Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida and Republican Presidential Candidate for 2024, joins us to talk about his new book, The Courage to Be Free, and why he thinks Joe Biden is a "lame lunatic." Plus, a new revelation about Biden's temper, and a new video of him on YouTube. Plus, we talk about Trump, the Ukraine, anti-riot laws in Florida, and what that distinction means. And, of course, there's a new segment on Russell Brand's new show, You're Gonna See The Future where he explains how to see the future. Stay free, and remember: you can see the past, but you can't live in the past forever. And if you don't like what you see, you can live a life you love, and you can choose to live it the best you can, and that's what matters most to you and the rest of the people you care about. You can live your best life, and then you can decide what you want to do with it. - Russell Brand Subscribe to Stay Free with Russell Brand on iTunes and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms wherever you get your favorite podcasting platform. Thanks for listening and sharing the podcast! Timestamps: 3:00 - Is Joe Biden a lunatic? 4:20 - Is he a toddler or a toddler? 5:30 - Does he have a temper? 6:15 - What's his temper? 7: Is he just fine? 8:40 - Why Joe Biden should be a lunatics? 9:00 11: Is Joe the worst person in public speaker? 11:00: What's the point of a politician? 13:00- Is he not a lethal lunatic, or is he a lunacy? 14:30 15:50 - What kind of person? 16:10 - What s his temper like? 17:10 17:30- What do you think of me? 18: What do I think of Joe Biden s temper? 19:40 21:00 | Is he better than a child? 22:30 | What would you like to live in a safe place? 25:40 | How do you need to be a free state? 26:00 +16:00 / 17:00 Is he like that? 27:00 Do you have a plan to live my best life?
00:29:31.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:29:34.000It's a very special episode because Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and presidential candidate, is joining us.
00:29:41.000We're going to talk to Ron for 15 minutes on YouTube, if you're watching us there.
00:29:44.000Then we'll be exclusively on Rumble to talk about Trump, CBDCs, war in Ukraine, anti-riot, stroke anti-protest laws, and what that distinction means.
00:29:54.000In our item, Here's the News, we're going to be talking about Biden's temper.
00:29:59.000Is he a toddler or is he a lethal lunatic?
00:30:03.000Let us know in the comments where you stand on that particular issue.
00:30:06.000And is even this new revelation that Biden behaves extraordinarily in public... This is an allegation, it's not being...
00:30:16.000Is that potentially PR to make him sound a little more edgy, a little more priapic than he otherwise may, and a little less docile?
00:30:25.000But now, the reason that you've joined us, I'm sure, is because we have the great privilege of welcoming the Governor of Florida and Republican presidential candidate for 2024, Ron DeSantis, and I've got a copy of The Courage to be Free, Ron DeSantis' book, in my hand now to endorse it by proximity and contact.
00:30:46.000Ron, thank you so much for joining us on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:30:49.000Well, thanks for having me, and thanks for plugging the book.
00:30:52.000I didn't even ask you to do it, so appreciate it.
00:30:55.000We are very professional here, and we're very grateful to have you on the show.
00:30:59.000Thanks for joining us, thanks for supporting and endorsing Rumble, which of course has its home in the state that you are the governor of.
00:31:07.000Ron, when I was in Florida recently, I was struck by the amount of pride that Floridians have in their state.
00:31:15.000You appear to be universally endorsed by the population of Florida.
00:31:20.000I did stand-up comedy there, A lot of my stand-up was talking about measures taken in the pandemic where I live in the UK and the broad and I would say spookily ubiquitous response to the pandemic in most places in the world except one might contest in Florida.
00:31:40.000I'm sure that the sense of state pride that Floridians have is a source of great joy to you.
00:31:45.000I wonder How you came to the position of confidence in taking a stance that was antithetical to the stance taken elsewhere in America.
00:32:44.000I mean, part of it was I just looked at the data that was coming in.
00:32:49.000The whole premise of lockdown Both in the UK and in the United States, was in the idea that COVID would cause massive amounts of hospitalizations and we wouldn't even have any more hospital beds left over for normal patients.
00:33:02.000We all got those models, all governors, all heads of state, and I'm looking at this in like March and April, And none of it was accurate.
00:34:18.000It made the state better, and that did.
00:34:21.000But I do think it had an impact around the country, because anytime the lockdowners wanted to do more restrictions, people could just point to Florida and say, well, wait a minute.
00:34:36.000You still have people today, Fauci and the like, They think that what they did was right.
00:34:43.000They think that these lockdowns worked.
00:34:45.000And so my fear is, if this happens in the future, a lot of these people are going to want to do the same thing again.
00:34:51.000So one of the things I pledged as president, and I think I'm the only one running on the Republican side who will be willing to do this, we're going to bring a reckoning to this health bureaucracy and this medical swamp.
00:35:02.000Because these agencies like CDC, NIH, FDA, they failed the American people.
00:36:21.000Well there is way too much authority in Washington, D.C.
00:36:24.000and in the federal government right now.
00:36:26.000And a lot of that is, I'd say, illegitimate authority that has been accumulated over many, many decades.
00:36:34.000Some of that is because Congress has been neglectful, presidents have been neglectful.
00:36:38.000But you have a massive bureaucratic administrative state That exists almost outside of typical elections.
00:36:46.000They exert power over the populace regardless of the outcome elections.
00:36:50.000None of these people are elected and they purport to tell us what kind of energy we can use, what kind of car we can drive, even whether Potentially, you're allowed to have a gas stove.
00:37:01.000You know, in Florida, we made gas stoves tax-free because we believe that you should have the ability to do all that.
00:37:07.000So part of the project, I think, is to take power out of Washington and send it back to the states, the localities, and individuals.
00:37:17.000That means we need a radical reduction of the federal bureaucracy.
00:37:21.000We're going to tell our cabinet secretaries that they have to reduce the number of employees that they have inside D.C.
00:38:07.000But at the end of the day, part of the reason we've been successful in Florida is we fought back against the federal government.
00:38:12.000For example, When the federal government tried to impose the COVID-19 vax mandates on the economy, you had one through the main economy, which we fought back and won.
00:38:23.000Then they did one on the medical personnel, nurses, who a lot of these nurses had had COVID.
00:38:44.000We saved the jobs of tens of thousands of people throughout our state.
00:38:48.000And so there's a lot you can do when you just stand up to these people to do what's right.
00:38:53.000But there's no question that there's too much power in Washington, D.C.
00:38:57.000Presumably this process of devolving power and breaking down centralized bureaucratic power in Washington, if undertaken in good faith, would mean in states like California and New York State, you would get different cultural and ideological inflections, certainly from, based on our
00:39:19.000current reading, from the type of cultural values that are espoused and somewhat represented
00:40:08.000The second part of my question is, are you willing to approach and rebut centralised
00:40:14.000power in its corporate and private form in the same way that you would confront it in
00:40:20.000I'm talking, of course, of giant monopolies and duopolies in the areas of big tech and even energy and media.
00:40:27.000Because, of course, one of the arguments that is advanced for pro-state power is that it gives us the ability to confront corporate power even if that isn't happening anywhere in American politics at the moment.
00:40:39.000Well, no, I mean, I think it's a great, great issue, but I actually think it's just the opposite.
00:40:44.000I think what you've seen is a collusion between big government and big business.
00:40:50.000A lot of the things that were being censored during COVID, for example, that wasn't just being done because Mark Zuckerberg thought that he wanted it censored.
00:40:58.000No, he was working with people like Fauci.
00:41:01.000They were working with people inside of government to censor dissent on lockdowns, on mask mandates, on school closures, on vax mandates.
00:41:09.000All these things that, I mean, if you think about it, a free society has to have debates over important issues.
00:41:16.000What more important issue have we had in the last decade or two than whether society should be locked down?
00:41:25.000And they didn't want to have that debate.
00:41:27.000So I actually think that, yes, obviously, when there's less power in Washington, individual states, they have certain powers to make different decisions.
00:41:35.000But I do think if we break up, The relationship between big government and some of these big monopolies, particularly in the tech sphere, I think that's actually going to have universal benefit throughout the country because there's going to be more ability to speak freely.
00:41:51.000You're not going to have Uncle Sam with its thumb on the scale.
00:42:53.000But we live in an era where a lot of these big private concentrations of power are exercising kind of government-like power.
00:43:01.000I mean, if you have Wall Street banks collude to deny funding for, say, gun shop owners, Well, that's an indirect attack on the Second Amendment.
00:43:12.000When you have different types of tech companies colluding with government to censor certain subjects, that's an attack on the First Amendment.
00:43:20.000So, you've got to understand that freedom's under attack not just from government power.
00:43:27.000There's also concentration of private power, which does threaten a free society.
00:43:32.000So far, so good, so presidential, and so many questions yet remaining.
00:43:39.000Of course we have to follow up, Ron, on the aspect of my question that touched on the culture war, because freedom is a two-way street, and if we're going to grant freedom to people, to express themselves culturally in the manner that is embodied by your success there in Florida, then what about the freedom of those opposed?
00:43:59.000But the next question that I'm going to ask Ron DeSantis is, would you pardon Trump on the charges around January 6th and the handling of classified documents?
00:44:10.000And if this man can speak so eloquently and appealingly, how is it that Trump is still soaring in the polls?
00:44:16.000To hear the answer to those questions, you are going to have to join us on Rumble.
00:44:21.000There's a link in the description right now if you're watching.
00:44:24.000So join us over there on the home of free speech.
00:44:26.000We're going to be speaking freely because some of the issues that Ron's already touched upon are most relevant to us on our independent media platform.
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00:44:40.000You may be familiar with the former proprietor of Locals, our friend, our mutual friend, Dave Rubin, Floridian gay man, friend of Ron DeSantis.
00:44:52.000Actually, before we get on to Trump, Ron, could I just say that are you willing to acknowledge and accept that The kind of freedom that you're talking about, and of course it's telling that the example you use is like, you know, gun shop owners.
00:45:04.000But would you, as president, a president that's looking to decrease state power, recognize that in states that are conventionally more aligned with liberal values, and even the kind of woke values that you have publicly condemned, would they have the right to pursue policies in those areas?
00:45:23.000Would they be granted the same freedom Sure.
00:45:28.000Well, actually, I don't even think it's a question of granting.
00:45:44.000And they're allowed to use that power to do what their constituents want.
00:45:48.000And as much as I kind of look to see some of the stuff that may go on in California and shake my head, clearly they're going to have a right to pursue some of the things.
00:45:58.000Like, for example, how they handle their energy situation.
00:46:41.000They're basically choosing states that have rejected the woke agenda and that are focusing on what I would say are just common sense principles, but certainly things like safe streets, quality education.
00:46:54.000Yeah, that's just been our bread and butter in Florida.
00:46:59.000In the country out of 50 states by CNBC, which is not a fan of mine, we have the number one for new business formations and we've had more wealth migrate into Florida since I've been governor than has ever migrated into an individual state over a similar period of time in American history.
00:47:14.000So we're proud of that and we think Americans can make judgments about where they want to live.
00:47:19.000No one's saying you haven't done a great job in Florida.
00:47:24.000My stand-up comedy audience love you in Florida.
00:47:27.000No one's saying that except perhaps when it comes to devolving the power for schools and allowing them and allowing their parents to participate in which books should be permitted when it comes to ideology and which books should be banned.
00:47:41.000Now I agree with decentralization and I fundamentally believe that true freedom is the Other people's freedom.
00:47:50.000And I wonder, just to use this rather localized example, if you were to grant similar freedoms in California, you can imagine that the types of books that might get banned wouldn't be books that promote certain sexualities and certain lifestyles.
00:48:05.000They might be more traditional and orthodox books.
00:48:08.000Would you be happy with that, and would you permit that?
00:48:11.000If schools, for example, in California said, we want to ban the Bible, or we don't want to talk about Christianity, or we don't want to talk about heterosexual families, or we want further gun control legislation, you'd be down for all that?
00:48:42.000And so we think it's appropriate that the education reflects community standards.
00:48:46.000So when you have some of the stuff which has been very graphic and pornographic in a fourth grade or fifth grade classroom, it's not a question of banning it because you as an adult are free to do that in Florida.
00:49:57.000I think we're Getting the education back on the idea that this should be about instructing kids for a better life so that they can think for themselves, be citizens of the republic.
00:50:08.000We don't want our schools to just be indoctrination centers where it's all about imposing an ideological agenda.
00:50:16.000There's an opportunity cost for doing some of the sexualization and some of the other stuff, because you're not doing as much as you need to on reading.
00:50:23.000You're not doing as much as you need to on science and math.
00:50:27.000And so from both what's appropriate and what parents find appropriate, but also from the perspective of opportunity costs, Let's just focus on things we can all agree on, and we all know are important, and we can do it.
00:50:39.000But anytime the media says there's any type of bans, that is a total hoax.
00:50:43.000All these books are available for people, you know, who are of age.
00:50:47.000And in a truly decentralized model that enshrines decentralization and democracy, what would be important would be the principle rather than the subject.
00:50:57.000So you would likely get schools that said, yeah, we want these type of books.
00:51:01.000And if that were democratically agreed upon by the parents of those schools, you as President of the United States would say, sure!
00:51:10.000Well, obviously, I think the President's role in K-12 education is incredibly limited.
00:51:16.000These are things that are really bottom-up, school districts and states, and I think the proper recourse would be for parents on that local level to elect more people to the school board, Uh, so that they could, uh, change the curriculum in ways that they think are appropriate.
00:51:31.000But, yeah, we will not be having a federal government imposed, uh, national K-12 curriculum.
00:51:37.000Uh, first of all, I don't think that it would even work.
00:51:39.000And second of all, I don't think the federal government has the affirmative authority to do that.
00:51:43.000That's interesting because it seems increasingly what you're saying is from the office of president you would devolve power wherever possible and leave ideology to democracy.
00:51:53.000Yeah, I would eliminate the Federal Department of Education if we can.
00:51:57.000I don't think that the federal government was never envisioned to have really any role in K-12.
00:52:02.000What they've tried to do is they've tried to use funding to force behaviors of k-12 districts, school districts. So for example on the
00:52:12.000women's sports, you know, they say, you know, you have to have, if a man
00:52:16.000identifies a woman, they have to be allowed to do women's sports, otherwise you lose lunch
00:52:20.000money. So they've used that aggressively under the Biden administration to try to change behavior.
00:52:25.000My view would be like, let's take education, send it back to the states, get the federal
00:52:35.000But that would free up the vast majority of school districts, who probably would see it my way, to have the freedom to be able to institute sound policies.
00:52:48.000Now, what is evident, even after just this limited amount of time in your company, is that you are a competent orator, that you are a successful politician, that you are very appealing, that you've succeeded in Florida, and yet you have to deal with the spectre and the phantom, the gargoyle demagogue that is Donald Trump.
00:53:10.000How do you, in your position, knowing that there is no pathway to the presidency via Donald Trump, that this is a phenomena and a fact that you're going to have to deal with, how do you confront his position in the polls?
00:53:21.000And what would you do about some of the charges that Donald Trump is facing in the event that you were president?
00:53:27.000And also, how does it personally feel as, you know, like just talking to you for a while, and clearly you and I would see a whole host of issues very differently, but It's pretty clear that you're a pretty potent political voice and figure and orator.
00:53:42.000How do you deal with the sort of wild card of Donald Trump and what he represents to so many people?
00:53:49.000Well, look, this is a campaign that's still very early on.
00:53:54.000Most people are not paying attention over the summer.
00:53:56.000They're doing things like being with their families, and they're enjoying themselves.
00:54:00.000So we've been laying the groundwork in the early states.
00:54:02.000The media will talk about polls, but they'll take a poll from the whole country.
00:54:06.000That's not how the primary process works.
00:54:08.000You do Iowa, then New Hampshire, then South Carolina.
00:54:11.000So we're actually on the ground in those states doing the work that is not always kind of headline-grabbing, But it's really grassroots and we're building support.
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00:57:18.000How do you manage the tension when there is a plain appetite in your country for anti-establishment figures?
00:57:27.000RFK becoming an emergent force in the Democrat Party, Trump having been the defining figure in the last five, six, seven years in American politics and American campaigns.
00:57:38.000How do you deal with managing the tension of being a representative of establishment forces while acknowledging that many people no longer trust the media?
00:57:46.000Many people no longer trust the government.
00:57:48.000Many people are deeply cynical about American institutions.
00:57:52.000How do you deal with the massive mistrust and neonialism of American cultural life?
00:57:57.000Can we imagine a situation where whatever the result of the next presidential election The opposing side will likely say the election was stolen, it was because of Russians, it was because of broken or corrupt voting machines.
00:58:12.000How can you ever bring together and justify a centralised American experiment, particularly when you seem to believe so strongly in decentralisation, federalism and maximum democracy?
00:58:25.000How do you deal with this mistrust and this great appetite for outsiders?
00:58:30.000Well, one, I would push back on this idea that I'm representing establishment forces.
00:58:37.000I get attacked by the corporate press more than anybody running for office, more than Joe Biden, and now more than Donald Trump, because I think the corporate press views me as a bigger threat.
00:58:48.000They understand that I will beat Biden, and they know I will actually deliver on all these things.
00:58:53.000Whereas I think they think that Trump would not beat Biden, and then I think they think even if he did that he would be distracted with all these other stuff and wouldn't be able to deliver.
00:59:03.000So I've been the target of all these people, and I think it's because I've been willing to lead.
00:59:08.000Also, I would point out during COVID, I was the one fighting Fauci.
00:59:19.000In fact, Donald Trump's last day in office, he gave Fauci a presidential commendation.
00:59:26.000And I'm just thinking to myself, this guy had been responsible for justifying school closures, for justifying mandates, for justifying lockdowns.
00:59:36.000And by January of 2021, we knew how destructive it was.
00:59:42.000So on the biggest hysterical issue, The biggest current thing where all these elites got together, COVID-19, I was one of the leaders throughout this world to stand against those people, fight back against them.
00:59:57.000And so I think that the fact that I've been willing to do that, I mean, for example, I've got a grand jury Uh, hearing evidence in Florida about misrepresentations by pharmaceutical companies over COVID-19 jabs.
01:00:11.000There's not another elected official in the country who's been willing to ask those types of questions.
01:00:18.000We're doing it and we're getting answers for that.
01:00:21.000So I think I present a great opportunity for people because I have all the right enemies.
01:00:27.000You see it by how they're attacking me, but I also have a proven record of beating these people, and we would do the same thing as president.
01:00:36.000Most powerful voices in the space that you currently occupy, Governor, have to be regarded as Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson.
01:00:45.000Both of them have taken strong, over-explicit anti-war stances, saying, among other things, that the Pentagon can't pass an audit.
01:00:57.000The money that American taxpayers are funneling into this Ukraine war that increasingly seems like a disaster, and a proxy war, ought be immediately ended.
01:01:08.000The peaceful solution ought immediately be sought.
01:01:12.000As a former military officer, where do you stand on this conflict, and are you willing to match that kind of anti-war rhetoric, and how do you reconcile The enormous revenue, the vast budgetary and treasury weight that this war and the military-industrial complex places on the American people generally, with the conditions that many former military personnel are enduring.
01:01:39.000Many of them having to use food banks.
01:01:41.000Many of them, like a significant number, ending up homeless.
01:01:45.000A great stain on American culture, I would say, is the rhetoric that supports veterans and the shameful way in which they are treated.
01:01:52.000What is your stance on this current conflict and would you end this war?
01:01:57.000So one on the military industrial complex, we are actually going to overhaul how these retired generals are allowed to then just go work for defense contractors as commander in chief.
01:03:08.000And I think what's happening in Ukraine is they're barreling towards a multi-year stalemate where a lot more people are going to die, where you're going to have a lot of treasure that's going to be spent for basically no change in outcome.
01:03:23.000And so what I've said is we need to focus on achieving a sustainable peace in Europe We should not want to see this thing go on.
01:03:33.000We have pressing problems at home that we're neglecting, as you mentioned, our own veterans.
01:03:38.000We have an open border in the United States of America.
01:03:42.000We have American families that are losing children to fentanyl overdose by the tens of thousands because we haven't secured our own border.
01:03:57.000Also, I do think we have threats in this world, such as the Chinese Communist Party, which you've seen as the amount of ammunition and the amount of weapons that have been sent to the Ukraine has actually dwindled our own stocks, so that if we were potentially uh... in a major conflict we would not be able
01:04:18.000uh... too likely to respond now donald trump
01:04:21.000you know heads made different comments the other day he said he wanted that
01:04:25.000but with weapons are not exactly sure you know where he is on that
01:04:29.000uh... but i think the goal needs to be no blank check
01:04:32.000and have a a sustainable peace in europe it doesn't serve our interests
01:04:37.000uh... to be involved in this thing uh... infinite m as you have identified as an outsider and an anti-establishment
01:04:46.000figure what are your views on two men that have perhaps done more
01:04:51.000to reveal the deep corruption of the american experiment
01:04:55.000Julian Assange, currently facing extradition to your country under the Espionage Act, and Edward Snowden, of course, currently in exile in Russia.
01:05:04.000Do you think these men should be pardoned?
01:05:06.000Do you think their status should be revised to that of heroes?
01:05:09.000Or would you, similarly, persecute those individuals in the way that they currently are?
01:05:14.000You know, it's interesting because I think this is an issue that was raised when Donald Trump took office.
01:05:20.000And of course, we've seen a lot of abuse of power by the deep state during the Trump administration.
01:05:26.000I know there were a lot of people that were counseling him to pursue relief on these two individuals, you know, and he didn't do it.
01:05:34.000And I think he said that there was reasons why he didn't do it.
01:05:37.000So I think when you're talking about using power under Article 2 for pardon, you really need to get all the information.
01:05:44.000You got to look at the files and you got to see, okay, what is this all about?
01:05:48.000But I am definitely convinced that a lot of those agencies have abused their power over the years.
01:05:54.000I would not have probably said that as a young man, as a young military officer, because I was working with People in the intelligence and FBI in different capacities in my young professional life and I found everyone to be very professional.
01:06:09.000I thought that these were very patriotic people, but I think what we've seen particularly over the last 10 years We've seen exposed a lot of abuse of power.
01:06:19.000So there's a lot that needs to be done to rein all that in.
01:06:23.000And so I would say I go into this stuff with much more skepticism about government's rationale for things than I probably would have 15 or 20 years ago.
01:06:34.000Finally, Governor, your critics have noted that post January the 6th, a repressive anti-riot bill was passed that previously had failed, and even in the video promoting the bill, there were images of the Capitol breach alongside images of the George Floyd Black Lives Matter protests.
01:06:55.000When we are talking about freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to protest, how do you reconcile that with the passing of this bill?
01:07:04.000Well, it doesn't infringe on anyone's ability to protest.
01:07:09.000When that goes into violence, so for example, during the Floyd, you know, we saw a lot of violent activity.
01:07:15.000And then the question is, is how do you deal with those folks?
01:07:18.000So we all agree, you can protest, you can say whatever you want about me, about anybody else.
01:07:24.000If it does go into violence, how are those folks treated?
01:07:26.000And I think in a place like Portland, You'd have people riot, they'd be violent, they'd get arrested, they'd get slapped on the wrist, they'd go out and do it again.
01:07:35.000Harassing police officers, doing things like that.
01:07:37.000That's not conducive to a healthy society.
01:07:40.000If you look at what happened with the BLM riots in Minneapolis, Minneapolis has still not recovered from that.
01:07:47.000It is something that's likely going to take many, many years to be able to do.
01:07:51.000And so I think we can all agree, yes, say what you want, it's a free country.
01:08:00.000And I would note, as much as the corporate press has tried to demagogue our anti-riot bill, they've not actually found anybody who wasn't able to protest.
01:08:08.000There's massive protests that take place in Florida about different issues almost every other day.
01:08:15.000A lot of times there's messages that are done that I don't particularly agree with, but that's the way the world works.
01:08:21.000People are free to express their mind.
01:08:23.000But I do think if you let Uh, riots take over a city like they did during the BLM.
01:08:31.000And the thing about it was, with BLM, they were talking about racism, but a lot of the businesses that they were burning down were black-owned businesses.
01:08:40.000And so you're ruining those people's lives?
01:09:33.000And surely we've noticed that it's summer and it's getting hot out there.
01:09:38.000And I don't know about you, Ron, but I'm getting pretty hot down there.
01:09:41.000Now, if you wear traditional, old-fashioned underwear, like your granddad, you and me, Ron, will be vulnerable to sweating and chafing all over our precious reproductive organs.
01:09:54.000Once that temperature's high, I mean, I don't know what Donald Trump wears on his privates, but I'll tell you, Joe Biden, that guy goes commando.
01:10:01.000Summertime is not an issue if you wear sheath Underwear.
01:10:06.000It's ergonomically designed with separate compartments to keep everything down under, dry and cool.
01:10:36.000Now, Ron, I won't bring up underpants again, I promise, as long as enough people use the link.
01:10:41.000Ron, thank you so much for joining us for this conversation.
01:10:46.000It seems to me that your country is in the midst of an ideological reckoning, much like the one that you pledged would take place in the agencies around health in your country in the event In the event that you were to ascend to this position, what I find most heartening and interesting is your commitment to decentralization, your acceptance that free speech means the rights of the free speech of people that you oppose, the acknowledgement and recognition
01:11:15.000that different communities will want to live life differently and it seems that decentralisation
01:11:21.000and diversity to me live hand in hand.
01:11:25.000I wonder what you feel in particular about the protests around January the 6th.
01:11:31.000Do you think that they were insurrectionists as described?
01:11:35.000Do you consider them to be protesters?
01:11:37.000What do you think about the subsequent funding that the Capitol Police received and how the Democrat Party in particular has used these events to enact more power and to control media spaces?
01:11:50.000Well, I think it's ridiculous how much money that they pumped in for the Capitol Police.
01:11:57.000These are people that were there to attend a rally, and then they were there to protest.
01:12:02.000Now, it devolved, and it devolved into a riot, but the idea that this was a plan to somehow overthrow the government of the United States is not true, and it's something that the media had spun up.
01:12:15.000Just to try to basically, you know, get as much mileage out of it and use it for partisan and for political aims.
01:12:22.000And so I know there were a lot of people that were there who were just there and they didn't have any designs on doing anything.
01:12:30.000And so we just have to be honest about it.
01:12:32.000If somebody is honestly doing an insurrection against the U.S.
01:12:36.000government, then prove that that's the case, and I'll be happy to accept it.
01:12:40.000But all you're showing me is that there were a lot of protesters there, and it ended up devolving, you know, in ways that was unfortunate, of course.
01:12:49.000But to say that they were seditionists is just wrong.
01:12:59.000Well, they do have too much power, but obviously I would take Elon because he's done Twitter and he's actually opened it up.
01:13:06.000And if you think about how Twitter censored things like the Hunter Biden laptop story to try to interfere with the 2020 election, that would never happen under Elon.
01:13:15.000So I think he understands the threats posed to a free society by woke ideology and by some of the other corporate consolidations of power.
01:15:33.000Now, remember when Joe Biden became president, what a lot of people in the mainstream media said was, oh, ain't it a relief, Joe Biden, he's so nice, he's so friendly, look at him.
01:15:41.000In fact, he recently went on TV to say if anyone in his staff was found being rude or mean or obnoxious, I'll sack you on the spot.
01:15:50.000You know, he's, like, really anti being, like, a little bit of a bastard.
01:15:53.000Although in the 70s and 80s, he was plainly proper leery, all in beige, looking like a baddie from the A-Team, dispatching, like, abuse and stuff.
01:16:00.000Well, apparently, The White House staff are all terrified of Joe Biden and have to team up into little gangs to soak up his vitriolic invective.
01:16:08.000Let's have a look at CNN talking about Joe Biden the baddie.
01:16:13.000Why are CNN, a mainstream media propagandist unit, talking negatively about Joe Biden?
01:16:18.000Is it because the Dems are ready to get rid of Biden and replace him with a new person that can stand up to the RFK threat, let alone the Trump, the Santis, whatever threat?
01:16:28.000Or is it that they're trying to make him seem like he's a bad ass doddering?
01:16:31.000Doddering's the last thing Joe Biden is.
01:16:33.000A new report suggests that President Joe Biden is prone to yelling at White House aides behind closed doors and roping them in for angry interrogations.
01:16:41.000Citing multiple administration officials, the account of Biden's interaction with staff clashes with the media's frequent characterizations of the president as a jovial grandpa that adores soft-serve ice cream and aviator sunglasses.
01:17:31.000Because in case ice cream gets spilled on you?
01:17:33.000Biden's dressing down of staff often includes profane condemnation, including phrases such as... It's funny because they list his catchphrases.
01:17:40.000God damn it, how the fuck don't you know this?
01:17:42.000Don't fucking bullshit me and get the fuck out of it.
01:17:56.000I'll fuck you down your C-pipe, you shit of a gun!
01:17:59.000Instead of erratic tantrums, Biden's outbursts typically come in the form of angry interrogations.
01:18:04.000That's weird because an erratic tantrum, that seems like more of a regular way that people respond to sort of endocrinal fluctuations and just the ordinary tempers and tempestuousness of life.
01:18:18.000That's not something that fascists do, where he presses both senior and lower level until it becomes clear to others in the room they don't know the answers to a question.
01:19:04.000Ted Kaufman, Biden's former chief of staff from his time in the Senate, said that Biden's meticulous approach to finding missing details in his briefs, I hope that doesn't mean his underpants, What the hell's missing from these guys?
01:19:16.000I said why French you son of a bitch pig dick!
01:19:19.000It's not meant to embarrass people, but rather to promote their decisions.
01:19:22.000I'm wondering how to send another 55 billion dollars of American taxpayer aid to Ukraine.
01:19:27.000Okay, to help you guys make a decision, you're a shit fuck you!
01:21:05.000Sometimes administration officials who are used to the overly descriptive speaking of elite schools... Now you may have learned a lot of fancy words at Harvard, like democracy and respect, but here you're gonna learn words like shit, fuck, and pig dick!
01:21:19.000Now get me some ice cream, you shitfuck pig dick!
01:22:14.000Speaking with Axios, former Biden campaign and Senate aide Jeff Connaughton said Biden hides his sharper edge to promote his folksy Uncle Joe image, which is why when flashes of anger break through, it seems so out of public character.
01:22:27.000Behind closed doors, he's prone to yelling.
01:22:31.000And he'll really angrily grill into his staff to the point that some staffers are actually a bit afraid to meet alone with the president.
01:22:40.000Sometimes they'll bring in an extra person or two in order so that the firing line is a little bit distributed among several different staffers.
01:23:04.000He was getting away with it as if he was living in a fictional movie.
01:23:08.000If you have a leadership class that are totally detached from reality, that don't have memories of growing up in normal communities, except for all them weird corn pop stories, We've had staff their whole life who don't know what it's like to be short of money, that don't know what it's like to suffer, to face serious... I know Joe Biden's had some serious stuff go down, he's lost children, he's had heavy stuff happen, but evidently this report shows that we have an elite establishment that are detached from our values and the way that we understand reality.
01:23:34.000I've had money and I've not had money so I'm not claiming that I'm free from comparable dilemmas, but I'm saying this person is in charge of the country and a big part of his appeal was supposed to be this is a return to business as usual.
01:23:45.000good old-fashioned American values as exemplified by good old friendly Uncle Joe.
01:23:49.000You know he's really really tough on staff and he already had that as he calls you know
01:23:54.000get his Irish up he already had that Irish temper.
01:23:56.000We'll blame the whole of Ireland for this.
01:23:58.000You know really lay into people and in some cases you know make them feel humiliated,
01:24:02.000make them feel embarrassed and really feel like and truly be cussed out.
01:24:07.000It's sort of quite astonishing the way that someone can be framed as an exemplifier of
01:24:13.000traditional values of compassion and conviviality who just gave a speech about if you ever are
01:24:24.000If you're ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot.
01:24:32.000That actually is in itself quite menacing.
01:24:34.000I can believe that he's quite rude when he says that.
01:24:36.000Because he's not going, look, guys, as a team, can we be sort of polite to one another?
01:24:41.000Because, you know, we're meant to be running the whole country, so we've got to, in a way, demonstrate the values that we're claiming we want to define America.
01:25:08.000Everybody, everybody, is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity.
01:25:13.000That's been missing in a big way the last four years.
01:25:17.000I suppose this is where the story becomes serious.
01:25:20.000Many of the people that voted for Joe Biden, living or dead, I'm joking, I'm joking, voted for him because he was presented as a contrast to Trump.
01:25:28.000Trump, a renegade, a radical, a person around whom there are accusations and allegations.
01:25:58.000No one can make a claim of superiority, let alone supremacy.
01:26:02.000And the truth is that what we've got as the President of the United States is a rude, crotchety, potentially senile, relatively inept, possibly corrupt man.
01:26:11.000And that clip you just showed about the standard he was setting for his White House, I can tell you some former Biden administration aides don't think that he's lived up even to his own standard.
01:26:23.000Is it about usurping and replacing Joe Biden?
01:26:26.000Is it about presenting a Joe Biden that has some dynamism to him?
01:26:29.000Is it an attempt to create a character of Joe Biden?
01:26:32.000Because this is, in a sense, the Phantom President.
01:26:34.000During the campaign against Trump, the main strategy was to keep him hidden out of the way.
01:26:39.000Now increasingly people are concerned about his ineptitude and frailty and you have the emergent, dynamic, exciting, charismatic force of RFK emerging in the Democrat party and becoming unusually popular without the support of gatekeeper organisations like CNN.
01:26:54.000What do you think this strategy is about?
01:27:40.000I would say there were a few advisors in the White House that I think part of the reason they may have talked to me is because they thought it wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing in the world.
01:28:13.000Like, I just got cussed out behind closed doors for, you know, 10, 15 minutes for messing up this little small thing in a briefing.
01:28:20.000I think this is an attempt, an extraordinary PR attempt to package Joe Biden instead of some decaying, decrepit, Methuselah figure falling apart at the seams held together only by a tradition and Democratic Party corruption and a kind of hierarchical legacy ideology where everyone gets their turn no matter how much the public hates them.
01:28:42.000They're trying to make out that behind the scenes is some sort of Ice Cube individual That's so street, raw, and for real.
01:28:49.000He doesn't pretend to be some salivating, doddering, hair-sniffing stooge of the establishment.
01:28:54.000But behind the scenes, he's Batman, baby.
01:28:57.000Oh, you better put aside your Harvard, Yale, Ivy League bullshit.
01:29:11.000A revelation that Joe Biden, in addition to being somewhat senile, is also somewhat unpleasant?
01:29:16.000Or is it an attempt to repackage him as some priapic, from the street, Wu-Tang Clan president who people can't handle?
01:29:24.000Not because he's old and doddering and inept, no, but because he's so bloody powerful, radical and renegade.
01:29:30.000I think that really what it shows you is that the The political system broadly are completely out of ideas.
01:29:35.000They're beginning to recognise that populist figures who don't play by the rules are starting to reach people in new, novel and exciting ways that they cannot combat, most notably Trump, of course, and now emerging within their own establishment party, RFK.
01:29:49.000And in some bizarre panic, they're trying to portray Joe Biden as some sort of Rocky Balboa of politics, when in fact he's just another career politician, corrupt, hypocritical and failing.