Stay Free - Russel Brand - The Unraveling: Cracks From Washington to Westminster - SF657

00:00:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Fran action Russell Russell Francis trying to bring real journalism to the American people.

00:00:17.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.

00:00:18.000 Thanks for joining me for a very special episode of Stay Free today.

00:00:22.000 You are gonna love this.

00:00:23.000 I'm telling you, you're gonna love it.

00:00:25.000 You will love it.

00:00:26.000 First of all, we talk about the resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the possibility for heroism and real change.

00:00:31.000 We also look at historic examples of heroism.

00:00:33.000 Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, the Kennedys, it's brilliant.

00:00:36.000 You'll love it.

00:00:37.000 Then we look at Candace Owens, who's a friend of mine, and Tucker Carlson, also a friend of mine, and their public claims about deep state assassinations.

00:00:48.000 We're going to look at that carefully and respectfully.

00:00:50.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

00:00:52.000 It's really, really good bit of content.

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00:01:02.000 And finally, we look at the results of this inquiry in my country, the UK, into COVID.

00:01:06.000 And it actually makes me so angry.

00:01:08.000 It like is radicalizing me.

00:01:10.000 If I didn't have Christ, I think I would become some kind of terrorist, honestly, because that's the there's only two options now: either become a sort of a radicalized terrorist against these corrupt systems or become a Christian, which is a kind of radical position now, anyway, because it means that you believe in the supernatural, you believe in God, you believe that all of this is sort of ultimately a kind of illusion and that you obey a God that's completely inaccessible to these Luciferian and corrupt powers.

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00:02:06.000 You know why? 0.96

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00:02:14.000 Left, right, fascist, communist, terrorist.

00:02:18.000 In a world where political labels are wielded like weapons, media figures flip-flop between outrage and cordiality and ideological loyalty often masks hidden alliances.

00:02:28.000 What does it mean to truly step outside the narrative and reclaim autonomy in the holy name?

00:02:37.000 Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow attending the funeral of Dick Cheney, a man Maddow once denounced as the maestro of terror politics, alongside Zorhan Mamdani, branding Donald Trump a fascist mere days after a cordial meeting and months after Trump had labelled him a communist lunatic signals a disturbing collapse of meaning in political language.

00:03:01.000 Like, why would you go?

00:03:03.000 I heard that it took the Catholic Church 350 years to apologize for calling Galileo Galilee a liar when what he had in fact done is told the truth about astronomy.

00:03:16.000 Well, how long will it take for this system to apologize for the COVID pandemic?

00:03:21.000 Has there been apologies from Dick Cheney?

00:03:24.000 Has he gone, do you know what?

00:03:25.000 There were no weapons of mass destruction.

00:03:27.000 I was on the board of Halliburton.

00:03:28.000 We recognized the Iraq gig was a terrific opportunity, so we went for it. 0.99

00:03:32.000 He's not apologized.

00:03:34.000 What does Rachel Maddow really believe?

00:03:37.000 What does Kamala Harris really believe?

00:03:39.000 What do any of them really believe?

00:03:41.000 They believe in the illusion that is necessary for them to believe in to maintain the roles that they play in this system.

00:03:46.000 But you don't have to believe in it anymore.

00:03:48.000 I don't have to believe in it. 1.00

00:03:49.000 If you're old enough to remember the vehement damnation that they applied to Dick Cheney, much of it deserved, I can still instantaneously call up that dude in the cowboy hat going, man, now listen, that Trump's motherfucker. 1.00

00:04:04.000 You know, there they all are. 1.00

00:04:06.000 There they all are.

00:04:08.000 If ever there was a person that seemed to have made a deal with Mephistopheles, it were Cheney, the architect behind the hated George W. Bush's administration.

00:04:19.000 Well, if all that is up for reconsideration, why would you believe a single thing they're telling you right now?

00:04:24.000 Is Rachel Maddow going to turn up at the funeral of Donald Trump?

00:04:28.000 Who knows?

00:04:29.000 Maybe, because it would have been inconceivable, I'm telling you, equally inconceivable that she would attend Dick Cheney's.

00:04:35.000 And there she is.

00:04:35.000 I'm not condemning Rachel Madow, nor am I condemning Dick Cheney, nor am I condemning Donald Trump, nor am I condemning anyone because guess what?

00:04:43.000 I'm not in a position to judge anyone and neither is anyone else.

00:04:47.000 That's why you need a God.

00:04:48.000 Otherwise, your justice is not based on supreme principle, but the arbitrary churn of human reason when applied to whatever they happen to want that day.

00:05:00.000 It's good that we hate Dick Cheney today.

00:05:02.000 Let's hate Dick Cheney.

00:05:03.000 We don't need to hate Dick Cheney anymore. 0.95

00:05:05.000 Let's go to his funeral. 0.84

00:05:06.000 It's absolute bollocks. 1.00

00:05:08.000 Wake the fuck up. 0.99

00:05:10.000 Terms like left, right, fascist and communist no longer describe ideology. 0.98

00:05:16.000 They're weapons of control deployed to manage perception and constrain thought.

00:05:20.000 Even the term terrorist has lost its force.

00:05:22.000 Donald Trump welcomed Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharra to the White House just days after he was officially listed as a specially designated global terrorist.

00:05:32.000 They're the worst kind!

00:05:34.000 Going so far to gift him a bottle of his cologne and playfully spraying it on the former jihadist with ties to al-Qaeda.

00:05:42.000 This is men's, men's fragrance, yeah, it's the best fragrance.

00:05:54.000 Come here, thanks for all.

00:05:55.000 I have no here, sir.

00:05:58.000 It's the audacity of Trump really that defines him.

00:06:00.000 The fact that in plain sight he will promote products and baseball cards and stuff like that.

00:06:08.000 I will say this.

00:06:08.000 I've been wrong a lot about, gosh, almost everything and wrong a lot about Trump in particular.

00:06:13.000 But the one thing I identified pretty early on is that he was explicitly what other people were implicitly.

00:06:20.000 Probably Dave Chappelle said it better and funnier in his SNL monologue when he said he's doing out in the open what people have always suspected politicians did.

00:06:28.000 My own version of it was almost like a sort of a gargoyle.

00:06:31.000 Like here you are now confronted with the reality of it.

00:06:35.000 Now, as you know, if you watch this show a lot, that I find Trump pretty enjoyable in terms of his public persona, his rhetoric, even his just his sort of manner and way.

00:06:45.000 I feel like I'd find it amusing to spend time with someone that in particular, the example I always think of is at that UN speech talking continually about not getting the contract to build that building or just having the time to be personal at times of such global crisis.

00:07:02.000 I find it kind of recognizable.

00:07:04.000 But in a way, Trump is also the apex.

00:07:06.000 This is as far as you can go down this road, I think, without coming off the edge of the world.

00:07:13.000 That's probably what most of us can agree on, whether we like Trump or not.

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00:08:14.000 Here's a message from one now.

00:08:16.000 The public is trying to respond with outrage and loyalty, while the reality behind the labels remains hidden.

00:08:21.000 Shifting with convenience, it seems.

00:08:24.000 George Carlin's warnings about it being a big club that we ain't in feel eerily prophetic.

00:08:30.000 The elite manufacture conflict and choice, funneling society into predictable channels while the mechanisms of power operate unchecked, obscured, and nearly untouchable.

00:08:40.000 Into this controlled theater steps Madame Marjorie Taylor Greene. 0.69

00:08:46.000 Her resignation from Congress, coupled with an apology for her role in toxic politics, disrupts the expected script.

00:08:54.000 In an era where political actors are rewarded for loyalty to spectacle and ideological signaling, Green's choice to step aside and acknowledge her complicity is striking, almost unnerving.

00:09:06.000 You posted on X that President Trump is, with his comments, fueling a quote, hotbed of threats against you.

00:09:13.000 Obviously, any threats to your safety are completely unacceptable.

00:09:17.000 But we have seen these kinds of attacks or criticism from the president at other people.

00:09:24.000 It's not new.

00:09:25.000 And with respect, I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.

00:09:34.000 Dana, I think that's fair criticism.

00:09:37.000 And I would like to say humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.

00:09:45.000 It's very bad for our country.

00:09:48.000 And it's been something I've thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, is that I'm only responsible for myself and my own words and actions.

00:10:00.000 And I am committed, and I've been working on this a lot lately to put down the knives in politics.

00:10:08.000 I really just want to see people be kind to one another.

00:10:12.000 And we need to figure out a new path forward that is focused on the American people.

00:10:17.000 Because as Americans, no matter what side of the aisle we're on, we have far more in common than we have differences.

00:10:25.000 And we need to be able to respect each other with our disagreements.

00:10:29.000 So just to put a button on this, you regret the things that you have said and posted in the past.

00:10:36.000 The Facebook post that was taken down of you in 2020 holding a gun alongside the squad, encouraging people to go on the offense against the socialists, liking a tweet of somebody calling for the execution of Nancy Pelosi and former President Obama.

00:10:52.000 Just examples.

00:10:56.000 Well, Dana, as you know and many people know, I addressed that back in 2021.

00:11:02.000 And of course, I never want to cause any harm or anything bad for anyone.

00:11:08.000 So that was addressed back then.

00:11:10.000 And I very much stand by my words.

00:11:12.000 I said then, and I stand by my words today.

00:11:15.000 I think America needs to come together and end all the toxic, dangerous rhetoric and divide.

00:11:22.000 And I'm leading the way with my own example.

00:11:24.000 And I hope that President Trump can do the same.

00:11:27.000 Hey, see, I met her, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a couple of times.

00:11:30.000 And I wonder if you're able to do this.

00:11:33.000 Look at the face of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the face of the lady Dana.

00:11:38.000 And you can sort of see in Marjorie Taylor Greene the truth of who she is.

00:11:43.000 She's a woman. 0.82

00:11:44.000 She's like a real woman, a real earth person.

00:11:49.000 And the lady done, of course, she's a human being as well. 0.99

00:11:52.000 But you can see in the kind of slightly more scene pinchedness of her expression that she's still in the constraints.

00:11:59.000 What Marjorie Taylor Green has done is thrown off, at least temporarily, and I pray that it has the impact that such action warrants, the shackles and imposition that many people feel when they operate within those spheres.

00:12:15.000 And like when I met Marjorie Taylor Greene, it was at the RNC convention in Milwaukee, and I felt like, oh man, she's cool.

00:12:26.000 And I've just seen her being attacked by a bunch of people and criticized. 0.59

00:12:30.000 And people don't like earthness. 0.96

00:12:32.000 The people have become these sort of peculiar parasitic puppets. 0.99

00:12:36.000 And they don't like people that have got kind of cojones. 0.99

00:12:40.000 Trump's got them. 0.99

00:12:41.000 She's got them.

00:12:42.000 Don't mean they're perfect.

00:12:43.000 And it certainly doesn't mean the system isn't generating total corruption and mayhem and madness.

00:12:46.000 And in fact, can only do that.

00:12:48.000 But, you know, it's cool that she's taken that stand.

00:12:51.000 Please God, it will have a positive impact.

00:12:53.000 Her recent positions challenging U.S. funding of foreign wars, speaking against the devastation in Gaza, pressing for Epstein files while standing alongside alleged victims, suggests she is rejecting the performative confines imposed on both left and right.

00:13:08.000 By stepping away from the stage entirely, she hints at something more dangerous to the system than mere dissent.

00:13:15.000 The possibility of autonomy, of moving beyond the constructed narratives that keep the masses obedient.

00:13:22.000 History offers stark parallels.

00:13:24.000 Muhammad Ali sacrificed everything to refuse the Vietnam draft, defying a system prepared to crush him for the sake of conscience.

00:13:32.000 I ain't got no beef with a Viet Cong is a phrase I still think of regularly to remind us that just because you're told something so, you don't have to accept it.

00:13:42.000 My culture won't let me go shoot my brother or some darker people or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America and shoot them for what? 1.00

00:13:53.000 They never call me nigga. 0.99

00:13:55.000 They never lynch me.

00:13:56.000 They didn't put no dogs on me.

00:13:57.000 They didn't rob me of my nationality. 1.00

00:14:01.000 Rape and kill my mother and father. 1.00

00:14:03.000 Well, I'm going to shoot them for what? 1.00

00:14:05.000 How can I go shoot them? 1.00

00:14:06.000 Them little pool of black people, little babies and children, women. 1.00

00:14:09.000 How can I shoot them poor people? 1.00

00:14:11.000 Just take me to jail. 0.98

00:14:13.000 Ali more than held his own against students who had a far better formal education than he.

00:14:18.000 I'm saying you're talking about me about some draft and all of you white boys are breaking your neck to get to Switzerland and Canada and London. 1.00

00:14:27.000 I'm not going to help nobody get something my Negroes don't have. 1.00

00:14:30.000 If I'm going to die, I'll die now right here fighting you. 1.00

00:14:32.000 Oh my God. 1.00

00:14:34.000 I fucking love him. 0.99

00:14:36.000 I love him. 0.99

00:14:37.000 That's greatness.

00:14:38.000 That's true greatness.

00:14:40.000 The truly great are mystics in so much as they operate in the present.

00:14:46.000 They operate in the present.

00:14:47.000 Muhammad Ali, as he demonstrated, become a great boxer, but he could have become almost a great anything.

00:14:52.000 I suppose, like that other more contemporaneous great athlete, Michael Jordan, you get the idea that guy could have just sort of done anything.

00:15:01.000 And I suppose why it's doubly exciting with Muhammad Ali is he stepped in to the public arena and was willing here right now fighting you.

00:15:11.000 What are you gonna say?

00:15:12.000 Come on then.

00:15:13.000 Let's go.

00:15:14.000 My God. 0.99

00:15:16.000 If I'm gonna die, you my enemy. 1.00

00:15:19.000 My enemies are white people, not Vietnam, Chinese, or Japanese. 1.00

00:15:22.000 I mean, you my opposite when I want freedom. 0.99

00:15:24.000 You my opposer when I want justice.

00:15:26.000 You my opponents when I want equality.

00:15:28.000 You won't even stand up for me in a hurry for my religious beliefs.

00:15:31.000 And you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home.

00:15:36.000 In a way, what Muhammad Ali demonstrated there, although it might be difficult and uncomfortable to hear some of the racialized language and a racialized dispute broadcast in that way, was demonstrated the qualities of heroism which are inseparable from the qualities of Christianity, i.e. willing to die for what you believe in.

00:15:55.000 He did go to jail.

00:15:57.000 He has that conversation live, present with an opponent, someone criticizing him.

00:16:02.000 He's willing to stand up in front of people he disagrees with and confront them with the truth of who he is.

00:16:09.000 And the truth is that we're all capable of that.

00:16:12.000 You're capable of it.

00:16:13.000 I'm capable of it.

00:16:15.000 And when you see Muhammad Ali doing it, you remember.

00:16:18.000 You're reminded, hold on, we can be glorious.

00:16:21.000 How have I allowed myself to be thresholded and curtailed by the low ceilings of a lowly culture? 1.00

00:16:27.000 Malcolm X returned from Mecca transformed, breaking with rigid ideologies that previously defined him.

00:16:34.000 And this is what I had to become aware of on my pilgrimage to Mecca.

00:16:38.000 I could see then that there are many white people in this country who will side with the Negro in whatever he has to do to protect himself. 0.83

00:16:45.000 But that's a considerable change of opinion in Malcolm X.

00:16:49.000 No, today I'm speaking for myself.

00:16:51.000 Formerly, I spoke for Elijah Muhammad.

00:16:54.000 And everything I said was, Elijah Muhammad teaches us thus and so. 0.55

00:16:58.000 I'm speaking now from what I think, from what I have seen, from what I have analyzed and the conclusions that I have reached.

00:17:04.000 Then the white man is no longer the devil and he is no longer bound to be evil.

00:17:09.000 If I judge a man by his conscious behavior, I am not a racist. 0.65

00:17:13.000 I don't subscribe to any of the tenets of racism.

00:17:15.000 Then there are good whites and good blacks and bad whites and blacks. 0.91

00:17:19.000 It's not a case of being good and bad, good or bad, blacks and whites. 0.94

00:17:24.000 It's a case of being good or bad human beings.

00:17:27.000 When you watch Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, it's striking that this country has chosen to follow the wrong leaders and to follow the wrong ideas.

00:17:38.000 That we had a chance.

00:17:41.000 We had a chance then to support brilliant people, brilliant men of a variety of hues and shades, whether it was the Kennedys or these men.

00:17:53.000 And to recognize that it's that, you know, Malcolm X ain't perfect.

00:17:56.000 You know, we all know that he had a pretty crazy past.

00:17:59.000 Muhammad Ali's not perfect.

00:18:01.000 Crazy past.

00:18:02.000 Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy were not perfect men.

00:18:07.000 All of them, actually, it seems like there was pretty, you know, some interesting appetites went on with those guys.

00:18:13.000 But what we've replaced greatness with is a kind of mass-marketed mediocrity, a kind of a deliberate bureaucratized kind of ordinariness, ordinariness.

00:18:26.000 If you kill the great people, I don't know what you're going to get as a society.

00:18:32.000 Bobby Kennedy, Sr., after the murder of his brother, recalibrated toward a moral clarity that made political calculation secondary.

00:18:41.000 The whole question of whether we are lowering the barriers with communism and on one side of the world and we're signing a proliferation treaty of control of atomic weapons in one part of the world and in another part of the world we're killing people because they're common.

00:18:57.000 Sounds inconsistent and it is inconsistent.

00:19:00.000 Or the whole question of, for instance, of drug.

00:19:03.000 We commit math.

00:19:07.000 Cigarettes which kill far more people every year than marijuana, for instance.

00:19:10.000 That's right.

00:19:16.000 It's been available.

00:19:16.000 The information is available.

00:19:18.000 Who are the people, systems, and interests that prevent the information from reaching us and being popularized?

00:19:24.000 Let me know in the comments and chat.

00:19:26.000 And then we're going to have to do it.

00:19:29.000 There is tremendous economic power behind those people and so that we don't pass laws to deal with that even though our Department of Health has said that they're so dangerous.

00:19:38.000 Kill what 350,000 people a year.

00:19:41.000 Although there is this great wealth that I talked about and yet there's great poverty.

00:19:48.000 There are speeches made about the fact we're going to treat everybody equally and yet we don't treat everybody equally.

00:19:53.000 There's talks given and pronouncements made and laws written that everybody's going to have an opportunity to have a job and have decent housing.

00:20:01.000 And yet 43% of the people that live in the city of New York and live in this city live in dilapidated and rundown housing and are bitten by rats.

00:20:09.000 17,000 people bitten by rats and the poverty in rural areas is worse.

00:20:14.000 So if we weren't sanctimonious about it, if we weren't hypocritical about it, and we didn't perhaps tell untruths about ourselves, then I think that's and safe stuff to reality.

00:20:26.000 Then I think our country would be much better off and our people would have much more confidence in those of us who are public officials and in our government as a whole.

00:20:34.000 These moments share a common thread, the individual breaking free from imposed scripts, refusing to play the role assigned by power structures.

00:20:42.000 Green's move echoes that dangerous impulse, but in the hyper-mediated post-ideological terrain of modern politics, such departures are rarer and more destabilizing than ever.

00:20:54.000 The modern moment amplifies the threat of such awakenings.

00:20:57.000 Political labels are no longer merely slippery.

00:21:00.000 They're instruments of conditioning, shaping not just what people think, but how they experience reality.

00:21:05.000 The public consumes outrage as if it were sustenance, reinforcing the system's boundaries while the elite manipulate outcomes with impunity.

00:21:14.000 Greens, stepping outside that system, is akin to the red pill in the matrix, a confrontation with the hidden forces of control, a refusal to participate in the illusion, a destabilization of narrative.

00:21:26.000 In a world where obedience is rewarded and insight punished, such departures carry ominous potential.

00:21:32.000 They remind us that the machinery is not only pervasive, it is fragile if challenged from within.

00:21:38.000 The broader implications are chilling.

00:21:41.000 When politicians repeatedly betray ideological consistency and when the media amplifies conflict while concealing collaboration, society becomes a conditioned population responding to labels and narratives rather than reality itself.

00:21:53.000 Yeah, moments like Green's resignation expose the cracks, the possibility that individuals may choose awareness over compliance, conscience over spectacle, the labels, the outrage, the carefully maintained divisions.

00:22:05.000 All of it, all of it, absolutely all of it relies on widespread submission.

00:22:12.000 Once that submission follows, the entire architecture of control becomes vulnerable.

00:22:16.000 The danger for the ruling class is not opposition that mirrors the status quo, but a single actor stepping beyond the script, refusing to obey and inviting the public to question the illusions they've been fed.

00:22:27.000 And this is an opportunity we can all share in.

00:22:29.000 Like Marjorie Taylor Green, we can all resign from whatever role we're supposed to be playing.

00:22:34.000 I've resigned from mine many, many times.

00:22:37.000 Many times I've been here before.

00:22:39.000 Now, who do we belong to?

00:22:41.000 We belong to a source of power way beyond their malleable systems of total control.

00:22:47.000 We can be direct agents to the principle of God rather than controlled by the ever-changing vicissitudes of a culture that has no moral moorings.

00:22:57.000 This is the ominous question the moment poses.

00:22:59.000 If ideological labels no longer map to reality, if political actors can flip between fascist and communist accusations at will, and if even the most extreme partisans can apologize and disengage, then who truly controls the narrative?

00:23:13.000 The warning's clear.

00:23:14.000 Society teeters between conditioning and consciousness, and those who step outside the controlled story threaten the system built on obedience, hypocrisy, and the illusion of choice.

00:23:25.000 Green's resignation is not merely a personal recalibration, it's a tremor in the foundations of managed reality, a hint that the cage might one day be opened and that the public might glimpse the mechanisms that have long shaped their perceptions and constrained their minds.

00:23:40.000 Or to use a metaphor from classic Greek literature and philosophy, we are turning at last and facing the light.

00:23:48.000 No longer content to look at the silhouettes and shadows cast by a machine of total control.

00:23:54.000 The reality of God is accessible to all of us and more and more people are awakening to that truth.

00:23:59.000 At least that's what I think.

00:24:00.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

00:24:02.000 A who's who of the nation's political elite gathered for Dick Cheney's funeral.

00:24:08.000 Former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden with their first ladies Laura and Dr. Jill.

00:24:13.000 And former Vice Presidents Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence. 0.99

00:24:18.000 Fitting in a way that a funeral is the venue for dropping the bullshit because the bullshit is not just the political system, it's the BS we all engage in when we prefer a persona over reality. 0.95

00:24:30.000 Indeed, the very word persona, the etymology of the word personality, suggests and indeed means a mask. 0.98

00:24:39.000 Only temporarily is this your identity.

00:24:41.000 Your true identity is in God.

00:24:44.000 If you ever had a moment of peace, if you ever had a moment of prayer, then you might experience that as I have done.

00:24:50.000 You might experience the truth that I have been granted.

00:24:53.000 You have to attend, in a sense, your own funeral, the funeral of Russell Brand, the funeral of whoever you are, to awaken to the truth within you.

00:25:00.000 For surely you will be attending those funerals.

00:25:02.000 Not your own, of course, you'll be in a box for that.

00:25:05.000 But hopefully one day by the glory of God and through the sacrifice of Christ, you may be resurrected.

00:25:11.000 Certainly what awaits you is the death of everyone you love.

00:25:15.000 We all know that, and yet we keep it at arm's length.

00:25:18.000 And perhaps the death of your dreams, the death of your beliefs, the death of your artificial stimulants that holds you together and make you a participant in this illusion.

00:25:27.000 Will you resign?

00:25:28.000 Can you resign?

00:25:29.000 Let's have a look at some of the other shifting sands.

00:25:32.000 I think he's terrible. 0.58

00:25:33.000 He's a communist. 0.98

00:25:35.000 The last thing we need is a communist.

00:25:37.000 I said there will never be socialism in the United States.

00:25:40.000 Joey McConaughey and stuff.

00:25:42.000 I think he's central.

00:25:43.000 I mean, isn't it irrelevant?

00:25:44.000 Can the mayor of New York meaningfully create a socialist communist state within New York?

00:25:50.000 What power does he have?

00:25:51.000 What levers does he have access to?

00:25:53.000 The simple truth is this. 0.99

00:25:54.000 Until we recognize the incredible potential of this very technology, we're going to rattle around in these ridiculous paradoxes and this stupid mudslinging. 0.99

00:26:04.000 What you could have is empowered city-states made up of boroughs, each of those boroughs run by councils, representative democracy reduced to the minimum possible level, and direct democracy increased to the maximum possible level. 0.69

00:26:21.000 That would mean participatory democracies and referenda in a city like New York or London.

00:26:26.000 If I were the mayor of London, that's exactly how I'd run it.

00:26:29.000 Referenda.

00:26:30.000 I would tell people plainly, this is what the Mayor of London can do.

00:26:34.000 The Mayor of London is in control of transport, to a degree, the Metropolitan Police Force, and to a degree, property planning.

00:26:40.000 This is what I suggest, and here are our referenda.

00:26:44.000 We're going to vote on all of these, and we are going to use the results of these referenda to direct policy.

00:26:50.000 You might be wrong, but you'll be wrong yourself.

00:26:52.000 We'll do our best to persuade you of our agenda, but we will accept that maybe you will not want to pursue that agenda.

00:26:58.000 That can be the new politics that replaces this senseless, juvenile, yet somehow senile, mudslinging politics. 0.95

00:27:06.000 How long do you want to engage in it?

00:27:07.000 It doesn't matter if you're left or right, because as we've told you, them labels don't mean anything anymore.

00:27:12.000 Start using N-word, racist, rapist, all these words, just tossed around as weapons to disable, smear, or impede any relevant voices.

00:27:20.000 Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat.

00:27:22.000 And I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with him watching him because he has to come right in his jumbling.

00:27:27.000 See, yet it's funny.

00:27:28.000 Don't worry, he's not going to run away with anything.

00:27:30.000 I think he's, frankly, I've heard he's a total nutshop. 0.97

00:27:34.000 I think the people of the New York are crazy because they go this route. 0.99

00:27:38.000 I think they're crazy. 0.96

00:27:39.000 We will have a communist in the, for the first time, really, a pure, true communist.

00:27:45.000 He wants to operate the grocery stores, the department stores.

00:27:50.000 What about the people that are there?

00:27:53.000 I think it's crazy.

00:27:54.000 And Mamdani says of him.

00:27:56.000 Clarify your answer to Stephen Nelson. 0.71

00:27:58.000 Mamdani, you might want to review the genital clutch.

00:28:01.000 Stephen Nelson, he asked about your comment called the president a fascist.

00:28:06.000 And your answer was, both President Trump and I have been clear about our positions and our views.

00:28:11.000 We can't stay on YouTube.

00:28:12.000 We're off.

00:28:13.000 See you later.

00:28:14.000 Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

00:28:17.000 I've spoken about it.

00:28:21.000 It's interesting, isn't it?

00:28:22.000 Even Trump, with all of his robustness and all of his bellicosity and all of his personal groundedness and interpersonal authority, still deploys very unusual body language when dealing with something that's socially awkward.

00:28:36.000 That's okay.

00:28:37.000 That's okay.

00:28:37.000 You could just say it.

00:28:38.000 It's very un-Trump, that wrist, isn't it? 0.98

00:28:41.000 And look at our man Mamdani there clutching away at his genitalia, putting essentially a manual cod piece over his vulnerability, you'd have to say. 0.99

00:28:51.000 Now, you might see that as cod psychology, but I'd see that as a manual cod piece over his genitalia.

00:28:58.000 And the fact is, is that they're just two human beings saying what they have to say in order to facilitate their function in a very narrow and increasingly ephemeral public space.

00:29:08.000 What I mean by that is this vapor is floating away and there is a great revelation coming.

00:29:14.000 Okay.

00:29:15.000 It's easier.

00:29:16.000 It's easier than explaining it.

00:29:20.000 Now, when not trapped in the embarrassing dynamic of personal proximity, what does he say?

00:29:25.000 At a press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you've used in the past.

00:29:34.000 You were about to answer.

00:29:35.000 Then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, that's okay.

00:29:39.000 You can just say yes.

00:29:40.000 It's easier than explaining it.

00:29:42.000 So, Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?

00:29:48.000 And after President Trump said that, I said yes.

00:29:51.000 So you do.

00:29:51.000 And that's something that I've said in the past.

00:29:53.000 I say it today.

00:29:54.000 And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment.

00:30:03.000 And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.

00:30:10.000 So what does fascist actually mean then?

00:30:13.000 Fascist literally means a bundle of weak things tied together to make them strong, which is a pretty good thing. 0.99

00:30:20.000 It doesn't really mean that though, does it? 0.87

00:30:22.000 It means Mussolini and it means Hitler and it means baddie. 0.75

00:30:24.000 It means evil. 0.97

00:30:25.000 It's a synonym for evil.

00:30:26.000 While in fact, etymologically and actually, what it means is if you bind together many weak things, they become strong.

00:30:33.000 So fascist actually is a pretty good thing. 1.00

00:30:35.000 And where fascism comes from is if you want to challenge centralized global forces, the people have to come together.

00:30:42.000 It's not dissimilar to socialism in its goals.

00:30:47.000 And that, again, is why I believe that Christ is the answer.

00:30:51.000 Because the problem is, is whether it's a fascistic model or a socialistic model, if it's human beings that are operating the levers, it will become diabolical.

00:31:00.000 I mean that literally.

00:31:01.000 It will become split, dualistic, Luciferian, satanic.

00:31:06.000 The dark forces, whether you want to see them as supernatural or natural, I don't care anymore, will ultimately take command.

00:31:13.000 The only way out of that is to make a deep commitment to be willing to die for what you believe in.

00:31:19.000 Once you've made that, then you're cool.

00:31:22.000 Syria's ex-jihadist president, now Donald Trump's new bestie. 0.79

00:31:25.000 He was a jihadist with Tim Million Bounty. 0.92

00:31:27.000 Now Trump is welcoming him to the White House.

00:31:29.000 But, you know, what was Fidel Castro before he became president of Cuba?

00:31:35.000 What would George Washington have been if the British had won the War of Independence? 0.96

00:31:40.000 He'd have been a traitor and a terrorist.

00:31:43.000 So in a sense, these terms have always been somewhat mobile.

00:31:46.000 The challenge is now that we're confronted with this at a pace that we can't contend with.

00:31:51.000 I was about to say we can't put Marjorie Taylor Greene in the same category as Muhammad Ali, Robert Kennedy, or Malcolm X, such verifiably great men, but perhaps we can.

00:32:01.000 Perhaps all of us.

00:32:03.000 Maybe Rachel Maddow could yet still be great. 1.00

00:32:06.000 Maybe Mamdani can be great.

00:32:09.000 Maybe America can be great again.

00:32:11.000 But if America is going to be great again, the greatness will be to acknowledge the greatness of the individuals within America and the potential collective greatness that that may lead to.

00:32:22.000 And that can't be brought about through systems of inoculation and castration.

00:32:28.000 We must revere and honor and love greatness as a reflection of the God that's within each of us.

00:32:34.000 Look at how Malcolm X changed.

00:32:36.000 Look at how Muhammad Ali changed.

00:32:38.000 Look at how Marjorie Taylor Green has changed.

00:32:41.000 If we're going to say, oh, there are no great people.

00:32:43.000 What do you think?

00:32:43.000 Do you think there's something in the water?

00:32:45.000 Maybe there is something in the water.

00:32:46.000 You think great people aren't being born today?

00:32:48.000 You think that great people don't move among us?

00:32:50.000 You think greatness isn't in you?

00:32:52.000 That's what they've done.

00:32:53.000 That's the great trick that they've enacted.

00:32:56.000 Oh, that can't be done anymore.

00:32:57.000 That's over.

00:32:58.000 It ain't over.

00:32:59.000 We forbid it.

00:33:01.000 The glory is yet to come.

00:33:03.000 Our great achievements are yet undone.

00:33:06.000 You will do greater deeds than me, said Jesus Christ.

00:33:10.000 And impressive, though Muhammad Ali no doubt is, and Malcolm X was.

00:33:15.000 And no doubt how impressive it is what Marjorie Taylor Green has been willing to do and say.

00:33:20.000 There is a greatness that is coming and you must participate in it with me.

00:33:26.000 But that's just what I think.

00:33:27.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

00:33:31.000 Candice Owen claims the Macrons orchestrated an assassination plot against her.

00:33:36.000 Public trust in authority is collapsing.

00:33:39.000 With accusations once dismissed as unthinkable gaining traction, what does it mean when so many people no longer believe the government's version of events?

00:33:47.000 And why should we?

00:33:50.000 Candice Owen's claim that Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron orchestrated an assassination plot against her, now echoed by Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and Tucker Carlson's allegation that the FBI is hiding crucial information about the attempted assassin of Donald Trump.

00:34:05.000 These allegations and claims have been ridiculed by the establishment, of course, as hysterical fabrications.

00:34:11.000 These are videos the FBI has worked hard to make sure you haven't seen.

00:34:16.000 They're from the Google Drive account of Thomas Crooks, the man who on July 13th, 2024, showed up at the Butler County, Pennsylvania fairgrounds and tried to assassinate the frontrunner, Donald Trump.

00:34:28.000 And look what happened to our country.

00:34:31.000 That day, Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country.

00:34:37.000 And yet, a year and a half later, we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it.

00:34:43.000 That's because for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn't want us to know.

00:34:58.000 Since the start of their investigation, the FBI has claimed that Thomas Crooks acted alone and that he was a virtual ghost online with no presence at all.

00:35:07.000 Their only substantive claim about Crooks' motive was that he was a right-winger.

00:35:13.000 We learned that from FBI Deputy Director Paula Bate, who said this to Congress just one month after the attempted assassination.

00:35:21.000 Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share is a social media account which is believed to be associated with the shooter in about the 2019-2020 timeframe.

00:35:32.000 There were over 700 comments posted from this account.

00:35:36.000 Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature.

00:35:49.000 The social media account Abate was describing was Crooks' YouTube comments.

00:35:54.000 When the FBI made that claim, we had to take his word for it.

00:35:57.000 We have no way to check.

00:35:59.000 But now we do.

00:36:00.000 In September, we obtained hundreds of comments from Thomas Crookes' YouTube account.

00:36:06.000 Since then, we've gone to great lengths to verify that they're real.

00:36:10.000 We can now confidently say they are.

00:36:13.000 These are genuine, written by Thomas Crookes.

00:36:16.000 But although Crooks's comments are interesting and give tremendous insight into why he did it, they're not the only story.

00:36:23.000 The other story, in fact, the far more significant story, involves the government, the DOJ, and the FBI, which have hidden from the public what they know about Thomas Crookes.

00:36:35.000 The purpose of this report is to reveal details of Crooks' social media accounts and to confront a series of key questions.

00:36:43.000 Why is the FBI keeping Crooks' views a secret?

00:36:47.000 Why are they ignoring congressional subpoenas to divulge information?

00:36:52.000 Why are they pretending that there's nothing to see here?

00:36:55.000 And more than anything, what are they hiding?

00:36:58.000 Yet the speed with which these claims spread and the intensity of public attention that they attract reveal something deeper and far more ominous than the claims themselves.

00:37:07.000 It reflects a growing widespread belief that government institutions, intelligence services, and security agencies have forfeited the moral authority required to be taken at face value.

00:37:18.000 If you ask me, this process began in the 1960s when mass media brought to public attention brilliant countercultural voices like James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and even had people in significant positions of power like the Kennedys who were willing to take unusual stances.

00:37:36.000 These institutions are now met not with public trust but with suspicion.

00:37:40.000 A growing portion of the public no longer assumes that official explanations are true.

00:37:44.000 They assume that something is being hidden.

00:37:46.000 Whether or not you believe Candice Owens' story of an international hit squad or Carlson's warnings of an FBI suppression, the instinct to question power has become a rational survival strategy in a political culture built on secrecy, manipulation, and documented historical crimes.

00:38:03.000 Simple truth is this.

00:38:04.000 Charlie Kirk is dead now.

00:38:06.000 What on earth happened there?

00:38:07.000 Do you want to believe another lone gunman story like the lone gunman that killed the Kennedys, like the lone gunman that killed Malcolm X, like the lone gunman that killed Martin Luther King?

00:38:18.000 Or do you want to investigate the potential that perhaps something unusual is happening?

00:38:24.000 I don't claim to have any answers.

00:38:25.000 I'm not even sure what the right questions are other than qui bono, who benefits, who benefits.

00:38:32.000 And probably your belief about who conducted these murders or assassinations is an indication of the kind of information that you've consumed and where you locate evil.

00:38:43.000 And, you know, that's why ultimately we're going to need a supernatural story because it's beyond what we can comprehend.

00:38:51.000 This distrust is not rooted in fantasy.

00:38:53.000 It's rooted in the undeniable record of the last 70 years.

00:38:56.000 In 1953, the CIA helped engineer the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohamed Mostai, by bribing officials, planting propaganda, and staging violence to justify the return of a monarch more compliant with Western oil interests.

00:39:13.000 It's actually been an open secret for decades, but for the first time now, the CIA has released documents that show its role in the 1953 coup.

00:39:22.000 That is the coup that toppled Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, had moved to nationalize oil production in Iran.

00:39:30.000 Well, the U.S. was concerned at the time that that would mean a victory for the Soviets in the Cold War.

00:39:35.000 So shortly after his election, the CIA began to plan his overthrow, teaming up with Britain's MI6.

00:39:43.000 Now, the CIA, we've seen it spelling out its involvement in a series of newly declassified documents.

00:39:49.000 These are the actual documents marked confidential, top secret, eyes only.

00:39:54.000 It's the stuff of crime and mystery and spy novels.

00:39:57.000 This one talks about the security implications of CIA letters of commendation for those who served in that operation codenamed TP Ajax.

00:40:07.000 And this one, dated July 22nd, 1953, almost a month before the coup, it talks about preparing an official American statement to follow a successful coup.

00:40:19.000 So let's dig deeper into this story.

00:40:21.000 We're joined now by Middle East analyst Robin Wright.

00:40:24.000 She's in from Washington.

00:40:26.000 Robin, this is an event that the Iranians still talk about 60 years later with surprising frequency.

00:40:33.000 What have you learned from these documents that you got to get a look at?

00:40:37.000 Well, I've written about this episode in three different books.

00:40:40.000 So this is, as you point out, not something new, but the fact is the United States has finally openly provided the documents and details.

00:40:46.000 And it talks about how this was approved at the highest levels of government.

00:40:48.000 It details the amount of money that went into buying currying favor among the various sectors of Iranian society.

00:40:56.000 And it points out how important this really was.

00:40:59.000 Little did the CIA understand that this would have extraordinary repercussions 25 years later.

00:41:06.000 And, you know, one of the things that's fascinating is like it is an open secret.

00:41:09.000 This is something that we've heard from former Secretary of State Malin Albright, President Obama as well.

00:41:14.000 Both of them referring to this as this cooperation that happened.

00:41:18.000 But the first time that the CIA has really acknowledged its role in this, do you think there's going to be any kind of shift or a change or a way that the new president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, can open up a new dialogue with the United States?

00:41:33.000 Well, the release of these documents were as a result of a Freedom of Information inquiry.

00:41:38.000 So this was not something that the United States voluntarily provided, but it does come at a very curious or interesting time because Iran has a new president who's talked about moderation and trying to engage in really serious dialogue with the outside world, the world's six major powers, and even hinted at direct talks with the United States.

00:41:57.000 And it's very interesting how this release of documents is playing in Tehran.

00:42:02.000 The fact that the United States has acknowledged it, openly, put it out there on the table may actually help both sides get beyond it.

00:42:09.000 The United States has formally apologized for it in the past, but in vague terms.

00:42:14.000 Now the details are known and kind of fessing up may change the atmospherics at least.

00:42:20.000 And Robin, you know, this case perhaps explains to some Americans, to some of us, why are in the Middle East, in countries like Iran, some of the public opinion is so mixed and negative really when it comes to the U.S. We're still feeling the after effects of that coup, which was carried out at the height of the Cold War to this very day, right?

00:42:43.000 Absolutely.

00:42:44.000 It did lead to the abortion of the evolutionary political process led to a revolutionary process 25 years later, for which the United States is still trying to recoup.

00:42:57.000 Iran had been one of the two pillars of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and this was a tremendous loss, not just because it's an oil-producing country.

00:43:04.000 It has very valuable geostrategic consequences.

00:43:08.000 And this is a moment that turned everything, two very close allies against each other.

00:43:18.000 And this is a moment that these documents kind of illustrate the consequences of opting for stability over democratic values, which resonates in terms of what's happening in Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East today.

00:43:36.000 The American public did not learn the full truth for decades because the government lied about it, denied involvement, and destroyed records.

00:43:42.000 That same pattern of covert manipulation defined entire generations of intelligence work.

00:43:47.000 MK Ultra used citizens as unsuspecting test subjects for mind-altering experiments.

00:43:52.000 CIA honey traps operations target diplomats, dissidents, and politicians for sexual blackmail.

00:43:58.000 The public was told none of this until whistleblowers and congressional investigators forced the truth into daylight.

00:44:05.000 Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation, American journal?

00:44:21.000 We do have people who submit pieces to other, to American journals.

00:44:26.000 Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?

00:44:42.000 This, I think, gets into the kind of getting into the details, Mr. Chairman, that I'd like to get into in an executive session.

00:44:50.000 At CBS, we had been contacted by the CIA.

00:44:56.000 As a matter of fact, by the time I became the head of the whole news and public affairs operation in 1954, the ships had been established, and I was told about them and asked if I'd carry on with them.

00:45:05.000 Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the national news services, AP and UPI?

00:45:26.000 Well, again, I think we're getting into the kind of detail, Mr. Chairman, that I'd prefer to handle in an executive session.

00:45:32.000 Senator, do you think that you named the new organization's new final report?

00:45:36.000 That remains to be decided.

00:45:38.000 I think it was entirely in order for our correspondents at that time to make use of CIA agent chiefs of station and other members of the executive staff of CIA as sources of information which were useful in their assessments of world conditions.

00:45:54.000 Would you say that continues today?

00:45:56.000 Well, I would think probably for a reporter it would continue today, but because of all of the revelations of the period of the 1970s, it seems to me that a reporter's got to be much more circumspect in doing it now, or he runs the risk of at least being looked at with considerable disfavor by the public.

00:46:15.000 I think you've got to be much more careful about it.

00:46:20.000 By 1975, the situation was so dire that the church committee hearings revealed a catalog of abuses, domestic spying, infiltration of civil rights groups, mail interception, illegal wiretapping, and covert operations designed to manipulate public opinion.

00:46:34.000 These were not fringe theories.

00:46:36.000 These were sworn testimonies backed by documents that agencies fought to keep secret.

00:46:41.000 Every revelation proved that institutions built for national security were willing to violate the rights of citizens, subvert democratic accountability and lie until caught.

00:46:50.000 Trust died not because people were paranoid, but because government agencies had proven they could not be believed.

00:46:57.000 The lingering doubts around the JFK assassination only reinforced the pattern.

00:47:02.000 Official investigations contradicted each other, witnesses were ignored and key records remained classified long past the time when disclosures should have been automatic.

00:47:10.000 Even today, Partial releases arrive with redactions that raise more questions than they answer.

00:47:15.000 In this environment, scepticism is not an ideological choice anymore.

00:47:18.000 It's a logical response to the government's long tradition of secrecy and self-preservation.

00:47:22.000 The same dynamic plays out now in public reactions to establishment figures who demand unquestioning loyalty to official narratives.

00:47:29.000 When individuals like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel present conflicting public statements about what they knew regarding Jeffrey Epstein, even as the FBI under Donald Trump promised the new transparency, people notice the inconsistencies.

00:47:41.000 They notice the selective disclosure.

00:47:43.000 They notice what is never explained and they draw the only conclusion that fits the pattern.

00:47:47.000 The institutions claiming to protect the public are capable of hiding the truth when it suits them, which seems more often than not these days.

00:47:57.000 This is the context into which Candice Owens and Tucker Carlson's claims come.

00:48:02.000 Whether or not their specific statements are accurate matters less than the cultural function they perform.

00:48:08.000 They remind us, the public, to think independently, to interrogate official accounts, to follow evidence rather than authority, and to understand that historical precedent justifies suspicion.

00:48:18.000 Independent media figures may get things wrong, but they serve a purpose that government institutions resent.

00:48:23.000 They disrupt the expectation of obedience.

00:48:26.000 They ask questions those in power would prefer remain unasked.

00:48:29.000 They force attention onto the details authorities would rather bury.

00:48:33.000 Think for a moment about Muhammad Ali's brave stance when the Vietnam draft came through.

00:48:38.000 Imagine them trying to contain Muhammad Ali now.

00:48:41.000 Imagine them imprisoning Muhammad Ali now.

00:48:43.000 The lesson is not that every accusation against the government is true, nor that skepticism must always curdle into belief.

00:48:50.000 The lesson is that citizens cannot afford to accept government claims at face value because history shows that those claims are often incomplete, misleading or intentionally false.

00:49:00.000 Trust has to be earned and these institutions have failed to earn it.

00:49:03.000 The prudent path forward is radical change.

00:49:07.000 These institutions have broken our trust and they themselves are broken.

00:49:12.000 We can never again trust that the official line is the real story.

00:49:16.000 Don't assume the release of partial information is the same as transparency.

00:49:20.000 Do not outsource your judgment to agencies that repeatedly abuse the power they wield.

00:49:24.000 In this age of institutional decay and public deception, independent thought is not a political virtue, it's a civic necessity.

00:49:32.000 And the contemplation and mental interrogation that we conduct individually is likely to lead to radical collegiate change.

00:49:41.000 Why do we need these institutions?

00:49:44.000 Why do we need this degree of centralized authority?

00:49:47.000 Is it not possible now to have forms of direct democracy that reflect the technology that we have and the corruption that we face?

00:49:57.000 Yes is the obvious answer, but that's just what I think.

00:50:00.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

00:50:04.000 As corporations push fake food on their customers and COVID inquiries deliver predictable reports while telling the public that ever tight controls, drills and behavioural conditioning are for our own good, how much of this is really preparation for safety?

00:50:20.000 And how much of it is preparation for something far darker?

00:50:27.000 In the face of a novel and deadly virus spreading rapidly around the country. 0.70

00:50:32.000 Did you ever go visit that dumb wall opposite the houses of parliament where hearts were put up to commemorate dead relatives?

00:50:38.000 Didn't you see already that that was an attempt at create in a kind of apparently organic piece of folk culture? 0.99

00:50:44.000 What absolute bullshit we've been subject to throughout this pandemic period? 0.98

00:50:48.000 There is nothing they will not do to control you. 1.00

00:50:51.000 Have you seen Keir Starmer weeping about the wedding and apparent beating of his gay niece?

00:50:57.000 There's nothing they won't say or claim in order to convince you that they're human beings with human feelings.

00:51:03.000 I pray that Keir Starmer's niece and her partner are happy and I pray that they were not publicly beaten.

00:51:10.000 And I pray that we're able to traverse through this weird, peculiar time where even personal anecdotes are subject to such cynicism because we know what Keir Starmer's about.

00:51:21.000 We know what Kierstama's aims are.

00:51:23.000 Maybe he doesn't even know it, I sometimes think.

00:51:25.000 In the same way that I know that potentially good journalists deceptively wrote untrue stories about me, I suspect that even higher-ups don't know what they're participating in.

00:51:36.000 The alternative is they're lying and they know that they're lying and they know that we know that they're lying and yet the lying continues.

00:51:45.000 Possibly they're all caught up in some amdram sham where they believe what they're saying. 0.82

00:51:51.000 They believe that they're helping us.

00:51:53.000 Look at this Baroness telling you now that this Operation Pegasus is here to help us or that the pandemic was too little too late.

00:52:01.000 Come on now, man.

00:52:02.000 Think of the funerals you missed.

00:52:04.000 Think of the births that you missed.

00:52:05.000 Think of the church services you missed.

00:52:07.000 The parties that you missed.

00:52:08.000 It was all a complete sham.

00:52:12.000 Politicians and administrators in the UK government and the devolved administrations were presented with unenviable choices.

00:52:22.000 Whatever decision they took, there was often no right answer or good outcome.

00:52:30.000 They also had to make decisions in conditions of extreme pressure and initially without access to data or a full understanding of the epidemiological position.

00:52:42.000 Watch what they're saying now, even in this carefully managed piece of propaganda, and try to avoid the conclusion that I'm about to offer you.

00:52:51.000 Well, if you are unable to do your job of protecting the public and managing crisis, how about you stop playing that role, decentralize power, absolutely, incorporate direct democracy and respect the individual sovereignty of all of us.

00:53:14.000 Allow us to be who we are.

00:53:16.000 Allow us to control our own communities, our own community budgets, and make decisions like, hey, this is the information.

00:53:23.000 We're probably going to stay indoors.

00:53:25.000 You guys can stay indoors if you want.

00:53:28.000 That's our recommendation.

00:53:29.000 But we'll understand if you want to go a different route.

00:53:32.000 Particularly if you remember, like I do, that they were having parties the whole way through it.

00:53:38.000 Now, not only is that kind of galling in a sort of visceral way, I suppose, it's also an indication that they themselves weren't scared.

00:53:47.000 Why is that?

00:53:49.000 They knew.

00:53:50.000 They knew that it weren't that bad for you.

00:53:53.000 That COVID only kills people that are going to die anyway.

00:53:57.000 I mean, obviously, that's a category that we're all in, but it's only really dangerous if you have a bunch of comorbidities and you're not very well.

00:54:03.000 What they should have been telling you is if you're healthy and young, crack on this vaccine.

00:54:07.000 It doesn't even stop transmission.

00:54:09.000 If you are an old, vulnerable person, my God, maybe try this vaccine.

00:54:13.000 But I've got to tell you, every time I hear about a heart attack or a stroke, my first question is, I suppose don't even ask it because I know the answer.

00:54:23.000 Did you take it?

00:54:24.000 How many did you take?

00:54:28.000 To assess what was reasonable, one must therefore put the decisions into proper context.

00:54:34.000 Nonetheless, I can summarize my findings of the response as too little, too late.

00:54:42.000 Isn't that amazing that the conclusion that's being drawn is we need to be more authoritative and we need more control.

00:54:47.000 We should have locked down earlier and locked down more aggressively.

00:54:50.000 No, this is the conclusion.

00:54:53.000 You lot don't know what you're doing.

00:54:55.000 How could you?

00:54:56.000 You're just human beings.

00:54:58.000 You're flawed.

00:54:58.000 You'll use reason to pursue your own agenda, whether you know you're doing that or not.

00:55:04.000 Devolve power wherever possible, except as to where it pertains to foreign external threats and stop creating external foreign threats to legitimise ongoing power, whether it's military threats or health threats.

00:55:18.000 Look at what they're doing.

00:55:19.000 How are they incentivized to stop crisis when crisis has become their primary tool for management and when crisis isn't a crisis for them, but opportunity?

00:55:27.000 When we live in different tiers where the executives at Campbell's can say these disgusting peasants can eat our filthy vile soup and kind of get away with it. 0.99

00:55:35.000 What does it matter? 0.98

00:55:36.000 Sack that guy. 0.99

00:55:37.000 What needs to change is you need a culture where people don't bleed and well eat Campbell's soup anymore because we eat food that's been grown by us where we live.

00:55:45.000 Indeed, we must now, in a sense, not reverse the glorious revolutions of agriculture and technology, but deploy the technology sensibly.

00:55:56.000 Now we know that monoculture leads to bad health across populations while apparently solving starvation.

00:56:02.000 We've solved that problem now.

00:56:04.000 Now the problem is people aren't getting enough nutrition.

00:56:06.000 So is it possible to have permaculture localized organic farms where people that don't have jobs and you're talking about universal basic income work on the land to feed themselves and their families in the community?

00:56:16.000 Of course it's possible.

00:56:17.000 What's the obstacle to it?

00:56:18.000 Think about it for a second.

00:56:20.000 Oh yeah, it interrupts who?

00:56:22.000 Campbell's soup.

00:56:23.000 Do Campbell's soup benefit if you're growing and eating your own food?

00:56:25.000 No, that's interesting, isn't it? 1.00

00:56:26.000 And now you know you ain't getting your dream of getting in a crazy stupid dumb debt through academia. 0.99

00:56:32.000 You're not getting your dream of making a load of money and becoming a star. 1.00

00:56:36.000 Wake up from that dream.

00:56:38.000 Wake up from it.

00:56:39.000 You don't need them and their centralized crisis-inducing authority anymore.

00:56:44.000 There's one authority.

00:56:46.000 We're all subject to it in exactly the same way.

00:56:48.000 You're not better than me.

00:56:50.000 I'm not better than you.

00:56:51.000 They're not better than us.

00:56:52.000 Get into it quick, fast, quick, smart before you lose the choice.

00:56:58.000 All four governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat or the urgency of response it demanded in the early part of 2020.

00:57:08.000 I've got no interest in hearing an inquiry where they don't go, well, you know, Rishi Sunak, you know, he had shares in the company that funded Moderna when they had like five, 10 employees and he's cashed out of that now.

00:57:20.000 And meanwhile, while he was in government, both as Chancellor and Prime Minister, Moderna got a bunch of contracts that are still operating right now, 10-year massive long contracts.

00:57:29.000 Unless your inquiry looks into money, then it ain't interesting to me.

00:57:34.000 What kind of inquiry can you have that's broadcast by Sky News and is conducted by, she's presumably a member of the House of Lords, right?

00:57:42.000 That's presumably it.

00:57:43.000 So she's vested.

00:57:44.000 You know, like doctors can't conduct surgery on loved ones.

00:57:48.000 Politicians.

00:57:50.000 I don't know how to really end the analogy.

00:57:52.000 There shouldn't be a trusted to do anything at all ever.

00:57:56.000 Relying in part on misleading assurances that the UK was properly prepared for a pandemic.

00:58:03.000 In the UK, they're looking to get rid of trial by jury, except for the most serious crimes.

00:58:09.000 I'm on trial for an extremely serious crime and hopefully justice will be served because I've got nothing to fear from justice.

00:58:17.000 Imagine for a moment that I was the person that was conducting the inquiry saying, well, I slept around a lot, so I've been in a bunch of bathrooms with a bunch of strangers.

00:58:23.000 And yeah, promiscuity does generate some suffering and some grievance, clearly.

00:58:29.000 However, that is not akin to bypassing consent.

00:58:32.000 And I've conducted my inquiry now and it turns out, you know, I shouldn't have been sleeping around so much, but actually I've done nothing wrong.

00:58:39.000 Maybe that inquiry would be rejected.

00:58:42.000 There should be a trial.

00:58:43.000 There should be a jury. 0.92

00:58:45.000 All of the evidence should be scrutinised and analyzed.

00:58:49.000 And it should be impartially undertaken.

00:58:52.000 This is an inquiry undertaken by people that are hiding the truth.

00:58:57.000 And curiously enough, They are participants in the conditions that generated the trial that I'm referring to.

00:59:03.000 What a crazy coincidence.

00:59:05.000 Once the scientific community and the scientific advisors for each nation had become aware that the virus was causing substantially more cases of moderate or severe respiratory illness in China than was being officially reported and that it had spread from China.

00:59:22.000 Are they not aware of the world they're living in?

00:59:25.000 Are they not aware that most of us know now that gain of function research means that these scientists upon whose opinions they want us to rely are the very people that are responsible for taking back coronaviruses, making them more effective and infectious?

Stay Free - Russel Brand - December 01, 2025

The Unraveling: Cracks From Washington to Westminster - SF657

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