In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, we look at the French election, and why the results may not have been as simple as they appeared to suggest. We start by looking at the composition of the new government, and what it means for the future of the country, and then we talk about the reasons why a far-left alliance may have won the presidential election in France. We finish with some of Russell's top 5 favourite things he just can't live without. Stay Free with Russell Brand is out now on all good podcasting platforms, including Podulters, iDEY, Podulter and The Independent. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers and use the promo code: STAYFREE at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase when you buy your first pack of Sticky Fingers! To find out who won the election and what they're up to, head over to our website and sign up to the mailing list here. We'll be live streaming the entire election results live on Rumble on the 24th of May, so make sure to keep your eyes open for the full results next week. Stay Free, stay free, stay safe, and keep up to date with all the latest in social media and podcasting! and spread the word to your friends about what's happening in the world of politics and culture! - stay free! Stay free, love, bye! xx - your host, Amy, Emily, and Joe, Rachel, . . . and your host of the . Music: The Awakening Wonders - by The Revolution Project - by , by , , and , is a podcast about politics and social media: , produced by . , is a production of The Revolution . , edited by - is a brand new podcast. , featuring , recorded in London, and produced in association with The Revolution, and edited by , and edited, and edited and produced by, , with the help of , so you can be sure you'll be getting the full effect of all things you need to know about it, too, you can do it, you ll be there! , to make it so you won't be there, you won t want to miss it. - it's that's right there, right?
00:09:16.000Hey you Awakening Wonders, thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:09:21.000Across the world we are forced to question how electoral democracies are managed and what the function of democracy is now, how its mechanics operate.
00:09:33.000I'm asking that question I suppose on the basis that in two countries You would have, I'm talking about France and the UK, clear victories for particular parties.
00:09:42.000In the case of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer's Labour Party.
00:09:46.000And in France, this extraordinary conglomeration of multi-layered alliance that has led for a victory for the French left.
00:09:58.000And there are aspects of that alliance that are pretty interesting.
00:10:01.000There are sort of anti-war components, there are some pretty awakened movements that emerged, I assume, from that Gilets Jaunes moment in France.
00:10:12.000But what you're left with, I think, when you analyse the results as best as I can using my mind and this pen, you're left with the idea that potentially the results are not all they initially seem. Nevertheless, here is a
00:10:29.000bit of celebratory footage and a people of France, some pretty good looking people, but one
00:10:36.000person who's clearly been selected because of his potentially antagonistic resemblance
00:10:42.000to Che Guevara. This is footage from Rebel News.
00:11:39.000Good to not be racist, but are we sure that we understand precisely what's taken place in France?
00:11:46.000I'm not sure that I understand, of course, but what I do know is that Macron is still and will remain president and that 200 candidates Dropped out of the race in an attempt to, a successful attempt, to strategize and tactically beat the Rallye Nationale.
00:12:07.000They're usually called the far-right participants.
00:12:10.000So listen, let's have a little look at that.
00:12:37.000This dude they're going to have to bury because he's going to be a massive pain in the arse.
00:12:40.000Now first we'll look at this, we'll look at the results of the French election, the way that these results were achieved and we'll compare it to the UK election and how those results were achieved.
00:12:48.000It's much more institutional in our country.
00:12:50.000The UK proportional representation favours the two major parties but in France there's been some extraordinary sort of in real time gerrymandering, deals being done, people dropping out of the race in order to prevent the far right.
00:13:03.000Now, I wonder if ultimately there will be a mandate for the kind of people that are celebrating who appear to be, on the basis of this, anti-racist and anti-war.
00:13:20.000And I reckon we're all anti-racist and anti-war.
00:13:24.000I mean, if you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be there for about another 15 minutes, then we'll be streaming exclusively on Rumble.
00:13:31.000And to those awakened wonders, let me know what you thought of my five favourite things that I just can't live without.
00:13:39.000I'm going to show you a little bit of that in a minute.
00:13:41.000It's a delightful little conglomerate.
00:13:43.000Here's some analysis now so we can look at what this new composition that makes up the French government is in fact made up of.
00:13:52.000All four parties said they'd made concessions.
00:13:54.000The NFP, that's the new alliance program, is heavily influenced, or the sort of largest part of it, influenced by that of the radical left LFI, including pledges that would significantly increase France's already high public spending.
00:14:08.000It promises to reverse Emmanuel Macron's controversial changes to pensions, And return the retirement age to its pre-2010 level of 60, raise public sector wages, link salaries to inflation, boost housing and youth benefit, cut income tax and social security for low earners, and introduce a wealth tax for the rich.
00:14:29.000All pretty good ideas so far, you would think, wouldn't you?
00:14:32.000So listen to this, NFP also aims to raise the minimum wage, fine, fund 500,000 childcare places, why not, cap prices for essential foods, electricity, gas and petrol, boost green measures including legislating for carbon neutrality by 2050, and overhaul the EU's common agriculture policy.
00:14:51.000You know how controversial agricultural policy, particularly coming out of the EU, has been in the last 5-10 years, and of course carbon neutrality is an idea that's spoken about and causes a lot of controversy In this space.
00:15:04.000What I'd be interested in is if the measures spoken of here, most notably the environmental ones, will lead to restrictions and legislation on individual freedom, rather than the, for example, tempering and controlling the profits and activities of international global corporations, including and most obviously energy corporations.
00:15:30.000On foreign affairs, the alliance has said it would demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
00:15:34.000What do you reckon to that in the chat?
00:15:39.000Halt Moscow's war of aggression in Ukraine, keep supplying arms to Kiev, and unfailingly defend the sovereignty and freedom of the Ukrainian people.
00:16:46.000How will these victories, ultimately for centrists, although many people have pointed out how are they victories for centrists if they've had to form alliances with parties and groups of the left, question mark, How will they govern from what seems to be a precarious position?
00:17:03.000It's pretty interesting because in this sort of cooperative that's been formed here, for example, there are a variety of views on pretty significant issues.
00:17:13.000And I wonder how they're going to manage this in government.
00:17:16.000It's going to be pretty interesting, I would think, and will likely lead to fissures and maybe even chaos.
00:17:22.000There's been a lot of instability in France.
00:17:23.000In fact, this snap election was an attempt to mitigate control and bring down That chaos.
00:17:29.000Same in the UK, because why did the Conservative Party call an election that was inevitable that they were going to lose and significantly lose?
00:17:35.000Presumably, it's part of a overall agenda to maintain some semblance of control.
00:17:42.000And the more cynical among you would say, you know, would simply cite the Who's song, Meet the New Boss, same as the old boss indeed.
00:17:48.000I think that's what PJW did on his video analysing it.
00:18:08.000Had promised to take a back seat in the NFP, but has been unable to do so, demanding on Sunday that France's next Prime Minister come from the Alliance and implement our manifesto and only our manifesto.
00:18:33.000People will drop whatever they need to drop, acquire whatever they need to acquire to get into power, and then people change.
00:18:39.000Once it's extraordinary power, it's mercurial magic is unleashed on the mind, people start, because I suppose, Maybe because there aren't sufficient virtues and principles that are beyond the remit of selfhood that ultimately motivate people.
00:18:56.000What I'm saying, not to be opaque, is if all of us were dedicated to a project of salvation and redemption, If all of us were individually contributing to the common good, although I recognise there are people in the world that are doing that naturally, and not all of them are Christian, I'm not suggesting that for a second, then we would have different systems, wouldn't we?
00:19:13.000Representative of a higher set of values.
00:19:16.000We're gonna see a chaotic period in France, we're gonna see a chaotic period in the UK.
00:19:20.000Because there are these escalating wars.
00:19:21.000There is the necessity to implement further and further authoritarianism.
00:19:50.000Hey, we've got footage of Keir Starmer saying, you know, they can't maintain control in the good old days of CNN and BBC and centralised authority, the pre-communications miracle era.
00:20:03.000meant that centralised control was plausible.
00:20:28.000And before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, frequent Moscow-friendly remarks have made him too toxic.
00:20:35.000So this dude, they're not going to be pushing for him.
00:20:37.000Melanchon has also faced accusations of anti-Semitism.
00:20:40.000Recently describing the attendees of a demonstration against antisemitism as the friends of unconditional support of the Gaza massacre and appearing to minimize antisemitism in France by describing it as residual.
00:22:30.000Because the UK, similarly, even though on the surface of it It's an out-and-out landslide.
00:22:34.000The Labour Party have got 411 or 12 seats, and the Tory Party, their opponents have been decimated.
00:22:42.000On the surface of it, that seems to be the case, but with a little bit of analysis, we showed you this last week, you see that Reform got 4 million votes and only 4 seats, 5 eventually, Lib Dems got 3.4, I think it ended up being 3.7 and 69 seats, I think they ended up with 71 perhaps, and Labour won two-thirds of the seats with only one-third of the national vote.
00:22:59.000Now, the reason I'm interested in that is to show yet another disjunct between the electoral systems and the results of the elections.
00:23:06.000Now, in your country, the United States of America, there are quibbles and quarrels enough around voting machines and voter ID and mailing votes that what we're talking about here is the mechanic of democracy itself.
00:23:18.000And while we're all sort of trying to understand how these maneuvers take place.
00:23:22.000200 French candidates dropping out, 80 from Macron's party,
00:23:27.000and 129, no it's the reverse isn't it, of this new alliance.
00:23:31.000They dropped out to make way for one another, to ensure that they won tactically.
00:23:35.000I wonder what you think the ethics of that are, because that's not flat out representation
00:23:42.000It might be, you might even call it a necessary evil, the same way as accepting donations from corporations, from big pharma, from big tech, from the military.
00:23:53.000But once you take on all these necessary evils, what you've necessarily gotten left with is evil.
00:23:59.000An evil system that can only mask its evilness through Through banality, not even through the pretense of good.
00:24:05.000Although perhaps a beautiful way to describe wokeness would be the pretense of good.
00:24:09.000Because none of you surely are making an argument that we should be discriminating against people on the basis of race or their sexual preferences.
00:24:16.000Surely any awakened and enlightened person knows that our first duty is non-judgment.
00:24:20.000Surely we know that our ultimate duty is to live in a state of love.
00:24:23.000But the problem with wokeness is that it It cannot live by the virtues it espouses.
00:24:30.000It uses them but as a veneer to mask the globalist corporatism that we're all describing.
00:24:36.000Otherwise, if you were truly woke, it was like, I believe in the rights of these religions or these minorities or, you know, insert whatever, whatever idiom or synecdoche is required to complete that sentence, you wouldn't be pro-war, would you?
00:24:50.000You wouldn't be pro the jailing of Assange.
00:24:53.000You wouldn't be pro global institutions that do not respond to the electorate at all, like the WHO or the WEF or the World Bank or NATO.
00:25:02.000All of those things, all of those things that are functionally giants now, giants among us, indefatigable, unbeatable entities that can't be controlled by ordinary people.
00:25:15.000A true leader would surely oppose those things.
00:25:18.000Now, you will know who your elected representative truly represents when you see them in action.
00:25:26.000And it seems that Keir Starmer, like Tony Blair before him, that uber-globalist, is strongly affiliated to the globalist project that similarly has in its palm Emmanuel Macron, still the president of France, and I think he will remain for another couple of years at least.
00:25:59.000And one of the things that's been impressed on me since I've been here is the absence of the United Kingdom and that's why it's really important that I'm here and that our Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is here as a statement of intent that should there be a change of government, and I hope there will be, Doesn't that sort of seem like a middle management mob figure showing up to pay tribute to the heads of the five families?
00:26:27.000You know, we're here to show you that when we're elected, we bloody well will come.
00:26:31.000And I'd invite you not to look at the backdrop and the 666 configuration that runs through the O's in the words World Economic Forum.
00:26:54.000Does that mean to be the recipients of migrants?
00:26:59.000Does that mean to participate in wars?
00:27:02.000Does that mean to participate in the plunder of vulnerable nations?
00:27:07.000It seems to me a new consensus is emerging around the subject of migration.
00:27:12.000That most countries now want individual sovereignty, want the control of their borders, don't want to be involved in international wars, and are no longer willing to support globalist, corporatist projects That rely on their flags and their names and their tax dollars but enrich only an elite that stands ahead, above and beyond of all nations.
00:27:31.000Corporate elites that find ways of avoiding paying taxes, find ways of navigating the bureaucracies of nations that they use as to... We can't avoid them.
00:27:42.000Bureaucracy is basically what I'm saying.
00:27:44.000What we are very proud of now as a young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, is that we penetrate the cabinets.
00:27:58.000They're penetrating the cabinets, baby.
00:28:15.000So, the idea of authoritarianism and liberalism ought be oxymoronic.
00:28:22.000Authoritarianism being the opposite of liberty, and therefore liberalism.
00:28:27.000But, Emmanuel Macron, still president of France, manoeuvreur in elections, now stands as the most obvious example, and perhaps the most powerful example, of authoritarian liberalism.
00:28:40.000You can certainly make the case that in your country, the Democrats, while using a recognisable rhetoric around the culture wars and ...pretending to be progressive are similarly an authoritarian liberal movement.
00:28:53.000What I mean by that is, do they give you a choice as to whether or not there are going to be wars?
00:28:57.000Do they give you a real choice around the sovereignty of your nation's borders?
00:29:01.000Do they give you a real choice as to how to respond to health crises?
00:29:05.000Are these the kind of things that you were invited to participate in?
00:29:08.000Was there a set of referenda, I wonder?
00:29:11.000Well, this might help us to understand what is meant by the phrase authoritarian liberalism.
00:29:15.000It certainly helped me to understand it.
00:29:17.000The shift towards security is perhaps the most striking aspect of macronism.
00:29:52.000They're not celebrating policy because Macron's still in power and Macron is a globalist.
00:29:58.000Macron ain't gonna do nothing to help those young people and their various ideals.
00:30:03.000Pretty soon they will be spilled and adrift in the streets of Paris, lost and bewildered, inadvertent flaneurs, looking for something, going nowhere.
00:30:13.000That's sort of my prediction because this kind of authoritarianism is anti-human.
00:30:17.000You don't want to be protected by the state.
00:30:21.000Minimal protections, I'm sure, a little bit of regulation, not these kind of Odd forays into idealism.
00:30:27.000He replaced Libby with security and made this the cornerstone of his regime.
00:30:31.000Even before COVID-19, Macron had securitized the French state against internal threats.
00:30:37.000Inheriting a state of emergency imposed by his predecessor, Francois Hollande, after the 2015 Paris attacks, Macron passed many emergency powers into ordinary law.
00:30:47.000Remember, that was the last version of this.
00:30:49.000To protect you from terror, or as George W. Bush used to call it, terror, Remember?
00:30:53.000He wouldn't pronounce all the syllables, would he?
00:30:55.000Not all of the vowels, just... Like that.
00:30:58.000It was slightly like someone who'd had a stroke trying to say.
00:31:02.000It was terror that we were being protected from.
00:31:04.000It was terror that meant that we had to give access to... had to give the state access to private information.
00:31:10.000And remember that the Patriot Act that was passed in the aftermath of 9-11 is still operative.
00:31:30.000Okay, effectively, into ordinary law, effectively making the state of emergency permanent.
00:31:35.000Permanent emergency is another one of the themes of authoritarian liberalism.
00:31:40.000Those powers meant to curb the threat of terrorism were then used against the Gilets Jaunes, a social movement with a broader popular base and appeal.
00:31:46.000Now you'd think that some of these left-wing parties that are part of this new alliance
00:31:51.000would have derived some of their support from the Gilets Jaunes movement.
00:31:54.000Remember those protests on the steps of Black Rock and Vanguard.
00:32:00.000The French people were pissed off that they were having their pensions reduced and were
00:32:04.000being asked to work for additional years.
00:32:06.000They were having their sort of French culture altered before their eyes.
00:32:10.000Try I pray that you can look beyond what seems to be the most significant issue to most of
00:32:15.000you based on comments and stuff, the important issue of migration, immigration and cultural
00:32:20.000And notice too, that you have won the argument on the subject of migration.
00:32:25.000The Labour Party, even parties from the left, everyone says you have to at least pay lip service to the idea of border security and border control.
00:32:32.000That argument's been won, at least, you know, at the level of the public dialectic, the public discourse.
00:32:56.000Now of course you'll be more directly aware of bloody hell wages are lower because of migration, can't get doctor's appointments because of migration.
00:33:03.000Those things will be more visceral and there's no question that there are cultural issues that are arising in certain parts of Europe and as I understand America as a result of that.
00:33:14.000And what do you think Macron, Biden, Starmer, Even if this is not what they're doing at the level of their subjective experience, whose interests do they work for?
00:33:24.000As Chomsky once said, if you didn't work for those interests, you wouldn't be sitting in that chair.
00:33:30.000By the time you've been through the law schools or the universities or whatever party political machinery they put you through, Who knows what skullduggery, chicanery, and blackmail, Epstein Islandry, you have to also pass through the archipelago of sin that creates these creatures.
00:33:47.000By the time you get there, you better believe your interests, and Vanguard's interests, and BlackRock's interests, and NATO's interests, are pretty fucking tightly aligned.
00:33:57.000Because otherwise, you won't make it through the maze, right?
00:34:10.000Macron reinforced this security regime during COVID, giving prefects, state-appointed regional departmental representatives, extraordinary powers, including the power to ban individuals from entire regions.
00:34:20.000I read that even Napoleon was not so tyrannical in his implementation of the use of those prefects.
00:34:29.000The securitisation of French society culminated in a law against separatism, allowing for more state control over non-governmental organisations, including mosques, but also secular civil society associations.
00:34:42.000In a minute, right, I'm going to leave you there for a second.
00:34:43.000If you're watching this on YouTube, let's start the countdown.
00:34:45.000We're going to be exclusively available on YouTube.
00:34:48.000Not on YouTube, bloody hell, those bastards, what they've done to us.
00:35:28.000Why not place your finger gently into your own bottom?
00:35:31.000And you will discover there, my good man, or woman, a stench that will shock you to the very core of your being.
00:35:38.000Unless you are participating in the great project of Dr. Schultz, who will not rest till your bowel is like Disney World.
00:35:47.000And I don't mean corrupt with a network of tunnels under it where you see sort of Mickey Mouse with his head off and like a dead body being sort of ushered around.
00:37:50.000Is another thing I cannot live without.
00:37:52.000And if there's something you cannot live without that you will have to live without, then I suppose you will have to address what that deficit is and what that symbol or relationship.
00:37:59.000Relationship, what that relationship represents for you.
00:38:01.000It represents fealty, loyalty, connection, intimacy, deep intimacy.
00:38:21.000Like when I was seven all I wanted was a good dog and I have one now you know and that's sort of a very simple thing in me.
00:38:28.000Think of the many threads or strings on the harp of your being plucked in an endless symphony of performance where you try to make yourself fit with the tunes around you.
00:38:39.000well that note that i find in bear he's very like that's who i am
00:38:44.000son of a bitch messy You son of a bitch!
00:38:51.000You goddamn nearly made me cry about my own dog!
00:38:53.000You nearly made me cry about my own bear!
00:39:41.000I think that if you say migration, it means that you think that you don't, you can't ever control your community, your state, your space, your land.
00:39:49.000Because I recognise that it, like I was listening to Tommy Robinson talking about Luton.
00:39:54.000I was on Jordan Peterson, did you see that?
00:39:56.000And he was talking about what it was like to grow up in Luton and how he was like, there was never a kind of racial division.
00:40:01.000He's from sort of football fan culture by his own admission.
00:40:04.000And he was saying about how like, You know, like the white kids and the black kids around Luton would hang out and even the Sikh kids, all the different, you know, even kids that had a religious affinity outside of Islam, but there was a kind of a natural division.
00:40:16.000And it was very good to hear this account from someone who grew up in those communities and he was talking about the connection, at least his personal experience.
00:40:22.000I'm only recounting his personal experience as I understand it.
00:40:26.000Between the gangs in Luton that sold drugs.
00:40:29.000Now I used to, when I was a heroin addict, I lived in East London, I used to, like some of the people I bought drugs off were Muslim guys that were in religious dress.
00:40:37.000And I used to sometimes go into like the estates where they were to get heroin.
00:40:41.000And I was always sort of struck by how they are, surely I thought their religious principles would not permit the sale of heroin, but there they were selling heroin.
00:40:52.000And I suppose what the kind of old school patriotism and nationalism of the likes of Tommy Robinson is about is about the sense of kind of preservation, conservatism, connection to the land, or sort of the sense that your community is under some kind of threat.
00:41:09.000Do you believe it's possible for different cultures to live harmoniously together?
00:41:13.000Do you think that there's a certain number of different communities?
00:41:16.000Do you think there has to be a balance?
00:41:18.000Do you think it's a racial or cultural dynamic?
00:41:20.000I'm very interested in what you lot Think about all that kind of stuff, man.
00:41:23.000Because when I was watching Tommy Robinson, I suppose what I felt was, yeah, this dude is obviously a conduit for an experience a lot of people are having.
00:41:31.000You know, a lot of people... It chimes with a lot of people.
00:41:35.000Me, personally, I wouldn't like any person to feel excluded from my love on the basis of their race, their religion, their sexual identity, their gender identity.
00:42:50.000They've looked at where's the money getting spent.
00:42:54.000If you're spending a lot of money on the police state, then we can assume that you're authoritarian.
00:42:59.000Now there may be a right-wing appraisal of that would be, oh no, it's to implement social control because of the uprising of all these, you know, who knows, you tell me what you think.
00:43:06.000This has led to more officers on the streets, an increase in riot police units and the militarisation of their equipment.
00:43:12.000Remember, some of the budgets that were put aside for Covid protections ended up going towards the militarisation of police vehicles in numerous states in America.
00:43:20.000A lot of Covid budget in our country ended up being used for surveillance.
00:43:23.000I think I'm telling the truth, aren't I, Gareth?
00:43:25.000I think all those things actually happen.
00:43:26.000So, the militarisation of the police is actually a global phenomenon.
00:43:30.000So, if you're talking about globalism, and we talk about it a lot here, it's like, what things are happening everywhere, regardless, like, how come the same, why are there agricultural protests everywhere?
00:43:39.000Why are farmers in Sri Lanka and farmers in the Netherlands, that bunch of bastards, the Dutch, how we loathe them now, why are they experiencing the same problem?
00:43:50.000Because presumably there's a global centralised agenda to implement measures on farmers everywhere to get centralised control of food, right?
00:43:57.000That's what we're sort of guessing, or what people like David Icke or That's what Alex Jones would have been telling us for ages and saying that doesn't mean I agree with everything David Icke or everything that Alex Jones or everything that Tommy Robinson or everything that Noam Chomsky says.
00:44:11.000Like you, other than my Christianity, I'm trying to piece together some sense based on what is in front of me.
00:44:35.000On the contrary, neoliberals fully embrace the state in order to use its powers to regulate and create the conditions for markets and a modern capitalist economy more broadly.
00:44:43.000Where old-school liberals believe markets are natural, neoliberals know that the conditions for the market to exist depend largely on strong enforcement by the state.
00:44:51.000Regulatory bodies, anti-union laws, more flexible work contracts, a strong justice system, a repressive police force, probably a lot of migration, by the way, you could add to that, couldn't you?
00:46:58.000What you want are radicalist anti-establishment alliances that regionalise subsequent to their ascent to power and say, listen, We're very pro-migration in our part of it.
00:47:10.000Okay, well then you can have that region and you can be pro-migration.
00:47:13.000We're very anti-immigration in this part.
00:47:16.000Okay, well you don't have to take no migrants in your bit.
00:47:18.000You're not worried that it's going to affect Labour, no.
00:47:20.000What about our duty as a former colonised and imperialist nation?
00:47:24.000You've got to decentralise power to the maximum degree possible, not minimum.
00:47:29.000That's got to be the guiding principle.
00:47:31.000There, that's as best as I can do for today.
00:48:37.000We already know you're a member of the undead.
00:48:40.000Tony Blair is there to guide Keir Starmer into the upper echelons of global and indeed globalist power.
00:48:48.000And here is Tony Blair explaining to us the real threats we face and how he and his friends will protect us from them.
00:48:55.000I am constantly saying to my own party, Labour Party, which will probably win this election, you've got to focus on this technology revolution.
00:50:21.000People certainly in the West feel society's not changing fast enough and well enough.
00:50:25.000And I say, no, it's a really exciting time to be in politics because you've got this massive revolution that you've got to come to terms with.
00:52:10.000Come on, we're going in a circle, as I do with my comb every morning.
00:52:14.000It's a circumference of the planet Earth.
00:52:17.000Good for you, batting back, but, you know, you can talk about all the things you just mentioned of renting, jobs, children, children's services, looking after old people, old elderly relatives, healthcare issues, all the sorts of things that you get over a lifetime.
00:52:46.000I sometimes strum away at my midriff where I have a tendril from the middle of my body and write messages to the future in the white ink of life.
00:52:55.000I've done quite a lot for my age as well.
00:52:57.000I mean, I've been a councillor for a couple of years and a cabinet member responsible for about £17 million of public money over the last year.
00:53:03.000I've been a trustee of a university and I've done a lot of other things that perhaps wouldn't necessarily be typical for someone of my age.
00:53:10.000If that wasn't enough to convince you that we don't take politics that seriously in my country, look at this.
00:53:15.000This is actually the results of the election being announced in a particular constituency.
00:53:21.000Jason Chinnery, the official monster-raving loony party, 230.
00:53:36.000Maybe we should ridicule and laugh, assured by the divine comedy that's playing out within us all.
00:53:40.000Maybe we should, within ourselves, turn our bodies into temples, turn our minds into conduits for a greater glory, practice the principle of love wherever we may.
00:53:51.000Because when you look at the chaos unfolding and the evident corruption, it's difficult to take the world seriously, even when it's not so ridiculously rendered in the two last examples of the madness of British politics.
00:54:06.000They've been fined 243 million dollars and as John Le Fevre pointed out on X, Donald Trump was fined 350 million dollars for saying Mar-a-Lago was worth more than 20 million dollars to get a loan he repaid on time of interest.
00:54:20.000Presumably what they do is they just look...
00:54:23.000At the figure of Trump, I think, how do we bring this motherfucker down?
00:54:33.000200 people, 200 candidates from a couple of parties drop out to ease the way for an unusual and potentially precarious coalition.
00:54:41.000In the UK, an old first-past-the-post rather than proportional representation system is deployed to ensure that another globalist WEF stooge ascends to power with mentors like Barack Obama, it's a matter of public record, and Tony Blair.
00:54:56.000You see how at various stages power can be ushered, guided, and marshalled, and it can be ensured that that that power always remains accessible to the same elite strata.
00:55:09.000While we're down here quarrelling and quibbling, they're up there making choices that manoeuvre troops
00:55:16.000around the world and ensure that their power and their hegemony
00:55:20.000remains unchallenged. But that's just what I think, why don't you let me know what you think
00:55:24.000in the comments and the chat. We got a little message now, who's it from Lauren?
00:56:07.000Let me ask you first, are you a Sleepy Joe type character with zero cognitive performance, struggling to muster focus and brainpower for basic things like running the United States of America?
00:56:16.000You gotta stop drinking woke, liberal coffee that hates you and your way of life and start your day by drinking Rumble's very own.
00:56:40.000Instead of waking up and drinking your big corporation owned woke ideology coffee that's probably making you sick from the pesticides it's sprayed with, try Rumbles.
00:57:28.000The machine has gone into overdrive to ensure that we regard Joe Biden's debate performance simply as a bad night.
00:57:37.000In fact he refers to it as being a bad night so many times that the phrase bad night starts to sound like your own name when you say it too many times.
00:57:45.000You can be high and you start saying your own name again and again and again you go mad.
00:57:48.000Here's Joe Biden on his comeback tour an attempt to recoup some credibility and as usual when watching Joe Biden you may vacillate between those two states.
00:57:57.000One of incredible sympathy and empathy for him and a kind of an almost desire
00:58:01.000to sort of wrap him up in his swaddling clothes, cradle him in your arm and perhaps breastfeed him like at
00:58:06.000the end of uh, and mice and men. I believe that happens in Steinbeck's
00:58:10.000great book and I think that is a sort of visual allegory to remind us that it isn't the role of the nursing
00:58:18.000mother to feed the decrepit. You let me know what you think Steinbeck meant by that!
00:58:23.000In any event, should any of us be tit-feeding by mouth President Joe Biden, the answer to that is yes I was.
00:58:31.000Mr. President, thank you for doing this.
00:59:14.000I didn't listen to my instincts in terms of preparing, and I had a bad night.
00:59:19.000You know, you say you were exhausted, and I know you've said that before as well, but you came, and you did have a tough month, but you came home from Europe about 11 or 12 days before the debate.
00:59:29.000This is him being on, yeah, you're right, Grapes of Wrath, it was Grapes of Wrath, sorry about that, I was wrong about that, it was Grapes of Wrath where the old man, I don't know why I keep showing him my nipple, I think it's because my little son was on me this morning, and like, my wife went there, and like, he sort of like saw my chest and sort of looked at my nipple and went sort of like, Well, are you of any use?
00:59:57.000It's Grapes of Wrath, where a nursing mother feeds an old man.
01:00:01.000And that's, yeah, I don't know why I brought it up, but it sort of seems like, you know, the image of nurturing the decrepit and the frail rather than letting them sort of slowly enter into decrepitude and decline is a sort of an image that Steinbeck was messing with in his Dust Bowl era Americana and literary marvel.
01:00:21.000Here, let's just see where our man's going here.
01:00:24.000Is it, this is, by the way, just remind yourself in case you've forgotten, this is like, this is, he's going on the TV to go, look, That was a bad night, that.
01:01:46.000You know, casino, lose a little bit of money, maybe drink a bit too much, make some mistakes.
01:01:50.000Not demonstrate to the world that you're incapable of leading the country and in fact can't have been running the country for the last few years and provide people with enough material to make comparisons to your former self to show the evident decline.
01:02:03.000To, in a sense, confirm people's fears that the world is run by a global cadre of powerful corporate interests that manoeuvre and manipulate political figures like Joe Biden, who simply got the role of president because it was his turn.
01:02:16.000A Democrat party, even with a sort of sensible eye on cynical power, would have said, get a better candidate.
01:02:23.000And how quickly did it come to you that you were having that bad night?
01:02:30.000Well, Kanye was having a bad night when I realized that even when I was answering a question, even when they turned his mic off, he was still shouting.
01:03:11.000I also was... We know they've had these questions in advance, because we now know that's how it rolls, and it's still not a good enough performance, but at points I do, I got that grapes are off feeling, someone needs to suckle that guy right up.
01:03:24.000The guy put together a peace plan for the Middle East, that may be coming to fruition.
01:03:29.000I was also the guy that expanded NATO, I was also the guy that grew the economy.
01:03:38.000A few rudimentary and slightly tepid measures were introduced to control the prices of one or two drugs that weren't significant and were clearly measures that were negotiated in conjunction with Big Pharma countries as to not significantly affect their profits.
01:04:18.000But what has all that work over the last three and a half years cost you physically, mentally, emotionally?
01:04:25.000Well, I just think it cost me a really bad night.
01:04:32.000Because I grew up in a black church, I know exactly how to behave whenever I'm with one.
01:04:38.000Whenever I'm in a black church, what I do is I sit like this, bolt upright, I get the old hands, I place them on the palms, maybe I'll do a bit of drumming to show that I'm familiar with the procedures and protocols of the black church space.
01:06:36.000Sometimes I think it's helpful, just little facts like they were in that Spike article, for example, telling you that Police expenditure had gone up significantly under Macron.
01:06:45.000That's one of the ways of recognising that you're in an authoritarian regime, is the amount of expenditure on policing the population.
01:06:52.000Another way is looking at which institutions, groups or corporations benefit or profit.
01:06:58.000Have the military, for example, and I mean military industrial complex there rather than military personnel, benefited under the Biden administration?
01:07:13.000Who benefits is what I'm basically trying to say, and I'm trying to use Latin even though I was never taught it.
01:07:18.000The simple fact is if you look at who's benefiting, you'll understand where the power actually is.
01:07:23.000A lot of you will say, look at who you're not allowed to criticize, won't you?
01:07:26.000Look at who you're not allowed to criticize.
01:07:28.000That also is an indicator of where power really lays.
01:07:32.000My prayer is that a response to the increasing power of globalism, no matter what inflection it bears, whether it's traditional conservative and free market or apparently new emergent neoliberalist models, we The actual people are somehow able to regain purchases of the levers of control.
01:07:59.000because one thing I agree with Tony Blair on is we're entering into a new phase
01:08:03.000defined by technological power which if it falls into the wrong hands and
01:08:08.000currently there's nothing to suggest that it won't fall into the wrong hands
01:08:12.000will be used for extreme citizen management I imagine in conjunction with
01:08:16.000the Omni crises or perpetual crises or ongoing crises each crisis used to
01:08:22.000legitimize further authoritarian measures to ultimately incrementally
01:08:27.000we're ushered into states where our individual freedom is just at the
01:08:31.000periphery of our memory we no longer recall Think of how things were just before COVID.
01:08:36.000Think about how things were before 9-11.
01:08:38.000If you look at a bit of footage of like France in the 1970s, I'm not talking about demographics and racial mixes here.
01:08:44.000I'm talking about the sense of a country and a culture.
01:08:46.000I'm talking about the sense of connection that you have prior to the miracles and advances that technology, technology, excuse me, But that's just what I think!
01:08:57.000Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
01:09:00.000They are there for utility. They do not provide ideology.
01:09:05.000Corporations and the state do not provide ideology, principle or purpose.