Join Russell Brand for a special Christmas edition of Stay Free with Russell Brand, where he talks about turning points in his life, and the lessons he learned from being at a turning point. This is a special bonus episode featuring some of the highlights from a recent event where he was at a Turning Point.
00:00:52.000For me, the point of my religion is to one, make me our Coke in this world, knowing I'm going to die and that everyone I love is going to die and that there is injustice and there is unfairness.
00:02:10.000I've got to tell you, I did not anticipate being between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson at a moment where that don't seem like a good position to me.
00:02:24.000Oh man, I'm so lucky that I've got Jesus.
00:02:32.000I'm here to, as best as I can, in my crazy little accent, tell you that my life has been irrevocably changed, revolutionarily changed, inconceivably altered by the power of Christ Jesus.
00:03:35.000The opportunity to be different, Lord.
00:03:38.000I thank you, Heavenly Father, for Erica Kirk's boldness and her bravery, and for her example of forgiveness.
00:03:46.000And surely, if she can forgive the people of the man responsible, Lord, for the murder of her husband, surely this principle of forgiveness is something that we can all extend.
00:06:01.000I didn't think it was possible to be changed in the way that I've been changed.
00:06:05.000I thought it was inconceivable, unimaginable.
00:06:08.000Before turning to Christ, I suppose, the biggest change that I'd ever known was the change from, well, I suppose before being a parent to becoming a parent, that's pretty radical change.
00:06:20.000Certainly it's a radical change in terms of the person you say you'll be as a parent before you have kids and then the person you are when your kids show up.
00:06:32.000Because before I had kids, this is me.
00:06:35.000I was, when I have children, I'm telling you now, I will not be letting them look at screens or eat sugar or any of that stuff.
00:06:45.000And actually parents that do do that, I'd like to judge them.
00:06:48.000I'd like to judge them and maybe even condemn them.
00:07:52.000I believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah.
00:07:55.000I believe that he came to atone for our sins, paid a debt that we could never pay.
00:08:02.000And indeed, if we're going to be at a turning point event, we have to pay homage to the spirit of Charlie Kirk in truth and the principles of turning point.
00:08:13.000Unapologetically telling the truth, unapologetic, absolute attempts to understand one another, to communicate openly.
00:08:21.000And there's clearly a conversation that needs to be had in this country right now.
00:08:27.000Doubtlessly, many people are cynical and skeptical.
00:08:31.000Turning point has performed an incredible function in ensuring that young people have access to conservative values and conservative principles.
00:08:40.000But if you've read that book, if you've read the Bible, you will know that human institutions are fallible, beyond fallible, captured.
00:08:51.000Now, I've got the Bible with me, so you know that you're not making the terrible mistake your nation once made of listening to people with this accent.
00:09:02.000Trying to tax you without representation.
00:09:07.000But there's very little point in you having that magnificent revolution and then falling once more into the traps that had been laid a thousand times.
00:09:17.000For surely those traps are multitudinous, nefarious, deceptive and difficult to avoid.
00:09:26.000The counterfeit systems of centralized control are asserted again and again and again.
00:09:32.000It is the function of the world to distract you.
00:09:35.000It is the function of the world to enchant you.
00:09:38.000It is the measure and means of the evil one to create facsimiles of systems of omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence.
00:09:47.000And I tell you this as a proud Englishman from a country where they're introducing facial recognition technology, digital ID, ending trial by jury, incarcerating people for free speech.
00:10:01.000The United Kingdom is in trouble and we look to you for an example and that example must be transcendent of the political.
00:10:09.000In short, I can't collapse my love and devotion to Christ Jesus into support of one or any political party.
00:10:19.000I know that Turning Point's here to advocate primarily for Republicanism.
00:10:22.000I'm not suggesting they change what they're doing.
00:10:29.000That unless people are following Christ, they will fail you and they will let you down.
00:10:33.000Now I happen to think that Trump's performed near miracles in office, as a matter of fact.
00:10:39.000Near miracles, because I think he happens to be a pretty obstinate, anomalous and unique individual.
00:10:46.000That's what I happen to believe about Donald Trump.
00:10:50.000authentic and open, a stumbling block for global imperialism that was on the precipice of total domination.
00:11:06.000When Donald Trump makes a post like he made about Rob Reiner, God bless and God rest Rob Reiner's eternal soul, I would say that's further evidence of Trump's lack of filter.
00:12:26.000We're all on our knees, shoulder to shoulder, under the blood of Christ.
00:12:31.000And what I would advocate for is supreme compassion for Erica Kirk as a human being, as a woman, as a mother that's lost her husband, as a woman who has to have.
00:12:45.000I left my kids to come here today, man.
00:12:48.000Like my little boy who's two, my little boy whose carved heart led me by the hand to Christ.
00:12:55.000That little boy that I handed over to anesthetist.
00:14:10.000Can Jesus Christ help us to manage the complexity of a domestic culture that sometimes feels like it's on the precipice of ruin, fragmentation, incessant conflagration?
00:14:23.000Can Christ resolve the complexity of the issues in the Middle East?
00:14:28.000Is it possible to love Jesus Christ, to believe that Israel has a right to a homeland, but to be deeply concerned about events in Gaza and the deaths and the power and the mismatch?
00:14:39.000I believe under Christ it is possible.
00:14:43.000Is it possible to be cynical and have doubts about the deep state?
00:14:48.000Is it possible to have questions about permanent government, global bureaucracies that seek to emulate God while telling you God's not real?
00:15:03.000The systems will fail you because they are human systems.
00:15:07.000Even advanced technology will only emulate the counterfeit systems of the fallen one.
00:15:14.000Indeed, what is Lucifer but an attempt to set up your own kingdom, your own circuit, to not accept the supreme sovereignty of our Lord God?
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00:16:40.000Now, just listen to this because I've thought a lot about what I wanted to say to you today and why indeed you would listen to me.
00:16:48.000Because I'm a person that doesn't like authority.
00:16:52.000I'm a person that maybe, like you, woke up to the depth, breadth, and insidiousness of corruption during the COVID pandemic period.
00:17:00.000I believe many of us recognized that was an attempt to subdue us, to subjugate us, to make us dependent on the state.
00:17:09.000You can have dependency only on one entity, one deity, one God.
00:17:19.000I thank the Lord, man, that even before I was saved, my rejection of worldliness as a natural rebel meant I never took that vaccine, not once.
00:18:08.000If they'd really wanted me to take those vaccines, all they had to do was hide a couple of syringes somewhere in my house and say, listen, there's some syringes in here.
00:18:16.000Under no circumstances are you to touch them or take them.
00:18:20.000I'd be like, nine booster shots in within a week.
00:18:25.000Pericardias, myocardias, just hit me, baby.
00:18:30.000Natural immunity, the divine power of the body.
00:18:35.000No, the divine power of Pfizer, the divine power of Merck, the divine power of Moderna.
00:18:41.000And I'm telling you now, I speak to you as a visitor and a guest in your magnificent country with the reminder that it was none other than Charlie Kirk that said your constitution was written, he believes, to be practiced by a Christian nation.
00:18:55.000That if you don't have Christianity as an accompaniment to a constitution, you'll get corruption.
00:19:26.000I know that in the dark, low places of your life, in the manger of your life, that is where the king will come.
00:19:31.000If you're suffering now, if you're suffering today, if you feel at a loss, if you feel broken, if you feel that all around you is Babylon, Babble, brokenness, and fallen, fragmented communication, I'm here to tell you that he is coming.
00:20:04.000Man, even before I found the Lord or the Lord found me, or is such subjectivity even possible in the transcendent, ahistoric, a manifest world of our Holy One?
00:23:25.000And note in Luke, the devil led him up to a high place, an absolute pinnacle I see that as, and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
00:23:35.000In an instant, it was outside of time.
00:25:30.000However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
00:25:35.000Why does our Lord mention seeing the fall of Satan in a moment of hubristic glee of the returning disciples?
00:25:42.000I'd be pretty excited if I just cast out demons.
00:25:44.000I'd be pretty excited if I conducted miraculous healing.
00:25:48.000And precisely this excitement, this personalized, egoic, to use a contemporaneous word, individualized sense of pride is what our Lord strongly counsels against.
00:25:59.000Because as an atemporal being that was there when the Spirit passed over the water, the Word, the Logos, the Word made flesh, was there when Satan fell.
00:26:15.000I bid you, turning point, American Fest, this Christmas, to consider the neurological corollary, the circuitry and the synapses when you're trapped in self.
00:26:27.000Only he can break you out of the false garden.
00:26:32.000Only he may return us to the new merged kingdom.
00:26:35.000He saw the inception of the tendency to individuate your will, to replace God's will with your own will.
00:26:45.000And with a beautiful, synchronous, glorious, symphonic, and educating moment for me.
00:26:53.000It says here, please transition to questions with Job.
00:26:56.000Now, in the absence of actual Jesus Christ in the incarnate form, if you get a message saying, bring Jobob on the stage, and you've just said you believe in Jesus, then you better bloody well bring Jobob on the stage, otherwise you're caught in self-will.
00:27:10.000Now, allow me just to say this one more thing.
00:27:12.000There are two quotes I want to give you.
00:27:13.000One is from the British writer, G.K. Chesterton, who is credited with bringing C.S. Lewis, that other great British writer, to the Lord.
00:27:20.000He said, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting.
00:27:25.000It has been found difficult and left untried.
00:27:29.000We have not yet tried to create the Christian nation that America may yet become.
00:27:36.000As an Englishman, as a visitor, I pray that you're able to do it.
00:27:40.000I pray that you can build a Christian America to be a shining city on a hill, an exemplar for the rest of the world.
00:27:48.000I pray that in the name of the Son, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.
00:27:51.000And if Chesterton is too high for looting for you, let me quote that great American, Rocky Balboa.
00:28:06.000Played by the immeasurably beautiful and brilliant Sylvester Stallone, who in Ricky, not Ricky 4, I nearly cursed there the first time.
00:28:15.000Who at the end of Rocky 4 says, if I can change and you can change, maybe the whole world can change.
00:28:24.000Somewhere between Chesterton and Rocky are our solutions.
00:28:28.000Thank you for having me, AmpFest, and please, welcome to the stage, JOBO!
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00:31:04.000I could explode with embarrassment without a sense of humor just from the stuff that's happened in this room already tonight.
00:31:09.000And what we have to find is a kind of unity, not only among conservative pundits, but between Americans everywhere, Republicans and Democrats.
00:31:20.000These phony false labels, these fake taxonomies have to be put aside if you are going to save your country and the world.
00:31:27.000And one way to do that might be by laughing about it.
00:31:33.000Well, this question is for me because you had brought it up.
00:31:38.000Your ex-wife is now dating a guy who should be deported, Justin Trudeau.
00:31:45.000Do you think the way that you've turned out, she actually might be the catalyst for people becoming super-based?
00:31:53.000You think that Katy Perry, well, she's firstly I will say this, her mother is in the room, and I remained good friends with her father.
00:32:01.000And Kay Perry, yes, Mary Perry, praise Jesus.
00:32:04.000I've got nothing but good things to say about Katie Perry, or indeed anybody.
00:32:08.000Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, oh man.
00:32:11.000Like, look, the biggest threat to our society are political leaders that have no authentic power, that seem to be operating on behalf of global bureaucracies that seem to get kind of auditioned into political power.
00:32:22.000We have it in my country, we have it in France, we have it everywhere.
00:32:25.000We know these are not real political leaders and real political figures.
00:32:30.000They are working, they are the operatives of deeper interest, shall we say, whether that's the WEF or the WHO or something more occult that I don't understand.
00:32:38.000All I've noticed about, well, I will say, look, I'd like to be positive and forgiving and loving.
00:32:42.000It is a message of forgiveness and loving that I'm here to share.
00:32:45.000And I will say he's got a nice haircut.
00:34:20.000I mean, I should answer this as Jordan Peterson.
00:34:22.000It isn't obvious to me at all that there's such a thing as conservative art, bucko.
00:34:30.000I would say, what I would say is the values of conservatism, preservation, traditionalism, individual freedom, family, these are beautiful values.
00:34:41.000I would not myself claim to be a conservative person.
00:34:47.000And I believe that art, rightly undertaken, is a way of worshiping, revering, and demonstrating God's glory.
00:34:55.000As Eric Liddell, the Scottish runner, said, when I run, I feel God's joy.
00:35:00.000Now, we should be in all of our endeavors, whatever we do, doing it with love, not just creativity, painting pictures, singing songs, all of that.
00:35:08.000I know people that are working in sort of industries of engineering and mechanics.
00:35:12.000I'm thinking of my neighbor Chance when he mends things, when he repairs things.
00:35:16.000There's such reverence and love for God in the way that he works.
00:35:33.000He says, I flip my little omelette in the pan for you, Lord.
00:35:37.000And he says, I live as if only you and I were the only things in the world.
00:35:42.000As if God and you are the only things in the world.
00:35:44.000That means every encounter you have, every conversation you have is an encounter with God.
00:35:47.000Me and Joe Bob, the Lord talking to the Lord.
00:35:50.000So conservative values are secondary to me to Christian values, and I cannot collapse my Christianity into anything other than devotion to Christ Jesus.
00:36:04.000This one comes from Bodie at Montana State.
00:36:07.000You look lovely, by the way, and you're doing a good job.
00:36:38.000When I last spoke to Charlie Kirk, a time that I now cherish, of course.
00:36:42.000He seems so in his brilliant intellect, so brilliant in the word, so compassionate in his conversations with people that were different.
00:36:48.000It's astonishing that anyone could muster up hatred for him.
00:36:51.000But this is the world that we live in now.
00:36:56.000To move on, Bodhi from Montana State says, over the last year, have you seen any positive changes in Hollywood and in your profession with actors who are more open as you've become?
00:37:07.000Mate, I've got to tell you, I'm not in Hollywood.
00:37:54.000Unless the Lord is in me, I'm in serious trouble.
00:37:57.000Hey, but I will tell you that this week I'm 23 years clean and sober from drugs and alcohol, one day at a time.
00:38:10.000And when you unplug from addiction, whatever that addiction is, you have the opportunity to plug into the true source of all power.
00:38:19.000It took me 20 years, I'm a slow learner, but like once you unplug from addiction or self-obsession, although, you know, I still have that a bit, of course, you are able to receive the true grace, the living water, the holy flow, like golden honey pouring forth from your belly, living springs of wonder and glory in all of us, in all of us, in you.
00:38:54.000Well, I guess to kind of follow up on that personally, what are some practical advice that you might have to somebody who is struggling, not necessarily in the realm of Hollywood, but with addiction and all of this sort of stuff that you've been able to overcome?
00:39:07.000So glad you asked me, I know the answer to this.
00:39:10.000If you are suffering from addiction, it means that it's some things.
00:39:17.000You are blessed if you are addicted to drugs or alcohol.
00:39:20.000You are blessed because it initiates abstinence.
00:39:25.000And once you understand abstinence, cutting off from drugs and alcohol, which is difficult, and you won't be able to do it without support, the support of other human beings and the support of initially a God of your understanding.
00:39:35.000but my prayer would be that that would ultimately become Jesus Christ.
00:39:39.000You begin to realize that what you've been doing is worshiping.
00:39:47.000Like the verse I cited, when Satan falls from heaven, he wants to establish his own circuit.
00:39:53.000Drugs and alcohol are an attempt to sort of foreclose against reality.
00:39:57.000It's a kind of a peculiar form of self-worship.
00:40:00.000Now, when you stop drinking and taking drugs, it is anguish, it is agony, and it is despair.
00:40:05.000But in that despair and anguish, you can, as I said with the Christmas story, when you are down among the animals, when you are broken, when you are lost, that is when you will find him.
00:41:06.000Yeah, if you're a drug addict or an alcoholic, I can, by his grace, I can help you.
00:41:11.000The way I was helped, the way I was helped.
00:41:19.000You know, as a guy that makes his living being able to say what he wants to say, in your opinion, what is the biggest threat to free speech right now in the talking space, but also in the entertainment and arts space?
00:41:33.000Well, I suppose the reason I'm grateful for Ben Shapiro this evening is because one of the great threats is that people don't have the courage and confidence to disagree with one another openly and plainly.
00:42:17.000And the sad demise of the Occupy movement that could have been a kind of cross-party alliance.
00:42:23.000What I would say is the biggest threat to free speech is people using compassion to legitimize control.
00:42:31.000This is what happens when you extract Christ's kindness from the public conversation.
00:42:36.000You somehow have to embolden some phony state to practice compassion.
00:42:41.000The government cannot be at the heart of our culture.
00:42:44.000The government are merely administrators.
00:42:46.000The church is the heart of our culture.
00:42:48.000The church is the heart of our community.
00:42:57.000So the biggest threat of globalism and a globally centralized media, which is collapsing, but there will be attempts to manage and manipulate independent media.
00:43:17.000And I really want to honor him by being funny and by being silly.
00:43:22.000Like, because when I met that time at the RNC, Milwaukee, which is the time when he said Romans is the Christian constitution, I was, where with Dan Bongino?
00:43:31.000I was there with Dan Bongino and God bless you, Dan Bongino.
00:43:36.000I was with Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk and I was sort of teasing Charlie Kirk and I couldn't tell whether or not if he knew that when I torment people it's my way of sort of showing love.
00:43:45.000And I was fascinated by his intelligence and I've become subsequently obviously more fascinated by his vast abilities, his ability to render complex information, to align Christian principles with American political.
00:44:05.000What I'm looking at at the moment right now is this from Romans because I was thinking, you know, you're coming here, you're coming to Amfest, you're going to be talking a bunch, you'll be putting out fires between Nick Fuentes and Candice Emmons and Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson.
00:44:16.000You'll be advocating for love everywhere you go.
00:44:18.000What have you got in Romans what Charlie Kirk told you to look at that's going to be of any use?
00:44:26.000Now, earlier in Romans 13, there does seem to be advocacy for human governmental authority, right?
00:44:32.000But I will remind you that Paul wrote that while in prison.
00:44:36.000So if he was super into human governmental authority, what is he doing in jail?
00:44:42.000Just a quick, you know, just something to consider.
00:44:44.000Because I'll tell you why I say that, because I don't like the idea that we're meant to submit to human authority unless it's backed by the Lord.
00:44:52.000Because I don't trust human authority.
00:45:51.000In kind of the brief remaining time, where do you see the culture going forward from here?
00:45:58.000Well, the truth is I don't see anything because I'm very, very limited.
00:46:02.000But what I would suggest is that if we do not embrace the principles of decentralization and subsidiarity, we're going to encounter extraordinary trouble.
00:46:11.000The trend due to technology, as Breitbart said, who's, let's face it, a person who understands culture, and as Ben Shapiro has said many times, politics is downstream of culture.
00:46:24.000But all of this phenomena are downstream of technology.
00:46:26.000Now, the only thing that's upstream of any of that is our divine and holy omnipotent creator.
00:46:32.000The technology empowers and facilitates mass decentralization.
00:46:37.000A few years ago, five years ago, ten years ago, you wouldn't have, whether you like them or not, a Nick Fuentes or a Candace Owens or a Russell Brand or a Charlie Kirk because the technology facilitated mass communication.
00:46:51.000It's my strong belief that centralized authority who were attempting to use this very technology for surveillance and control didn't anticipate the degree to which it will be used to create mass free speech and fragmenting and fracturing political movements.
00:47:07.000There was a legitimate reason when your country was established to have strong centralized government that was representative.
00:47:14.000That need becomes less and less with every passing day.
00:47:17.000The principle should be maximum individual sovereignty, maximum family sovereignty, maximum community democracy.
00:47:28.000Wherever possible, people should be in control of their own resources, their own lives under God.
00:47:34.000We should eat food that we have grown, reared or hunted that's near to where we live.
00:47:39.000And we should at once oppose ourselves against these centralized and centralizing industries.
00:47:44.000Big food, big pharma, big agriculture.
00:47:48.000Before the advent of AI, that dark beast slouching towards Bethlehem is used to facilitate centralization to a terrifying degree.
00:47:58.000The very technology that may enslave us could liberate us if only, as it says in Romans, we are willing to awaken.
00:48:05.000If you in particular, the United States of America are willing to do the hard work of having the difficult conversations that are necessary, of affording a place at the table for your enemies, of breaking bread with people you disagree with.
00:48:19.000Whether I've been glib and flippant about Justin Trudeau, he's a child of God.
00:48:24.000He deserves love and he deserves respect and he deserves happiness and I pray for that for him.
00:48:47.000If that means to the point of death, then it must be to the point of death.
00:48:52.000And my admiration for Charlie Kirk, in spite of the myriad ways that I could pick out of the air to disagree with the man, God rest his eternal soul, is that I strongly believe that Charlie Kirk, had he known that doing what he did for a living and for a vocation would cost him his life and leave his beautiful wife Erica a widow, I believe he would have done it anyway.
00:49:12.000And it is that I admire above all else and it is that I would seek to emulate and all of us are capable of learning from his example and emulating him.
00:49:23.000ladies and gentlemen russell brand let's hear for him there was an experiment where two groups of dogs were held in electrified cages Let's call them Group A and Group B, both with five or six dogs in them.
00:49:45.000Group A had access to a lever that meant they could turn off the electrical current that was running through the floor of their cage.
00:49:52.000Group B did not have access to a lever.
00:49:54.000In the end, Group B just lied down and took the shocks of stimulation.
00:49:58.000The next phase of the experiment, always trust the science, follow the science, is both sets of dogs were placed into cage C.
00:50:05.000They were subject to electric shocks in that cage, all of the dogs.
00:50:13.000The cage in the second experiment was only a foot and a half high, and if the dogs wanted to, they could jump out.
00:50:19.000They could get out of the cage if they wanted to.
00:50:21.000Group A, that had in the previous cage had access to a lever, all got up and jumped out.
00:50:26.000Group B, that had never had access to a lever, all just laid down and accepted it.
00:50:30.000Remember that ultimately all of the information you receive is understood ultimately by you as an electromagnetic signal neurologically.
00:50:39.000Even this voice now, which is vibration coming in through your ears or the light information that you're receiving through your eyes, is being received electromagnetically neurologically.
00:50:48.000We are all in a cage where we're being, if not shocked, stimulated.
00:50:53.000Occasionally you are shocked, but mostly you're in a state of continual stimulation.
00:50:57.000Add to that that you're eating bad food, you're receiving deceptive information, you're being lied to and controlled continually.
00:51:06.000Some of us have been given access to levers in the past, so we know there's a way out.
00:51:12.000Other people don't believe there's a way out, so they're lying down and taking it.
00:51:16.000What I'm telling you, all of you, whether you're in group A or group B, whether you believe it's possible to transcend, to escape, to reach the kingdom, or if you think there's no point, there ain't no point.
00:51:27.000I'm not just lay down and take the thousand shocks that flesh is heir to, to quote Shakespeare.
00:51:33.000The truth is that freedom is possible.
00:51:35.000But in order to do that, you have to first survive, then escape, then control, then submit.
00:51:40.000Those are the rules of jiu-jitsu, and those are the rules of life.
00:52:00.000How is it that cells know whether they're dental or aural?
00:52:04.000How is it they know whether they're skeletal or cardiovascular?
00:52:08.000The cells in your body are guided by a field.
00:52:11.000All of the information within the cells is activated by an ulterior, evident, present, but less easy to observe set of information that's part of a greater whole.
00:52:21.000Hey, complicated stuff, but what do you want to do?
00:53:16.000Hillary Clinton has praised the Digital Services Act as a necessary tool for confronting what she describes as disinformation and extremism.
00:53:25.000She's argued that platforms should be more accountable for the content they allow and has expressed concern over how young people are forming views on issues such as Israel and Palestine.
00:53:35.000More than 50% of young people in America get their news from social media.
00:53:47.000They are seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing.
00:53:58.000And that's where they get their information.
00:54:01.000Her comments align closely with the broader censorship model that's developed in the United States and our country, up oh no, the UK, where government agencies, academic institutions, and large NGOs operate as a kind of distributed authority over digital discourse.
00:54:16.000Free speech isn't a free fall in Europe.
00:54:17.000There are two anti-free speech movements that have coalesced.
00:54:21.000One is in Europe where it has laid waste to free speech.
00:54:24.000Germany, France, England, free speech has been eviscerated.
00:55:01.000And, you know, Hillary Clinton was there, and she really fueled the anger.
00:55:05.000I mean, when Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most anti-free speech pieces of legislation in decades.
00:55:19.000And she called upon the EU to use the DSA to force the censorship of American citizens, force people like Musk to censor this extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate in the United States.
00:55:34.000Taken together, these developments evoke historical echoes that are very difficult to ignore.
00:55:37.000During the McCarthy era, the United States government justified sweeping investigations and loyalist tests by invoking the need to root out subversion.
00:55:45.000Senator Joe McCarthy's 1954 hearings targeted individuals for their associations, views, or insufficient enthusiasm for official narratives.
00:55:53.000There was no formal ban on dissenting speech.
00:55:56.000Yet the pressure exerted by the state and cooperating institutions chilled public expression.
00:57:13.000He shouldn't be fighting communism, should focus on fighting male-patterned baldness and cultivating that weird horn in the center of his forehead, trying to cover his kind of cover a multitude of sins without any.
00:57:24.000I will tell you that I will root out baldness.
00:57:27.000I will use this little strand of inexplicable forehead hair to cover my whole brow.
01:00:55.000We will not walk in fear, one of another.
01:00:58.000We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine.
01:01:04.000I've got this magnificent new machine, the teleprompter, where you can appear to be looking down the lens, but actually reading the whole time.