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00:02:31.000Of course, we're covering Navalny's death and its implications and its immediate exploitation.
00:02:37.000We're looking this week at Julian Assange's hearing coming up on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
00:02:43.000We're going to be streaming live and you can join us, of course, because, well, as of yet, it is a free country.
00:02:49.000And you can go down the strand and join us there where we will be reporting on that case live.
00:02:55.000It's interesting, wait till you find out what cases the judge who is adjudicating this case has previously worked on.
00:03:02.000It's like MI6 representing the government and the kind of things that you would anticipate.
00:03:07.000When we cross off of YouTube, and you know we love you, you Awaken Wonders, but when we leave YouTube and go exclusively to that stream where freedom is abundant and flowing, we'll be talking about these new French laws that prevent you from getting anyone a question mandated or even suggested medication.
00:03:27.000Here's the news on the return of Jon Stewart and the impossibility of a figure Like Jon Stewart in the modern cultural landscape because the world has changed so radically since he was last in a position of prominence or at least since he last did the Daily Show.
00:03:41.000So we'll be with you for about 15 minutes on YouTube before we cover the new vaccination laws or what they're calling it is the article Pfizer in France.
00:03:49.000Before we get to that we'll be leaving YouTube but we'll be here for about 15 minutes.
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00:04:21.000And let's have a look at Mark Zuckerberg attending a UFC bout with Alexander Volkanovsky's team during UFC.
00:04:29.000You have to question whether or not this is Zuckerberg in his natural environment.
00:04:35.000He don't look as comfortable as he looks in, say, that metaverse.
00:04:40.000We're not seeing him in that metaverse like we're in a Like, sometimes he's wearing like a wetsuit in there and hanging out with extraterrestrials and stuff.
00:04:55.000Remember, you get additional content every single month if you are one of our supporters to help us in our, let's call it a crusade against injustice.
00:05:03.000When he looks at the poor man, he's both unhappy and, of course, his case.
00:05:09.000He puts his hands out a lot of times, that's what I noticed.
00:05:11.000Now look, I don't feel any malice towards Mark Zuckerberg.
00:05:15.000I feel humanity and sweetness and he's a person that I would love to have on our show at any time to talk to about a number of issues, in particular censorship.
00:05:24.000I'd love to know what the relationship Facebook and other meta companies have with some of the nefarious, insidious, shady organizations that act as proxy censors for your government and for my government.
00:05:35.000Shutting down free speech, shutting down free discourse, Ensuring that we are unable to form new alliances and new relationships to challenge establishment power.
00:05:56.000And here in another what is I think perhaps doomed to be considered a potential waste of time and money is the New York Police Department dance team.
00:06:04.000I don't know if they do police work as well or if they just do dancing.
00:06:10.000And given that like in the New York Police Department are spending money on like little
00:06:14.000Roman cyborg creatures on the subways and the streets, Orton may be deploying, I don't know, human police officers
00:06:51.000In any event there are going to be a lot less deliveries into New York City because truckers that are supportive of Trump are refusing to do deliveries after his 350 million dollar fine.
00:07:36.000The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a Labour Union in the United States.
00:07:39.000Now, of course, the Teamsters, when asked about this story, said they couldn't comment on individual members or even groups of members and their politics.
00:07:46.000You know that unions, in my country at least, used to block vote for one party or another.
00:07:50.000And look, they're the 11th largest campaign contributor in the United States.
00:07:54.000They supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in the 80s.
00:07:57.000They've begun leaning largely towards Democrats in recent years.
00:07:59.000The Teamsters endorsed Obama in 2008, for example.
00:08:04.000So it's interesting and surprising now that that movement and that class of people have moved almost exclusively over to support in what you might consider to be right-wing political figures.
00:08:16.000Certainly the legacy media would have no trouble in describing them In that manner.
00:08:20.000And perhaps it's Clinton's deregulation of the financial industry that has contributed to that.
00:08:24.000Or Obama bailing out the banks in 2008.
00:08:27.000But what you don't have, and this is one of the great secrets.
00:08:30.000Some of you saw our Joe Rogan video, right?
00:08:32.000About Joe Rogan saying the left has gone crazy.
00:08:35.000Is there's a sense that there is no political movement that represents ordinary working people.
00:08:39.000That ultimately all political systems have been co-opted by global corporatist systems.
00:09:20.000Can you think of anybody, for example, who's in prison in a Western nation because of, for example, anti-establishment behavior or the revelation of data that could be harmful to global elites?
00:09:34.000I'm of course referring to Let me know in the chat.
00:09:38.000The first person to tell us who I'm referring to, we'll send a little mug your way.
00:09:44.000Let's have a look now, first of all, at Western leaders suddenly caring a great deal about Alexei Navalny.
00:09:50.000Now, where outrage is growing following the death of Alexei Navalny, the staunch Putin critic who Russian authorities say died suddenly Friday in a Siberian prison.
00:09:59.000The death of Alexei Navalny yesterday was a reminder of the extraordinary brutality.
00:10:06.000We have a 77 AVA Julian Assange and it's a point that Caitlin Johnston made as well.
00:10:12.000We'll show you that still in a minute but let's carry on watching this piece of
00:10:15.000legacy media reporting. All of you Julian Assange, Julian Assange, Julian Assange,
00:10:19.000whose hearing is this week, who exposed war crimes of the West, who exposed hypocrisy
00:10:24.000and corruption and is still incarcerated without trial.
00:10:50.000He was essentially a kind of a response to Blair in our Conservative Party or our Republican Party if you want me to make sort of Clumsy comparisons between these political institutions that you know already operate on behalf of global elites.
00:11:03.000If you know everything he's saying here about Navalny could be said.
00:11:10.000Of course, Gonzalo Lira died in prison in Ukraine for being critical of Ukrainian democracy.
00:11:16.000If you have principles, then Julian Assange's rights and Gonzalo Lira's rights and Navalny's rights would all be considered as, I would say, covered by the same set of principles.
00:11:27.000Now, note that anything that Cameron's saying here about Navalny could be said about Assange.
00:11:32.000Poisoned him, sent him to a Arctic... Well, maybe it didn't poison him, but the CIA did have a plot to murder Julian Assange, right?
00:12:22.000It's very unlikely, for example, that he'll be allowed out of Belmarsh Prison To attend it, and it's even possible that there won't be a conclusion offered over the two day period.
00:12:31.000But what this is an opportunity to highlight, particularly in light of Navalny's death, is that there are prisoners of conscience in our nation.
00:12:40.000So if we care about that, if we care about someone being imprisoned because of their political views, if we care about someone who's, even like Navalny was at points called the Julian Assange of Russia because of data releases that were detrimental to the Russian oligarchy.
00:12:54.000And remember, You can handle this complex idea.
00:12:57.000This is why we, what we believe in in Stay Free, that we are able to say that yes, of course, Putin has people killed.
00:13:02.000It's likely that he had Navalny killed, even if not proven yet.
00:13:06.000It's likely that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was criminal, even though it was provoked by complex geopolitical issues and interventionist imperialist In measures such as the involvement of the US and CIA in the 2014 coup in Ukraine.
00:13:23.000What we're saying here is not, isn't Putin fantastic?
00:13:26.000Wouldn't it be better if we all just went and lived in Russia?
00:13:28.000Of course, what we say on channels like this will be reduced to that so they can be dismissed.
00:13:34.000But what we are pointing out is hegemony and imperialism in the US and UK are at least comparable.
00:14:31.000And you're going to have to question some of your own affiliations when you're answering that question.
00:14:35.000Now, Biden has just pointed out that Navalny was held in isolation.
00:14:40.000Julian Assange is being held in isolation.
00:14:42.000Even all that didn't stop him from calling out his lies.
00:14:47.000Even in prison, he was a powerful voice for the truth, which is kind of amazing when you think about it.
00:14:53.000And he could have lived safely in exile after... Some people saying Bush, some people saying Obama, some people saying Trump, some people saying Bush, too.
00:15:22.000Because he believes so deeply in his country, in Russia.
00:15:26.000Russian authorities are going to tell their own story.
00:15:28.000So you can see that in a minute he hasn't yet said that's why we have to pass this bill in order to continue to fund this war that's unlikely to be able to be won without considerable escalation that could even lead to nuclear conflict.
00:15:43.000In a minute he's about to connect this death to a plea for further funding.
00:15:50.000And someone pointed out in the Awaken Wonder chat, you go duck go rather than Google.
00:16:50.000Crocodile tears over Navalny while ignoring Assange.
00:16:53.000We'll be looking at that story with more detail and creating some comparisons, not creating them, drawing attention to them.
00:16:59.000If you're in a country whose government has had a hand in the persecution of Julian Assange, you can go ahead and... She uses the F word here, but Caitlin is a passionate journalist.
00:17:25.000The entire Western political media class are currently rending their garments about the prison death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and they're being joined by the propaganda adult citizenry of the Western Empire.
00:17:36.000Meanwhile Julian Assange's last Why are the legacy media not covering this vital issue?
00:17:47.000Navalny's past release of confidential documents from the Russian government and state-run energy companies had drawn comparison to Assange's work at Wikileaks which exposed 1.
00:17:57.000US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as international corruption.
00:18:01.000Assange, as you lot know, is currently languishing in a maximum security prison in London, awaiting
00:18:06.000Remember, we'll be streaming live tomorrow and the next day from that hearing that will
00:18:09.000determine whether or not he can appeal his extradition to the United States.
00:18:12.000Stella Assange warned Thursday that her husband will die if extradited.
00:18:15.000Whenever I see people screaming about the persecution of journalists and political prisoners
00:18:19.000in other countries when they themselves live in a nation whose government is persecuting
00:18:22.000Julian Assange, I can't help but think of Matthew chapter 7, verses 4 to 5.
00:18:29.000How can you say to your brother, let me take the speck out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your own eye, you hypocrite.
00:18:34.000First take the plank out of your own eye and you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
00:18:39.000Once again, We are returned to the point of principle.
00:18:42.000There's 15,000 of you watching us in the Rumble chat right now, and I'd love you to subscribe to the channel and give us a like.
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00:19:00.000We do additional content every single week, as well as giving you the ability to join us live for conversations With real journalists where you can put questions to them.
00:19:09.000For Real says, that was my grandma's favorite verse.
00:19:12.000It's a very beautiful verse and all of us are of course culpable at times of focusing on the flaws of others because it ain't easy to look at your own flaws, is it?
00:19:36.000I mean, like, he really went for it in that supermarket and the subway.
00:19:40.000And his subsequent comments that every leader kills people following the death of Navalny, that too has drawn a little ire.
00:19:47.000But I believe that Tucker Carlson is doing precisely what journalists ought to do, provoke difficult conversations, act from a place of principle, and I'm beginning to think that people objecting to Tucker Carlson is a It's kind of extraordinary, isn't it?
00:20:03.000Like, he couldn't have known that Navalny was about to lose his life in prison.
00:20:08.000He did know that Gonzalo Lira had lost his life in Ukraine.
00:20:31.000Let's have a look at Tucker at this World Government thing.
00:20:33.000Now, if you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave in a moment because we have to.
00:20:37.000Wade, dance and frolic in that free speech stream that is Rumble, where we'll be talking about new laws in France that would prevent you from even commenting or objecting to certain medical measures.
00:20:52.000Now, like, It seems like it's something that's become quite common lately, hasn't it?
00:20:57.000People have had some issues with medical measures lately.
00:21:00.000But like, I don't know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, there were a lot of people saying, don't use them asthma inhalers!
00:21:55.000Because those are covered and because I have spent my life talking to people who run countries in various countries and have concluded the following.
00:22:04.000That every leader kills people, including my leader.
00:22:11.000I mean, I suppose Saddam Hussein, he was doing his level best to run Iraq, and then eventually it was no longer convenient, even though there were no weapons of mass destruction, even there was no...
00:22:22.000No demonstrable connection at all to the tragic events of 9-11.
00:22:26.000Saddam Hussein was deemed to have transgressed and was executed.
00:22:30.000Similarly, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya, who was an ally of the West, ultimately jostled to an undignified death in the back of a Jeep like a scene from Weekend at Bernie's.
00:22:40.000Nary had I seen nothing so cadaverous until your own Joe Biden ascended to the White House and he looks now like he's puppeted through his entire damned career.
00:22:51.000Also, President's Day today, we're going to be looking at just how sharp Joe Biden is.
00:22:55.000We're not even going to be showing any of his errors or glitches or Max Headroom-like stutters because he, like everyone, whether it's Zuckerberg, whoever it is, is worthy of our love.
00:23:08.000And surely in this period of Lent we should be looking to become more reliant on God and better people and the Lord alone knows it's a struggle and we shouldn't just be sat here criticizing people because we disagree with their agenda or consider them to be puppets of a globalist agenda.
00:23:22.000We've got to find ways to love one another, haven't we?
00:23:29.000But we do have to acknowledge that it's not just Vladimir Putin who kills political opponents, it's not just Russia who jails dissidents, it's not Just our enemies whose morality we have to question, but the governments we ourselves fund through our taxes and who we support through the ballot box.
00:23:46.000I mean, isn't that an important conversation to have?
00:23:49.000Now, if you're watching this on YouTube, let's start the countdown now, guys.
00:23:53.000We're going to be with you for another 30 seconds, but when we go, we're going to finish this Tucker thing.
00:23:57.000Then, we're going to be talking about the obvious connections between Navalny and Julian Assange, because it's Assange Week here.
00:24:03.000Tomorrow, we are going to be reporting live from the Strand while Assange's hearing takes place.
00:24:08.000After this, we're going to be talking about the new laws being passed in France to prevent you being critical of certain medical measures.
00:24:14.000So if you're watching us on YouTube, we love you.
00:24:27.000Okay, now then, uh, yeah, we're still in the middle of the, uh, the Tucker thing.
00:24:31.000If I just press play, that'll take us back to it, will it, guys?
00:24:34.000Okay, let's do that, and then we'll do the, then we'll do the France stuff.
00:24:37.000That's why I wouldn't want to be a leader.
00:24:39.000Um, that press restriction is universal in the United States, I know because I've lived it.
00:24:44.000I've, you know, asked my former, you know, I've had a lot of jobs.
00:24:47.000Um, And I've done this for 34 years, and I know how it works.
00:24:50.000And there's more censorship in Russia than there is in the United States, but there's a great deal in the United States.
00:24:55.000And so, you know, at a certain point, it's like people can decide whether they think, you know, what countries they think are better, what systems they think are better.
00:25:30.000I have to acknowledge to you now that I came up with that question and while I was coming up with it I wasn't really even sure what I was thinking.
00:25:35.000It's pretty clear that Putin benefits in some way from Navalny's death and is likely behind it but that's not important unless you are watching us from Russia right now and if you are, welcome!
00:25:46.000Because you are a human being like me and we are all involved in the same struggle here.
00:25:51.000Let's have a look at some of the comparisons between Julian Assange And our man there.
00:26:01.000Australian Prime Minister Antony Orbanese has stepped in saying enough is enough and he's calling on the US and the UK to release him and return him to Australia.
00:26:12.000We've seen unprecedented political support shown in the Australian Parliament this week.
00:26:16.000It's been a position of this Prime Minister since coming to government that enough is enough.
00:26:20.000This case ought to be brought to an end.
00:26:21.000And Julian Assange ought to be permitted to go home to Australia.
00:26:24.000But this week we saw a resolution passed in the Parliament, passed by two-thirds of the Australian Parliament, which is a reflection of the public support for Julian Assange at home in Australia, but also the support calling on the UK and the US to drop this case and to allow him to go home.
00:26:39.000So politically, there's a lot of political pressure.
00:26:41.000The Australian Government has made representations to the US to drop the case and continues to do so, and we're working with them to try to seek a political resolution.
00:26:50.000Let's have a look at who's judging this case.
00:26:53.000The judge set the rule on the Assange extradition case was previously paid to represent the interests of MI6 and the Ministry of Defence whose activities WikiLeaks has exposed.
00:27:02.000So what you'll get there is the kind of Unbiased, neutral, like the point of all the paraphernalia in our country of the wigs and the robes is to signify to you, to let you know that there isn't a human being there, that there is a representative of an institution and a representative of the judiciary.
00:27:21.000The principles themselves are deciding.
00:27:26.000In the same way that we might ask ourselves to be voided of ego, a long journey for some of us I speak from experience, that the Lord's light might shine through, a judge while dressed in the appurtenances and trinkets of the judiciary can be seen to be the voice of justice itself.
00:27:49.000If previously when acting as a public prosecutor, I guess, they represent or defend, I can't let me work that out, the interests of the MI6 and the Ministry of Defence.
00:30:32.000In France, at the WHO, everywhere it arises.
00:30:35.000Now one of the things that was interesting when I thought about Tucker's interview with Putin is when Putin was talking about the possibility of a peace treaty, it struck me that Even though I wouldn't want to live in Russia in that moment with regard to that issue.
00:30:48.000And perhaps this is the same if you're a Ukrainian person also.
00:30:52.000Our interests are more aligned with one of the leaders of the apparent opposition, an enemy indeed, than with our own leaders.
00:31:03.000Well done Al, says Ashera in the Awaken Wonder chat.
00:31:06.000Now, when it comes to, when you look at what's being put, the law being passed in France right now, you can see that whether you are watching us in, I don't know, Sweden, in Canada, in Wyoming, wherever you are in the world, you have more in common with the population of France than you do your own government.
00:31:26.000Can you now see, do, are we, are those that say we need a unified but decentralized opposition to globalism, are they right?
00:31:35.000Is that what we need in every election in the world?
00:31:37.000Candidates that stand against globalism, where there may be cultural, even religious differences.
00:31:43.000And yet we stand united against globalism in all its forms, in particular its statist and corporatist forms.
00:32:03.000Although there are plainly people in Scotland, as framed and platformed by GB News, that think that's the way to go.
00:32:11.000Globalist Stooge and current UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ...gave an ill-advised symposium on various subjects but all ended up getting questioned about the pandemic period in the UK.
00:32:26.000In the audience was a man who himself, he claims, well I'm on Rumble, he experienced adverse events.
00:32:33.000Listen to his confrontation with Rishi Sunak and see the madness of what's happening in France.
00:32:40.000Are these conversations necessary or should they be shut down and censored?
00:32:44.000Even if you disagree with this Scottish gentleman, do you think that he has the right to express this opinion?
00:32:55.000Let me know and let's have a look at this wonderful confrontation with Rishi Sunak as basically a hedge funder that fought his way to the top.
00:33:03.000Just a plucky hedge funder with a dream that invested in Moderna, then got a lucky break and became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
00:33:42.000Don't know what's gone wrong with that.
00:33:43.000The trauma and the regret I have in my eyes.
00:33:47.000Why have I had to set up a support group in Scotland to look after the people of the... I've had to set up my support, it's getting there, innit, now?
00:33:56.000Like, he's reaching for the glass of water, Rishi Sunak, you know?
00:33:59.000Oh no, they didn't tell me there'd be Scottish people in here!
00:34:02.000...affected by that Covid-19... GB News!
00:35:06.000John Bullock, I'm very sorry to hear about... You may give us myocarditis, but you'll never take our freedom!
00:35:13.000Your personal circumstances, and you said someone over here, also seems to have suffered by a similar thing.
00:35:19.000Right, okay, this is difficult, this is legally complex.
00:35:22.000Right, let me tiptoe through this mind, bearing in mind my relationship with Pfizer and my historic relationship with Moderna, who I invested heavily in when I was at the Thelene Partners hedge fund immediately before entering into government.
00:35:33.000Okay, bloody hell, why didn't they tell me there'd be Scots in here?
00:35:36.000Now, obviously I don't know about the individual situation that you're in.
00:35:43.000So there is a vaccine compensation scheme that's...
00:35:46.000Even though the vaccine's 100% safe and effective, right?
00:35:49.000We did have a compensation scheme set up, but if it's 100% effective, why do you need a compensation scheme?
00:35:54.000Hmm in places you alluded to in the NHS obviously everyone individually will work through their cases
00:36:00.000It's difficult for me to comment on anyone's individual case. I'm sure you'll appreciate that
00:36:04.000I'm very well you do appreciate it because you are an operative of the state
00:36:07.000Happy to go and look at the cases and I'm sure you'll get them to the team here.
00:36:11.000I mean I'm very saddened and shocked to hear that you've been silenced by anybody that is.
00:36:16.000Even though we invest heavily in groups like Logically AI that literally de-amplify and censor information.
00:36:23.000The Department of Culture for example gave 1.2 million pound of taxpayer money Too logically AI, specifically to censor information.
00:36:31.000You know that Moderna was censoring, deamplifying, criticizing, shutting down descent of platforms like this one and other critics of the vaccine.
00:36:39.000Even when the information being conveyed was true, it was called malinformation or disinformation or whatever prefix you've got to put in front of information to prevent people getting educated and agitated enough to rise up for the day surely is coming.
00:36:53.000Admittedly we are deliberately censoring it and we've been censoring it for a while.
00:36:57.000Even though it's 100% safe and effective.
00:36:58.000to speak about your experience, what's happened to you.
00:37:01.000We, admittedly, we are deliberately censoring it and we've been censoring it for a while.
00:37:04.000And as I said, we have a compensation scheme in place for that.
00:37:26.000and I and my wife's father's company Infosys is one of the sponsors of the WEF. You can look that
00:37:31.000up on DuckDuckGo, not Google baby. Forgive me sir, we haven't got a microphone on you so our viewers and
00:37:38.000listeners won't be able to hear what you say. I think the last thing I'd say is, you know, we went through a
00:37:42.000pandemic like everyone else. Some people went through a worse pandemic given that there was a massive
00:37:48.000wealth transfer given that Rishi Sunak attended some of the parties that took place in this
00:37:53.000country while you were watching funerals on YouTube.
00:37:56.000At the points when it came to the vaccine, those decisions were always taken on the basis of medical advice from our medical experts to tell us, as politicians who are obviously not doctors, about Although there are many medical experts that have said in various inquiries around the world that politicians led using sociological reasoning and computer modelling rather than actual scientific or epidemiological data the political decisions around for example lockdowns you know now that Andy Fauci said that six foot social distancing they basically pulled out of their little
00:38:27.000Best to roll out the vaccine, what was in the public health interest, the priority order, how that should be done, who should be eligible.
00:38:34.000That was something that the doctors recommended on and that's something that we followed.
00:38:38.000Now obviously if there are individual circumstances which haven't worked out then that's why we have the compensation scheme in place and I'll make sure that we follow up on your cases.
00:39:08.000One study said four out of five of you ain't and that's a big problem because magnesium is involved in more than 300 biochemical reactions In your body.
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00:40:25.000Now, remember when the world was a fairer place?
00:41:10.000Jon Stewart is back, and he's excellent.
00:41:12.000But the world has changed since Jon Stewart was last on TV.
00:41:15.000It has become broken, sensorial, and unable to withstand criticism of centre-left figures.
00:41:21.000So, is Jon Stewart a litmus test for how broken our culture's become?
00:41:27.000When Jon Stewart was last on The Daily Show, he showed how current affairs could be handled comedically and more intelligently than the actual news.
00:41:35.000People were watching The Daily Show to get their news.
00:41:38.000Now Jon Stewart is back and I would say brilliant and Perhaps even better than ever.
00:41:43.000But what's marked, observable and challenging is the world has changed since Jon Stewart used to last be on TV.
00:41:50.000Now you're either for the establishment or you're against the establishment.
00:41:54.000And the establishment figures from the left have been facing more and more criticism.
00:41:58.000Remember, I was associated with the left for a long time because I believe in Liberalism and freedom and be who you are and leave me alone and that kind of stuff, which I know a lot of you in the comments will say, those are conservative ideas.
00:42:08.000But anti-establishmentism, when you have corporatist leaders, previously was always assumed to be coming from the cultural left, shall we say.
00:42:16.000Well, now that very same cultural set can't tolerate or accommodate criticisms of Joe Biden for being old, which seems like a pretty high threshold, given that Joe Biden is pretty old.
00:42:27.000Let's have a look at Jon Stewart's return and some of the criticisms of it before analyzing what's changed in our culture that means that Jon Stewart is now more controversial than ever.
00:42:36.000These two candidates, they are both similarly challenged.
00:42:39.000And it is not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president might have some of these challenges.
00:42:46.000Now Democrats will say that any criticism like this especially of Biden is unfair.
00:42:51.000That's weird because he's saying this before the criticism has happened and indeed that is precisely the criticism that has happened.
00:42:58.000I don't know how you feel in particular about the senility and decay of Joe Biden.
00:43:03.000I've always taken it to be an observable and evident symbol of Well, the decay of the system itself and evidence that he can't be in a pivotal executive position because he wouldn't be capable of that.
00:43:14.000And it seems ludicrous and ridiculous to see a paracheek after a paracheek come out and claim that Joe Biden is sharp as a whip, he's lightning fast.
00:43:22.000It seems preposterous and inconceivable that that's true.
00:43:25.000What's interesting to me is to see Jon Stewart with his same cadence and same meter and now suddenly the left, his old allies, can't deal with it.
00:43:34.000One thing I think is important about Jon Stewart to remember is that after 9-11 he was right in there with first responders, supporting them.
00:43:40.000It's a cause that's very close to him.
00:43:42.000And what I'm saying is that Jon Stewart represents a political category that's starting to disappear.
00:43:46.000People of the left that are connected to blue-collar working people.
00:43:50.000That in particular is the change that the establishment elite have undertaken.
00:43:54.000An evident loathing of ordinary working people is why a lot of people don't feel at home in what was once regarded as the left.
00:44:01.000Because you just don't know Biden like they know Biden.
00:44:04.000President Biden, who I've been around numerous times just in this last year, is sharp, he's focused, he's bright.
00:44:11.000He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.
00:44:25.000We've all become more media savvy in the intervening years since Jon Stewart's departure from the Daily Show.
00:44:30.000We all know now there's a relationship between the legacy media and the government.
00:44:34.000We all know now because of the release of the Twitter files that deep state operatives are controlling portions of what's accessible and permittable on social media.
00:44:45.000We all see a montage like that now and understand that it's not a coincidence that they're all using the same terms and the same words.
00:44:51.000In a sense, Jon Stewart, to a degree, participated in the creation of this landscape.
00:44:55.000Critiques of legacy media, critiques of the political class.
00:44:58.000Of course, Jon Stewart isn't the creator of satire, but this kind of fast-paced anti-establishment quick thinking, aggressive style of comedy was very much pioneered
00:45:07.000or made more popular certainly by Jon Stewart. The problem is now the culture has changed
00:45:12.000and it is forbidden, oddly, on the authoritarian left to attack a leader like Joe Biden as if
00:45:16.000it's Stalin or something, where if you criticize him it's like, oh my god, you're gonna die.
00:45:20.000Of course now it would mean more a digital death or a cultural death or not being permitted to
00:45:24.000participate in the spoils of the establishment elite. And I think what's most interesting
00:45:29.000about Jon Stewart's return is we can see now that the culture has radically altered since
00:45:34.000Jon Stewart was part of the mainstream.
00:45:36.000The culture no longer permits Criticism of the powerful.
00:45:40.000There are prescribed tropes that are permitted and that's it.
00:45:43.000You might have seen some talk show hosts talking about Tucker's interview with Putin and it was kind of lukewarm satire and that's what's become normal now.
00:45:51.000The aggressive attack of the powerful, that exists on online platforms now.
00:45:55.000The mainstream has extracted that from its discourse.
00:45:58.000It can no longer tolerate it because the legacy media exists to amplify and support the establishment, not to attack it.
00:46:04.000This is a man who is sharp, who is on top of his game, who knows what's going on.
00:46:53.000LAUGHTER I even wonder if the audience laughter is somewhat nervous.
00:47:01.000We've been so coached during the pandemic period to recognise this is what we're allowed to laugh at, we're not allowed to laugh at this, and part of cancel culture and part of the what you used to call political correctness but has now become far more extreme means that we don't live in the same sort of convivial and
00:47:16.000easy comedic atmosphere that we once did.
00:48:11.000First of all, Donald Trump is not an old man.
00:48:12.000this tendency towards censorship, this inability to accommodate open conversation or humor,
00:48:17.000or even pointing out the obvious in the case of Joe Biden's cognitive decline,
00:48:21.000is an indicator of a new cultural climate where there is a sense of pervasive oppression,
00:48:26.000where there's certain things you're just not allowed to say, and that is perhaps the biggest
00:48:29.000shift that's taken place since Jon Stewart was last on the air.
00:48:32.000Well first of all, Donald Trump is not an old man.
00:48:36.000He's an old man! He is objectively an old man, on a human scale.
00:48:43.000We have two candidates who are chronologically outside the norm of anyone who has run for the presidency in this country, in the history of this country.
00:48:52.000They are the oldest people ever to run for president, breaking by only four years the record that they set!
00:49:13.000Perhaps because of the donations and financial support and ability to rake in cash, invest in companies that will benefit from laws that they're passing.
00:49:21.000People like Nancy Pelosi or that other old lady that needed to be given advice.
00:49:49.000During the 2020 election, Wasn't it kind of ridiculous that we were talking about progress and change and people of colour and Joe Biden was the monolith that was presented to us as, here, this elderly white gentleman for a new brave world.
00:50:01.000It shows you that there are no real values or principles within that system, that it's actually governed by peculiar hierarchies, odd systemic relationships and financial partnerships between financial systems and big tech and the military-industrial complex, and it's all just sort of papered over by By language and verbosity.
00:50:20.000I'm the only person that can oppose Donald Trump.
00:50:22.000When, in effect, what is happening, as Jon Stewart observes, is elderly people are retaining their power, retaining their positions, while claiming that the world is progressing.
00:50:31.000There's something very odd about that.
00:50:33.000Unpredictably, mainstream media cultural institutions responded unfavourably to Jon Stewart's nuanced attack on both candidates.
00:50:41.000Because remember, he attacked Trump, he attacked Biden.
00:50:43.000I don't see anybody on the right going, you can't say that about Donald Trump.
00:50:46.000He's trying his hardest with his hair and his skin tone.
00:50:48.000I love that Jon Stewart is back, but what's so offensive to me is there's a difference between age and intelligence.
00:50:55.000There's a difference between age and vitality.
00:50:58.000There's a difference between age and really being up on things and having that quickness of wit that Joy has.
00:51:09.000We're talking about Joe Biden, who sometimes doesn't look very well, or like he fully understands the magnitude of what he's dealing with in these numerous incendiary wars.
00:51:17.000Different to, like, go and do The View.
00:52:21.000This person, who seems like might be a corrupt career politician, is leading us into various wars that appear to be in the interest of financial institutions and institutions of dominion.
00:52:33.000Rather than representative of the will of the American people.
00:52:36.000I was taught to respect my elders, and when they want to lead us into a global holy war, I bloody well get on with it.
00:52:52.000It says it about both of them, didn't it Jon Stewart?
00:52:54.000That didn't warrant that response at all, did it?
00:52:56.000Let's have a look at some cultural analysis about the changing landscape between when Jon Stewart was previously on The Daily Show to present day and why the culture has changed so radically and let me know in the comments what you think has changed.
00:53:09.000Jon Stewart left the Daily Show in August 2015, which was not all that long ago, but was a vastly different media and cultural environment.
00:53:16.000Celebrity apprentice host and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump had taken his golden escalator ride down for his presidential announcement less than two months earlier, and the tidal wave of societal change was a mere ripple.
00:53:26.000I remember at that point, the idea that Donald Trump would become president, I thought at least, was ridiculous.
00:53:31.000This was before the primaries, this was before he proved himself to be basically hilarious.
00:53:36.000This is a tough business to run for president.
00:53:41.000And before it became pretty plain that about 50% of the American voting public are so annoyed they are willing to vote for a renegade.
00:53:48.000Stewart is a political comedy star from an era that has completely disappeared.
00:53:52.000Ever since large portions of the American media became hopelessly addicted to the drug that is Donald Trump, obsessed with their perceived existential fight with the former and potentially future president.
00:54:01.000Stuart's Daily Show reign went from 1999 to 2015, spanning the full scope of the Bush and Obama years.
00:54:08.000Divisiveness in our politics and culture was rampant then, but Americans also were being served by media that valued objectivity, basic fairness and intellectual consistency.
00:54:17.000Although in retrospect, the difference between the Obama and Bush era doesn't look as significant as perhaps it seemed at the time.
00:54:24.000Ultimately, in retrospect and subsequently, those two men have been able to form a pretty decent relationship with one another, and generally speaking I would see them as representatives of the same financial interests, wouldn't you?
00:54:35.000Obama, George Bush, they belong to the same clubs, they'll both accept money from Raytheon, they're both turn up after dinner speeches, not even saying this is a criticism of Bush or Obama, but they are institutional politicians.
00:54:46.000Donald Trump, a weird renegade, isn't he?
00:54:48.000An odd outlier, the kind of first beneficiary of fervid anti-establishment feeling that was clearly present but has peaked in the interim years.
00:54:56.000In the years since Trump rose to power, objectivity has become seen as a sign of ignorance, or worse, there are hysterical screams of false equivalency and both-side-ism and what-about-ism, because if you're not focused solely on Trump alone, you're simply part of the problem.
00:55:09.000Former New York Times journalist Amy Chozik said, there's a new generation of young journalists who believe objectivity is akin to white supremacy.
00:55:16.000We've said many times on this show that Pulitzer Prize winning journalists like Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald and Brilliant up-and-coming journalists like Matt Taibbi or Whitney Webb or Schellenberg or Lee Fang.
00:55:28.000They're now sort of maligned and marginalized.
00:55:30.000I swear, in the Jon Stewart era one, those people would be at like New York Times, rolling stone, getting scoops, attacking the establishment.
00:55:42.000And if you know those people, as I do, you can tell they're anti-establishment journalists with real integrity that are attacking corruption and hypocrisy.
00:55:53.000They are no longer radical organisations.
00:55:55.000They are about supporting the establishment, accepting cultural areas that ultimately do not affect the main thrust of power, I would argue.
00:56:03.000Stuart's daily show made a regular practice of criticising his own side.
00:56:06.000He'd go after the hypocrisy of the left, seeming to relish making his audience uncomfortable at times.
00:56:10.000Stuart was occasionally masterful at exposing the ridiculous contortions we perform to defend powerful figures we support.
00:56:16.000And he did so not by attacking the people, but by attacking the powerful.
00:56:19.000In 2024 and since 2017, the Daily Show oeuvre and the corporate media apparatus has been the opposite.
00:56:24.000It wasn't enough to simply attack Trump or his administration.
00:56:27.000No, the target was the deplorables who put him there in the first place.
00:56:30.000This is something we've commented on a lot.
00:56:32.000The left used to be, as I understood it, the party of working people.
00:56:36.000To ensure that working people, either through trade unions or in a more disparate way, could oppose and confront the corporate world and its ability to manipulate politics, the left arose to represent those interests.
00:56:49.000And it was most evident to me, I suppose, and I'm just a casual observer of these things, in the era of Clinton and Blair where legislative changes took place and the left became about, we'll just be a slightly nicer version of the right.
00:57:04.000I don't think that the right or the left are the solution to our problems.
00:57:08.000I believe, as I think you know by now, in decentralisation so that we don't have to argue about culture anymore.
00:57:12.000We just say, this community is going to be run in this way, this community is going to be run in that way, and our cultures can be personal matters or community matters or matters for us to determine for ourselves.
00:57:20.000This idea that 50% of the population is at war with the other half, where does that end, I suppose?
00:57:26.000Which brings us to Monday night and Stuart returning with a manifesto of sorts tackling the Biden-Trump rematch that nobody wants.
00:57:32.000He set the table on 2024 by describing in detail the threat of Trump, but also spent significant time calling out the obvious cognitive decline and mental fitness of President Biden, including those Democratic defenders who are spinning a full story after the damning special counsel report.
00:57:47.000He referred to Biden as chocolate chip cookie guy and mocked Biden's awkward TikTok debut.
00:57:51.000This was capital U unacceptable for some in the press.
00:57:55.000Centrist Democrats were appalled at what they saw as a betrayal by one of their own, wrote Rolling Stone.
00:57:59.000Stuart's main segment was classic both-sidersm, wrote Slate.
00:58:03.000Those organizations, of course, being now ultimately mouthpieces of the establishment.
00:58:07.000Jon Stewart is about to learn a hard truth about the current media and cultural environment.
00:58:17.000Jon Stewart has appalled the left because of his betrayal for daring to state the obvious about Joe Biden.
00:58:21.000What's fascinating about the return of Jon Stewart is it allows us as independent observers to recognise that indeed the culture has changed, that it is more sensorial, that it is more authoritarian, that it has become more tribalised.
00:58:34.000But within that, It does demonstrate to me also the possibility for new alliances.
00:58:38.000Those of us that may not agree with one another on everything culturally or religiously or ideologically and that would surely include basically all of us because if you drilled into it for long enough you'd find fissures in all of our relationships because ultimately the sovereignty of the individual and the value of the community and the family or whatever group you identify with and want to belong to has to be at the forefront of our lives.
00:58:56.000There is no reason for us to defer our personal power and our sacred connection to whatever ulterior realms you might experience either religiously or intellectually, to subjugate those connections in order to appeal to centralized cultural forces that it's become increasingly clear do not care about us, that ultimately just want to marshal and wrangle us around on the chessboard of their reality, when it seems, as I pointed out with the Bush and Obama era, that their affiliation with one another is far stronger with their affiliation with any supposed distinct cultural group.
00:59:27.000So perhaps the return of John Stewart will be a positive thing, because it will show us that authoritarianism and censorship are on the rise, that people have become blinkered when it comes to their ability to criticise their own side, and that most of all perhaps, when criticising elderly leaders of the only two parties that a person might vote for, for us all to take a moment to observe, the system itself is in radical need of revision.
00:59:48.000And whichever one of those parties you vote for, you're likely to end up with the same types of institution and the same type of challenges.
00:59:55.000Well that's just what I think, let me know what you think in the chat!
01:00:30.000Me, personally, I feel like Jon Stewart's a pretty damn good broadcaster.
01:00:35.000Think about his attitude, for example, to the first responders.
01:00:38.000I've always been very moved by how he supported people in the fire service and all that stuff.
01:00:45.000Did Russell make small girl say, here's the fucking news?
01:00:49.000It's actually my daughter that says that, and she's very proud of that piece of work, as am I. Hey, so it's President's Day in your country, you beautiful people.
01:01:57.000He's the kind of man who, no matter what stocks and shares he invests in, he always comes out on top.
01:02:02.000And even though he regulates Apple and Meta and all those companies, he would never tell his husband, Paul Pelosi, and... Oh no, wait, that's me.
01:03:09.000Or republicanism, whatever you guys are into right now.
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