Even as we speak, Tucker Carlson is trying to trump his last interview, which I think was very good, with a plucky little outsider called ol' Russ. Will that interview be as well covered, will it be as interesting? Will it be pivotal for the future of the world? Today, we re talking about Tucker's trip to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin, and the new Apple Goggles. We re also talking about the new Child Safety Act, and whether or not it s really about protecting children from government control over social media. And, of course, there s a dog hair quiz. Stay free, and spread the word to your friends about this one! To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurWonders and use the promo code: "WAKEEDWORD" to receive 10% off your first pack-a-day shipping discount when you place an order of $99 or more, and receive 10 freebies when you sign up to the Awakened Wonders membership trial. To find out more about our sponsor discount code: STAY FREE at sws@awakenedwonder.wonderings.org.uk and use our promo code STAYFREE at checkout to get 10% OFF your entire order when you book your first box of your first month of shipping, we'll be giving you 20% off the entire year, including shipping and handling, plus free shipping, plus a free third-party shipping, and a free shipping on our next month's shipping offer, plus we'll get your first ad-free offer, and you'll get a freebie, plus an extra $10% off shipping and shipping included in the next month of your choice, plus there's a discount, plus all you get an ad-only version of the Audible membership! You'll also get a personalised version of Stay Free With Russell Brand's Stay Free with Russell Brand watchlist! - it's all that and all that gets you'll be able to watch the show and get all the benefits, plus unlimited access to the show, plus special pricing, and all the rest of the ad is FREE, plus they'll get all that means you get 7 days of the show gets a discount and a FREE VIP membership, plus I'll get access to all the best of that starts in 7 days from the ad-planning service, plus the discount starts next week, plus you get the choice of the whole service.
00:02:22.000Even as we speak, Tucker is trying to trump his last interview, which I think was very good, with a plucky little outsider called ol' Russ.
00:03:08.000I'd say they're the sort of country that you should think very carefully before going to war with, and if there is a diplomatic solution available, take the diplomatic solution!
00:03:17.000Again, I can't express my sympathy for the Ukrainian people who are suffering in this war, and indeed the Russian people who are suffering in this war, enough.
00:03:25.000And of course that is just a purported interview with Putin at the moment, although I'm pretty sure it's gonna happen.
00:03:31.000In here's the news, we're gonna be exploring the new Child Safety Act, which Well, the fact that it's called the Child Safety Act suggests it's not anything to do with bloody child safety.
00:03:44.000It's going to be about government control over social media.
00:03:47.000You'll enjoy seeing Zuckerberg participate in a piece of propaganda.
00:03:51.000You'll enjoy seeing the rather dignified head of TikTok spoken to as if he's a rent boy.
00:03:57.000It's pretty extraordinary and amusing and I think you'll like it.
00:04:00.000I'm just hearing, of course, that some people are saying that Tucker could be in Russia to talk to Snowden.
00:04:04.000That's a pretty good interview, but You want to see the Putin interview, don't you?
00:04:10.000That's the thing you really want to see.
00:04:12.000Now if you want to see our conversation with Tucker, that is up For our Awakened Wonders, right now!
00:04:20.000In fact, have we got, uh, where's our, like, we're going to play that, um, we're going to play that for you, because if you're watching this on YouTube, we got, the show today is brilliant.
00:04:28.000We're going to start off with Tucker and Putin, then we're going to talk about the new Apple Goggles.
00:04:35.000They're absolutely, well, this is the thing where I'm conflicted by technology.
00:04:39.000These Apple Goggles look bloody brilliant, but they also I'm going to present an opportunity to literally control our total experience of reality.
00:04:49.000If you're watching this on YouTube, we're going to do about 15 minutes over there, then the rest of our fun-packed, jam-packed, free-speaking, free-wheeling hour will be over on that stream of freedom Here's a little moment from my conversation with Tucker Carlson to whet your appetite if you're considering becoming an Awakened Wonder and supporting our work.
00:05:19.000This is where he's speaking out against dictatorships, and I notice that my dog Bear, who's in this room somewhere,
00:05:25.000has managed to get dog hair on his upper pectoral.
00:05:49.000That's exclusively available for our Awakened Wonders.
00:05:53.000Meanwhile Tucker is using a very different aspect of his persona because he is in Russia!
00:05:58.000Let's have a look at our legacy media reporting on that.
00:06:00.000Tucker Carlson apparently pictured in Russia amid rumours of interview with Putin.
00:06:03.000Former Fox News host, check this, bit of propaganda even there, who is sympathetic to the Russian president, appeared in Kremlin media at a performance of Spartacus in Moscow.
00:06:16.000I don't know that You would say that Tucker Carlson is sympathetic to the Russian president.
00:06:21.000It's just like, you know, we showed you last week there was a poll of 40,000 people in our country where we were asked, who would you vote for?
00:07:05.000And who's this last guy, Boris Yeltsin?
00:07:07.000All right, I've not got time to educate you.
00:07:09.000Nevertheless, what I would say is that what Tucker Carlson's not done is immediately bent over to globalist, anti-war, jingoist rhetoric that... Do you remember?
00:07:19.000After the Second World War, and during the Second World War in fact, Japanese American citizens were put into internment camps, weren't they?
00:07:26.000It's like, well, we're at war with Japan.
00:07:27.000We've got to round up Japanese people.
00:07:29.000And then, like, after the Second World War, there was a kind of reckoning.
00:07:32.000Was that right that we did that to Japanese people?
00:07:38.000And now we're back to the kind of jingoism that preceded it.
00:07:41.000Like, oh, well, if you're Russian, if you're Russian, you're a baddie.
00:07:45.000If it's Solzhenitsyn, Tchaikovsky, Lex Friedman, Konstantin over in our country, They're baddies.
00:07:52.000They're like, you know, we're not at war with Russia purportedly, are we?
00:07:55.000We may be advocating for, supporting, financing Ukraine's war with them and not questioning the principles of Ukrainian democracy.
00:08:03.000A lot of Ukrainian people think that Ukrainian democracy is in Serious trouble.
00:08:08.000Now, former Chief of Staff Bill Kristol, who played a leading role in advocating for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, also is the director of a group called Defending Democracy.
00:08:24.000Bought to you by Northrop Grumman, won't it?
00:08:27.000I mean, I haven't even done this research yet.
00:08:29.000Why don't one of you in the rumble chat, I'm talking about you central scrutiniser, you, Steve McGraw, find out now where Defending Democracy gets its funding from.
00:08:41.000Anyway, this is what he posted about Tucker, literally saying, Perhaps we need a total and complete shutdown of Tucker Carlson re-entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what's going on.
00:09:19.000If Tucker Carlson posts a conversation on X that won't censor it because of Elon Musk with Putin, and Putin says, if you let us have Crimea, if you allow some sovereignty and autonomy for Russian natives in the area of Donbass, the disputed region of Donbass, and if Ukraine don't join NATO, we'll end this war tomorrow.
00:09:42.000Now if that gets said, and we all see it, how many of you want your taxpayer dollars and pounds going upstream to NATO?
00:09:51.000How many of you even know what NATO is for in the post-Cold War world?
00:09:56.000How many of you wouldn't welcome a genuine reckoning when it comes to the role of the IMF, the World Bank, the WHO, the WEF, NATO?
00:10:06.000What are all these things doing for you lately?
00:10:08.000They helping you with your grocery prices?
00:10:10.000They helping you with your energy prices?
00:10:18.000I don't know what I'll do if NATO gets ended!
00:10:22.000The truth is I literally don't know because as far as I know maybe Russia is an imperialist expansionist nation that has designs to recreate the Soviet Union.
00:10:31.000Maybe they are a nation of Mongol people that will stop at nothing until they've achieved total control.
00:11:05.000You can think whatever you want in your own private consciousness for now until the Apple goggles are on and then you'll think whatever the state demands you think.
00:11:13.000Another move that offers leisure and convenience that ultimately might end up controlling the spaces of your attention.
00:11:21.000In our conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy that our community on Locals joined us for, we talked about that attitude of parentalism.
00:11:31.000I liked it a lot because what I like was is he said that what they believe in, essentially, the establishment, let's call it, for simplicity's sake, the NATOs, the WHO, the neocons, the neoliberal organization, what they believe in is parentalism.
00:11:46.000They believe that you don't know how to assess information.
00:11:48.000That's why they advocate for censorship because they think, oh my god, if those poor fools see all this information, They're going to make bad decisions.
00:11:56.000They mean your humble narrator in the rumble chat.
00:14:27.000You know, and I say this as an advocate of Tucker Carlson, and I believe, if I was voting in that, of course Tucker Carlson should interview Putin.
00:14:34.000Of course we should all hear what Putin's saying.
00:14:36.000If Putin publicly says, these are the conditions under which we would be willing to accept a diplomatic agreement, then we We triangulate that with our assessment of current Ukrainian democracy and the well-being of Ukrainian people, and the number of Ukrainian lives lost and Russian lives lost, and American taxpayer dollars spent, and what we know now about the expenditure in the Afghanistan conflict, two trillion dollars, what the hell did that achieve?
00:14:59.000Our other adventures in the Middle East, the escalating conflicts elsewhere in the Middle East, The Houthis?
00:15:05.000Shouldn't we be saving some money to kill Houthis wherever I see a Houthi?
00:16:12.000You think me, as a father of three children, I get up every day and say, how can I spread hate?
00:16:16.000I want to spread love, so that we have a chance of saving the lives of future generations that this globalist establishment cartel is hell-bent on destroying.
00:17:01.000Isn't part of like the Tucker's deal with Fox like and getting booted out Fox like and remember people were hacking his phone weren't they saying oh he's in he's in touch with the Russians.
00:17:19.000We're about to hit 20,000 in the Rumble stream.
00:17:22.000Guys on YouTube, we need you to join us.
00:17:24.000Before that, I'm going to show you a brilliant reaction from RFK on X. The legacy media is in shambles because we've caught on to their lies and propaganda.
00:17:33.000Tucker Carlson has every right to interview Putin.
00:17:36.000We need more transparency instead of less.
00:17:38.000It used to be understood journalists would interview world leaders, even those with whom we were at war.
00:17:42.000Look at how the legacy media behave now.
00:17:44.000The legacy media want to shut down dissent.
00:17:46.000The legacy media are an arm of the establishment now.
00:17:50.000They will actively find people, I know this from personal experience, that are opposing government narrative and they will do anything they can.
00:17:57.000They will amplify untruths, they will lie, they will do whatever it takes to destroy.
00:18:01.000Let's have a look at what Glenn Greenwald saying that a journalist or any American becomes a traitor by visiting a foreign country we're not at war with and interviewing its leader is in equal parts demented, stupid and authoritarian.
00:18:13.000But this McCarthyite jingoism is also fully normalised in liberal discourse.
00:18:18.000Those are the countries that will say, you know, well Russia, you know, like remember when Sting released that song, do the Russians love their children too?
00:18:25.000Now the answer will be, no, they don't love their children at all.
00:18:28.000Poor old... Once you start arguing with Sting, you've got a problem.
00:21:48.000I personally don't believe that technology is going to deliver the solution, not technology as a subset of this kind of globalist state capitalism.
00:21:58.000Like, science is obviously miraculous and incredible and can deliver and has delivered so many solutions, but when it's a subset of state globalist capitalism, all of its ingenuity and endeavours are marshalled towards control.
00:22:10.000And God, man, Apple have got enough power, don't you think, at the moment?
00:23:16.000Those of you talking about Bobby Kennedy there, like, I guess, look, you probably, if you are, if you have concerns about ongoing events in the Middle East, Then watch our conversation with Max Blumenthal because he's going to give you information that's going to blow your mind.
00:23:31.000But we do have to find ways of creating alliances if you want to make a difference in this system.
00:23:37.000I don't know what you guys, I don't know what you lot think is the route out for us, man.
00:23:42.000I don't know what you think the route is.
00:23:43.000Let's have a look at the legacy media selling Apple products.
00:23:46.000That is our next guest having some fun testing Apple's new Vision Pro headset.
00:24:41.000OK, hey, listen, you lot, we've got some fantastic content coming up for you.
00:24:44.000We're going to be looking at that social media inquiry where they got all of their CEOs of various social media companies lined up and they pretend... No, stay there, guys.
00:27:23.000We'll talk about that in a minute after our presentation because I want to show you this social media thing.
00:27:31.000Recently the heads of all the various social media platforms, the dude from TikTok, Zuckerberg of course, the woman that runs X for Elon, they were all lined up while various senators were sort of like Really tried to go for them.
00:27:48.000And what I feel like is, like anyone, you would think that child safety is paramount.
00:27:53.000The protection of children, that's our job, that's our function as a species, to protect the children, to protect the vulnerable, to build a better future.
00:28:01.000Just, I can't help but notice, whether it's child poverty, or certain medications that were pretty heartily recommended in recent years, that may have caused an 8% rise in the UK in child deaths.
00:28:15.000May of course, may of course, I'm not saying that for an absolute fact.
00:28:17.000There's some information that suggests that.
00:28:18.000Certainly there's been an 8% rise in child deaths in the UK.
00:29:17.000These ongoing inquiries into online safety of course are about an important subject.
00:29:23.000No one would question the integrity of the notion that children should be protected from online bullying, from pornography, from Potential forms of exploitation from being able to access information on how you might harm yourself in a variety of ways Even with the most ultimate and irreversible of acts now speaking to someone who is as an adolescent experience Well, yes, I'm bullying but also I had a lot of mental health issues and addiction issues and did engage in self-harm I recognize that these are important issues and yet more significantly, of course, I'm a parent and
00:29:55.000Right now I have three children whose safety is obviously the most important thing in my life.
00:30:00.000So no one's questioning the importance of child safety.
00:30:03.000What we are questioning is what these hearings are really about.
00:30:07.000Because the very same social media companies that are now being harangued and barracked by senators and it's extraordinary to watch because it's so theatrical.
00:30:15.000You can tell it's propaganda even as you're watching it.
00:30:17.000There are literally staged moments that couldn't have happened without pre-discussion and without conversation and organisation.
00:30:36.000That we're all invested in one another and your safety and my safety and our collective safety are important and when we forget that we go crazy.
00:30:43.000That's something we need to be reminded of.
00:30:45.000Like the pandemic period was exploited to introduce measures that were potentially advantageous either in terms of profit or the ability to regulate and legislate but Perhaps this conversation around child safety is similarly open to exploitation in so much as it would grant governments the ability to censor and regulate social media companies that would inevitably go beyond getting rid of things that might be harmful for children.
00:31:12.000For a start, there's this tweet by Glenn Greenwald.
00:31:14.000Tom Cotton, one of the senators conducting the inquiry, is a complete imbecile.
00:31:19.000As this clip vividly demonstrates, and both parties' fearmongering over TikTok is grounded in dumb innuendo, there's far more evidence they're censoring for the US government than China.
00:31:30.000This is all about more government control over social media.
00:31:33.000Now, Glenn Greenwald is obviously An expert in this subject has worked long, hard and successfully on the degree to which governments control, censor, surveil their populations, working in ingenious ways to ensure that nothing we ever say cannot be tracked if necessary.
00:31:51.000So let's have a look at this inquiry and note how the CEO of TikTok is vilified and barracked by this extraordinary senator and think about how theatrical it is and note how language that's literally redolent of McCarthyism is used.
00:32:06.000Are you a member of the Communist Party?
00:32:08.000Are you a member of the Communist Party?
00:32:10.000How do I know Singapore is even a real place?
00:32:12.000If he openly declares himself to be a communist...
00:32:15.000I think the man that sits behind Mr Cotton is Tom Cotton's inner life.
00:32:18.000was over Tunis. I can't remember the name. No, no, it was the Biden administration that
00:32:22.000reversed those sanctions just like, by the way, they reversed the terrorist designation
00:32:26.000on the Houthis in Yemen. How's that working out for them?
00:32:29.000I think the man that sits behind Mr Cotton is Tom Cotton's inner life. That's actually
00:32:35.000what happens in Tom Cotton's mind to some sort of kind of, oh, just sort of staring.
00:32:40.000His expression doesn't change during this entire inquiry.
00:32:42.000He's either bored by it or understands it on a level so deep that it doesn't register.
00:32:47.000But it was sanctioned as a Chinese communist military company.
00:32:51.000He's got a bit of a nerve saying that because social media companies in the United States have explicit ties to both the military and have often engaged with deep state organizations like the CIA and FBI.
00:33:02.000We know that because of the Twitter files And it's pretty clear that ultimately what the government
00:33:06.000want is control over social media sites.
00:33:09.000To sort of claim that there's a connection between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese military and TikTok
00:33:14.000when TikTok is a company founded in China is actually superfluous.
00:33:19.000It's very difficult to create a company in America that's both successful and doesn't have ties to the state.
00:33:26.000And what we're watching now is the dramatization of the government looking to get control over social media companies that have become too big and powerful.
00:33:34.000Sometimes that might be beneficial to ordinary people.
00:33:36.000Sometimes that might be deleterious to ordinary people.
00:33:38.000What the government want is to be able to use that power for their own ends.
00:33:42.000What would make people join them in that crusade?
00:33:45.000Well, if it was, I don't know, threatening to my children, We'll use that then.
00:33:49.000You said today, as you often say, that you live in Singapore.
00:36:22.000Let's look at diets and pharmaceutical measures that were taken in the last few years that may or may not have been beneficial to children.
00:37:15.000But this pretty boy, you can do it, Cotton!
00:37:17.000Do you agree with the Trump administration and the Biden administration that the Chinese government is committing genocide against the Uyghur people?
00:37:23.000Not also this bit, like, he's pretending to care about the Uyghur people.
00:37:26.000Like, you can tell that geezer's like, what's happening to the Uyghur people?
00:37:29.000Can we do something about the Uyghurs?
00:37:31.000I think it's outrageous that they can't practice their religious beliefs in China.
00:38:05.000Anyone who cares about these topics can freely express themselves on TikTok.
00:38:09.000Now, he's taken us to the heart of the matter because what this inquiry is about is we should be able to censor the information that's on TikTok.
00:38:15.000He's saying, get on TikTok and talk about Uyghurs and sort that out.
00:38:18.000Now, in China, I imagine that information is heavily censored because for the internal politics of China, that's an important subject.
00:38:23.000Over here, you know, the Uyghurs, people aren't doing a great deal about it, are they?
00:38:27.000What they, I believe, want to control, and I believe what this Congressional or Senate inquiry is interested in establishing, is the ability to censor information that could cause disobedience, uprising, counter disinformation, organisation, lack of trust in political institutions, lack of trust in the media, the breakdown of the pandemic narrative This is what we're witnessing now, along with the ubiquitous now, censorship laws that have been passed in Canada, UK, EU, US.
00:38:51.000People have realised, the powerful have realised, oh no, this online technology means that people can instantaneously communicate, news organisations can formulate around counter-narratives, communities can organise around different ideas.
00:39:04.000Of course misinformation's a thing, but I'll tell you what is actual, definite, real-time misinformation, is Tom Cotton pretending to care about Uyghurs and Tiananmen I know that because I've seen how the government in my country give money to organisations like Logically AI and a bunch of other organisations to censor stories.
00:39:25.000Well, let me tell you what the topics are.
00:40:45.000He's gonna regret pretending to care about them Uyghurs because I think the Uyghurs actually have been employed almost at near slave labor levels to do work for Apple.
00:40:54.000And indeed, Apple have enormous contracts in China and the American government have to have a good relationship with Apple.
00:40:59.000And when bloody their leader of China comes to America, Tim Cook, he's right in there from Apple.
00:41:05.000So if you actually cared about the Uyghurs, you would just be bothering this poor geezer from Singapore.
00:41:09.000I reckon as he's the CEO of TikTok, he's not nobody.
00:41:12.000But what I'm saying is, is Tom Cotton and all of this entire inquiry, if what they really cared about was Uyghurs, they've got a real direct route to the Chinese president, the head of Apple.
00:42:36.000And McCarthyism is something you should be aware of because McCarthyism was Using the threat of communism to impose control over the entertainment industry, which I understand exists to this day, to generate fear so that people won't speak up and generate solidarity with one another, to look for ways to persecute and crush dissent, to generate control when there was a perceived external threat.
00:44:57.000Now, Mark Zuckerberg is a divisive figure in these spaces.
00:45:01.000In fact, you know, he's a billionaire CEO of Meta.
00:45:04.000So we all assume that his affiliations will be with the state.
00:45:07.000Certainly, we know that he censored true information on behalf of the state during the pandemic.
00:45:11.000Kind of establishment on that, you know, asked for a bunch of things to be censored that in retrospect ended up being more debatable or true.
00:45:18.000Indeed, Jimmy Dore tweeted, On March 15th, 2020, Mark Zuckerberg privately contacted
00:45:23.000Anthony Fauci saying, I also wanted to share a few ideas of ways we could help
00:47:10.000Imagine the sort of psychological and egoic state.
00:47:13.000There's families of victims here today.
00:47:16.000One consistent thing, and I'm beginning to think the mastermind is that bald geezer, because he's there again, and he's still not interested.
00:47:38.000Let me reiterate once again that children's lives being negatively affected and ended as a result of information shared online is of course terrible and awful.
00:47:48.000What I'm questioning is, is this inquiry really about protecting children or is the protection of children merely a spearhead That will allow a lot of other regulations to be passed, a kind of Patriot Act, shall we call it, for online spaces that will lead to regulation, censorship and surveillance.
00:48:03.000Certainly we know that typically our governments have that appetite.
00:48:06.000Certainly we know our governments have been doing that for years.
00:48:08.000Certainly we know that our governments are terrified of independent media and independent political movements emerging out of it and the opposition that's generated in these spaces.
00:48:16.000And what I query is the degree to which they care about child safety, which like any parent, I believe, should be paramount for all of us.
00:48:23.000Many held signs with photos of loved ones who they say have suffered because of social media.
00:48:32.000Look Mark Zuckerberg now who's like a sort of a obviously billionaire and everything but he's just a nerdy guy.
00:48:37.000Clearly a person with some pretty strong ties to government when it's convenient.
00:48:40.000Certainly a person who during the pandemic period was willing to have a particular type of relationship with the government and I'm sure even that I pray was motivated by a desire to do good.
00:48:48.000I'm not going to assume that everybody's evil unless there's corroborating evidence.
00:48:51.000I really think that's an important way to go.
00:48:53.000But what I'm saying is this situation where the East Poor, either grieving or hurt parents are holding up these pictures because they've been told to by someone.
00:49:00.000Like, what we're going to do is we're going to have a moment where you hold up a picture, then the press, oh, this is the bit, is it, where we're going to do the photograph.
00:49:05.000It's a staged moment so that all of us start to associate online censorship, children's safety, online censorship, children's safety.
00:49:13.000But the genius out of the box, they're already trying to pass hate speech laws in Ireland where they're not clear about what they mean by hate.
00:49:19.000Oh, just hate, badness, stuff we don't like.
00:49:22.000The UK online safety bill, which was brought about the time that I was being attacked and we now know that various agencies were involved in that attack.
00:49:28.000We've made videos about that elsewhere, you can have a look for yourself.
00:49:30.000So what you do know is you cannot trust the government.
00:49:32.000What you do know is that the government wants to control online spaces.
00:49:34.000And what you do know is if the government genuinely care about children, child safety and child health, there's a lot of ways they could do it with food, traffic safety, nutrition, poverty.
00:49:43.000There are so many ways to look at improving child safety, but this way of protecting child safety gives them more power.
00:49:50.000Isn't it curious that's the one they've chosen to focus on?
00:49:54.000That moment is something that I believe that we are going to be looking back on and talking about for quite some time.
00:50:04.000And then using to legitimize some draconian online censorship measures which...
00:50:09.000I suppose we'll be beneficial to the legacy media, because our main competitor is independent media.
00:50:16.000In fact, any time that we get a chance to destroy an independent media figure, we should really get on board with that.
00:50:22.000Whether it's Joe Rogan and the Horse Paste, or any independent media figures with dissenting views, we should find, in fact, anything we can to destroy them.
00:50:34.000This is a convenient piece of legislation that allows the control of social media under that most laudable of reasons, the protection of children.
00:50:42.000Who among us doesn't want to protect children?
00:50:46.000Yeah, don't worry about that, forget that story, that's not convenient right now.
00:50:49.000So, You just have to ask yourself, is this about protecting children, or is this about them being able to maintain control over a space that is volatile and doubtless has content in it that's harmful to all human beings, but they don't care about that, they care about control.
00:51:03.000This is the one issue we are putting party aside and saying no.
00:51:06.000No, no, Uyghurs, Uyghurs, that's the one issue, we all agree on Uyghurs.
00:51:10.000Oh yes, no, Uyghurs, that's important as well.
00:51:12.000This will not happen to America's children.
00:51:30.000Interestingly, Michael Tracy tweeted this.
00:51:32.000Again, it's very difficult to take them seriously in all their valour and all their bombast when we know that wars are escalating across the planet that no one's voted for and we're expected to fund.
00:51:39.000And now for a statement that's beyond irony.
00:51:41.000strategic bombing campaign that they have not authorized.
00:51:55.000And now for a statement that's beyond irony.
00:51:57.000Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us have blood on your hands.
00:52:01.000Now, wash that blood off your hands, pick up some missiles, and drop them on Iran.
00:52:07.000What do the Senate and Senators and the entire political system care about?
00:52:10.000Your children, who they're hoping will go to war for them, incidentally, in Iran?
00:52:14.000Or do they care about control over the public sphere and the information channels that exist between us right now?
00:52:20.000I can tell you from personal experience, they care very, very deeply about being able to control the space between this and your consciousness and what you say and what I hear.
00:52:28.000They are terrified of this type of communication.
00:52:31.000They're terrified of communities that are starting to coalesce and become disobedient and disenchanted with a narrative.
00:52:37.000That's why they go for something emotional that goes past the rational mind and right into fear and terror.
00:53:56.000They're truly powerful and not aligned on the basis of such things, but only on dominion and occultist ideologies that we may yet not have heard of even.
00:54:05.000So be beautiful for one another, to one another.
00:54:36.000In almost seven decades of life, I've been told how horrible Russia and China are, but I haven't had one bad interaction, not one, with a Russian or Chinese person.
00:54:46.000Orange Tosh commenting on Tom Cotton's conversation with the dude that runs TikTok.
00:56:03.000It helps us in ways I don't fully understand.
00:56:05.000It was pretty interesting that Nikki Haley appeared, wasn't it, on SNL.
00:56:11.000Let's have a look at Nikki Haley on SNL.
00:56:15.000Do you think that SNL and the establishment, generally speaking, are pushing Nikki Haley as a candidate, sort of a centralist, authoritarianist, globalist candidate for the Republican Party?
00:56:28.000It's one of the things I asked Vivek Ramaswamy Who, you could join us for that conversation if you're a member of the Local's Awakened Wonder Community.
00:56:38.000Let's have a look at Nikki Haley on SNL.
00:56:40.000Alright, so last night was the hosting debut for Bear star and Emmy winner Iowa Debris on Saturday Night Live with musical guest star Jennifer Lopez.
00:56:50.000So we'll see all their, you know, performances later this morning.
00:56:53.000But we begin here with a surprise appearance from presidential nominee Nikki Haley.
00:56:59.000Okay, our next question comes from someone who describes herself as a concerned South Carolina voter.
00:57:04.000My question is, why won't you debate Nikki Haley?
00:58:28.000Well, sitting here today on a national news program, I'm not going to get into what we've ruled in and ruled out from the point of view of military action.
00:58:35.000What I will say is that the president is determined to respond forcefully to attacks on our people.
00:58:41.000The president also is not looking for a wider war in the Middle East.
00:59:13.000I'll just say the same thing one more time, which is I'm not going to get into what's on the table and off the table when it comes to the American people.
00:59:20.000So he said, yeah, can we just go back to the bit where he said, we are not ruling out strikes within Iran, but we're not expanding the war in the region.
00:59:30.000It's sort of about 15 seconds back from there, because both those things literally can't be true.
00:59:34.000So one of the things, either you bomb inside Iran and you expand the conflict in the region, or you don't bomb in Iran.
01:00:12.000Are strikes inside Iran off the table?
01:00:18.000Again, Kristen, sitting here on television, it would not be wise for me to talk about what we're ruling in.
01:00:25.000What's the point of going to bloody television if you're not going to answer the questions, if you're going to offer all possible alternatives?
01:00:30.000Here he is talking about how the expanding violence between Israel and Hamas and the annihilation of that region is increasing tensions and violence across the Middle East.
01:00:47.000Is the United States already in a wider war in the Middle East, Jake?
01:00:54.000What the United States is doing is responding to threats as we see them with significant but proportionate force.
01:01:13.000Well, first, we don't accept that what's happening in the Red Sea, for example, Kristen, is entirely tied to the war in Gaza, because the Houthis are attacking shipping that has absolutely nothing to do with Israel.
01:01:30.000Those Houthis would have done that anyway.
01:01:33.000Ever since I've known about the Houthis, and you know what they were like, you know, in the 80s, the bloody Houthis.
01:01:38.000Then in the 90s, what are the Houthis doing now?
01:01:41.000Remember when those Houthis were tunnelling under Vietnam?
01:01:44.000And do you remember when the Houthis provoked that Cuban Missile Crisis?
01:01:49.000And do you remember the Houthis in 9-11?
01:02:23.000Possibly because it's time for these systems to be radically reviewed and perhaps potentially dismantled because what does it ultimately demonstrate?
01:02:31.000That hierarchical corrupt institutions of wealth accumulated over centuries is a Something to aspire to and it's somehow well literally sacred due to the nature of the ceremonies of Coronation that these are figures that are endowed by God.
01:02:47.000However as a fellow human being I pray that his treatment is successful and I pray that all people negatively affected by his cancer and cancer more broadly are Receive the comfort that they need.
01:02:59.000Hey guys, we've got some fantastic shows coming up later in the week.
01:03:03.000Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be on the show on Friday.
01:03:05.000That's already up for our Awakened Wonders on Locals.
01:03:08.000If you do become an Awakened Wonder, you can watch our conversation with Tucker Right now, it's a fantastic little chat.