On this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, Russell Brand takes a look back at the January 6th, 2019 protests that took place in Washington, D.C. and around the country. He points out the hypocrisy within the establishment media, and how they used the events of that day to demonize and demonize half of the population in order to advance their political agenda. He also points out how the media's coverage of the day has become so emotive, emotional and hysterical, that it has been used to create a false narrative that demonizes and delegitimizes half the population, and demonizes the supporters of what are known as the " MAGA Right." And he asks the question, "What do I call the day before January 7th? What are you leaping over a truck of protest in? Can't we go from January 5th to a leap year of protest?" Stay Free with Russell Brand! Stay Free, wherever you get your news and information, and join us on the voyage to truth and freedom that we must undertake together right now. To get exclusive content and to get first looks at much of the content we make here, join us over on Locals.Become an Awakened Wonder. There s a link down below. We make extra content for you every single day, and we need your support for you, don t you know that the government demonetize us, don't you? We need you to support us so that we can grow this movement, and create real life communities and real life opposition to the corruption we discuss every day. We want you to join us, and become an awakened wonder. -Becoming an AWAKened Wonder! - Become an AWakened Wondrous Wonder! -Become a Wondrous Wondered Wonder! by becoming a WONDERFUL WON-WON'T YOU? Subscribe to our podcast, become an AWONDED WON'-WON'-WAKEED Wonder by becoming an AWAKING WON'EREAMER! by Becoming a WOWING Wonder, wherever you listen to our podcasts, we make a Wonder, we will be delivering a podcast delivered daily, 7 days a week, 7-days a day, 7 DAYS A WEEKS A MONTH A WEEK, EVERY MONDAY, EVERY FASTEST DAY, EVERY SUNDAY, A FRIENDS WEEKLY, EVERY FROG DAY AVAILABLE!
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00:01:39.000You're all aware that the January 6th protests have been utilised to introduce new laws and create all sorts of exploitation, demonise half of the American population, and create many anti-democratic measures in the name of democracy, sometimes reducing newsreaders to tears simply discussing it.
00:02:06.000I believe in treating one another with love and respect at all times, and any revolution that we undertake must be a peaceful and respectful one.
00:02:14.000But nevertheless, I think this incident has been exploited, particularly by a political class that uses the information they gain within Congress and the Senate to create opportunities for themselves and their families.
00:02:27.000as well as more hypocrisy from within the establishment as they continue to exploit January the 6th to demonize half the population and control media narratives.
00:02:35.000For Known, I'm gonna try to get through this.
00:02:51.000For what you did three years ago today, Frivolous clip in a way, but also demonstrates how emotive, emotional and hysterical the coverage of that event has become.
00:03:02.000It's become a cultural artefact deployed in order to generate emotion, in a sense that newsreader is simply playing his part, doing what's required of him.
00:03:11.000That's not a rational perspective, and yet rationalism is always what's used to decry and criticise the supporters of what are known as the MAGA right.
00:03:20.000If rationalism is what opposes it, then don't sob.
00:03:23.000And this goes way beyond lacrimose newsreaders.
00:03:26.000DC attorney Matthew Graves is saying that not only participants in the protest, or insurrection, use whatever word suits you, on January 6th ought be prosecuted, but people Just in the general environment.
00:03:38.000Also anyone that uses the phrase January 6th.
00:03:40.000But what do I call the day before January 7th?
00:03:42.000You goddamn Trump-voting-mega-loving son of a bitch, yeah?
00:03:46.000Okay, I'm just gonna go from January 5th.
00:03:56.000An important note when it comes to our prosecutions about those who remained outside the building.
00:04:02.000We have used our prosecutorial discretion to primarily focus on those who entered the building, or those who engaged in violent or corrupt conduct on Capitol grounds.
00:04:12.000Like this piece of violent conduct pointed out by Norm Macdonald, God rest his soul.
00:04:16.000There's clearly a degree of hysteria, and usually don't you find that when there's this much emotive packaging, this much amplification, it's in order to utilise either some new legislation or to promote
00:04:28.000a particular aspect of an electoral campaign or really to legitimise democracy itself. Because
00:04:34.000when you look at it really, and this is the first thing that occurred to me, I'm not
00:04:37.000trying to act like, oh look at me, I've got such great instincts. Straight away I thought, why
00:04:41.000are you so outraged that that building has been impeached, when for me that building is
00:04:49.000I don't see that as, that's where Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, all I've ever known is the state is corrupt, you cannot trust the media, that's all I've ever known.
00:04:58.000So for me, I don't see that and be, oh my god, and start sobbing, because I see the state not as my representatives, but as our shared oppressors.
00:05:06.000And whether you're right there on the BLM side of things or over here on the Jan 6 Trump side of things, you've got more in common with one another than you have of the occupants of those buildings who are using information gleaned from their privileged position within the political establishment to make bets on the stock market, enrich themselves and create a bigger gap than ever between them and you.
00:05:29.000And they might appeal to your political beliefs if you're on this side or that side of the basically imagined aisle.
00:05:35.000But when it comes to the crunch, They're all in it together, investing in stocks and shares, accruing personal wealth, and ultimately concealing the true source of power, which is ulterior.
00:05:44.000Way, way, way, down, down, deep, in the deep, deep state, or way up high, in rarefied corporate air, inaccessible to us, anonymous figures who aren't bold or ridiculous enough to present themselves as powerful, in my opinion.
00:05:57.000Let me know in the chat and the comments if that's how you think it works.
00:05:59.000But, if a person knowingly entered the restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime.
00:06:08.000Make no mistake, thousands of people occupied an area that they were not authorized to be present in, in the first place.
00:06:18.000Trespass or using your privileged position as a member of congress to plainly invest in stocks and shares that you have information about that you can use to enrich yourself while all the time acting as if some terrible transgression took place on January 6th.
00:06:32.000Like the old adage, what's the crime of robbing a bank to the crime of another bank being opened?
00:06:37.000Well, it'd be brilliant if someone opened a bank near you, I bet, because you can't get no banks or doctors or anything because infrastructure is collapsing everywhere because all of the resources, power and wealth are being sucked upwards.
00:06:54.000Now, let's investigate just exactly how people in Congress are benefiting from these ludicrous, outrageous investments.
00:07:00.000The US Congress once again outperformed the stock market in 2023, according to new analysis by financial platform Unusual Wales.
00:07:07.000That in itself is a demonstration of corruption, because the stock market is naturally the habitat of experts in global finance.
00:07:15.000Whenever you think about that world, people that are on Wall Street or the City of London or wherever else these bizarre practices take place, they're spending all their time studying the Nasdaq or the Dow Jones.
00:07:27.000They're studying that stuff all the time.
00:07:28.000And yet, These people in Congress, who might be doing it on some education committee or tech committee, more notably, are outperforming them.
00:08:04.000Fueling fresh calls for a ban targeting US lawmakers and their immediate family members.
00:08:09.00032 members of Congress, evenly split among Democrats and Republicans, because they're basically the same, fared better than the market.
00:08:16.000Overall, Democratic lawmakers were up 31.18% last year, while their GOP colleagues were up 17.99%.
00:08:24.000Numerous members in Congress traded war stocks before the Israel-Gaza-Palestine conflict, Unusual Wales noted.
00:08:30.000So, whether or not you're seeing pro-Israel politicians or pro-Palestinian politicians espousing publicly, one thing where they agree is it's okay to invest in weapons manufacturers prior to that conflict.
00:08:42.000And don't you think that the money where the mouth is, evidence there, tells you a lot more than the empty rhetoric that they may use on the steps of one of those sacred buildings that if you invade them without a ticket or without permission, people are literally sobbing on the news.
00:08:56.000Let's have a look at how ABC News report on this.
00:08:59.000As long as a trade is reported before 45 days, there's no law preventing members of the House or Senate from trading stocks, even if the bills they pass or committees they sit on could influence a company's stock price.
00:09:14.000It's almost as if people try to occasionally introduce laws to prevent that, but whenever those laws are introduced, the people that are in charge of voting for whether or not those laws should stick go, hold on a minute, I personally financially benefit from there not being any regulation against me doing this or engaging in these practices, so I'm not going to do that.
00:09:30.000And isn't that the sense you get from politics across the world?
00:09:33.000Those of you in the UK watching this post office scandal unfold will realise that this is something that happened ages ago.
00:09:40.000Now, both political parties are pretending to care because it's been on the television.
00:09:44.000There are very few moral scruples within these institutions because these institutions require that you abdicate those principles.
00:09:51.000That's why it takes a long while to create change.
00:10:40.000Right, well, that's the end of it, isn't it?
00:10:41.000Doesn't that show you the degree of institutionalized corruption?
00:10:45.000Automatically buying or selling the same stock a lawmaker does at whatever dollar amount they like.
00:10:51.000At what point does this become illegal?
00:10:54.000The company now has users dedicating tens of millions trying to grow their own bank accounts by mimicking lawmakers' market moves.
00:11:03.000But the app has also become a rallying cry for a new generation of investors, pointing out what they say is a rigged system that lets a group of 535 men and women with serious political influence buy and sell stocks in the first place.
00:11:20.000Legally, lawmakers can't trade on inside information, meaning details out of the hands of the general public.
00:11:27.000But a hypothetical senator could vote for an infrastructure bill and then buy stock in a
00:11:32.000company that was publicly awarded a project to build a bridge in their district.
00:11:36.000Look at those men like building a road. Like the dichotomy.
00:11:40.000It's just like the toil of asphalting a road in galoshes and just shoveling down.
00:11:45.000Meanwhile we could be exploiting that for profit. There's so much scum.
00:11:50.000How dare you invade the Capitol building?
00:11:51.000They could even sit on the Armed Services Committee and trade in the stock of a defense contractor
00:11:57.000receiving a sizable government contract.
00:12:33.000And the biggest name doing that isn't a name at all, a finance guy who started poring over members of Congress's trades when he was bored during the early months of the pandemic.
00:12:46.000So that pandemic, it created so much change, didn't it?
00:12:49.000It created such a fissure in society, people being locked in their homes, so much doubt in our institutions, such a total lack of trust in media, such a lack of trust in Big Pharma.
00:12:57.000And this guy... He goes by the full moniker Unusual Whales.
00:13:02.000Wales' data finds members of Congress' stock portfolios consistently beat the S&P 500.
00:13:13.000One example Wales pointed us to was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the regional banking crisis.
00:13:19.000Then some lawmakers on key congressional committees that govern the financial system dumped SVB and other bank stocks during the turmoil, many before their price plummeted.
00:13:32.000Not illegal, Wales says, but eyebrow-raising.
00:13:36.000I'm going to have to raise an eyebrow for that.
00:13:38.000Knowing what you know about the ethics and morality of the occupants of those buildings, do you think it's possible that it would cross their mind, for example, when voting on whether to continue to aid conflict between Ukraine and Russia?
00:13:49.000They might go, oh, that might be beneficial.
00:13:51.000Or whether to invest in, as they said, in infrastructure, which doesn't seem to be happening a hell of a lot.
00:13:55.000Or whether to invest in some big tech or award a contract to Google or Facebook.
00:14:00.000This is without getting into lobbying or donations.
00:14:03.000Well, actually, it's not hyperbolic to say the system is totally corrupt.
00:14:07.000It almost requires a level of faith from us that seems childlike, ridiculous, unsustainable levels of credulity are required for us not to actually, thinking about it, wait till about January 6th, walk in there and go, listen, this is mental.
00:14:25.000Well, look, there is a loophole that doesn't prevent.
00:14:27.000If it's for family members, well, no, of course you can't sit on that committee.
00:14:30.000Masquerade and the sophistry that's utilised in order to maintain a system that's so plainly corrupt.
00:14:37.000Whenever someone comes along that's half-decent, Ross Perot, Bobby Kennedy, Cornel West, Marianne Williamson, they're just maligned and marginalised.
00:14:45.000People are breathed into the system, sort of bathed in the formaldehyde of corruption and become inutile and hopeless.
00:14:52.000Remember in the 60s when people rose up that plainly had principles?
00:14:55.000Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King.
00:16:27.000It isn't a, um, we're going to pay you this much plus corruption.
00:16:31.000It's good, isn't it, to be reminded that there are some decent people in politics.
00:16:34.000I need to be reminded of that myself because I get carried away and just think they're all so corrupt.
00:16:38.000I just go straight to that because generally it's a shortcut, saves time.
00:16:41.000They're all corrupt, like, but then him, you can sort of see he's like a kindly person who's like, Really sort of trying his best to hold together his integrity like some Jimmy Stewart character all sort of constipated against the road.
00:16:51.000No, come on, we can do a good job, can't we all?
00:16:54.000Corruption is what Congress first tried to tackle 10 years ago.
00:17:54.000While committee hearings are going on.
00:17:56.000Look, I'm not gonna name Nancy Pelosi's, but I do know of colleagues that have Nancy Pelosi, their Paul Pelosi, into a car, and then that guy came around the house and not named names.
00:18:10.000I should have took that home with you.
00:18:12.000One prominent lawmaker whose finances are consistently under a microscope is former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who's disclosed millions of dollars of profit from trades over the years, many made by her husband, a financier.
00:18:26.000What I think irritates a lot of us, isn't it, is the sort of grandstanding and posturing and pretending to be like a nice person.
00:19:00.000Like they sort of find ways of turning up at banquets and still proselytising about
00:19:04.000children's rights or women's rights or some other issue that they just push to the forefront.
00:19:08.000That's why they have to make everyone else feel sort of guilty and bad and ashamed and
00:19:12.000worthless and you mustn't be like this and you shouldn't be like that and we've really
00:19:15.000let everyone down with that and should we be considering reparations?
00:19:18.000Why don't you give reparations to the current existing population of all creeds and colours for the stock trades that you're making and profiting from right now using information that you're clearly getting as a result of your job when you campaign.
00:19:30.000Stroking a pig, I'm kissing a baby, I'm kissing a pig, I'm stroking a baby.
00:19:35.000So carry on doing it but don't Don't expect us to be outraged.
00:19:38.000Once in a while, people go, I've had enough of this.
00:19:40.000I'm going in there, giving them a piece of my mind.
00:19:41.000Oh, let's take some photos of that statue.
00:19:43.000In a statement, Pelosi's office told us she does not own any stocks herself and has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions made by her husband.
00:19:54.000A spokesperson added she was fully supportive of an attempt by Congress in 2022 to address members' stock trading, efforts which, despite public pressure, failed.
00:20:05.000I was really supportive of it, but somehow it failed.
00:21:10.000But don't try getting in without an invitation, because otherwise I will cry my eyes out!
00:21:14.000So there you go, they're acknowledging even these idealists that are trying their best and seem like really decent people, that it's more or less pointless.
00:21:21.000But far away from Capitol Hill, if you listen to Unusual Wales or Chris Josephs, no one is quite sure your elected representatives will voluntarily cut themselves off from a payday.
00:21:46.000Isn't it ridiculous to think that rather than vote, you would probably be able to impact that more by every one of us, like just investing in the things they
00:21:55.000are, till the advantage became diluted and dissipated and meaningless. You've got more
00:22:00.000purchase through financial corruption than you have through just doing what it's supposed to do.
00:22:06.000It's like we only know about excess deaths because of insurance company premiums going
00:22:10.000up. We still can't talk about it openly from a position of medical expertise because that
00:22:18.000And until we take back power, not take back power, because we actually already have the power, until we refuse to participate, then I suppose it will continue, because they don't want to do anything about it themselves.
00:22:26.000Let's get a little bit more information.
00:22:27.000As Americans sweat over the high cost of food and gas, representative Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio racked up massive gains in 2023.
00:22:34.000I'm seriously considering just literally going to invest in what she's in, like when Harry met Sally.
00:22:55.000Why don't you just go and invest in the stock market if you're so good at it?
00:22:58.000Oh, well, actually, because it's not that I'm good at it, because I've got information from being in Congress that I'm utilising for my trade.
00:23:05.000And actually, you're probably not allowed to say that.
00:23:07.000That's better than most major hedge funds.
00:23:17.000Major hedge funds where their whole raison d'etre and purpose for existence is that.
00:23:31.000Key to her success was very lucky use of stock options, often a sign of trading on inside information, something members of Congress have lots of.
00:23:39.000Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, have made millions off tech companies that she's responsible for regulating.
00:23:44.000Multiple bills were put forward last year to stop or limit congressional trading, including the bipartisan Banned Stock Trading for Government Officials Act introduced by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Josh Hawley in late July, which went nowhere.
00:23:57.000No surprise, politicians on both sides of the aisle profit from trading.
00:24:00.000It's not just insider trading, but insiders blocking any rules that might stop them.
00:24:04.000That's literally the definition of systemic corruption.
00:24:07.000You can't change it because it's not a bug, it's a feature, it's a requirement.
00:24:11.000So on one hand you have lacrimose newsreaders crying their eyes out about January the 6th.
00:24:21.000It means that any American, from anywhere, could rise up and become President or Speaker of the House, and then you too, if you're rich enough and lucky enough, could make a fortune from insider trading.
00:24:36.000It's a system that requires desecration.
00:24:38.000It's a system that requires dismantling.
00:24:40.000Remember, once again, Nancy Pelosi couldn't just go to Wall Street and go, hey, give me a job, I'm brilliant at this, because her power is from exploiting you.
00:24:47.000The information and power that you have given her.
00:24:50.000The information that you grant them by that building that should be sacred but isn't.
00:24:54.000All of our political institutions and the buildings that house them should be sacred.
00:24:59.000They should represent our shared and collective power and our shared and collective obligations to one another.