Stay Free - Russel Brand - Trump’s Trade Wars: Power Plays and Global Repercussions – SF531

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00:00:04.000 Thank you.

00:04:35.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:04:42.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.

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

00:04:57.000 I'm actually very glad that you're here because we've got so much to talk to you about.

00:05:00.000 Whether you're watching us on X where we are live or YouTube or our home rumble, we've got to discuss USAID and numerous aspects of USAID.

00:05:11.000 How USAID has been used to influence military policy, how it's been used to influence media and how, in a sense, USAID is the sort of soft aspect of deep state power.

00:05:23.000 We'll be talking about that at length.

00:05:24.000 We'll be talking about the Ukraine war.

00:05:27.000 I'm going to really be doing my best to care about tariffs I'm going to really try to.

00:05:31.000 It's just the word.

00:05:32.000 I can't make myself care about the imposition of tariffs.

00:05:36.000 I can't see tariffs as some sort of...

00:05:39.000 Phallus firing masculinity into international economic policy.

00:05:46.000 But I'm going to try and see it that way because that seems like a sensible image system to vivify what I struggle with, you know, international trade.

00:05:56.000 I mean, look at me.

00:06:00.000 Does this scream international trade to you?

00:06:04.000 And then my mate Dave did just say, you look like you've been released from a money prison.

00:06:08.000 Which, you know, I get it.

00:06:10.000 I get it.

00:06:11.000 So, right, we're going to look at all of that.

00:06:13.000 And we'll be with you for about a half hour here.

00:06:15.000 We've got some brilliant promotional partners I'm obviously going to be telling you about.

00:06:18.000 But first of all, let's look at how we've been unburdened by what might have been.

00:06:23.000 That's Don Jr., Rumble content creator.

00:06:27.000 And also, he's Donald Trump's son.

00:06:29.000 That's the other way you might know him.

00:06:31.000 This page is unburdened by what has been.

00:06:34.000 If that's legitimately how they've been doing stuff...

00:06:37.000 You've got to share in their amusement.

00:06:40.000 In my crazy country, the United Kingdom, it still remains a prison planet captured by deep state activists.

00:06:47.000 Would you believe that even the BBC receives money from USAID? Let me know in the comments and chat if you were aware of that, of how...

00:06:55.000 Look, I read a lot of content that talks about the new power of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and that being an expression and the emergence of new elites.

00:07:06.000 But...

00:07:06.000 What I'm fascinated by, and tell me if you agree with this, is that we are seeing the ongoing exposure of the sinew and cartilage of deep state power.

00:07:16.000 And this USAID story, particularly how Mike Benz explains it, is a brilliant demonstration of the aspect of Trump and MAGA that surely anyone would back.

00:07:29.000 Anti-globalism, anti-deep state power.

00:07:32.000 We'll be getting into that.

00:07:32.000 Here's what's going on in my country.

00:07:34.000 Angela Rayner signs off on council tax rises. 0.90

00:07:36.000 That's just evidence of hypocrisy and deception.

00:07:39.000 We covered that story to some degree last week.

00:07:42.000 We've got a video of that up.

00:07:43.000 You can have a look at that if you want to.

00:07:46.000 If you want to see it, here's Labour MPs promising not to raise tax.

00:07:52.000 I'm not going to jump into that because also it's been the DNC convention.

00:07:57.000 And in a way, when you see the DNC, you feel like they've not understood what's just happened.

00:08:06.000 There's still an attempt to cling on to ideas that plainly don't impact or affect people.

00:08:13.000 And they are literally, while we're being unburdened of what might have been, hold on a minute, someone's saying it's USAID, not aid.

00:08:21.000 Please stop calling it that.

00:08:23.000 What you want to call it, this is de-ranch life. 1.00

00:08:27.000 Ranch Life in the Rumble chat saying, call it USAID. Oh, well, because you think if you say aid, it's a trick to...

00:08:35.000 Well, like Band-Aid!

00:08:37.000 Everyone loves...

00:08:38.000 They've tricked us into calling it USAID. Like, it does make you feel like it's a little bit of a charity.

00:08:44.000 Yeah, a lot of people are very angry about that.

00:08:47.000 Don't call it USAID. Even that's political now.

00:08:50.000 Like how a mask became political during COVID. You're not wearing a mask because of microscopic aerosol viruses.

00:08:57.000 You're wearing it because, well, this is what I believe in.

00:09:00.000 So even the way you say USAID is politicised, that's astonishing.

00:09:05.000 We've got incredible stories of how USAID was in...

00:09:09.000 It was involved in the 2014 coup in Ukraine, how it's still relevant within the context of the Ukraine war, how it's infiltrated internationally into countries like our sweet country via the BBC. It's pretty bloody fascinating.

00:09:25.000 As a matter of fact, let's have a look at what's going on at the DNC. It's their first DNC since a massive and humiliating electoral defeat, not just for their movement, but for globalism more generally.

00:09:36.000 and they're responding to that, of course, through the medium of dance.

00:09:40.000 Let's go with it.

00:10:10.000 I like losing elections.

00:10:13.000 Good.

00:10:14.000 I didn't want to run America.

00:10:15.000 Is that the point of it?

00:10:18.000 Like it's a sort of a kind of conga of indifference.

00:10:22.000 Good.

00:10:22.000 We weren't even trying to win that election.

00:10:24.000 You lost the election.

00:10:25.000 I know you did.

00:10:26.000 That's a really interesting way to behave.

00:10:29.000 Let's have a look at what else they're up to there.

00:10:30.000 Before getting into USAID and tariffs, we're just going to dick about looking at what's going on in the DNC for a minute, just sort of as a palate cleanse.

00:10:38.000 And we'll begin with the opening statements.

00:10:41.000 Each candidate will have 30 seconds and we'll start with Dr. Quintessa Hathaway. 1.00

00:10:46.000 Good evening, everyone.

00:10:49.000 It is my desire to be the next DNC chair.

00:10:54.000 And I just want to give you all a little bit of something that's been on my heart here.

00:10:58.000 That atmosphere is terrible.

00:11:00.000 She sounds depressed.

00:11:01.000 It's been on my heart here over the last couple of days.

00:11:04.000 You fight on, you fight on, you fight on.

00:11:12.000 That's an unexpected pivot.

00:11:13.000 That was an unexpected pivot.

00:11:15.000 Because it started off very dour.

00:11:17.000 Very dour.

00:11:19.000 And then suddenly, song.

00:11:21.000 I see.

00:11:21.000 What the DNC and the Democratic Party movement's attempting to do, it looks to me, tell me if you agree with this in the comments, is to sort of maintain the idea of a spirit of goodwill and good intention through things like literal song and dance, when in fact they became so separated from the interests of those they claimed to represent that their entire party and movement became theatre, i.e.

00:11:47.000 the DNC is so captured by Corporate, globalist, commercial interest.

00:11:54.000 And it's only a bulwark against that impression.

00:11:58.000 It's only inoculation against damnation has been to pretend overtly that it really cares about minority cultural issues. 0.68

00:12:06.000 But now...

00:12:08.000 All they've got left is literal song and dance.

00:12:11.000 That can't be true.

00:12:12.000 Fight on, you fight on When your government is doing you wrong You fight on, oh, you fight on Thank you, Dr. Hathaway.

00:12:31.000 Okay, Dr. Hathaway.

00:12:34.000 Also, though, things weren't going very well when you were actually in power for the last four years.

00:12:40.000 It was a diabolical catastrophe of government, particularly in terms of the interests of people who don't have access to the levers of power, which ironically seems to be the matter highlighted through that peculiar performance.

00:12:54.000 Let's have a look at DNC officials explaining how to elect...

00:13:00.000 How to elect leaders on the basis of gender.

00:13:04.000 Now, in a way, it's like they've not learned anything from the last four years.

00:13:08.000 Let's see if they even believe themselves in what they claim to believe in.

00:13:12.000 The rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.

00:13:26.000 With the results of the previous four elections, Our elected officers are currently two male and two female.

00:13:35.000 In order to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.

00:13:48.000 So again, this is what we have to do for this vice chair race.

00:13:53.000 We have to elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender. 0.97

00:13:59.000 Well, it sounds confusing.

00:14:00.000 I don't think you even understand it.

00:14:02.000 Isn't there just some way we can be kind and loving to all and treat people with respect and grace?

00:14:09.000 The respect and grace that's due to all of us as God's creator.

00:14:13.000 No!

00:14:14.000 That's made up!

00:14:15.000 That's superstitious! 0.96

00:14:17.000 What's this thing you're doing with this mosaic of language, this peculiar jabberwocky poem of extraordinary terms?

00:14:25.000 Absolutely baffling.

00:14:26.000 If you're watching us on X, thanks for joining us today.

00:14:29.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, thanks.

00:14:31.000 We're involved in such bizarre legal conversations with them.

00:14:35.000 And if you're watching us on Rumble, thank you.

00:14:37.000 Thank you for joining us on our home.

00:14:38.000 Let's see what's going on.

00:14:39.000 Marco Rubio is holding a press conference for some reason.

00:14:42.000 Who can ever understand the mind of Marco Rubio?

00:14:45.000 Let's have a look at this press conference now.

00:14:47.000 The mental agreements for our common interests in both countries.

00:14:55.000 The partnership between the U.S. and Costa Rica is strong.

00:15:01.000 And under your leadership and the leadership of the President Trump, we will make it even more content.

00:15:10.000 Nice.

00:15:10.000 Yeah, okay.

00:15:11.000 It's in Spanish.

00:15:13.000 I mean, I'm trying my best, but I simply don't speak that language.

00:15:18.000 It's one of the many languages.

00:15:20.000 I simply do not speak.

00:15:22.000 Let's have a little peek at what they're up to over at the Democratic Party convention.

00:15:28.000 They've got a lovely, handsome lad rising to prominence.

00:15:32.000 Are you ready to go on the offense?

00:15:35.000 Are you ready to go on the offense?

00:15:37.000 I don't feel good when I watch that, do you?

00:15:39.000 It feels hollow.

00:15:40.000 It's shallow, it's empty and vacuous.

00:15:42.000 Let me know in the comments in chat how you feel about that.

00:15:44.000 Nice one.

00:15:46.000 You might be watching this over on Locals.

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00:15:52.000 Did we stick up Eddie Gallagher and me firing guns at a gun range?

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00:16:27.000 Okay, now, ultimately, the vacuity of the Democratic Party...

00:16:32.000 Is this.

00:16:33.000 They were completely controlled by corporate and commercial interests and the maintenance of a deep state class.

00:16:40.000 That's one aspect of it.

00:16:41.000 They were exemplified by figures like Nancy Pelosi who talked continually about compassion and for the children while it seemed somehow was simultaneously benefiting from potential knowledge gleaned from the various committees she sits on with regard to technology and the rise of her husband's stocks and shares.

00:17:00.000 Those very same companies.

00:17:03.000 In short, they became so vapid, so hollowed out, so plainly governed by lobbyists and a donor class that they've become politically irrelevant.

00:17:15.000 Here, they continue to double down on the idea that when it comes to oligarchal financial power, the trillionaire and the billionaire, we're supposed to believe in a dualistic system.

00:17:24.000 There are good trillionaires and bad trillionaires.

00:17:26.000 Our trillionaires are fantastic.

00:17:28.000 There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats who share our values and we will take their money, but we're not taking money from those bad billionaires.

00:17:38.000 Those bad billionaires, in a sense, while that's simplistic, reductive and ridiculous, it shows you something important.

00:17:44.000 Who ultimately has the moral authority to say, these billionaires are good, these billionaires are bad, this class of people, this set of policies are good or bad?

00:17:55.000 If you don't believe in an absolute universal truth, any claim you make to right or wrong is either arbitrary or subjective.

00:18:06.000 The DNC lost their moral compass.

00:18:08.000 They abandoned it in some...

00:18:11.000 Giddy storm of hedonism and minority issues and empty, phatic rhetoric. 0.99

00:18:20.000 And now they are, I suppose, confused by the desertion and by their, I would say, what do I want to say, implosion into total irrelevance.

00:18:32.000 Indeed...

00:18:33.000 Part of that same story is the emergence of information about how the deep state functions and what the cartilage is between the deep state and commercial and international enterprises.

00:18:43.000 And I believe the USAID story, I don't call it USAID, do you?

00:18:49.000 USAID story demonstrates the connections between NGOs, charities and apparently philanthropic endeavours and the interests of the powerful.

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00:20:37.000 Is Bobby going to get confirmed?

00:20:38.000 Is Tulsi going to get confirmed?

00:20:40.000 Is Cash going to get confirmed?

00:20:42.000 Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that on X and what does it tell us if they don't get confirmed?

00:20:47.000 Will JD use some last minute vote?

00:20:50.000 Have you, like me, seen Bobby Kennedy as the exemplifier of the potential for real change out of this administration?

00:20:57.000 As people scattered and panicked declare that now Trump and Musk are, excuse me, Teal and Musk are in ascendancy.

00:21:06.000 That what you have now is a new elite class.

00:21:09.000 We, the optimistic, the hopeful, believe that if Bobby Kennedy becomes the head of the HHS, this is such a sort of radical proposition.

00:21:19.000 Someone that was so peripheral.

00:21:22.000 Even with that surname, Bobby Kennedy was a pariah just a couple of years ago because of his outspoken views on vaccines.

00:21:29.000 If Bobby Kennedy enters the upper echelons of government, one of the most significant and powerful positions in the most significant and most powerful nation on earth, then America is going to change, isn't it?

00:21:39.000 Corporations are going to have to radically review the way they influence government policy.

00:21:43.000 If America becomes awakened to good nutrition, good exercise, good spiritual values, recognition that government itself...

00:21:52.000 It's limited in what it can offer you.

00:21:54.000 It's just a bunch of bureaucrats managing stuff.

00:21:55.000 It's nice to have charismatic ones in the office, I suppose.

00:21:59.000 But ultimately, it's just the manoeuvring and management of resources.

00:22:02.000 It's not your relationship with God.

00:22:04.000 Bobby Kennedy, he operates on that level.

00:22:06.000 He operates on that level, I tell you.

00:22:08.000 So let me know how significant you believe this confirmation to be.

00:22:12.000 As I understand it, he's been approved.

00:22:13.000 That's a sort of a subsidiary vote that means he can proceed, but he's not yet being confirmed.

00:22:19.000 Let me know what you think about it, and let me know who you think are most significant.

00:22:21.000 We altered the trajectory of America.

00:22:24.000 Is it Elon Musk?

00:22:25.000 Is it Tulsi Gabbard?

00:22:26.000 Is it Vivek Ramaswamy or is it RFK? Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that, you beauties, you mad, giddy beauties.

00:22:33.000 Why'd you miss the Britishness?

00:22:35.000 I love you.

00:22:39.000 I'm just letting you know in case it sounds like you're talking about me and Britain and stuff like that.

00:22:43.000 Let's get into this USAID story.

00:22:45.000 See, look at that.

00:22:46.000 I'm a quick learner, right?

00:22:47.000 We call it that now.

00:22:48.000 Let's get into this USAID story.

00:22:52.000 Everyone's talking about USAID. What is USAID? It's ultimately, I suppose, a foreign aid proposition where American taxpayer dollars are used around the world to help or aid people.

00:23:05.000 But is it as simple as that?

00:23:07.000 Is this yet another one of the stories that points to the fact that when it comes to the media relationship with globalist products, there's this great ability to make the agenda of the globalists seem somehow philanthropic?

00:23:25.000 Is USAID simply a way to rob and control the American taxpayer and to fund peculiar globalist pursuits that are of dubious moral nature?

00:23:35.000 Certainly, Mike Benz believes that's the case.

00:23:38.000 He's been speaking to numerous people, including Joe Rogan, about that.

00:23:43.000 So let's look at USAID, its reach and its influence.

00:23:46.000 Is control over media?

00:23:47.000 Is control over your tax dollars?

00:23:49.000 And is it one of the observable mechanisms of deep state power?

00:23:53.000 And was Trump just elected on a significant mandate to address, attack, and to some degree ameliorate that type of deep state power?

00:24:02.000 Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat as we get into this story.

00:24:05.000 Certainly, Joy Reid may have told more truth than she intended to when she said that a kind of coup is taking place when it comes to the attack on USAID. 0.78

00:24:16.000 Let's have a look at that.

00:24:18.000 But we begin tonight.

00:24:19.000 With a full-on crisis in our democracy.

00:24:23.000 As federal workers are literally locked out of their offices while operatives working for a private citizen.

00:24:29.000 It's a crisis!

00:24:31.000 A crisis!

00:24:32.000 What is it?

00:24:33.000 A government official is locked out of his office.

00:24:35.000 That's not crisis!

00:24:36.000 Things like that happen to me all the time.

00:24:38.000 That's just like you've lost your keys, you've dropped them, you're locked out of your office.

00:24:41.000 That's, hmm, is there a window open?

00:24:43.000 That's a minor inconvenience.

00:24:45.000 But what that minor inconvenience is evidence of is that they mean business and it seems that they're planning to govern in the way that they campaign.

00:24:52.000 Whether you agree with them or not, you have to recognise that...

00:24:57.000 A continuum between the will of the people and the actions of the governing is precisely what we think we mean when we say electoral democracy.

00:25:05.000 So, he said he was going to sack a bunch of deep state a pair of cheeks. 1.00

00:25:09.000 He's sacking a bunch of them.

00:25:10.000 Surely, that's a good thing.

00:25:11.000 Let me know in the comments if you agree.

00:25:13.000 A private citizen essentially take over our government.

00:25:16.000 Their tactics include turning off our federal websites, deleting government-funded research that you, the taxpayer, paid for.

00:25:25.000 This is brilliant.

00:25:26.000 I would see that as a massive misjudging of the temperament of the nation.

00:25:30.000 Who are the people that go, hey, you turned off a government website!

00:25:35.000 We hate the government!

00:25:36.000 Everyone hates the government!

00:25:38.000 How dare you?

00:25:39.000 How dare you turn off a government website?

00:25:42.000 And then, like, the talk of research.

00:25:44.000 How many of us are kind of giddily drunk on our awareness that...

00:25:51.000 Taxpayer dollars are not spent on things that meaningfully benefit your life and advance your spiritual condition.

00:26:01.000 Whether that's something as mundane.

00:26:04.000 As the pothole problem or as significant as billions of dollars of aid being sent to a foreign war when we think that some of the military hardware likely gets sold on elsewhere.

00:26:14.000 In short, even at the most local level, do your governments have your best interests at heart?

00:26:20.000 Are they improving your schools, the health of your children?

00:26:24.000 Are they curtailing and controlling the excesses of rampant corporate forces who want you to eat sugary, red-dyed filth and pump Have yourself full of pharmaceuticals that probably make you worse?

00:26:36.000 Joy!

00:26:37.000 Taxpayer paid for to impose speech codes, bullying news organizations by demanding interview transcripts, implementing an FBI purge, locking federal workers out of their computers, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves, without congressional or any other authorization, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves, without congressional or any other authorization, full access to the personal data of tens

00:27:03.000 But we've all just spent the last 10 years learning the degree to which government agencies spy on the citizens of their countries and share information.

00:27:16.000 Edward Snowden!

00:27:18.000 Julian Assange!

00:27:19.000 We now know that our government does exactly that.

00:27:22.000 We now know that centralist neoliberal governments, precisely like the one we just evaded and avoided, in particular would have used various means, primarily crisis, to implement unprecedented citizen management.

00:27:36.000 They want social credit score.

00:27:38.000 They want you vaccinated.

00:27:38.000 They want the information that you have access to controlled.

00:27:41.000 We know all of this.

00:27:43.000 Surely Joy knows it too.

00:27:44.000 Including social security recipients, FBI agents and officials, military and government contractors, and every single employee of the federal government.

00:27:54.000 All of that data in private hands that you did not authorize, even if you voted for Donald Trump.

00:28:02.000 This as Trump installs unqualified minions at the heads of every federal agency, knowing that they wouldn't stop this even if they knew how.

00:28:15.000 Now at least we know that the left's not going to do something that I thought it might do.

00:28:19.000 This.

00:28:19.000 A kind of radical mea culpa.

00:28:22.000 Our whole movement's fallen apart because we got captured by commercial interests and got sort of alloyed to deep statism and systems of control.

00:28:29.000 We're going to change.

00:28:30.000 We're going to represent ordinary working people.

00:28:32.000 We're going to be better.

00:28:33.000 We're going to learn.

00:28:34.000 We're going to oppose corporate globalist power. 0.99

00:28:37.000 We're going to get rid of ridiculous leaders with fancy fine haircuts and... 0.99

00:28:42.000 Outrageous personal lives. 0.99

00:28:43.000 Just a few references to, I don't know, Trudeau, Macron, Keir Starmer, that class of leader.

00:28:48.000 We're going to lose them, and we're going to get back in touch with what matters, the values of our people, the nature of our land, our purpose here on Earth.

00:28:57.000 They're not doing that, are they?

00:28:58.000 They're just going to go, well, these guys that you've put in charge, they're actually locking people out of their offices.

00:29:03.000 And my website doesn't work anymore.

00:29:05.000 And that's pretty appalling.

00:29:07.000 Threatening multiple trade wars or vowing to launch a new age of American imperialism by colonizing the indigenous people of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

00:29:15.000 All while congressional Democrats issue strongly worded letters, plus holding a press conference today.

00:29:21.000 And congressional Republicans sit back and let the federal government they work for collapse all around them.

00:29:27.000 While they occasionally beg Trump for tariff mercy for their states.

00:29:31.000 If this were happening in any other country right now, I promise you, I'd be on the air calling it a coup.

00:29:39.000 Amazing!

00:29:41.000 So, USAID, by the reckoning of Joy Reid and MSNBC et al., is a kind of exemplifier of global values that we should aspire to.

00:29:53.000 Oddly, bizarrely, a claim that what it is is altruism in motion.

00:29:58.000 America has a manifest destiny and America's purpose is to save the world and to pay for the salvation of the world through government.

00:30:07.000 Through government.

00:30:08.000 The American government should accrue your wealth and then go around the world helping people.

00:30:13.000 Now, that seems unlikely and sounds untrue.

00:30:16.000 What government would you ever trust with such an endeavour except for the most holy government conceivable, a council of saints?

00:30:25.000 So if USAID were what Joy Reid were claiming, it would still be a peculiar claim because you would be granting an extraordinary spiritual power to governments that don't generally behave in a spiritual way.

00:30:38.000 They act in sort of mechanical, administrative, bureaucratic and controlling ways, don't they?

00:30:42.000 Would you agree with that?

00:30:42.000 Let me know in the comments in chat.

00:30:43.000 But that's not what USAID is.

00:30:45.000 It's a coup machine.

00:30:47.000 It's a spying machine.

00:30:49.000 It's a subterfuge machine.

00:30:51.000 Here's Mike Benz, the expert in deep state matters, the man who knows the anatomy of the blob better than most, on Joe Rogan, explaining USAID to Joe Rogan.

00:31:02.000 Let's get this in foundationally so we've heard Mike Benz describe it because, you know me, I can get abstract.

00:31:09.000 ...department, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.

00:31:12.000 Now, USAID... Don't call it USAID, Mike, because it's actually USAID. Yeah, I hate to tell you, Mike, that actually you've fallen into their trap there.

00:31:20.000 You've fallen into their trap because you've made it sound like, do they know it's Christmas or heal the world?

00:31:25.000 Yeah, it's not heal the world.

00:31:26.000 This is not Michael Jackson and Diana Ross and everyone saying, heal the world, make it a better place.

00:31:33.000 This is not that.

00:31:34.000 This is funding crazy wars abroad.

00:31:37.000 This is surveillance.

00:31:39.000 This is the behemoth.

00:31:41.000 So, Mike, you fell into a bit of a trap there.

00:31:42.000 I'm down for democracy.

00:31:44.000 Now, USAID is, you know, a very notorious, it's sort of a switch player.

00:31:49.000 There's no aid in USAID, by the way.

00:31:52.000 Your brain is being tricked when you see the phrase USAID. That's why I won't call it that.

00:31:57.000 I never do.

00:31:58.000 I call it USAID. Helps me get over that trap.

00:32:00.000 USAID. It's not an aid organization.

00:32:02.000 The aid in USAID stands for U.S. Agency for International Development.

00:32:07.000 It is developing internationally, around the world, all of the institutions that the State Department needs to use.

00:32:16.000 So, when they...

00:32:17.000 I actually call it USAID because it Fs you and kills you if you mess around with it.

00:32:22.000 So, when they are capacity-building activist groups in a foreign country, that's because the State Department wants those activists there.

00:32:32.000 Now, USAID, for the first time in its history, it was created in the early 1960s by JFK, 1961. It was created because you had all of this intelligence...

00:32:45.000 Statecraft and military support and logistical aid that was tripping over itself, basically.

00:32:54.000 The military would be funding, you know, would be running aid to certain groups in the region.

00:32:59.000 The State Department would be running aid to certain groups in the region.

00:33:02.000 The Intelligence Committee would...

00:33:03.000 And there was no sort of central coordinator of those capacity-building operations.

00:33:09.000 USAID, by the way, is a $50 billion budget.

00:33:11.000 The entirety of the Intelligence Committee is only $72 billion.

00:33:15.000 So it is more than the CIA and more than the State Department.

00:33:18.000 Wow.

00:33:19.000 And USAID is effectively a switch player to assist the Pentagon on the national security front, to assist the State Department on the national interest front, or to assist the intelligence community on a sort of clandestine operations front.

00:33:38.000 Wow, it sounds like a pretty dark and expensive little operation by Benz's brilliant reckoning.

00:33:45.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene posted that USAID is, to some degree, funding mRNA, or gain-of-function technology, excuse me.

00:33:56.000 So here she says, in response to this post here, CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was a whistleblower.

00:34:05.000 So, USAID, EcoHealth Alliance, and the CIA were all involved in funding and creating COVID-19 in the Wuhan lab. 0.61

00:34:11.000 No.

00:34:11.000 Which led to a killing of millions of people, forced COVID vaccines that also killed and injured millions of people, and the worst abuse of government overreach in our lifetimes.

00:34:20.000 And they made American people pay for it.

00:34:22.000 If true, crimes against humanity.

00:34:24.000 Nice little caveat and disclaimer at the end.

00:34:27.000 And of course, could you sort of...

00:34:28.000 I started to want to say it in Marjorie Taylor Greene's voice.

00:34:32.000 So, USAID... I mean, it should be shut down, no?

00:34:37.000 A lot of people are claiming that there's a recklessness to Trump and Doge in the dismantling of state apparatus and that it will augur a new and crazed chaos.

00:34:48.000 But so many people...

00:34:50.000 It distrusts government so deeply that the destruction of government and these institutions is something that we crave.

00:34:57.000 And maybe that's just a progression of what we felt about Trump 2016. Well, not me, actually.

00:35:03.000 I didn't see this in those terms then.

00:35:04.000 But what people felt at that point, it was a kind of inchoate rage.

00:35:09.000 We hate the government!

00:35:11.000 I love this dude that's just in the primary is going to diss and cuss Jeb Bush and then against H. Clinton, just going to bam bam you'd be in jail.

00:35:20.000 I want to hear that.

00:35:21.000 Now that it's evolved and it's in its second term and indeed is alloyed to legitimate anti-corporate figures like RFK, what we're beginning to see...

00:35:32.000 Yeah, state dismantling.

00:35:34.000 People want to see that.

00:35:35.000 That's not like, how precious state!

00:35:37.000 Like when Joy Reid tried to evoke that idea, USAID, this is like a coup.

00:35:43.000 Well, maybe inadvertently she said something truer than she intended to.

00:35:46.000 Or, perhaps as a title, is Joy Reid like a stopped clock accidentally right twice a day when she claims that... 0.60

00:35:59.000 Getting rid of USAID is a kind of coup.

00:36:01.000 Yeah, it's a coup.

00:36:02.000 It's a coup against deep state interests.

00:36:04.000 And the only way you can do that is from within government.

00:36:07.000 So when the left claims that this is terrible and wring the hands, no one trusts government with that kind of power, that kind of money, and that kind of moral duty because they don't trust the morality of the individuals that make it up, nor their agenda.

00:36:20.000 And if you ask me, they're right.

00:36:21.000 But that's just what I think.

00:36:22.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.

00:36:26.000 Here's a look at this from my mate Matt Ken.

00:36:30.000 The third largest funder of the BBC's charitable arm is USAID. It gives nearly £2 million to train reporters in 35 countries and to teach them how to serve Washington.

00:36:41.000 Trump is dismantling the infrastructure of the US empire, particularly its propaganda apparatus.

00:36:48.000 Incredible and intriguing and interesting.

00:36:51.000 We'll be looking at some other aspects of USAID. We're keeping an eye on other news around confirmations and whatnot.

00:36:57.000 But we'll be bringing you some more stories about USAID. And if you want to learn about it, baby, we'll learn about it together.

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00:39:15.000 Okay then, you beautiful people.

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00:39:19.000 We're going to cover one more USAID story.

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00:39:43.000 Sorry, I spat so much there.

00:39:45.000 I'm so sorry.

00:39:46.000 I don't know if it read on camera, but I thought I should apologise just because if we were face-to-face now, like if we were together hanging out, I'm like, all right, how are you, fellow human?

00:39:53.000 How are you getting on in infinite space?

00:39:55.000 What's it like being you?

00:39:56.000 What's the feeling?

00:39:57.000 Are you okay?

00:39:57.000 Are you surviving it?

00:39:58.000 And then in the midst of this chat, spit came out.

00:40:00.000 I'll definitely mention that.

00:40:02.000 How long do you want to know someone before you would let them know they sank on their face?

00:40:07.000 I'd do it straight away.

00:40:09.000 Like, if someone's got something on their face and I've just met them, like, you know, and they talk to, I'll go, I'll do it like this.

00:40:14.000 You've got something on your face, mate.

00:40:15.000 You've got a little something on your face.

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00:40:18.000 We're basically just apes, aren't we?

00:40:19.000 Basically just apes.

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00:40:42.000 He can position Christian... 0.83

00:40:45.000 Doctrine against current contemporary cultural issues real well.

00:40:50.000 It's going to be a good conversation and you can have a look at it.

00:40:54.000 Here's a brief bit of a chat I had last week with Nathan Finocchio.

00:40:57.000 Grow up!

00:40:59.000 With Nathan Finocchio who's a theologian.

00:41:02.000 I had this chat about the...

00:41:03.000 This is just a sort of a scripture chat that we had last week.

00:41:06.000 In a minute I'll be back with more on USAID and in particular what Bobby Kennedy said about USAID and Ukraine.

00:41:14.000 I was on a bit of a demythologization quest in my 20s, and there's sort of two camps in Christian theology, particularly in the study of the Old Testament.

00:41:28.000 One is explaining the supernatural in sort of a demythologization way, right?

00:41:39.000 Did the flood happen?

00:41:41.000 No, it was just phenomenological to the narrator.

00:41:44.000 You know, his world was flooding, but the actual world didn't flood. 0.97

00:41:47.000 And this is sort of, these are the modern questions, so that Christians don't feel like idiots when they're conversing with people of science who think that the supernatural is insane. 0.88

00:42:00.000 Kaiser has pushed back on that, and he's like, no, everything, the talking snake, all of the miracles, I think that that's real. 0.95

00:42:10.000 And beyond that, we're living in a supernatural world.

00:42:14.000 And if you believe in a guy who came back from the dead and he could walk on water and make people's limbs grow back, then what's your problem with the sun standing still?

00:42:23.000 I want to talk about that BBC thing a little more.

00:42:28.000 Let me see that.

00:42:29.000 I can't read that, Isaac.

00:42:31.000 I can't read how we're funded.

00:42:34.000 The thing that he's referring to, is there some way I could have that?

00:42:38.000 Like, ten times that size.

00:42:40.000 Would that involve finding that original post and then doing that to it?

00:42:46.000 Okay.

00:42:47.000 So, alright, let's have a look at this.

00:42:49.000 Let's have a look at former FBI director Andrew McCabe on Anderson Cooper talking about the FBI. Get it up for the FBI, the CIA, all of these agencies, aside from Hollywood movies, come to be regarded as the tendrils of evil.

00:43:08.000 This is totally unprecedented.

00:43:10.000 FBI rank-and-file agents and analysts who make up the vast majority of the field offices, who do the work of investigating these cases, of executing search warrants, of executing arrest warrants, doing...

00:43:24.000 Surveillance, electronic surveillance, whatever it might be.

00:43:27.000 Those people are never touched by the political winds that blow through every four years, nor should they be.

00:43:33.000 As you said, they don't pick their work.

00:43:35.000 They're assigned to the work that they do.

00:43:37.000 The work they do is lawful.

00:43:40.000 It's within FBI policies, and not doing the work is not really an option for them, right?

00:43:46.000 They come to the FBI. Most of them come intending to stay for the entirety of their careers, 20 years or more, 20 years on the agent's side, a little.

00:43:58.000 Let me know in the comments and chat, is it easy for you to feel sympathy for the FBI? What are the first things you think when you think of the FBI? Alright, Hannibal Lecter.

00:44:10.000 But after that, don't you think of, don't they get innocent people to act like criminals?

00:44:16.000 Don't they fund some sort of...

00:44:18.000 Tin pot organizations, you know, it would be a great idea to blow up this marathon. 0.77

00:44:23.000 And then these poor dopes go, OK, we'll blow up a marathon. 1.00

00:44:27.000 And then the FBI go, you're under arrest!

00:44:29.000 What's the charge?

00:44:30.000 Blowing up a marathon!

00:44:32.000 It seems slightly ridiculous, but that's actually it.

00:44:36.000 Literal example of one of the things the FBI do do.

00:44:40.000 So I don't know if all of us feel like up in arms as if they're shutting down, I don't know, the Red Cross or something that's directly connected to true altruism.

00:44:48.000 So what is the function of USAID? You've seen Joy Reid's giddy optimism.

00:44:53.000 Jen Psaki claims that Musk is only targeting USAID because he fears investigations into his own corruption.

00:45:02.000 That sounds like a conspiracy theory.

00:45:06.000 Let's get into it.

00:45:08.000 Let's have a look at that first of all.

00:45:09.000 And then let's have a look at RFK's submission that USAID had been integrally involved in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

00:45:18.000 ...onelected best friend Elon Musk.

00:45:21.000 His latest target was the United States Agency for International Development, and that agency is the one that not only leads on humanity...

00:45:29.000 When you do say the name properly, Agency for International Development, you get a much clearer depiction of what its function is.

00:45:35.000 It's to facilitate globalism and corporatism.

00:45:38.000 In particular, the way that government agencies and private interests can intersect and benefit one another.

00:45:45.000 One speculative example being, of course, George Soros, who is said, and this is Mike Benz's reporting, to gain early access to international policy and therefore be able to benefit.

00:45:58.000 For example, if people know, hey, Ukraine's going to get crazily disrupted any day soon, George Soros is apparently able to benefit from that information.

00:46:07.000 This is a theory that is put forward by Mike Benz.

00:46:12.000 Have a look at that.

00:46:12.000 He breaks it down beautifully in the conversation that we had on our show.

00:46:15.000 It'll be up on Rumble.

00:46:16.000 You'll be able to watch it now.

00:46:18.000 So the claim that USA... Once you look at even the name, Agency for International Development, you can start to understand that that's to develop interests, institutions and relationships internationally that are beneficial to globalism.

00:46:33.000 The name does give you a better indication than when you call it USAID. That's when you start to just...

00:46:40.000 Actually distract yourself.

00:46:42.000 And that's something I only learned from the comments today.

00:46:44.000 He's on humanitarian assistance around the world, but also works to combat corruption and foreign aid programs.

00:46:50.000 It's a big part of what they do.

00:46:51.000 I kind of see how that could make Elon Musk a bit uncomfortable.

00:46:55.000 So what do you think he did?

00:46:57.000 You may already know.

00:46:58.000 Well, he removed two of the top leaders of the organization who wouldn't do his bidding over the weekend.

00:47:03.000 And then overnight last night...

00:47:05.000 Do more bidding over the weekend, otherwise I will see Kyle you into the middle of next week!

00:47:11.000 Like, how, like, legacy media use phrases like, do their bidding. 0.99

00:47:15.000 Like, it's so dumb. 1.00

00:47:17.000 It's so dumb. 0.99

00:47:18.000 Last night, employees received an email ordering them not to come into the office today. 0.98

00:47:23.000 They weren't given a reason or any sort of rationale.

00:47:26.000 They were basically just told not to show up.

00:47:29.000 Many were even blocked from the system and locked out of their email accounts.

00:47:34.000 We're also seeing something similar happening in the Treasury Department.

00:47:37.000 In the last few days, Elon Musk and his Doge pals have been granted access to the federal payment system that handles paychecks to federal workers, Social Security checks, tax refunds, and basically incredibly sensitive personal information about anyone who gets those.

00:47:51.000 Yeah, but we don't see the government as super trustworthy.

00:47:54.000 If I was to express my concern about Elon Musk, it would be, oh, that Neuralink stuff and...

00:48:01.000 Colonising Mars.

00:48:02.000 I think, does he think that human beings are to be absolved and resolved by technological advance rather than the salvation of God, right?

00:48:10.000 So that's how I see it.

00:48:12.000 But him going in a government going, these lot are all locked out of their computers.

00:48:15.000 I love that!

00:48:17.000 That's sort of exactly what I kind of was hoping was going to happen.

00:48:19.000 Let me know in the comments in chat whether you feel yourself called to defend bureaucrats and deep state operatives that were previously participating in total control of the citizenry.

00:48:30.000 Anyone who gets those payments.

00:48:32.000 This takeover is also happening across the Office of Personnel Management.

00:48:36.000 Where Musk has gained unprecedented access to federal human resources databases that house sensitive personal information about millions of federal employees.

00:48:45.000 And I'm going to talk with the reporter who broke that story today about what else he's learned later in the show.

00:48:51.000 Now, I'm going to just be straight with you about all this.

00:48:53.000 I mean, in the face of all of this and much more that's happened the last two weeks, there's not always been the type of clear, consistent and united response from leading Democrats that I believe and you probably believe the moment requires.

00:49:07.000 Yes, there have been some powerful voices out there in the confirmation hearings.

00:49:11.000 Broadly, this is advocacy for the idea that USAID is positive and that it's a disgrace that it's being defunded, right?

00:49:20.000 Now, this is a post from Jimmy Dore responding...

00:49:25.000 To a clip from Zelensky, because actually, Ukraine are receiving significant funding via USAID. And here's Jimmy Dore responding to Zelensky saying they've only received...

00:49:39.000 Half of the $177 billion aid that was allegedly sent from the United States.

00:49:44.000 So here's what our man Jimmy Dore has to say on that.

00:49:47.000 Ukraine, like Afghanistan, is a money laundering and money funneling operation. 0.99

00:49:50.000 These wars were never meant to be won.

00:49:52.000 They're meant to be ongoing.

00:49:53.000 Assange informed us of that years ago.

00:49:56.000 If you ever support the Ukraine war effort instead of a sceptical, then congratulations. 0.73

00:50:00.000 You are a dupe.

00:50:00.000 Oh, Jimmy's going for it.

00:50:02.000 You're a dupe who's learned nothing in the last 25 years.

00:50:04.000 You're going to support another BS war before you know it. 0.95

00:50:07.000 Okay, so...

00:50:08.000 There's some considerable polarity when it comes to views on USAID and my own biases, tendencies, experience and research would suggest to me at least that USAID functions primarily as a kind of form of soft power, cloaking and masking taxpayer expenditure on projects that you would never back if you were told about them explicitly because some of them directly contribute to...

00:50:33.000 Citizen management in your own lives, and a lot of it is just sort of squandered, I would say, in this example, on unwinnable wars.

00:50:42.000 Here's RFK explaining to Tucker a little while ago, I think it's Jermaine, how, excuse me, explaining to Tucker how USAID used $5 billion in 2014 to begin the Ukraine coup.

00:50:59.000 What's interesting about it is money...

00:51:03.000 We're superficially informed that this is for aid around the world.

00:51:06.000 Even if that were true, you could ask the question, why are we paying for aid around the world?

00:51:10.000 We've got enough problems here in America, Maui fire, Hurricane Katrina, floods.

00:51:15.000 I mean, it's just like a perpetual and apocalyptic cycle.

00:51:17.000 Why are we sending money abroad?

00:51:19.000 But it's worse than that.

00:51:21.000 These are not philanthropic endeavours.

00:51:23.000 They are the masked cartilage of deep state relationship with globalist projects, which require disruption in the form of, i.e., pandemics and wars, in order to legitimize and implement the centralized power that they crave.

00:51:38.000 It sort of couldn't be worse.

00:51:40.000 Here's RFK giving Tucker an example of how USAID is a participant in projects that are detrimental to you and the planet you live on.

00:51:53.000 There are riots, and it's called the Madone Rebellion in Ukraine, which we're not told that we are financing those riots.

00:52:02.000 The newspapers never told us, our government never told us.

00:52:06.000 USAID, which is the CIA front, put $5 billion into funding those riots.

00:52:13.000 Those riots lead to a coup d'etat against the...

00:52:19.000 First elected, democratically elected government of the Ukraine.

00:52:23.000 It was a government that refused to choose sides and to say, we're going to be on the side of the West.

00:52:30.000 So we wanted them out.

00:52:31.000 A month before that government has overthrown, Victoria Nuland, who's part of the centerpiece of the neocon ideology and who is now a high-level official in the State Department, has a secret call with the U.S. ambassador.

00:52:46.000 Which is tape recorded and is now public, which anybody can go and look up, where she is picking the new cabinet for Ukraine, which is, you know, which is a U.S. Western cabinet.

00:52:59.000 So they're picking the new government a month before the old government is overthrown.

00:53:04.000 Is that how democracy, is that democracy when Tori Nuland picks your government? 0.98

00:53:07.000 Well, that's the point, is USAID doesn't really do.

00:53:12.000 And the CIA don't do democracy.

00:53:14.000 You know, the CIA has overthrown, I think, 83 governments between 1947 and 1997. That's a third of the governments on Earth, and most of them were democracies.

00:53:24.000 It doesn't do, it doesn't.

00:53:26.000 The time frame that RFK just talked us through, i.e.

00:53:32.000 U.S. projects to overthrow foreign governments, that pertains to coups in Central and Latin America Even the milieu that we all exist in now.

00:53:45.000 I.e., back then that was a left-wing argument.

00:53:48.000 Do you know what the American government does?

00:53:49.000 It funds crazy disruption around the world.

00:53:52.000 That used to be the left that would make that argument.

00:53:54.000 Let me know in the comments in the chat if you remember that.

00:53:56.000 Let me give you a clear example.

00:53:57.000 Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine.

00:53:59.000 That was a book about how America sponsored the overthrow of foreign governments.

00:54:04.000 That was generally speaking a left-wing, inverted commas, perspective.

00:54:08.000 During the time frame that RFK just described on Tucker, it's become now a right-wing, nationalist, populist issue to say that we cannot trust the government.

00:54:16.000 So whether it's Jen Psaki bemoaning the loss of some control of the levers of power, or Joy Reid saying it's a disgrace that people shut out of their offices, this outrageous attempt to humanise USAID, when in fact what it is, is the visible tendrils of deep state power and control, and is an indicator that the method commonly used to mask that power is to tell you, we're trying to help you.

00:54:39.000 This is a philanthropic, altruistic organization that we need you to fund.

00:54:44.000 How come it's always funded by us?

00:54:46.000 How come under investigation it always appears that there's manipulation, coups, lies, maneuvering, Machiavellianism?

00:54:55.000 Why can't these stories withstand scrutiny?

00:54:58.000 And why is that scrutiny never applied from the left, from the legacy media, from the MSNBCs, from the Sarkis?

00:55:04.000 Why do they continue to advocate for big state globalist corruption?

00:55:10.000 Why?

00:55:10.000 I don't understand why they're singing and dancing at their own conventions when it's so clear that their entire purview is collapsing and imploding.

00:55:18.000 There's no one left who believes in this anymore.

00:55:20.000 Anyway, that's just what I think.

00:55:22.000 Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments.

00:55:25.000 And the chat.

00:55:26.000 We've looked at USAID from a number of perspectives now.

00:55:29.000 One, we've looked at how, in a sense, what it is, is the machinery of the deep state mask.

00:55:34.000 Two, we've looked at how many of the projects they pursue are directly, actually adverse to you and your interests.

00:55:41.000 And we've looked at the surprising places where...

00:55:44.000 Crops up.

00:55:45.000 MGT suggesting that it may be connected even to the origins of COVID. Our certainty that it's connected to coups and wars and surveillance and control.

00:55:55.000 What an extraordinary organisation.

00:55:56.000 Whatever your doubts might be about.

00:55:59.000 Trump, Elon, et al.

00:56:01.000 Whatever your cynicism might be about this new MAGA populist movement, one thing you can say is their dismantling of bureaucracies is not what you should be concerned about.

00:56:12.000 You might be concerned about AI, mRNA technologies.

00:56:14.000 You might be concerned about the potential for surveillance.

00:56:17.000 But the dismantling of corrupt government, and that's what we're discussing here.

00:56:21.000 Corrupt government is nothing to worry about at all.

00:56:24.000 But that's just what I think.

00:56:25.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.

00:56:28.000 We're going to talk a little more about tariffs and then we're going to do a little bit extra on Rumble Premium.

00:56:35.000 If you don't have Rumble Premium, you should get it.

00:56:37.000 It's a monthly subscription.

00:56:37.000 You get ad-free content on Rumble and access to additional content from me.

00:56:42.000 And a lot of good content creators.

00:56:45.000 In fact, let's have a look at this.

00:56:46.000 This is something that you get if you buy it.

00:56:49.000 Check it out.

00:56:50.000 Eddie Gallagher is a Navy SEAL that was detained in a military prison after the death in custody of a member of ISIS that he was charged with the care of.

00:57:01.000 I don't know how you describe it when it's an ISIS member.

00:57:04.000 Anyway, the ISIS prisoner of war died.

00:57:07.000 And Eddie Gallagher was vilified and ultimately imprisoned without trial.

00:57:13.000 The thing is, is they weaponized, in my situation, they weaponized the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is the military justice system against me.

00:57:24.000 Once the government targets you...

00:57:27.000 There is no getting out of that.

00:57:29.000 They will go at any lengths to make you look at the way they want to.

00:57:33.000 They will create a narrative.

00:57:35.000 They have the media on their side.

00:57:37.000 A person that can be revered and lionized and celebrated and decorated, I see the amount of medals and ribbons there on you and the cover of your book.

00:57:45.000 When it's convenient, you're able to go based on gossip and rumor.

00:57:51.000 And that's the bit I recognize.

00:57:53.000 Because while it's a million miles away in so many ways, I'm a famous movie star.

00:58:00.000 What are you supposed to do? 0.99

00:58:00.000 I'm meant to go around and have sex with loads of women. 0.99

00:58:02.000 What were you doing? 1.00

00:58:03.000 I was going around having sex with loads of women. 1.00

00:58:04.000 Is there something about that that's morally wrong? 0.84

00:58:07.000 Yes.

00:58:08.000 Yes, there is.

00:58:09.000 I believe everyone should own a firearm if they want to.

00:58:13.000 This is America.

00:58:14.000 They have the Second Amendment for that reason.

00:58:16.000 But I say if you are going to own a firearm, that is going to be one of the biggest responsibilities that you have.

00:58:22.000 Because this is meant to do one thing. 0.97

00:58:25.000 To kill. 0.99

00:58:30.000 How's that feel? 0.99

00:58:31.000 Yeah, comfortable.

00:58:33.000 Yeah.

00:58:34.000 Yeah, there I am, firing guns, living life in Florida, baby.

00:58:38.000 That's the way to do it.

00:58:39.000 Get fully armed, get ready for actual...

00:58:42.000 No, I don't know how it's going to go down in this country now, do you?

00:58:45.000 I don't know how it's going to go down.

00:58:46.000 It's very difficult to diagnose how all of this will unfold with so many fractured and...

00:58:52.000 Curiously diverse movements simultaneously springing into life.

00:58:57.000 Okay, let's have a look at what's going on with tariffs.

00:59:01.000 Tariffs is the new war.

00:59:03.000 Under the neoliberals, you had to be scared of drones bombing a wedding with innocent people.

00:59:07.000 Now, under MAGA populism, you might get tariffed into the middle of next week.

00:59:12.000 Let's look at how tariffs are a significant portion and part of Trump's new administration.

00:59:19.000 Here, this is...

00:59:21.000 I suppose another aspect of that story...

00:59:24.000 Hold on a second.

00:59:25.000 Let me see.

00:59:26.000 This is putting 10,000 troops on the border.

00:59:28.000 Breaking news.

00:59:29.000 Mexico's president now says President Trump's tariffs are paused for a month.

00:59:33.000 President Trump confirmed the pause, saying Mexico will reinforce the border with 10,000 National Guard troops immediately as part of the negotiations.

00:59:40.000 Let's go to ABC's Elizabeth Chelsea on Wall Street, Matt Rivers in Mexico City, and Karen Travers at the White House.

00:59:46.000 Matt, how significant is this deal, and what else came out of this conversation?

00:59:50.000 Well, this was the off-ramp that I think a lot of people had been hoping for.

00:59:54.000 This is why this call was scheduled before this happened.

00:59:56.000 And I think both sides will claim this as a win.

00:59:59.000 The tariffs now being suspended for one month.

01:00:01.000 President Sheinbaum coming out saying that President Trump agreed with her suggestion that she would send 10,000 additional National Guard troops to the northern border.

01:00:13.000 The big reason why the Trump administration says that they want these tariffs in place is essentially leverage to force Mexico to do more to stop the flow, the very large flow of fentanyl from here in Mexico to the United States, as well as migration, even though the numbers of migrants that we've been seeing go to the U.S. much lower than we've seen before.

01:00:30.000 So President Shane Maugham essentially saying, okay, we'll reinforce the border with 10,000 troops If all of this sounds familiar, it's because it's exactly what happened the last time President Trump threatened tariffs against Mexico.

01:00:40.000 He did so against President Lopez Obrador back in 2019. I see tariffs are being used as the primary bulwark and lever against.

01:01:11.000 Any issue, for example, order control, migration.

01:01:14.000 Hey, listen, we're going to continue talking about that in a minute on Rumble Premium.

01:01:17.000 Before you go, listen, we've got, guess who's coming on?

01:01:19.000 Guess who's coming on tomorrow?

01:01:21.000 Tomorrow, February?

01:01:23.000 Or is it today?

01:01:24.000 Wesley Huff.

01:01:25.000 Wesley Huff, that's today.

01:01:27.000 So, like, today, Wesley Huff, me and him are going to be talking at 1pm Central Time.

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01:01:42.000 Send me your questions.

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01:01:46.000 I'm going to try and really steel-man Wesley Hough.

01:01:49.000 I'm going to steel-man him.

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01:02:19.000 Let's finish off this conversation about tariffs in particular.

01:02:23.000 And what I'm going to like is to talk about Trudeau.

01:02:25.000 We've found a way to use this to attack Justin Trudeau.

01:02:28.000 We will be back with another live stream tomorrow, and we'll be doing it in one hour.

01:02:31.000 You can see me with Wesley Huff.

01:02:33.000 So, yeah, join Rumble Premium before then.

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01:02:37.000 Get over there. 0.77

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01:02:40.000 Until then, if you can, stay free.

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Stay Free - Russel Brand - February 04, 2025

Trump’s Trade Wars: Power Plays and Global Repercussions – SF531

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