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00:01:20.000We're going to look at some hypocrisy, in particular the hypocrisy of the Democrat party when it comes to claims around rigged elections.
00:01:28.000If you're watching this on YouTube now, by the way, After about 10-15 minutes we will disappear into the annals, I said annals, of Rumble where we can speak more freely.
00:01:39.000We're not there to discuss conspiracy theories, well a little bit, and we're certainly not there to do anything other than bring people together and to speak freely against the establishment.
00:01:48.000We've got such an exciting week this week.
00:01:49.000We're going to be learning more about Robert F Kennedy and why the mainstream media en masse are attacking him as an anti-vaxxer.
00:01:58.000We've got a great guest on, Ryan Grim.
00:02:00.000He's going to be telling us about Well, we're going to be talking a little bit about the White House Correspondents Dinner, which Ryan Grim, who has the nerve to call himself a journalist, was chucked out of last year for brawling.
00:02:12.000And I think one man said the back of his hand was scratched.
00:02:15.000Another fellow said he received, and this is a direct quote, a Chinese burn.
00:02:19.000And I'm not even sure that you can say that anymore.
00:02:21.000It's probably not the sort of thing that people should say.
00:02:24.000We're going to start by looking at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
00:02:27.000Why I like the White House Correspondents Dinner is because it's a living embodiment of the corruption and collusion that exists between the state and the mainstream media.
00:02:40.000Joe Biden, your president, had the out-and-out nerve to quote Jefferson and Jefferson's views on the media.
00:03:03.000Like the you know suggestions of script alts actually is what's coming through there now, but let's look at Joe Biden Do you think Joe Biden's even got the right to cite Jefferson one of the founding fathers?
00:03:11.000We interact with our audience whilst the White House Correspondents, what they do is they just bleach out your There you go.
00:03:18.000Consciousness we like we're listening to you. What do you think guys? We care about you. We love you
00:03:22.000No, like old Fox News is expressing opinion You're out the door not like MSNBC where they're just
00:03:28.000trying to turn you into a drone and not an NPC without a view
00:03:32.000To see not a chance to be free Let's have a look at this where Joe Biden has the audacity
00:03:38.000to cite Jefferson look at it serious. No Jill Kamala Doug and I and members of our administration
00:03:46.000Are here to send a message of the country and quite frankly to the world
00:04:19.000I put it to you, whether you're watching this on YouTube or Rumble, where we'll do the whole show unexpurgated, that this is a sort of an onanistic circle jerk, a media masturbatory circle of self-congratulation, where everyone is drenched, not in news, but in...
00:05:12.000US corporations cashing in on... But don't worry about the free press that's holding power to account, to complete Jefferson's quote before dear old Doddery Joe does.
00:05:26.000Thomas Jefferson wrote, we're left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government.
00:05:35.000I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.
00:05:38.000Right, so he's saying that a free media is more important than the government.
00:05:45.000But how many do you think that we have a free media?
00:05:48.000Right now, there are stories that we can't discuss on YouTube, which is a media platform that's regulated in a variety of ways.
00:05:54.000When we come off, we're going to be talking about an Epstein story that's going to... I'm not going to use my usual metaphor, like knock your knickers down, because it doesn't seem appropriate with regard to that particular story.
00:06:03.000But we're going to be talking about Epstein's calendar.
00:06:06.000And it's not a calendar where Epstein's posing like February's a fireman with a kitten.
00:06:11.000March, he's got a little apron on and he's whipping up a cake with a bit of batter up his face.
00:06:22.000Now I'm going through the film Calendar Girls with my head.
00:06:25.000And then maybe a football calendar is probably next in mind.
00:06:28.000I said well since I've had a calendar but like apparently Epstein had meetings in with some people that are quite surprising and we'd like you know we don't know if those meetings took place and we certainly can't discuss it on YouTube.
00:06:53.000The way he got those boys to come together as a band, he took them to the top of most, the top of the pops, as they used to say amongst themselves in happier times.
00:07:01.000So listen to this bit as well, back to Joe Biden's White House circle.
00:08:47.000Do you know what the White House dinner, the point of the White House dinner is?
00:08:51.000Well it's about freedom of speech essentially it's about the relationship with government and the press and free or so-called freedom of speech but on whose terms is this freedom of speech?
00:08:59.000Because if that freedom of speech was the type to which Jefferson was referring Assange will be out.
00:09:07.000He's talking about the type of journalists that want to challenge power, not the type of journalists that essentially promulgate and propagate the messages of the state, who themselves, in my view, are just the managerial class of a globalist corporate cartel.
00:09:49.000It's an event held by the White House Correspondents Association to celebrate journalism and freedom of speech.
00:09:56.000The event gathers journalists, politicians and celebrities to put their differences aside while raising money for journalism scholarship.
00:10:02.000Why don't you just go to Bill Gates and get your journalism scholarship from him and do your reporting in alignment with his views?
00:10:09.000You can't have real journalism, because real journalism, I feel like, is Barry Weiss, who's coming on the show later this week, Matt Taibbi, been on the show, coming on the show again, Schellenberger, and might I even venture, little old us, I think so, trying our best to keep you informed about stories that we believe matter, like the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, who indeed, if you notice, the two emergent smears of our time are your right wing, or your far far far far far far far far
00:10:40.000far far far right wing, or you're an anti-vaxxer. Two terms that have almost had to
00:11:37.000Oh, what the hell's drawing all these important men?
00:11:41.000Taiwan now has real-time intelligence sharing links with Five Eyes.
00:11:46.000So that means Five Eyes, which are the anglophonic countries and their various secret service agencies that I believe were part of the exposures of Snowden, actually.
00:11:55.000And we learned about that, the extent of like, well like, because America ain't meant to spy on Americans.
00:12:01.000Britain ain't meant to spy on British.
00:12:03.000Australia ain't meant to spy on Australians.
00:12:44.000So obviously all the things we've spoken about loads of times, but when they're talking about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, we've had the Twitterphile revelations recently.
00:13:28.000They've actually gotten to the point where they're getting on Gareth's nerves.
00:13:31.000So that's something that I don't like to hear.
00:13:33.000This is what I did get on my nerves, actually.
00:13:36.000So in the coverage of the Correspondents' Dinner, no mainstream production made any mention of Assange or the contradiction between Biden's declaration fidelity to the First Amendment and the continued drive of his administration to extradite and jail Assange.
00:13:49.000That's what the collusion, I suppose, is about.
00:13:51.000A kind of consensus to double down and reiterate the framing.
00:14:30.000How the WEF operates is by PR-ing for globalist interests and making sure that the agenda stays within an acceptable framework that will never challenge the interests of the powerful.
00:14:43.000We've got to do something about the environment, but we're never going to meaningfully change what powerful organisations do.
00:14:48.000We've got to do something about pandemics, but we're never going to say, for example, start exercising all the time or eat healthy.
00:14:55.000That's not the kind of thing that's going to be on the agenda.
00:14:57.000The White House Press Correspondents Dinner is essentially a coming together, as many circular, onanistic ceremonies are, Yeah.
00:16:04.000The outbreak of new organizations such as Rumble, I have to say, and even YouTube at its best with like organizations like breaking points and Jimmy Dore and obviously the kind of stuff that Joe Rogan talks about and even Organizations that are left of center like what are we like we like redacted and even people that are Like don't don't like me like what's that one called minority report majority report?
00:16:26.000They're all out there being independent voices.
00:16:29.000But what I would say is if you find yourself parroting the views of the establishment,
00:17:03.000Allow people to express themselves freely, whether that's traditionally or progressively.
00:17:07.000These are just simple terms that I use to try to avoid getting mired in this stuff.
00:17:11.000What I don't think we should be doing is finding ourselves on the same side as the Defense Department and the Pentagon and massive corporations.
00:17:18.000If you're doing their dirty work for them, you ain't on the right side.
00:17:31.000When the Department of Defense Celebrating the fact that Tucker Carlson's gone vocally, letting it be known that they're pleased that he's gone, whether the Pentagon are pleased that Tucker Carlson's gone, is obviously because he was doing something that they didn't like.
00:17:53.000Is there anyone at CNN, MSNBC, that's willing to come out and be anti-war?
00:17:57.000The war discourse is being limited, so where's your free press there?
00:18:01.000A White House Correspondents' Dinner worth having would go.
00:18:04.000Even though we're greatly at odds when it comes to the funding of this war and the continual flow of American taxpayer dollars into Ukraine, Who do deserve to be supported from a humanitarian perspective, of course, but a diplomatic solution ought be sought.
00:18:19.000That's not even being discussed, is it?
00:18:20.000No, I mean, you couldn't get a better example recently of the kind of collusion, literal kind of physical collusion between the state and the press in that Jack Teixeira or He's called Buddy Boy Texera.
00:18:34.000Well the New York Times, as we've kind of spoken about before, they like got 12 of their best journalists together to like uncover his name and reveal it before like setting the FBI to go and actually arrest him.
00:18:45.000The New York Times are actually involved in the investigation.
00:18:48.000No one with Buddy Boy Texera, the recent Pentagon papers whistleblower, no one is correctly covering except organizations like Grayzone and we've got, who have we got on tomorrow?
00:18:59.000None of them were talking about, oh it's a bit weird that this dude's saying that there are American troops in Ukraine even though we've been told again and again that there aren't.
00:19:07.000It's a bit weird that privately the American government admit that there's no way that this can be won and that it's pointless and they're never going to get the territory back.
00:19:17.000When they lined up to have that conference, like when they do those press conferences where Joe Biden's got the questions in advance, it's theatre.
00:19:23.000Like the White House press conference is theatre.
00:19:25.000This is what I want to talk to you about on an emotional level.
00:19:40.000When you hear authenticity in the voice of a narrator, or in the voice of a TV pundit, it chimes with us.
00:19:46.000Even if you don't agree with what they're saying, at least you can agree with their authenticity.
00:19:50.000Let me know in the chat, in the comments, whether you're on Rumble, or whether you're on Locals, and if you're not on Locals yet, join us there.
00:19:55.000We do weekly meditations, and by God, you're going to need them.
00:19:58.000This crazy, crazy world that we're living in.
00:20:00.000I'm sure Glenn Greenwald, right-wing fascist Glenn Greenwald, would think the same thing.
00:20:04.000I mean, obviously for him, going back to the revelations around Snowden, that they were partnering with, like, The Guardian, and then that spread to other publications.
00:20:12.000Now, would there be a publication that would facilitate them in that way?
00:20:17.000Like, if Edward Snowden, what, came forward now and went, oh my god, I've got these revelations, the American government are spying on their citizens in ways that are unconstitutional and illegal, Do you think the New York Times would publish that?
00:20:46.000You better Well it is about the warrantless surveillance of Americans so it's all done in that oh we're trying to stop terrorists but it's about collecting apparently more than 3 million backdoor searches which I knew you'd be interested in.
00:21:00.000Gareth I've had personally over 3 million backdoor searches and I've passed Every single one of them.
00:21:43.000So in the news this week, this was a hearing last week, heads of federal intelligence agencies were not willing to reveal how much data they collect on US citizens.
00:21:51.000Expert witnesses were also not able to say how many can conduct the unlawful and warrantless searches.
00:21:58.000So it's like, not only do they not know how many searches are taking place, but how many people have access to these searches.
00:22:03.000So it's a bit like that Pentagon audit.
00:22:06.000They don't know how many searches, like with the Pentagon failing their audit, last five at least, these dudes don't know how much data they're collecting and they don't know how many people are accessing it.
00:22:17.000The WAF calls on leaders to make good use of mass data collection.
00:22:20.000One of the recent proposals to come out of the World Economic Forum It's to develop ways to harvest and monetize satellite data, biological data, you saucy devils, and citizen generated data.
00:22:30.000Penned by the MIT Media Lab, the proposal calls for putting all this spuriously collected in the first place data to good use now.
00:22:37.000So there you go, that's the intersection between a globalist organization like the WF, a national organization such as Gareth just described, And even the Five Eyes set up, where now Taiwan are in league with international deep state agencies, presumably in order to spy on citizens, to develop narratives that will be beneficial to the cultivation of war.
00:23:02.000Now, pretty soon we're going to head off of YouTube, if that's where you're watching us.
00:23:06.000You'll find a link in the description where you can flip over onto Rumble, and we'll be talking a little bit about Epstein over there, plus we've got Ryan Grimm.
00:24:48.000Yeah, not just... this is the now Director of the CIA.
00:24:51.000That's a pretty important position, now Director of the CIA.
00:24:55.000It's a good job of the CIA, because they've got a lot of power.
00:24:58.000For example, say Joe Biden needs 50 people to sign a petition saying that the Hunter Biden laptop stories are... There was some disinformation, yeah.
00:25:06.000Then, you know, you probably have to organise that.
00:25:09.000When you watch the film Gangs of New York, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, what you realise is that the sort of crucible out of which America, and indeed, presumably, all nations grew, is one of corruption and primal interest as expressed through individuals.
00:25:21.000Like William Cutting, William the Butcher, played by Daniel Day-Lewis.
00:27:03.000Oh, Russell, it's actually not that practical to rub your back against a pineapple tree on a prickly pawpaw.
00:27:09.000You know, if you look under the rocks and plants and still glance at those fancy ants and maybe try a few.
00:27:15.000That's right, but they have bare necessities in life.
00:27:17.000Chomsky, you're not making it any easier to listen to you by talking all the time like that as if what you're saying is not actually that interesting when you're revealing vital information.
00:27:26.000Chomsky and Taka Taka Taka Can't You See are actually two of the only people that are willing to criticize the war.
00:28:49.000Alright, so that's what Epstein's been up to.
00:28:51.000Yeah, I guess all this does is just back up the fact that he had access to very, very important people and that maybe that could have been the reason for why he died in that jail.
00:30:14.000All right, and also, like, so that's my problem with the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:30:18.000They're citing Jefferson, saying that, you know, if you had to choose between government and press, you should take the press, but that's on the basis that the press Are intrepid and bold and willing to report on all manner of stuff.
00:30:34.000Well, I don't know if you enjoyed the Epstein stuff.
00:30:36.000It sort of makes me feel sick and anxious.
00:30:37.000It's an awful, disgusting story of exploitation, corruption, and also it sort of alludes to a level of deep state power that's sort of terrifying.
00:31:19.000Yeah, like, it's not about that actually.
00:31:21.000What we're saying is that the Democrat Party, who are like super excited and all stiff as boards and like doing sort of spattery little poops down their knickknacks on account of all this Fox payout, They themselves are always banging on about how bad voting machines are.
00:31:39.000It's amazing that Democrats are willing to say that voting machines don't work when it suits them because no one's got any values, no one's got any principles, no one cares.
00:31:47.000Well, I'm not saying no one cares about you.
00:32:06.000Wait till I've got my fizz waters down me neck.
00:32:08.000After that, we're going to be looking at old news of yesteryear to see how the media reporting has altered over the years in a new item called Back to the Future.
00:32:18.000I don't think it's called that, is it?
00:32:34.000Also, but before, can't we have, well, we'll judge the graphics before, because I want you lot to choose which graphic, because we've got a graphic for the item and everything.
00:32:45.000🎵 Should you use that, Gret? Or should we use that?
00:32:55.000That's the graphic with that musical sting.
00:32:57.000This is musical sting B. And this is the one that young Jack who works here did before we intervened and told him to start having some references to his work rather than just creating mad random... He's deleted it!
00:34:39.000Pucker is gone and now we can get on with a proper democracy that functions well where everyone accepts the
00:34:41.000results of elections Particularly now Fox has had to pay out to those brilliant Dominion machines because no one else has ever complained about electoral fraud ever before in the history of democracy.
00:34:59.000Tucker Carlson's departure has predictably caused celebration in some quarters, grief in others.
00:35:05.000Let's look at the claim that Tucker Carlson's departure is connected to the ongoing voter fraud stories and the Fox payouts to Dominion, and whether or not democracy is ultimately broken now, because whoever wins the next election, whether it's Biden or whoever the Republicans put forward, do you imagine that after the result the other party's going to go, Congratulations, let's work together now to build back better, or make America great again, or whatever catchphrase we've got that ultimately ends up serving powerful interests.
00:35:33.000Or do you think they'll say, you never won that election fairly, the machines are broken, I saw her hanging, Chad!
00:35:39.000Carlson's firing is somehow related to the Dominion lawsuit that was recently settled by Fox.
00:35:45.000We can always rely on that guy's insights.
00:35:54.000The story that we want to cover now is the state of American democracy.
00:35:58.000For years now, the losing side generally alleges electoral fraud, dodgy voting machines, some kind of breakdown.
00:36:05.000We're out of state now, but whatever the result of the election, there's only one thing you can be sure of, that the party that's in government will not fulfil the pledges that they made, and the party that loses will say that they are the victim of electoral fraud.
00:36:16.000It's been going on a lot longer than since 2020.
00:36:18.000They fired him because of messages that were found during the discovery process.
00:36:23.000I believe there's material in those private messages that was incredibly ugly.
00:36:27.000It gave Fox a reason to remove Carlson.
00:36:30.000So, essentially, Stelter and other mainstream voices are saying that Tucker's departure is connected to Fox's fraudulent claim that the Dominion machines were faulty.
00:36:39.000Well, let's make sure, then, that that is not a ubiquitous and perennial lament offered forth by either party in the event they lose.
00:36:48.000In particular, I've got to say, the Democrats, who have been saying that there are rigged elections, problematic machines, problems with voting systems for a long time now.
00:37:58.000I'm telling you they ain't different enough and neither party is going to make a significant difference to your life.
00:38:04.000In 2018, electronic voting machines in Georgia and Texas deleted votes for certain candidates or switch votes from one candidate to another.
00:38:11.000The biggest seller of voting machines is doing something that violates cybersecurity 101.
00:38:17.000Directing that you install remote access software which would make a machine like that, you know, a magnet for fraudsters and hackers.
00:38:24.000These voting machines can be hacked quite easily.
00:38:26.000So the legitimacy of elections and the results of elections is something that's been queried for a long time.
00:38:33.000Here are voices of the Democrat party in various settings making the exact same claims.
00:38:40.000Whether or not the voting machines work is irrelevant because whichever party you end up voting for, that party is funded by, lobbied by, ultimately works for globalist financial corporate interests including
00:38:54.000the military industrial complex, the financial industry and the conglomerates that own media
00:38:59.000companies and they all work together to ensure that any legislative changes that do
00:39:03.000take place don't meaningfully impact their ability to profit and generally do not allow ordinary
00:39:09.000people to democratically change their own lives.
00:39:12.000You could easily hack into them, it makes it seem like all these states are doing different
00:39:17.000but in fact three companies are controlling this.
00:39:20.000It is the individual voting machines that pose some of the greatest risk.
00:39:25.000There are a lot of states that are dealing with antiquated machines.
00:39:32.000So basically they just say stuff unless they win.
00:39:34.000Unless they win they say the problem is the machine.
00:39:37.000You don't see any more politicians going listen we lost fair and square but ultimately we all love America and we want American people to succeed.
00:39:45.000So it becomes this kind of quibbling around minutiae and technicalities ultimately because they've got nothing big to offer you anymore.
00:39:53.000Neither party is going to say we are going to get this country And we are going to genuinely change it.
00:39:58.000And how we're going to change it is by empowering you to run your own communities.
00:40:01.000The only reason to have government at all is to protect you, yes, from potential foreign threats and to protect you from domestic and globalist corporate interests.
00:41:30.000You, sir, are a disgrace to democracy!
00:41:33.000And you keep causing insurrections, and your hair's ridiculous, and you're orange, and that's all there really is to discuss.
00:41:39.000This once again shows you there are no ultimate values or principles, there's just rhetoric attached to achieving the outcomes that they would prefer to achieve that are themselves tethered to financial interests that they're personally affected by.
00:41:52.000Look at all the nepotism, look at all the stock ownership, and look at the way they legislate on the behalf of big business.
00:41:57.000Let me know in the chat in the comments if you think that the problem is rigged electoral machines or a rigged electoral system.
00:42:02.000I'm very concerned that you could have a hack that finally went through.
00:42:06.000You have 21 states that were hacked into.
00:42:08.000They didn't find out about it for a year.
00:42:11.000It is worth fighting for integrity in our election system, which means that they are free from interference by a hostile or an unfriendly Like Russia, for example.
00:42:26.000Completely cooked up media concoction in conjunction with the Democrat Party.
00:42:31.000Perhaps all of us, if we're honest, recognise that we all tend, if the outcome is favourable to our own self-interest, Oh yeah, this is a good system.
00:42:39.000Maybe sometimes you say like, I don't like that person.
00:42:59.000Why don't we have systems that bring to the forefront the better aspects of our nature and and a reliant on congregation, the collectivism, and true democracy, rather than systems that encourage you to become self-centered, biased, just to argue for outcomes that suit you, to have no principles or values, to change your argument in order to meet the outcome that you want, as in the case of these machines.
00:43:19.000If the election results go their way, these are some of the best electoral machines we've ever... How dare you criticize those machines?
00:43:26.000This Dominion voting machine's been like a brother to you!
00:44:27.000Hilary, how do you feel about voting machines?
00:44:29.000Do you have a principled perspective on them that will not change depending on whether you win or lose an election?
00:44:34.000The opinion will stay the same, right?
00:44:35.000There are some tax experts in Silicon Valley with whom I have met who say that maybe what they'll do this next time is to really disrupt the actual election.
00:44:47.000shut down the servers that you send results to, interfere with the operation of voting machines,
00:44:55.000because still, too many of them are linked to the internet.
00:45:01.000Why don't they just accept that some people vote for Donald Trump
00:45:05.000because they're disillusioned with the political class?
00:45:08.000Why don't we all accept more broadly that the problem is deeply systemic and is a result of the ability of powerful deep state and corporate interest to manipulate the congressional and democratic process to the point where democracy is sort of a facade.
00:45:43.000After Republican victories in 2000, 2004, and 2016, Democrats in Congress used the formal counting of electoral votes as an opportunity to challenge election results.
00:45:53.000Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Iowa, wrote in a New York Times opinion piece in 2021.
00:45:58.000In January 2001, Representative Maxine Waters joined several other Democrats challenging George W. Bush's victory, claiming Florida's electoral votes were fraudulent.
00:46:08.000In January 2005, after Bush's re-election, Senator Barbara Boxer formally challenged Ohio's electoral Even though Bush won Ohio by more than 118,000 votes.
00:46:18.000Wait, let's recount that because what they've done is that 118,000 votes could have been done by a little cyber Lego hacker that gets in the machine.
00:46:30.000In January 2017, after Trump's victory, Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee said there was the malfunction of 87 voting machines and Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat, Massachusetts said there were confirmed and illegal activities engaged by the government of Russia in the 2016 election.
00:46:46.000Then as now, each member of Congress was within their rights to make an objection, Mueller wrote.
00:46:51.000But the objections were naive at best, shameless at worst.
00:46:55.000Either way, the readiness of members of Congress to disenfranchise millions of Americans was disconcerting.
00:47:00.000And now there's Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who ran for governor of Georgia, who claims that Brian Kemp, the Republican who beat her four years ago, won under the rules of the game at the time, but the game was rigged against the voters of Georgia.
00:47:22.000In September 2022, the Washington Post reported Democrats have spent nearly $19 million across eight states in primaries this year, amplifying far-right Republican candidates who have questioned or denied the validity of the 2020 election.
00:47:35.000They're willing to fund people that make those claims.
00:47:46.000I disagree with those people and what they're saying is illegal and wrong.
00:47:49.000Let's give them some money so they can say it more loudly because I think in the long run it'll pay off and then we'll be able to benefit from being in Congress and regulate companies that own stocks and shares in.
00:48:03.000You have to understand strategy to function in the world.
00:48:05.000So having a strategy where you amplify the voices of people that make claims that the election was fraudulent seems like it could be a good strategy.
00:48:13.000But if you're simultaneously persecuting Trump for making those same claims and declaring that he oughtn't be able to run as president as a result of making those claims, then your strategy is so sort of contradictory and hypocritical that it's become unmoored from morality.
00:48:30.000And in the business of government, where you actually hold sway over the lives of ordinary people when it comes to their healthcare, their education, judiciary matters, cultural, military matters, then morality and values and principles must be the very spine, the skeleton of it.
00:48:48.000Fallibility is inevitable, but outright hypocrisy is unacceptable.
00:48:53.000If Biden really wants to unite the country, which he doesn't, he ought at least try to do the difficult work of reaching out to the other side, which he won't.
00:49:00.000But that would be risky since the left wing of his party isn't in any mood for making peace with Republicans, MAGA or otherwise.
00:49:07.000He talks about MAGA Republicans and how they're a threat to democracy because it's one more weapon in his political arsenal, a way he hopes to win over those crucial swing voters.
00:49:15.000As a cynical political strategy, it may work.
00:49:35.000We would have done if it wasn't for those bastards.
00:49:37.000You can't use that kind of mawkish language if ultimately you are a cynical careerist strategist who works on behalf of corporate interests.
00:49:49.000So whether or not there's electoral fraud isn't actually the issue.
00:49:52.000The system is rigged, and whoever wins the next election, and I would argue whoever it is ain't gonna make no difference in your life, not significantly anyway, you might get some pyrrhic victory within yourself, essentially equivalent to your sports team winning.
00:50:05.000What we know is the losing side will go, oh, the game was rigged, it wasn't fair, because that's what they always do.
00:50:13.000There is no morality, there are no values, there are no real principles in politics anymore, because they've set up a system that simply will not afford those type of values.
00:50:55.000Or to use its fancy name, Nicotinamide Mononucleotide.
00:50:59.000A couple of capsules a day and you could be looking at improved energy, enhanced metabolism that can help reduce the risk of obesity, protection against age-associated diseases, all falling apart, getting older, revolting, increased endurance and strength.
00:51:16.000Our old friends at Big Pharma, those guys, And the FDA are trying to get a piece of the action by labeling NMN as a drug instead of a supplement.
00:51:24.000Not because of any concerns over safety or efficacy.
00:53:36.000Tom Jones' lookalike, named Ian Stott, he's been sending me, like, he writes a lot of, like, quite radical literature about revolution and global conspiracies and religion and, like, it's a bit of an unusual combination of things to do, like, to write books about anti-establishmentism and appear as Tom Jones at my mum's birthday.
00:53:57.000We've all got to have a day job, haven't we?
00:53:58.000You've got to do what you've got to do to survive.
00:58:20.000And it's just a gigantic kind of money-making operation.
00:58:24.000Yeah it feels like that it feels it feels saccharine and theatrical and appalling and ridiculous and I feel like it cannot go on for much longer.
00:58:37.000What do you think about the candidacy of RFK and the early surge there. We're going to have him
00:58:44.000In fact, don't answer that, mate, because we are going to wrap here and head over to Locals.
00:58:48.000There's a link. You can join us over on Locals right now where we conduct this conversation.
00:58:53.000Plus, we'll carry out that game as well, you know, the old news game.
00:58:57.000Ryan, perhaps you'll join us for a little bit of that game where we're going to look at old news and we'll marvel at the way that the news media has altered.
00:59:05.000Click the red button, you can join us.
00:59:06.000Remember, I do a festival every year from July the 14th to July the 17th, Community.
00:59:11.000There's a link in the chat for that as well.
00:59:12.000People like Vandana Shiva, Wim Hof, Satish Kumar will come, plus Callie Means who talked about all that food corruption stuff.
00:59:20.000Tomorrow we've got Max Blumenthal on the show.
00:59:22.000What are we going to be talking to Max about?
00:59:24.000There's a really sort of relevant new story that Max was being incredibly vocal about.