like to correct myself, because it's not cheques from Blackrock, it's cheques to Blackrock.

00:14:11.000 The cheques are from you!

00:14:13.000 It's your cheques, it's your money.

00:14:15.000 You'll be working.

00:14:16.000 That's you drilling something.

00:14:17.000 You're typing, you're doing something on your laptop.

00:14:21.000 That's you, you're plumbing.

00:14:23.000 50% of the money you earned doing that it's going to perpetuate that war so hope you're enjoying it because you're you're funding it you and your government including Joe Biden president and who's that that's the vice president again I can never remember it's Trump isn't it?

00:14:39.000 I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President until I think she's not qualified to be President. 0.99

00:14:44.000 So let's start there.

00:14:46.000 Oh dear, it's not getting any better.

00:14:48.000 I'm not focusing, I hope you realize this, on the obvious decline of Joe Biden.

00:14:53.000 That's sort of, in a way, no longer interesting.

00:14:55.000 I'm fascinated by the way that the media are repurposing it and catching up with it.

00:15:01.000 And I wonder whether this 2025 idea, which we'll be talking about in detail in a minute, It's just a way to sort of ossify the polarised positions.

00:15:09.000 Like, in the same way that Joy Reid would scream, I don't care who it is!

00:15:14.000 Or like, there are numerous pundits now that are saying, we don't care if Joe Biden's demented, you can You can run a kangaroo in a wheelbarrow for president and we'll vote for that even though it's the national animal of Australia.

00:15:27.000 None of this makes sense anymore and that's in fact what's beneath it.

00:15:30.000 The creaking and quaking that we are observing is the inability of the establishment to maintain a central narrative because there are too many evident counter narratives.

00:15:41.000 There are too many obvious Errors, mistakes, and lies required to maintain their own narrative and it can't be mangled or held together anymore.

00:15:50.000 We're watching this unfold in real time.

00:15:53.000 At least it's creating some, you know, enjoyable memes.

00:15:57.000 Guys, he says he still needs to make his speech.

00:16:01.000 What do you think?

00:16:02.000 Can he do the speech?

00:16:03.000 Can he do the speech? 1.00

00:16:05.000 The demented, fucking, piss-mad king of England? 1.00

00:16:07.000 He could say anything. 1.00

00:16:08.000 He could tell everyone he's Barbra Streisand.

00:16:09.000 No, I think we have to drop it, right?

00:16:11.000 But at the very least, he should be on stage.

00:16:13.000 It would be great to get the body up there.

00:16:15.000 Okay, we push it as late as we can, and maybe if we just get him on stage, that'll be enough?

00:16:20.000 Oh yeah, sure.

00:16:20.000 Maybe send him up through a trap door surrounded by dry ice.

00:16:24.000 Them kind of right-wing leaders that we're supposed to despise, and formerly I suppose with the cultural affiliations that I once had I would have been more sympathetic to these type of ideas, appear to be among those that are most in tune with the sort of reality of this situation.

00:16:43.000 I'm talking in this instance That Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, who reacts understandably and somewhat naturally to her encounters with Biden at the NATO summit, where we're supposed to be, should be, discussing how to avert war, but are in fact discussing how to increase the likelihood of war, and how to fund war, and how to report on war in a way that's

00:17:06.000 Disingenuous and duplicitous.

00:17:08.000 The same way that we now understand that we've been lied to about Biden's capabilities because, you know, we saw with our own eyes, we can now apply our learnings to the way that the war is reported on.

00:17:20.000 Wait a minute, the same people that told us that Biden was competent, sharp as a tack, etc, are telling us that Russia's attack was entirely unprovoked, Putin is an imperialist that will engage in an expansionist war.

00:17:33.000 We have to fund Ukraine.

00:17:34.000 Like, it's the same people and it's the same lies, or at least it's the same pattern.

00:17:39.000 Oh dear, maybe some of the hair sniffing stuff's got more to it than we first thought as well.

00:18:03.000 I mean, when you look at some of those collages, it don't look good.

00:18:08.000 Luckily though, you know, we've got a brilliant leader in the UK, Keir Starmer, a popular leader with a popular mandate.

00:18:14.000 He'll be making some crazy changes, some innovation, I reckon, and Even if Biden does buckle and fail, Kamala Harris is ready.

00:18:25.000 And maybe, just maybe, we can be unburdened by... Maybe what will be can be unburdened by what... No.

00:18:34.000 Maybe we can unburden you with what was, will be.

00:18:37.000 Won't we?

00:18:38.000 Should we unburden you with... No, I can't do it as well as she can.

00:18:41.000 No, it makes sense when she says it.

00:18:43.000 They taught us that we could do anything.

00:18:46.000 And should never be burdened by the limitations of other people to be able or not be able to see what can be.

00:18:55.000 She really sees it as a vision, doesn't she?

00:18:57.000 Like, it's over there.

00:18:58.000 Don't be unburdened by other people's, like, it's this over here.

00:19:03.000 You know in Minority Report, whoosh, unburdened, whoosh, it doesn't make sense in just normal talking.

00:19:10.000 Just in normal talking, that's a baffling Cohen that might Edge you towards awakening as you attempt to understand it

00:19:17.000 and then you realize no no it's not me And my inability to decipher. It's a communicative failure

00:19:23.000 from the transmitter that we're experiencing here fresh from a tidal wave

00:19:30.000 Mandate Kirstama getting ready to really shake up the world's day 1.00

00:19:36.000 Congratulations Thank you

00:19:40.000 You've got a couple of minutes here How are you?

00:19:44.000 Very glad to be meeting you Glad to meet you too

00:19:48.000 The UK has led in terms of support for Ukraine.

00:19:58.000 I feel sorry for him.

00:19:59.000 I feel sorry for all of them now.

00:20:00.000 I feel sorry for the occupants of the nodes of this net of corruption.

00:20:04.000 the position has not changed. All the messages from your government and team and from people

00:20:10.000 in United Kingdom we are very thankful for your words and steps which were important thank you

00:20:16.000 that you are with us. I feel sorry for him I feel sorry for all of them now I feel sorry for the

00:20:21.000 occupants of the nodes of this net of corruption what is the point and how plain is it?

00:20:28.000 But when a new leader comes and says in public, everything's going to be the same.

00:20:31.000 We're going to do everything in the exact same way.

00:20:34.000 It's kind of galling, isn't it?

00:20:36.000 That they don't imagine that we will be able to deduce from that that the whole system is intransigent and immovable and not impacted by bloody elections.

00:20:48.000 What was the Solzhenitsyn quote again?

00:20:50.000 They're lying to us.

00:20:51.000 We know they're lying.

00:20:53.000 They know we know they're lying.

00:20:54.000 We know they know we know they're lying and that they're still lying.

00:20:57.000 What is this extraordinary scenario that we're living in?

00:21:00.000 The funding will continue.

00:21:02.000 That's not being changed.

00:21:03.000 Free bill in a year!

00:21:05.000 That's your money.

00:21:07.000 That's your money.

00:21:08.000 And to what end?

00:21:10.000 Ukrainian people will die, Russian people will die, and maybe by the end of this year, American and British people will be dying too. 0.76

00:21:19.000 We are right now in Milwaukee at the RNC.

00:21:22.000 This show, we made it the other week so that I could travel to the RNC.

00:21:26.000 That's where I am now.

00:21:27.000 And tonight, I'm assuming there might be one or two tickets left to see me in Milwaukee.

00:21:32.000 Come!

00:21:33.000 Come and see me tonight.

00:21:34.000 And Wednesday in Milwaukee.

00:21:38.000 Next week we are at the RNC.

00:21:40.000 It's going to be fantastic.

00:21:41.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene's going to be there.

00:21:43.000 We'll be talking to anyone who's got the surname Trump.

00:21:47.000 They're in there.

00:21:48.000 Eric.

00:21:49.000 Don Jr.

00:21:50.000 Baron and hopefully the man himself.

00:21:53.000 Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be there.

00:21:55.000 Thomas Massie.

00:21:56.000 So many guests.

00:21:57.000 It's going to be fantastic.

00:21:58.000 As well as teaming up with Crowder and Bongino.

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00:24:20.000 At least you get to choose, in that instance, what you do with your money, rather than having those choices made for you by NATO and BlackRock.

00:24:30.000 Oh, it's still happening.

00:24:31.000 It's still happening.

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00:24:45.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave now, but join us if you want to hear about Project 2025 and how increasing hysteria will likely lead to secession and how the Dems will do anything now to cling on to power.

00:25:01.000 Will there even be an election in November?

00:25:03.000 Will there be another extraordinary event?

00:25:05.000 And how do we find ways of overcoming their continual attempts to divide us, each community forced to turn away from the possibility of reconciliation, alliance and therefore revolution and real change?

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00:25:24.000 Okay, you know who's responsible for Joe Biden's dementia?

00:25:27.000 I don't know.

00:25:28.000 Vaccines?

00:25:29.000 Maybe.

00:25:30.000 Certainly Peter McCulloch thinks that.

00:25:31.000 Or it could be Russia?

00:25:34.000 ... denigrate politicians in the United States and elsewhere.

00:25:38.000 Do you have any concerns right now that this is the leading edge of any part of a Russian 0.99

00:25:46.000 effort to interfere in the election?

00:25:48.000 Has the President been briefed on this?

00:25:51.000 And have you seen any evidence that the Russians or other foreign powers have...

00:25:57.000 I tried to seize on the debate performance but repeat some of the President's most embarrassing moments.

00:26:03.000 So that's a very good question.

00:26:04.000 I would have to talk to our team about those particular questions that you just asked.

00:26:09.000 There were multiple questions in your statement there.

00:26:12.000 I would leave it to the Department of Justice as what they announced.

00:26:16.000 Obviously that's for them to speak to.

00:26:18.000 Look, AI has always been a concern.

00:26:21.000 That's why the president made some announcements recently to take executive action on how we can... Certainly did make some announcements.

00:26:28.000 AI might be the solution.

00:26:30.000 I'd take an AI president at this point.

00:26:32.000 Why not?

00:26:33.000 Why not have a robot one?

00:26:34.000 Why not have one that never even existed?

00:26:36.000 Why not just have a conceptual leader at this point?

00:26:39.000 Extraordinarily though, faith among secularists is on the rise.

00:26:44.000 Some people that would say it's ludicrous to believe that God came to earth in human form, that the creator of the simulation entered the simulation to tell us that all will be well, that there are frequencies of transcendence available to us, that only love is real, that you can have a personal relationship with the creator.

00:26:59.000 They would describe that as nonsense, as superstition.

00:27:02.000 And yet the idea that you can continue to believe in Biden is popular over on MSNBC.

00:27:09.000 And I won't go on a length.

00:27:10.000 I will just say, though, you noted that there were some moments of startlingly impressive command of the issues.

00:27:16.000 This is just my opinion.

00:27:18.000 He is not only strong on foreign policy, he is just fundamentally right on foreign policy in the way that he talks about it.

00:27:26.000 And again, your mileage may vary.

00:27:27.000 That is how I feel about the way he talks about our relationship with our allies and our relationship with NATO.

00:27:33.000 Is it fundamentally right That Donald Trump is the vice president?

00:27:37.000 Is it fundamentally right that Vladimir Putin is the president of Ukraine?

00:27:42.000 No, it isn't, is it?

00:27:43.000 You can hear his command of the issues, particularly in his asides, like mentioning as an offhand way that it was Turkey, really, that needed really to be talked into.

00:27:52.000 Asides?

00:27:53.000 Hey, hey, by the way, baby, it was Turkey that really reneged on that particular treaty.

00:27:59.000 Hey, that guy's actually all right.

00:28:01.000 Yep.

00:28:02.000 We can vote for him now.

00:28:03.000 There's nothing to worry about.

00:28:05.000 Everything is in order.

00:28:07.000 Go back to your bed.

00:28:09.000 What kind of somnambulance are they trying to summons when they invite us to believe that we haven't seen what we've all just plainly witnessed?

00:28:19.000 Are they trying, in a sense, to provide a conceptual prophylactic to prevent us from realizing that not only have they duped us with their Biden is okay story, but the idea that in fact the Democrat party represents civil liberties and civil rights and cares about ordinary people and is the party of ordinary Americans and that there isn't a global experiment afoot to centralize authority and power wherever possible.

00:28:47.000 But we must do something, I think, To prevent the ongoing polarisation, because if we keep heading in this direction, the direction of hysteria, then, I don't know, secession becomes inevitable.

00:28:59.000 Not succession.

00:29:00.000 We've seen and enjoyed that meme.

00:29:01.000 I'm talking about the fracture and devolution of the United States, and maybe that is what is required, because can we live forever in this kind of friction and hysteria?

00:29:12.000 Project 2025 causing ongoing Cassandra-like hyperbole.

00:29:18.000 And Joy Reid here, I think at home and off duty, really leaning into the panic.

00:29:27.000 Let's not be trying to play games with these kinds of small things to try to pull us into a direction.

00:29:34.000 All that matters in this election, and I genuinely mean this, All that matters in this election, the only thing that matters in this election, is keeping Donald Trump and Project 2025 out of power.

00:29:49.000 But if you want to make statements about, like, let's just focus on a single issue, how about averting war with Russia?

00:29:56.000 Not increasing tensions between the USA and China.

00:30:00.000 Ensuring that American infrastructure and national security is addressed.

00:30:05.000 Restoring some moral fortitude to the nation.

00:30:10.000 Dampening down, exploring new world, like there's so many single things you could pick.

00:30:16.000 Why that one?

00:30:17.000 Why that one? 0.55

00:30:18.000 Keeping that in insane ideology of white Christian nationalism and white 0.89

00:30:24.000 supremacy and white male Christian dominance out of power. That's all that matters. I 0.89

00:30:30.000 genuinely don't care who the Democratic nominee is. And I'm being real. I don't care. If it's Biden, fine.

00:30:36.000 If it's Kamala Harris, fabulous, right? But it's gonna be one of the two of them. Let's just

00:30:41.000 not play crazy games. Now. There are rules the way that this process works. It's one of the two

00:30:46.000 of them. One of those two, you can either have that poor, senile, doddering darling, or that 1.00

00:30:53.000 extraordinary woman who maps out poems in an imaginary sphere that surrounds her.

00:31:00.000 Either one.

00:31:01.000 Or you want to parachute somebody else in, and they not him?

00:31:01.000 I don't care.

00:31:06.000 If you did parachute someone else in, Joe Biden would look in the other direction as that parachute landed.

00:31:11.000 They not the orange one?

00:31:12.000 They not the one who quotes Hitler?

00:31:14.000 Fine, put them in, I don't care.

00:31:15.000 Because all that matters, I'm gonna say this to y'all again, all that matters in this upcoming election is that you keep that man and that Project 2025 plan out of power.

00:31:27.000 What is this Project 2025?

00:31:29.000 That's all you need to understand.

00:31:32.000 And to do that, you are going to need to vote against the party that has embraced white Christian nationalism.

00:31:40.000 I don't think you can have white Christian nationalism.

00:31:43.000 Firstly, I don't think you can have Christian nationalism because Christianity is about the kingdom of God and developing a personal relationship with Christ.

00:31:51.000 By its nature, it has to transcend race.

00:31:55.000 It has to.

00:31:56.000 It has to be inclusive.

00:31:57.000 I mean, the idea that Christianity could remain within the sect of even Jews was dealt with within the first 50 years of Christianity.

00:32:07.000 It is by its nature necessarily absolutely inclusive.

00:32:11.000 So I suppose if you're saying there's such a thing as white Christian, you can't have those things all together as ideas. 0.60

00:32:18.000 They're opposing ideas.

00:32:19.000 Even Christian nationalism doesn't work as a concept, let alone reducing it down to a kind of melatonin levels.

00:32:26.000 There's no room for that.

00:32:27.000 There's no room for racism.

00:32:29.000 And maybe, in an awakened and enlightened future, we have to look at what a nation is, really.

00:32:34.000 The Republican Party is gone.

00:32:36.000 It has been replaced by Project 2025 and... What is Project 2025?

00:32:41.000 What is it, though?

00:32:43.000 ...and Trump.

00:32:43.000 That's all that's left.

00:32:44.000 That party is gone.

00:32:47.000 And that means you have to vote against that letter, R, all the way down the ballot.

00:32:53.000 You have to keep them out of power at the state level.

00:32:56.000 Okay, then!

00:32:57.000 You seem like you're doing okay.

00:32:59.000 It is extraordinary, really.

00:33:01.000 I, just to be plain, if I could vote at all, I would not vote for a Republican.

00:33:05.000 I wouldn't vote for anybody.

00:33:07.000 I would vote for you and me to be free and some new decentralized modalities.

00:33:14.000 Let's get those things on the ballot.

00:33:16.000 But before we march into utopia together, or singularly, or however you would choose to, let's have a look at what Project 2025 is.

00:33:24.000 And to ensure that we're not taking a biased perspective, let's look at the New York Times.

00:33:29.000 What would they have us think about this?

00:33:31.000 Project 2025 was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and like-minded conservative groups before Trump entered the 24 race.

00:33:39.000 The Heritage Foundation is a think tank.

00:33:41.000 So it's a think tank.

00:33:42.000 It's like, what should we do to shape the Republican Party?

00:33:46.000 Including, it says here, personnel and policies.

00:33:48.000 And it's been around since the Reagan presidency.

00:33:51.000 Hmm.

00:33:52.000 The project was intended as a buffet of options for the Trump administration.

00:33:55.000 That can be unhealthy and you could end up putting, I don't know, shrimp next to chicken.

00:34:00.000 It could be awful.

00:34:01.000 It's intended as a buffet of options for the Trump administration, or any subsequent Republican leader.

00:34:09.000 It is the latest installment of the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership series, which has compiled conservative policy proposals every few years since 1981, but no previous study has been as sweeping in its recommendations or as widely discussed.

00:34:21.000 Much of the plan's nearly 900 pages detail extreme executive branch overhauls.

00:34:26.000 Among many recommendations, it lays out plans for criminalizing pornography, disbanding the commerce and education departments, rejecting the idea of abortion as healthcare and shredding climate protections.

00:34:38.000 So in a way though, it's a bunch of ideas and a bunch of ideals.

00:34:44.000 Probably comparable to think tanks on the left or on the democrat side of the aisle that would have proposals and areas of policy discussion and plans they would like to implement in the event that they were in office.

00:34:57.000 I think that what's being, what's startling about this is a new artifact has emerged that can generate hysteria and division when all of us intuitively sense surely at this point that what we require opportunities for unity. We live, don't we now, we can say

00:35:15.000 with some certainty, in an extraordinary cultural space. For a long time we've been

00:35:20.000 discussing the silos that have emerged as a result of bespoke media. Legacy media, centralised

00:35:28.000 media, has lost its grip, is losing its grip on the minds of nations and the mind of

00:35:33.000 the planet, and we are seeing an attempt to reassert the control that they could take for

00:35:38.000 granted just 50 years ago.

00:35:40.000 If you take for example just the figure of Keir Starmer, who's been swept into power

00:35:46.000 on what at first seems like a significant mandate, within his first week you're able

00:35:51.000 to attack the nature of the electoral system that delivered him, his personal history,

00:35:56.000 his claims, his position on Covid, his position within NATO.

00:36:01.000 Already his declaration that British-made military equipment can be used inside Russia has been denied countenance, contradicted by his own Ministry of Defence.

00:36:11.000 That's our equivalent of the Pentagon.

00:36:13.000 Like, there's such a fragility in power.

00:36:16.000 There's such a fragility in the cultural discourse now, because in a way, globalism and centralized power is a bad idea for almost everybody.

00:36:28.000 Of course there are benefits to intercommunication, there are benefits to particular institutions and particular bureaucracies, but what immediate international communication affords us is the ability for diffuse and endlessly spreading dendrites of new consensus.

00:36:49.000 It's possible if you take something that's not at all incendiary, like if you had a particular Football club or sports team that you're into you can spend all day long watching content about West Ham United or the Red Sox I don't know what you guys like and and that's happening everywhere continually you could watch all day you could watch 24-hour reels of Keir Starmer and think he's the greatest guy that ever lived his dad was a tool maker he was a great barrister he did a good job at the CPS he advocated for women's rights or you could spend 24 hours watching him being

00:37:23.000 Absolutely annihilated.

00:37:25.000 Why didn't he do anything about Julian Assange?

00:37:27.000 What were those meetings with the CIA?

00:37:29.000 Why did he go to the WEF?

00:37:31.000 Why does he prefer Davos to Westminster?

00:37:34.000 That's our Parliament or Congress.

00:37:36.000 Isn't it odd?

00:37:38.000 Isn't it odd?

00:37:39.000 But you can't any longer have an objective truth in the cultural sphere because culture is a reflection of human tendencies, human concepts and creations and by its nature must be diverse.

00:37:52.000 There might be objective mathematical facts, there might be even perhaps broad consensus around aesthetic ideals derived from principles such as symmetry, but it's human nature To live in diverse communities.

00:38:08.000 Although there may be insularity within that.

00:38:10.000 I mean, for hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of years we'd have lived in tribes and communities of 100 or 200 people.

00:38:18.000 The aggregation and accumulation of massive mandates Is beneficial to elites, but it's not beneficial to individuals.

00:38:26.000 And yet that is what the tendency is now.

00:38:29.000 All the while the language and discourse is about diversity, we are seeing superficial diversity with homogeneity just beneath the surface.

00:38:39.000 Because we know what the agenda of NATO is.

00:38:42.000 We know what the agenda of the WHO is because you can look at their treaties, you can see their plans.

00:38:48.000 It is to centralise power.

00:38:50.000 You cannot continue to centralise power any longer.

00:38:54.000 It needs to decentralise and devolve.

00:38:57.000 That would benefit a significant number of people.

00:38:59.000 It wouldn't be perfect, of course it wouldn't.

00:39:01.000 We're not competing with perfection though.

00:39:03.000 We are competing with something, an ideology that seems hell-bent.

00:39:07.000 On Armageddon and the apocalypse.

00:39:09.000 So something like Project 2025 will ultimately be used by both sides of the political and cultural argument in your country to further ossify division.

00:39:20.000 That's my prediction and really what it just seems like is a bunch of ideas around quite traditional conservative tropes.

00:39:26.000 Like, look, take this paragraph by paragraph.

00:39:30.000 It calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service, as one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.

00:39:38.000 Okay, so presumably big energy backers of the Republican Party will be interested in pursuing policies in that direction.

00:39:47.000 I'd like a little bit more discussion around cloud seeding.

00:39:51.000 And weather manipulation.

00:39:52.000 I'd like to know more.

00:39:53.000 Isn't it interesting now that you have one side saying climate change, climate change, and another side saying weather manipulation, weather manipulation.

00:39:59.000 And none of us are absolutely certain that climate change is not epochal and moving in rhythms that are beyond anthropomorphic or anthropogenic influence.

00:40:11.000 And none of us are absolutely certain that there aren't nefarious weather experiments taking place, recent events in Dubai, admissions by China. 0.56

00:40:19.000 So, you know, even something like that, like they're going to, you know, they're going to stop all their climate change policies.

00:40:25.000 Is that extraordinary?

00:40:27.000 It backs deploying the military to assist in arrest operations along the US-Mexican border.

00:40:31.000 Didn't Joe Biden recently declare that the border security was an absolute priority?

00:40:37.000 Portions of the plan were driven by people who were top advisors to Trump during his first term.

00:40:42.000 Trump wrote in a post on social media on Friday that he knew nothing about Project 2025, but disagreed with parts of it. 0.87

00:40:48.000 Some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.

00:40:51.000 He did not specify which items he was talking about, but it might be some of the conversation around abortion pills, for example, which, wow, how would they navigate that territory? 0.89

00:41:00.000 Even if you're trying to appease Christians who believe in the sanctity of life, Then what would you do about Big Pharma, who believe in the sanctity of selling all available medications?

00:41:12.000 Now, you will have already seen, I presume, Ben Shapiro's very impressive performance at the House Judiciary hearing.

00:41:24.000 I love the bit about GARM and the advertising, and maybe if we get time we'll look at that in a minute.

00:41:27.000 But I just want to look at his exchange with Eric Swalwell, where they talk about Well they talk about project 2025 and like I bet a lot of you now in the chat Ben Shapiro like already that name divides people like the parting of the red seas is an apposite metaphor and scriptural reference because some of you will be

00:41:51.000 supporters of Israel's actions, you'll hate the protests on college campuses

00:41:56.000 around Palestine, some of you will think that Ben Shapiro is a Zionist and that

00:42:02.000 what's happening in Gaza is a massacre. And look, I suppose in 2024, Project 2024,

00:42:09.000 because we might not get to Project 2025, we'd have to say, well, are there some

00:42:13.000 things that Ben Shapiro says that you agree with and others that you disagree with?

00:42:17.000 Yes, because I think he does a pretty good job here, and I've had conversations with Ben Shapiro, and I disagree with him on a great many things, like I disagree with, God, almost anyone on You know, any number of subjects.

00:42:29.000 But here, it seems that he's pretty articulate on this, but the conclusion that continually I am drawn towards is, how can you further accrue centralized power when there is no mandate, when there is no consensus?

00:42:45.000 That even if you take the recent elections in France or the UK, what appears like a mandate does not bear close Inspection.

00:42:53.000 The coalition in France is made up of groups that disagree with each other on almost bloody everything.

00:42:59.000 The UK has just voted, given the vast majority of seats in our parliament to a near unprecedented level and it seems on analysis to be a wafer-thin consensus where people on the left despise Keir Starmer, people on the right despise Keir Starmer.

00:43:17.000 He can't even corral his own Ministry of Defence.

00:43:20.000 There is no consensus.

00:43:22.000 Why would there be?

00:43:23.000 Why would it work, centralizing power to this degree?

00:43:25.000 Anyway, let's have a look at Ben Shapiro now at the House Judiciary.

00:43:30.000 Bear in mind that this is something that a pundit on the left, or what passes for the left these days, Joy Reid, is outlining.

00:43:36.000 Do you know what I really believe?

00:43:37.000 Those taxonomies are over.

00:43:38.000 Like, forget left-right, forget Marxism, forget capitalism.

00:43:41.000 Like the great Native American actor and philosopher, Russell Means, said, you are always It's setting up the dialectic in terms of left and right, but for us they are just different sides of the same coin.

00:43:55.000 Both presume that our function is primarily economic.

00:43:58.000 Both look at the earth as a resource.

00:44:00.000 Both look at our purpose here on earth to be one of sort of individual satisfaction, even if its ultimate goal in the case of communism is some sort of collective utopia.

00:44:13.000 We require a vision that goes beyond Each side of that particular coin.

00:44:18.000 Let's have a look, though, at Shapiro with what looks like a pretty sterling performance, I think, at the House Judiciary hearing.

00:44:30.000 I think, like President Trump, I haven't looked all that deeply at Project 2025, but it seems that Democrats on this committee, sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.

00:44:42.000 And so, Well, let's just talk about pieces of it, and I guess you can tell me if you support it.

00:44:50.000 You probably want less bureaucracy, right?

00:44:52.000 I do.

00:44:53.000 I want less bureaucracy.

00:44:54.000 You want more efficiency?

00:44:55.000 I do.

00:44:56.000 I want more efficiency.

00:44:57.000 You want taxpayer money spent wisely?

00:45:00.000 I do.

00:45:01.000 Congrats on becoming a Republican.

00:45:03.000 My parents would be proud.

00:45:06.000 Mass deportations, it calls for that. 0.99

00:45:08.000 Do you support that part?

00:45:10.000 I support the deportation of any illegal immigrant who is in the United States who is not of benefit to the generalized American public. 1.00

00:45:15.000 So if they're picking agriculture that puts food on the tables of everyday Americans, they've never committed a crime inside the United States, they didn't come across with documents, should they be deported?

00:45:29.000 If they have not paid taxes and if their draw on the taxpayer benefits are larger than the contribution they are making to the economy, or if they're involved in criminal activity, they should be deported.

00:45:37.000 How do we measure that?

00:45:39.000 The same way that the IRS measures my income every year.

00:45:41.000 It seems like if the IRS can track down every aspect of every receipt that I've ever submitted, and they can do that with hundreds of millions of other Americans, they can do that for illegal immigrants as well, except for the fact that no one knows how many are in the country thanks to this administration.

00:45:52.000 So you would be cool with creating a system where they could pay those taxes if they wanted to and then stay and work and put food on our table? 0.98

00:45:59.000 It depends on how long it would take for them to pay the taxes and they would also have to go presumably to the back of the line although I'm not sure why I'm testifying about immigration policy at this point.

00:46:07.000 It's interesting actually because one of the things that's been exposed by the advent of independent media is that there are people in positions of punditry that appear to be more lucid and intelligent than their political counterparts as this exchange demonstrates.

00:46:24.000 There's no question that Ben Shapiro is a better debater and a more accomplished intellect and Due to his legal training I suspect a more cogent constructor of on-the-fly arguments than this dude and in a sense the result as well is like you know Eric Swalwell there he's in a position of some political power

00:46:47.000 All be it limited, because we all know how lobbying works, we all know how donations work, we all know how internal party politics operates.

00:46:53.000 Thanks to, again, independent media and the popularisation of the kind of critiques that once were the preserve of, in a sense I would say, sort of college and university educated people.

00:47:04.000 Well, 20-30 years ago, you'd have to have read a little bit of Noam Chomsky to know that Swalwell don't have no real power, or you'd have to have that kind of intuitive working-class loathing of anybody in a position of authority.

00:47:15.000 But other than that, you wouldn't.

00:47:16.000 But now because of, you know, whether it's Daily Wire or Young Turks or whatever, and

00:47:21.000 all of them are at various points, aren't they, in their own evolution towards institutionalization

00:47:25.000 and setting up various relationships either with funders or sponsors or subscription models.

00:47:31.000 But the more people are dealing with advertisers, the more compromise appears to have been to

00:47:36.000 emerge.

00:47:37.000 And of course, as you'll be aware, part of Shapiro's conversation in this same hearing

00:47:40.000 talks about Garm and the way that advertising operates.

00:47:43.000 And what I, excuse me, take from this as a whole is the impossibility of retaining structures

00:47:50.000 that are not in themselves rigorously, they're not rigorously achieved.

00:47:58.000 They don't withstand scrutiny.

00:48:00.000 Like, because look at this argument now.

00:48:02.000 Ben Shapiro is easily able to go, well, if you can track my attacks through the IRS,

00:48:07.000 why can't you set up bureaucracies and institutions to handle?

00:48:11.000 Immigration.

00:48:12.000 Don't you feel like from every direction the sustainability of this system is quaking and the only way to sustain a system that can't be sustained through its own proficiency is through authority?

00:48:24.000 Necessarily, isn't it?

00:48:25.000 You will have to find reasons to become more authoritarian because You might think well I'd rather live in Ben Shapiro world and there'll be some people I suppose that go I'd rather live in Mr. Swalwell world and there'll be other people yet who find various other principalities and ideological domains within which they would rather live and that's possible now and that's achievable it's likely were it not for considerable resistance and I would say the resistance comes primarily in the form of fear escalating fear around war

00:48:53.000 Health crises, cultural crises, as long as people are kind of bewildered by fear, we don't really have the time to say, do we have to live within these institutions?

00:49:01.000 They're plainly not working.

00:49:02.000 How about banning the abortion pill? 0.99

00:49:04.000 That's part of Project 2025.

00:49:06.000 Do you support that part?

00:49:07.000 I think that that's a state-by-state issue, on a personal level.

00:49:11.000 I'm just asking you.

00:49:13.000 Sure, I'm a fully pro-life person, which means that I'm not in favour of the distribution of the abortion pill.

00:49:19.000 Banning same-sex marriage, what about that part? 0.53

00:49:21.000 I am in favor of traditional marriage between a man and a woman, and I am perfectly fine with anyone having any sort of voluntary sexual arrangement they seek.

00:49:28.000 That's a different thing from whether the government should attach benefits to that personal relationship.

00:49:33.000 But you think it's a sin to have same-sex marriage?

00:49:37.000 Are you asking me as a religious Jew what I think about biblically?

00:49:37.000 I'm confused.

00:49:40.000 I'm just asking, is it a sin to be gay?

00:49:43.000 Is it a sin to be gay?

00:49:44.000 I mean, how long do we have here? 0.53

00:49:46.000 Two minutes?

00:49:47.000 I mean, if the basic idea is that sexual orientation is up for government regulation, I'm not in favor of the government regulating the private consenting sexual activity of adults.

00:49:56.000 That is a different thing, once again, from whether the government ought to engage in actual benefits for particular sexual arrangements that adults make.

00:50:04.000 But again, just you to me, is it a sin or not?

00:50:07.000 From a religious Jewish perspective, orientation is not a sin, but activity is. 0.92

00:50:10.000 That's also the same perspective of most major religions, so far as I'm aware.

00:50:14.000 He's walked himself into a mental conversation, dear old Eric Swalwell, because now he's got to... Well, he's not just arguing with Ben Shapiro, he's arguing with Judaism, in the same way that if he was with a Christian or a Muslim, he'd have to take on their theology.

00:50:28.000 And it seems that someone like Ben, Ben Shapiro, Even as a devout Jew, I don't want the government regulating people's private sexual conduct.

00:50:35.000 So what is the point of this argument?

00:50:37.000 What's the point in setting up this argument?

00:50:40.000 It seems that Ben Shapiro had it right in the first few minutes when he said that there's an attempt to use Project 2025 as a defibrillator for disenchanted and disillusioned Democrats who now have realized that their own establishment, their own party, their own ideology is as decrepit as the man who stands as it says.

00:51:01.000 Okay.

00:51:03.000 And how about cutting Social Security?

00:51:08.000 Do you support that part of 2025?

00:51:11.000 I'm not sure what Project 2025's position on social security is.

00:51:14.000 I'm in favor of the restructuring of social security along the lines of privatization and lowering and increasing the retirement age because you, as well as every other congressperson, knows social security is going to go bankrupt and yet everyone seems to have an interest in lying about it for the next decade and a half until we have to take austerity measures or radically increase inflation or taxes.

00:51:31.000 And bans against books about slavery.

00:51:33.000 Do you support that part?

00:51:34.000 Why would I possibly be in favor of bans about books about slavery? 0.93

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00:53:24.000 Why choose, you know?

00:53:25.000 Okay, back to the content.

00:53:27.000 Back to Ben Shapiro doing rather well against an elected government official.

00:53:32.000 Is the idea that school libraries should be able to make decisions along the lines of what exactly is appropriate for, say, a 7th grader and whether they ought to be treated to cartoons and genderqueer.

00:53:43.000 That's not quite the same thing.

00:53:44.000 And just because we found some receipts, you did say, I think homosexual activity is a sin.

00:53:49.000 Yes, I'm religious to you, that's true.

00:53:50.000 I'm sure there's a genetic component.

00:53:51.000 You found me out.

00:53:53.000 But the view of all religious people I know has always been that sexual behavior is something that is up to you.

00:53:57.000 And you said, I may have a desire to sleep with many women. 0.98

00:54:00.000 This whole hearing is mental.

00:54:01.000 Why are they trying to do kind of mad gotchas on Ben Shapiro, who is pretty explicit about his own faith and his own position.

00:54:09.000 Remember at the beginning of this I talked about, you know, there'll be many people now in the chat like, I hate that dude, his position on Israel.

00:54:16.000 I think that this hyper-politicization of our culture doesn't benefit any of us.

00:54:21.000 Now he, Ben Shapiro, often recites Andrew Breitbart's claim that seems increasingly correct actually, that politics is downstream of culture.

00:54:31.000 But I feel that we've got to become a little more articulate as the consumers and participants in culture If we are to survive, when you get a figure like Jerry Seinfeld, who I reckon is probably an atheist, but he's obviously culturally and racially Jewish, turned into a polarizing figure because of events in the Middle East, and his understandable affinity, historical, cultural, racial and religious, albeit perhaps secularly, although I recognize the paradox there, with Israel, then

00:55:02.000 It makes me wonder how there could ever be consensus or alliance again.

00:55:08.000 I've seen in my own country sports pundits become incredibly controversial figures just because the culture itself is seeping A bit like Venom.

00:55:19.000 You know, like in Venom, the Marvel character, how that kind of insidious black liquid from which he appears to be formed creaks into every crack and prevents, in a sense, any kind of consensus or any kind of good faith argument.

00:55:36.000 Like, holding up this thing here, like Ben Shapiro sort of essentially just, uh, Reiterating the position of his religious identity as if, you know, he's been caught with his pants down.

00:55:46.000 Particularly when that's probably one of those rooms where there were people literally kissing each other.

00:55:51.000 You've seen that footage?

00:55:51.000 You don't remember?

00:55:52.000 Like the pretense that authority lies within the institutions of power now, rather than in the culture itself.

00:55:59.000 But simply because there are numerous independent media outlets that are a bare expression and tribally closer to the people that That these political institutions are meant to represent, in a sense we're experiencing in real time, it's total decimation.

00:56:17.000 How much longer before it's Ben Shapiro holding these people to account?

00:56:23.000 Or if, you know, Ben Shapiro is not to your liking, Whatever cultural figure represents your views.

00:56:28.000 That is indeed my point.

00:56:30.000 How can we pretend that these central institutions are representative of anything other than a small sect of people that are now becoming increasingly exposed?

00:56:41.000 Like, the Mick Jagger example is another one.

00:56:43.000 When you see Mick Jagger, you go, yeah, Justin Trudeau's a great guy.

00:56:46.000 Boo! 0.83

00:56:47.000 Oh, the world's not like that anymore.

00:56:49.000 The world doesn't work like that anymore.

00:56:51.000 And it only did, really, for a relatively brief period, when you look at the whole unfolding drama.

00:56:57.000 But I do not.

00:56:59.000 I agree with me.

00:57:00.000 Yes, that's true.

00:57:01.000 Congratulations on your, yeah.

00:57:04.000 I'm sure it's very hard to restrain yourself.

00:57:07.000 Mr. Chairman, I just want to shift to Alvin Bragg.

00:57:13.000 He was supposed to be here this week, and he's not coming.

00:57:17.000 And Hunter Biden was supposed to testify, now he's not testifying.

00:57:20.000 We were supposed to have votes on articles of impeachment, and we didn't.

00:57:24.000 And again, we're just wondering, you guys write great press releases, but the payoff seems to never come.

00:57:31.000 And so I guess we will keep waiting, and we'll do hearings like this.

00:57:34.000 and finally chairman you know you can you can yell you cannot yell

00:57:40.000 fire in a crowded theater and that's a restriction on speech as you have recognized

00:57:45.000 before uh... but you can yell theater in a crowded fire and and

00:57:49.000 you all can continue to do that

00:57:50.000 uh... all you want and we'll just waste the american people's time.

00:57:54.000 gentlemen, time has expired and i remind him of the first rule of holes when you're in one

00:57:58.000 stop digging bloody hell the whole thing is falling apart before our 0.89

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00:58:44.000 Do you remember when Jon Stewart did his first show back on the Daily Show?

00:58:48.000 He kind of took aim a little bit at Joe Biden.

00:58:51.000 And then after that, he didn't talk about Joe Biden anymore.

00:58:55.000 And I thought, oh, well, yeah, Jon Stewart's back.

00:58:57.000 So now we might have someone with the Political and comedic chops to handle what is obviously an increasingly polarized space where late night talk show hosts won't attack Joe Biden, although of course they are doing that now.

00:59:11.000 People that were lining up to sell vaccines and now criticizing the establishment.

00:59:16.000 Now even late night talk show hosts have turned on Biden and Jon Stewart has turned on Biden and I wonder once a culture shifts like this what How much longer can they cling on to power?

00:59:30.000 Certainly, how long can they cling on to it with any certainty?

00:59:34.000 You know... Perhaps this chart... Could... If I may... Sorry, the pen caps are made of Kevlar.

00:59:51.000 Very difficult to...

00:59:54.000 Perhaps this chart will illustrate and illuminate the point more clearly.

00:59:58.000 For instance, in 2022, when we saw Biden give a shout-out to Representative Jackie.

01:00:06.000 Representative Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I didn't think she was gonna be here.

01:00:12.000 Unfortunately, Jackie was dead. 0.52

01:00:18.000 It's interesting, isn't it?

01:00:21.000 So what does this reforming mean?

01:00:23.000 I suppose the culture and the various institutions within it by their nature have to continue to try to preserve their own power.

01:00:30.000 It's amazing though to see Jon Stewart actually looking at the chronology of the descent of Joe Biden.

01:00:36.000 But when will it be that the issues that remain contentious are discussed in those places?

01:00:42.000 Like the escalation of hostility between the United States and NATO countries and Russia.

01:00:46.000 Like the evident deception that took place in the pandemic period.

01:00:50.000 Not errors, deception.

01:00:52.000 When will the establishment turn its attention to the issues that remain significant?

01:00:56.000 Because those issues continue to be discussed here.

01:01:00.000 This is the basic assumption that I might make from the changing perspectives on Joe Biden in the cultural media.

01:01:07.000 They knew then that Joe Biden was senile and decrepit, but participated in the maintenance of the idea of his competence.

01:01:17.000 Do they similarly understand that escalating hostility between NATO and Russia is unwise?

01:01:24.000 And if it is wise, who is it beneficial to?

01:01:27.000 Who benefits from this increasing fear?

01:01:31.000 I wonder when they will come to address the undue power of organisations like the WHO, or what took place in the years between 2019 and 2022.

01:01:42.000 And I wonder if when it comes to something like 2025, When we will see a conversation in legacy media spaces that acknowledges and accepts that there are diverse and opposing cultural ideas that can no longer live in this kind of ongoing fraught, febrile, frustrating friction and have to be accepted as different cultural ideas, different political entities and that we can no longer support institutions that want to corral together

01:02:15.000 Hundreds of millions of people for the benefit of whom precisely while moving closer and closer to apocalyptic wars, restrictive health policies, citizen management of an overbearing and ghouling degree.

01:02:31.000 Surely now it's time to accept that this is not a superficial subject, that it's not a superficial issue that centers around one individual or one policy or one think tank.

01:02:42.000 What we're witnessing is Is tectonic plates moving so significantly that what has to happen as a consequence of it are new visions, new ideologies that have at the very center decentralization and devolution.

01:02:55.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and in the chat.

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