Stay Free - Russel Brand - Who KILLED Navalny?! The TRUTH About Putin & DEEP STATE Assassinations - Stay Free #307

00:00:00.000 So, I'm going to go ahead and start the video.

00:00:25.000 So, I'm going to start the video.

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00:02:15.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

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00:02:27.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.

00:02:28.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:02:30.000 We've got some incredible stories.

00:02:31.000 Of course, we're covering Navalny's death and its implications and its immediate exploitation.

00:02:37.000 We're looking this week at Julian Assange's hearing coming up on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

00:02:43.000 We're going to be streaming live and you can join us, of course, because, well, as of yet, it is a free country.

00:02:49.000 And you can go down the strand and join us there where we will be reporting on that case live.

00:02:55.000 It's interesting, wait till you find out what cases the judge who is adjudicating this case has previously worked on.

00:03:02.000 It's like MI6 representing the government and the kind of things that you would anticipate.

00:03:07.000 When 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.

00:03:25.000 We're taking a deep dive in our item.

00:03:27.000 Here'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.

00:03:41.000 So 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.

00:03:49.000 Before we get to that we'll be leaving YouTube but we'll be here for about 15 minutes.

00:03:54.000 Just to show you what we get up to.

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00:04:21.000 And let's have a look at Mark Zuckerberg attending a UFC bout with Alexander Volkanovsky's team during UFC.

00:04:29.000 You have to question whether or not this is Zuckerberg in his natural environment.

00:04:35.000 He don't look as comfortable as he looks in, say, that metaverse.

00:04:40.000 We'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.

00:04:46.000 He looks very at ease.

00:04:48.000 Let's have a look.

00:04:49.000 Steephin91, cringy lizard boy trying to be a normal person.

00:04:52.000 That's in the AwakendWonder chat.

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00:05:02.000 Let's look at Zuckerberg.

00:05:03.000 When he looks at the poor man, he's both unhappy and, of course, his case.

00:05:09.000 He puts his hands out a lot of times, that's what I noticed.

00:05:11.000 Now look, I don't feel any malice towards Mark Zuckerberg.

00:05:15.000 I 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.

00:05:24.000 I'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.

00:05:35.000 Shutting down free speech, shutting down free discourse, Ensuring that we are unable to form new alliances and new relationships to challenge establishment power.

00:05:45.000 And I'd also be quite sweet to him.

00:05:47.000 You saw him on Lex Friedman.

00:05:48.000 He's BJJ.

00:05:48.000 JJ's looking pretty good.

00:05:56.000 And 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.

00:06:04.000 I don't know if they do police work as well or if they just do dancing.

00:06:10.000 And given that like in the New York Police Department are spending money on like little

00:06:14.000 Roman cyborg creatures on the subways and the streets, Orton may be deploying, I don't know, human police officers 0.81

00:06:21.000 for something other than dance.

00:06:23.000 We call this the tick tock-ification of culture. 0.77

00:06:36.000 Would this be further evidence of the banalization of our world?

00:06:40.000 I don't know.

00:06:41.000 Some of you might think it's a pretty positive thing having accessible and human police officers.

00:06:47.000 Why not?

00:06:48.000 Why not?

00:06:48.000 Perhaps it's part of the solution.

00:06:51.000 In 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.

00:07:03.000 There's the story there.

00:07:04.000 I've been on the radio talking to drivers about this for the past hour and I've talked about 10 drivers.

00:07:08.000 Now what I think is interesting and surprising about this is that truckers generally, one might imagine, would belong to truckers unions.

00:07:16.000 I'm just guessing here based on what I know about UK politics and Even that's a slim library of information.

00:07:22.000 But it's pretty surprising, isn't it, that truckers, who would belong perhaps to the Teamsters, have no affiliation with the Democrats.

00:07:30.000 Let's have a little look at some information about truckers, traditionally at least.

00:07:35.000 Is that on four?

00:07:36.000 The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a Labour Union in the United States.

00:07:39.000 Now, 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.

00:07:46.000 You know that unions, in my country at least, used to block vote for one party or another.

00:07:50.000 And look, they're the 11th largest campaign contributor in the United States.

00:07:54.000 They supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in the 80s.

00:07:57.000 They've begun leaning largely towards Democrats in recent years.

00:07:59.000 The Teamsters endorsed Obama in 2008, for example.

00:08:04.000 So 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.

00:08:16.000 Certainly the legacy media would have no trouble in describing them In that manner.

00:08:20.000 And perhaps it's Clinton's deregulation of the financial industry that has contributed to that.

00:08:24.000 Or Obama bailing out the banks in 2008.

00:08:27.000 But what you don't have, and this is one of the great secrets.

00:08:30.000 Some of you saw our Joe Rogan video, right?

00:08:32.000 About Joe Rogan saying the left has gone crazy.

00:08:35.000 Is there's a sense that there is no political movement that represents ordinary working people.

00:08:39.000 That ultimately all political systems have been co-opted by global corporatist systems.

00:08:45.000 Let me know in the chat.

00:08:45.000 Do you think that?

00:08:46.000 Let me know in the rumble chat.

00:08:47.000 Yes or no?

00:08:48.000 Let me know in the awakened one.

00:08:50.000 Now let's get into one of our main stories today.

00:08:53.000 The death in prison of Alexei Navalny.

00:08:58.000 He died on Friday and let's have a look at how Western leaders have responded to it.

00:09:02.000 Now this is of course a sad story.

00:09:05.000 It's the death of a human being.

00:09:07.000 In custody.

00:09:08.000 But what we're interested in is the utility of the story.

00:09:11.000 How is this story being used?

00:09:14.000 What are you being told as a result of this story?

00:09:17.000 And what are you not being told?

00:09:18.000 Is there any evidence of conspiracy?

00:09:20.000 Can 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?

00:09:34.000 I'm of course referring to Let me know in the chat. 0.98

00:09:37.000 We'll send you a mug, dammit. 0.98

00:09:38.000 The first person to tell us who I'm referring to, we'll send a little mug your way. 1.00

00:09:44.000 Let's have a look now, first of all, at Western leaders suddenly caring a great deal about Alexei Navalny.

00:09:50.000 Now, 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.

00:09:59.000 The death of Alexei Navalny yesterday was a reminder of the extraordinary brutality.

00:10:06.000 We have a 77 AVA Julian Assange and it's a point that Caitlin Johnston made as well.

00:10:12.000 We'll show you that still in a minute but let's carry on watching this piece of

00:10:15.000 legacy media reporting. All of you Julian Assange, Julian Assange, Julian Assange,

00:10:19.000 whose hearing is this week, who exposed war crimes of the West, who exposed hypocrisy

00:10:24.000 and corruption and is still incarcerated without trial.

00:10:28.000 Putin and his government.

00:10:30.000 Whatever story they tell, let us be clear, Russia is responsible. 0.86

00:10:36.000 We should be clear about what has happened here.

00:10:39.000 Putin's Russia imprisoned him, trumped up charges against him.

00:10:43.000 Does that sound right?

00:10:44.000 In fact, David Cameron here, he's a globalist and former prime minister of this country.

00:10:48.000 He serves in the cabinet currently.

00:10:50.000 He 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.

00:11:03.000 If you know everything he's saying here about Navalny could be said.

00:11:06.000 Yeah, we've covered Gonzalo Lira.

00:11:08.000 We've covered that.

00:11:08.000 Thanks for reminding us in the chat.

00:11:10.000 Of course, Gonzalo Lira died in prison in Ukraine for being critical of Ukrainian democracy.

00:11:16.000 If 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.

00:11:27.000 Now, note that anything that Cameron's saying here about Navalny could be said about Assange.

00:11:32.000 Poisoned 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?

00:11:40.000 That's a matter of public record.

00:11:42.000 Penal colony, and now he's tragically died.

00:11:45.000 and we should hold Putin accountable for this and no one should be in any doubt

00:11:50.000 about the dreadful nature of Putin's regime in Russia.

00:11:53.000 You know like millions of people around the world I'm literally both not surprised and outraged by the news.

00:12:01.000 We'll be covering this in more depth later this week because as you know this week we are covering Julian Assange's

00:12:06.000 hearing.

00:12:06.000 We'll be down at the Strand.

00:12:08.000 Join us there to provide support for the campaign.

00:12:12.000 Stella Assange will be there.

00:12:13.000 We'll be talking to members of the legal team and, in all likelihood, Julian Assange will not be granted the right to appeal.

00:12:20.000 That's what this hearing is about.

00:12:22.000 It'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.

00:12:31.000 But what this is an opportunity to highlight, particularly in light of Navalny's death, is that there are prisoners of conscience in our nation.

00:12:40.000 So 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.

00:12:54.000 And remember, You can handle this complex idea.

00:12:57.000 This is why we, what we believe in in Stay Free, that we are able to say that yes, of course, Putin has people killed.

00:13:02.000 It's likely that he had Navalny killed, even if not proven yet.

00:13:06.000 It'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.

00:13:23.000 What we're saying here is not, isn't Putin fantastic?

00:13:26.000 Wouldn't it be better if we all just went and lived in Russia? 0.99

00:13:28.000 Of course, what we say on channels like this will be reduced to that so they can be dismissed.

00:13:34.000 But what we are pointing out is hegemony and imperialism in the US and UK are at least comparable.

00:13:41.000 Reported death of Alexei Navalny.

00:13:42.000 and imperialism in Russia.

00:13:43.000 Seems pretty reasonable to say, doesn't it?

00:13:46.000 But here is Joe Biden suddenly caring a great deal about Navalny.

00:13:50.000 We'll be covering this in more detail, as I say, in the coming days.

00:13:54.000 Reported death of Alexei Navalny.

00:13:56.000 He bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence, and all the bad things that the Putin government was doing.

00:14:05.000 That's what Julian Assange did.

00:14:07.000 That is what Julian Assange did.

00:14:09.000 He revealed war crimes.

00:14:10.000 He didn't commit any crimes.

00:14:13.000 In response, Putin had him poisoned.

00:14:16.000 He had him arrested.

00:14:17.000 He had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes.

00:14:20.000 He sentenced him to prison.

00:14:22.000 He was held in isolation.

00:14:24.000 Let me know who was president when Assange was charged with the Espionage Act.

00:14:29.000 Let me know in the rumble chat.

00:14:31.000 And you're going to have to question some of your own affiliations when you're answering that question.

00:14:35.000 Now, Biden has just pointed out that Navalny was held in isolation.

00:14:40.000 Julian Assange is being held in isolation.

00:14:42.000 Even all that didn't stop him from calling out his lies.

00:14:47.000 Even in prison, he was a powerful voice for the truth, which is kind of amazing when you think about it.

00:14:53.000 And 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.

00:15:01.000 Google it, guys.

00:15:02.000 ...the assassination attempt on him in 2020, which nearly killed him, I might add.

00:15:08.000 But he was traveling outside the country at the time.

00:15:11.000 Instead, he returned to Russia.

00:15:14.000 Returned to Russia, knowing he'd likely be imprisoned or even killed if he continued his work.

00:15:21.000 But he did it anyway.

00:15:22.000 Because he believes so deeply in his country, in Russia.

00:15:26.000 Russian authorities are going to tell their own story.

00:15:28.000 So 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.

00:15:43.000 In a minute he's about to connect this death to a plea for further funding.

00:15:50.000 And someone pointed out in the Awaken Wonder chat, you go duck go rather than Google.

00:15:54.000 You're right, see?

00:15:55.000 They've commandeered even my language! 1.00

00:15:58.000 No mistake.

00:15:59.000 Make no mistake.

00:16:00.000 Putin is responsible for Navalny's death.

00:16:04.000 Putin is responsible.

00:16:06.000 What has happened to Navalny is yet more proof of Putin's brutality.

00:16:11.000 No one should be fooled.

00:16:12.000 Not in Russia, not at home, not anywhere in the world. 0.52

00:16:15.000 Putin does not only target his citizens of other countries, As we've seen what's going on in Ukraine right now.

00:16:22.000 He also inflicts terrible crimes on his own people.

00:16:25.000 This tragedy reminds us of the stakes of this moment.

00:16:28.000 Go on.

00:16:29.000 We have to provide the funding so Ukraine can keep defending itself against Putin's vicious onslaughts and war crimes.

00:16:37.000 See, so finally after a pretty long pitch, we get to the tax dollars.

00:16:42.000 Let's have a look at what Caitlin Johnston posted about this matter.

00:16:48.000 Is that song seven, is it?

00:16:50.000 Crocodile tears over Navalny while ignoring Assange.

00:16:53.000 We'll be looking at that story with more detail and creating some comparisons, not creating them, drawing attention to them.

00:16:59.000 If 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.

00:17:07.000 Shut up about Navalny.

00:17:10.000 Hey, listen, we've got some interesting coverage of this story. 0.98

00:17:14.000 Let me pull it out.

00:17:14.000 Is it on?

00:17:15.000 Can you take me to the next page on my... Oh, yeah, I can do that myself.

00:17:18.000 Thanks.

00:17:18.000 16.

00:17:22.000 So yes, let me talk you through this.

00:17:25.000 The 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.

00:17:36.000 Meanwhile Julian Assange's last Why are the legacy media not covering this vital issue?

00:17:47.000 Navalny'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.

00:17:57.000 US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as international corruption.

00:18:01.000 Assange, as you lot know, is currently languishing in a maximum security prison in London, awaiting

00:18:05.000 a hearing next week.

00:18:06.000 Remember, we'll be streaming live tomorrow and the next day from that hearing that will

00:18:09.000 determine whether or not he can appeal his extradition to the United States.

00:18:12.000 Stella Assange warned Thursday that her husband will die if extradited.

00:18:15.000 Whenever I see people screaming about the persecution of journalists and political prisoners

00:18:19.000 in other countries when they themselves live in a nation whose government is persecuting

00:18:22.000 Julian Assange, I can't help but think of Matthew chapter 7, verses 4 to 5. 0.99

00:18:29.000 How 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. 0.99

00:18:34.000 First take the plank out of your own eye and you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 0.99

00:18:39.000 Once again, We are returned to the point of principle.

00:18:42.000 There'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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00:19:00.000 We 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.

00:19:09.000 For Real says, that was my grandma's favorite verse. 0.92

00:19:12.000 It'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?

00:19:22.000 It's a challenge, it's a challenge.

00:19:24.000 Now, as you know, Tucker Carlson's facing a lot of criticism over his interview with Putin.

00:19:28.000 People saying it's propaganda, it was propagandist.

00:19:32.000 In particular, I think people, the supermarket stuff.

00:19:35.000 Blew people's minds, didn't it?

00:19:36.000 I mean, like, he really went for it in that supermarket and the subway.

00:19:40.000 And his subsequent comments that every leader kills people following the death of Navalny, that too has drawn a little ire.

00:19:47.000 But 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?

00:20:03.000 Like, he couldn't have known that Navalny was about to lose his life in prison.

00:20:08.000 He did know that Gonzalo Lira had lost his life in Ukraine.

00:20:11.000 He does care deeply.

00:20:13.000 He's visited Assange in prison, hasn't he, of course?

00:20:15.000 Let's have a look at Tucker's response.

00:20:17.000 He was at that weird world government thing.

00:20:20.000 15,000 of you watching us now on Rumble.

00:20:22.000 Let's get more of you over. 0.99

00:20:23.000 Can you hear us?

00:20:24.000 Jberg78, you got a problem with the audio?

00:20:26.000 I think we're all good.

00:20:27.000 I think that's just you, mate.

00:20:28.000 I think it's just you.

00:20:30.000 Read my lips.

00:20:31.000 Let's have a look at Tucker at this World Government thing.

00:20:33.000 Now, if you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave in a moment because we have to.

00:20:37.000 Wade, 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.

00:20:52.000 Now, like, It seems like it's something that's become quite common lately, hasn't it?

00:20:57.000 People have had some issues with medical measures lately.

00:21:00.000 But like, I don't know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, there were a lot of people saying, don't use them asthma inhalers!

00:21:06.000 They're lethal!

00:21:07.000 You gotta watch out for them band-aids!

00:21:09.000 Oh, they're enough!

00:21:10.000 when you pull them off don't they? It's a recent problem and I've suggested that the

00:21:14.000 legislation is similarly innovative and designed with one thing in mind, shutting down dissent.

00:21:21.000 It's a globalist measure that will be coming to a nation near you. Gonna be extraordinary.

00:21:26.000 Let's have a look at Tucker's response and we won't be able to stay with you on YouTube

00:21:29.000 for that much longer guys so get ready to click that link in the description and join

00:21:33.000 us over on Stay Free Where Freedom Reigns Supreme.

00:21:36.000 You didn't talk about freedom of speech in Russia.

00:21:40.000 You did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations, about the restrictions on opposition in the coming elections.

00:21:52.000 I didn't talk about the things that every other American media outlet talks about.

00:21:55.000 Why?

00:21:55.000 Because those are covered and because I have spent my life talking to people who run countries in various countries and have concluded the following.

00:22:04.000 That every leader kills people, including my leader.

00:22:06.000 Every leader kills people. 0.99

00:22:07.000 Some kill more than others. 1.00

00:22:08.000 Leadership requires killing people, sorry. 0.98

00:22:10.000 It does, doesn't it?

00:22:11.000 I 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...

00:22:22.000 No demonstrable connection at all to the tragic events of 9-11.

00:22:26.000 Saddam Hussein was deemed to have transgressed and was executed.

00:22:30.000 Similarly, 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. 0.99

00:22:40.000 Nary 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. 0.91

00:22:51.000 Also, President's Day today, we're going to be looking at just how sharp Joe Biden is. 0.97

00:22:51.000 Hey! 0.97

00:22:55.000 We'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.

00:23:08.000 And 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.

00:23:22.000 We've got to find ways to love one another, haven't we?

00:23:25.000 Haven't we?

00:23:26.000 Isn't that our job here?

00:23:27.000 Aren't we supposed to become better?

00:23:29.000 But 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.

00:23:46.000 I mean, isn't that an important conversation to have?

00:23:49.000 Now, if you're watching this on YouTube, let's start the countdown now, guys.

00:23:53.000 We're going to be with you for another 30 seconds, but when we go, we're going to finish this Tucker thing.

00:23:57.000 Then, we're going to be talking about the obvious connections between Navalny and Julian Assange, because it's Assange Week here.

00:24:03.000 Tomorrow, we are going to be reporting live from the Strand while Assange's hearing takes place.

00:24:08.000 After this, we're going to be talking about the new laws being passed in France to prevent you being critical of certain medical measures.

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00:24:27.000 Okay, now then, uh, yeah, we're still in the middle of the, uh, the Tucker thing.

00:24:31.000 If I just press play, that'll take us back to it, will it, guys?

00:24:34.000 Okay, let's do that, and then we'll do the, then we'll do the France stuff.

00:24:37.000 That's why I wouldn't want to be a leader.

00:24:39.000 Um, that press restriction is universal in the United States, I know because I've lived it.

00:24:44.000 I've, you know, asked my former, you know, I've had a lot of jobs.

00:24:47.000 Um, And I've done this for 34 years, and I know how it works.

00:24:50.000 And there's more censorship in Russia than there is in the United States, but there's a great deal in the United States.

00:24:55.000 And 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.

00:25:03.000 I just want to know what he thinks.

00:25:04.000 That was the whole point.

00:25:05.000 Yeah, I actually don't have a problem with that.

00:25:07.000 I'm starting to be concerned about what the left's problem is with Tucker.

00:25:11.000 Do you know what it is that they think that he's racist?

00:25:13.000 Okay, let's have a look at the poll result.

00:25:15.000 We asked you who benefits most from Alexei Navalny's death. 0.99

00:25:19.000 It's a bit of a stupid question, really. 0.99

00:25:21.000 Of course it isn't. 1.00

00:25:21.000 Is it Tucker? 1.00

00:25:22.000 Is it Putin?

00:25:23.000 Of course it is.

00:25:24.000 Is it the NYPD dancers?

00:25:26.000 42% of you said that.

00:25:27.000 Is it truckers?

00:25:28.000 A few of you said that.

00:25:30.000 I 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.

00:25:35.000 It'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!

00:25:46.000 Because you are a human being like me and we are all involved in the same struggle here.

00:25:51.000 Let's have a look at some of the comparisons between Julian Assange And our man there.

00:25:59.000 Oh sorry, is it on 11?

00:26:00.000 Or is that pause that I'm pressing?

00:26:01.000 Australian 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.

00:26:12.000 We've seen unprecedented political support shown in the Australian Parliament this week.

00:26:12.000 That's right.

00:26:16.000 It's been a position of this Prime Minister since coming to government that enough is enough.

00:26:20.000 This case ought to be brought to an end.

00:26:21.000 And Julian Assange ought to be permitted to go home to Australia.

00:26:24.000 But 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.

00:26:39.000 So politically, there's a lot of political pressure.

00:26:41.000 The 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.

00:26:49.000 That would be lovely, wouldn't it?

00:26:50.000 Let's have a look at who's judging this case.

00:26:53.000 The 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.

00:27:02.000 So 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.

00:27:21.000 The principles themselves are deciding.

00:27:26.000 In 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.

00:27:47.000 Is that likely to happen?

00:27:49.000 If 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.

00:28:00.000 Will Julian Assange get a fair trial?

00:28:02.000 Y or N in the Awaken Wonders chat and in the Rumble chat.

00:28:06.000 Let me know what you think.

00:28:08.000 We will be streaming live tomorrow from the Strand.

00:28:13.000 No, yeah, Rabfan on the locals chat powers like, no, we're not going to get a fair chat.

00:28:17.000 Yeah, Griffith, no, no.

00:28:19.000 He's not going to get a fair trial, is he?

00:28:21.000 We already know this.

00:28:22.000 So what are we going to do?

00:28:23.000 If we can't rely on our institutions, whether they are media, apparently democratic or judicial, what does that mean we have to do?

00:28:31.000 What is required?

00:28:32.000 You tell me what you think is required.

00:28:33.000 And you tell me how you think we can individually and collectively contribute.

00:28:37.000 Or do we just wait and waste and atrophy here?

00:28:40.000 Is there nothing we can do?

00:28:41.000 Is it over already?

00:28:43.000 Or must we rise up?

00:28:45.000 In collective and shared disobedience.

00:28:46.000 These are just questions.

00:28:47.000 These are just questions.

00:28:50.000 Here's to get you in the mood.

00:28:52.000 To get your gander up.

00:28:54.000 To stir in you the spirit of rebellion.

00:28:57.000 Here is our trailer for our two days of content streamed from the Assange hearing in what we're calling Assange Week.

00:29:05.000 🎵 Julian will be put in a hole if he is extradited.

00:29:21.000 I don't think I'll ever see him again.

00:29:23.000 Because we're going to stream live from the royal courts on Tuesday and Wednesday.

00:29:28.000 Any of you that are watching, it would be fantastic if you could join us.

00:29:36.000 This generation being born now is the last free generation. 0.99

00:29:41.000 You were born and either immediately or within say a year, you're known globally.

00:29:49.000 It's very airy.

00:30:03.000 That trailer was cut by Young Al.

00:30:06.000 Let us know what you think of Al's work.

00:30:08.000 Good trailer.

00:30:08.000 Do you think it was a good trailer?

00:30:09.000 I'm very impressed with it myself.

00:30:11.000 Now, we told you we were going to cover this new legislation being passed in France.

00:30:15.000 Let's have a look.

00:30:17.000 This is a post from Brett Weinstein.

00:30:18.000 France has now criminalised objections to the MRNA platform, exposing those targeted to ruinous fines.

00:30:24.000 I think it's €45,000 and imprisonment.

00:30:27.000 It's obvious lunacy and that it's happening in a western nation should alarm us all.

00:30:31.000 This madness must be defeated.

00:30:32.000 In France, at the WHO, everywhere it arises.

00:30:35.000 Now 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.

00:30:48.000 And perhaps this is the same if you're a Ukrainian person also.

00:30:52.000 Our interests are more aligned with one of the leaders of the apparent opposition, an enemy indeed, than with our own leaders.

00:31:00.000 For surely peace must be the aim.

00:31:03.000 Well done Al, says Ashera in the Awaken Wonder chat.

00:31:06.000 Now, 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.

00:31:26.000 Can you now see, do, are we, are those that say we need a unified but decentralized opposition to globalism, are they right?

00:31:35.000 Is that what we need in every election in the world?

00:31:37.000 Candidates that stand against globalism, where there may be cultural, even religious differences.

00:31:43.000 And yet we stand united against globalism in all its forms, in particular its statist and corporatist forms.

00:31:49.000 Is that what we have to do?

00:31:51.000 Is that what's required?

00:31:53.000 Must we become vessels of the divine light?

00:31:55.000 Someone in the rumble chat, KRG0516, get the pitchforks! 0.98

00:31:59.000 Light the torches!

00:32:01.000 Is not the right direction.

00:32:03.000 Although there are plainly people in Scotland, as framed and platformed by GB News, that think that's the way to go.

00:32:11.000 Globalist 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.

00:32:26.000 In the audience was a man who himself, he claims, well I'm on Rumble, he experienced adverse events.

00:32:33.000 Listen to his confrontation with Rishi Sunak and see the madness of what's happening in France.

00:32:40.000 Are these conversations necessary or should they be shut down and censored?

00:32:44.000 Even if you disagree with this Scottish gentleman, do you think that he has the right to express this opinion?

00:32:51.000 Y or N in the Rumble chat.

00:32:53.000 Y or N in the Awaken Wonders chat.

00:32:55.000 Let 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.

00:33:03.000 Just 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.

00:33:12.000 Just some dreamer kid.

00:33:14.000 He was not ready for a contemporary Braveheart, let me tell you that.

00:33:20.000 In this country, I want you to look into my eyes, Rishi Sunak, and I want you to look at the pain.

00:33:25.000 I mean right away that level of intimacy Rishi Sunak's not gonna be ready for.

00:33:29.000 He's been in systemic politics for like the last five years.

00:33:33.000 Before that he was working in finance.

00:33:35.000 You better look in my eyes pal.

00:33:36.000 Okay, Rosso, those were the two of them.

00:33:39.000 The middle one, that's the snout hole is it?

00:33:41.000 How's your sense of smell working?

00:33:42.000 Don't know what's gone wrong with that.

00:33:43.000 The trauma and the regret I have in my eyes.

00:33:47.000 Why 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?

00:33:56.000 Like, he's reaching for the glass of water, Rishi Sunak, you know?

00:33:59.000 Oh no, they didn't tell me there'd be Scottish people in here!

00:34:02.000 ...affected by that Covid-19... GB News!

00:34:06.000 Great Britain!

00:34:06.000 That's the whole country!

00:34:08.000 Wow!

00:34:08.000 Doesn't that show you how Congress and Parliament and all the institutions in your country are not representative at all?

00:34:19.000 When was the last time you saw someone get up in the supposed seat of your country's democracy

00:34:24.000 and said to your leader, now listen to me, what have I had to set up a support group?

00:34:29.000 I have to put out chairs at 8pm. We sit there in a circle.

00:34:33.000 Some of the people's vaccine injuries ain't even that bad but I have to listen to them. You're

00:34:38.000 kidding what I'm sitting here?

00:34:40.000 I'll be over it you rishis soon that. I'll be over it you. 1.00

00:34:43.000 30,000 people have had an adverse reaction to that vaccine.

00:34:46.000 and do all the deaths.

00:34:48.000 John, thank you very much indeed for your question.

00:34:51.000 Now that's enough, John.

00:34:52.000 We may be GB News but we're still the media, okay?

00:34:56.000 That will do!

00:35:00.000 Don't clap, you'll encourage him!

00:35:02.000 You've made a really strong point, John.

00:35:05.000 Prime Minister.

00:35:06.000 John Bullock, I'm very sorry to hear about... You may give us myocarditis, but you'll never take our freedom!

00:35:13.000 Your personal circumstances, and you said someone over here, also seems to have suffered by a similar thing.

00:35:19.000 Right, okay, this is difficult, this is legally complex.

00:35:22.000 Right, 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.

00:35:33.000 Okay, bloody hell, why didn't they tell me there'd be Scots in here? 0.88

00:35:36.000 Now, obviously I don't know about the individual situation that you're in. 0.90

00:35:43.000 So there is a vaccine compensation scheme that's...

00:35:46.000 Even though the vaccine's 100% safe and effective, right?

00:35:49.000 We did have a compensation scheme set up, but if it's 100% effective, why do you need a compensation scheme?

00:35:54.000 Hmm in places you alluded to in the NHS obviously everyone individually will work through their cases

00:36:00.000 It's difficult for me to comment on anyone's individual case. I'm sure you'll appreciate that

00:36:04.000 I'm very well you do appreciate it because you are an operative of the state

00:36:07.000 Happy to go and look at the cases and I'm sure you'll get them to the team here.

00:36:11.000 I mean I'm very saddened and shocked to hear that you've been silenced by anybody that is.

00:36:16.000 Even though we invest heavily in groups like Logically AI that literally de-amplify and censor information.

00:36:23.000 The Department of Culture for example gave 1.2 million pound of taxpayer money Too logically AI, specifically to censor information.

00:36:31.000 You know that Moderna was censoring, deamplifying, criticizing, shutting down descent of platforms like this one and other critics of the vaccine.

00:36:39.000 Even 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.

00:36:53.000 Admittedly we are deliberately censoring it and we've been censoring it for a while.

00:36:57.000 Even though it's 100% safe and effective.

00:36:58.000 to speak about your experience, what's happened to you.

00:37:01.000 We, admittedly, we are deliberately censoring it and we've been censoring it for a while.

00:37:04.000 And as I said, we have a compensation scheme in place for that.

00:37:07.000 And it's 100% safe and effective.

00:37:10.000 I'll make sure that we're working through that.

00:37:11.000 Obviously, I think you'll appreciate it's hard for me to comment on your specific circumstances,

00:37:16.000 just not knowing them and those things.

00:37:18.000 Knowing how much money I have made from Moderna, although that hasn't been revealed and

00:37:22.000 can see generally what our attitude is.

00:37:24.000 We've only paid 20% tax this year.

00:37:26.000 and I and my wife's father's company Infosys is one of the sponsors of the WEF. You can look that

00:37:31.000 up on DuckDuckGo, not Google baby. Forgive me sir, we haven't got a microphone on you so our viewers and

00:37:38.000 listeners won't be able to hear what you say. I think the last thing I'd say is, you know, we went through a

00:37:42.000 pandemic like everyone else. Some people went through a worse pandemic given that there was a massive

00:37:48.000 wealth transfer given that Rishi Sunak attended some of the parties that took place in this

00:37:53.000 country while you were watching funerals on YouTube.

00:37:56.000 At 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

00:38:27.000 Buttholes! 1.00

00:38:27.000 Best to roll out the vaccine, what was in the public health interest, the priority order, how that should be done, who should be eligible. 1.00

00:38:34.000 That was something that the doctors recommended on and that's something that we followed.

00:38:38.000 Now 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.

00:38:46.000 Sorry about all that.

00:38:47.000 We've got a compensation scheme.

00:38:49.000 I've certainly got a compensation scheme.

00:38:50.000 I was investing in Moderna before this whole thing happened.

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00:40:25.000 Now, remember when the world was a fairer place?

00:40:27.000 No, not really.

00:40:28.000 I'm delirious.

00:40:29.000 I can't remember anything.

00:40:30.000 Well, it did apparently used to be fairer.

00:40:31.000 Now, when Jon Stewart used to be in the Daily Show in 2015, the media and culture environment was different.

00:40:37.000 On the left, it was possible to criticize your own.

00:40:40.000 The left has since then become a weird organization, it seems, or movement or cult.

00:40:45.000 Joe Rogan's been ostracized and Jon Stewart might be about to learn some interesting lessons.

00:40:50.000 Can Jon Stewart's return to the Daily Show be used as a kind of gauge to work out how the culture has changed?

00:40:57.000 That's certainly the argument we're offering on Here's the News, No Baby, Here's the Effing News.

00:41:02.000 Stay with us for so much more.

00:41:03.000 See you in a second.

00:41:07.000 No. 1.00

00:41:07.000 Here's the fucking news! 1.00

00:41:10.000 Jon Stewart is back, and he's excellent. 0.99

00:41:12.000 But the world has changed since Jon Stewart was last on TV.

00:41:15.000 It has become broken, sensorial, and unable to withstand criticism of centre-left figures.

00:41:21.000 So, is Jon Stewart a litmus test for how broken our culture's become?

00:41:27.000 When Jon Stewart was last on The Daily Show, he showed how current affairs could be handled comedically and more intelligently than the actual news.

00:41:34.000 It was a common trope at the time.

00:41:35.000 People were watching The Daily Show to get their news.

00:41:38.000 Now Jon Stewart is back and I would say brilliant and Perhaps even better than ever.

00:41:43.000 But what's marked, observable and challenging is the world has changed since Jon Stewart used to last be on TV.

00:41:50.000 Now you're either for the establishment or you're against the establishment.

00:41:54.000 And the establishment figures from the left have been facing more and more criticism.

00:41:58.000 Remember, 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.

00:42:08.000 But anti-establishmentism, when you have corporatist leaders, previously was always assumed to be coming from the cultural left, shall we say.

00:42:16.000 Well, 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.

00:42:27.000 Let'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.

00:42:36.000 These two candidates, they are both similarly challenged.

00:42:39.000 And 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.

00:42:46.000 Now Democrats will say that any criticism like this especially of Biden is unfair.

00:42:51.000 That's weird because he's saying this before the criticism has happened and indeed that is precisely the criticism that has happened.

00:42:58.000 I don't know how you feel in particular about the senility and decay of Joe Biden.

00:43:03.000 I'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.

00:43:14.000 And 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.

00:43:22.000 It seems preposterous and inconceivable that that's true. 0.58

00:43:25.000 What'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.

00:43:34.000 One 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.

00:43:40.000 It's a cause that's very close to him.

00:43:42.000 And what I'm saying is that Jon Stewart represents a political category that's starting to disappear.

00:43:46.000 People of the left that are connected to blue-collar working people.

00:43:50.000 That in particular is the change that the establishment elite have undertaken.

00:43:54.000 An 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.

00:44:01.000 Because you just don't know Biden like they know Biden.

00:44:04.000 President Biden, who I've been around numerous times just in this last year, is sharp, he's focused, he's bright.

00:44:11.000 He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.

00:44:17.000 That one was really funny.

00:44:19.000 And focus there.

00:44:20.000 And focus.

00:44:20.000 I got all my points in that I was told to get in before I did this TV show.

00:44:24.000 And focus.

00:44:25.000 We've all become more media savvy in the intervening years since Jon Stewart's departure from the Daily Show.

00:44:30.000 We all know now there's a relationship between the legacy media and the government.

00:44:34.000 We 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.

00:44:43.000 We've all become Better educated.

00:44:45.000 We 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.

00:44:51.000 In a sense, Jon Stewart, to a degree, participated in the creation of this landscape.

00:44:55.000 Critiques of legacy media, critiques of the political class.

00:44:58.000 Of 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

00:45:07.000 or made more popular certainly by Jon Stewart. The problem is now the culture has changed

00:45:12.000 and it is forbidden, oddly, on the authoritarian left to attack a leader like Joe Biden as if

00:45:16.000 it's Stalin or something, where if you criticize him it's like, oh my god, you're gonna die.

00:45:20.000 Of course now it would mean more a digital death or a cultural death or not being permitted to

00:45:24.000 participate in the spoils of the establishment elite. And I think what's most interesting

00:45:29.000 about Jon Stewart's return is we can see now that the culture has radically altered since

00:45:34.000 Jon Stewart was part of the mainstream.

00:45:36.000 The culture no longer permits Criticism of the powerful.

00:45:40.000 There are prescribed tropes that are permitted and that's it.

00:45:43.000 You 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.

00:45:51.000 The aggressive attack of the powerful, that exists on online platforms now.

00:45:55.000 The mainstream has extracted that from its discourse.

00:45:58.000 It can no longer tolerate it because the legacy media exists to amplify and support the establishment, not to attack it.

00:46:04.000 This is a man who is sharp, who is on top of his game, who knows what's going on.

00:46:08.000 He's smart.

00:46:09.000 He's on his game.

00:46:10.000 I was in almost every meeting with the president.

00:46:14.000 Yeah, a lot of people have got doubts about you and all, mate.

00:46:16.000 And the president was in front of and on top of it all, coordinating And directing.

00:46:25.000 What is the standard you expect of the President of the United States?

00:46:29.000 It's not like an elderly person who's participating in the community as a member of the Rotary Club.

00:46:34.000 This is a person that's across geopolitical issues, numerous world wars, arms deals, pandemics.

00:46:40.000 That standard isn't high enough.

00:46:42.000 Leaders who are in charge of America's national security, not to mention our allies around the globe.

00:46:49.000 Did anyone film that?

00:46:53.000 LAUGHTER I even wonder if the audience laughter is somewhat nervous.

00:47:01.000 We'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

00:47:16.000 easy comedic atmosphere that we once did.

00:47:18.000 Are we allowed to laugh at Joe Biden?

00:47:20.000 It's not laughing at him because he's elderly, of course.

00:47:22.000 There is an equivalency between age and experience and therefore perhaps wisdom.

00:47:25.000 This is not laughing at an old person.

00:47:27.000 This is questioning the cognitive capacity of a person in a position of great power

00:47:32.000 and querying whether or not this is at odds with what our expectations of the leader of the free world ought be.

00:47:38.000 Because if you're telling us behind the scenes, he is sharp and full of energy and on top of it really in

00:47:48.000 control and leading, you should film that.

00:47:50.000 I'm sorry.

00:47:52.000 Of course, when it comes to Republicans, they've got a different strategy for their 77-year-old candidate.

00:47:57.000 Jon Stewart goes on to attack Donald Trump.

00:47:59.000 And Jon Stewart always used to attack both sides, used to attack the establishment broadly.

00:48:03.000 Now, the Democrats have been very critical of Jon Stewart's attacks, as they perceive them, on Biden.

00:48:07.000 But the right haven't mentioned anything about Donald Trump.

00:48:10.000 And it's odd.

00:48:11.000 First of all, Donald Trump is not an old man.

00:48:12.000 this tendency towards censorship, this inability to accommodate open conversation or humor,

00:48:17.000 or even pointing out the obvious in the case of Joe Biden's cognitive decline,

00:48:21.000 is an indicator of a new cultural climate where there is a sense of pervasive oppression,

00:48:26.000 where there's certain things you're just not allowed to say, and that is perhaps the biggest

00:48:29.000 shift that's taken place since Jon Stewart was last on the air.

00:48:32.000 Well first of all, Donald Trump is not an old man.

00:48:36.000 He's an old man! He is objectively an old man, on a human scale.

00:48:43.000 We 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.

00:48:52.000 They are the oldest people ever to run for president, breaking by only four years the record that they set!

00:49:03.000 The last time they ran!

00:49:06.000 Jon Stewart appears to be skewering an important flaw of our political age.

00:49:10.000 Our political class are not retiring.

00:49:13.000 Perhaps 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.

00:49:21.000 People like Nancy Pelosi or that other old lady that needed to be given advice. 1.00

00:49:25.000 Vote for the war! 0.99

00:49:26.000 War is good now? 1.00

00:49:27.000 Yeah, times have changed.

00:49:28.000 War is good now. 1.00

00:49:29.000 Yeah, just say aye.

00:49:31.000 Okay, just...

00:49:34.000 All these people are elderly and don't you see in that a kind of visual demonstration of what's wrong with the system?

00:49:34.000 Aye.

00:49:41.000 It has become corrupted.

00:49:42.000 It has become occupied by incumbents that are no longer appropriate.

00:49:46.000 It needs to alter.

00:49:48.000 It needs to radically change.

00:49:49.000 During 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.

00:50:01.000 It 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.

00:50:19.000 This is a brave new world.

00:50:20.000 I'm the only person that can oppose Donald Trump.

00:50:22.000 When, 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. 0.99

00:50:31.000 There's something very odd about that.

00:50:33.000 Unpredictably, mainstream media cultural institutions responded unfavourably to Jon Stewart's nuanced attack on both candidates.

00:50:41.000 Because remember, he attacked Trump, he attacked Biden.

00:50:43.000 I don't see anybody on the right going, you can't say that about Donald Trump.

00:50:46.000 He's trying his hardest with his hair and his skin tone.

00:50:48.000 I love that Jon Stewart is back, but what's so offensive to me is there's a difference between age and intelligence.

00:50:55.000 There's a difference between age and vitality.

00:50:58.000 There's a difference between age and really being up on things and having that quickness of wit that Joy has.

00:51:09.000 We'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.

00:51:17.000 Different to, like, go and do The View.

00:51:19.000 I'd let Joe Biden go and do The View.

00:51:20.000 Yeah, go and do The View.

00:51:21.000 Don't matter how people are watching it or they won't watch it.

00:51:23.000 Let's decide whether or not to escalate a war with Russia and China and Iran simultaneously.

00:51:29.000 That's not the same as beyond The View.

00:51:31.000 Let me just tell you that Martha Stewart's 82.

00:51:34.000 She's still cooking in front of people. 0.98

00:51:35.000 Yeah, but she's just cooking. 1.00

00:51:36.000 She's not decided whether or not we're going to war with Russia.

00:51:39.000 Also, she did have to go to jail. 1.00

00:51:40.000 Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are getting it in.

00:51:43.000 They're actors.

00:51:44.000 They're just pretending to be gangsters.

00:51:46.000 Joe Biden is running the free world.

00:51:48.000 They've got babies in their 80s, okay?

00:51:51.000 Jay Fonda, 86.

00:51:53.000 Representative Maxine Waters, 85.

00:51:54.000 Yeah, part of the problem.

00:51:56.000 Nancy Pelosi, 83.

00:51:57.000 Part of the problem.

00:51:58.000 I don't know.

00:51:59.000 They look like they know what they're doing.

00:52:00.000 No.

00:52:01.000 Maybe they know what they're doing.

00:52:02.000 They're exploiting us.

00:52:03.000 They have the wisdom, they have the history.

00:52:05.000 The problem with this country... This is distinct.

00:52:07.000 From revering elders and a culture that respects people's experience and we're able to turn to them and honour them.

00:52:15.000 Those are really important values.

00:52:16.000 This isn't a, let's honour Joe Biden by ignoring his evident senility.

00:52:20.000 That's not what this is about.

00:52:21.000 This 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.

00:52:33.000 Rather than representative of the will of the American people.

00:52:36.000 I 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.

00:52:41.000 It's called respect.

00:52:42.000 Called Armageddon.

00:52:43.000 Is that we don't value people with their wisdom.

00:52:45.000 We don't value seniors.

00:52:46.000 We don't value entrepreneurs.

00:52:48.000 Okay, and I'm sick of this ageism.

00:52:52.000 It says it about both of them, didn't it Jon Stewart?

00:52:54.000 That didn't warrant that response at all, did it?

00:52:56.000 Let'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.

00:53:09.000 Jon Stewart left the Daily Show in August 2015, which was not all that long ago, but was a vastly different media and cultural environment.

00:53:16.000 Celebrity 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. 0.51

00:53:26.000 I remember at that point, the idea that Donald Trump would become president, I thought at least, was ridiculous.

00:53:31.000 This was before the primaries, this was before he proved himself to be basically hilarious.

00:53:36.000 This is a tough business to run for president.

00:53:38.000 You're a tough guy, G. I buy that.

00:53:38.000 Oh, I know.

00:53:40.000 And we need to have a leader.

00:53:41.000 And before it became pretty plain that about 50% of the American voting public are so annoyed they are willing to vote for a renegade.

00:53:48.000 Stewart is a political comedy star from an era that has completely disappeared.

00:53:52.000 Ever 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.

00:54:01.000 Stuart's Daily Show reign went from 1999 to 2015, spanning the full scope of the Bush and Obama years.

00:54:08.000 Divisiveness in our politics and culture was rampant then, but Americans also were being served by media that valued objectivity, basic fairness and intellectual consistency.

00:54:17.000 Although in retrospect, the difference between the Obama and Bush era doesn't look as significant as perhaps it seemed at the time.

00:54:24.000 Ultimately, 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?

00:54:35.000 Obama, 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.

00:54:46.000 Donald Trump, a weird renegade, isn't he?

00:54:48.000 An odd outlier, the kind of first beneficiary of fervid anti-establishment feeling that was clearly present but has peaked in the interim years.

00:54:56.000 In 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.

00:55:09.000 Former New York Times journalist Amy Chozik said, there's a new generation of young journalists who believe objectivity is akin to white supremacy.

00:55:16.000 We'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.

00:55:28.000 They're now sort of maligned and marginalized.

00:55:30.000 I swear, in the Jon Stewart era one, those people would be at like New York Times, rolling stone, getting scoops, attacking the establishment.

00:55:38.000 Now it's like, you lot... 1.00

00:55:40.000 Shut up, you right-wing fascists! 1.00

00:55:42.000 And 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. 1.00

00:55:51.000 Now the New York Times won't do that.

00:55:52.000 Rolling Stone won't do that.

00:55:53.000 They are no longer radical organisations.

00:55:55.000 They are about supporting the establishment, accepting cultural areas that ultimately do not affect the main thrust of power, I would argue.

00:56:01.000 Let me know if you agree with that.

00:56:03.000 Stuart's daily show made a regular practice of criticising his own side.

00:56:06.000 He'd go after the hypocrisy of the left, seeming to relish making his audience uncomfortable at times.

00:56:10.000 Stuart was occasionally masterful at exposing the ridiculous contortions we perform to defend powerful figures we support. 0.74

00:56:16.000 And he did so not by attacking the people, but by attacking the powerful.

00:56:19.000 In 2024 and since 2017, the Daily Show oeuvre and the corporate media apparatus has been the opposite.

00:56:24.000 It wasn't enough to simply attack Trump or his administration.

00:56:27.000 No, the target was the deplorables who put him there in the first place.

00:56:30.000 This is something we've commented on a lot.

00:56:32.000 The left used to be, as I understood it, the party of working people.

00:56:36.000 To 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.

00:56:47.000 Now, the left isn't that anymore.

00:56:49.000 And 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.

00:57:02.000 That's what we'll do.

00:57:03.000 Now I'm an anti-establishment person.

00:57:04.000 I don't think that the right or the left are the solution to our problems.

00:57:08.000 I believe, as I think you know by now, in decentralisation so that we don't have to argue about culture anymore.

00:57:12.000 We 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.

00:57:20.000 This idea that 50% of the population is at war with the other half, where does that end, I suppose?

00:57:25.000 What?

00:57:26.000 Which brings us to Monday night and Stuart returning with a manifesto of sorts tackling the Biden-Trump rematch that nobody wants.

00:57:32.000 He 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.

00:57:47.000 He referred to Biden as chocolate chip cookie guy and mocked Biden's awkward TikTok debut.

00:57:51.000 This was capital U unacceptable for some in the press.

00:57:55.000 Centrist Democrats were appalled at what they saw as a betrayal by one of their own, wrote Rolling Stone.

00:57:59.000 Stuart's main segment was classic both-sidersm, wrote Slate.

00:58:03.000 Those organizations, of course, being now ultimately mouthpieces of the establishment.

00:58:07.000 Jon Stewart is about to learn a hard truth about the current media and cultural environment.

00:58:11.000 His brand isn't welcome anymore.

00:58:12.000 He probably already knows that after he was kicked off Apple for talking about China.

00:58:16.000 And now here we are.

00:58:17.000 Jon Stewart has appalled the left because of his betrayal for daring to state the obvious about Joe Biden.

00:58:21.000 What'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.

00:58:34.000 But within that, It does demonstrate to me also the possibility for new alliances.

00:58:38.000 Those 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.

00:58:56.000 There 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.

00:59:27.000 So 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.

00:59:48.000 And 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.

00:59:55.000 Well that's just what I think, let me know what you think in the chat!

00:59:57.000 See you in a second!

00:59:58.000 Thank you for joining us for this free stream jamboree A lot of you are pretty anti-Jon Stewart, I notice.

01:00:12.000 Like that you feel like he's not trustworthy and stuff like that.

01:00:17.000 Jon Stewart may have seen the light.

01:00:18.000 It says, Truth Puppet Carl Reino.

01:00:20.000 Stewart's a funny dude with fame.

01:00:22.000 He speaks truth to power.

01:00:23.000 Does anyone deserve attention?

01:00:24.000 I don't know, but he has it.

01:00:26.000 But a lot of you not at all down with Jon Stewart.

01:00:29.000 I feel you.

01:00:30.000 Me, personally, I feel like Jon Stewart's a pretty damn good broadcaster.

01:00:35.000 Think about his attitude, for example, to the first responders.

01:00:38.000 I've always been very moved by how he supported people in the fire service and all that stuff. 0.99

01:00:45.000 Did Russell make small girl say, here's the fucking news? 0.93

01:00:49.000 It'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. 0.99

01:01:00.000 It's President's Day.

01:01:01.000 Let's celebrate the President of the United States, who I believe is, what is the main catchphrase?

01:01:07.000 Sharp and effective.

01:01:12.000 Sharp and effective.

01:01:13.000 He's like a razor.

01:01:14.000 Let's have a look at you.

01:01:15.000 In celebration of President's Day, in celebration of freedom, let us look at your president, Joe Biden.

01:01:23.000 I can see someone's bought them those golden Trump booties.

01:01:27.000 Who's going to get some of them Trump booties? 1.00

01:01:28.000 Lucy1001.

01:01:30.000 Russell, are you vaccinated?

01:01:32.000 What do you think?

01:01:33.000 He is sharp, intensely probing, and detailed.

01:01:37.000 Intensely probing is not a good quality in a president.

01:01:41.000 Oriented and focused.

01:01:43.000 This is a man who is sharp, who is on top of his game, who... Sharp is the word there, right?

01:01:47.000 They've been told to say sharp, aren't they?

01:01:48.000 And fit.

01:01:48.000 Knows what's going on.

01:01:49.000 This guy's tough, he's smart, he's on his game.

01:01:52.000 His mental acuity is great.

01:01:54.000 This is a very sharp president.

01:01:57.000 He's the kind of man who, no matter what stocks and shares he invests in, he always comes out on top.

01:02:02.000 And 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.

01:02:12.000 This is a man that's on his game.

01:02:13.000 President Biden is absolutely fit.

01:02:17.000 There's not a problem.

01:02:18.000 He's sharp, he's fit, he's always answering questions.

01:02:21.000 If you love us much, why don't you marry him then?

01:02:23.000 He is on the ball.

01:02:24.000 He was sharper than anyone I've spoken to.

01:02:27.000 He is sharp.

01:02:28.000 You keep saying sharp.

01:02:29.000 Will you say that he's sharp a lot to the point where the word sharp loses its meaning?

01:02:35.000 He's on top of things.

01:02:36.000 There's no doubt in my mind that the president is mentally fit for office.

01:02:39.000 Biden has proven himself to have a strong memory.

01:02:42.000 He's completely mentally sharp.

01:02:44.000 I'm getting a lot of pushback on the idea that Joe Biden is anything other than senile.

01:02:49.000 So if you could all learn this phrase, he's sharp, he's fit.

01:02:53.000 Could I add probing?

01:02:55.000 No, don't say probing.

01:02:56.000 That sounds weird.

01:02:57.000 That's too odd and peculiar and priapic and intrusive.

01:03:01.000 I'm going to say it anyway.

01:03:02.000 You don't control me.

01:03:03.000 He's at the top of his game.

01:03:06.000 Well, there you go.

01:03:07.000 It's democracy, baby.

01:03:09.000 Or republicanism, whatever you guys are into right now.

01:03:11.000 What a show it's been, and what a way to start Assange Week.

01:03:14.000 Tomorrow, of course, we will be covering the Assange hearing.

01:03:19.000 Day one, we'll be talking, I think, to Stella Assange.

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01:03:50.000 My god, what a laborious process.

01:03:52.000 But this is what is left to us in, instead of democracy, instead of freedom, instead of clarity and transparency, we have the ability to attend hearings that will be adjudicated by some of Julian Assange's declared and explicit enemies, i.e.

01:04:09.000 the judge was one of the, is it defendants?

01:04:12.000 Defendants or prosecutors?

01:04:13.000 I can't work out how that case went.

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