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00:06:55.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brown.
00:06:57.000If you want to inoculate yourself against a warring world where there is disruption, despair, craziness and chaos, jump into that rumble chat because you will empower yourself to handle conflict like a kind of inuring.
00:07:11.000In Christianity and maybe other faiths too, the idea of becoming inured, iron against iron, strengthens you.
00:08:08.000You know, even if you are a full-on MAGA person, you've got to know that people that operate in elite political spheres ultimately aren't going to save you.
00:08:16.000We have to recognise that we have to awaken ourselves that there is only one saviour upon whom we can rely.
00:08:24.000We've got an amazing show today because the mainstream are going for RFK.
00:08:28.000Fellow Englishman and brilliant comedian John Oliver says that...
00:08:51.000When I saw that, power outages, I thought, we will look back at this era, the 2019 perhaps to around 2030 is my prediction, and we will recognise together that this was a period of...
00:09:08.000First the pandemic came, then the outages.
00:09:11.000Do you think the next global event will be power outages?
00:09:16.000I've got a sense that there's something in this.
00:09:18.000Like something like 90% of Spain and Portugal, they don't have access to electricity.
00:09:23.000You know, like often I've heard spoken of in the kind of media spheres that I dwell within, watching Joe Rogan say that it will take but a single solar flare to castrate all power.
00:09:36.000We'll be huddled again, Stone Age, around some campfire, quivering.
00:09:41.000You must be familiar with Einstein's famous maxim, I don't know how World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
00:10:50.000No, what I want to say is this is, you know, like so many people will be in despair right now.
00:10:57.000And I don't even mean the kind of people that were Anti-Trump or Trump hysteria syndrome folks or Trump derangement syndrome folks or maggots as they are now known in these quarters.
00:11:12.000People will be concerned, I reckon, about the deportations, particularly some of the deportations that pertain to free speech.
00:11:18.000Again, wherever you think about Israel, you might be pro-Israel, you might be a Zionist, or you might believe that what's happening in Gaza now is an incomparable genocide.
00:11:26.000What we have to have, I think, It's an open dialogue where you trust that the participants are acting in good faith and that the participants are not...
00:11:35.000Chaotic, changing their principles conveniently in order to suit their circumstances.
00:11:42.000I'm referring, of course, to Michelle Obama, who on a conversation with my friend Jay Shetty said that what keeps her up these days is the deportations.
00:11:53.000And if you're familiar with the Obama administration, who is the great deporter?
00:13:38.000Do you think that John Oliver's line when it comes to autism, John Oliver's going to say and does say on the show, I believe, not watched it yet, that RFK's rhetoric around autism is deliberately misleading.
00:13:54.000And there hasn't been a significant escalation in autism.
00:13:57.000There's just been an increase in testing.
00:13:59.000Now, I'm well aware that clinical trials can be misleading.
00:15:11.000You wouldn't believe how many things every single day I don't say out loud because it would be mean or cruel or critical.
00:15:18.000Thankfully, I'm a comic, so some of this stuff I can get away with and say, particularly in the company of people that I know know that I'm good-hearted and not mean.
00:15:26.000But when I operate in this space with you, I'm trying my best to stay true, to walk the line, to stay in the fidelity of open-mindedness and authenticity.
00:15:37.000But what I am learning is that the world is a very, very complicated place, and we've got to find a new pathway.
00:15:50.000You know, say, look, we're going to be talking about Canada in a second.
00:15:53.000And what's happened, presumably, is Canadian nationalism or Canada's identity, which appears to be on the basis of this election victory.
00:16:01.000Tending towards liberalism and globalism has been bolstered by the adjacent threat of Trump and MAGA populism.
00:16:09.000It seems that the conservative leader wasn't able to galvanize and maximize growing nationalist sentiment around the world, the kind of populism that could have emerged from the trucker movement, for example, the truckers that during the COVID era and the draconian measures deployed by Trudeau in particular became a strong and powerful movement and exposed the liberalism in Canada,
00:16:31.000When you call people Nazis, when you freeze bank accounts, all the stuff that went on in Canada.
00:16:35.000But we are in a time, I believe, where we're going to have to find a new way.
00:16:38.000And I don't think we're going to find it from political leaders, ultimately.
00:16:42.000Political leaders are administrators, managers, sometimes ingenious and entrepreneurial and rhetorical stars that capture and understand the moment.
00:16:52.000Indeed, many of your great presidents, or even many of your recent presidents, have been exactly that.
00:17:11.000You know when you've got a kind of placeholder president, Jimmy Carter's and the name Bush, the first Bush, the one-termers, you know?
00:17:20.000We've got to find our way, I suppose, to some place transcendent of political tribalism if we're going to navigate our way out of this potential hell.
00:17:28.000I want to thank you, Timcast, for the raid.
00:17:30.000Or Mug Club for the raid, assuming that we've had such a thing.
00:17:34.000If you're not on Rumble yet, get on Rumble now.
00:18:00.000Here he is, taking advantage of the new press conference credentials being given to independent media to ask if people in the UK that are arrested for social media posts should be given political asylum.
00:19:13.000Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.
00:19:16.000Here's a lovely moment when former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke, that's a right-wing political figure in my country, the United Kingdom, wrestles with and attempts to tackle the complexity around trans issues.
00:19:29.000And I suppose what he means by this, and let me know in the comments and chat what you think, that if anybody that is male can identify as female, what do we do with these categories?
00:19:39.000One of the moments where I fought in particular around sport and the separate categories for men's sports and women's sports made sense was when Marco Rubio, of all people, said, why have women's sports there?
00:19:58.000And then we don't need to worry about any of this stuff.
00:20:00.000This is interesting because my understanding is he's live in the clip.
00:20:05.000The guy sort of realises the complexity of his position.
00:20:09.000If trans men then have to use women's toilets, that's going to make women less safe because how are you going to stop a man, a normal man, going into a woman's toilets and saying, I'm a trans man.
00:21:08.000If human beings are in charge and we can all manipulate, manage and manoeuvre what's right, what's wrong, what virtues and principles we want to abide by, we're going to end up in chaos.
00:21:35.000Kamala Harris plans pointed critique of Trump in first major speech since leaving office.
00:21:40.000I think, in a way, Kamala Harris is a perfect example of someone that didn't capture the spirit of the times.
00:21:45.000You know, the Democrat Party could have run under Bobby Kennedy, could have had Tulsi Gabbard as a leader, could have gone in a hundred different directions, didn't do it.
00:21:52.000Looked like they're shaping up now for an AOC Bernie Sanders super ticket for 2028, but Eric Trump says it's going to be Trump.
00:22:00.000Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat, and let me know what you think about Trump's first hundred days.
00:22:04.000We're going to be covering all of that a little later.
00:22:06.000What do you think about the deportations?
00:22:38.000We talk, don't we, often about the details and particulars of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, how it escalated and maybe why it escalated the role of NATO, the role of the CIA, the laboratories, the bases, the Medan coup, all of the many nuances that the legacy media would obfuscate or otherwise ignore.
00:22:59.000Here's John Kerry realising perhaps for the first time that Crimea was taken by Putin.
00:23:41.000Other than that, I may know eternal life through him.
00:23:44.000If all I want to worship is my Russell-ness, me, me and what I want and what I think, it's ridiculous.
00:23:51.000I want to ascend to the place that Thomas Merton, somewhat Buddhist, but ultimately Catholic preacher and speaker, Who declares that pleasure and pain will ultimately become irrelevant, superficial,
00:24:49.000Did you see at the White House press conference dinner the geezer that was winning an award from like Axios or something going, you know, we were misled there by the government.
00:24:59.000They told us that Joe Biden was not in a state of senescence and mental decline and fools we were, we believed him.
00:25:52.000Don't you remember that spate of headlines and clips of everyone going...
00:25:56.000Joe Biden, he may look old to the untrained eye, but if you hone in under binoculars, you'll see he's got a firm and mighty rampant cock like Genghis Khan!
00:26:34.000David Ignatius wrote, I just refuse to accept this stupid premise because it's a right-wing, manufactured right-wing premise in order to...
00:26:43.000The media's got plenty of things to attack them for, and there are MSNBC and CNN and pundits that absolutely carried water for Joe Biden, but they're not journalists.
00:26:53.000They're former strategists that carried water for Joe Biden.
00:26:57.000The journalist, David Ignatius, wrote a very high-profile column in October of 23, saying, is he really running again?
00:27:32.000This is an attempt by some to virtue signal, and it's this horrible sort of pitting different news organizations against each other, when ultimately the people at fault are Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Joe Biden,
00:27:47.000Kamala Harris, every elected member of Congress.
00:29:29.000So what happens when you start asking questions?
00:29:31.000When you say, actually, no, I won't start my day with a chemical cocktail brewed by the same boardroom that funds censorship and pharma ads.
00:30:38.000It's single origin, mould free, toxin free and woke free, made by people who actually believe in things like bodily sovereignty, free speech and the radical idea that your coffee shouldn't come with a lecture.
00:30:48.000Although that was a lecture, that just got a weird.
00:30:50.000I mean, if this was at a university in modern America, they'd fucking leave me out and deport me right now, wouldn't they?
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00:32:28.000Almost inconceivable turnaround in Canadian politics.
00:32:32.000The Liberals were like 25 points behind.
00:32:35.000Pierre Poliev, conservative, pugnacious dude, peculiarly took the move of saying that he was anti-Trump, I suppose, because Canada has a curious relationship with the United States of America and they can't just accept, can they, that 51st state rhetoric that Trump was playing.
00:32:53.000Let's have a look at the surprising victory of Mark Carney and discuss together...
00:33:35.000Victory, and then moments of departure.
00:33:38.000Often when you see a departing politician give their departure speech, it's like they've been unplugged from the Matrix, and they're suddenly like, it was crazy in there!
00:34:07.000Never. But these are not idle threats.
00:34:15.000President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.
00:34:21.000It's standard political practice to emphasize an external threat in order to galvanize and mobilize a vote.
00:34:28.000Whether you're Adolf Hitler Galvanising the German people against the Jews and the various other groups that were penalised and executed under Nazism, or the common and popular rhetoric around migrants these days, it is very easy to or...
00:34:44.000Effective to galvanize a voter base by emphasizing an external threat.
00:34:49.000Remember, we've lived through the era of the Cold War, Islamic terrorism, and you can question and evaluate the legitimacy of each of those threats yourself.
00:35:00.000For example, now we are looking at a tripolar geopolitical world where China, Russia, and the United States of America vie for global supremacy.
00:35:12.000Beyond that, it has seemed to me for some time that there are sets of imperialist and bureaucratic powers that were using neoliberal and progressive politics to assert control over sets of nations that were ultimately coordinated by bureaucracies like the WHO,
00:35:54.000Sometimes it comes with reductivism when it comes to complex social issues and even, as we're seeing in the United States right now, free speech issues.
00:36:03.000But liberalism, I believe we identified together during the pandemic, presented a unique type of threat because there's nothing more terrifying than when someone is claiming power in order to protect you.
00:36:16.000We saw in the pandemic era the general trend of give us authority and...
00:36:36.000Once the threat becomes microbial, the measures are limitless.
00:36:40.000The threats and legislation that can be deployed in order to protect you if it's the air that you breathe that you need to be afraid of are almost without scale and without limit.
00:36:51.000That's why for some time, I have been more concerned about socially progressive, inverted commas, liberalism than nativism and populism.
00:37:03.000Served as a barrier against all pervasive globalism, which I believe was the great threat of our time.
00:37:10.000And like you, probably, it seemed to me that the pandemic was some kind of dress rehearsal for a global takeover.
00:37:17.000Even these blackouts in Portugal and Spain, to me, bear the intuitive hallmark of rehearsals.
00:37:27.000And attempts to discern new ways to legitimise authority.
00:37:34.000The powerful will always legitimise their authority in the terms and language of safety or convenience.
00:37:41.000No one's going to just tell you we're taking over because we want to.
00:37:44.000They're going to tell you we're taking over to protect you.
00:37:48.000That's why I think this is a pretty significant result in Canada.
00:37:51.000You have to actually say Trump does run the world in terms of his influence.
00:37:58.000There's no question that Trump's rhetoric around Canada has influenced the outcome of this election.
00:38:04.000Let me know what you think, though, about that in the comments and chat.
00:38:06.000We're going to continue with this story.
00:38:07.000If you're watching us on YouTube, we're leaving you now, and you're going to want to join us as we make an appraisal of Trump's first 100 days.
00:38:14.000We look at what Candace Owens has said about Donald Trump.
00:38:23.000We have to get him out before he makes America sick again.
00:38:26.000All of this we're going to discuss, but firstly, we are going to look in detail at the victory of Mark Carney, what it means for the world, and what it means about liberalism versus nativism, the two political ideals that appear to define domestic politics at this time.
00:39:31.000Guy that operates on the level almost of the unconscious.
00:39:36.000Like the art of the deal tells you that Trump is a person that's discerning moment to moment what he thinks he needs to say in order to get what he wants.
00:39:45.000But what I'm saying is, although I believe that Trump is the creature of our age, is the president that he's created for times such as these, I don't...
00:39:53.000Think that Trump seriously intends to militarily or economically take Canada over.
00:39:59.000But, you know, I don't know much about this stuff.
00:40:00.000I don't know what the impact of all these tariffs are.
00:40:03.000I thought that the tariffs might galvanize American industry, might be an isolationist policy in some ways, but might protect and embolden American workers and American towns and American cities.
00:40:50.000Do you not imagine for one minute that there were strategic meetings around the campaign of Mark Carney where they went, the opportunity here is to galvanise some kind of peculiar fusion of nationalism and liberalism by positing Trump very helpfully as an external bogeyman,
00:41:08.000or boogeyman in your language, because he's doing the work for us by making all these crazy jokes about I'm going to take Canada over.
00:41:15.000So they didn't, you know, this is not...
00:41:17.000You know now, don't you, that politics is not the business of authentic open discourse with the population.
00:41:23.000It's not just like that guy's gone out there and just making this stuff up off the spot without a teleprompter.
00:42:17.000Every point where you can enter into the City of London, there are weird emblems and dragons.
00:42:21.000I know this because of the reporting of that marginal, peripheral, shamanic figure, David Icke, who talked about the City of London and how it houses financial power and global power, and that as the British Empire went into decline, the British power no longer was militaristic and explicit, but became
00:42:37.000implicit, tacit, clandestine and financial.
00:42:40.000Mark Carney worked for, ran the Bank of England.
00:42:43.000I believe he was photographed with or friends with Epstein.
00:42:55.000Just as it was at the end of the Cold War.
00:42:58.000And each time, Canada chose to step up, to assert ourselves as a free, sovereign and ambitious nation, to lead the path of democracy and freedom.
00:43:10.000My friend in the locals chat, Synchronicity525, said, wait, he stole a Trump phrase, build, baby, build.
00:44:57.000Am I caught up continually in self and self-preservation?
00:45:00.000Continually terrified that I personally believe myself to be under attack?
00:45:04.000Or am I able to relinquish it and let go and recognize that I am in eternity right now and that there are forces outside of matter, time and space that we can access through our consciousness, through worship, through praise, through his holy word.
00:45:20.000If I enter into the contract of the latter, the covenant, Yeah, Canada!
00:45:57.000You're talking about globalist financial interest.
00:46:00.000Now, me, as a Brit, Here in your country, the United States, I'm not saying that the answer to everything is native populism, nationalist populism, Magarism.
00:46:11.000I, in fact, am making the kind of arguments that were made by liberals and lefties for the last 50, 60 years.
00:46:27.000Thatcher, Nixon, whoever, they always used to use some sort of right-wing demagogue, disaster, bogeyman figure as the antithesis of what they believed.
00:46:39.000All the while, they just ushered in this limp, lukewarm, lousy and insidious form of globalism through bureaucracy.
00:46:57.000Now, just pointing that out don't mean that I'm simultaneously saying that Donald Trump or Nigel Farage or Javier Miel or the dude in Hungary are the answer.
00:47:10.000It's just clear to me that nationalism is a saber and spear tip against globalism.
00:47:16.000And globalism, if that succeeds, We're in some serious...
00:47:23.000We'll be talking about those blackouts in Spain in a minute.
00:47:25.000If you're watching us on X, if you want to see the rest of our reporting on Canada, Trump's first 100 days, and some fantastic stuff on COVID, click the link in the description.
00:47:48.000Like Thomas Petty, you know, he won't back...
00:47:50.000Actually dead, but we're actually better than Tom Petty.
00:47:53.000We've always believed in empowering voices, no matter how unpopular, now we're taking the fight to the next level.
00:47:58.000When major advertisers conspired, yeah, conspired to pull their dollary-do's, even brands like Dirty Dunkin' Donuts, which I think of as being a bit like the Dunkin' Donut of that Tesla guy that wiped his hand on his butt.
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00:49:50.000Out of food and under constant attack.
00:50:31.000And because we are Canadian, To do so with compassion and generosity.
00:50:39.000We are, we are once again, we are once again at one of those hinge moments of history.
00:50:47.000Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over.
00:50:58.000of open global trade, anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War, a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades, is over.
00:51:15.000These are tragedies, but it's also our new reality.
00:52:02.000If you believe Mark Carney, we have to take care of each other, compassion, then why would you not believe J.D. Vance saying it or Keir Starmer saying it?
00:52:14.000When I sit down with President Trump...
00:52:17.000It will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations.
00:52:28.000And it will be with our full knowledge that we have many, many other options than the United States to build prosperity for all Canadians.
00:53:23.000So that's the messaging and that's the impact that that messaging has had.
00:53:27.000We need our own attack dog to confront this external neighboring threat.
00:53:34.000Now, one of the big stories here is how did Poliev, Pierre Poliev...
00:53:37.000Lose this election after being so far ahead and looking like he was going to be Canada's version of Trump, a kind of nationalist politician.
00:53:45.000I feel like he was on Jordan Peterson a bunch and super articulate about Canada and a vision for Canada.
00:53:52.000But curiously, he chose perhaps necessarily to speak out against Trump's, you know, I would say pseudo and somewhat sarcastic colonialist talk.
00:54:16.000Today, Canadians can vote for change, to be strengthened our country, stand around two feet and stand up to America from a position of strength.
00:54:23.000But what does that mean even to be a Canadian?
00:54:33.000Germany and the oppressed people of the United Kingdom have more in common with one another than they do with the elite class in their own nation.
00:54:41.000This is socialist left-wing discourse, i.e.
00:54:46.000You have nothing to lose but your chains.
00:54:49.000So, if you are a Canadian and your affiliation is with your nation, or if you're French, or if you're British, or Sri Lankan, or wherever you are, and you feel a sense of national pride, what is that national pride?
00:55:00.000Is it based on the ability of your population to stand up to external threats?
00:55:07.000What exactly are you deriving your sense of nationhood from?
00:55:11.000And if you have, ultimately, a globalist leader who will prioritise global relationships with bureaucracies, such as the ones that I continually list, NATO, the UN, if you're in Europe, the EU, the IMF, Global Financial Institutions and Institutions of Power,
00:55:34.000For all of the many critiques leveled at Donald Trump, what seems to be true, let me know if you agree with this in the comments and chat, is that he does put America first, or does he?
00:55:43.000Do you believe that Donald Trump is similarly owned by whatever interests are able to puppet American government and the American military-industrial complex in order to engage them in conflicts around the world?
00:55:53.000Do you think that Trump is owned in that way?
00:57:06.000Not so much that Trump directly makes the decisions that determine the outcome of events in your country, if you're not watching this in the United States of America, but is the world...
00:57:21.000To me, it seems pretty obvious that that's the case.
00:57:24.000That Canada, and in the form of Mark Carney's success, had positioned the campaign and its policies around Canadian sovereignty against the United States of America, a position that was legitimised by much of Trump's...
00:57:41.000And indeed, this is the conversation and argument that may define the world for the next, you know, four years.
00:57:46.000Presumably, Trump is going to just do one term.
00:57:49.000It will be about American populism, America's attempt to retain financial and military power over the world as China continues to ascend and Russia makes extraordinary moves as financial alternatives, both crypto and BRICS, emerge that could destabilize the dollar.
00:58:08.000How will Trump's strongman approach and natural, intuitive affinity with the population of America that will adore him no matter what influence global politics?
00:59:21.000President talking tariffs in the economy.
00:59:23.000If you look at our new Fox News poll at 100 days job approval compared to other presidents, there you see the president at 44 percent and you see his first term at 45 percent at this mark, the 100 day mark.
00:59:37.000We have other new polls that are revealing some concerns about the economy.
00:59:59.000Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
01:00:01.000ABC and NBC and other networks have likely contributed to this poll, this low popularity or approval rating, because it seems here that the vast majority, 92%, In fact, their coverage of Trump is negative.
01:00:17.000That's sure to have some kind of impact, even in this world where independent media appears to have more power in the space.
01:00:25.000Let me know what you think, particularly if you're the kind of person that loaves globalism and imperialism and wouldn't trust Joe Biden if he...
01:00:32.000Breathed out his last sepulchral coughing, stinking breath upon you.
01:00:37.000If you wouldn't trust Kamala Harris no matter what, if you can see that Mark Carney is a globalist imperialist, if you have your doubts about neoliberalism, social democracy and its tendency towards tyranny and felt that Trump might be the answer, let me know how you feel in the chat, guys.
01:00:52.000Bill Maher says that those of you that went out to bat for Trump will not admit how disappointed you are.
01:01:08.000I think for liberals, it's worse than they even thought when they projected out.
01:01:13.000I mean, I did not see this amount of extrajudicial activity this quickly, ignoring the courts, disappearing people, scaring people so much, all this kind of stuff.
01:01:22.000Let's talk about what it is for the other side, for the MAGA people, because I think they're disappointed even though they may not say it out loud.
01:01:29.000I think they thought when they were voting for Trump that, okay, you know, job losses over the last many decades and wage stagnation, and the system is just corrupt and broken.
01:01:50.000Oh, actually, they've got plenty to lose.
01:01:52.000Yeah, I mean, I think that my summary of the first 100 days is that the bad news is it's the worst first 100 days in U.S. presidential history.
01:02:00.000I can't think of a presidency that had it worse.
01:02:04.000But the good news, I think, for the country is it's the worst first 100 days in U.S. presidential history.
01:02:12.000For precisely the reason that you suggest, Bill, which is that a lot of the country that voted for President Trump, because they didn't like the course of the country under his predecessor, because they were mad, because they thought stuff needed to be broken up and disrupted,
01:02:31.000are waking up to the reality of just how much worse it can get.
01:02:34.000And I'm hearing from so many friends who voted for Trump, who remember the first Trump administration as being an era, at least until COVID, of prosperity, and saying, hang on a second, 100% tariffs?
01:02:55.000And that's a relief because if it had been a successful first 100 days, if it had been just a little less bad, people would say, well, what's the problem if we're not observing due process?
01:03:04.000Or what's the problem if we're defying the Supreme Court?
01:03:08.000That would be even more worrisome than what we have now.
01:03:11.000Some people who you certainly couldn't call.
01:03:14.000Pinkos include Senator Rand Paul, Steve Bannon and Candace Owens, all of whom have voiced disappointment in the case of Candace Owens, regret that she even voted for Trump.
01:04:26.000They don't work, they will lead to higher prices, they are a tax, and they have historically been bad for our economy.
01:04:35.000But even if this were something that was magic and was going to be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I wouldn't want to live under emergency rule.
01:04:43.000I would want to live in a constitutional republic where there are checks and balances against the excesses of both sides, right or left.
01:04:52.000Okay, that's the kind of open rhetoric that democracy demands and requires.
01:04:57.000I suppose you want people in the tent that are willing to be openly critical.
01:05:00.000But when Steve Bannon, one of the engineers of Trump's early success, is outspoken when it comes to one of Trump's major decisions, perhaps questions have to be asked.
01:05:09.000Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
01:05:10.000And in this reconciliation, the big beautiful bill, they're going to throw another $150 billion.
01:05:20.000And I love Pete Hexeth, but when Pete Hexeth puts out a trillion dollar defense budget, all caps, I'm not feeling good, I'm not feeling like it got
01:05:27.000The important thing here is that for America to be safe and to get a defense budget that doesn't drive us into bankruptcy because you are not going to be able to touch social programs until you get cuts in defense.
01:05:43.000And people up there right now are selling you a bill of goods.
01:05:48.000Candace Owens, one of the most successful commentators and pundits in this space, has explicitly said that she regrets voting for Donald Trump.
01:05:58.000Some of you say that you don't follow Candace anymore.
01:06:00.000One thing you can say about Candace is that woman, man, she's bold.
01:06:03.000I never thought that I would see a day where I would be rooting for a university above Donald J. Trump and his administration.
01:06:09.000But I don't recognize his administration right now.
01:06:15.000We were kicking around some theories earlier, me and the team, and we were going, how could Trump be such a free speech enthusiast and allowing these things to happen?
01:06:25.000Going after college universities, trying to...
01:06:29.000Suppress speech while pretending that you're not suppressing speech, while pretending that you're fighting DEI.
01:06:38.000People who are still trying to grift, I suppose, are not willing to challenge you on this, which is ridiculous, because when you are out of office, we are going to have to live with these consequences.
01:06:48.000Our children are going to have to grow up in this America.
01:06:53.000It's not worth it so that we can have pom-poms and go hurrah for a couple of years, then go, okay, well, yeah, now it kind of stinks because, oh, we're getting arrested for wrong think.
01:07:29.000And in general, do you recognise the principle that...
01:07:33.000In order to have systems of reliable government, you have to have certain principles that are inviolable.
01:07:42.000What you can't have is the utilitarian weaponization of every single idea.
01:07:47.000I agree with free speech when it suits me.
01:07:48.000I agree with deportations when it suits me.
01:07:50.000I don't agree with free speech when it doesn't, etc.
01:07:53.000We have to find a way, again, of transcending this type of tribalism that seeks to use the Constitution and the law as a kind of weapon and find...
01:08:02.000Within ourselves, imminently, and beyond ourselves, transcendently.
01:08:06.000An order that can be relied upon, recognizing that we as human beings are fallen, fallible, continually broken.
01:08:13.000In our vulnerability and weakness, we may yet find new strength.
01:08:16.000If we surrender to God, if we repent of our former lives, if we refuse to bow down and worship at the orders of false idols, we might find an absolute accessible truth.