Russell Brand is a comedian, actor, writer, podcaster, and podcaster. He s also the host of the radio show and co-host of the podcast . This week, Russell talks about the importance of George Clooney s decision not to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala D.C. candidate, Gavin Newsom, and why it matters to him that he didn t endorse her. He also talks about why he thinks it s a good idea to have a celebrity endorsement. And he talks about what it means to be a part of a community that celebrates the things that are still worth celebrating, even in a world where we ve lost the glamour and excitement that was once enjoyed by so many people. And, of course, there s a bit of sports too, with a look back at the World Cup final between England and Germany, and a look ahead to what's happening in the world of politics and sport in the Middle East, including the latest in the latest nuclear crisis in the Caspian Sea. This is Russell Brand, and it's a good one. Subscribe to the Awakened Wonder channel to get exclusive behind-the-scenes access to his upcoming live show next week in Milwaukee at the Republican National Convention, where he'll be performing at the R&R in a sold-out Rock and Roll Hall of Fame show. Join us next week for a live show at the Rock & Roll Rock n Rollin' Rock n' Rollin show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thanks for listening to the Awakening Wanderers! - join us in the Awakening Wonder community! Subscribe, Subscribe, Like, Share, Share and Retweet us your thoughts on this episode of AWAKEDWondering, and be sure to be on the next week's Awakening Wonder! by becoming a supporter of Awakening Wonder on social media! We'll be listening to Awakening Wonder's newest podcast, wherever you get your favourite streaming platform? by searching AWakened Wonders on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, comment and subscribe to our newest episode on the App Store or wherever else you re listening to podcasts are listening to this podcast? Subscribe! Subscribe to our new episodes are available. Learn more about your ad-free version of the show? and much more! - The Awakening Wonder is a must-listen to the show that s going to be available on all major podcasting platforms?
00:01:26.000And I'll be wearing them next week in Milwaukee at the RNC where we'll be talking to... Oh man, there's a lot of people coming on.
00:01:34.000We're going to work through the entire Trump dynasty in a single week.
00:01:38.000We're going to work out what the Republican National Congress is about.
00:01:43.000What the official party of the opposition are doing in preparing, presumably for government, because the Democrats are falling apart.
00:01:53.000Falling apart even by the peculiar standards of celebrity that they've set for themselves.
00:01:59.000They are stumbling and crumbling and cannot even retain the endorsement of George Clooney, who a matter of months ago Was willing to appear at Radio City Hall, I believe it was, in a glamorous gala.
00:02:11.000And we'll be asking you in a minute if that kind of is the end of the celebrity endorsement era.
00:02:18.000You know, do you think, like, will it make a difference if George Clooney goes, actually, Gavin Newsom?
00:02:28.000You know, like when, say, there are no celebrities or good bands performing at Trump's inauguration.
00:02:34.000They're like, He can't get Taylor Swift to come to his inauguration!
00:02:39.000Whether or not you believe Trump represents the interests that appear to be coalescing around him, the era where we can be marshalled and shepherded by celebrity endorsement and the excitement that glamour used to once afford appears to be over.
00:02:58.000You will be aware, I'm sure, that I'm an English person.
00:03:02.000And for us, an important event took place yesterday.
00:03:06.000we reached the final of a significant football tournament under the stewardship of
00:03:11.000Gareth Southgate who happens to look a lot like a confused German police officer as these England fans made
00:03:21.000clear I cannot escape and I cannot forget Southgate you're the
00:03:33.000one, you shall turn me on It's worth remembering that there is a kind of a spirit
00:03:39.000among people that is still valuable worth protecting worth preserving
00:03:44.000Worth celebrating even that we're not entirely dominated by a managerial
00:03:49.000bureaucratic corporate political class utterly detached only
00:03:53.000Popping out in public to pretend to be normal appearing in long lens photos at parties
00:04:00.000And I mean during the coronavirus pandemic and I mean in my country
00:04:05.000Both political parties had their own little scandals for having illegal gatherings during the lockdown period.
00:04:11.000One of those stories that's been pushed to the periphery is that current globalist Prime Minister Keir Starmer had parties of his own, but perhaps none of these things, or a party, at least there's a photograph of him drinking a beer down with the people, as they always pretend to be, these people always pretending to be down.
00:04:27.000Check out this though, because while we're Grappling with the value of a celebrity endorsement.
00:04:34.000I'm talking to you, you awakened wonders.
00:04:36.000I'm talking to all of you in the rumble stream.
00:04:39.000While we talk about the significance, the importance, the relevance of George Clooney and who George Clooney believes in and doesn't believe in, we appear to be being steered ever closer to, if not a nuclear apocalypse, then certainly a more Incendiary and lethal conflict with Russia.
00:05:00.000Bear in mind the sort of jaconda-ian joy taking place in Germany right now, as various sets of fans from around the globe come together, generally speaking in a spirit of fun and sport, just across the water there, just across the Caspian Sea.
00:05:17.000Look at this taking place, just two fishermen witnessing missiles hurtling through their airspace.
00:05:26.000We got some fantastic Awakend Wonder content you know guys.
00:05:41.000Robert Barron, who's going to be the guest on the show tomorrow, he's already up and available for our Locals community and I had an amazing conversation with Candice Owens.
00:06:26.000Yeah, I picked the right moment, says Prime Minister Keir Starmer to pop out from the NATO meeting and check the football score.
00:06:33.000Bearing in mind this NATO meeting seems to be primarily put in place in order to further legitimise increasing hostility against Russia while caught in Ukraine for NATO membership which was obviously a pledge and a promise
00:06:49.000offered to the former Soviet Union and a condition for ongoing peace that's being breached. I
00:06:53.000mean what are they doing NATO that's so fantastic? Well we have breaks where we pop
00:06:57.000out and watch the football. I mean look at how normal I am.
00:07:12.000Yeah, there's David Icke, the OG there.
00:07:16.000He leads us on into World War 3 at the NATO summit.
00:07:18.000But hey, he's checking the score, so he's one of us.
00:07:20.000We'll be talking more about that NATO summit.
00:07:23.000We'll be looking at an interesting visual representation of how NATO have increasingly impinged upon former Soviet territories.
00:07:31.000And even just that visual image, it's a little video actually, maybe you've seen it already, Provide you with an alternative perspective to what we're continually told.
00:08:15.000Taylor Swift because I suppose is she uniquely cross-cultural because of her Sort of a period where she was involved in, you know, country music or whatever.
00:08:25.000Do you care that Trump doesn't have any celebrities or didn't have his last inaugural address or presidential celebratory party and presumably won't have any?
00:08:36.000And I'll be interested to talk to Tucker about his own, excuse me, Trump about his own band of endorsers and acolytes.
00:09:19.000If you lay down with dogs, you get fleas.
00:09:21.000If you create a culture where celebrity endorsement is valuable, then how do you quantify the deficit of the withdrawal of Clooney's approval?
00:09:33.000What this represents, I suppose, is even the Hollywood establishment departing from Biden, which I suppose means it must mean that it's a fait accompli, that he will be replaced.
00:09:45.000But don't you feel that the bigger story is that we don't care anymore?
00:10:05.000And Mick Jagger in that moment realised, oh wow, they don't like Justin Trudeau.
00:10:10.000We have to be kept contained within the parameters of their media prison in order to continue to participate in the illusion that their leaders are popular.
00:10:19.000Keir Starmer's only been elected about a week ago.
00:11:13.000All right, let's have a look at, you know, the sort of cultural ephemeris surrounding the withdrawal of the endorsement of George Clooney.
00:11:20.000Presumably that coffee he endorses sells because when he withdraws his endorsement of Joe Biden, there is a kind of flap and panic amongst those figures.
00:11:31.000But I would say be alert if like George Clooney in a couple of weeks goes, I like Gavin Newsom or Whatever.
00:11:38.000You just have to say, now what we've got is this kind of simulacrum, this synthesized space held together by glitz and glamour and lustrous things, but ultimately it's just bollocks in there.
00:12:22.000Like, where it's like, oh no, I've really... It's like, collectively, the Hollywood establishment Has been having hollow vacuous and presumably rather lethargic sex with Joe Biden.
00:12:35.000I can't even get it up for this guy no more.
00:12:38.000He's only got it up, I think, because of rigor mortis.
00:12:41.000I mean, it seems like priapism, but it could be rigor mortis, baby.
00:12:46.000And now they've got to sort of gently edge away from the corpse.
00:13:56.000The ability to control a narrative is no longer available to them.
00:13:59.000Whether you're talking about George Clooney's endorsement or lack thereof of Joe Biden, his presumed migration to Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or whoever will be put forward, whatever sort of stuffed shirt and hopefully nice hairline, that whatever's offered, it will be because it is an individual A sigil that is similarly able to operate as an emblem for the same establishment power, otherwise you wouldn't be offered it.
00:14:24.000Look at all of them, like Nancy Pelosi flapping in a panic, and look at them all trying to manage this.
00:14:31.000What we're experiencing now is indeed the end days, and it is accelerating because the means of communication have accelerated.
00:14:39.000The ability to network and form new consensus has accelerated and amplified.
00:14:45.000Now they're throwing everything at this stuff.
00:14:47.000Russell, what are your thoughts on Project 2025?
00:17:42.000When you're in it, you think, actually, I am quite important.
00:17:46.000I was me when I was a little kid and I knew I was special.
00:17:48.000I knew there was something special about me.
00:17:50.000It's right that I'm on The View and people are asking me who to vote for.
00:17:53.000It's good that I'm writing something in the New York Times.
00:17:55.000Then, you know, hopefully you'll have the good grace, good fortune, the godly blessing of being cast out of that citadel of sin and damnation.
00:18:05.000And you'll realise, oh yeah, I'm no different than anybody else.
00:18:35.000I'm not asking you to find it now, it's too late, but like, He said that famous thing, Solzhenitsyn, the writer of Gulag Archipelago, who's very influential, and I figure we have a lot of figures on the right, a lot of people on the right, excuse me, because of his condemnation of Marxism and the failure of communism, which he of course experienced firsthand.
00:18:56.000He said this thing like, they're lying and we know they're lying and they know we know they're lying and we know they know that we know they're lying and yet they're still lying.
00:19:31.000We don't need to go to the outer reaches of the most Rococo tendrils of conspiracy to see plainly that the kind of maneuvering in both celebrity and political spaces around Biden's decay and decline reveals similarly that the whole system itself is in decay and decline and is using its own means and measures to reframe itself in real time, using its own actors, I mean literally and somewhat metaphorically. The
00:20:05.000whole thing is phased and fallen, but it is at least creating some extraordinarily good memes.
00:20:14.000Tell me which one you like best out of these two. It's another one of those things where I
00:22:13.000This is a famous speech from which 20-odd quotes were pulled by someone on X, who I will credit appropriately when I get the chance, or maybe their names in the thing.
00:22:26.000And if he is, then, see, I knew it too.
00:22:28.000Even biology knows that habitual extreme safety and well-being are not advantageous for a living organism.
00:22:34.000Today, well-being in the life of Western society has begun to reveal its pernicious mask.
00:22:39.000Interesting use of the word mask, of course.
00:22:43.000But what that tells me is that we live in this sort of managed space.
00:22:48.000That's what, in part, the celebrity spectacle distracts us from.
00:22:54.000That no one's offering us a clear, meaningful, viable political alternative.
00:22:59.000Just managed decline, just various ways to rig and manoeuvre your way through electoral cycles, whether that's what happened in France or the UK or presumably in the United States of America.
00:23:12.000I'm certainly not making any allegations.
00:23:13.000And the reason that we're contained and curtailed is because we have exchanged safety for freedom.
00:23:20.000And of course, the pandemic was an extraordinary moment in that transition and the escalation of that.
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00:24:59.000Atheos1971, Russell, what are your thoughts of Project 2025, they ask.
00:25:03.000Well, we're going to learn more about that.
00:25:06.000I know it came up in the conversation between Yaman Shapiro and whatever hearing he was appearing before.
00:25:13.000We'll touch on that a little later, or certainly we'll cover it tomorrow.
00:25:16.000Is it fascists specifically, I'm being asked?
00:25:19.000I don't know yet, but when I do know, you better believe me, I will not hold back.
00:25:24.000One person who is Doubtlessly pro-freedom and has just effortlessly danced back into my affections is Candice Owens who we spoke to, well I spoke to, yesterday and that's going to be up tomorrow on Locals You Awaken Wonders.
00:26:31.000There always has been a war on the spirit of man.
00:26:34.000We 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.
00:26:46.000Most of mine, but some of it made it through.
00:26:49.000Have a look at that conversation, you Awakened Wonders.
00:27:03.000So we're talking, of course, about The imploding simulacrum that is increasingly evident with every passing day as Joe Biden's dementia spills onto yet more front pages.
00:27:17.000Those of us that have been paying attention to responsible media outlets have long known that What Jill Biden presumably knows.
00:27:26.000Joe Biden shouldn't be in charge of the United States of America.
00:27:29.000Joe Biden cannot be in charge of the United States of America.
00:27:31.000In fact, perhaps no president can truly be in charge of the United States of America.
00:27:35.000Perhaps there is no United States of America as we've previously understood it.
00:27:39.000Just a set of institutional interests co-opted and corrupted by the deep state whose strings are pulled by global corporatists who are difficult to identify other than that most viable And easily corroborated of means, follow the money, honey.
00:27:56.000Even the anchors themselves that stand before us in the forums of legacy media are losing the will to believe.
00:28:12.000Jake Tapper almost tapped out on the subject of Biden, as is brilliant, Because the journalist he's talking to tries to sort of toe the official line and she sort of explains the official line while she's doing it.
00:28:26.000I reckon, I reckon if you said to Jake Tapper live, take this vaccine, take it!
00:28:37.000In response to those comments from George Clooney, Jake, a campaign official who attended that Los Angeles fundraiser tells me that George Clooney left three hours before the president.
00:28:53.000The point of that is to suggest that Biden's stamina is better than Clooney's and Clooney didn't... She has to explain the narrative because I didn't understand it either.
00:30:12.000Almost as if, just to sort of rinse away the inanity and banality, here is Solzhenitsyn, who might be, easy Russell, who might be, who might be deployed in particular political quarters in order to legitimise the Republican Party, who, you know, I mean I'm going to the RNC next week, let's have a look, let's have a look what they're offering, shall we?
00:30:37.000But here's Solzhenitsyn, The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals.
00:30:46.000It's time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
00:31:17.000Muhammad Ali, he was just like, I ain't fighting in the Vietnam War.
00:31:22.000I don't know which particular party was in office then.
00:31:25.000I don't know who led the charge of condemnation.
00:31:27.000But remember by the end of his life, Muhammad Ali, they were celebrating and enjoying him again.
00:31:33.000Ironically and sadly, Parkinson's took its grip upon that great, bold and brave man.
00:31:41.000Who were the establishment figures that condemned him?
00:31:44.000What aspects of the deep state and establishment ensured that Malcolm X's life was cut short, that Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated, that according to Bobby Kennedy, also dispatched his father and his uncle There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society.
00:32:07.000Such are, for instance, the decadence of art or a lack of great statesmen.
00:32:11.000Ugh, the art has become sort of decadent and vacuous and hollow and banal and desacralising, hasn't it?
00:32:20.000Oh dear, oh dear, and where are the great statesmen and the great stateswomen, the great statespeople?
00:32:30.000All the glorified technological achievements of progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the 20th century's moral poverty, which no one could imagine, even as late as the 19th century.
00:33:08.000You might say it's a distraction sanitised war.
00:33:10.000All of the aphorisms and maxims that surround sport and entertainment.
00:33:15.000Something real and raw, at least you can rely on it, at least you know what the rules are, and at least occasionally a penal decision will go your way, right folks?
00:33:24.000Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
00:33:30.000And it's interesting, isn't it, to see those two ideas as analogous.
00:33:34.000The decline in personal moral standards that accompanies nihilism and the decline of interest in religion, and the likelihood that War, ironically, or apocytally perhaps, between Russia, the home of Solzhenitsyn, and the United States, albeit via proxies and bureaucracies, appears to be the framing for the apocalypse that Solzhenitsyn foretold.
00:34:05.000Geopolitical crisis, crisis in the spirit and soul of the individuals.
00:34:09.000Well, at least the latter We can do something about, we can individually at least ensure that we together, individually and collectively, resist the attempt to bewilder and beguile us, to distract us and undermine us, to tell us one minute
00:35:28.000You're right about that because I was talking earlier, you know, about Trudeau and also the acquisition of property and the movement into real estate and I forgot that Blackstone Stone is a subdivision of Black Rock and it's them that's responsible for the acquisition of real estate.
00:35:41.000Thank you for reminding me of that in the Rumble chat.
00:35:43.000We've got a great show for you tomorrow.
00:35:45.000Remember, we've got Robert Barron on the show, a Catholic bishop, orator, theologian.
00:35:53.000And remember, County Summary's up on Locals from tomorrow and excellent conversations, pretty surprising and astonishing stuff going on in that chat.
00:36:23.000Because Antony Blinken, that dullard, that dithering twit, that crop of hair atop of a tombstone of idiocy, seems to be selling it as positive.
00:36:36.000And I'm also pleased to announce that as we speak, the transfer of F-16 jets is underway.
00:36:44.000Coming from Denmark, coming from the Netherlands.
00:37:01.000I bet he could kill you in a thousand different ways, both with his own hands or with some poison on somebody else's umbrella on the very streets of Britain.
00:37:10.000This isn't about whether or not Putin is a great guy, or whether or not indeed Russia's invasion of Ukraine is criminal.
00:37:17.000What it is actually about is what would be the best solution for the people of Ukraine, the people of Russia, and everybody.
00:37:23.000And would that solution involve not escalating hostility to the point where hundreds of thousands of more lives will be lost than Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, who make missiles a damn lot better Better than they do planes, I'll tell you.
00:37:52.000I want to remind you at this point that I'm doing this whole show in my underpants.
00:37:57.000And yet, I am still more cogent than your very own president.
00:38:02.000Like, earlier on, you know, like, when we were sort of putting this show together, Gareth, who produces the show that I make it with, he goes, um, you know, we've got that, um, Joe Biden, NATO fumble.
00:38:13.000I goes, I've seen that, we did that yesterday.
00:38:49.000Okay, we're neighbours, so kill Russian people then and facilitate great profits for Black Rock, Blackstone, create the turning of Ukraine into a vassal state where you can experiment with digital currencies and digital IDs, inform George Soros in advance that these things are going to be happening so he can short various... I don't know, man.
00:42:34.000Like, if you're an Awake and Wonder, like you're a member of our locals community, you should be able to just turn up and go, I'm an Awake and Wonder.
00:42:47.000If you're an Awake and Wonder, you can, like, wherever I'm in the world, because we're going to be touring the world now, because we're... That's the mission, baby!
00:42:55.000And this used to be the mission, but now it's this.
00:42:59.000So yeah, if you're in Wake and Wonder, come see us.
00:43:33.000Here's how NATO has expanded in the last... I think this goes back to the 1980s, I think?
00:43:39.000Certainly, I think it's from the fall of the Berlin Wall and Gorbachev's verbal agreement with Ronald Reagan that the Soviet Union's former territories would be respected by NATO and the US in particular.
00:43:49.000We'll have a look at this little Sort of no, it's basically a meme really but it sort of
00:43:53.000demonstrates rather well the ongoing infringement on Soviet former Soviet territories
00:43:58.000They're at least in part would have to be regarded as a contributory factor to increased hostilities
00:44:04.000Do you think what that is is there in various ways whether it's NATO or the WHO or the IMF or whatever
00:44:33.000forming bureaucracies that are the proxies and facilitators of an eventual new world order global government?
00:44:46.000And I know this is, in a sense, the territory of conspiracy theory, but does it make you think that?
00:44:51.000Does it make you think that that's what we're...
00:44:53.000Oh, that's what NATO is, functionally.
00:44:55.000Yes, it's supposed to be a defence alliance, but really it's a military alliance that facilitates great deals for the military-industrial complex and ultimately is a precursor to the kind of globalism that's plainly being ushered in.
00:45:07.000All of us are resisting and has led to the rise of nationalism and nation-first politics and anti-immigration.
00:45:13.000Although, of course, there are other reasons that people are anti-immigration.
00:45:16.000Strong suspicions that people are important voters and I know that's a theory that's unpopular in some places and I'm sure you know that old Russ is a great lover of the human beings of all around the world and I see everyone as best as I can, aside from my flaws, as worthy of absolute love and compassion and tolerance and our vision, our prayer, more than vision because vision I suppose is a little grandiose, is that there will be a time where our nations don't intervene or interfere, exploit militarily or economically territories that From which a good many legitimate refugees seem to come or create the kind of conditions that facilitate and necessitate even migration.
00:45:53.000What is happening to the infrastructures of all of these countries that are being left behind?
00:45:58.000Wouldn't a better world be one where these countries are nurtured and keep hold of their best and brightest people and their young people and that we all work together as a decentralized autonomous Federation against globalism, so that the people of Syria are running Syria democratically, and if indeed there is such a thing as Syria, when they've cast off the shackles of colonialism and imperialism and its late legacy, and America returns to the kind of federalism that it was founded upon.
00:46:28.000And the United Kingdom, instead of moving towards centralisation and bureaucratic ties, even post-Brexit with the EU et al, is more regionalised and more decentralised than ever.
00:47:16.000Zelensky's comments came after the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made his first wartime visit to Kiev and suggested Zelensky consider a ceasefire with Russia rather than his so-called peace formula.
00:47:28.000that requires a Russian withdrawal before peace talks can even begin.
00:47:33.000After meeting with Zelensky, Orban said that the Ukrainian leader was not enthusiastic about his idea.
00:47:38.000Ukrainian officials also said that Zelensky rejected the proposal.
00:47:42.000Well, okay, so that's his position, you'd imagine that.
00:47:45.000And it's kind of this conversation between Tucker and Zelensky would be good, man.
00:47:48.000Because even though Tucker was obviously attacked by the legacy media for his conversation with Putin and some of the videos he made subsequently about his time in Russia, I know Tucker Carlson.
00:48:00.000He's 100% sincere and he's fearless, as are many of those conversations with journalists in Australia.
00:48:07.000So I reckon you'll get a lot more out of a Tucker Carlson interview with Zelensky than you would sort of those sort of preeming legacy media types who don't even admit that Joe Biden is senile until they get the thumbs up.
00:49:19.000This is some decisions that are coming from the mind of Joe Biden.
00:49:23.000Here's Preparing to sign off on hiring American military contractors to work in Ukraine if the White House moves forward with the proposal.
00:49:30.000It'll be another significant escalation in the proxy war in Ukraine.
00:49:32.000So that's what this NATO summit is about.
00:49:34.000And, of course, Britain are supplying missiles that are permitted to be used inside Russian territory.
00:49:41.000Which also represents an escalation of hostilities.
00:49:47.000So, whether it's your senile Joe Biden or your banal Keir Starmer, we appear to be moving deeper into a conflict with Russia.
00:50:08.000Let's see where we are in autumn, baby.
00:50:10.000Let's see where we are by the end of the year.
00:50:12.000See how that mandate in my country gets used, and God forbid, God help you, if you re-elect Joe Biden or whoever they put up instead of him.
00:51:19.000Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
00:51:22.000Hey, let's consider that because what I suppose we're continually hearing is that the reason that there is no current requirement for voter ID, though there will be were this act to get through Senate and then not be vetoed by Joe Biden, who says he will veto it famously, were it to be passed, then you would need ID to vote.
00:51:39.000Now, In our country, you do need ID to vote.
00:51:42.000And I would, you know, let me go a little further here.
00:51:44.000It don't matter who you vote for, you're ultimately going to end up with a corporatist, globalist government.
00:51:49.000So, you know, in a sense, it's irrelevant.
00:53:14.000I don't think it makes any difference, does it, if people have a variety of different colored people
00:53:21.000within corrupt institutions to vote for and represent them, if those institutions and systems
00:53:27.000are ultimately controlled by the deep state and globalist interest. Doesn't make any difference.
00:53:33.000That's the issue I've always had. It doesn't... like, what are you talking about? What are you
00:53:37.000talking about? You're all owned by the same... this is absolute facade. Why are we even
00:53:41.000entertaining these people? But there's someone else saying stuff.
00:53:45.000This bill is essentially a poll tax because I am not aware of a single proof of citizenship document that does not cost an individual money to get it unless we are requiring every state to provide one for free and then it's on unfunded mandate.
00:54:00.000This is the 2024 version of the Jim Crow poll tax and we should vote against it.
00:54:08.000If that's true, because I'm actually against racism, I know that you are as well, aren't you?
00:54:13.000What's the point in hating anybody for any reason at all, really?
00:54:17.000Don't you just want these institutions and systems cleared out of the way so that you can actually become who you are and participate meaningfully in your limited time incarnate on this dimension in ways that are meaningful and connected?
00:54:32.000The problem sort of comes with these kind of arguments that the need for ID is persecutory to particular demographics and that the Republican or the movement or the right don't want you to vote and that they are inherently racist.
00:54:48.000That becomes a problem when you get hit with a piece of information like this.
00:54:54.000Obama deported 3 million plus people, many of whom had jobs, homes and children in the US, and separated scores of families.
00:55:01.000He was by far the most prolific presidential deporter in American history, dwarfing anything Trump did.
00:55:07.000And of course that's in response to a Biden post talking about the sort of emotional and sentimental side of border security and the potential emotional and familial cost of deportation.
00:55:18.000The problem comes, I suppose, doesn't it?
00:55:20.000When we don't trust anything these people are saying anymore.
00:55:23.000We don't trust the systems themselves and we cannot trust them because of the data, because of the facts, because of the evidence, because in effect we are able to follow the science or at least follow the information.
00:55:34.000And isn't that what is ultimately happening across our entire culture because of our ability to accrue information at an unprecedented rate compile and curate our own narratives many of which of course are necessarily inaccurate or speculative or pure conjecture in some cases what we're able to make out are the forms shapes and phantoms of the
00:55:59.000doubtless and obvious now, corruption that lurks in particular amidst globalist bureaucracies
00:56:05.000in corporate spaces and a new kind of philosophy or ideology or may I be so bold, Wertenshahn
00:56:11.000is emerging that is somewhat based on former anti-establishment leftist dialectics that
00:56:18.000emerged from academics like Chomsky in fact that recognised a long time ago that the function
00:56:24.000of the media was to create a consensus based on information that was favourable to the
00:56:29.000state that the function of the media is to amplify the messaging of the powerful. But
00:56:33.000now because of technology, because of these unusual new movements coming out of the right,
00:56:39.000because of libertarianism, because of independent media, because of new platforms like Rumble,
00:56:43.000because of billionaires like Elon Musk, because of outliers and extraordinary shamanic figures
00:57:08.000Surely it's that you have a right to free speech, you have a right to have access to information that hasn't been pre-chewed and half-digested and spat into your mouth, tarted up because George Clooney says it's interesting.
00:57:21.000In order to make you gulp down someone else's vomit as if it was of some nutritional value to you.
00:57:27.000What we've got now is the possibility, I would say, to engage with some quite simple spiritual principles that are to do with personal awakening and deep connection to meaning.
00:57:40.000And I suppose we have the opportunity to have maximum power Minimum state intervention.
00:57:58.000The establishment of globalist bureaucracies that are plainly there to facilitate a new world order at some point, presumably in response to
00:58:06.000one or more crises, all of which are observable.
00:58:35.000In fact, you make a good point, because the idea of progress itself, the idea that there is a telos, that humanity is moving towards some kind of Huxley-esque Apex is ridiculous.
00:58:47.000Yes, of course, technology has improved.
00:58:49.000Yes, of course, medicine has improved.
00:58:51.000But God, we're sicker and fatter and more pumped up on drugs and more morose and miserable.
00:58:58.000But people are being pulled out of poverty!
00:59:41.000And we are witnessing, in all of its giddy entropy, in all of its ridiculousness, this carousel of zombies and dementia and Hollywood stars, we are witnessing its collapse.