The first episode of Stay Free with Russell Brand, where we talk about Joe Biden's apparent senility, and whether it's a symptom of a deep problem in American politics, or is it evidence of something deeper, like the rise of the Antichrist? Stay Free is streaming live everywhere in the world, wherever you get your news. Stay Free! Subscribe to Stay Free to get immediate access to all new episodes, and to receive notifications when new episodes are available. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/sponsorships and use the promo code: "UPLEVEL" to receive 10% off your first purchase when you enter the offer code: STAYFREE at checkout. This offer ends on December 31st, 2019. Stay free! Stay safe, and stay free. - Russell Brand and the crew at RUMBLE Thank you so much for joining us on Rumble, I'm a black man, and I could never be a better man on this land, the situations are real, The situations are REAL. - the are real. And wherever you are watching this in Togo, that's gotta be a fire risk, hasn't it, hasn t it, haven't it? - wherever you're watching this, that'd be a good deal, haven t you? You're in luck! - - and wherever you re watching this is where you are, you're going to be safe? And where you're listening to the realest and the most important thing you can be the most impactful news you can get the most of it's going to get you the most information you can find you can help you in the most effective way possible, no matter where you re listening to it, right there, right here in the next 24/7, right in the rest of the world? Love you, stay free, keep up to date with us? XOXO, Russell Brand and Good Luck, xoxo, Gav & Gav and Gav Gave it a shot at it's GAV & GABE Love ya'll! xo - EJ & GARRELL - P.J. & Boyanton - R. BONUS EPISODE: Stay Free, EJ and GRABS - PSYCHO
00:12:15.000Thank you so much for tuning in for our first ever episode, where we give you, well not, I don't, I would never want to call it the news behind the news.
00:12:26.000We tell you the news that the mainstream media won't tell you.
00:12:30.000We give you insights on the news that the mainstream media simply won't reveal.
00:12:36.000And we, according to another platform, give you deadly misinformation that could put you at incredible risk.
00:12:45.000On Rumble though, It appears we are safe to make errors and then amend them.
00:12:50.000I'm referring, of course, to our video that we made yesterday.
00:13:06.000Today, on our stream, we're asking, should we be laughing at Biden, or is the joke on us?
00:13:13.000What I mean by that is, when we sort of like, Talking about Joe Biden and his evident fragility and senility and there's a tendency to be sort of mocking and cruel.
00:13:27.000Is it actually a revelation into sort of a deep problem in politics, i.e.
00:13:34.000this person can't possibly be the most powerful man in the world and yet There he is, occupying that position.
00:13:40.000What does that tell you about the political class?
00:13:42.000What does that tell you about political theatre?
00:13:45.000Later, we're going to be taking an intricate and articulate, deep look at Congress and how Still, to this day, in spite of the Stock Act, 20% of current people in Congress own stocks and shares in the companies that they're expected to regulate.
00:14:03.000Is this, along with Biden's bumbling senility, further evidence that we live in a kind of simulacrum, an appearance of the politically real, when in fact it's a kind of theatre?
00:14:30.000These are all the questions that we're going to be answering over the next hour, and of course we're going to be responding to your comments.
00:14:35.000Let me have a look at those comments now.
00:14:38.000You're with us now, coming in, of course.
00:14:45.000The actual Antichrist, because if you're going to oppose Christ, you've got to be very... because Jesus, he had access to a lot of powers, didn't he?
00:14:54.000There's the water into wine, which, of course, probably a remnant of the Dionysian power, like that Christ can Generate ecstatic power, the power that comes from beyond the limit itself.
00:15:07.000If you're going to oppose that, mate, you're going to need to be harder than Biden.
00:15:11.000He'd have a better memory, wouldn't he?
00:15:12.000He'd probably be better on the stage as well, I think, the Antichrist.
00:15:15.000The Antichrist is going to have to be very good on details, Gal.
00:15:46.000So here is some normal news for you, as well as, you know, some of the more... the kind of relevant information that we're going to be giving you.
00:15:55.000So here's some what I call normal news.
00:15:58.000Elon Musk's deposition in Twitter Fight has been rescheduled for the first week of October.
00:16:04.000Deposition means, like, he's going to have to do something under oath back at his house, isn't it?
00:16:32.000I don't really know why it's just New York and Edinburgh that are the bankers.
00:16:34.000Why are bankers everywhere interested?
00:16:37.000Yeah, they can come from wherever they want.
00:16:38.000It's not limited to just them two cities.
00:16:41.000What that is, is like for a while in this country, banker bonuses were capped because there was a little bit of an economic crash in 2008 that some people say that they caused, but then they were bailed out by the government, which means that your money was used to bail him out. But now, obviously because
00:16:57.000we're on the precipice of an economic crisis emerging from the pandemic in the middle of a war in Europe
00:17:03.000it seems to me the obvious way to nip this in the bud is to give some bankers some bonuses. Yeah, well apparently
00:17:09.000it's hindering London's attractiveness as an investment destination.
00:19:50.000I was at the Grammys, and I see that Bieber there, and, like, the thing was with him then, as you can see, he was only a little lad, and I couldn't sort of fathom the idea that he was just generating so much revenue, and I thought, he's young enough that I could probably adopt him.
00:20:04.000If he sees me as a father figure, I'm never gonna have to concentrate again for the rest of my life.
00:20:17.000Like that, he's grown, he's grown from his hair.
00:20:20.000But remember, none of these things, interesting and fascinating, sorry about burping, interesting and fascinating though they plainly are, because that's the content that you need to know, that's normal news.
00:20:30.000We're asking, should we be laughing at Joe Biden or is the joke on us?
00:20:35.000And the reason we're asking it is, does having a decrepit and imitative, performative figure in a presidential role indicate that the mechanisms of power themselves are failing, particularly as we're going to go deeper into congressional analysis and talk about the stock act
00:20:55.000and the fact that the stock act that Obama put forth, he then, he didn't repeal it, but he sort of...
00:21:29.000And when they sort of not rescind it, but essentially introduce loopholes in it so that you can own stocks and shares essentially if they belong to like a spouse or a dependent child.
00:21:40.000Yeah, and you don't have to declare it online anymore.
00:21:43.000Don't make me declare every stock and share I own.
00:21:45.000When they do that bit, they do that private.
00:21:48.000So they're all out front when they're sort of signing things that they think look good, but when they're rescinding it or nullifying it, they do it out the back so you can't notice.
00:21:56.000So let's have a look at some of the stuff that Joe Biden's been up to lately.
00:21:59.000Many of you probably are concerned by this recent, I suppose it's sort of an unconscious Freudian announcement.
00:24:57.000I mean, that just makes me think of like a lovely old grandad, but I don't know if that's the image you want for the President of the United States.
00:25:03.000He's also endured quite a lot of personal tragedy, hasn't he?
00:25:59.000I guess what I'm saying is, yes, that is, I mean, that's what politicians are.
00:26:02.000They are human beings, but they also commit some pretty dreadful things.
00:26:05.000The fact is, if you're a participant in a system of that nature, you will necessarily have been involved in the murder of thousands of people.
00:26:15.000That dude, Dan Carlin, who does Hardcore History, his brilliant podcast, let us know in the chat, let us know in the comments if you've checked that out.
00:26:21.000He would say, even if you were like a lovely old, cuddly old president, like Jimmy Carter, who was like, so yeah, he was sort of like, nice sort of guy, he goes, that guy nutted off loads of people.
00:26:31.000It's just the way it is if you're going to participate in those kinds of systems.
00:27:40.000We're going to be talking to him later in the show, so if you've got any questions for Glenn, you can, well, you can ask us them and we'll pass them on to him, won't we?
00:28:28.000I believe we should be running our own communities.
00:28:30.000I believe patriotism is only of value if it benefits the people who the flag claims to represent.
00:28:37.000If patriotism and nationalism just becomes a kind of device for centralising fiduciary power and legislative power while ordinary people suffer, what's the bloody point of that?
00:28:58.000I mean, one thing you can say about the way that the mainstream media has changed is people like Glenn Greenwald, who have, like, sort of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke the Snowden story, or people like Chris Hedges, who also, like, won a Pulitzer and worked at the New York Times, now they have to sort of, like, just shake a tin can on the corner of the street, giving out news like Ann Jobs, and, like, would you like a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece of journalism?
00:29:33.000OK, it's time now for us to... I mean, we've had a bit of a laugh now, haven't we?
00:29:38.000We've said some frivolous things about Joe Biden.
00:29:41.000We've retrospectively looked once more at dear little Justin Bieber.
00:29:46.000Who, if you ask me, can't be owned by anybody except his own sweet self.
00:29:50.000But now it's time to look at some meaningful news.
00:29:52.000Did you know, if you're an American, 20% of the people in your Congress trade in industries that they regulate?
00:29:59.000In spite of the fact that in 2012, Barack Obama, who many people, liberals, progressive folk thought was going to be fantastic for America and fantastic for the world, he passed the Stock Act and then he meddled with that Stock Act.
00:30:09.000Nosed it right up and made it basically irrelevant.
00:30:12.000Nosed it up, I suppose means... Translate that one.
00:30:15.000Introduced mitigating legislation that reduced its impact.
00:33:17.000It's the notion that the powerful shouldn't get to create one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everybody else.
00:33:24.000That's Obama talking about the passing of the STOP Act, which is Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act.
00:33:31.000In 2013, Obama quietly signed legislation that rolled back a provision of the Stock Act that required high-ranking federal employees to disclose their financial information online.
00:33:40.000The emailed announcement was one sentence long.
00:33:42.000There was no fanfare when the Senate and then the House passed the bill in largely empty chambers using a fast-track procedure known as unanimous consent.
00:33:51.000And if we expect that to apply to our biggest corporations, and to our most successful citizens, it certainly should apply to our elected officials.
00:34:01.000Especially at a time when there's a deficit of trust between this city and the rest of the country.
00:34:09.000And that's why in my State of the Union, I asked members of the House and the Senate to send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I said that I would sign it right away.
00:34:18.000Well, today I'm happy to say that legislators from both parties have come together to do just that.
00:34:26.000The Stock Act makes it clear that if members of Congress use non-public information to gain an unfair advantage in the market, Yep, that was the basics.
00:34:36.000the law. Nancy Pelosi. We were sent here to serve the American people and look out
00:34:41.000for their interests. Yep, that's the basics. I mean this is what politics
00:34:46.000should look like but the ceremony should have a relationship with reality.
00:34:52.000Ceremony should be the performance of a set of values that are real, rather the
00:35:24.000That's the nature of American politics.
00:35:26.000It's a performance, and it remains a performance to this day.
00:35:29.000That is why, in spite of this act being passed in 2012 and repealed in 2013, you have 20% of current Congress members owning stocks and shares in the companies they're supposed to be regulating at a time that we've just come out of that pandemic, we've got a weird president who looks tired and confused all the time and don't know where the exit is, and during this time it's acceptable for people in Congress to own stocks and shares in companies they regulate.
00:35:51.000How can you oppose The might of Putin, if the might of Putin is what we oppose.
00:35:55.000How can you oppose corporatism at all?
00:35:57.000How can you represent ordinary American people?
00:36:00.000The very things that are declared in that speech, how can that happen with these kind of stymie and inefficiencies?
00:36:06.000What we want you to observe on this channel is the difference between the performance of politics and the reality of politics.
00:36:11.000The fact that the things they say in public are the sort of things that should be happening kind of tells you that they know what they should be doing.
00:36:46.000Federal lobbyists are slated to spend in record numbers this year after lobbyists raked in $2 billion in the first two quarters of 2022 alone, an all-time high.
00:36:54.000Top lobbyists, all of which spent millions of dollars in quarter two, included corporate behemoths like Meta, Amazon, Pfizer, and Pentagon contractor Lockheed Martin.
00:37:04.000They say it because they know it's right, but they don't do it because they can't.
00:37:08.000In the industry, with the top spending in quarter one, the health sector, nearly half of the 3,130 lobbyists that were active last year were former government employees.
00:37:16.000If you've worked in government, you shouldn't be able to get a job in lobbying.
00:37:19.000These are actual regulations, legislation that could be passed.
00:37:42.000Chris Rumble, who's the bloke who started Rumble, Chris Pavlovsky, hi Chris, thanks for the gig and everything, says, Russell, thank you for trusting and switching to Rumble.
00:37:51.000Independent creators without corporate media control is the future.
00:38:11.000Actually, once in a while, when I become consumed with terrifying anxiety, I do recall that it is our function here to ...serve, that it is our function to convey truth, that it is our function to elevate consciousness, and the corruption that we see in the external world is also present within the individual.
00:38:28.000As long as I can overcome my own inward corruption, I think we'll be okay, that we'll be able to generate new systems through the alliances that we will form through this new corporation.
00:38:37.000That's a hundred dollars, if you want your comment brought to the forefront.
00:38:41.000He gave more money than the head of Rumble.
00:41:37.000Why don't we Pause momentarily this hysteria and silliness to yield the floor, to cede, to our colleague at Rumble now whose show will soon start, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and fellow conspiracy theorist and right-wing fascist, it's Glenn Greenwald.
00:42:10.000Yeah, it's good, isn't it, to get across all these conspiracy theories from the far-right, like that there's a kind of a corporatist movement across the globe to disempower ordinary people and to nullify democracy.
00:42:23.000These kind of right-wing conspiracies should be marginalized.
00:42:27.000Glenn, what do you reckon to that story about 20% of people in Congress owning stocks and shares in the companies that they're supposed to regulate?
00:42:38.000How does that prevent ordinary democratic process from taking place?
00:42:45.000I think it's interesting that people actually do realize that there's an image of Washington that they're shown, and then the reality of Washington that is hidden.
00:42:55.000Because both President Obama and Donald Trump won by pointing out that Washington is a fraud, that it operates through lobbyists, through money.
00:43:03.000Trump was saying all you have to do is write people a check in Washington in Congress, and they call you immediately and do what you want.
00:43:11.000The question is, what can be done to change it?
00:43:14.000You know, people in Congress spend something like 80 to 90 percent of their time fundraising to keep themselves in office for the next term.
00:43:22.000And all they're doing all the time is talking about little tiny regulations that affect a tiny sliver of people who donate to them.
00:43:31.000And I think this issue that you're raising of people in Congress owning stock in the very companies they're regulating is a very powerful way to illustrate that and to kind of raise anger, righteous anger over how this is functioning.
00:43:47.000When we have the question that we've posed at the beginning of our show today, is Joe Biden a joke and is the joke on us?
00:43:57.000When you have a figure like Joe Biden that becomes the subject of a great deal of ridicule, it's easy to kind of fall into nihilistic frivolity.
00:44:08.000But Joe Biden does wield significant power.
00:44:13.000And how has he been favourably reported on?
00:44:17.000And how has his sort of persona as this sort of doddering and senile figure prevented us from seeing the true nature of his power and potentially of the corruption that that masks?
00:44:29.000Yeah, I mean, it is, you know, I think we do have to confront the reality that he's clearly cognitively impaired.
00:44:36.000He was at a an event where he gave credit to a Republican congresswoman for helping pass a bill that he was praising and there to to sign and he said, hey, where's Congresswoman Jackie?
00:44:49.000And the reason he didn't see her is because she died in a car accident two months earlier.
00:44:54.000And he actually issued a statement lamenting her death two months earlier, but obviously had no idea that she was dead, which is why he was asking where she was and why she wasn't at the ceremony.
00:45:03.000And so you have, on the one hand, this person who's obviously, you know, doddering and senile in a sad way, right?
00:45:10.000The thing we all see like in our grandparents and great-grandparents.
00:45:13.000But on the other hand, he's the face of this, you know, kind of power center that continues to turn along regardless of what he does, just like it did with Trump and regardless of what he did, that is very sinister and nefarious and most of all consequential.
00:45:28.000And it is important not to get distracted by the almost, as you say, frivolity of mocking Biden and lose sight of what the U.S.
00:45:35.000government itself, not under Biden's control, only nominally so, continues to do to people around the world.
00:45:43.000Perhaps he's sort of passed into a new transcendent state where he sees dead people, Sixth Sense style, I see dead people, dead Congress people.
00:45:53.000Glenn, what do you think about Edward Snowden becoming a Russian citizen and what do you think has changed since the revelations that Edward Snowden made, of course, stewarded by your own Pulitzer Prize winning journalism?
00:46:08.000Have things got worse, broadly speaking, in that time?
00:46:12.000Well one thing that's changed is that the West has become completely obsessed with Russia.
00:46:16.000I would say at least as much as at the height of Cold War hysteria led by people like Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover.
00:46:22.000Things that we had thought were kind of debunked and discredited and relics of the Cold War have now been completely rejuvenated where everything is attributed to Russia including long-standing social strife in the UK and the US.
00:46:35.000And so obviously the fact that Snowden, who didn't choose to be in Russia but was forced to be in Russia, as Obama officials themselves boasted he was trying to get out and they blocked him from leaving by doing, among other things, threatening the Cubans and threatening of the other countries where he was obtaining asylum, is now being used to say, oh look, all along obviously this entire, you know, operation of disclosing NSA secrets, which won Pulitzers and Polks and every journalism award around the world, As it turns out, that, too, was just a Russian influence operation.
00:47:06.000Snowden and me and Julian Assange were all Russian spies.
00:47:10.000This kind of Cold War hysteria and paranoia has taken hold of not just the U.S., but the West.
00:47:19.000And it's all a way of evading any attention or scrutiny on the elites, the neoliberal elites, who are causing all the suffering in this world by saying, oh, look, it's all Putin's fault.
00:47:30.000In these kind of conspiracy adjacent spaces, where people are so suspicious of the system, so certain that democracy can't serve them, so certain that the media are inauthentic with them, there is this sense that there is deep state power, that there is a power that doesn't reveal itself, that we can't access.
00:47:50.000When you've been involved with something as revelatory and epochal as the Edward Snowden story, do you feel the proximity of that kind of power?
00:48:05.000Did you feel that there were forces that are not evident or transparent that are present in forming global political narratives?
00:48:17.000Yeah, you know, I spent, you know, two years or almost three years of my life doing nothing but reading through hundreds of thousands or millions of pages of top secret U.S.
00:48:26.000government documents, not just about the NSA, but also British and Australian and Canadian agencies, but also the Pentagon and the CIA.
00:48:33.000And not only did I get a firsthand glimpse of exactly what it is that they do, to the world, but also to those people like us who expose
00:48:41.000it. I couldn't leave Brazil for more almost a year once I back out back from Hong Kong because
00:48:46.000the US government was explicitly threatening privately and publicly that they would arrest
00:48:51.000us if we step foot on US soil for the reporting we were doing. I was constantly warned that
00:48:55.000in Brazil where I've lived for 17 years, the CIA has a massive presence due to its
00:49:00.000relationship to the government that was a coup government that overthrew the Brazilian government in
00:49:06.0001964 and continued through 1985 to prop up a tyranny. So the idea that, you know, this is
00:49:11.000one of the things you were alluding to earlier that we're now right-wing conspiracists because we
00:49:16.000say things like, hey, you know, the CIA and the NSA actually do sinister things.
00:49:22.000In secret, outside of the forces of the democratic process, it used to be such a basic staple of knowledge.
00:49:31.000You know, it was Dwight Eisenhower who chose to warn of that on his way out the door after serving as American president for eight years, after being a five-star general, and now it's discredited as something that only crazy conspiracy theorists believe, even though I spent, you know, three years reading the documents that prove it.
00:49:47.000Yeah, in a sense, the charge of being a conspiracy theorist is just a way of undermining the information and discrediting that information.
00:49:58.000Glenn, when your show starts in a couple of weeks, what sort of stuff are you going to do?
00:50:05.000And will we be sort of like allies throwing to each other and stuff like on normal television?
00:50:12.000Yeah, you know, I think we have a similar, though obviously not identical, approach to the world and view of the world.
00:50:19.000And I think our incentives are very similar, which is the idea that corporate media allows an extremely narrow range of views and opinions to be expressed.
00:50:28.000They promote and glorify the viewpoints and ideology of a very narrow range of people.
00:50:34.000That's why you turn on television and all you see are ex-NSA and CIA and FBI and Pentagon agents delivering the quote unquote news to you.
00:50:43.000We know that the corporate media is very subservient to The security state system, the security services in both Western Europe and and the U.S.
00:50:52.000and so this is an opportunity not only to look at the news from a different perspective and to break through that propaganda but also reuse a platform that is intent on allowing free speech so we don't have to be in fear that if we say something that Anthony Fauci dislikes or the CIA director dislikes or the Biden White House dislikes we're going to be demonetized or lose our platform or censored or booted off and I think that's the most important thing at least to me Russell and what we're building is a space on the internet where you can go and speak freely without worrying that some corporate or government force is going to silence you.
00:51:29.000So you know, like, we're going to do a story tomorrow on Bill Gates, Bill Gates' influence over the media, the donations he makes.
00:51:37.000I was sort of surprised to learn that Bill Gates has donated like 300 million dollars to various media organisations.
00:51:43.000And they're not charities either, it's things like CNN and MSNBC, why do they need donations?
00:51:49.000And I suppose that as well as deep state power in the form of the kind of agencies that you've listed, the kind of notorious Five Eyes, not to be mistaken for Five Guys, which I think I think it's just a legitimate burger joint which you can reliably get good food at.
00:52:02.000There's also these kind of Bill and Melinda Gates, Hillary Clinton, Clinton Foundation type sort of soft power organisations that have incredible influence and sway.
00:52:13.000There's another form of, I don't know, circumventing the traditional conduits of democratic power.
00:52:24.000So the idea that, you know, billionaires and security agencies exert massive and oftentimes invisible unseen power to shape our politics and our society for their own interest used to be just a Very commonly accepted and widely acknowledged view, and it's one that I do believe most people continue to recognize, even though it's now dismissed and branded a conspiracy theory by the very same people
00:52:55.000Who have spent the last five years telling Americans that Vladimir Putin has taken over not just the United States but the UK through sexual blackmail and all kinds of other leverage.
00:53:06.000One of the most deranged conspiracy theories I've heard in my lifetime.
00:53:10.000They're the ones who spread that and then at the same time trying to mean basic Ideas like billionaires and the government controls people through propaganda and money as though that's the wild conspiracy theory.
00:53:23.000And that's what I think is needed more than anything, is a recalibration of what it is that's really fact and what it is that's really the disinformation.
00:53:31.000Because to me, the disinformation comes most from exactly those agencies and entities claiming to be most dedicated to combating it.
00:53:40.000With incredible auspiciousness and serendipity, it was just yesterday that we got a strike on YouTube for the sin of misinformation for talking about ivermectin, a word that we can say now.
00:53:53.000Ivermectin, we talked about it and it was somewhat inaccurate.
00:53:56.000We've pointed out a government website that said it was being clinically trialled and we said that it had been approved.
00:54:01.000And actually, I don't normally do this, but it was young Putin who works for us.
00:54:04.000He's one of the researchers and producers here.
00:54:07.000I'm beginning to think that this guy is a conspiracy theorist.
00:54:09.000He said, yeah, this is a good story, leave it in, and actually it's led to all sorts of complications.
00:54:15.000Anyway... It's Russian involvement, that's what it is.
00:54:37.000New ways, perhaps even, of transcending the bifurcations and divisions that are stoked by mainstream media.
00:54:44.000Because, Glenn, if the window has shifted so much, if even the ideas that seemed central to the left and right just 10, 15 years ago are so sort of amorphous and mobile, doesn't it mean that there's a possibility for a different type of populism, different types of alliances that can get beyond the divisions of the culture war?
00:55:03.000Have you seen anything that makes you think That's possible, mate.
00:55:10.000Any kind of news or analysis or political space that allows them to understand that their enemies are not their neighbors, including their neighbors who have been led to think things with which they disagree, but are the power centers that are constantly trying to tell them and incite them to focus on their neighbors instead of on them.
00:55:31.000I think there's a real craving for that.
00:55:33.000I think that's one of the reasons why you've built a gigantic audience, why I've been able to build a large impact and influence through platforms like Substack,
00:55:42.000where we are free to speak about those things and not have to be imprisoned by this
00:55:46.000artificial Democrat versus Republican or left versus right framework that gets imposed on everything,
00:55:51.000and that is sometimes applicable, but mostly not. And I think one of the things that we have
00:55:55.000to be aware of is that anytime anything gets created that is a genuine threat to power
00:56:00.000centers, the nature of power is that they will want to attack those things that are threats to them
00:56:05.000by demeaning and discrediting, and then through brute force.
00:56:08.000And we've already seen that with places like Substack and Rumble.
00:56:12.000And we're going to be seeing it much, much more as we continue to grow, which I have no doubt we will for a variety of reasons.
00:56:19.000There already are big attacks on places like Rumble for refusing not to de-platform RT when they're told to, for defending free speech instead of taking orders on censorship.
00:56:28.000And the more we're able to break through and reach large audiences, They're not going to just say, oh well, good luck to them, good for them, glad to see that they're challenging and undermining and subverting our propaganda.
00:56:39.000There are going to be attacks of all kinds and I think the ability to understand that's coming and to prepare for it and to fortify ourselves against it is crucial.
00:56:47.000Glenn, thank you so much for joining us.
00:56:50.000We couldn't have had a better guest for our inaugural show.
00:56:53.000I'm sending so much love to you and to your family, and I'm so excited and thrilled, honoured even, that we're going to be working together.
00:57:07.000That's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a proper journalist, breaking real stories, talking about the news in a critical and awakened way.
00:57:16.000You know what we do here on this channel?
00:57:19.000In addition to the stuff we do here in the stream, in addition to the media that we We disseminate throughout the culture.
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00:57:55.000We don't just give them twenty or thirty dollars like dear old Chris from Rumble sending us a hundred pounds less than a normal person.
00:58:02.000Like we give them if they're like trying to get off drugs.
00:58:31.000Okay, it's time now to hand over authority and control for this precious new emergent medium.
00:58:37.000To you, the people watching this live stream, people with unchecked views, people with radical minds, free thinkers, lunatics, people out there in the outer regions of consciousness.
00:58:49.000Let's see what you've got to say in our new item, Fake Comments.
00:58:56.000They're real comments, some of them, but some of them are fake as well, that we've had to make up in order.
00:59:00.000I mean, there's plenty of real comments, but like, let's have a look, just see, can I just quickly have a look at what people are saying in real comments, because I just want to see in case they're saying stuff that's interesting, young Putin.
00:59:11.000Look at this, so look, someone's just given us 20 quid.
01:00:00.000That's where we're going to come from.
01:00:01.000I'm not saying we're not going to overthrow the government.
01:00:03.000I'm not saying we're not going to bring down the system.
01:00:05.000I'm not saying we're going to replace the corrupted and cancerous organs of a broken system with a new, enlightened, utopian set of ideals that will liberate us, that will allow progressive and traditional people to live side-by-side freely in fully autonomous communities, free from judgement.
01:00:21.000I'm just saying, in a chat, say nice stuff.
01:01:58.000That's going to require also its own effort.
01:02:00.000You'll have to bear with us, because this is our first ever streamed show.
01:02:02.000We've not streamed a show before, so there are some sort of technical issues here, like pulling up these evident clips.
01:02:09.000And if you lot in the chat are going to say sort of mad stuff, like the word fart, I won't be able to reliably use that as content.
01:02:16.000So, I'd like you to cast your mind back a few minutes to when we were talking to Glenn Greenwald, or when I was reading out Baudrillard, and think, this is the tone, this is the established tone.
01:02:24.000We can be frivolous, we can be silly, we can be downright sceptical and cynical if that's what's required, but we can't just type in the word fart.
01:02:31.000So, Gal, what have you, has everything essentially crashed?
01:02:33.000I'll tell you a bit more about Congress, following our video earlier, and actually, we're coming back to that video later.
01:02:42.000Now, so earlier on, we were talking about how 20% of people in Congress own stocks and shares in the companies that they've been elected to regulate.
01:02:50.000And some of them specifically and particularly sit on committees that are supposed to regulate, for example, big tech or the financial industry.
01:03:02.000Actually, you mustn't do that, darling.
01:03:05.000That's the last thing that any of us need.
01:03:07.000Kill that now, we'll never go back to that.
01:03:10.000I want to talk about this actually, Gal.
01:03:14.000Tell me exactly what it is, how we got ourselves into this situation, because Obama did pass an act in 2012, then they didn't repeal or rescind that act, but they sort of moderated it.
01:03:25.000We're going to show you the rest of that item in a minute, but Gal, what did you want to pick up on?
01:03:30.000Yeah, well, it's interesting because, you know, even within this ability that people in Congress have to declare stocks that they, you know, regulate and own, they have 45 days.
01:03:45.000The law is they have 45 days to declare this.
01:05:12.000If you make up a law, you've got to at least understand it, innit?
01:05:15.000It's like you design Monopoly, and then you're sat there and you start chewing on the community chess cards, or that little Scotty Dog and the Top Hat, you start putting them together.
01:05:22.000You'd have to say, hold on a minute, what was in your mind when you were conceiving of this system?
01:05:26.000Yeah, also the word ignorance is like, I think that's extra Mickey, really.
01:05:30.000Well, they're absolutely ignorant of it.
01:05:33.000It's not that I forgot it for a while.
01:05:34.000I've just never known what it was or where it was.
01:05:37.000Yeah, so ignorance of the law, clerical errors, so they're blaming clerics, I guess.
01:05:47.000And mistakes by an accountant, so now they're blaming accountants.
01:05:50.000There's so many people, like, I suppose what you want is, like, the buck stops here type politics of JFK.
01:05:57.000People that are willing to put their head above the parapet, knowing what might happen to that head, particularly if they go for a drive in Dallas.
01:06:46.000All right, so one of the things that you may have noticed during the item, here's the fucking news, is a young, plucky, strident, vibrant Joe Biden.
01:06:57.000Now, the evidence of the deterioration that we were soon to experience was visible.
01:07:03.000If you have a look, there are a few moments there where Joe Biden looked, I would say, If not suspicious, a little bit odd.
01:07:11.000This is Biden, that young protege, standing with Barack Obama.
01:07:38.000I said that I would sign it right away.
01:07:41.000Well, today, I'm happy to say... Oh, he's gone for the old snout!
01:07:44.000What does that mean, the snout dab there?
01:07:47.000Just concentrate, let the President talk, and then finally... We were sent here to serve the American people, and look out for their interests, not to look out for our own interests.
01:07:57.000I'm here for my own interests, and maybe a little bit for Hunter's.
01:08:00.000Like, the thing that worries me when you see a brilliant orator and charismatic leader like Barack Obama say stuff like that is it makes me realize they know what's right.
01:08:11.000I suppose we have a lot of stuff around wokeness, that many of the values that are espoused are important values, but values that are exploited and misused.
01:08:21.000These ideas are Used as tokens to distract us from the lack of moral rectitude rather than of emblems of a deeper set of values that are being pursued.
01:08:33.000Or like this sort of like even perhaps with the environmental movement like you see big corporations that are Literally responsible for ecological decline, espousing sort of easy, phatic phrases about ecological responsibility.
01:08:48.000So I suppose that what we're talking about today is politics as performance.
01:08:53.000Joe Biden as a kind of, well some of you have said in the comments, as a kind of puppet figure, or a Congress where people are supposed to be regulating and legislating on behalf of American people, but where we ...deeply suspect they are essentially motivated by self-interest.
01:09:09.000Perhaps the whole system is a type of performance.
01:09:12.000The mainstream media, which is supposed to be a conduit of information, which is supposed to be defined by transparency and clarity, has become opaque and disingenuous.
01:09:22.000So what we have are a set of interlocking systems that prevent ordinary people having access to truth and having access to power, and that's precisely what we're interested in changing and certainly initially addressing.
01:09:33.000But I think, you know, changing over time is something we're well into as well, isn't it mate?
01:09:37.000Tomorrow we'll be talking about Bill Gates as well, so...
01:09:40.000In tomorrow's show, we're going to be looking at Bill Gates.
01:09:43.000Now, again, this is the territory, as Glenn Greenwald said, that sometimes is regarded as conspiratorial.
01:09:50.000But there's no doubt that Bill Gates has considerable power and considerable influence throughout the pandemic.
01:09:57.000His ideas were at the forefront and he had undue influence both Ideological and financial in some very surprising areas.
01:10:05.000I suppose most of you watching this are well-educated, albeit autodidactically, enough to know that Bill Gates is the second largest donor to the WHO.
01:10:23.000Now, those of you that are members of Stay Free AF, that's our little membership crew, can join us in a minute where we're going to be answering your questions and answers.
01:10:30.000So that's what we're going to be talking about tomorrow.
01:10:34.000Now, those of you that are members of Stay Free AF, that's our little membership crew,
01:10:39.000can join us in a minute where we're going to be answering your questions and answers.
01:10:44.000Keep them legible, keep them clean, keep them clear.
01:10:48.000Before that, shall we have a look at the rest of this video?
01:10:50.000I wondered if maybe we should look at some of that other stuff, though, before we go.
01:10:53.000I mean, I'm kind of enjoying it here now.
01:11:05.000I've fallen out of love with her when she piped up when I was talking.
01:11:08.000Now, this is a little British pop star named Lewis Capaldi.
01:11:12.000You might not have heard of him if you're an American person, but he's making a mainstream media appearance here, and he uses some colloquialisms that perhaps don't belong in the realm of breakfast time.
01:11:38.000First of all, he starts off talking about the geyser, the anchor's hair, and then you can sense discomfort at the level of joviality and spontaneity.
01:11:53.000We were talking about it outside, weren't we?
01:11:55.000They don't like that he's referred even to a realm outside of the frame of the show.
01:12:02.000You can see, look, that's the mainstream anchor.
01:12:04.000He don't like that he's been referred to.
01:12:06.000The female anchor adjacent to him there, she's getting ready to comment.
01:12:10.000But you can sense, like this is an atmosphere that I've created on TV shows a lot, that you can create a little bit of chaos there with just a little bit of spirit.
01:13:09.000Get it right in there with the yawning dawn.
01:13:13.000Okay you guys, so like today we've been talking about the spectacle of power, haven't we?
01:13:16.000The presentation of power and the reality of power.
01:13:19.000Do you think you have systems that serve you?
01:13:21.000Do you think, as Glenn Greenwald said, that what we really have are a set of deep state agencies that govern the true nature of power and Incredible, tyrannical financial interests that pull the strings of apparent global organisations such as WHO, IMF, WEF.
01:13:39.000All of these things we'll be talking about in the future on Stay Free with Russell Brand because these are the things we're interested in.
01:13:45.000military industrial complex, mainstream media corruption, the pandemic and big pharma,
01:13:50.000and real values, human values, getting beyond the conflagration that we're continually confronted
01:13:57.000with between apparently separate communities that I believe have more in common with one another
01:14:02.000than we have that separates us, whether you're a traditional person or a progressive person,
01:14:06.000whether you love Trump or loathe Trump, whatever you feel...
01:14:13.000Whatever you feel about mainstream media, mainstream politics, big business, and certainly whatever you feel about the cultural world, there is a place for you here to engage in honest, open discourse and to head towards something more truthful and more beautiful.
01:14:27.000To recognise that your individual awakening can connect you to communal awakening.
01:14:31.000That if we're going to change the world, we're going to have to change ourselves, we're going to have to do things differently, we're going to have to think a little bit differently, we're going to have to form new alliances.
01:14:40.000These are the kind of things we're interested in talking about on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
01:14:45.000Have a look now at the rest of our item.
01:14:49.000And for those of you that are members of our Stay Free AF community that gives you all sorts of assets and advantages, there's a link in the description.
01:15:55.000Between the 55 corporations that paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2020, for instance, the group spent a combined nearly $450 million in lobbying and campaign contributions since 2015, which translated into $12 billion in tax savings and rebates for the companies in 2020.
01:16:10.000I think we're beginning to see the mechanics of how politics truly works.
01:16:15.000I think we're Beginning to see what would actually happen if money was taken out of politics.
01:16:29.000You take dirty money out of politics in your country, in our country, probably in most places around the world, you wouldn't have a recognisable landscape.
01:16:36.000You wouldn't get the same people in it.
01:16:37.000You wouldn't get the same laws passed.
01:16:55.000See you at Martha's Vineyard having one hella party.
01:17:00.000Little did we know we were 10 years away from a president that you'd applaud if he could actually hold a pen.
01:17:06.000Nearly 20% of Congress members, 49 Democrats and 44 Republicans, well, they're almost as bad as each other.
01:17:12.000They have been trading shares of companies in industries that they are supposed to be overseeing as part of their committee assignments, creating major conflicts of interest and new report fines.
01:17:21.000Between 2019 and 2021, 97 US Senators and Congress members or their immediate family made financial transactions in which they may have had access to inside information.
01:17:32.000Representative Bob Gibbs, Republican, Ohio, member of the House Oversight Committee, reported buying and trading shares of pharmaceutical giant AbbVie in 2020 and 2021.
01:17:41.000At the same time, the committee was investigating the company and its rivals for unfair pricing practices.
01:18:13.000The wife of representative Alan Lowenthal, Democrat, California, sold Boeing shares in March 2020, just a day before a committee her husband sat on released a bombshell report that alleged Boeing leadership was partly to blame for two 737 MAX crashes.
01:18:31.000Oh, and you thought I sold those Boeing shares because I had information that there was about to be a damning report revealing their culpability in some air crashes?
01:18:44.000I sold those shares to fund a surprise birthday party and you've just spoiled it!
01:18:51.000Although, what I will say about your father is he's very reliable when he sits on committees and he wouldn't be influenced by knowing that we own shares in Boeing.
01:18:58.000The most active traders were also those who may have had the... The most active traders were those who may have had the most insider information.
01:19:08.00044 of the 50 most active traders in Congress had conflicts of interest.
01:19:13.000So the ones who are doing it most are the ones that are most culpable, most likely to be guilty.
01:19:39.000The analysis doesn't even capture all problematic trades.
01:19:42.000For instance, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's husband is famous for purchasing shares of companies like Amazon and Meta, which Pelosi is responsible for regulating.
01:19:51.000But since Pelosi doesn't sit on a committee, she was not included in the study.
01:19:55.000Nancy Pelosi is a reliable member of Congress, not some evil witch who would elbow a child just to get a nice photograph.
01:20:01.000Nancy Pelosi elbowed this little girl during a photo-op?
01:20:05.000Despite ongoing concerns about lawmakers' financial transactions, there is minimal regulation on stock trade.
01:20:11.000Because, like, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
01:21:11.000Most members of Congress are still free to make trades that could conflict with their legislative duty as long as they disclose the information within 45 days, which many do not do.
01:21:33.000The 2012 law was passed with bipartisan support, it's almost as if they're the same, in the wake of a stock trading scandal.
01:21:39.000Yet in the nearly 10 years since it was enacted, no one has been prosecuted after it, even as many members continue to conspicuously trade.
01:22:06.000It's not going anywhere, one Senate staffer told the New York Post.
01:22:10.000Proponents of legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks say that Democratic Party leaders are stalling on the bill.
01:22:17.000Though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat California, claimed last week that lawmakers are finally ready to bring a bill to ban Congress from trading stocks to a vote by the end of this month, proponents of the ban are sceptical that that is the case, according to interviews with lawmakers.
01:22:33.000Joe Biden will sign something with a pen, probably quivering and shaking as he goes.
01:22:38.000Then a couple of months or a year later, They'll repeal it and no one will hear about it because it'll be some other thing in the news that they tell you now.
01:22:46.000Some lawmakers think that the Democratic leaders could be delaying because they're personally against the plan.
01:22:51.000Representative Abigail Spanberger has speculated that Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are simply trying to put the bill off long enough until efforts to pass it fizzle out.
01:23:01.000I think that they're trying to run out the clock, she said in May.
01:23:03.000That's the kind of thing that goes on, isn't it?
01:23:05.000Everyone will get bored of it in a minute, they'll get distracted, there'll be another war, there'll be something so terrible that happens you just grind you down into a dust, you can't keep caring anymore.