In this episode, Russell Brand takes a deep dive into the current state of the Democratic Party, and how it s trying to delegitimize Donald Trump s potential presidential run in 2020 by demonizing and demonizing him as a fascist dictator. He also takes a look at how the establishment media is co-opted by corporate interests, and explains why a populist politician like Donald Trump is more dangerous than a politician who represents the interests of elite, globalist corporate interests. Russell Brand is an American comedian, writer, podcaster, and podcaster. His work has been featured on Comedy Central, HBO, CBS Radio, and many other media outlets. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and The Huffington Post. He is also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and The Daily Beast, and is a frequent guest on CNN and MSNBC. His new book, "The New Republic" is out now and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime, Blu-ray, and also rental on Vimeo. Stay Free with Russell Brand: Stay Free With Russell Brand! Subscribe to Stay Free! Subscribe and Share this episode on your favorite streaming platform so you don t miss out on future episodes of Stay Free, and help elevate our consciousness and elevate our collective consciousness. If you like what you're listening to, share it with a friend or become a supporter of our work, we'll send you a rating and review it on Apple Podcasts, and subscribe to our podcast, wherever else you get your favourite podcast is available. Enjoy this episode of "Stay Free with Russi Brand? or wherever you re listening to podcasts are listening to this podcast? Subscribe to our latest episodes of "Awakening Wonders" and learn more about what he's listening to and reviewing it on your thoughts and sharing it on social media can be found on your social media? . We'll be delivering a detailed breakdown of current topics that the mainstream media should be covering, subscribe to stay free, and more like it's spreading the truth about truth and making it everywhere else? - stay free with him everywhere else on the internet, everywhere else you go! , and much more! . . Stay free with us on this podcast, stay free! by searching for him on social meditations, subscribe on his insta-tweet him on Instapaper, , v=a_tweet
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00:00:51.000Hello there you Awakening Wonders, thanks for joining us on our mutual voyage to truth and freedom where we're able to discern between, for example, a democracy and a dictatorship.
00:00:59.000A democracy being, I don't know, you get to vote on stuff, you have some agency in your community, your own individual life, you're not continually beholden to centralised authoritarian systems that seem to act autonomously, remotely, inaccessible to you.
00:01:13.000It's extraordinary that the Democrat Party continually whip up hysteria around a potential Trump victory in 2024.
00:01:22.000All the while pretending that they are the defenders of democracy.
00:01:26.000And yet, Joe Biden will not debate any other presidential candidate for the Democratic Party nomination.
00:01:32.000And in Florida, they've just scrapped their entire primary.
00:01:36.000Meaning you can vote for anyone as long as it's Joe Biden.
00:01:39.000Continually in the legacy media say, if you don't vote for the Democrats, you're voting for a dictator.
00:01:43.000Trump will turn the USA into a dictatorship.
00:01:46.000Despite the fact he's already been president, didn't turn into a dictatorship.
00:01:49.000So what is all this hysteria and hyperbole?
00:01:51.000And what does tyranny look like these days?
00:01:54.000Is tyranny now a sterile, desacralizing, banalizing force of centralized authority that pretends it cares about you, that pretends it's taking yet more authority through censorship and control in order to protect vulnerable people and to protect you from the real tyrants?
00:02:11.000And here was Cheney this morning on Trump's threat at her former colleagues in Congress.
00:02:15.000People who say, well, if he's elected, it's not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances, don't fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted.
00:02:45.000What she's talking about is the threat Trump poses because he's an odd anomalous populist politician rather than a sanctioned ordinary centralized politician that represents the interests of elite globalist corporate interests.
00:02:58.000That's really all they're talking about.
00:03:00.000One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into a dictatorship in the United States.
00:03:10.000Often when Republicans and Democrats or even a Republican politician like Liz Cheney and a centre-left neoliberal outlet like MSNBC collaborate, it's shown as a sign of a healthy democracy.
00:03:21.000Look, from across the aisle people are coming together.
00:03:24.000I see a homogenised Liz Cheney opposes any challenge to establishment power, the same way that MSNBC does, the same way that the Democrat Party does, in a very literal way.
00:03:40.000For example, they scrapped the Florida primaries because they know that basically anybody might defeat Joe Biden, so you can't have him debate anybody, you certainly can't give people the opportunity to vote for anyone else.
00:03:51.000And even if a popular figure like RFK emerges Hey everybody, what happened in Florida yesterday is a tragedy and a travesty.
00:04:07.000The Florida Democratic Party decided, just a handful of people, decided to disenfranchise millions of Democratic voters in Florida by saying we're not going to have a presidential primary.
00:05:12.000Go to Dean24.com and support our effort to pursue legal channels to rectify this absolute nonsense, tragic day for electoral democracy in America.
00:05:26.000The legacy media are keen to promote Liz Cheney's book because she condemns Donald Trump as a populist, coining the phrase orange Jesus, which you know he'll own and love.
00:05:35.000The legacy media is keen always to present these kind of neoliberal centrists who are no threat to authority because they will never truly represent the interests of ordinary American people.
00:05:46.000But the legacy media aren't so interested in covering what seems to be a real threat to democracy, the literal scrapping of democratic processes like the Florida primary, where lifelong democrats like Dean Phillips are sort of aghast and baffled by the collapsing of the democracy within their own party.
00:06:03.000Let's see how Karine Jean-Pierre, still waiting for her MSNBC show any day now, handles questions about the collapse of democracy within the Democrat party establishment.
00:06:13.000Does the Florida party then effectively cancelling the Democratic primary also constitute voter suppression?
00:09:03.000Henry Ford once promised customers any colour so long as it's black.
00:09:07.000Democrats are adopting the same approach to the election.
00:09:09.000You can have any candidate on the ballot as long as it's Joe Biden.
00:09:12.000This week, the executive committee of the Florida Democratic Democracy told voters that they would not be allowed to vote against Biden.
00:09:19.000Even though he has opponents in the primary.
00:09:21.000The party leadership has ordered that only Biden will appear on the primary ballot.
00:09:24.000And if you want to register your discontent with Biden with a write-in vote, forget about it.
00:09:29.000Under Florida law, if the party approves only one name, there will be no primary ballots at all.
00:09:33.000The party just called the election for Biden before a single vote has been cast.
00:09:37.000That's the kind of story that if it was about President Xi or someone in Iran would be used to suggest that there was a lack of democratic procedure, that you were being guided in a very particular direction.
00:09:49.000I've been thinking continually as all of the calls for a Joe Biden impeachment have been made, Is this the best they could do?
00:09:56.000Why were they so determined that it should be Hillary in 2016?
00:09:59.000Why were they so determined it was going to be Joe Biden in 2020?
00:10:02.000Didn't they say, oh no, this guy's had all these payments from energy companies, it's messy, it's too old, it's ridiculous, given that our whole ideology is meant to be built on diversity, inclusivity and the inherent badness of the patriarchy and old white men in particular.
00:10:16.000And yet he was the candidate that they put forward and he's still the candidate that they're endorsing to the exclusion of debate or any potential opposition.
00:10:25.000It happened with Barack Obama in 2012, and on the Republican side with George W. Bush in 2004.
00:10:30.000It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
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00:10:38.000We all love giving money to the government, right?
00:10:41.000So that they can, I don't know, do a war or something?
00:10:43.000Well, the October 15th tax deadline has just passed and I know many of you might be feeling the pressure.
00:10:49.000If you're sorting through the complexities of expense tracking, estimated payments and deductions, That can cause you to fail to file and fail to pay penalties that will pile up on your tax debt.
00:12:21.000A Wall Street Journal poll found that 73% of voters say Biden is too old to run for president.
00:12:26.000The party leadership is solving that problem by depriving Democratic voters of a choice.
00:12:31.000In other states, Democratic politicians and lawyers are pursuing a different strategy.
00:12:35.000You can have any candidate as long as it isn't Trump.
00:12:38.000They are seeking to bar Trump from ballots under a novel theory about the 14th Amendment.
00:12:42.000In states from Colorado to Michigan, Democratic operatives are arguing that Trump must be taken off the ballot because he gave aid and comfort to an insurrection or rebellion.
00:12:52.000So, there's a few things here that are extraordinary.
00:12:54.000Like Ukraine's war against Russia, the first thing you think is, you can't beat Russia in a war, it's too big a country, it's a nuclear superpower.
00:12:59.000Eventually, a few years later, that is revealed to be the case.
00:13:02.000When you see Joe Biden, you think, he shouldn't be the president, he's too old.
00:13:04.000A few years later, that's revealed to be the case.
00:13:06.000The majority of even Democrat party affiliate voters don't want Joe Biden to be the presidential nominee.
00:13:12.000And for Trump, looking for reasons to bar him from the ballot, to indict him, to impeach him, to imprison, to incarcerate him, seems less and less like the pursuit of justice and more and more like the removal of a potential opponent from the ballot.
00:13:25.000And saying that he should be removed from the ballot because he gave aid and comfort to the insurrection.
00:13:50.000But when those institutions fail, when you have no faith in the political class,
00:13:54.000when you can't trust anyone from Hillary Clinton to Nikki Haley, also in the Republican Party, and Barack Obama just
00:14:00.000disappointed vastly, Joe Biden, clearly a career politician, tied up with his affiliation to the donor class.
00:14:06.000Like he said before he was elected, nothing will essentially change.
00:14:08.000You are creating the conditions where people will look for different ideas.
00:14:13.000Populism and great communicators are likely to reap the benefits from that.
00:14:16.000Whether you love Trump or loathe Trump, you have to Except that the conditions for his success has been created by a total lack of democracy and no one seems to be amending it or attempting to address it.
00:14:26.000They're doubling down and making it much much worse and continuing to call Trump a dictator.
00:14:32.000Other Democrats have called for more than 120 other Republicans to be stripped from the ballots under the same claim tied to the January 6th Capitol riot.
00:14:39.000Yeah, another way that that event is being utilised to prohibit democracy, increase police expenditure, increase surveillance, increase censorship.
00:14:47.000In recent filing supporting this effort, figures as prominent as media lawyer Floyd Abrams and Berkeley Dean Irwin Chemerinsky have told the Colorado Supreme Court that preventing voters from being able to cast their votes for Trump is just a way of fostering democracy.
00:15:01.000So long as courts believe that a candidate's speech is capable of triggering disqualification, that speech is unprotected in their view.
00:15:08.000This appears to be part of a global tendency that's become evident in the new censorship laws that are being lobbied for in Ireland, have been passed in the UK and Canada, are being proposed in the EU.
00:15:20.000a presumption to understand what democracy is, what free speech is, what hate speech is,
00:15:26.000who should be allowed to speak and who isn't.
00:15:28.000All of this is being undertaken at a time of crisis and fracture
00:15:31.000where many of us have a total lack of trust for the institutions that are making these bold claims
00:15:43.000But you'd feel a lot more faith in those kind of proclamations if the other side wasn't behaving in such an observably undemocratic way when it comes to their own preferred candidate and the process that got him into that position and the abandonment and suppression of any process that could be a challenge to him.
00:15:57.000So far, these efforts around the country have met with defeat in court after court, but the effort continues with the support of many in the media.
00:16:04.000Some national polls show Trump as the most popular candidate for the 2024 election, while a few show Biden slightly ahead.
00:16:11.000Yet, despite 74 million voters supporting Trump in the last election, these Democrats are insisting that voters should not be allowed to vote for him in the name of democracy.
00:16:21.000On a very simple level, if 74 million people like someone enough to vote for them, saying that they cannot vote for that person cannot be called democracy, can it?
00:17:55.000I think there's a pretty important reason for this.
00:17:56.000They're ultimately interested in control and profit, which sort of amounts to the same thing in a way because they're so interwoven.
00:18:03.000Because there is no set of values, like we will never do X or we will always do Y. Because there are no set of principles, whether they're religious or humanitarian or socialist or capitalist or fascist.
00:18:11.000Because there's no principles at all, except the accumulation of more resources and power.
00:18:15.000There's never any continuity in the arguments.
00:18:19.000One minute they're telling you this, the next minute they're telling you that, and often they're telling you things that Just don't make sense.
00:18:24.000Even the fundamental idea that they require incredible authority in order to protect the vulnerable doesn't make sense because in a society where the vulnerable's needs were a priority, you wouldn't have so many desperate and vulnerable people.
00:18:35.000There's paradoxes throughout it and it's not because of complexity, it's because of deception, I believe.
00:19:37.000If these efforts are successful, many voters could be left with that single liberating choice and no other.
00:19:43.000It seems like the ongoing demonisation of all opponents, and beyond even their political opponents, anyone that has voted for them, which as we know amounts to 74 million people, has led to a state where the only way you can have democracy is by voting for a single party with a single candidate who is not allowed to be challenged, who is not allowed to be debated, who is not allowed to be discussed, whose financial affairs seem a little dubious, who made numerous pledges before election that he's been un-elected.
00:20:10.000able to fulfill. And all of the condemnation of Trump and the people that need to be deprogrammed,
00:20:16.000the basket of deplorables, all of those condemned Americans are being dismissed as supporters of a
00:20:21.000dictatorship and leaving you with one solitary candidate as the only choice to oppose tyranny
00:20:27.000and dictatorship. What seems clear to me now is that dictatorship doesn't look like it did in the
00:20:33.000It doesn't look like Mussolini or Mao or Stalin or Hitler and neither does it look like populist rhetoric and hyperbole or ethnonationalism or what's regarded as racism as a result of a lot of anti-migration rhetoric, which by the way appears to be largely accepted by both sides of neoliberal democracies these days anyway.
00:20:51.000What it looks like is banalised career politicians talking about protecting the vulnerable, talking about how particular crises, whether they're geopolitical and military or health pandemic crises, legitimise and require new powers, new control to protect you or for your convenience.
00:21:08.000The tyranny that we are confronted with now is technological and technocratic.
00:21:12.000It's a kind of dictatorship that was impossible before.
00:21:14.000Because there was no means to control and observe people in the way that we can be controlled and observed now.
00:21:19.000We are facing a world where there will be no cash, where the ability to turn off your finances is becoming a reality, the ability to track your movements and prevent your movements, to control where you're able to travel, what social activities you're able to participate in, justifying this control all the while by protecting the vulnerable or helping you or a necessary measure that we have Dictatorships and tyranny now has a very different face.
00:21:41.000It's the friendly bureaucratic language of a platform telling you that you can no longer communicate, or you can no longer earn money from your content, or you can no longer travel.
00:21:50.000Because we've not been schooled in what new forms of dictatorship will look like, we're not able to recognize it.
00:21:56.000Or their preferences we won't be able to recognize it.
00:21:58.000But when people start cancelling elections, demanding more control, demanding the ability to censor or surveil, panicking when platforms get purchased by someone who releases information and demanding more control within those platforms that the deep state had already penetrated, you start to get an idea of what dictatorships are going to look like in the future.
00:22:18.000They are going to be technologically advanced.
00:22:20.000They are going to always take actions in order to protect you and to protect people that are even more vulnerable than you.
00:22:26.000It will always lead to you having to make sacrifices because of the planet, because of poverty, because of poor people elsewhere, because of a disease, but it will never involve the elite establishment having to change their trajectory.
00:22:39.000You will notice ongoing wealth transfers, you will notice the way the political parties are funded, and you will notice that their opponents are always discredited and removed.
00:22:46.000That whether it's a popular figure like Conor McGregor in Ireland, he'll be dismissed in order to continue to implement centralised Globalist authority.
00:22:53.000And I think that this battle is taking place primarily in the United States of America.
00:22:57.000And I think the battle began with the election of Donald Trump.
00:23:00.000Because whatever Donald Trump is or isn't, they do not want him in power.
00:23:06.000And that seems to be quite a difficult ambition to fulfil because he's such a ludicrous candidate who can't even be trusted in a Floridian primary against dear Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson.
00:23:17.000RFK has to be expunged from the party.