Russell Brand is back with a brand new episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand. In this episode, he talks about the post-election madness that has swept through social media since the Kamala defeat of her opponent, Amy Klobuchar, and why it s so hard to calibrate the pre-election rhetoric with the post election reality. . Plus, a look at the mysterious resurrection of Peanut the White and why he might have been resurrected by a squirrel... Stay Free with Russell Brand is on all of your favourite social medias, if you search for it, you'll find us. If you're interested in spirituality, I'll be streaming Break Bread Live at 1:15pm EST today, so you'll be able to join us for that as well! And if you are indeed an awakened wonder, can you shut the door for me? Can you shut that door? We've got a lot out there, you awakening wonders. You'll see you next time. We are getting to breaking it, so stay free with us next time! - we've got plenty out there. Stay free, you're going to see the future, we're getting to break it! We'll see y'all next time - we'll see ya next time, we'll be breaking it. In the meantime, stay free! xoxo, EJ - EJ & Elyssa . . E. - P.S. - E. & E. . . . E.B. SONGS - BONUS CONTENT: This episode is a tribute to the late, great, great E.J. Bongino's army. Thank you for listening to this one, E.A. I could never be a veteran on this. E-mail me with any questions you have about the future? - Thank you, EJ and E.M. - I'm not a veteran, I'd love to know what you think of the future - I'd like to know your thoughts on the future. . -E.E. Thanks for listening, E-E. -BONUS EPISODE: -PODCAST: Free Speech Over here. FREE SPEAKER - FREE Speech Over Here, An Awake and Wonder - Free Speech is a thing - An Awakened Wonder
00:11:48.000. . you Hello there, you awakening wonders.
00:11:54.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:11:56.000Over the course of the show, we'll be with you for like 15 minutes on YouTube.
00:12:00.000And during that 15 minutes, we'll have a quick look at what's going on on X so that we're right up to the second.
00:12:06.000So we'll be looking at a refreshed X page where we can see the latest posts on X and how people are reacting to it.
00:12:14.000And we're going to be looking at some of the highlights and breakdowns over the last 48 hours and how we can calibrate the pre-election rhetoric with the post-election reality.
00:12:27.000What I mean by that in particular, and it's something you will have seen come up a lot on social media, is if people really felt that they were voting correctly, Well, not that they were voting for Hitler.
00:12:41.000Trump supporters were voting for Hitler.
00:15:08.000That's like if you believe in synergy, synchronicity, signs and symbols.
00:15:12.000That's, I mean, I don't know if you know squirrels, but it's extraordinary that that squirrel captured so much attention and somehow seized the mood.
00:15:22.000And then at a vital and opportune moment, a squirrel arrived.
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00:16:22.000Now, one of the things that we've noted is the misquoting and decontextualization of stuff that Trump said.
00:16:29.000You know, like when Trump talked about tariffs and said there'll be a bloodbath if China attempted to set up factories for cars in Mexico to transport them across the border.
00:16:38.000That bloodbath word was used in a very condemnatory way, as if what Trump was saying is that post the election that we will be sloshing around in the blood of his enemies.
00:16:48.000So, what does it mean when Kamala says fight?
00:16:51.000When is the word fight not a call to January 6th-style insurrection?
00:16:57.000When is a billionaire a bad billionaire, and when is a billionaire a good billionaire?
00:17:02.000What are the values and the principles that have just been rejected, along with the endorsement of, let's face it, quite a serious pantheon of celebrities?
00:17:11.000Let me know in the Rumble chat, who were your favourite celebrities who were ignored During the campaigns of the Democrats, like, didn't Taylor Swift, Beyonce, these all endorse Kamala?
00:17:22.000Does that tell you that something epochally and significantly is shifting?
00:17:29.000Does this mean it's the end of the era of the celebrity endorsement?
00:17:33.000We're going to have a look Kamala Harris saying fight a bunch of times.
00:17:38.000Kamala Harris, who, by the way, only won states that do not require voter ID. Surely just a coincidence.
00:17:47.000Losing somehow 20 million of the votes that Joe Biden had in the last election.
00:17:52.000It was 81 million, so like 15 million less votes.
00:17:54.000Don't know where those votes all went or how they were not concocted or conjured up.
00:17:58.000And after we've come back, we'll have a look at what's going on on Let's have a look at Kamala's speech.
00:18:03.000We saw the warm-up act of Peanut the Squirrel risen again.
00:18:07.000Let's have a look at the number of times she says, fight, fight, fight.
00:18:31.000The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for, but hear me when I say, hear me when I say, the light of America's promise will always burn bright.
00:18:57.000As long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.
00:19:05.000Now I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now.
00:21:00.000And that virtue can only be derived from a concordance With principles that we all agree are sacred.
00:21:08.000So if you don't have God or a belief in God, and if everything becomes about rationalism and measurement, which of course have their place, and Lord alone knows, with Elon Musk now in charge of three branches of government, there will be the use of data, I assume, when coming up with policy.
00:21:23.000But if the analysis of data and decisions derived from it Are not framed and guided within a square of clear principles, principalities of obvious virtue, service, freedom, freedom to and freedom from, like died with or died of COVID. There's a distinction there.
00:21:44.000What we've been living within are totalitarian bureaucracies that legitimize their authoritarianism through measures of care.
00:21:53.000Because we care for you so much, we're going to have to sack these 34,000 key workers.
00:21:56.000Because we care for you so much, you have to take these medications.
00:21:59.000Because we care for you so much, we're not going to ensure that they're clinically trialed correctly for transmission.
00:22:03.000There are so many things to consider and unpack there.
00:22:07.000And what's been rejected, along with celebrities I would offer you, is that era.
00:22:12.000That era of managerialism and bureaucratization of those processes.
00:22:20.000And anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it.
00:22:24.000At the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.
00:24:03.000And I suppose, as with all polarity, that will require both sides of the discourse to generate the energy for hysteria.
00:24:12.000And I was thinking, you know, with those people that were saying that Trump's Hitler and stuff, that probably won't leave the country now like you would if you truly believed that Hitler had just taken over...
00:24:22.000How would you be feeling had Kamala won?
00:24:25.000And I actually feel like I would be scared because of this.
00:24:28.000I think I would be scared that a kind of insidious creep of bureaucracy and incessant crises would be used to legitimise more and more authority.
00:24:39.000I would imagine that within four years they would say, we're banning these types of people from using social media, we're banning these types of hate speech.
00:24:46.000And even though there might initially be a sort of excitement about it, like people saying, yeah, that's good because hate speech is bad, we all agree that hate speech is bad, hating people's bad, we'd start to realise, oh no, they're just banning speech that's contradictory to their agenda or disruptive to their agenda.
00:25:02.000So I do understand why some people have responded hysterically to the election and mandate.
00:25:09.000And are some people calling it a landslide yet?
00:25:13.000Because I think I would be afraid if what we were now entering into is four more years of increasing globalism, bureaucracy, global war, use of crisis to legitimize authoritarianism.
00:26:07.000Candace Owens is one of the many people online demanding that Alex Jones be given his proper position as the replacement for Karin Jean-Pierre as press secretary.
00:26:18.000I want to be very clear about Alex Jones.
00:26:21.000I will crawl over broken glass and give him everything I earn.
00:26:27.000If all he needs is someone to pay the salary, leave it to me.
00:27:10.000But Alex Jones, that's who you want in the role?
00:27:13.000It's Alex Jones you want in that position.
00:27:15.000Let's have a look at J.D. Vance talking about America's new foreign policy.
00:27:21.000And I suppose, again, because we've been in a period of hysteria...
00:27:25.000We can now look at people that are about to form government for at least the next four years, talking about what they plan to do.
00:27:33.000Let's see J.D. Vance talking about America's foreign policy going forward.
00:27:37.000And of course the possibility for deception and lying still exists, but let's just actually look at what he's saying and then we can use this, we can archive this, we can see if this is what actually happens.
00:27:47.000We have built a foreign policy of hectoring and moralizing and lecturing countries that don't want anything to do with it.
00:27:54.000The Chinese have a foreign policy of building roads and bridges and feeding poor people, and I think that we should pursue a foreign policy, a diplomacy of respect, and a foreign policy that is not rooted in moralizing, it's rooted in the national interest of this country.
00:28:10.000Because Ambassador Sullivan is at the lead of moralizing instead of pursuing America's national I reckon some people will go through that and try and find euphemism in it.
00:28:23.000Do you try to think like the people that would condemn JD Vance there?
00:28:28.000The only thing I can reach for is this.
00:28:31.000Countries are a vast enterprise, the state in itself an incredible endeavor, a deep and vast and terrifying behemoth.
00:28:39.000Perhaps it doesn't matter what personnel you put within these institutions unless there are significant changes, but they will always tend towards totalitarianism.
00:28:48.000They will always tend towards elitism.
00:28:50.000So it's a very general and vague critique about sort of big government, really, and not reflecting our historic tendency to want to live tribally in groups that are of a manageable size.
00:29:06.000And I must I recognize this isn't something you can really build policy around.
00:29:10.000I'm not super naive, but, you know, the way we now know that if you eat too much sugar and fat, it will mess you up because you're not evolved to access lots of sugar and fat.
00:29:18.000Perhaps there's something to be said when it comes to organizing community.
00:29:22.000Perhaps we can handle this only at a certain scale.
00:29:25.000And perhaps technology could be used not to centralize, but to decentralize.
00:29:29.000That you could use the technology we have now to create Airbnb and Uber and create incredible opportunities for centralization and then bespoke service.
00:29:41.000To create localised government, which is dreary and managerial and does come down to when's the garbage going to get collected and how are we going to ensure fairness and logistics and operations and stuff that I frankly don't even like thinking about.
00:29:55.000That's the only kind of critique I would offer against bloody any government.
00:29:58.000But when you watch J.D. Vance and think about how he was sort of portrayed as an incredible, desperate weirdo...
00:30:04.000And then hear him say, really, I think we should stop moralizing and focus on America.
00:30:07.000That doesn't seem like a ridiculous thing to say.
00:30:09.000What I would say is when you see Rachel Maddow, who did offer a moral position throughout this election and previous elections, and indeed it's the role of the anchor on MSNBC, or not the anchor, I suppose the pundit on MSNBC, to offer up moral positions, she has a surprising perspective when it comes to the dissolution she has a surprising perspective when it comes to the dissolution of the Five
00:30:29.000Those of you who don't know what the Five Eyes is, the Five Eyes is a set of anglophonic countries, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, America, Australia, that share intelligence with one another on domestic populations to get round laws that prevent governments spying on their own populations.
00:30:46.000One of the things that Edward Snowden revealed and why he's still in exile in Russia.
00:30:50.000In fact, God, here would be some interesting canary-in-the-cage moments for the new Trump administration.
00:30:56.000Imagine a proper pardon for Julian Assange.
00:31:02.000Then you would recognize, whoa, hold on, things are actually different here.
00:31:06.000But what we can point out and observe, and indeed my...
00:31:09.000Personal reasons for thinking that America is better off with a MAGA government than a Democratic Party government.
00:31:16.000One of those reasons is that the Democratic Party have become the representatives of the deep state and global corporatists, and the Five Eyes are not the goodies.
00:31:24.000Just as it sounds like Five Guys, which I think is a relatively popular and pretty good burger chain, that don't mean it's something we should aspire to or support.
00:31:32.000The Five Eyes is one of the pillars...
00:31:36.000Of globalist surveillance is one of the ways in which you and I are spied on.
00:31:43.000Everything on your phone, all of your text, all of your information is being stored for a later date in case one day in the future you need to be unpersoned.
00:31:52.000If you've got nothing to fear, you've got nothing to hide, yeah, well you don't know how the world's going to alter.
00:31:57.000You might have something to fear in the future and the five I's is one of the means and ways that interlocked What does Rachel Maddow mean?
00:32:23.000When she laments the loss of the Five Eyes.
00:32:26.000Same with NATO. All these organizations have been hyped to us as somehow positive, but increasingly we're querying that positivity.
00:32:36.000And what this election and this result of this election might represent is the end of our acceptance of those endorsements.
00:32:43.000In the same way that the majority of Americans have rejected the endorsement of massive stars and celebrities, maybe now these star bureaucracies, NATO, Five Eyes, WHO, WEF, maybe they're going to be rejected as well.
00:32:59.000Let's have a look at Rachel Maddow lamenting the loss of the Five Eyes.
00:33:03.000If we follow this train of thought, is that Intelligence sharing between America and our traditional allies is likely going to end.
00:33:11.000The whole Five Eyes thing is likely going to end.
00:33:14.000If you've got America switching sides in the Ukraine-Russia war to instead support Russia, Or to become neutral, which would mean, in this case, to support the aggressor, to support Russia.
00:33:25.000If you've got ongoing secret communications, even out of government, between the Republican nominee and the person who funded his campaign and led his ground game, right, both of whom are communicating with the Russian government, you are not going to have American allies who have been relying on us as the pinnacle intelligence agency in the world since World War II. You are not going to have continued sharing of information with a new administration that has an open line with Vladimir Putin.
00:33:56.000And if we're at that level, if that's the kind of transformation that's happening in terms of America on the world stage, the idea of there being a part of the US government that is still in Democratic Party hands becomes a very interesting thing in terms of the stability of the world, right?
00:34:15.000What do they think about, like, Edward Snowden and Edward Snowden's sacrifices and revelations and Julian Assange?
00:34:34.000Oh my god, this guy on WikiLeaks, he's a hero.
00:34:36.000He's revealing information that exposes corruption.
00:34:39.000In particular, military malfeasance, the murder of civilians by the American military, being directed, of course, by branches of government, in Iraq.
00:34:49.000He's revealed that the Democrat Party emails are full of corrupt communications of the Hillary Clinton campaign, for example.
00:34:58.000He was lauded, loved, by, like, the Guardian newspaper in my country, by the New York Times in your country, and by all of those sort of premium brands like De Spiegel, Figaro, everything.
00:35:09.000Every country's got their legacy media brands that are meant to be synonymous with trust but are now synonymous with corruption.
00:35:16.000Then what happened is Julian Assange went too far and he revealed information that was significantly detrimental to the interests of the powerful and the legacy media bricked it He was accused of rape.
00:36:24.000And even when you see someone like Candace Owens there talking presumably humorously, presumably humorously about Alex Jones being press secretary, I sometimes do think though, like, why not?
00:37:36.000Or do you trust Rachel Maddow, Karin Jean-Pierre, Jen Psaki?
00:37:41.000Who is it that gets to decide these brands?
00:37:44.000I remember we attended the RNC with Rumble.
00:37:49.000And we said then, like, you know, when you see Hulk Hogan tearing his top off and going, I love my...
00:37:55.000It's kind of crazy, particularly if you're sort of familiar with the dynamics of wrestling and the sort of broad commedia dell'arte insanity of that stuff.
00:38:04.000But I know how that moment would have been read by people...
00:38:10.000So that's really crass and vulgar and awful, is it?
00:38:14.000But Beyonce or Megan Thee Stallion or George Clooney or any one of the stars that endorse Kamala, well that's credible and that's blue chip.
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00:40:35.000The world fairs that Donald Trump says he's going to bring back used to be pretty iconic and defining in your country, didn't they?
00:40:42.000Didn't, like, like, did Eisenhower have one?
00:40:43.000Were they, like, fin de sicle things, like things that you had at the end of centuries?
00:40:48.000Like, you had a few of them that really defined it.
00:40:49.000Like, my memories as an English person of world fairs are, like, you know, like, maybe there would have been one where we go, There will be flying machines, I tell you!
00:40:58.000I feel like Amelia Earhart was inspired at a World Fair to fly around and stuff.
00:41:03.000I know there's an episode of The Simpsons where Nelson and Barton rent a car and they go to where a World Fair once was and they just end up wearing wigs and that's the thumbnail of it.
00:41:15.000Anyway, Trump's going to bring back world fairs.
00:41:53.000But that's why, as a nation, we should be preparing for a most spectacular birthday party.
00:42:00.000We want to make it the best of all time.
00:42:02.000Here is my plan to give America's founding in 1776, the incredible anniversary it truly deserves.
00:42:10.000On day one, I will convene a White House task force called Salute to America 250.
00:42:17.000It will be responsible for coordinating with state and local governments to ensure not just one day of celebration, but an entire year of festivities across the nation, starting on Memorial Day 2025 and continuing through July 4th, 2026.
00:42:35.000Second, I will work with all 50 governors, Republican and Democrat alike, To create the Great American State Fair, a unique one-year exhibition featuring pavilions from all 50 states.
00:44:16.000Would it have been, or 15, or whatever, pick a number.
00:44:18.000Would it have been possible that For all of the world's greatest stars to line up on a red carpet of endorsement and be rejected.
00:44:27.000What does it tell us about our changing trust in celebrity and in the landscape of celebrity and the way that power and soft power work?
00:44:35.000What does it tell us about the mistrust we have since the Epstein list and the Epstein scandal and the revelations about Diddy and that kind of subterranean alleged network of sex parties that apparently involves big stars and big political figures?
00:44:51.000Have we lost our faith and trust in celebrities?
00:44:55.000Now, as someone who's been inside those institutions, as it were, I now recognise...
00:45:01.000That they've probably always been propaganda.
00:45:03.000I mean, you read them books like Hollywood Babylon and you read that it's always been kind of built on sex and intrigue.
00:45:10.000And it looks like now, in this new communication age, they haven't undergone a massive rebrand and reframing.
00:45:42.000Ricky Gervais kind of preempted the kind of mistrust that many people were feeling for celebrity, probably because we've grown tired of their endorsements.
00:45:50.000I recognize I'm from that world a bit.
00:45:52.000You know, I've been in movies and I'm a stand-up comedian and all that kind of thing.
00:45:56.000But what I'm saying is that there are sets of values transcendent of those values, and if you don't have access to them, Then you will find a hard ceiling because celebrity is not God.
00:46:09.000And now we know that people are not going to treat it like one.
00:46:14.000Let's have a look at Joy Reid saying that Kamala's campaign was flawless on the basis of, you know, on that basis.
00:46:21.000And I think it's important to say that, you know, anyone who has experienced or been in the United States for any period of time and experienced this country's history and knows it cannot have believed that it would be easy to elect a woman president, let alone a woman of color.
00:47:31.000Anything other than sets of principles and virtues that are derived from something a little more esoteric and a little more valuable than the pursuit of box office or the selling of records or the selling of products.
00:47:46.000We're going to need a little more now, I feel.
00:47:49.000And I think it's important to say that, you know...
00:48:59.000You can't carve the world up like that.
00:49:01.000I suppose you can, because you can look at data sets.
00:49:03.000But there are other criteria to people.
00:49:05.000You could look at, you know, like I suppose from a psychoanalytical point of view, you could look at whether or not they're sort of aggressive, or you could look at whether or not they feel like they've been mistreated or abused or exploited.
00:49:16.000Or you could look at what they feel about the institutions of power and government, whether they're cynical and sceptical people.
00:49:21.000Maybe we don't Carve people up like that no more.
00:49:24.000I mean, wasn't that part of the civil rights movement to get beyond that?
00:49:27.000I know it's a bit of a hacky argument, in a way, to suggest that we should try to fulfill the visions of great men like Martin Luther King, who said we had to start looking beyond those superficial taxonomies.
00:49:38.000And he, of course, was a Christian minister, so he had available to him a Christian purview, i.e.
00:49:43.000we are part of one human family, we must respect and love people, apartheid and exploitation are anathema and are against our nature.
00:49:51.000The legacy media, of course, in a sense, while claiming to be pursuing his legacy, inverting it by looking at everything in blunt demographic terms, seeking, I believe, to stoke division in order to facilitate further power of corporatist globalists.
00:50:10.000And now that that's not worked, they're lamenting and damning people that didn't vote the way they were told to.
00:50:16.000Voting the way that you're told to is not democratic.
00:50:49.000What are like landmark ideas that we can use to track this?
00:50:53.000The pandemic is helpful because the pandemic shows us how a government is tending towards authoritarianism whenever it gets the opportunity.
00:51:00.000It's relationship with big business, and business doesn't even seem like the correct word anymore, giant corporate monoliths that stand astride the globe is a great indicator of why people might become disillusioned.
00:51:12.000I don't think people are voting against other people's sexual freedom or reproductive freedom.
00:51:19.000I know that the subject of abortion provokes very strong emotions, surely in anybody, because it's sort of a really painful and difficult thing.
00:51:27.000I don't think that that's what's defining this election.
00:51:29.000I feel like people don't trust the government, don't trust the media, don't trust the judiciary, and don't trust Hollywood, and don't trust entertainment.
00:51:36.000Here's Stephen Colbert, who, like all late-night talk show hosts, trended towards supporting the Democrat Party, who during the pandemic danced along with vaccines, all dressed up and stuff, and like a vaccine.
00:51:49.000I mean, it's just such a strange time, really, saying that the vast majority of Americans don't care about democracy.
00:51:55.000Let's see if we can pick this apart in real time.
00:52:41.000I wonder, though, about that peaceful transfer of power, and I wonder where the 81 million votes that Biden had actually came from, given that Kamala got 66 million and that Obama got 61 million.
00:52:55.000I might be getting these numbers a little askew, but there was an extraordinary spike for Biden.
00:53:01.000Like, where are them 15 million votes gone?
00:53:22.000I'm in your country right now and I'm moving around Florida and I'm meeting people that are Trump supporters and they are not like sort of gurning psychopathic racist lunatics.
00:53:35.000There are a variety of people that you can't basket of deplorables off.
00:53:40.000You couldn't do it prior to the election, and you certainly can't do it after the election in an attempt to galvanize the now proven histrionic and out-of-touch media leaders of the other demographic that I think have falsely instilled in people a sense of despair and terror when there's already been a Trump government from 2016 to 2020, and if anything, it weren't That different.
00:54:08.000I know Donald Trump and Donald Trump supporters say, no, no, no, manufacturing went out and it was the beautiful economy.
00:54:12.000I know all that kind of stuff, but I don't know.
00:54:13.000I have a very optimistic appraisal of the possibilities for humankind, and particularly for your country, that it could become a country of glorious vision, of spiritual fulfillment, of true power on the world stage, the power to sacrifice and the power to change and the power to bring about peace, rather than the power to dominate without consequence.
00:54:36.000It's really odd to hear Stephen Colbert, who I've spoken to, I've been on that show a bunch of times, who I know is Christian, who I know is a decent man, I reckon, make jokes, the basis of which is that half the population, or over half, 71 million, or however many votes Trump got, are somehow deficient, or defunct, or defective.
00:54:59.000Doesn't seem right to me that that would happen.
00:55:01.000But in a minute, we're going to look at some of the meltdowns from TikTok.
00:55:06.000And I'm wondering if it's even ethical for me to look at that.
00:55:08.000And we're going to talk about how, what kind of created that state of mind.
00:55:11.000How do people get themselves in that state?
00:55:13.000And it's because of this kind of media, isn't it?
00:55:15.000Let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with that.
00:55:24.000Now, as a late night host, people often say to me, come on, part of you has got to want Trump to win because he gives you so much material to work with.
00:55:59.000That's democracy with a capital DUH. And in this democracy, the majority has spoken, and they said they don't care that much about democracy.
00:56:10.000And I want to take a moment to congratulate Kamala Harris and Tim Walls on running an amazing...
00:56:19.000As Mike Benz explained to me, when they talk about democracy, they don't mean the ability to vote for representatives to carry your interests through systems of government.
00:56:33.000They mean the systems of government themselves.
00:56:38.000They want the judiciary, the media and the various executive branches of your government to be controlled by a certain ideology and they don't want that to be infected, impacted or altered.
00:56:51.000You know, all the while the American taxpayers have been funding the ongoing and hopefully soon resolved war between Ukraine and Russia, it's been presented as a war To protect democracy, even though there are no elections in Ukraine.
00:57:02.000I know a lot of countries suspend elections when there's a war on, I know that.
00:57:07.000But they've also suspended the media, and they've also got really interesting relationships with BlackRock, and there's a lot going on there.
00:57:16.000The information that we're given matters.
00:57:18.000And it's, I think, very harmful to derisorily, if such a word is possible, derisorily dismiss 71 million people as not caring about democracy.
00:57:29.000But I think what they really care about are probably Values, principles, families, individual rights and community.
00:57:37.000And I know that there would be pushback on that.
00:57:39.000Well, don't they care about the rights of people to get abortions?
00:57:42.000Man, look, it's not a subject I can claim to be an expert in, but isn't Trump actually saying the state should decide at what point?
00:57:51.000So there's no one saying, I don't think, ban abortions as a centralized edict.
00:57:56.000So even that understandably galvanizing and distressing issue that centers around the sanctity of human life is being misrepresented, like all of the other issues.
00:58:08.000...walls on running an amazing 107-day campaign.
00:58:22.000Yeah, people saying about that sort of Republican democracy.
00:58:25.000In a sense, I think these two synecdoches are interchangeable and mean the will of the people can be represented through institutions of government, through the ballot box.
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01:00:13.000Are people setting up opportunities to get the hell out of this place before the various systems of genocide, slaughter and endless war are set up?
01:00:26.000I feel like none of the people who call Trump the new Hitler are reacting or preparing as if Hitler is soon to be in power.
01:00:32.000Have all the people that in factly claim they would be sent in Trump's camps, AOC, Mattel, Olbermann, Joubert, begun to make preparations to flee.
01:01:05.000If the most ambitious version of what this election represents is a repetition of what happened between 2016 and 2020, what were the worst moments?
01:02:14.000And that how dare you motif, I think a lot of people didn't like that.
01:02:18.000I admire anyone who's really sort of committed to what they believe in.
01:02:21.000It's a good attribute, isn't it, to really be committed to what you believe in.
01:02:23.000But that sort of how dare you mentality, it's just that there's a solipsism and narcissism and a grandiosity in that, that I feel is not going to be helpful for any individual and certainly not for a whole culture or society.
01:02:41.000If you voted for that man, if you voted for anybody other than Kamala and you live in one of the states, that it...
01:02:49.000If you vote for anyone, listen, please, I'll try to be specific and particular.
01:02:54.000I'm not saying that those people, those individuals, should be ridiculed or condemned.
01:02:57.000I know a lot of you will really get off on it.
01:03:00.000What I'm saying is, what is making them feel that way?
01:03:03.000In the same way that we can be directed to drink Coca-Cola when it's not really very good for you, and I let my children drink it.
01:03:10.000What kind of conditioning, what kind of coaxing, what kind of propaganda has led people to think that what's about to happen is so significant and so against their interests that it warrants this degree of emotion?
01:03:25.000You live in one of the states that it was, you know, close.
01:03:29.000Or if you didn't vote, I chose family!
01:03:47.000I reckon what you'd find, like, remember, from a compassionate and loving perspective, that many of them people have been exposed to trauma and also now propaganda.
01:03:58.000So they connect that propaganda to their trauma.
01:04:02.000Like, you know, that they've had tough lives in one way or another.
01:04:04.000Because everyone's had a tough life because it's tough out here.
01:04:06.000That's why you probably do need a kind of tough president for these tough times.
01:04:10.000And certainly what you need are people that are willing to get in there and look at the institutions of government.
01:04:14.000Certainly you need people that want to end war.
01:04:16.000I don't know how they've been coaxed into that state.
01:04:19.000Everyone's saying in the chat, legacy media, legacy media, maybe you're right.
01:04:26.000Right, some people are saying some of the stuff that Trump said in the Awakened Wonder chat, like the grab-em-by-the-P-word moment.
01:04:32.000I suppose, though, like, but, you know, that was not a great thing to have said on tape, but when was that, and what was that, and do you think that Donald Trump's sort of really like that as a sort of a married man, as a father?
01:04:43.000Now, certainly me, in the past, I might have said pretty dumb things, but...
01:04:49.000Does it warrant that kind of hysteria?
01:04:51.000And how's that going to actually affect your...
01:04:53.000Like, if you can't handle people saying stuff, this is going to be a tougher world.
01:05:19.000Like we all have certain things that sort of...
01:05:22.000Thrum the strings of our inherited insanity.
01:05:26.000Like, you know, like you might be a person that gets intimidated by certain behaviour, conduct or individuals.
01:05:31.000You might be someone who's aroused or find a certain conduct alluring.
01:05:34.000So I reckon there's a sort of a baseline of characteristics and then something happens, and particularly if you've been really heavily conditioned by media, and bam, out it comes.
01:06:23.000That's a religious impulse that's been connected to secular and managerial events, in a way.
01:06:29.000None of us should be hysterical about the outcome of the election, but I do reckon, had Kamala won, I might have felt, oh, is this going to mean that censorship's going to get worse and surveillance is going to increase and that there are going to be progressive crises that are used to legitimise further authority, telling us that they are exerting that authority only to protect us?
01:06:48.000Is this going to mean ongoing wars around the globe supporting Ukraine to the point of annihilating their population in a war they can't win?
01:06:55.000Is this going to mean likely conflict with China rather than diplomacy?
01:06:59.000I really hope that this government within the We should be more affected, I think, by deception and hypocrisy.
01:07:22.000A couple of examples, building that wall after saying you weren't going to build a wall and that building that wall was so, so terrible.
01:07:29.000The corruption that took place during the pandemic period that's still not being addressed and might be addressed now that Bobby Kennedy is in a significant position in government.
01:07:37.000The health crisis that's going on across America.
01:07:40.000The stoking of cultural division that does take two sides to escalate.
01:07:45.000I think this could be a really good time for your country, honestly.
01:07:49.000And I think, rather than ridiculing and mocking the people in those videos, although it's easy, I suppose there are certain things that could make me feel that way.
01:08:17.000It's not ignorance and hate, but what's terrifying is that we are all so easily manipulated by media.
01:08:23.000What's heartening is that legacy media is losing its grip on people and some of these folks will be debugged now and I pray that they find a higher power to cling to that can warrant that level of devotion and that I'm a person that can get hysterical and thankfully I found a God that can handle my madness, can handle my fallen nature and can give me some guidance, some principles, some community, some encouragement.
01:08:51.000And that's exactly what we'll be talking about with Eric Metaxas.
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01:09:50.000CNN! The propaganda arm of the government have had the gall to say that Elon Musk will use X as an organ of propaganda.
01:10:00.000Well, we know, thanks to the Twitter files, that that's exactly how social media has been used as soon as the government worked out how to use it in that way.
01:10:12.000Is it Elon Musk or is it CNN? Let me know in the comments and chat.
01:10:16.000Let's have a look at that claim being made.
01:10:18.000I want to ask you about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and how a Musk role in a Trump administration would interact with his ownership of that platform.
01:10:29.000I would suspect he's going to try to merge Trump social.
01:10:32.000I've heard from a number of people today with X and take it public because it's a meme stock now.
01:10:37.000Trump social already, which is a terrible business.
01:10:58.000They kept saying he was losing money, and I think it was very clear it wasn't about money.
01:11:02.000This was a great investment by Elon Musk in Donald Trump, and that's how he sees it.
01:11:08.000He spent hundreds of millions to make billions, and he could be our world's first trillionaire if you want to.
01:11:13.000If you're comfortable with a single person who has interests all over the federal government, including $15 billion in contracts, deciding things, and I know it's gone on and off, What the pundit there has described are some principles, right?
01:11:27.000And the principles, if you listen to them, are there should not be concentration of media in one person's portfolio.
01:11:36.000But think about News International or News Corp, the set of international media interests around Rupert Murdoch.
01:11:43.000And think of all the journalists that work for Rupert Murdoch.
01:11:47.000And the Believe they're doing good work.
01:12:09.000And if you're against billionaires having influence in politics, then what is the relationship of Bill Gates with the Democratic Party?
01:12:14.000And what is the relationship of George Soros with the Democratic Party?
01:12:17.000So if that is a true principle, and you are a true supporter of the Democratic Party, what you'd be saying is, I can't be in this party as long as you keep accepting that money.
01:12:30.000So those were, I think, interesting questions to put forward.
01:12:34.000But those questions do not have the same validity if you only ask them when it suits you.
01:12:39.000If you only ask them when it suits you.
01:12:42.000From January, I guess it's around January 6th that there's a peaceful transfer of power, we'll be able to look at how the second Trump term looks.
01:12:51.000And I guess, if you were just looking at it rationally, it's going to be a bit like The first Trump term between 2016 and 2020, and Trump would say that was negatively impacted by the pandemic, right?
01:13:03.000And any reasonable person would say, well, but now it's a Trump government where he's publicly stated that he made mistakes in the advisers that he appointed, and this time he plans to give more power to Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and we'll see.
01:13:19.000What I don't think it's going to be, and here I'll say it on camera, I don't think we're all going to end up in internment camps for dissent.
01:13:26.000And I feel that the way that things were going under, and I'm not talking about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden as individual human beings, I'm talking about a set of global institutions that have co-opted democracy, primarily using the language of social democracy, and yet the The policy of the neocon policies that we recognize from the sort of Iraq wars.
01:13:45.000That's why someone like Cheney can become part of that movement and it kind of doesn't matter.
01:13:49.000What we would see is a sort of a slide towards Kafkaesque, Huxleyesque, Orwellian totalitarianism, all the while being told, say thank you.
01:13:59.000Say thank you for the boot stamping on your face, decimating the divine image that each of us bear as the insignia of all that is in holy.
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01:16:26.000And all the fake news that's been going out there.
01:16:29.000You know, one of the things that we need to do, and it's not to abolish the Department of Education, as a former teacher, believe me, he's talking about doing that.
01:16:38.000You know, kids in, I brought this up before, I'm going to bring it up again.
01:16:41.000In Finland, kids in nursery school are learning to discern between fake news and real news.
01:16:49.000They should be teaching that in this country.
01:16:55.000Well, it would help if we could regulate social media because one of the biggest offenders is D.C. and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations in social media.
01:17:05.000It's not going to get any better with Elon Musk in the administration.
01:17:10.000He's now in charge of three branches of government.
01:17:14.000Elon Musk, the idiot, spent $44 billion on Twitter and all he got is control over three branches of government.
01:17:21.000Now you can see why people might have oligarchical concerns about such a...
01:17:26.000And let's see how that plays out in real time.
01:17:30.000But let's also look at what Elon Musk has done for free speech in so much as he certainly deregulated and debugged Twitter of all of its insidious interlocution.
01:17:41.000Of government agencies like the FBI and CIA who are deeply embedded, who are paying money.
01:17:51.000Here is Mike Benz, friend of our show and analyst of deep state corruption on Dan Bongino, Bongino Army, explaining to him how Facebook caved on the government when it came to censorship during the pandemic and how Elon Musk has stood firm in this area.
01:18:08.000Mike, you are the man on the deep state.
01:18:11.000Elon was the game changer for free speech, wasn't he?
01:18:14.000A guy with the assets to finally take on this big state, deep state monolith.
01:18:20.000The difference between Elon and Zuckerberg is really interesting.
01:18:23.000It's not just the difference between a double-digit billionaire in Zuckerberg and a triple-digit billionaire in Moscow.
01:18:28.000Zuckerberg had those misgivings about censorship while he was running Facebook.
01:18:32.000He said in 2019 that he thought censorship had gone too far on Facebook.
01:18:37.000But then an operation called Change the Terms was run.
01:18:40.000Facebook lost $60 billion in market cap in just six weeks.
01:18:43.000And so Zuckerberg caved and gave the advertisers everything they wanted.
01:18:48.000When Elon Musk, that same fastball came at him, he gave double barrel middle fingers and said, GFY. So I think Zuckerberg feels those sort of libertarian free speech principles, but is not willing to sacrifice the financial and business enterprise that he's developed.
01:19:03.000Whereas Elon Musk, when he was asked during that pivotal interview with the advertisers, well, what will you do if X goes bankrupt?
01:19:10.000What if they actually kill the company?
01:19:12.000And he says, let them kill the company.
01:19:52.000But do you imagine this might be used at some point to legitimise further censorship?
01:19:56.000Social media is doing harm to our kids, and I'm calling time on it.
01:20:01.000Do you reckon that really, across the world, they're going, oh no, we don't want another Trump.
01:20:06.000It's stopped legitimising mass censorship of social media, first of all by protecting children, then by protecting adults, who really are just furry children.
01:20:31.000He was terrified that Kiwi, Dewey and Louie could be influenced into thinking anything other than the opinions that are sanctioned by the state.
01:20:39.000They, like me, are worried sick about the safety of our kids online.
01:20:44.000And I want Australian parents and families to know that the government has your back.
01:21:28.000Of course children should be protected.
01:21:29.000That's the job of parents, to protect their children.
01:21:33.000Of course people that are not adults have to be protected.
01:21:36.000Of course there are certain decisions children cannot make that adults can make.
01:21:40.000But there aren't decisions that governments should be making for vast populations, particularly if they're making those decisions actually because they are controlled by global cartels rather than the populations that fund that government through their taxes.
01:21:53.000The East Safety Commissioner will provide oversight and enforcement.
01:21:57.000The legislation will come into force 12 months after passage.
01:22:01.000There will be a review of the legislation following its commencement to make sure.
01:22:29.000The East Safety Commissioner will issue regulatory guidance setting out what reasonable steps can be taken by platforms, and that will be informed by the Age Assurance Trial.
01:22:42.000Do your governments have your best interests in heart?
01:22:45.000Or are they, in fact, the servant of interests that are very difficult to access through the ballot box?
01:22:51.000We're going to be making some changes, it seems, around here.
01:22:56.000and we, though, will be back tomorrow for another fantastic live-streamed show.
01:23:01.000If you're an Awakened Wonder, that means if you're a member of our locals community, you will be able to join us in a matter of moments for a conversation with Eric Metaxas, who's like a friend of mine told me about him.
01:23:11.000He's a brilliant theologian and writer who is talking about how there is a sort of a resurgent Christianity and new alliances appearing within the Christian field.
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