Stay Free - Russel Brand - Super Bowl goes MAGA: Cheers, Boos & Media Hysteria – SF535

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:29.000 Thank you.

00:04:54.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:04:56.000 And free we are indeed, and awakened we surely are.

00:05:00.000 We've got so much to talk to you about today.

00:05:02.000 The culture wars have taken on a new inflection as Trump becomes the first president to attend a Super Bowl.

00:05:09.000 Why aren't presidents attending Super Bowls?

00:05:11.000 Did you not know that?

00:05:12.000 Did you not know that that's the most important sporting event?

00:05:15.000 Like, in my country, the FA Cup or something, like, the Queen's there.

00:05:19.000 Oh, no, she died.

00:05:22.000 Oh, no.

00:05:23.000 Oh no, the Queen is dead. 0.79

00:05:25.000 The world is changing so quickly.

00:05:26.000 We've got so much to discuss.

00:05:28.000 Whether you're watching us on X right now or YouTube, eventually you will make your way to Rumble, even if you're in Brazil, because the world is changing so fast.

00:05:37.000 Because the Trump effect is beyond national, it's global, it is seeping into sports and to culture and obviously into areas of bureaucracy.

00:05:48.000 Later on in the show, we'll be talking more about USAID. We won't call it...

00:05:52.000 USAID. It's not a charity and it never was.

00:05:55.000 It was a propaganda arm of the government and that is being exposed now.

00:06:00.000 And while the Dems may go into meltdown, what's he doing?

00:06:03.000 What's Trump doing?

00:06:04.000 He's doing exactly what he was voted in to do.

00:06:08.000 Maybe, let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with this, you could say with something like, what's going on?

00:06:13.000 In Gaza, and that proposal to take over a region of the world like it's a construction project is somewhat bizarre and peculiar.

00:06:22.000 We can talk about that at length and in depth if you want to, because ultimately you decide what we talk about.

00:06:28.000 I'm talking about the likes of you, Sean Keane, or you, Paul Schober, in the Rumble chat, or our friends over on Locals, like Lily Farm Girl.

00:06:35.000 Remember, if you don't have Rumble Premium yet, get Rumble Premium.

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00:06:43.000 And all the fantastic Rumble content creators, and I feel like there's going to be more fantastic Rumble content creators coming soon.

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00:06:56.000 Let's get right into what we're doing immediately and without delay.

00:07:02.000 Well, there are a few things that we wanted to look at, like stills, or is page...

00:07:05.000 Where's page one?

00:07:06.000 I don't seem to...

00:07:07.000 Ah, yeah, this is...

00:07:08.000 Here it is.

00:07:09.000 Here it is.

00:07:10.000 Now, look, you know me.

00:07:13.000 I'm an old lefty, right?

00:07:14.000 I was in Hollywood making movies.

00:07:16.000 I was a person that once went to Cuba to do a bubblegum commercial.

00:07:21.000 Can you imagine that?

00:07:22.000 Going to Cuba.

00:07:25.000 To do a bubblegum commercial while reading Naomi Klein's book, No Logo, which was about the corporatisation of the world and how commercial entities were taking over every aspect of life, that they had ultimately kowtowed, bowed and castrated government to their whim and will.

00:07:43.000 So I'm a person that was very open to a variety of political purviews.

00:07:48.000 But since coming to Christ, I see things more clearly.

00:07:52.000 Unless you are in alignment with...

00:07:54.000 Spiritual principles.

00:07:55.000 Unless you are trying to conform your own self to the highest possible ideal, you are nothing more than a vassal for Satan's power, is what I have to say to you now.

00:08:04.000 But one of the things we've all gotten a little tired of, I suppose, is empty, hollow...

00:08:10.000 Fallow, shallow, worthless gestures.

00:08:13.000 Do you remember how irritating it was to have to use a paper straw?

00:08:17.000 Well, those days are gone.

00:08:19.000 Now, what I want to say is this.

00:08:20.000 I believe in regarding, respecting, revering as the stewards of the earth, love and protect the earth.

00:08:27.000 But haven't you for a long time thought, it's absolute.

00:08:31.000 I mean, I don't like to curse no more.

00:08:33.000 It's...

00:08:33.000 But I'm gonna...

00:08:34.000 It's bullshit, this! 0.99

00:08:35.000 I'm putting all... 1.00

00:08:36.000 I'm putting all of this...

00:08:37.000 I'm doing my recycling.

00:08:39.000 I know for a fact it's all gonna end up in the same place.

00:08:42.000 I know this is an empty gesture.

00:08:44.000 We're not gonna have plastic straws no more because it could get inside a dolphin's blowhole and that dolphin could be trying to use its...

00:08:55.000 Now look, I love dolphins.

00:08:57.000 And I love their blowholes.

00:08:59.000 But I was starting to think there were other objectives at play other than the reverence and respect for the planet.

00:09:06.000 You know, if you see the planet just as a utility, just as a resource, it's the wrong perspective.

00:09:10.000 Anyway, well, Trump's saying plastic straws are back.

00:09:13.000 We're going...

00:09:14.000 Back to plastic straws.

00:09:16.000 Plastic straws now.

00:09:17.000 Is there any image that sums up Trump more than a plastic straw and a bottle of Diet Coke?

00:09:22.000 Let me know in the comments and chat.

00:09:24.000 We're going to be talking about the MAGA Bowl in a minute.

00:09:27.000 Apparently it was a pretty boring game.

00:09:29.000 I'm English.

00:09:29.000 I didn't watch it.

00:09:30.000 But I know that it was essentially, on some level people thought that it was...

00:09:36.000 They're not called the Kaiser Chiefs, are they?

00:09:38.000 They're called the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles.

00:09:41.000 But really, it was Trump versus Taylor Swift.

00:09:45.000 And really, that's...

00:09:48.000 Objects that belong to the culture of the left versus objects that belong to the culture of the right.

00:09:54.000 And even that goes deeper because that's corporate globalism, Taylor Swift, and nationalist populism, Trump.

00:10:02.000 And even that goes deeper, and I'll do my best to explain it as well as I can, but one of the things that we have to focus on before we get into any of that is ending propaganda wherever we face and confront it.

00:10:12.000 And I'm telling you, baby, Putin's bots are at it.

00:10:17.000 Again, what are they up to, these bots?

00:10:20.000 Oh, Putin's bots are trying once again to make people vote in the interests of their nation rather than voting like they're part of a global corporation.

00:10:28.000 A Kremlin-backed campaign is trying to influence voters ahead of the elections in Germany, according to a report obtained by Politico.

00:10:38.000 Well, guess who owns Politico?

00:10:40.000 Do Politico get any money from USAID? They used to, honey.

00:10:45.000 They used to.

00:10:46.000 Not anymore.

00:10:47.000 Dean SNJ in the Rumble chat.

00:10:49.000 Trump is not right-wing.

00:10:51.000 Trump's not right-wing.

00:10:53.000 Fair enough, mate.

00:10:54.000 Fair enough.

00:10:55.000 Whatever you believe.

00:10:56.000 I actually don't mind what you say.

00:10:58.000 Quick comment on Mike Benz's reaction to Chris Pavlovsky's post.

00:11:03.000 Rumble's a US company now fully operational in Brazil.

00:11:05.000 I give credit to real Donald Trump for winning in November.

00:11:08.000 Brazil's move to rescind the censorship order on Rumble is proof that...

00:11:12.000 I can't see what it says now because it's not included, but I reckon Pavlovsky, the CEO here at Rumble, goes on to say something like American politics is having an influence around the world.

00:11:22.000 Here's Mike Benz.

00:11:23.000 Now, Mike Benz...

00:11:25.000 It's probably one of the people I'd like to see in government.

00:11:27.000 Let me know in the comments and chat if you'd agree with that.

00:11:29.000 Like, the way that, you know, should Bobby Kennedy be confirmed, and we pray that he will be, you're going to see Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makkari heading up vital organisations and agencies within the American healthcare system that had previously been occupied by the very sorts of people that Pfizer would go on to employ.

00:11:46.000 I'm talking about, like, Scott Gottlieb, who is head of the FDA, then, in a radical departure, went to work for Pfizer.

00:11:54.000 Almost as if those two organisations are essentially one bloody entity.

00:11:58.000 Anyway, Mike Benz, I believe, should get a job somewhere in US politics.

00:12:03.000 Let me know in the comments in chat if you agree with that.

00:12:04.000 2S after USAID goes down, Brazil finally ends its month-long censorship ban on Rumble.

00:12:10.000 Hmm, it's almost like everything I said about Brazil's censorship apparatus is being juiced by USAID cash and killing their USAID funding and network partnerships would lessen their grip.

00:12:21.000 So what was USAID? Really about?

00:12:24.000 Was it about helping people around the world?

00:12:28.000 The brass neck.

00:12:30.000 The balls of steel of these people that continually claim to be helping you while taxing you.

00:12:36.000 Because otherwise you wouldn't pay your taxes, right?

00:12:38.000 So you have to continually be convinced.

00:12:40.000 We're just going to help you.

00:12:41.000 When you say help, you mean tax.

00:12:43.000 We do mean tax.

00:12:45.000 Our help is going to look a lot like tax.

00:12:47.000 Our help is going to look a lot like control.

00:12:50.000 Nice racket you guys had running for a little while there.

00:12:53.000 Nice little racket.

00:12:54.000 And it don't only affect your country.

00:12:56.000 Of course it affects mine.

00:12:58.000 My country, the United Kingdom, run now by a centrist globalist movement called the Labour Party that was initially set up in order to support, bind together and empower ordinary working people after the incredible, unconscionable sacrifices they made during the Second World War, now supports globalism overtly and explicitly, with their leader Keir Starmer saying he would pick Davos over Westminster any day.

00:13:23.000 Of the week, with him reportedly having meetings with the CIA, of which the USAID is essentially a cutout, funded ultimately by the CIA. And we're going to be showing you through some brilliant reporting, direct and explicit contacts between the USAID program and the CIA. And Keir Starmer, of course, now Prime Minister of one of the great countries, the United Kingdom, formally met with the CIA. Many people suspect...

00:13:49.000 In order to ensure the ongoing incarceration of Julian Assange, which blessedly has now ended.

00:13:56.000 A man held in jail without trial in my country, essentially for the crime of journalism.

00:14:02.000 What an extraordinary story that was.

00:14:03.000 But what are they up to in the UK now?

00:14:05.000 They're backing down from the Online Safety Act.

00:14:09.000 We've got to protect you.

00:14:10.000 When you say protect, do you mean tax?

00:14:12.000 Yeah, we mean tax and we mean control your free speech.

00:14:15.000 That's what the Online Safety Act was.

00:14:17.000 Now, you'll struggle to meet people that have been more directly and obviously impacted by the relationships by the UK government and aspects of the media than me.

00:14:26.000 And I'll go into that in explicit detail one fine day.

00:14:30.000 But it's interesting to see that the Trump effect includes globalist bureaucrats around the world backing down from their attempts to control, pretending they're here to help you.

00:14:42.000 We're going to help you.

00:14:43.000 How are you going to help us?

00:14:44.000 By controlling our free speech, by taxing us, by pretending that you've got some ecological imperative or incentive, and then closing down our freedom, or somehow making us engage in bizarre rituals of purchase.

00:14:58.000 You know, you can have these type of straws, not these type of straws, because we're pretending it's directly affecting something. 0.98

00:15:03.000 Ah, you godless psychopaths. 1.00

00:15:06.000 You lunatics. 1.00

00:15:07.000 You satanists. 1.00

00:15:09.000 The game, it seems, is...

00:15:11.000 Pretty close to being up for you lot, but, you know, let's not be complacent.

00:15:14.000 So, yeah, the Labour have backed down from the Online Safety Act after Trump's team threatened tariffs.

00:15:19.000 Oh, the all-powerful and almighty tariffs still powerfully in effect.

00:15:25.000 We're going to be with you for another hour.

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00:15:45.000 Whether you have Trump in power or Obama in power, you're still going to need God, baby!

00:15:50.000 You're still going to need God on your deathbed because Obama one day will die. 0.98

00:15:55.000 Trump will one day die. 1.00

00:15:57.000 You will one day die. 0.83

00:15:59.000 And when that day comes, you are going to need some kind of connection to the limitless light that's available to you.

00:16:06.000 And even before your death, you will suffer because suffering is inevitable down here because it is, you'd have to say, dominated by the evil one.

00:16:14.000 We've got so much more to discuss, but let's get into our first real story, the MAGA Bowl.

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00:18:58.000 What a great idea.

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00:19:15.000 A kind of Christianity that's robust enough for the present day.

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00:19:28.000 Come into Florida to glorify him.

00:19:31.000 To glorify him.

00:19:33.000 Jude Syke posted a brilliant little meme there a minute ago talking about how Chuck Schumer is complaining about the government dismantling unelected officials.

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00:19:50.000 MAGABOWL! We all care about secular festivals, whether we know we do or not.

00:19:56.000 Isn't the Super Bowl the most impressive and powerful global sporting event?

00:20:00.000 Some people might say it's the FIFA World Cup Final because it brings together nations from across the world.

00:20:05.000 But your nation is, as yet, the most powerful nation on Earth and the Super Bowl the most important and significant event.

00:20:13.000 So, was the Super Bowl yesterday or last week or however you want to term this thing, you could be watching this at any time in the future.

00:20:19.000 For all I know, you're in a capsule floating through limitless space right now looking at a destroyed planet and saying, why didn't they listen?

00:20:26.000 The message was so clear.

00:20:27.000 But let's assume that you're watching this right now in the relative present.

00:20:31.000 Was yesterday the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Kansas City Chiefs.

00:20:37.000 Or was it Donald Trump?

00:20:39.000 Versus Taylor Swift.

00:20:41.000 And what are those living synecdoches about, really?

00:20:45.000 Ultimately, you could contest that Taylor Swift began as a Christian artist and was captured by the culture.

00:20:52.000 And while she was not so overtly sexualized as some pop figures have been, she is no doubt a colonial object of the imperialist state.

00:21:02.000 Donald Trump represents a billion things to a billion different people.

00:21:05.000 But ultimately, you could contest that he is a kind of national...

00:21:13.000 I'm not making a moral evaluation of Donald Trump.

00:21:18.000 Who am I to make a moral evaluation of anyone or anything?

00:21:21.000 What you can say is that at that festival of the Super Bowl, while events on the field may not have been that fascinating, as I understand it was a relatively drab game, as a cultural artifact, it was important.

00:21:32.000 Not just because of the halftime show, not just because of the commercials that Elon acquired, but...

00:21:38.000 Who gets booed and who gets cheered?

00:21:41.000 Who is winning the culture war and who will ultimately prevail?

00:21:45.000 Who does America belong to?

00:21:46.000 Who does light and love belong to?

00:21:50.000 Ultimately, let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.

00:21:53.000 Let's get into this story together.

00:21:56.000 Apparently, Trump got cheered.

00:21:59.000 Swift got cheered.

00:22:01.000 Is this the new America that we were promised?

00:22:03.000 Let's get into it, baby.

00:22:05.000 Now, nationalism, the establishment of the state...

00:22:30.000 I'm not even talking about your fantastic country, the United States of America, and it's peculiar.

00:22:35.000 And fascinating history.

00:22:36.000 It's breakaway from the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

00:22:41.000 Why did you leave us?

00:22:42.000 We could have used those taxes! 0.85

00:22:45.000 We could have used them!

00:22:46.000 King George was doing his very best!

00:22:48.000 The idea of nations even beyond America is that there's a certain sovereign territory that agrees to a certain set of rules whose population are subject to its rules, its laws and its taxes.

00:23:00.000 The culture war is about...

00:23:02.000 Whose rules and laws are we obeying and abiding by?

00:23:07.000 For a minute, we had this surgent neoliberalism, which seemed to be telling us that America kind of belonged to this secularist, globalist...

00:23:19.000 Corporatize?

00:23:19.000 Let's pretend we care about the vulnerable, but we ain't doing much about it, really.

00:23:24.000 Because look what happened in 2008, and who do you think was most impacted by events in 2008 under Barack Obama, when he was the most powerful man in the world, when the financial industry collapsed?

00:23:35.000 Who do you think was most negatively impacted by that collapse?

00:23:39.000 Was it billionaires and elites or was it real ordinary Americans crushed by it?

00:23:46.000 It's obviously the latter.

00:23:48.000 So any claims that the neoliberal left make, and I'm talking about the cultural left, people that are on The View, sort of wringing their hankies and wringing their hands and dabbing their tears, they claim that they represent the America of the vulnerable, right?

00:24:02.000 That's what they're saying.

00:24:02.000 Oh no, the genocide, the blankets with smallpox.

00:24:07.000 Oh no, slavery.

00:24:09.000 Slavery was terrible.

00:24:10.000 Smallpox blankets are bad.

00:24:12.000 What's even worse than that is claiming to care about those issues simply to supplement and further empower the kind of institutional corporatized interests that Barack Obama and the neoliberal left plainly represent.

00:24:27.000 If you don't believe me, just look at their shows on Netflix.

00:24:30.000 Look at the ideas that they're conveying.

00:24:32.000 Let me know in the comments in chat what you feel about that.

00:24:35.000 If you're going to have a nation...

00:24:37.000 You're probably going to end up with a nationalist president or leader at some point, otherwise nationalism itself starts to unweave and unravel, doesn't it?

00:24:49.000 We've got a nation, right?

00:24:51.000 It's the United States of America.

00:24:52.000 Or do you want America to be co-opted by globalist, corporatized interests that impact everything from free speech to agriculture to the food that you eat?

00:25:01.000 Or do you want America and Americans to control America? 0.74

00:25:05.000 Well, looking at the results of the last election, the people have spoken.

00:25:10.000 They have spoken loud and clear.

00:25:12.000 And it seems that they support Donald J. Trump.

00:25:15.000 The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift.

00:25:19.000 They're booed out of the stadium.

00:25:20.000 MAGA is very unforgiving.

00:25:22.000 Very unforgiving.

00:25:23.000 Very unforgiving.

00:25:24.000 Beautiful people, but they won't forgive you.

00:25:27.000 They won't forgive you.

00:25:29.000 Unforgiving is not a good quality, actually.

00:25:32.000 We should be very, very forgiving.

00:25:33.000 It's one of the key...

00:25:34.000 ...

00:25:36.000 But the problem is that the legacy media and the whole democratic cultural movement has become so hypocritical that someone like Bobby Kennedy, who if you looked at it from some bizarre prismic lens set around the mid-90s, Bobby Kennedy is to the inverted commas left of figures like Barack Bobby Kennedy is to the inverted commas left of figures like Barack Obama and maybe even someone like And who does he govern alongside now?

00:26:00.000 Interesting.

00:26:02.000 Why Taylor Swift getting booed at the Super Bowl was even more chilling than you think.

00:26:06.000 It was chilling, but it's even more chilling.

00:26:10.000 It's misogyny.

00:26:11.000 It's racism.

00:26:13.000 It's all of the words that we use to try and cling on to power for global corporations.

00:26:19.000 It's not that chilling.

00:26:21.000 I've been in stadiums before.

00:26:23.000 People in crowds don't behave how you want them to unless you propagandize every aspect of public life.

00:26:30.000 Now, Kendrick Lamar's halftime show was apparently full of political messaging, and I suppose it's probably in alignment with hip-hop in general.

00:26:40.000 I'm a fan of hip-hop.

00:26:42.000 I love hip-hop music.

00:26:43.000 I love the way it emerged organically and naturally out of ghettoized communities and empowered people to use new forms of poetry.

00:26:51.000 I love hip-hop.

00:26:52.000 It's a great American modern art form that I reckon ranks alongside jazz and stand-up comedy as kind of representing our cultural and political moment beyond sides in some phony culture war.

00:27:04.000 So let's see why Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance was so controversial.

00:27:09.000 And let's see what Ana Navarro believes about it. 0.76

00:27:13.000 Ana Navarro is one of the people off The View, I figure.

00:27:15.000 And she says that Kendrick Lamar's halftime show is going to lead to Trump banning black people performing.

00:27:22.000 I mean, I don't know how many of the players on the average NFL side are people of color, but I don't reckon that Trump does. 0.96

00:27:30.000 Is or has ever been the type of mad old-school slave plantation racist that cultural commentators like to claim he is.

00:27:38.000 For example, up until the point that he got involved in politics, Trump was pretty much a hip-hop hero, wasn't he?

00:27:43.000 He was always cropping up in people's lyrics and bars the whole time, using him in a rhyme because he was an exemplifier of self-made, sort of, you know, personal grandiosity, let's be honest, the kind of tycoon intro...

00:27:57.000 Entrepreneur symbol of American will, right?

00:28:00.000 So you can't just suddenly turn him into a representative of racism, because I don't think Donald Trump actually operates within those parameters.

00:28:08.000 I don't think he's a person who goes around being racist.

00:28:10.000 I just don't think that's how he operates.

00:28:12.000 But let me know what you think in the comments in chat, and let's see what they're saying over on The View, baby.

00:28:16.000 What about you, Emma?

00:28:17.000 Okay, well, you know I don't do sports, you know I don't do football, so I wasn't watching the game.

00:28:23.000 But listen. 0.73

00:28:26.000 I think today Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning black people from halftime. 0.93

00:28:32.000 Because, you remember last week we were talking about... 0.92

00:28:36.000 Stop trying to make everything worse all the time.

00:28:39.000 Let's look for ways to reconcile not only Americans with different political views, but the people of the world.

00:28:47.000 This is it.

00:28:47.000 This is your actual real life right now that you're living, where you're going to have children, where you're going to...

00:28:52.000 God forbid, lose children, where your heart's going to get broken, where the people you love and care about are going to die.

00:28:58.000 We have to align ourselves with higher principles.

00:29:00.000 We cannot live in the giddy-ing soup of tittle-tattle and condemnation and judgment.

00:29:07.000 That is the realm of Lucifer.

00:29:09.000 That is the counterfeit realm.

00:29:10.000 That is the counterfeit realm of superficiality and surface, i.e., literally, racism is about skin-deep, cutaneous matters.

00:29:18.000 Get beneath the skin, into the skeletal, into the...

00:29:22.000 into the marrow deep love, glory and light available to you and to me.

00:29:28.000 Embrace it now. 0.97

00:29:29.000 Neil deGrasse Tyson of course went viral with his slightly reductive and I would say I'm going to go ahead and say stupid post saying the Super Bowl athlete. 0.97

00:29:41.000 Curious that talented athletes frequently credit God when they win, but we rarely see them blame God when they lose. 0.96

00:29:47.000 Yeah, why is that?

00:29:48.000 Why would that be?

00:29:49.000 Now, The Onion did a brilliant article about that maybe 20 years ago now when they had a bunch of fictional basketball athletes going, you know, like a basketball star says God really let him down when he missed that shot.

00:30:02.000 So The Onion have already satirized that notion and that tendency.

00:30:06.000 The principle of gratitude is one of the ways that we align ourselves We are limited.

00:30:16.000 The potential for knowledge is without.

00:30:18.000 Neil deGrasse Tyson should know that because he's a science educator, isn't he?

00:30:24.000 And astrologist.

00:30:26.000 Astrology, astronomy.

00:30:28.000 Astronomer.

00:30:29.000 He's into the constellations of the stars, the limitless mysteries of the cosmos, an inheritor of the mantle of the great Carl Sagan, who, bringing mystery to millions through the explication and analysis of the cosmos, brings to light real love and beauty of the impossible grandeur of...

00:30:47.000 That simply cannot have come about as a result of chaos.

00:30:51.000 Athletes saying, I thank God, means that they are accrediting God with their dedication, their devotion, their loving family, the obstacles they've overcome and surmounted. 0.96

00:31:00.000 Blaming God would be petulant, individualistic and ridiculous. 0.88

00:31:04.000 We live in a culture that sanctifies the role of the victim. 0.96

00:31:09.000 Even that, by the way, is a Christian idea.

00:31:11.000 Who is the ultimate victim that took on the sins of the world?

00:31:16.000 Bore them!

00:31:19.000 So all the arguments that happen within the culture are using ideas and motifs borrowed from, robbed from, from Christian grammar.

00:31:28.000 Anyway, and Neil deGrasse Tyson here advocates, as one might expect, for a kind of secularist, materialist worldview.

00:31:35.000 If nothing is sacred, if nothing is holy, why don't we spend all our time just pursuing pleasure and personal glory?

00:31:42.000 I would say...

00:31:44.000 Athletes acknowledging God in their own apparent greatness is exactly what we want.

00:31:49.000 Or brave people from the military saying that God protected them even when they've suffered terrible injury.

00:31:55.000 I'm thinking about Sam Brown, potential future senator of Las Vegas, if it is God's will that he is confirmed.

00:32:02.000 He, after losing his brother to suicide, after being terribly burned in an explosion, devotes himself to God.

00:32:09.000 Precisely because when bad things happen, that is God tuning us.

00:32:14.000 Helping us to reach the high notes in his concerto of magical mystery and glory.

00:32:22.000 We don't want to be down here in the bum-dums notes. 1.00

00:32:25.000 We don't want to be down here in the mundial, in the crap. 0.98

00:32:30.000 We thank and we praise God that God may use us as his vessel. 0.96

00:32:35.000 And if the Super Bowl crowd are to be believed, they are starting to align again with virtues like the kingdom and the idea of the king.

00:32:45.000 Although I would say Donald Trump is very much an earthly king, and I'm sure he wouldn't make any claims beyond that.

00:32:49.000 And they are rejecting the idea of Taylor Swift, who when they wanted to use her to win a presidential election, trot her out at some sort of conference.

00:32:57.000 Or use her endorsement to back up...

00:33:02.000 Dodd candidates like Biden and Kamala, who belong to the corporatised version of the left.

00:33:08.000 They were happy to use her then, where they're not happy to hear the mandate reversed and rejected.

00:33:14.000 The people have spoken, and the people have spoken on behalf of Donald Trump.

00:33:19.000 But that's just what I think.

00:33:20.000 Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and chat, what you believe is so much more important than what I believe.

00:33:25.000 We're all down here on our knees together, bowing before the king.

00:33:29.000 The pose I would suggest, and I thank God for that.

00:33:34.000 We've got a fantastic show!

00:33:35.000 Oh, I've spoken so much, I've run out of actual oxygen.

00:33:38.000 Hold on, let me drink a bit.

00:33:40.000 Once in a while, I've got to...

00:33:41.000 I'm not endorsing this, by the way, although...

00:33:43.000 What a drink.

00:33:43.000 What a drink!

00:33:44.000 It was the most watched Super Bowl in history.

00:33:46.000 Is that what they're saying, huh?

00:33:47.000 Is that what they're saying?

00:33:48.000 If you don't have Rumble Premium yet, get Rumble Premium now.

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00:33:57.000 My man, Paul Kingsnorth.

00:33:58.000 He's a brilliant, brilliant...

00:34:00.000 He's not a theologian.

00:34:01.000 I wouldn't call him that.

00:34:02.000 I would say that he's...

00:34:04.000 Well, let's have a look at him right now.

00:34:06.000 I'm just going to show you that, dude.

00:34:07.000 Dude, my son.

00:34:08.000 Man.

00:34:13.000 He's that.

00:34:14.000 He lives inside of that.

00:34:15.000 Last week, of course, we had Wesley Huff.

00:34:17.000 You must be well aware of Wesley Huff's work by now.

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00:34:37.000 It's a 1pm CT, 2pm ET, 7pm GMT for my chat with Paul Kingsnorth.

00:34:42.000 He was the great chat that we had with Wes Huff, who you probably saw on Rogan if you've heard of him.

00:34:47.000 Here's a little excerpt of that now, talking about the time when, let's have a look at the gods of hedonism and sex don't exist.

00:34:56.000 Ooh, that's good.

00:34:56.000 Let's have a look at that.

00:34:57.000 When we look at the culture and we say, No, your gods of hedonism and sex and freedom, they don't exist.

00:35:06.000 They're paganizations, they're bastardizations of what is true and good and beautiful, and you're ultimately hurting yourself when you do them. 0.96

00:35:14.000 We are atheists.

00:35:16.000 Like the early Christians were atheists. 0.95

00:35:17.000 And when we won't participate in...

00:35:19.000 You know, the celebration of all sorts of things from, you know, media to LGBTQ issues to abortion.

00:35:27.000 These things were deemed antisocial, whether that's, you know, socially or politically or, you know, filling the gap.

00:35:35.000 So, yeah, check that out by getting Rumble Premium or Locals.

00:35:39.000 It's up now.

00:35:39.000 You can watch it as well as other additional content that we make.

00:35:42.000 We've got another story about USAID now.

00:35:45.000 You're going to love it, right?

00:35:47.000 We're talking through the bit where Trump calls out Politico journalists to their faces over USAID funding.

00:35:54.000 That's going to be really good.

00:35:55.000 Aaron Maté, who's a deep, deeply left-wing commentator and journalist, reacting to the Washington Post headlines about independent media in Russia.

00:36:04.000 We've also got Dems.

00:36:05.000 This is brilliant.

00:36:06.000 You're going to love this.

00:36:07.000 Dems on CNN justifying USAID spending $20 million on Iraqi Sesame Street.

00:36:14.000 And then if we have time for it, we'll show you Rogan and Brett Weinstein reacting to some of the bizarre ones.

00:36:21.000 Also, most bizarre USAID payments.

00:36:23.000 Let me know in the chat if you want to see me over the course of the next hour talking about Tulsi Gabbard or if you want to see a bit of stuff on Doge or gender and children, Trump signing an order to protect women's sports or Gaza.

00:36:39.000 So put Gaza, gender, Tulsi. 0.86

00:36:43.000 Or do you want to see about UK farmers?

00:36:45.000 Whatever word in the chat.

00:36:46.000 I'm going to be watching the Rumble chat.

00:36:48.000 I'm going to be watching the locals chat.

00:36:50.000 We'll try and look over at X, what you're saying there, but you've got to recognise, man, we do this thing for Rumble.

00:36:54.000 Okay, we're going to start off with USAID. Can you tell me how to get global propaganda out?

00:37:03.000 Yes, we can.

00:37:04.000 Use USAID. And then you can get $20 million of US taxpayer money to fund Iraqi Sesame Street. 0.70

00:37:11.000 Is that what you need?

00:37:12.000 In the middle of the Maui fires, or the California fires, or Katrina, or the various disasters we did upon America.

00:37:20.000 Oh no!

00:37:21.000 The storms have come!

00:37:23.000 Won't someone please?

00:37:25.000 Please, get me an Iraqi version of Mr. Snuffleupagus! 1.00

00:37:29.000 Let's have a look at how USAID has been funding propaganda around the world.

00:37:35.000 For a while now, you might have been thinking, how on earth are these neoliberal propagandist tools of the state being funded?

00:37:42.000 Who's reading New York Times?

00:37:44.000 Who's reading Politico?

00:37:46.000 Well, the fact is, no one's reading them, and they're being subsidized by you, the people who hate them and who they hate. 1.00

00:37:54.000 Normal Americans are dumb, stupid, racist, rapist, misogynists. 1.00

00:37:58.000 Can we have some of your tax dollars, please? 1.00

00:38:01.000 It don't come cheap, condemning people.

00:38:03.000 Also, kids in Iraq really need to see Bert Nerney, but like Muslim versions that are... 1.00

00:38:10.000 Oh, wait a minute.

00:38:11.000 That's going to be complicated.

00:38:13.000 Let's have a look.

00:38:14.000 First of all...

00:38:14.000 At your man Trump calling out political journalists, politico-journalists, excuse me, to their faces.

00:38:21.000 This is the kind of confrontational Donald Trump that I think catharsised a lot of our anger at the government.

00:38:27.000 One of the things they don't get when the government's being torn apart from within is that most of us hate the government and we've...

00:38:34.000 Good reason.

00:38:36.000 Mind you, maybe you could make the arguments when it comes to them social justice warriors that were pulling down statues and all that kind of stuff.

00:38:42.000 In a way, they were trying to express a similar rage at secularized power operating within spiritual dominions.

00:38:48.000 Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that talking point.

00:38:51.000 Let's have a look at Donald Trump calling out political journalists, co-journalists.

00:38:54.000 Come on, say it correctly.

00:38:55.000 I mean, I'm funding it.

00:38:57.000 By paying my taxes, I might as well say it, right?

00:38:59.000 Whether you like Politico or not, you're funding it.

00:39:02.000 Whether you like the BBC or not, you're funding it.

00:39:05.000 BBC gets not only taxpayer money from the UK, or the licence fee, which amounts to a tax.

00:39:10.000 It's kind of tax.

00:39:11.000 It's not voluntary, is it?

00:39:12.000 Is it voluntary?

00:39:12.000 No.

00:39:13.000 It's a tax then, isn't it?

00:39:14.000 It's a tax, right?

00:39:15.000 Not only that, they're getting USAID money.

00:39:17.000 They're getting your money from America or the BBC. What do they do with that?

00:39:21.000 They pretend they care about you while making you dumber, while controlling you. 0.77

00:39:26.000 License fees should be scrapped. 0.97

00:39:28.000 USAID should be scrapped.

00:39:29.000 These systems of propagandization should be scrapped.

00:39:32.000 We should decide for ourselves where to get our information.

00:39:35.000 But who's going to protect you from Putin's butt-butts? 0.97

00:39:39.000 Who's going to protect you from Putin's butt-butts? 0.96

00:39:42.000 I'm going to use my own discernment granted to me by a limitless cosmic force that don't need to be brokered or negotiated by you. 1.00

00:39:51.000 You corrupt scum. 1.00

00:39:52.000 Let's enjoy Trump taking on some Politico journalists. 1.00

00:39:55.000 Do you see what happened yesterday where they found hundreds of millions of dollars of money was fraudulently given to newspapers and, I guess, Politico.

00:40:07.000 I don't know.

00:40:08.000 They're here.

00:40:09.000 Good.

00:40:09.000 I hope you're enjoying your breakfast.

00:40:12.000 No, they gave money to all this out of U.S. USAID, right?

00:40:23.000 USAID. It came out.

00:40:26.000 Hundreds of just tremendous amounts of money had nothing to do with anything.

00:40:32.000 This is a terrible thing that was experienced, but we're catching them left and right.

00:40:37.000 We're catching them.

00:40:38.000 We're catching them to a point where they don't know what the heck is going on.

00:40:42.000 They can't believe they're getting caught.

00:40:44.000 And I have great respect for the people that are doing it.

00:40:47.000 Elon Musk is helping us on it.

00:40:49.000 And he's pretty good.

00:40:51.000 He's pretty good.

00:40:53.000 He's pretty good at it, but the numbers are astounding.

00:40:57.000 They're astounding.

00:40:59.000 Even Doug was shaken up by what he heard.

00:41:02.000 Let's have a look at journalist Aaron Marte, who could hardly be called a stooge of the right.

00:41:08.000 On some headlines from the legacy media, in this case, Washington Post.

00:41:12.000 Independent media in Russia.

00:41:13.000 Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.

00:41:16.000 Independent media in Russia and Ukraine have been critical of their governments and provide alternative reporting, but much of it relied on US grants.

00:41:23.000 We're calling it grants.

00:41:23.000 It's actually state funding for Russian and Ukrainian media that is probably antithetical to their sovereign and democratically, inverted commas, elected governments.

00:41:35.000 You could maybe argue that Putin is.

00:41:36.000 Let's go back to that.

00:41:37.000 A dictator.

00:41:38.000 Put that post back.

00:41:39.000 Thank you.

00:41:39.000 So Aaron Matto says, Washington Post headline, independent media in Russia, Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.

00:41:46.000 The headline should be US state funded media in Russia and Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.

00:41:53.000 Because what was happening is the pretense that that information And that USAID as an entity was for you, for your benefit.

00:42:00.000 But actually, was it for your benefit or was it...

00:42:04.000 Hmm.

00:42:04.000 Supportive of the interests of the powerful.

00:42:07.000 They lost their mandate because they had no principles of any value or worth.

00:42:13.000 I'm talking about the entire Democrat party-oriented left.

00:42:17.000 It's not just in your country.

00:42:18.000 It's in my country, too.

00:42:19.000 They're phonies.

00:42:20.000 They're fakes. 1.00

00:42:21.000 They're liars. 0.94

00:42:22.000 They're taking your money, claiming they're using it to protect you, when in fact they're using it to control you. 0.51

00:42:27.000 That's why the pandemic era was so revelatory, because it was the biggest sting.

00:42:33.000 They ever tried.

00:42:34.000 Oh no!

00:42:35.000 You're in so much danger.

00:42:37.000 Mmm.

00:42:38.000 So much danger.

00:42:39.000 Yeah.

00:42:40.000 And of course it just emerged from nature.

00:42:42.000 Emerged from nature.

00:42:43.000 Mmm.

00:42:43.000 And we've got a vaccine that's really, really effective.

00:42:47.000 Mmm.

00:42:47.000 And isn't bad for you.

00:42:48.000 Mmm.

00:42:49.000 Doesn't cause vaccine injury.

00:42:50.000 Mmm.

00:42:51.000 And then we can discuss it freely and come up with scientific conclusions about whether it's effective and you can report openly on whether or not it's had an mmm.

00:43:00.000 We all saw how big tech behaved.

00:43:01.000 We all saw how the legacy... 0.81

00:43:03.000 We know now that they are liars.

00:43:08.000 And now it is unfurling and unfolding before our eyes.

00:43:12.000 We are being revealed truths that were deeply concealed and sometimes so preposterous as to seem fictional.

00:43:19.000 Literally, $20 million of taxpayer money was spent on bringing Sesame Street to Iraqi children.

00:43:26.000 Well, we have to bring Sesame Street to Iraqi children.

00:43:30.000 Otherwise...

00:43:32.000 Look, come on, guys.

00:43:33.000 Stop lying to us.

00:43:34.000 Here is a CNN pundit who, likely himself or herself, is the recipient of USAID funding, claiming that we need, more than anything, Iraqi Sesame Street.

00:43:46.000 Won't somebody please?

00:43:48.000 Like, sometimes I wake up in the dinner night.

00:43:49.000 Oh, no.

00:43:52.000 Who's propagandizing Iraqi children? 1.00

00:43:55.000 Is funding Sesame Street a judicious use of soft power?

00:44:02.000 Well, Michael, the way you put it is the way I hope folks considering your poll today will think about it.

00:44:09.000 This isn't just funding a kid's show for children, millions of children, in countries like Iraq.

00:44:15.000 Will you tell me how to get, how to get Iraqi children to believe in our globalist ideals?

00:44:21.000 Iraq.

00:44:22.000 It's a show that helps teach values, helps teach public health.

00:44:27.000 Values!

00:44:28.000 Values is not an objective thing once you don't believe in God. 0.98

00:44:30.000 You could have values that are like, well, I want to have sex with as many people as possible.

00:44:34.000 You could have values like, I only want to eat sugary food.

00:44:36.000 Unless there's a divine principle, there are no values.

00:44:40.000 And these globalist corporatists...

00:44:42.000 Believe only in control.

00:44:44.000 And of course they can't come out and say we want to control you because it's better for us to be able to control you.

00:44:47.000 So they have to say we're controlling you because we're going to help you.

00:44:50.000 You don't know the difference between good information and bad information, do you?

00:44:54.000 Can we help you?

00:44:55.000 You don't know the difference between good food and bad food and good gods and bad gods.

00:44:59.000 Why don't you let us do your thinking for you?

00:45:01.000 Why don't you get in your house?

00:45:02.000 Why don't we insert a chip under your skin? 1.00

00:45:05.000 Why don't you take this medication? 1.00

00:45:06.000 Why don't you shut up? 0.99

00:45:07.000 Why don't you read what we want you to read? 0.99

00:45:09.000 Why don't you watch Iraqi... 1.00

00:45:11.000 Sesame Street.

00:45:12.000 Well, maybe because I'm awake.

00:45:15.000 Teach public health helps prevent kids from dying from dysentery and disease and helps.

00:45:21.000 If your best method for stopping children from dying from dysentery is Big Bird.

00:45:29.000 Then you are in a lot of trouble, son, because I bet Big Bird will probably give him avian flu.

00:45:34.000 Oh no, we've got an avian flu outbreak in Iraq.

00:45:37.000 It was caused by Big Bird.

00:45:39.000 Everyone get inside your houses and pay us more taxes. 0.94

00:45:41.000 And helps push values like collaboration, peacefulness, cooperation in a society where the alternative is ISIS, extremism, and terrorism.

00:45:52.000 Okay, what caused ISIS? Let's spend 10 seconds or so thinking about that.

00:45:59.000 America and American foreign policy caused ISIS by getting involved in wars that were none of America's business, for which many, many brave American men and women lost their lives.

00:46:09.000 Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children lost their lives, and it was all based on a total lie! 1.00

00:46:14.000 And the people that told you that lie, that amplified that lie, are wanting you to listen to them again right now!

00:46:21.000 Wow!

00:46:21.000 Will you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?

00:46:25.000 They want you all living on Sesame Street because they think you're dumb kids. 0.98

00:46:28.000 Your point, it's pennies on the dollar. 0.94

00:46:31.000 The U.S. Department of Defense has an annual budget.

00:46:34.000 Just a small amount of money we can propagandize children in Iraq.

00:46:38.000 I don't mind or care what Iraqi children are thinking. 1.00

00:46:43.000 If you love Iraqi children so much, how about stop bombing them? 1.00

00:46:47.000 Stop getting involved in their country's politics?

00:46:50.000 Back off! 1.00

00:46:51.000 Of about $850 billion.

00:46:54.000 USAID was spending about $30 billion.

00:46:58.000 It is a small proportion of our total federal spending, and as Joe Nye would often say, it's not just software.

00:47:05.000 That would work great if FEMA hadn't been such an unmitigated disaster for the last, well, for the entirety of the Biden administration.

00:47:12.000 If we hadn't seen American suffering, American schools in decline, American roads full of potholes.

00:47:18.000 Sort that out!

00:47:19.000 Then maybe we'll start thinking about children's entertainment in the Middle East.

00:47:24.000 It's not just soft power, it's smart power.

00:47:27.000 Let me leave you with one other... 0.99

00:47:28.000 Ugh, you filthy propagandists. 0.98

00:47:30.000 I think everything's a catchphrase, don't they? 0.90

00:47:32.000 What if we say it's not soft power, it's smart power, like a smartphone?

00:47:35.000 Everyone loves a smartphone, which we ironically also use to propagandize everybody with messages that are detrimental to their quality of life.

00:47:43.000 Yeah, smart power.

00:47:44.000 People like smart things, right? 0.99

00:47:46.000 No, people like dumb stuff, man. 1.00

00:47:48.000 Dumb stuff like this filthy propaganda that we're paying for ourselves. 0.99

00:47:51.000 With one other quote, Michael, if I could, Jim Mattis, who is a four-star Marine Corps general and Trump's Secretary of Defense in his first term, in a hearing back then said, if you slash development and aid spending, then I'm going to need more bullets for our troops. 0.98

00:48:09.000 I am a four-star general.

00:48:12.000 And I know that wars are only won by Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, and Bert and Ernie.

00:48:18.000 Missiles, yes, they can do a certain amount.

00:48:20.000 But eventually, you need Sesame Street.

00:48:23.000 And why stop there?

00:48:24.000 Why not revive Degrassi Jr. High?

00:48:26.000 How about a whole fleet of shows?

00:48:28.000 Why not bring...

00:48:29.000 Boss cat! 1.00

00:48:30.000 And Scooby-Doo.

00:48:32.000 Two Iraqi children everywhere.

00:48:34.000 The most sensational top cat!

00:48:36.000 Trying to get you all close friends!

00:48:40.000 It's gone out of hand.

00:48:42.000 When looking at the various crises, wars, and radicalised militia that have emerged from the Middle East, if you think the problem is that there hasn't been sufficient provision of USAID, then you are really wildly and radically missing the point.

00:48:59.000 of American interventionism in order to service corporate interests and start questioning right now what U.S. taxpayer dollars might be being in Ukraine and where those weapons might be ended up and what the relationship was with USAID when it comes to Ukrainian media.

00:49:17.000 I am not suggesting, and why would anyone care if I did or didn't, that Putin is, you know, Putin's an imperialist, he's a warmonger, whatever, I wouldn't want to live in Putin's Russia.

00:49:26.000 More interested in is the misuse of American minds and money in order to support globalist Corporatist agenda.

00:49:35.000 And USAID was clearly at the very forefront of their propagandist ideology.

00:49:41.000 They killed God.

00:49:42.000 They have no values.

00:49:44.000 They have no principle except control.

00:49:46.000 They don't believe in you as an individual.

00:49:48.000 They don't believe in your nation.

00:49:49.000 And we have the same problem in my country too.

00:49:51.000 Surely, Lord, we must rise up against them.

00:49:54.000 Surely we must attune to the highest possible frequencies that grant us individual sovereignty, community control, and the ability to serve one another and love the planet on the basis that all things are sacred.

00:50:04.000 Not their crazy, profane, disgusting ideology.

00:50:08.000 But that's just what I think. 0.54

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00:53:13.000 You know, it reminded me when you were talking about the Grammys there, one of the earliest accusations against Christianity within the first few centuries of its existence was that Christians were antisocial because they would not participate in the customs of the culture, which were inherently religious.

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00:54:36.000 A lot of ya have said Tulsi.

00:54:38.000 I've seen a lot of people talking about, like, Gaza and the West Bank.

00:54:41.000 A lot of people interested in UK farmers.

00:54:43.000 But, like, I'll tell ya, we're going to do Tulsi first, alright?

00:54:48.000 Because it's an amazing and fascinating story, actually, because, well, you'll see.

00:54:53.000 From the brilliant way that Gareth, our producer, has put it together.

00:54:58.000 Our content producer has put it together.

00:55:00.000 Let's get into that right now.

00:55:03.000 Yeah, Rachel Maddow, Adam Schiff, Smears, Tulsi.

00:55:06.000 Yeah, this is good.

00:55:09.000 Jeff Sachs, right.

00:55:15.000 Tulsi Gabbard, feminist icon or Putin puppet?

00:55:19.000 Tulsi Gabbard, in any sane world, would have become the leader of the Democratic Party, her or Bobby Kennedy, or one of the great political figures that they eschewed and cast out because they couldn't fit them into their corrupt and maddening model. 0.97

00:55:35.000 Tulsi Gabbard, I've met her, I know her, she's...

00:55:38.000 Full of, like, poise and dignity and gravitas and duty.

00:55:43.000 I bet if I had a conversation about a bunch of stuff, there'd be loads of things that I would disagree with her on.

00:55:48.000 I don't know what they would be, but I'll know this.

00:55:50.000 I wouldn't think she was lying to me because she was a corporate shill or Putin's puppet. 0.66

00:55:55.000 Isn't it amazing to see someone like Rachel Maddow, who in the best possible version of herself, would be an advocate for female empowerment? 0.81

00:56:04.000 Strength among women.

00:56:06.000 Think of some of the things you've probably seen Rachel Maddow say about Hillary Clinton.

00:56:09.000 I'm just improvising now, but I bet she said things like, you know, Hillary Clinton and her not being elected is a...

00:56:15.000 Demonstrates how America is still a misogynistic country that hates women at a very deep level.

00:56:20.000 I bet she said things like that. 0.96

00:56:22.000 I don't know for a fact, but what I do know she said is, take them vaccines and then the COVID stops with you, right?

00:56:27.000 We all saw that.

00:56:28.000 We've all seen Rachel Maddow advocating for things that ultimately are beneficial to the interests of powerful elites. 0.90

00:56:34.000 That's, in a sense, a way that you can diagnose whether or not you can trust someone.

00:56:38.000 Here's Rachel Maddow now mocking. 0.99

00:56:41.000 Tulsi Gabbard, which seems like a weird position to take.

00:56:45.000 We're going to start there.

00:56:46.000 Then we're going to get Jeffrey Sachs' take on Tulsi Gabbard and why the establishment, in particular the military-industrial complex, fear her so deeply.

00:56:55.000 So let's go on a journey and analyse and try to understand what Tulsi Gabbard represents.

00:57:01.000 Hopefully she represents the interests of the American people and understands that war is an awful, galling...

00:57:08.000 Terrible thing that should only ever be seen as a last resort and should be never used as a method and means to extract revenue from American people and to end needlessly American lives or the lives of people around the world.

00:57:21.000 Let's start off, though, with Rachel Maddow inexplicably and extraordinarily damning and condemning Tulsi Gabbard, who in any sensible world will be seen as a bulwark vanguard figure in any...

00:57:34.000 Feminist empowerment movement.

00:57:35.000 Let's start there.

00:57:36.000 Although I would say that, you know, true greatness goes way, way beyond sex or gender or any of that stuff.

00:57:42.000 All Republicans in the Senate voted tonight to advance the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence.

00:57:51.000 It's like saying that I could be a defensive lineman on the Philadelphia Eagles.

00:57:55.000 Sure.

00:57:57.000 Well, you could have given it a go.

00:57:58.000 It couldn't have gone any worse for them, I understand.

00:58:00.000 No, no, actually, they won and it was an easy victory.

00:58:02.000 Maybe they could have carried you and accommodated you, Rachel.

00:58:05.000 I don't know, but certainly that's an extremely derisory and dismissive thing to say about a brilliant political figure and a service person.

00:58:13.000 Okay, let's have a look at Adam Schiff smearing Gabard as Putin's girl in an attempt to block her D&I. What do you think the American people should know about her as a nominee as we're heading toward that final vote tomorrow?

00:58:29.000 Well, first, I think it's important, as with all these nominees, to just level set.

00:58:34.000 Normally, if you're talking about someone who's going to head an agency, let alone, in this case, all the intelligence agencies, you would expect a nominee to have some experience, maybe having worked for an intelligence agency, maybe having led an intelligence agency.

00:58:49.000 Or even, at a minimum, served on a relevant committee, like the Intelligence Committee in Congress.

00:58:54.000 Tulsi Gabbard has none of that experience.

00:58:56.000 Zero, nada, zilcho. 0.99

00:58:58.000 That would normally, in a normal world, be disqualifying.

00:59:02.000 But she goes far beyond that.

00:59:04.000 She has echoed Kremlin talking points about the origin of the war against Ukraine.

00:59:11.000 She's pushed out Russian propaganda about U.S. biolabs in Ukraine.

00:59:17.000 One of the pretexts that Russia wanted to use for its invasion to the point where RT, Russia Today, this propaganda outfit, is praising her to the degree that advisers close to Putin refer to her as our girl, an interesting diminutive for someone who might be leading U.S. intelligence agencies.

00:59:39.000 This is someone who met with Bashar al-Assad.

00:59:42.000 What's a trivial point, Nat?

00:59:44.000 It kind of...

00:59:45.000 Someone's idiomatic use of the phrase our girl being used as an example of corruption and affiliation.

00:59:55.000 Indeed, Russia, as one of the other two global superpowers you would contest, is a vital relationship for America.

01:00:04.000 It's absolutely necessary that Political figures in positions of power find ways of assuaging the tensions that have been exacerbated and increased under the Biden-stroked Kamala Harris administration.

01:00:15.000 Just preposterous perspective from Adam Schiff there.

01:00:18.000 And if you look at Schiff, the old Schiff, look at him all furtive and sort of half-grinning.

01:00:23.000 Like, do you call that a duper's delight?

01:00:25.000 Let me know in the comments in chat.

01:00:27.000 That way someone's sort of like... 0.69

01:00:28.000 She's terrible. 0.99

01:00:29.000 She's a terrible person. 0.98

01:00:30.000 And let's have a look at where that dude gets his donations from. 0.89

01:00:33.000 Assad came back, had, you know, wonderful things to say about how he wanted to get across the impression that he wouldn't engage in terrible things against his own people.

01:00:44.000 When our own intelligence agencies were saying he has gassed his own people.

01:00:49.000 So hard to imagine someone more disqualified from running those agencies.

01:00:55.000 But Republican opposition to all of these controversial, unqualified, disqualified nominees has collapsed.

01:01:03.000 And maybe collapse is too strong a word because that presupposes there was an infrastructure to stand up to these bad choices to begin with.

01:01:11.000 But nevertheless, they all seem headed for confirmation, which is just terrible for the country.

01:01:18.000 Terrible, terrible for the country, terrible for the global corporatist interest that captured your country for a long time.

01:01:25.000 Let's see how this plays out.

01:01:26.000 Now, with something as complex as the way that deep state agencies are able to implement and continue their power, even beyond the vicissitudes of elections and shifts.

01:01:40.000 Let's listen to Jeffrey Sachs, who from the beginning of these kind of conversations online, from the advent of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, has given us alternative perspectives that are historically grounded.

01:01:50.000 And, for example, demonstrated the involvement of the United States in the 2014 coup in Ukraine.

01:01:55.000 Here he is explaining exactly why to Tucker Carlson that Tulsi Gabbard's appointment is significant.

01:02:02.000 She's probably, and I don't want to jinx anything, she's probably the most important appointment of the Trump administration.

01:02:09.000 It does seem that way.

01:02:09.000 She is.

01:02:10.000 Incredibly intelligent, incredibly honest, incredibly committed to U.S. security, and would do a superb job.

01:02:22.000 So that's why she's being opposed, because the forces that are...

01:02:32.000 Worse than mediocre, that are right now on top of a $1.5 trillion a year machine, that have been running disastrous wars, that have been bringing us closer and closer to doom, don't want any accountability.

01:02:50.000 And what Tulsi Gabbard would represent is competence, honesty, forthrightness.

01:02:59.000 And not having been a party to all these failures.

01:03:03.000 There you are, Jeffrey Sachs' insights, perhaps a little more revelatory and reliable than Rachel Maddow's dismissiveness and Adam Schiff's smarm.

01:03:13.000 Tulsi Gabbard is the kind of dignified warrior that you want enrolled, such as the one that she will blessedly, I pray, be confirmed in later this week.

01:03:24.000 This is the kind of political appointment that were we...

01:03:28.000 Granted, an independent legacy media or an independent-minded legacy media will be reported on as a radical transformation in American politics.

01:03:36.000 The idea that a political figure like Donald Trump would form alliances with Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard will be exciting to anyone genuinely interested in the responsible and novel and evolving use of power in the greatest country in the world.

01:03:52.000 But instead...

01:03:53.000 She is smeared and condemned in the same way that Bobby Kennedy is, in the same way that Trump is, because their idea is to normalise bureaucratic, globalist, corporatised power in every area of American life, and beyond that, in every nation on earth.

01:04:08.000 They want a stooge in every role, puppeted and controlled by mysterious, centralised interests that perhaps go beyond even matters of dominion and resource.

01:04:18.000 But that's just what I think.

01:04:19.000 Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.

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