Stay Free - Russel Brand - Here’s the News: Elon BACKS McGregor For President As Ireland Goes Full Authoritarian

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00:00:52.000 Thanks for joining me on our voyage to truth and freedom and what peculiar permutations there are with Conor McGregor outlining a route to the presidency.

00:01:00.000 Something that a month ago would have seemed ridiculous now seems entirely plausible.

00:01:05.000 There's a reason we're seeing a populist uprising across the world.

00:01:08.000 People don't trust politicians anymore and with good reason.

00:01:12.000 People are sick of a legacy media that amplifies an agenda that is antithetical to the interests of people.

00:01:17.000 People are sick and tired of an establishment that hates them, so they're looking for leaders that are willing to stand up against the establishment.

00:01:24.000 This will mean outsiders.

00:01:26.000 This will mean new popular figures.

00:01:27.000 This will mean people that the establishment doesn't like.

00:01:30.000 Suddenly being willing to take up a political mantle and oppose the forces that seem to me very interested in limiting individual power and centralizing authority and keeping ordinary people out of the business of running their own lives.

00:01:44.000 Let's have a look at this story because it's a very interesting time in Ireland.

00:01:47.000 Because the censorship industrial complex are stepping up their plan to control free speech and even, in the case of Ireland, invade people's home, even if they're suspected of being in possession of what is regarded as hate material or hateful material or hate speech material.

00:02:01.000 And as Matt Taibbi says, hate speech is not the issue.

00:02:04.000 Who decides what hate speech is, is the issue.

00:02:07.000 Let's get into it.

00:02:08.000 Conor McGregor has outlined his potential route to becoming the President of Ireland, saying, I'd fancy my chances.

00:02:14.000 Already a kind of political rhetoric that will be a relief for some people to hear.

00:02:18.000 I'd fancy my chances.

00:02:20.000 McGregor is reportedly being investigated by Irish police over his social media posts around the Dublin riots in late November.

00:02:26.000 He himself is being scrutinised Even prior to this legislation being introduced, what do you think about Conor McGregor's social media posts?

00:02:35.000 My interpretation is he's concerned about migration in Ireland.

00:02:39.000 He's concerned about the violence that's taken place recently in Ireland.

00:02:42.000 He's concerned about the lack of conversation around migration.

00:02:45.000 And beneath that, and this is my own analysis, I'm not claiming to speak for Conor McGregor, he's probably concerned about a political class that no longer represents the people they were elected to represent.

00:02:55.000 And as we pointed out in an earlier video, in a country like Ireland that is going to be particularly problematic because ethno-nationalism is a real part of Ireland's history, perhaps every nation's history, but Ireland is a country that's been historically oppressed by Britain and their relationship to national pride is more understandable than most nations' relationship to national pride.

00:03:13.000 Even though I would say that we're all entitled to have a degree of national pride or tribal instinct, my hope is that is a very inclusive and open-hearted thing, but These are interesting times, but the former UFC champion has expressed confidence in taking up a position of power in his home country.

00:03:28.000 Let's have a look at Conor McGregor's post.

00:03:30.000 Potential competition if I run.

00:03:32.000 Jerry, 78.

00:03:33.000 First names only.

00:03:33.000 Bertie, 75.

00:03:33.000 Ender, 74.

00:03:36.000 Each with unbreakable ties to their individual party's politics.

00:03:40.000 Curious that already Conor McGregor, in my view, has identified one of the dominant themes and problems in contemporary politics.

00:03:48.000 It has become institutional and systematic.

00:03:51.000 I don't claim to know much about Irish politics full stop or contemporary Irish politics, but what I do know is across the world there's a sense that a form of neoliberalism has captured the heart of democracy.

00:04:00.000 And while you hear hysterical rhetoric around This politician is like a tyrant.

00:04:04.000 These people are dictators. 0.78

00:04:05.000 These people are right-wing.

00:04:06.000 The centralist, neoliberal, kindness, safety, convenience, centrist parties seem more interested in shutting down democracy than any of these apparent tyrants and dictators that we're supposed to be terrified of.

00:04:18.000 For example, the government that's in Ireland right now are supporting a bill that would enable the police, or the Garda in the case of Ireland, to enter people's homes, take their laptops and computers, if they are just suspected of having material that is deemed to be hateful.

00:04:32.000 If the person proposing that policy was wearing a military uniform and making crazy salutes, you'd say, well, yep, that's good old-fashioned dictatorship.

00:04:40.000 Regardless of what the public outside their parties feel, these parties govern themselves versus govern the people.

00:04:46.000 Or me.

00:04:47.000 Young.

00:04:48.000 Active.

00:04:48.000 Passionate.

00:04:49.000 Fresh skin in the game.

00:04:50.000 I listen.

00:04:51.000 I support.

00:04:51.000 I adapt.

00:04:52.000 I have no affiliation, bias, favouritism towards any party.

00:04:56.000 They would genuinely be held to account regarding the current sway of public feeling.

00:05:00.000 I'd even put it all to vote.

00:05:01.000 There'd be votes every week to make sure I can fund.

00:05:04.000 It would not be me in power as President of the people of Ireland.

00:05:07.000 It will be me and you.

00:05:09.000 Even though this might be regarded as simplistic and naive by the metropolitan media class, this is the type of democracy that's possible now.

00:05:17.000 A democracy of referenda.

00:05:18.000 What do you want your tax dollars spent on?

00:05:20.000 Do you support this bill?

00:05:22.000 Do you want to spend taxes on roads?

00:05:23.000 Do you want to support this war?

00:05:25.000 Do you want more expenditure in mRNA vaccines?

00:05:28.000 All of these things, you could be asked.

00:05:29.000 You could be voting on those issues, issue by issue, individually and independently.

00:05:34.000 Do you want more censorship in Ireland?

00:05:36.000 Do you want the police to have more power or less power?

00:05:38.000 These are all things that could be debated, discussed and voted on.

00:05:41.000 It's very curious that when people are accused of being anti-democratic, tyrants and dictators, no one ever mentions the possibility for real democracy that exists right now.

00:05:50.000 I'm sure it would be complicated, and I bet it wouldn't be perfect.

00:05:53.000 But we're not competing with perfection.

00:05:54.000 We're competing with a pretty corrupt system that most people are sick and tired of, and in the case of Ireland, they're rioting in the street out of sheer frustration, anger, Disappointment and disconnection from their country and its leaders and the direction its leaders are taking it in.

00:06:08.000 That means someone like Conor McGregor now, I believe, has a reasonable chance of getting elected where he stands.

00:06:13.000 Let me know in the chat and the comments if you think new politicians are likely to start standing in all sorts of new positions and roles across the world because people are sick and tired of systemic institutional figures that don't represent ordinary people but represent the interests of the powerful.

00:06:27.000 Globalist establishment elite.

00:06:29.000 Vote for this person or this person, you're gonna get the same result.

00:06:33.000 Connor McGregor, in a 200 word post, has hit the nail on the head.

00:06:36.000 On Tuesday, ex-owner Elon Musk replied to McGregor, I think you could take them all single-handed.

00:06:41.000 Not even fair.

00:06:42.000 Again, curiously, one of the responses to globalism has been the uprising of populist movements.

00:06:48.000 And Elon Musk is a populist figure.

00:06:49.000 There's a kind of ambiguity about where he may stand politically.

00:06:52.000 Remember in his recent interview he said, oh, I might vote for Trump or I'm not sure I'd vote for Trump, I wouldn't vote for Biden.

00:06:57.000 Essentially, he's a spokesperson for the disenfranchised.

00:07:01.000 Curious though that may be because he's obviously an extremely wealthy individual.

00:07:03.000 Most people now are sick and tired of the political class.

00:07:06.000 They're sick and tired of institutions that are trying to cling on to power and control our attention, control our consciousness, control the direction of our lives.

00:07:14.000 We all know what the game is now.

00:07:15.000 They're clinging on to power.

00:07:16.000 They're trying to maintain institutions that are past their sell-by date.

00:07:20.000 Again, in this little post here, just listing these ages and these names, some of them are sort of pretty influential and significant political figures who have dedicated their lives to politics.

00:07:28.000 But the fact is now the world is changing and it's changing fast.

00:07:31.000 And it has to change fast, because there's a crisis of meaning, there are ecological crises, there are political crises, fuel prices are out of control, food prices are out of control, the culture's out of control, in Ireland people believe there's a migration crisis, and they're well entitled to discuss it, vote on it, and follow someone who wants to talk about it.

00:07:48.000 Of course, the liberal legacy media will always support free speech.

00:07:52.000 They'll always support someone from a working class background getting involved in politics.

00:07:56.000 Because, you know, we're all supposed to vote, aren't we?

00:07:58.000 It's our right.

00:07:59.000 We should all be involved in politics.

00:08:00.000 If we're not involved in politics, that's somehow negligent.

00:08:03.000 Let's see how The Guardian reports on Conor McGregor's foray into politics.

00:08:06.000 Conor McGregor isn't the first star to flirt with the right.

00:08:09.000 Oh, he's fascist, he's right-wing, immediately he's not towing the neoliberal line, he's offering a genuine alternative.

00:08:15.000 Where does the legacy media go? 0.96

00:08:16.000 Must be racist.

00:08:17.000 Maybe the legacy media, instead of condemning populist voices as far-right or right-wing or fascist or conspiracy theorists, and believe me, I've been subject to that kind of analysis as well.

00:08:28.000 As well as far worse, as you're probably well aware by now.

00:08:31.000 Instead of that, What they should do is ask, why are people suddenly open to a new type of politics?

00:08:36.000 Why are people rejecting globalism?

00:08:39.000 Why are people sick and tired of unelected globalist bodies imposing regulations on their nations?

00:08:44.000 Why are they tired of a political system that doesn't respond to their wants or needs, can't reach them emotionally, doesn't listen to them, hates them and condemns them as racist at every single turn?

00:08:54.000 Why would people be interested in systems that have only got that kind of rhetoric to offer?

00:08:59.000 And indeed, when people complain, when people try to fight, I mean verbally, and oppose the mainstream dominator narratives, they're called racists, and new legislation is being passed all over the world, not just in Ireland, to censor and control dissent.

00:09:13.000 People say it's about Let's have a look at the censorship laws that are being opposed in Ireland.

00:09:24.000 And remember, Conor McGregor is under investigation by the police right now because of tweets.

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00:10:36.000 Let's get back to the video.

00:10:38.000 I spoke to a detective in Pier Street on Saturday who was actively engaged with the social media companies.

00:10:46.000 This is Helen McEntee, an Irish politician, explaining how during the Dublin uprisings, protests, riots, call them whatever word is appropriate for you.

00:10:55.000 I think people should use language pretty freely.

00:10:57.000 explaining how certain social media platforms cooperated in shutting down

00:11:03.000 free speech, I'd call it, hate speech, they'd call it, live while the events were unfolding.

00:11:07.000 What she's describing, plainly, openly, in plain sight, as they like to say these days,

00:11:12.000 is the process of the government controlling free speech through social media platforms.

00:11:17.000 Imagine if they're able to implement legislation that will grant them control,

00:11:22.000 but the legal right to shut down any speech they don't like.

00:11:25.000 That's happening in the UK, it's happening in the US, it's happening in the EU, it's happening in Canada, it's already happened in Canada, and it's happening in Ireland now.

00:11:31.000 Instead of solving the problem of, oh there seems to be a sort of a migrant crisis and unrest and dissatisfaction about the amount of crime that's being committed in Dublin, they shut down the complaining about it.

00:11:41.000 That's what passes as democracy.

00:11:43.000 And then if someone stands up who's got a bit of a platform and a bit of a voice, and that person's a racist or far-right or even worse, they'll say whatever they need to say to shut down any voices that oppose the establishment.

00:11:53.000 I know this for a fact.

00:11:54.000 Who is actively engaged with TikTok, actively engaged with Meta, so Instagram and Facebook, who is actively engaged with Twitter or X.

00:12:01.000 She said very clearly that social media companies, in particular TikTok and Meta, they were responding, they were engaging with Gardaí and they were taking down these vile posts as they came up.

00:12:13.000 X were not. 0.72

00:12:15.000 X were not. 0.72

00:12:15.000 They didn't engage. 0.72

00:12:16.000 They did not fulfill their own community standards.

00:12:20.000 It's interesting talking about community standards online when the community standards in Ireland have obviously fallen below the expectation of the Irish people.

00:12:29.000 I know Ireland.

00:12:30.000 I've been there a few times.

00:12:32.000 Irish people are very open hearted.

00:12:33.000 In the comments of the last video we made on this subject, many people that were not from Ireland, living in Ireland now, were speaking about what a welcoming, loving place Ireland is for the people that participate in the culture.

00:12:44.000 If there is a crisis in Ireland, it's a crisis of democracy, or the lack of democracy.

00:12:48.000 It's a crisis brought about by having a political class that doesn't listen to the Irish people.

00:12:53.000 It's a crisis that's been brought about by ignorance, avoidance of acknowledging the culture of Ireland, and in some cases, it seems, Out and out crime.

00:13:01.000 You can't say that X are disobeying their own community guidelines when Ireland is in disarray and people are totally dissatisfied with their own government.

00:13:09.000 And then what's the solution?

00:13:10.000 To impose censorship laws to stop people complaining.

00:13:13.000 Instead of solving the problem, silence the people that complain.

00:13:16.000 Extraordinary.

00:13:17.000 And that is why we are moving to a situation where these companies do not get to self-monitor.

00:13:22.000 That's why Commission on Man has been established, to make sure that these companies are held responsible.

00:13:28.000 Because while some were responsible, others were not.

00:13:31.000 A word like responsible in the mouth of the Justice Minister means responding to what we tell them to do, which will very soon in your country, Ireland, be the law.

00:13:39.000 And that's a law that's coming to a nation near you.

00:13:41.000 So let me reassure you, Gardaí were seized of this.

00:13:44.000 They were engaging.

00:13:45.000 They were engaging directly with the social media companies.

00:13:48.000 What a terrifying new world we live in.

00:13:49.000 A world in which it seems that we're most likely to get hope from populist leaders that are anti-establishment above all else.

00:13:56.000 Remember, we keep saying it's no longer left v right, it's periphery versus the centre.

00:14:00.000 People that are outside of the establishment have to find new ways of forming alliances.

00:14:05.000 Putting aside left and right and all of those kind of arguments, they are there to divide you.

00:14:09.000 The Irish police, the Garda, is about to get new wide-ranging powers to spy on people's private online conversations happening via chat apps in order to crack down on crime after recent events in Dublin.

00:14:21.000 So whatever you might think the problem is in Ireland, whatever you might think the migration crisis is, the democracy crisis, the standard of living crisis, the spiritual crisis, the solution, they think, is to be able to get into your private messages, spy on you, and shut you down.

00:14:35.000 This is not unique to Ireland, but this is what's happening in Ireland right now.

00:14:39.000 Justice Minister Helen McEntee last week got the government to agree to give the police thus far unprecedented powers which will also include allowing police inspectors to get mobile phone operators location data of citizens in the interests of protecting a person's safety or life.

00:14:54.000 Is that the relationship you want with the state?

00:14:56.000 The state are there to protect you and they can spy on you in order to protect you?

00:15:00.000 Did the Irish people go through the history they've gone through against British oppression

00:15:04.000 to have their own police force turn against them in black and tan, controlling them, spying

00:15:09.000 on them, using their own private communications against them?

00:15:13.000 If they decide the circumstances are right, it also means the police would be given access

00:15:17.000 to private messages on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Signal apps.

00:15:21.000 The government in Dublin is introducing extraordinary new legislation to restrict freedom of speech.

00:15:26.000 But it's not horrid right-wingers conspiring to suppress nice, decent liberals.

00:15:30.000 It's nice, decent liberals scrambling to stamp out the opinions of what they call the far right.

00:15:36.000 And far from being alarmed by this assault on basic freedoms, the broad swathe of progressive opinion in Ireland is fully behind it, including most voices in the broadcast print media and every majority party.

00:15:47.000 One thing I've learned lately is that the legacy media, thank God, is not the people.

00:15:51.000 That people in political power are not the people.

00:15:53.000 That they operate on one strata and they've become completely disengaged and disconnected from the people that they're supposed to work for, report to and serve.

00:16:01.000 So I'd be very surprised.

00:16:03.000 Let me know in the chat.

00:16:04.000 Do you want to grant police these new powers to control your communication?

00:16:08.000 And if so, then people should be able to vote on it, shouldn't they?

00:16:11.000 Like Conor McGregor suggested.

00:16:13.000 Since riots broke out in Dublin two weeks ago following the stabbing of three children, the cries for action have become ever louder.

00:16:19.000 The government, led by Leo Varadkar, has now pledged to have the Criminal Justice, Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences Bill on the statute book within a matter of weeks.

00:16:28.000 The new law would surely have escaped international attention had those riots not happened, but Dublin's eagerness to regulate hate speech has, as internet parlance puts it, gone viral.

00:16:38.000 Now the whole world knows that Ireland is poised to pass one of the most draconian pieces of legislation in modern times, which will see Irish people facing potential jail sentences of up to two years for the possession of literature likely to incite violence or hatred against others on the ground of certain protected characteristics, including race, gender and sexual orientation.

00:16:56.000 Personally, I don't think that there should be hateful rhetoric around those subjects or indeed any subject at all.

00:17:02.000 That we should all be doing our best to find ways of allying with one another.

00:17:05.000 I think the best way to do that is to empower people to run their own communities democratically.

00:17:10.000 I think this is going to require a new political class. 0.96

00:17:13.000 It's going to require unconventional political figures being willing to stand for positions that would have been unthinkable a while ago.

00:17:18.000 No one would have thought Yeah, let's have Conor McGregor as president.

00:17:21.000 Look at the state of Ireland.

00:17:22.000 Look at the state of Irish democracy.

00:17:24.000 And look at the state power that they're discussing, granting to the Garda in order to further control discourse and dissent.

00:17:31.000 The police and courts will not even need to demonstrate that the material in question was intended to be distributed to anyone other than the owner.

00:17:38.000 It will be presumed until the contrary is proven that it was.

00:17:42.000 That's a reversal of some of the most sacred, shall we say, judicial principles that we've ever known.

00:17:48.000 Innocent until proven guilty.

00:17:50.000 But I know from personal experience, that principle is long gone.

00:17:53.000 You are guilty by accusation and they'll use whatever they can to implement whatever they need.

00:17:59.000 If you are a dissenting voice, you are a danger.

00:18:01.000 If you stand in the way of this kind of legislation, they'll destroy you however they can.

00:18:05.000 That's why people like Conor McGregor Should be absolutely supported.

00:18:08.000 What's he saying in that tweet?

00:18:09.000 You need a younger take on Ireland.

00:18:11.000 You need someone that's into democracy.

00:18:13.000 You need someone who's willing to listen.

00:18:15.000 What's so crazy about any of that?

00:18:16.000 It's reminiscent of the Soviet Union where having copies of literature banned by the state, known as Samizdat, was

00:18:21.000 enough to fool foul of the KGB.

00:18:23.000 To make matters worse, the Irish government has not actually defined in the bill what hatred is, saying that to

00:18:29.000 do so could "risk prosecutions collapsing".

00:18:31.000 Oh my god. They're not defining what hatred is.

00:18:34.000 This is not only Soviet Union KGB stuff, this is literally Kafka-esque.

00:18:39.000 They're not defining what hatred is, because then you'd be like, well, according to your definition of hatred in your bill, this is not hatred, because look, we didn't do that, we did this.

00:18:48.000 So they've not put a definition.

00:18:49.000 That's what it says in the trial.

00:18:51.000 Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, because he was arrested, all of a sudden, no one telling what it was for.

00:18:56.000 When you are opaque about what you've done wrong, when you're opaque about where the information has come from, when you create this kind of legislation, it's impossible for people to fight against it.

00:19:05.000 It's designed to be impossible to fight against because they know that Ireland is a country full of fighters.

00:19:10.000 How curious that a fighter has stepped forward in this moment.

00:19:12.000 What they want is an unfair fight where the people fighting don't know the rules.

00:19:16.000 Minister for Justice Helen McEntee continues to insist citizens will be able to speak freely, but Senator for the Green Party, one of three parties in the governing coalition, let the cat out of the bag.

00:19:26.000 We are restricting freedom, Pauline O'Reilly said, but we're doing it for the common good.

00:19:30.000 What they're saying is, you don't know what I know, and I haven't got time to explain it to you, so we're just going to limit your freedom.

00:19:37.000 We're not going to describe what hatred is.

00:19:39.000 We'll tell you whether or not we think it's hatred on a case-by-case basis.

00:19:43.000 Which, you know, could seem like what you're trying to do is create the opportunity to persecute and imprison your opponent and allow what could be regarded as hate speech of people that you support and agree with.

00:19:52.000 This is how tyranny and dictatorship starts.

00:19:55.000 There's a lot of talk of tyranny and dictatorship these days.

00:19:57.000 People very keen to harken back.

00:19:59.000 To the tyranny of the last century, which we're all very happy to have left behind.

00:20:02.000 It's genocide, it's chaos, it's violence, it's persecution, it's centralising of authority.

00:20:07.000 But what we've not adjusted to is what tyranny is like now.

00:20:10.000 What tyranny is like now is I'm here to help you.

00:20:13.000 I'm here to support You don't really understand this.

00:20:16.000 You can't decide which information to believe and what information not to believe.

00:20:19.000 So it's just for the best if we come into your home and look at your computer.

00:20:23.000 What we would need is just a magnificent act of faith.

00:20:26.000 I find it hard to surrender to that degree to a loving God that I believe wants nothing but the best for me.

00:20:31.000 I'm never going to give that kind of authority to a government that I absolutely do not trust.

00:20:37.000 Working in cahoots with a corrupt media, benefiting from censoring, dissenting speech, shutting people down wherever possible.

00:20:44.000 This is tyranny point two oh.

00:20:47.000 It looks like this now.

00:20:48.000 It looks friendly and kind.

00:20:49.000 It talks about people's feelings and protecting the vulnerable.

00:20:52.000 And in order to do that, it just has to restrict your freedom and come into your house and take your phone.

00:20:59.000 And if anyone speaks out against it, then they are part of the problem.

00:21:02.000 That's what dictatorships look like in 2023.

00:21:05.000 Ireland sadly has a long tradition of censorship.

00:21:08.000 There was once a body with a wonderfully evocative name, the Committee on Evil Literature, which recommended banning publications deemed harmful to the newly independent nation's Catholic values.

00:21:19.000 The country prides itself on having come through that dark time.

00:21:21.000 But all that's actually happened is that the term evil literature has been redefined to suit contemporary values.

00:21:27.000 They haven't stopped enforcing orthodoxy.

00:21:29.000 They've simply found a new woke dogma to enforce.

00:21:32.000 No one is writing novels about that.

00:21:34.000 After all, owning such a book could land you behind bars soon.

00:21:37.000 Extraordinary.

00:21:38.000 When we talk about orthodoxy, when we talk about fascism, when we talk about systems of control or the Spanish Inquisition, we always imagine the paraphernalia, the robes of an oppressive religious system, or the badges and

00:21:50.000 flags of an oppressive military dictatorship, what we've not become yet accustomed to is

00:21:56.000 the new technocratic technological dictatorships where a cadre of experts tell you that they know better

00:22:03.000 than you what's right for you.

00:22:05.000 And you might not know that you were doing hate speech, and we're not going to tell you

00:22:08.000 what we mean by hate speech, but we're pretty sure that you did some of it.

00:22:11.000 The opposite of this, the polar opposite, is democracy and popular uprising.

00:22:16.000 It's people saying, this is our country, these are our communities, we'll select our leaders and we'll control our own lives.

00:22:22.000 We'll make moral judgements for ourselves.

00:22:25.000 No longer willing to outsource power to the state as if it was some kind of god because it doesn't deserve that status and only behaves like the worst kind of gods I've ever heard of.

00:22:34.000 Unjust, selfish and lost.

00:22:36.000 A weird kind of demonic, pre-pagan energy is being unleashed on the people of this world. 0.98

00:22:41.000 And we're being told that it's advanced and technological and we have the data and we're trying to protect the vulnerable.

00:22:46.000 Well, that would all be well and good if we trusted them.

00:22:48.000 But me?

00:22:49.000 I'd much rather take my chances, if I was Irish, with Conor McGregor than any one of those technocratic, bureaucratic, Kafkaesque Enemies of freedom that are right now trying to introduce a censorship bill that would allow them to spy on your private messages and invade your home if they suspect you of hate speech and they ain't willing to tell you even what hate speech is.

00:23:09.000 That is the kind of tyranny we must all oppose together and we should support anyone that's willing to stand up and fight against it.

00:23:16.000 But that's just what I think.

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Stay Free - Russel Brand - December 07, 2023

Here’s the News: Elon BACKS McGregor For President As Ireland Goes Full Authoritarian

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