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00:02:53.000Cats being eaten or a potential nuclear war?
00:02:56.000Let me know in the comments and the chat who you thought won and how you felt in particular it was moderated.
00:03:03.000Is it going to be chalked off as another victory for the legacy media?
00:03:08.000It's one of those moments when you have to recognize that indeed America is a divided land.
00:03:14.000You will know if you look across a variety of media sources that the Democrats are likely hailing this as an astonishing victory, that Kamala was forthright and strong.
00:03:25.000Personally, what I felt while watching it live for our live watch-along party with beloved bear there, was that we moved between generalizations and generalities and when we got into the specificity of policy, it felt lost and adrift in the midst of Peculiar, emotional, grandstanding and performance.
00:03:48.000Remember, our AwakendWonder community got not only access to the debate watch along live, but also the debate predictions, which I imagine all came perfectly true.
00:03:58.000I'll be looking at that a little later.
00:04:00.000These are some of the posts on X that I think give you a flavour of how this has been viewed in what you might call right-wing spaces, given that the first one is Matt Walsh.
00:04:10.000Ironically, the moderators are winning this debate for Trump by being so insanely lopsided and biased against him.
00:04:17.000They're now the story of the night, which is a win for Trump.
00:04:19.000Of course, there is a good deal of lopsidedness, particularly on the behalf of ABC's Most famous, lopsided, sideways facing anchor, David Muir.
00:04:31.000Gutfeld, a friend of the show says, this debate is no longer about Trump versus Harris, it's about moderators obediently picking a side.
00:04:51.000Imagine if a journalist like Glenn Greenwald here who says David Muir is criticizing and attacking Trump more than Kamala is.
00:04:57.000Kamala can relax because the ABC moderators are handling the debate for her.
00:05:01.000I mean, if you want to see a moment where it becomes sort of perfectly clear that what we're operating in is a curated space, it's this one, I think, when the subject of race is brought to the forefront.
00:05:15.000Remember, it's that the questions that are asked sets the tone.
00:05:19.000The questions that are not asked reveal the agenda because, in a sense, don't you really want to ultimately address economic decline, ideological despair and potential approaching Armageddon?
00:05:32.000Try to hold those issues in mind and which candidate do you believe does a better job of representing those issues?
00:05:39.000Many of us believe in anti-establishment candidates And that's how Trump was regarded in 2016.
00:05:44.000I know many of you adore Trump to this day.
00:05:47.000And many of us are mobilized by the entry of RFK in spite of the areas where you would say, oh, well, it doesn't seem to be in line with interests, for example, when it comes to Middle Eastern issues, precisely because he is a person that will continually identify the problems of big food, the problems of big pharma, The problems of lobbying and the donor class, the very kind of institutions and interests that I suppose all of us are mentally referencing when we think of a phrase like drain the swamp.
00:06:17.000Let me know in the comments and in the chat, do you think this was classic Trump?
00:06:21.000The Trump of "you'd be in jail" or the Trump of the 2016 or 2015 rather primaries?
00:06:30.000Or do you feel that something has been lost?
00:06:34.000And if so, do you think that's because of the moderation or do you think that something else is at play?
00:06:39.000Let's have a look at the moment where race was brought to the forefront.
00:06:43.000And I would say that potentially this is one of the indicators of ABC bias.
00:06:49.000We're trying to maintain our own neutrality over here.
00:06:52.000I want to move on now to race and politics in this country.
00:06:55.000Mr. President, you recently said of Vice President Harris, quote, I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black.
00:07:04.000Now, the reason I point this out is precisely because it's a moment that is contentious.
00:07:09.000It's a moment that in a sense, what can Donald Trump say here that's going to be positive,
00:07:17.000that's going to advance the conversation, that's going to look anything other than unpleasant?
00:07:21.000Whether or not there was deliberate and definitive collusion between the Kamala campaign and
00:07:27.000the ABC moderators is in a sense secondary, because as your great George Carlin says,
00:07:33.000where interests align, conspiracy is unnecessary.
00:07:38.000If interests converge is already a type of conspiracy.
00:07:42.000What we have is an institutional conspiracy and the successes of early Trump were based on the sense that through his bombast, occasional hubris and error he still represented a force that was going to be disruptive.
00:07:56.000Do you believe he still represents that force?
00:07:59.000And will it be possible for that force to succeed as these institutions seem to be able
00:08:52.000I recognize there are complex histories and issues, cultural and racial identity issues that are playing out across the world, but what would be The vision, surely it's a transcendent attitude towards race.
00:09:05.000So I suppose many of you will think, oh, that was a good response.
00:09:07.000But the question itself, why do you think it's not?
00:09:10.000Look, I'm going to take a sideways look at you.
00:09:12.000And from this eye of mine, from this judgmental, my little judgmental eye, I'm going to ask you, why did you feel it was necessary to do that?
00:09:39.000Vice President Harris, your thoughts on this?
00:09:43.000I think it's I mean, honestly, I think it's a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who has consistently over the course of his career Over the course of this show, we'll be looking at some of Kamala's moments that were extraordinary and unsettling, and some of the moments where you feel like, oh yeah, this is vintage Trump.
00:10:08.000But surely our collective responsibility is to maintain a focus on the macro issues.
00:10:13.000Are we on the precipice of Armageddon?
00:10:17.000seeing increasing technocracy and centralisation of power continually legitimised by crisis?
00:10:24.000Did something extraordinary take place with the usurping and replacement of Biden?
00:10:29.000Was that a strategic move that looks to be successful?
00:10:33.000And if indeed it is a success, what does that tell us about the true nature of politics?
00:10:39.000That one minute we're told Biden is fine, don't criticise his age, there's nothing wrong with him, and then we pivot to a campaign that's about, oh look Trump is old, like I bet you'll see in liberal spaces a lot of talk about Trump's age and whether or not Trump, like the vitality of Kamala, and in a way The line that runs down the center of the screen to divide the two candidates is almost not metaphorical.
00:11:06.000There's almost two literal worlds available to us where we can consume distinct and separate biased information that is favorable to enforcing the biases that we already possess.
00:11:18.000But what Seems to me to be excluded by the frame of the screen are incredibly important issues about power, about war, and how those issues, in a sense, nullify and cuckold all of us when it comes to personal freedom and even something as diffuse, rare, and abstract as hope.
00:11:38.000Do you remember when everything was about hope?
00:11:40.000For a moment at the outset of the debate, it was even extraordinary to see the two candidates in the same frame.
00:11:47.000I was sort of watching it Live with my dog was almost like it was like sighting a Yeti and a Loch Ness Monster.
00:11:55.000I'm not making claims about either of the candidates.
00:11:58.000It seemed like an anathema to see them in the same space.
00:12:01.000They're such disparate and distinct individuals.
00:12:03.000And yet, from the Overteen Window perspective, look at the issues that are being discussed and look at the issues that aren't being discussed.
00:12:10.000For example, when the pandemic came to the forefront, it was fascinating to see the amount of restrictions.
00:12:15.000But let's first have a look at the initiation of the entire debate, the ceremonial handshake that must precede such matters.
00:12:24.000Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump.
00:12:28.000Kamala Harris, let's have a good debate.
00:13:05.000Donald Trump, why are you such a racist bastard, you son of a bitch?
00:13:10.000Now, the new, the very much, let's be unburdened by what might have been, appears to be, let's turn the page on this, let's not go back.
00:13:20.000It was a night when a new catchphrase was launched.
00:13:24.000Those of us thinking that the, let's be unburdened by what might not have been, those of us that are beginning to miss that, Now can enjoy let's turn the page let's not go back and see yourself turning a page and very much going forward.
00:13:39.000This election is not to his liking let's turn the page on this let's not go back let's chart a course for the future and not go backwards to the past.
00:13:51.000Let me just follow up here It was a different term and it was a term that related to energy because they have... One of the things that doesn't appear to matter is when you hear Trump condemned for saying, for example, there will be a bloodbath or another example is I'll be a dictator but for only a day.
00:14:14.000You can see that in the bloodbath example, he's talking about trade tariffs to China, and in the dictator for a day example, he's making a joke about the wall and about drilling.
00:14:27.000What Trump's detractors and attackers will say is that he's using a kind of live mnemonic device where he's dropping words like bloodbath, painting a kind of vivid picture filled with verbal sigils that evoke ideas of Armageddon.
00:14:48.000I think he has a very particular rhetorical style and I think that we've gotten to a point of such mutual hysteria that we're kind of electing out of some kind of mutual shared will to remain unconscious To properly track the fact that bizarre events have taken place in the run-up to this election.
00:15:12.000It's not that long ago there was an assassination attempt.
00:15:15.000It appears the likelihood of war is increasing hourly.
00:15:22.000Because of affiliations with global alliances, whether that's, you know, in the example I'm using now, NATO, those issues aren't being correctly brought to the forefront.
00:15:31.000They came up once or twice, but do you think that they were vigorously interrogated?
00:15:37.000You did get a few moments, I felt, of Trump being Trump.
00:15:42.000And it was usually when referring to Joe Biden.
00:15:45.000Kamala Harris very keen to point out a new Democratic Party trope.
00:15:50.000You're not fighting against Biden, you're fighting against me.
00:15:52.000And conducting the brinkmanship rather well of saying, like, of respecting peculiarly or honoring the odd warped legacy of Biden while continually presenting herself as a progression and an advancement.
00:16:07.000But as Trump said in his closing remarks, Kamala Harris is in government right now.
00:16:13.000Sometimes, I don't know how you feel about this, let me know in the comments, you're so caught up in the constant pumping out of toxic ephemera that you can't even remain focused on.
00:16:34.000Whilst Trump's Malapropisms and claims, for example the immigration and cat moment, are very vivid and clear.
00:16:43.000What you'll get from materialist liberalism is a general fog of deceit and deception and distraction that's harder to discern and therefore sort of less easy to condemn.
00:16:56.000Let's have a look at the vintage moments of Trump where he does what he does best, witty maxims that are designed to evoke a humorous response.
00:17:46.000They threw him out of a campaign like a dog. We don't even know. Is he our president?
00:17:51.000Right, so I guess a lot of you say in the chat that this is Trump bringing your
00:17:54.000attention to issues that do need to be addressed.
00:17:57.000We could be on the precipice of a war with Vladimir Putin.
00:18:00.000Nothing's being done to de-escalate that situation.
00:18:03.000It seems to me that there's an appetite to continue funding it.
00:18:06.000Isn't it really peculiar that between these two debates, the Trump-Biden debate and now the Trump-Kamala one, Joe Biden is sort of been put in this odd position where he's still president.
00:18:25.000So there are moments amidst it, in spite of the restrictive conditions, where you're able to see, yeah, like that Trump, who famously doesn't prepare for these debates, He's pointing out things that I suppose ought be brought to the forefront.
00:19:12.000It's a sort of a really bizarre existential claim.
00:19:15.000Um, one of the moments that a lot of people enjoyed on X was the brief bait-in and reference to Kamala's previous VP debates with Mike Pence.
00:21:07.000Yeah, that'll be a moment that will be memed and that people doubtlessly enjoy.
00:21:13.000Another moment that you would point to for Trump, I suppose, is the offering of the MAGA hat, a reference and allusion to Kamala taking on the new positions and surprising positions on fracking and indeed border security.
00:21:28.000Well, you know, if you do want to build a wall, you could build a wall right now.
00:21:31.000But don't we all recall that that very wall was the source of most of the condemnation and ire First of all, they bought their chips from Taiwan.
00:21:43.000We hardly make chips anymore because of philosophies like they have and policies like they have.
00:21:50.000I don't say her because she has no policy.
00:21:52.000Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window.
00:22:27.000It's difficult, isn't it, not to fall into judging the debate on its own terms, which is the terms of a spectacle, a presentation of two figures that represent, on one hand, emotional states, whether that's a kind of vehemence and anger and disdain for institution, for government, for globalism, a kind of despair and anger around issues like immigration, Or this sort of emergent haughtiness and superciliousness that we're being taught to identify as joy, but seems to me to be the epitome of much of what's wrong with liberalism, liberalism alloyed with corporatism.
00:23:08.000A kind of sense of condescension and personal certainty, of moral piety and easy biographical grandeur.
00:23:19.000Constant referencing to your own, of your own past.
00:23:22.000When I was a child I did this, I'm from this background, I created that.
00:23:26.000I'm not sure what the merits and values of that are and I personally find it like I get kind of psychological bends moving between biography, generalities, trivialities and then suddenly being confronted with Policy about like we're going to give $25,000 to a big business and we're doing startup for sorry small businesses We're going to do startup schemes.
00:23:50.000It seems like like how are we supposed to?
00:23:54.000understand simultaneously global war, globalization, events in the Middle East, funding of Ukraine,
00:24:03.000botched Afghanistan, do you want a small start-up loan, did Obamacare work? There's something
00:24:08.000ridiculous about the specificity of policy when indeed the specificity of policy should
00:24:13.000be all that matters. They oughtn't be ciphers for our unconscious emotion and sometimes
00:24:19.000I feel that's the best that's being offered along with I suppose a curated space that
00:24:25.000legacy media presents you with which plainly means these debates have a function.
00:24:30.000And the reason the debates must take place at all is because both sides must see that there's a benefit in them.
00:24:36.000And it will be the end of our country.
00:24:42.000Her father's a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well.
00:24:47.000But when you look at what she's done to our country, and when you look at these millions and millions of people that are pouring into our country monthly, where it's, I believe, 21 million people, not the 15 that people say, and I think it's a lot higher than the 21, that's bigger than New York State pouring in.
00:25:04.000And just look at what they're doing to our country.
00:25:11.000You know, you mentioned before, we'll talk about immigration later.
00:25:14.000Well, bad immigration is the worst thing that can happen to our economy.
00:25:18.000They have, and she has, destroyed our country with policy that's insane.
00:25:25.000Almost policy that you'd say they have to hate our country.
00:25:30.000One of the moments I suppose that we are ultimately going to have to look at as being a tactical triumph for Kamala is bringing up Trump's rallies.
00:25:40.000You can say what you want about Trump.
00:25:42.000You can suggest that he reveres dictators.
00:25:45.000You can criticise his skin colour, his hair and his hands.
00:25:49.000But at your peril will you say that people walk out of these rallies.
00:25:53.000And I'm going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump's rallies.
00:25:57.000Because it's a really interesting thing to watch.
00:25:59.000You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter.
00:26:05.000He will talk about when mills cause cancer.
00:26:08.000And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.
00:26:14.000And I will tell you, the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you.
00:26:18.000You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams, and your desires.
00:26:23.000And I'll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first.
00:26:30.000A little bit of a Biden moment there around needs and desires.
00:26:34.000But the idea that Trump rallies are especially detached from reality in an environment like that one, like during an ABC presidential debate, is a rather audacious claim.
00:26:48.000Because what, in a sense, the entire endeavour is about is Is, are we able to channel to you such a strong, illusory schema that you'll be distracted from your actual reality?
00:27:04.000Probably our obligation, do excuse me, Both as participants in democracy and in the ongoing communication that new media provides, is a rigorous attempt to maintain an understanding of what is real.
00:27:18.000Or maybe all of us will become, like Joe Biden in Trump's estimation, uncertain that we're even alive, unsure of what's important.
00:27:28.000Was Afghanistan, was that a good thing?
00:28:41.000Let me just ask though, why did you try to kill that bill, and successfully so, that would have put thousands of additional agents and officers on the border?
00:28:47.000Another example of the moderators biasing the proceedings in a general way towards favourable outcomes to Kamala.
00:29:33.000An assassination attempt that for a minute appeared like it would change the entire direction of the campaign.
00:29:40.000At the RNC it seemed more like a coronation and then after the switch, the Biden-Kamala switch, the news cycle moves That weaponized, not me, she weaponized.
00:29:53.000pace. It's like that never happened. I thought we would see more references to this event
00:29:59.000but here is a reference to the assassination attempt.
00:30:01.000"That weaponized, not me, she weaponized. I probably took a bullet to the head because
00:30:07.000of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy, I'm a threat to democracy.
00:30:13.000They're the threat to democracy with a fake Russia, Russia, Russia investigation that
00:30:20.000"Actually when you watch it as clips rather than watching it live when it's sort of overwhelming
00:30:25.000in some ways because of the vast scope of subjects and the weird array of emotions and
00:30:32.000tactics and performance styles, you can see that."
00:30:37.000Trump is more focused on bringing to the forefront... Are we dealing with like a lot of cacophony of absolute madness?
00:30:48.000And you can also, I think, identify that the moderation is continually, gently, creating favorable circumstances for Kamala.
00:30:58.000When I'm watching these things live, I don't know what happens to me.
00:31:01.000So like when I'm in a supermarket, I think the sort of the light in and the sort of the stimulation of the situation
00:31:08.000disorients me. Watching it now, you can see that Trump appears to be navigating back to,
00:31:15.000like, I'm on the precipice of a global war.
00:31:17.000And of course, there are like, sort of mad glitching moments, like when we're talking about
00:31:22.000sort of cats being eaten and stuff like that. But I suppose overall, what you get and what you,
00:31:28.000indeed, what you have, I think, in the figure of Kamala Harris is...
00:31:31.000is a newly minted cipher of the message of the establishment that is functioning better than establishment candidate retro model Joe Biden on a beach somewhere in bed when you wake him up at four o'clock in the afternoon.
00:31:47.000You have a better vessel for the anodyne, sanitary, culture-fixated Democratic Party model.
00:31:56.000I suppose, yeah, I'm able to sort of discern it a little clearer like in retrospect I suppose. Here's one of the fact-check
00:32:04.000moments, the repeated claim that Trump somehow endorsed the Charlottesville
00:32:10.000protesters, the now famous good people on both sides moment, which I think has
00:32:15.000been significantly fact-checked. Let's have a look at that.
00:32:18.000Let's remember Charlottesville where there was a mob of people carrying tiki
00:32:25.000torches, spewing anti-semitic hate, and what did the president then at the time
00:32:51.000There's a lot of talking about going backwards to the past and maybe that's because we are experiencing such odd temporal flux, time speeding up, data inundation, mass confusion, to such a degree where someone continually saying let's not go back to the past Makes at least a kind of rhetorical sense when I think we all know it's actually impossible.
00:33:15.000It was a different term and it was a term that related to energy because they have destroyed our energy business.
00:33:29.000Sean Hannity, Jesse, all of these people, they covered it.
00:33:33.000If they go an extra sentence, they will see it was perfect.
00:33:37.000It was debunked in almost every newspaper, but they still bring it up, just like they bring 2025 up.
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00:35:58.000Hello, you're watching me, Russell Brand.
00:36:30.000Amidst all the generalities, banalities and triviality looms large the visceral fact that we could be on the precipice of a global war and perhaps the function of the world's most powerful nation would be to intervene diplomatically to prevent that from happening.
00:36:48.000When we talked about, during the debate, when they talked about the Middle East or Ukraine, Russia, these were the moments where I felt everything coming into a kind of sharp focus.
00:36:58.000If indeed This war escalates, it will have a significant impact for everyone.
00:37:03.000Do you feel that the media and the Kamala campaign are focusing on issues that prevent us collectively recognizing the severity of the situation that we are being guided elegantly, if unconsciously, towards?
00:37:18.000along with increasing authoritarianism, the threat of war is perhaps the biggest existential
00:38:28.000They didn't fire anybody having to do with Afghanistan and the Taliban and the 13 people who were just killed, viciously and violently killed.
00:38:37.000And I got to know the parents and the family.
00:38:40.000They should have fired all those generals, all those top people, because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen.
00:38:49.000So when somebody does a bad job, I fire them.
00:39:26.000There's nothing to suggest that Vladimir Putin wants to invade the entirety of Ukraine, then
00:39:32.000ultimately Poland, and then of course the world.
00:39:36.000And in the way that Trump was subject to live fact-checking for almost I would say in response to many of his answers, it seems that the claim that Putin will invade Poland is egregious enough to warrant a little investigation.
00:39:54.000Understand why the European allies and our NATO allies are so thankful that you are no longer president and that we understand the importance of the greatest military alliance the world has ever known, which is NATO.
00:40:09.000And what we have done to preserve the ability of Zelensky and the Ukrainians to fight for their independence.
00:40:16.000Otherwise, Putin would be sitting in Kiev with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland.
00:40:23.000And why don't you tell the 800,000 Polish-Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch.
00:40:39.000I reckon that the liberal media will point to that as a moment of victory.
00:40:44.000Let me know in the comments in the chat.
00:40:46.000But the claim that Putin has plans to invade Poland is a facetious and fictitious one.
00:40:54.000Here, I suppose, is a moment where we see Donald Trump making a declaration that's encouraging to most people the idea that Ending war and stopping bloodshed, generally, broadly, globally, quickly, is a desirable outcome.
00:41:29.000It's so much worse than the numbers that you're getting, which are fake numbers.
00:41:33.000You know, the idea That Trump is an acolyte of Putin's has been a mainstay of Democratic Party campaigning as far back as Hillary, including the erroneous and proven false claims that Russian interference benefited him in the 2016 election.
00:41:52.000It's an idea that has a kind of tenacious allure to the Democrats that they simply cannot relinquish.
00:42:00.000And yet Putin himself last week said he would prefer a Kamala presidency.
00:42:05.000And here Donald Trump reminds her of that.
00:42:08.000That these dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be president again because they're so clear they can manipulate you with flattery and favors and that is why So many military leaders who you have worked with have told me you are a disgrace.
00:42:28.000That is why we understand that we have to have a president who is not consistently weak and wrong on national security, including the importance of upholding and respecting in highest regard our military.
00:42:47.000That's weak on national security by allowing every nation, last month, for the year, 168 different countries, sending people into our country.
00:43:04.000I wonder if anyone feels any better educated having watched that debate or whether it was in a sense a peculiar dance moving between generalizations, biography, trivia and extraordinary claims clearly guided by biased auditors who favor Kamala Harris.
00:43:23.000I suppose if you come into this as a Trump supporter you leave it as a Trump supporter celebrating his bon mots and zingers.
00:43:31.000If you come into this Craving a Kamala Harris presidency, you leave with the sense that she certainly did a better job than Joe Biden.
00:43:40.000But it's difficult for me not to leave this thinking, wow, what we're witnessing again is a collaboration between various institutions of power, most obviously the current government and the media.
00:43:51.000And Donald Trump's claim that if Kamala Harris believed strongly in these things, she could Undertake legislation to amend these ailing issues Immediately right now and yet that isn't happening and surely that's something we can take home that the people that currently have their hands on the levers of power can't
00:44:12.000Campaign as if they're peripheral outsiders hold up somewhere taking potshots at tyrannical Patriarchs when they themselves are literally in power, but that's just why I think let me know what you think in the comments and the chat consider becoming an awakened wonder because I Then you get access to early, profound conversations with valuable contributors.
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00:45:05.000I wonder how much your Christianity affects your perspective when it comes to filmmaking.
00:45:11.000As Christians, we have a really elegant and beautiful answer to all the racial strife, which is that Which is that we're all human beings, and we're all descended from Adam and Eve, and we are all part of that same fallen human condition.
00:45:27.000We all need Christ in exactly the same degree.
00:45:32.000From a spiritual perspective, whatever your race is, whatever your sex is, we're all children of God.
00:45:40.000But one debate does not dominate an entire planet.
00:45:43.000There are many other things for us to discuss together.
00:45:47.000Not least, Elton John, ah, Elton John, the queen mother of pop, refused to condemn Trump for using the term Rocketman, one of his most famous song's titles, as a cute moniker for his frenemy Kim Jong-un.
00:47:09.000How did it feel when he took the lyrics to Rocketman and he used it as a nickname for Kim Jong-un and then he gave Kim Jong-un... He didn't take the lyrics, he didn't like use...
00:47:20.000Man, I think it's gonna be a long, long time to touch down... You just used the words rocket there, right?
00:47:29.000You didn't, I think, use the sort of concept of the whole song.
00:47:39.000This is the answer to the question that they want from Elton John.
00:47:42.000Well, you know, I think it's actually pretty disgusting because Rocketman, that song's about dreams and kindness and hope and Trump, unlike Kamala Harris, unlike Barack Obama, unlike the people that are facilitating all these endless wars, he's a bad person and...
00:47:59.000Kamala Harris and Obama, they're the good people and life's that simple and I'd like to take this opportunity to condemn Donald Trump.
00:48:07.000You know like how they love it when a band goes like you say they used Foo Fighters didn't they when Bobby Kennedy came out for Trump at that recent rally and like you know these phone calls because I've actually been on the other side of this not obviously on the this scale but you know oh oh Russell Brown made this joke Right, let's call up a charity associated with the issue that he was being flippant and glib about in a comedic context.
00:48:33.000Let's ring up a charity that are going to find it really difficult to be humorous because they're connected to muscular dystrophy or anorexia or whatever actually sad, difficult and tragic condition it is.
00:48:45.000Let's ring up someone that won't be humorous and get, well I think it's just disgusting that someone would even joke about it.
00:48:51.000But when the culture gets to the point where it's, Well, I think it's disgusting, so I'm going to use the lyrics of Rocketman.
00:48:58.000The lyrics of Rocketman... Rocketman did not come down from Mount Sinai.
00:49:41.000I won't say where it is so that they don't get the promo.
00:49:45.000Why do left-ish journalists and influencers Matt Taibbi, Russell Brand, Glenn Greenwald, Joe Rogan, RFK end up supporting tacitly or explicitly the Trumpian right?
00:49:56.000Today let's explore the underlying conditions that have caused popular left-leaning journalists and influencers to swerve over the last years into either full out no hard holds barred supporters of Trump and the right or more tacit fellow travelers.
00:50:08.000The roster includes cynical hippie catcher Russell Brand, Who recently embraced both Trump and the Bible.
00:50:15.000Naomi Wolf, former progressive feminist, turned Steve Bannon acolyte.
00:50:20.000Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald relentlessly attacked the democratic establishment while blithely ignoring the horrible activities of the right.
00:50:29.000He gave Kim one of your CDs and signed it.
00:50:31.000That was in one of the books about him.
00:50:33.000Because Kim, I guess, didn't know the song, so... What's that?
00:50:57.000Like, Elton John has just been there, near-contemporary of the Beatles, friend of John Lennon, writer of tunes that you don't even really know that you like until you hear them, just a sort of ever-present magical oddity, a unique and idiosyncratic man.
00:51:25.000But above that, above all else, it shows you the sort of inert and slithering tendency of a nefarious, insidious media, hell-bent on creating malevolence and darkness and extinguishing all hope, while pretending to be the creator of light.
00:51:41.000I would say it's a pretty good definition of flat-out Satanism, but that's just what I think.
00:51:46.000Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
00:51:55.000Another figure who exists in the firmament of Hollywood, but is clearly out of there, I mean, both in a psychedelic sense and a cosmic sense and an anti-establishment sense, is the actor Jim Carrey.
00:52:06.000Years ago, he, when he was married to Jenny McCarthy, was that the name of the woman he was married to?
00:52:11.000They used to talk about vaccines and stuff.
00:52:13.000I guess their kid possibly had some sort of vaccine injury.
00:52:17.000I do remember specifically, though, seeing them both campaigning about, hey, we might want to be careful about some of these vaccines that kids are getting.
00:52:24.000And then suddenly, Did I mention today's sponsor?
00:52:34.000So here is Jim Carrey lambasting the children vaccine schedule and the pharmaceutical industry, although I don't know how he could because You know, if you walk around a graveyard from the old days, it's all full of children's graves.
00:52:49.000And the reason that it's not is because of vaccines, okay?
00:52:53.000I'm gonna keep on loving big corporations and big government and pretending that that somehow makes me enlightened and advanced.
00:53:02.000Will you carry on with that, dear Jim Carrey, comedy genius and outspoken critic of the pharmaceutical industry?
00:53:54.000What you were doing there is you were potentially destroying yourself.
00:53:56.000But I think we all want to see Mask 3 and maybe a whole host of other sequels and other movies that could make hundreds of millions of dollars for everybody, everybody.
00:54:06.000And if you look closely at the interest behind those studios, sooner or later, I'm sure via advertising or funding Or investment, and here's a word I'm just gonna flow in there.
00:55:12.000Do we need the hepatitis B shot on the second day of life?
00:55:14.000I don't think we can afford to assume that the people who are charged with our public health any longer have our best interests at heart all the time.
00:55:28.000I think we could go on Larry King and just actually speak out about vaccines instead of just promoting these movies and operating in this cultural space that we've been assigned.
00:56:39.000I suppose when anything is as taboo as that subject, you might want to investigate why it's so taboo.
00:56:47.000Because it could be so taboo because, no, no, we really believe in child vaccination schedules so strongly we just can't allow anything, anything at all, to make your children sick.
00:56:58.000But I just, based on what I've observed over the last few years and what I've observed generally throughout the culture when it comes to what the priorities appear to be, it seems very unlikely that all this effort and endeavour is being spent in order to protect and help us.
00:57:10.000That just doesn't seem in line with my experiences.
00:57:13.000But let me know what experiences you've had in the comments in the chat.
00:57:16.000$13 billion dollars. They control medical schools. What we're asking is for them to take a loss for the good of our
00:58:49.000People talk about Cook's skewering serpentine eyes bearing down on Dud there as Dudleymore sort of forces sandwich in his mouth to not crack up.
00:59:03.000Oh man, you've got to join me for a Russell Brand stand-up breakdown.
00:59:07.000It's me looking at comedy heroes and the techniques they use and the joy that they bring.
00:59:32.000Could it really be as significant as light versus dark, good versus evil, global totalitarianism versus some sort of respite or at least disruption to the trajectory of global power?