Stay Free - Russel Brand - Here’s the News: This Is Why They’re JAILING Jan 6 Protesters, It All Makes Sense Now

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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00:00:41.000 Hello there you awakening wonders, thanks for joining us on the voyage to truth and

00:00:54.000 freedom that we must undertake together right now as the globe appears to be lurching from

00:00:58.000 crisis to crisis, as trust dissipates and disintegrates in all of our institutions,

00:01:03.000 as there appear to be protests breaking out in Germany and TV stations taking over in

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00:01:38.000 Like this corruption.

00:01:39.000 You'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.

00:01:56.000 Oh, January 6th, it was so terrible.

00:01:58.000 Do you remember when they stayed within the velvet ropes?

00:02:00.000 Do you remember that man that had a buffalo hat on?

00:02:03.000 Oh, it's all too terrible.

00:02:04.000 Now, I believe in peace.

00:02:06.000 I 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.

00:02:14.000 But 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.

00:02:25.000 We've got a report on that.

00:02:26.000 It's disgusting. 0.83

00:02:27.000 as 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. 0.95

00:02:35.000 For Known, I'm gonna try to get through this.

00:02:38.000 Um... Thank you.

00:02:41.000 So I'm just gonna try and get through the rest of this video.

00:02:44.000 It's just so terrible that some pro- They had signs, man.

00:02:47.000 Some of them like Donald Trump.

00:02:49.000 I saw a cap.

00:02:49.000 It was red.

00:02:50.000 I think it was red.

00:02:51.000 For 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.

00:03:02.000 It'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.

00:03:11.000 That'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.

00:03:20.000 If rationalism is what opposes it, then don't sob.

00:03:23.000 And this goes way beyond lacrimose newsreaders.

00:03:26.000 DC 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.

00:03:38.000 Also anyone that uses the phrase January 6th.

00:03:40.000 But what do I call the day before January 7th? 1.00

00:03:42.000 You goddamn Trump-voting-mega-loving son of a bitch, yeah? 1.00

00:03:46.000 Okay, I'm just gonna go from January 5th. 1.00

00:03:47.000 Can't we just have a leap year?

00:03:49.000 What are you leaping over?

00:03:50.000 A truck of protest in Canada?

00:03:52.000 Oh God, I promised myself I would finish this video.

00:03:55.000 I can't get through it.

00:03:56.000 An important note when it comes to our prosecutions about those who remained outside the building.

00:04:02.000 We 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.

00:04:12.000 Like this piece of violent conduct pointed out by Norm Macdonald, God rest his soul.

00:04:16.000 There'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

00:04:28.000 a particular aspect of an electoral campaign or really to legitimise democracy itself. Because

00:04:34.000 when you look at it really, and this is the first thing that occurred to me, I'm not

00:04:37.000 trying to act like, oh look at me, I've got such great instincts. Straight away I thought, why

00:04:41.000 are you so outraged that that building has been impeached, when for me that building is

00:04:46.000 itself a symbol of corruption.

00:04:49.000 I 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.

00:04:58.000 So 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.

00:05:06.000 And 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.

00:05:27.000 And you all exist in one vast herd.

00:05:29.000 And they might appeal to your political beliefs if you're on this side or that side of the basically imagined aisle.

00:05:35.000 But 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.

00:05:44.000 Way, 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.

00:05:57.000 Let me know in the chat and the comments if that's how you think it works.

00:05:59.000 But, if a person knowingly entered the restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime.

00:06:08.000 Make no mistake, thousands of people occupied an area that they were not authorized to be present in, in the first place.

00:06:15.000 Trespass.

00:06:16.000 That's the crime we're discussing.

00:06:17.000 So what's the worst crime?

00:06:18.000 Trespass 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.

00:06:32.000 Like the old adage, what's the crime of robbing a bank to the crime of another bank being opened?

00:06:37.000 Well, 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.

00:06:46.000 You're watching it happen.

00:06:47.000 We're all watching it happen.

00:06:48.000 They're participating in it, legitimising it and then saying that the problem is each other.

00:06:53.000 We've got to get over this, guys.

00:06:54.000 Now, let's investigate just exactly how people in Congress are benefiting from these ludicrous, outrageous investments.

00:07:00.000 The US Congress once again outperformed the stock market in 2023, according to new analysis by financial platform Unusual Wales.

00:07:07.000 That in itself is a demonstration of corruption, because the stock market is naturally the habitat of experts in global finance.

00:07:15.000 Whenever 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.

00:07:27.000 They're studying that stuff all the time.

00:07:28.000 And yet, These people in Congress, who might be doing it on some education committee or tech committee, more notably, are outperforming them.

00:07:36.000 How's that?

00:07:37.000 In a rare display of bipartisanship, members from both sides of the political aisle had bumper years.

00:07:42.000 It is the third year running that Congress has now beat the market.

00:07:45.000 So this is a trend.

00:07:46.000 One thing you can bet on is that Congress will beat the market.

00:07:49.000 You could start investing in that.

00:07:51.000 In fact, you do, because you pay them with your taxes.

00:07:54.000 The annual report shows that Congress blew the market out of the water in 2023.

00:07:58.000 It's not only the market they're blowing, if some of the rumours are true, they're blowing each other in that place.

00:08:03.000 Saucy.

00:08:04.000 Fueling fresh calls for a ban targeting US lawmakers and their immediate family members.

00:08:09.000 32 members of Congress, evenly split among Democrats and Republicans, because they're basically the same, fared better than the market.

00:08:16.000 Overall, Democratic lawmakers were up 31.18% last year, while their GOP colleagues were up 17.99%.

00:08:24.000 Numerous members in Congress traded war stocks before the Israel-Gaza-Palestine conflict, Unusual Wales noted.

00:08:30.000 So, 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.

00:08:42.000 And 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.

00:08:56.000 Let's have a look at how ABC News report on this.

00:08:59.000 As 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.

00:09:14.000 It'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.

00:09:30.000 And isn't that the sense you get from politics across the world?

00:09:33.000 Those of you in the UK watching this post office scandal unfold will realise that this is something that happened ages ago.

00:09:40.000 Now, both political parties are pretending to care because it's been on the television.

00:09:44.000 There are very few moral scruples within these institutions because these institutions require that you abdicate those principles.

00:09:51.000 That's why it takes a long while to create change.

00:09:54.000 Oh, it'll take generations.

00:09:55.000 It doesn't need to take generations.

00:09:56.000 You could just, like that, change the world.

00:09:58.000 But it wouldn't be beneficial for the people that are within those institutions benefiting from things being exactly as they are.

00:10:04.000 Outraged at first, Chris then saw an opportunity to get in on the action.

00:10:09.000 He moved out west and, with three friends, launched the app Autopilot.

00:10:13.000 It lets users follow a politician's trades and then copy them.

00:10:18.000 I mean, that is amazing.

00:10:19.000 If you just did that, you would be ahead of the market.

00:10:22.000 Is there any clearer indication of corruption than the fact that if you simply do what people in Congress are doing, you will make money?

00:10:28.000 That, in a sense, means you could kind of collapse the whole system.

00:10:31.000 What's the point in the stock market?

00:10:32.000 What's the point in consultants?

00:10:34.000 What's the point in traders and stock workers and all of these experts who just go, what are them lot investing in?

00:10:39.000 Well, they're investing in that.

00:10:40.000 Right, well, that's the end of it, isn't it?

00:10:41.000 Doesn't that show you the degree of institutionalized corruption?

00:10:45.000 Automatically buying or selling the same stock a lawmaker does at whatever dollar amount they like.

00:10:51.000 At what point does this become illegal?

00:10:54.000 The company now has users dedicating tens of millions trying to grow their own bank accounts by mimicking lawmakers' market moves.

00:11:03.000 But 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.

00:11:20.000 Legally, lawmakers can't trade on inside information, meaning details out of the hands of the general public.

00:11:27.000 But a hypothetical senator could vote for an infrastructure bill and then buy stock in a

00:11:32.000 company that was publicly awarded a project to build a bridge in their district.

00:11:36.000 Look at those men like building a road. Like the dichotomy.

00:11:40.000 It's just like the toil of asphalting a road in galoshes and just shoveling down.

00:11:45.000 Meanwhile we could be exploiting that for profit. There's so much scum. 1.00

00:11:50.000 How dare you invade the Capitol building? 0.99

00:11:51.000 They could even sit on the Armed Services Committee and trade in the stock of a defense contractor

00:11:57.000 receiving a sizable government contract.

00:12:00.000 How dare you?

00:12:01.000 How dare you invade the Capitol Building?

00:12:03.000 That is where we inspire and organize illegal wars that are armed by companies that I personally invest in.

00:12:09.000 You were actually in the building.

00:12:11.000 You're going to prison.

00:12:12.000 You were in the environment.

00:12:13.000 You're going to prison.

00:12:14.000 You used the term January 6th, and that's when my son was born. 0.98

00:12:18.000 You are a criminal, sir! 0.73

00:12:19.000 Now, I'm just going to invest in jails filling up. 0.98

00:12:23.000 Potential conflicts of interest that, in the past few years, thousands online began relishing pointing out were all legal.

00:12:32.000 This is a red flag.

00:12:33.000 And 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.

00:12:43.000 He was just bored.

00:12:44.000 He started doing it out of boredom.

00:12:46.000 So that pandemic, it created so much change, didn't it?

00:12:49.000 It 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.

00:12:57.000 And this guy... He goes by the full moniker Unusual Whales.

00:13:02.000 Wales' data finds members of Congress' stock portfolios consistently beat the S&P 500.

00:13:09.000 Cool.

00:13:09.000 Banksy style.

00:13:11.000 He's going anonymous.

00:13:12.000 Respect.

00:13:13.000 One example Wales pointed us to was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the regional banking crisis.

00:13:19.000 Then 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.

00:13:32.000 Not illegal, Wales says, but eyebrow-raising.

00:13:35.000 Hmm.

00:13:36.000 I'm going to have to raise an eyebrow for that.

00:13:38.000 Knowing 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?

00:13:49.000 They might go, oh, that might be beneficial.

00:13:51.000 Or whether to invest in, as they said, in infrastructure, which doesn't seem to be happening a hell of a lot.

00:13:55.000 Or whether to invest in some big tech or award a contract to Google or Facebook.

00:13:58.000 Think of the kind of relationships.

00:14:00.000 This is without getting into lobbying or donations.

00:14:03.000 Well, actually, it's not hyperbolic to say the system is totally corrupt.

00:14:07.000 It 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. 0.95

00:14:20.000 This is mad.

00:14:21.000 That's why they have to frame that as the extreme event.

00:14:24.000 What's being normalized?

00:14:25.000 Well, look, there is a loophole that doesn't prevent.

00:14:27.000 If it's for family members, well, no, of course you can't sit on that committee.

00:14:30.000 Masquerade and the sophistry that's utilised in order to maintain a system that's so plainly corrupt.

00:14:37.000 Whenever someone comes along that's half-decent, Ross Perot, Bobby Kennedy, Cornel West, Marianne Williamson, they're just maligned and marginalised.

00:14:45.000 People are breathed into the system, sort of bathed in the formaldehyde of corruption and become inutile and hopeless.

00:14:52.000 Remember in the 60s when people rose up that plainly had principles?

00:14:55.000 Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

00:14:57.000 What happened to those guys?

00:14:58.000 Oh, they all died in mysterious circumstances when a lone gunman shot them in the head.

00:15:03.000 Some crackpot... Oh no, another crackpot! 1.00

00:15:06.000 There's some weird kind of blind date magic takes place between idealistic political figures and lone crackpots. 0.99

00:15:14.000 As soon as you're like an idealistic public orator, it's just a matter of time before a lone crackpot emerges to kill you. 0.98

00:15:20.000 I'm actually feeling quite... 0.99

00:15:22.000 What the hell is that?

00:15:23.000 What's in your pocket, sir? 0.65

00:15:24.000 Okay, okay.

00:15:25.000 I'll start investing.

00:15:26.000 Get me some shares in Northrop Grumman.

00:15:28.000 Get me shares in Northrop Grumman!

00:15:30.000 And those new calls for transparency have spurred some in Congress to try again to ban their colleagues from trading stocks altogether.

00:15:39.000 Republican Ken Buck and Democrat Joe Neguse, who signed a letter with 19 other Republicans and Democrats.

00:15:46.000 The whole point of Congress is it's a representative democracy.

00:15:48.000 Every single person in that building ran like campaigns.

00:15:51.000 I approve this message.

00:15:52.000 That's why I'm here.

00:15:53.000 Like, pictures of them in construction hats or holding a pig or being nice to a baby or something.

00:15:58.000 And out of all of them, we've got 19.

00:15:59.000 I was thinking, listen, we're going to do this thing where you can't unscrupulously profiteer.

00:16:04.000 Oh, oh, well, I'm actually, I'm a little busy that day.

00:16:07.000 That's like all they can summons up, 19 people.

00:16:10.000 So on one hand, you've got the facade of outrage about January 6th.

00:16:13.000 What did you do?

00:16:14.000 They did what?

00:16:14.000 They were wearing what?

00:16:16.000 This is disgusting.

00:16:17.000 They were going to do what to Nancy Pelosi? 0.83

00:16:18.000 Good luck finding Nancy Pelosi.

00:16:20.000 She's rich. 0.99

00:16:21.000 How did she get so rich?

00:16:22.000 Well, interesting story.

00:16:24.000 You know, we signed up for this job.

00:16:26.000 We knew what the pay was.

00:16:27.000 It isn't a, um, we're going to pay you this much plus corruption.

00:16:31.000 It's good, isn't it, to be reminded that there are some decent people in politics.

00:16:34.000 I need to be reminded of that myself because I get carried away and just think they're all so corrupt.

00:16:38.000 I just go straight to that because generally it's a shortcut, saves time.

00:16:41.000 They'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.

00:16:51.000 No, come on, we can do a good job, can't we all?

00:16:54.000 Corruption is what Congress first tried to tackle 10 years ago.

00:16:58.000 Did it though, did it.

00:16:59.000 Let's give a round of applause.

00:17:01.000 And here is a bill that we will ignore and find a way out of by the time that it matters to me.

00:17:07.000 Passing the Stock Act.

00:17:09.000 That was the law that officially banned members of Congress from trading with non-public information.

00:17:15.000 When they do stuff that you like, they do it in public, to rounds of applause.

00:17:18.000 Then when they reverse out of it, no one's like, oh, it turns out there was a terrorist attack on the day that we nixed that deal.

00:17:25.000 But there are still accusations some members of Congress do exactly that.

00:17:30.000 Have you both become aware of colleagues of yours that are bending the rules?

00:17:37.000 Look, I'm going to keep this bipartisan.

00:17:41.000 I am not going to go into some names.

00:17:43.000 We both know the names of some people that have made millions of dollars off of trading spouses, trading stocks.

00:17:51.000 Nancy Pelosi.

00:17:54.000 While committee hearings are going on.

00:17:56.000 Look, 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.

00:18:08.000 Hammer.

00:18:10.000 I should have took that home with you.

00:18:12.000 One 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.

00:18:26.000 What 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.

00:18:31.000 And it's the children.

00:18:32.000 I care about children.

00:18:33.000 All the outrage on January 6th.

00:18:34.000 There was a documentary about Nancy Pelosi, weren't there?

00:18:35.000 Oh my God, what's going on outside?

00:18:37.000 They don't know about my trading, do they?

00:18:39.000 For God's sake, delete the app!

00:18:41.000 Delete the app!

00:18:41.000 And like, in reality, you know that they've found ways of justifying themselves, like we do, because we're human beings.

00:18:47.000 Like, they've found ways of going, it's okay that I work in Congress as Speaker of the House and that Paul invests the money.

00:18:53.000 As I fall asleep, sometimes I may mutter as I drift off.

00:18:56.000 Ooh, had a good deal with Tim Cook from Apple today.

00:18:59.000 No Paul!

00:19:00.000 Like they sort of find ways of turning up at banquets and still proselytising about

00:19:04.000 children's rights or women's rights or some other issue that they just push to the forefront.

00:19:08.000 That's why they have to make everyone else feel sort of guilty and bad and ashamed and

00:19:12.000 worthless and you mustn't be like this and you shouldn't be like that and we've really

00:19:15.000 let everyone down with that and should we be considering reparations?

00:19:18.000 Why 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. 0.99

00:19:30.000 Stroking a pig, I'm kissing a baby, I'm kissing a pig, I'm stroking a baby. 0.99

00:19:34.000 Whole thing's a total sham. 0.99

00:19:35.000 So carry on doing it but don't Don't expect us to be outraged.

00:19:38.000 Once in a while, people go, I've had enough of this.

00:19:40.000 I'm going in there, giving them a piece of my mind.

00:19:41.000 Oh, let's take some photos of that statue.

00:19:43.000 In 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.

00:19:54.000 A spokesperson added she was fully supportive of an attempt by Congress in 2022 to address members' stock trading, efforts which, despite public pressure, failed.

00:20:05.000 I was really supportive of it, but somehow it failed.

00:20:08.000 I don't know how it failed.

00:20:09.000 I don't know how Paul's making all these trades.

00:20:11.000 I don't know how all these bills are failing.

00:20:13.000 And mostly, I don't know how I sleep at night.

00:20:15.000 Fast forward to 2023, and a slate of similar bills are seeing the same resistance.

00:20:21.000 It has taken longer than we certainly would have liked, but we're going to continue to push forward.

00:20:26.000 Sometimes I think the function that these idealistic politicians form is to just keep us vaguely interested to see both of these guys.

00:20:32.000 No, they're trying, they're trying.

00:20:34.000 I bet there were probably people that worked at concentration camps that were all right. 1.00

00:20:37.000 Like, well, he's trying, he's trying.

00:20:40.000 In the end, we have to go, this system is corrupt and exploitative.

00:20:43.000 We cannot participate in it anymore.

00:20:45.000 Please, let's have a radical revision.

00:20:47.000 In fact, we can't even ask them.

00:20:48.000 What is required, I think, is just a transformation in the nature of the relationship, where you just talk to them differently.

00:20:53.000 What?

00:20:54.000 Sorry, you do what?

00:20:55.000 No, no, no.

00:20:55.000 No, thank you.

00:20:56.000 There are four or five bills out there with really good ideas in each one of them.

00:21:00.000 They've got to be brought together.

00:21:01.000 There are four or five bills out there, but none of them are going anywhere right now.

00:21:05.000 They're all stuck in various committees.

00:21:09.000 Welcome to Congress.

00:21:10.000 But don't try getting in without an invitation, because otherwise I will cry my eyes out!

00:21:14.000 So 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.

00:21:21.000 But 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.

00:21:34.000 I don't think they'll ban it.

00:21:35.000 I think it's all a smokescreen.

00:21:37.000 I genuinely don't think they'll do it.

00:21:39.000 Because it doesn't benefit them.

00:21:41.000 You're saying there's too much money on the table to give it up?

00:21:43.000 I think so.

00:21:44.000 Which is wild to say, but yeah.

00:21:46.000 Isn'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

00:21:55.000 are, till the advantage became diluted and dissipated and meaningless. You've got more

00:22:00.000 purchase through financial corruption than you have through just doing what it's supposed to do.

00:22:06.000 It's like we only know about excess deaths because of insurance company premiums going

00:22:10.000 up. We still can't talk about it openly from a position of medical expertise because that

00:22:14.000 system is similarly corrupted.

00:22:17.000 All of these systems are corrupted.

00:22:18.000 And 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.

00:22:26.000 Let's get a little bit more information.

00:22:27.000 As Americans sweat over the high cost of food and gas, representative Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio racked up massive gains in 2023.

00:22:34.000 I'm seriously considering just literally going to invest in what she's in, like when Harry met Sally.

00:22:39.000 I'll have what she's having.

00:22:42.000 Oh, God.

00:22:43.000 I'll have what she's having.

00:22:45.000 The former speaker, a consistent high performer in the market, enjoyed a 65% return on her investments.

00:22:50.000 She's a genius.

00:22:51.000 You could almost say, God, you're so good at that.

00:22:53.000 Why don't you just do that?

00:22:55.000 Why don't you just go and invest in the stock market if you're so good at it?

00:22:58.000 Oh, 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.

00:23:05.000 And actually, you're probably not allowed to say that.

00:23:07.000 That's better than most major hedge funds.

00:23:17.000 Major hedge funds where their whole raison d'etre and purpose for existence is that.

00:23:21.000 She's doing that for a hobby. 1.00

00:23:22.000 That's like you're better at basketball than LeBron just by sort of like doing something in your front porch.

00:23:27.000 Oh, look at that.

00:23:28.000 Oh, just accidentally just keep doing this.

00:23:30.000 It's amazing, really.

00:23:31.000 Key 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.

00:23:39.000 Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, have made millions off tech companies that she's responsible for regulating. 0.52

00:23:44.000 Multiple 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.

00:23:57.000 No surprise, politicians on both sides of the aisle profit from trading.

00:24:00.000 It's not just insider trading, but insiders blocking any rules that might stop them.

00:24:04.000 That's literally the definition of systemic corruption.

00:24:07.000 You can't change it because it's not a bug, it's a feature, it's a requirement.

00:24:11.000 So on one hand you have lacrimose newsreaders crying their eyes out about January the 6th.

00:24:16.000 Why?

00:24:16.000 Because of the sanctity of the building, because of what it represents.

00:24:19.000 It represents freedom.

00:24:20.000 It represents democracy.

00:24:21.000 It 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.

00:24:31.000 Is that the system?

00:24:32.000 Is that what we're protecting?

00:24:33.000 Is that what people are being jailed for?

00:24:35.000 Desecrating that system?

00:24:36.000 It's a system that requires desecration.

00:24:38.000 It's a system that requires dismantling.

00:24:40.000 Remember, 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. 1.00

00:24:47.000 The information and power that you have given her.

00:24:50.000 The information that you grant them by that building that should be sacred but isn't.

00:24:54.000 All of our political institutions and the buildings that house them should be sacred.

00:24:59.000 They should represent our shared and collective power and our shared and collective obligations to one another.

00:25:05.000 But they don't represent that.

00:25:07.000 They represent an opportunity for exploitation, and that opportunity is plainly being taken.

00:25:12.000 And one of the ways they prevent us from seeing that is by going, look over there!

00:25:15.000 Look over there!

00:25:16.000 What happens between January 7th and January 5th?

00:25:18.000 Nothing as corrupt as what happens the whole year round in those buildings.

00:25:23.000 But that's just what I think.

00:25:24.000 If you can, stay free.

00:25:29.000 Here's the news.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - January 13, 2024

Here’s the News: This Is Why They’re JAILING Jan 6 Protesters, It All Makes Sense Now

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