Stay Free - Russel Brand - WTF! Biden & Gates Want To BLOCK OUT The Sun?! - #161 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

00:00:00.000 There.

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00:00:12.000 You drank alcohol.

00:00:22.000 You drank too much.

00:00:35.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:00:43.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.

00:00:44.000 Thanks for joining us.

00:00:45.000 What a glorious day it is to be alive, especially as it's our greatest week ever on Rumble.

00:00:52.000 We've bought you RFK, and by God did you love him.

00:00:56.000 Why wouldn't you?

00:00:57.000 We've given you Jack Dorsey.

00:00:59.000 Fantastic conversation.

00:01:01.000 And on Friday, Tucker Carlson will be joining us here In this very space.

00:01:07.000 Also, I've got a new item of clothing that I'm a bit self-conscious about.

00:01:11.000 I don't know, see if you can guess what it is by the end of the show.

00:01:14.000 Show idea.

00:01:14.000 I don't know, it's private.

00:01:15.000 It's between me and my cardigan.

00:01:19.000 Hey, we've got some interesting stuff to talk to you about.

00:01:21.000 Do you think it's ever a good sign when someone says they might block out the sun?

00:01:25.000 If someone says they're going to block out... I mean, sun block.

00:01:29.000 I've gotten used to that now, since Baz Luhrmann did that thing, wear suncream, always wear suncream.

00:01:34.000 It's one of the things he pushed.

00:01:36.000 I will block out sun at the level... You get all your health advice from Baz Luhrmann?

00:01:40.000 Most of it, and star advice, as you can see from my outfit.

00:01:43.000 If it doesn't seem like an Elvis musical, I won't wear it.

00:01:47.000 Like, yeah.

00:01:49.000 Here's people that said they're going to block out the sun in history.

00:01:52.000 People out Bond, I think, say it sometimes.

00:01:54.000 Well, Mr Bond, we're going to block out the sun.

00:01:56.000 Bill Gates, obviously.

00:01:58.000 Oh, we're blocking it out for you for some reason.

00:02:00.000 Don't worry that we've evolved for all eternity in harmony with the sun.

00:02:05.000 Block it out.

00:02:06.000 And now Joe Biden's got a plan to block out the sun.

00:02:08.000 We'll be having a little look at that later.

00:02:10.000 Lee Fang's coming on the show.

00:02:12.000 Lee Fang's for the memory.

00:02:13.000 Look at Lee Fang.

00:02:14.000 Oh, yes.

00:02:15.000 Those of you watching this in locals, Get ready to objectify a journalist.

00:02:22.000 It's Lee Fang.

00:02:23.000 I had about 20 minutes with him the other week.

00:02:25.000 It was great, yeah.

00:02:25.000 Nice?

00:02:25.000 What was it like?

00:02:26.000 What did you do in that 20 minutes?

00:02:27.000 It's a very specific time frame, Gareth, and I know your rhythms, so I know what you're referring to.

00:02:32.000 We talked about his articles.

00:02:33.000 I knew him word for word. 0.99

00:02:35.000 And by his articles, do you mean his testicles? 0.98

00:02:37.000 Because, like, Lee Fang's articles. 0.99

00:02:39.000 I've been pondering Lee Fang's articles.

00:02:42.000 Mrs Fang, no sir!

00:02:44.000 Because Lee Fang is a married mang, is what I call him. 0.99

00:02:47.000 Lee Fang, Fang's for the memory.

00:02:49.000 He'll be talking to us about what?

00:02:50.000 Censorship, we're going to talk about probably?

00:02:52.000 Yes we are, yeah.

00:02:52.000 Maybe there should be some censorship when you listen to the absolute drivel that comes out of our mouths.

00:02:58.000 Hey, you should watch us on Locals, you can join our community, like Thomas Beard saying simply, hello.

00:03:02.000 And Apologetic Pest, he's on there, Katie Beach, Claude, We've also just heard Ron DeSantis coming on the show.

00:03:07.000 Fantastic stuff.

00:03:08.000 We've got every conceivable guest that you could possibly want.

00:03:09.000 there because it's free speech people from across the political religious ideological spectrum just

00:03:15.000 getting on and chatting like ice men are being the world or something and we've also just new heard

00:03:20.000 ron de santis coming on the show fantastic stuff we've got every conceivable guest that you could

00:03:26.000 possibly want anyone you want let us know in the chat i'll get them for you um so uh oh when we go

00:03:32.000 live to rumble because of course you know we love youtube We love our 6.4 million wonders over there, don't we, Gail?

00:03:37.000 We do.

00:03:38.000 We want to participate in your awakening.

00:03:38.000 We love them.

00:03:40.000 You're awakening me, I'm awakening you.

00:03:42.000 But we have to go into Rumble because they keep founding... What are we going to call it?

00:03:46.000 Nosebag! 1.00

00:03:47.000 Merry powder.

00:03:49.000 Nose fun.

00:03:50.000 Up the snout whoopee parties.

00:03:53.000 Marching dust.

00:03:55.000 Cocaine.

00:03:55.000 You're allowed to say cocaine, are you?

00:03:57.000 I think so.

00:03:58.000 Just don't endorse it.

00:03:59.000 I'm actually in recovery from drugs.

00:03:59.000 As long as you don't endorse it.

00:04:01.000 Drugs are bad.

00:04:02.000 Yes, they are.

00:04:03.000 I have no problem saying drugs are bad.

00:04:05.000 Oh, that one.

00:04:06.000 We've turned that one off, have we?

00:04:07.000 It was a good one.

00:04:08.000 It was so apposite.

00:04:09.000 Is the thing working?

00:04:12.000 No.

00:04:12.000 That's not the one I'm pressing.

00:04:15.000 We've lost Caller Crackhead, guys.

00:04:19.000 China.

00:04:19.000 Still going to China?

00:04:20.000 I would feel physically sick.

00:04:22.000 Well, you would if you took it.

00:04:24.000 I would feel physically sick, so that's one's relevant. 0.99

00:04:27.000 No, no!

00:04:28.000 It would not be nice.

00:04:29.000 Never!

00:04:30.000 It would not be nice.

00:04:31.000 It would actually turn me over the edge.

00:04:32.000 I've got no ability to discipline myself.

00:04:34.000 So the White House has been evacuated after cocaine was found.

00:04:38.000 Out! 0.58

00:04:38.000 Everybody out! 0.58

00:04:39.000 Amazing.

00:04:40.000 Well, I wonder if anyone in particular has been visiting the White House lately?

00:04:43.000 Who knows?

00:04:44.000 Join us on Locals, press the red button and guess, if you can guess, which visitor do you imagine has been most likely connected to that?

00:04:53.000 And it's just up to you to guess.

00:04:54.000 I don't have an opinion on who it could be.

00:04:56.000 We'll be looking at the latest gaffes of our man, Biden.

00:05:00.000 But not just the malappropriatisms or the Freudian slips.

00:05:04.000 You'll be familiar by now that he said Iraq instead of Ukraine like George W. Bush before him.

00:05:09.000 But we'll be talking about what the actual similarities between those wars are and what it indicates.

00:05:15.000 Let's have a look at the revolutionary French riots that are going on right now.

00:05:20.000 The French government... Sorry guys, sorry for burping.

00:05:22.000 I'll drink this.

00:05:23.000 Right before I go in here, I drink this sort of belching powder.

00:05:27.000 Yeah, almost like you want it to happen.

00:05:29.000 I don't know why I do it.

00:05:30.000 You're doing it again?

00:05:31.000 Mmm.

00:05:32.000 Silly, really. 0.99

00:05:32.000 That's why I can't take cocaine. 0.99

00:05:34.000 Because it's bad?

00:05:35.000 Yes.

00:05:36.000 Obviously.

00:05:37.000 Why would you take it?

00:05:38.000 Why would you take it?

00:05:38.000 It's bad for you.

00:05:40.000 I don't agree with drugs.

00:05:41.000 20 years clean, one day at a time, thanks to a loving higher power that I call God.

00:05:45.000 Let's see what's going on with these French riots.

00:05:47.000 French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Macron.

00:05:52.000 Oh really? A bit of censorship over there in France.

00:05:54.000 Now, the reason that there's a riot in France, of course, is because emergency powers are being continually

00:06:00.000 implemented.

00:06:01.000 The will of the people is being ignored.

00:06:03.000 Recently, they rioted on the steps of Black Rock, suggesting that the French people are beginning to

00:06:09.000 understand where real power lies.

00:06:12.000 But you've just had independence day over there. I know you lot prefer the French to us, don't you?

00:06:16.000 The Americans, they think the French are better than us.

00:06:18.000 They think they're classier.

00:06:19.000 They think they're classier. They think of us as like, oh, we beat them in a revolution.

00:06:23.000 And we're independent of them. We're better than them.

00:06:25.000 But I don't see it that way. I see us as better than the French.

00:06:30.000 In a very straightforward, xenophobic way.

00:06:33.000 I love the French. I've got some good French friends.

00:06:35.000 Some of my best friends are French.

00:06:36.000 Okay, very good.

00:06:37.000 Which ones?

00:06:39.000 Claude?

00:06:39.000 Who is it?

00:06:40.000 Pierre.

00:06:41.000 I've never met Pierre.

00:06:44.000 We have a whole life.

00:06:45.000 We just hang around, wear stripy shirts, eat onions together.

00:06:49.000 Mind your own business.

00:06:50.000 Capitulate.

00:06:51.000 A lot of stuff!

00:06:52.000 We do a lot of stuff to get me and old Jean-Claude!

00:06:55.000 So, um, no, he's called Jerome, actually.

00:06:56.000 All right, so listen, um, but look at this French riot, right?

00:07:01.000 We're going to go into Rumble in a minute.

00:07:03.000 What's the reason we're going to go into Rumble?

00:07:04.000 I want to talk more about the cocaine story and a few things around the pandemic and regulations and legislation, barmy crap and revelations, more news around it.

00:07:11.000 But have a look at like, France is famous for a number of very French sounding words.

00:07:17.000 I mean all of their words are basically French sounding.

00:07:18.000 That's almost the definition of their vocabulary and language and their lexicon.

00:07:22.000 But have a look at this moment in a French riot where there's a geyser with a motorbike pulling a chainsaw.

00:07:29.000 That's in itself mad because logistically what a challenge.

00:07:32.000 Would you consider rioting in such a way?

00:07:34.000 How did that come about?

00:07:35.000 Think of the Capitol Hill actions on January 6th.

00:07:39.000 One guy dressed up as a bit of a buffalo.

00:07:41.000 They did have some zip ties.

00:07:42.000 They said some interesting stuff.

00:07:44.000 They wore some crazy makeup.

00:07:45.000 No one had a motorbike pulling a chainsaw.

00:07:48.000 That's out there.

00:07:50.000 One guy though, some French person there just on the day, just skips over it like it's a playground. 0.96

00:07:55.000 My mother says that you are like, we don't even acknowledge a chainsaw.

00:07:58.000 Have a look at this.

00:07:59.000 This is incredible.

00:08:00.000 Skip over that.

00:08:09.000 Oh! 0.60

00:08:09.000 Chainsaw! 0.60

00:08:10.000 Un chainsaw!

00:08:10.000 Sacre bleu!

00:08:12.000 It's feminine for chainsaw. 0.99

00:08:14.000 Mental, isn't it?

00:08:15.000 Yeah, he's not even looking.

00:08:16.000 Like, if someone, like, went past me on a motorbike with a chainsaw, that'd be... I'd remark on that.

00:08:22.000 That'd define... almost define my day.

00:08:24.000 Yes.

00:08:25.000 Anything happen to you today?

00:08:26.000 Non.

00:08:26.000 Interesting?

00:08:27.000 Not really.

00:08:28.000 I saw some fireworks, I think.

00:08:30.000 Oh yes!

00:08:30.000 There was a chainsaw on a motorbike.

00:08:32.000 Who does that?

00:08:33.000 And it makes me realise that...

00:08:35.000 Nearly 50% of all French words mean relax or don't take things seriously, like nonchalant, having an easy air of unconcern or indifference, insouciant, light-hearted, unconcerned, c'est la vie, that's life, just goes how it will, laissez-faire, a philosophy characterized by usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference, blasé, apathetic to pleasure or excitement, comme-ci, comme-ça, 50-50.

00:08:58.000 The French do not care. 1.00

00:09:01.000 It could be a chainsaw it's amazing but let's go back to that because if those of you some of you may notice that there's been a hate crime up in the corner there's a bulb of garlic up there Jack which by the way is a poorly chosen poorly chosen vegetable tumor like like you shouldn't have that mate because first it's the same color as the background.

00:09:23.000 Confirming what our worst critics say about us.

00:09:26.000 How can we say that this is not a right-wing conspiracy theory channel where we're peddling hate, because I believe that we're bringing people together through free speech, and you can't even mention France without putting a bulb of garlic up in the corner.

00:09:37.000 We're trying to bring people together through French speech and free speech.

00:09:42.000 You can't do it, can you?

00:09:43.000 You can't bring people together by French speech with a xenophobic little bulb in the corner.

00:09:48.000 What's wrong with you, kids?

00:09:49.000 Amazing.

00:09:49.000 So there you go.

00:09:50.000 You can see the French's laissez-faire attitude in action. 0.76

00:09:53.000 There's another bit where there was rioting and some bloke was just sitting there eating a sandwich, notably not a baguette.

00:09:58.000 So they're actually not taking these riots seriously.

00:10:00.000 But the serious side of it, of course, is across the world, there are populist movements rising up, recognising that corporatism, cronyism, state capitalism, the kind of capitalism And corporatism where your democratic rights are being just ignored, your voice isn't being heard, you're being censored, surveilled and shut down and you know it's getting worse.

00:10:20.000 People aren't standing for it.

00:10:22.000 That is fantastic.

00:10:23.000 And in France I think a lot of this has got to do with the permanent emergency powers that Macron has brought in, which is something that obviously they're revolting against.

00:10:31.000 You can't have a permanent emergency and you just adjust to it.

00:10:34.000 That's like saying it's an emergency that you're getting older.

00:10:37.000 My hair's growing!

00:10:37.000 Oh no!

00:10:39.000 You just adjust if it's an emergency.

00:10:42.000 Can't have a permanent emergency.

00:10:44.000 Who else?

00:10:44.000 Think of other politicians with nice hair who always want to say there's an emergency.

00:10:49.000 True though, innit?

00:10:50.000 Like, oh no, it's an emergency! 0.98

00:10:52.000 Let's lock you up, don't protest, keep your mouth shut.

00:10:55.000 People are always trying to protect you right into silence, aren't they?

00:10:58.000 Let me know in the chat if you agree with that.

00:11:00.000 I ain't seen any guests on who's leaving that Bali yay gack around the White House. 1.00

00:11:05.000 Let us know what colloquialisms are used in America for cocaine.

00:11:09.000 Give us a guess, give us a guess, give us, give us, give us a cocaine guess down there

00:11:11.000 in that.

00:11:12.000 Meanwhile, Zelensky is saying that the war won't end until Ukraine takes Crimea.

00:11:18.000 Keen-eyed viewers will have observed that Vladimir Putin has said that Crimea is a red line.

00:11:25.000 If Crimea is invaded He will wage a nuclear war.

00:11:29.000 So in a sense what's being offered to us here is a nuclear war.

00:11:34.000 Later in the week we'll be talking about the story of the sort of propagandist policies in Ukraine that will not permit dissent within their country and the hypocrisy from an American government that campaigns to have journalists released from Russia but does not campaign as vigorously or indeed at all and in fact ignores questions Let's have a look now at Zelensky saying that he's quite happy to walk the world into a nuclear conflict.

00:12:08.000 Have a look.

00:12:09.000 We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea.

00:12:11.000 And while Crimea is under the Russian occupation, it means only one thing.

00:12:16.000 War is not over yet.

00:12:17.000 To be clear, in victory, in peace, Is there any scenario where Crimea is not part of Ukraine?

00:12:28.000 It will not be victory then.

00:12:32.000 Snow, blow and speed.

00:12:34.000 Those are just some slang words that you guys have kindly sent me for cocaine.

00:12:39.000 Crimea has been controlled by Russia since 2014.

00:12:41.000 Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula following the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev that ousted former Ukrainian President Viktor

00:12:48.000 Eva. Could have been either. I don't know, there's a lot going on out there.

00:12:48.000 Yanukovych.

00:12:52.000 A referendum at the time saw 97% of the voters in Crimea favour joining the Russian Federation.

00:12:58.000 Oh, so that's not very democratic. That's not a good reason to have a nuclear war.

00:13:02.000 The US and Ukraine of course dispute the results, but polling since then has shown that the people of Crimea are

00:13:07.000 happy they joined Russia.

00:13:09.000 Now remember, saying this is not tantamount to saying that Russia's invasion is not criminal. 0.77

00:13:15.000 It can be true that Russia were provoked, that the invasion is criminal, that Putin is a war criminal, has committed war crimes, that Zelensky is imposing extraordinary regulation on Ukraine, that the American military-industrial complex is profiting from this ongoing conflict, and that that is indeed their primary motivation.

00:13:36.000 Without saying But we oughtn't be doing everything we can to end this war, to protect Ukraine's glorious, beautiful sons and daughters from an unnecessary war, when the counter-offensive is failing, when many people are needlessly ending their lives.

00:13:51.000 Criticising this war is not, I would say, contrary to solidarity with Ukrainian people.

00:13:57.000 No, and the important thing here is that the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has acknowledged that Crimea is a red line for Vladimir Putin.

00:14:05.000 But despite the risks, U.S.

00:14:07.000 officials have said they support Ukrainian attacks on Crimea.

00:14:10.000 So we are heading to a point where nuclear war is inevitable in that sense.

00:14:14.000 Seems like the sort of thing that should be on the news a bit more, should be being discussed a little more openly.

00:14:19.000 Why don't you let me know in the chat, guys, whether you're watching us on Rumble or YouTube or Locals.

00:14:25.000 Locals is what we keep open here on our desk out of loyalty to our beautiful community of people with diverse views that somehow get along fantastic, like Tamara Spencer, Carolina Jeep Junk.

00:14:38.000 They're all in there chatting away now.

00:14:40.000 They just want to nuke us all, says MaxDragon1986.

00:14:43.000 Have we reached the point where the establishment elites have disconnected themselves absolutely from our, from Favourable outcomes for ordinary people.

00:14:51.000 Certainly that's what Glenn Greenwald said when we spoke to him before the sad loss of his husband David when we were chatting to him.

00:14:58.000 He said that the plutocrats of the past required our affection, but nowadays they know that through police militarization, which is happening in France, emergency powers and the ability to surveil, that's no longer a requirement.

00:15:11.000 So whether it's this growing unrest in France, agitation for nuclear conflict in the I know there's a range of opinions.

00:15:18.000 as we are currently calling it between Russia and America.

00:15:22.000 Or, most worryingly and comedically, White House cautiously opening the door to study blocking

00:15:29.000 sun's rays to slow global warming.

00:15:32.000 Let us know what you lot think about global warming.

00:15:35.000 I know there's a range of opinions.

00:15:37.000 My own love of the planet, ecology and environmentalism comes from a deep respect for our planet, for our rivers.

00:15:44.000 You might have seen my little video that I made about Thames water, for example, who are dumping human excrement into the River Thames in order to preserve profits and dividends.

00:15:54.000 We made a little video about that.

00:15:56.000 Thames water, which provides water to much of the South of England, which is owned in China and Canada by a pension fund and Abu Dhabi.

00:16:03.000 Things that are necessary in a nation are owned elsewhere.

00:16:07.000 So there's obviously no responsibility.

00:16:08.000 So I'm very, very pro-environment Indeed, but I reckon the climate change arguments are used to introduce regulation and control.

00:16:16.000 Let me know if you agree with that and click the red button and join us on Locals, then I'll see your comments for sure.

00:16:20.000 Well, I think Joe Biden and the Democrats share your love of the climate as well, don't we?

00:16:24.000 Because we know after East Palestine that we know how they responded to that. 0.62

00:16:28.000 They got straight down that East Palestine and they started scrubbing that floor. 0.99

00:16:31.000 Or they were on their hands and knees, weren't they?

00:16:33.000 Other people that have tried to block out the sun include, of course, Bill Gates.

00:16:36.000 He wanted to spray dust into the atmosphere to block the sun.

00:16:39.000 And then, I believe, Monty Burns, a cartoon baddie from the long-running Simpsons TV show, also wanted to do that.

00:16:48.000 Let's have a look and just see.

00:16:49.000 Because he does look a bit like Joe Biden.

00:16:51.000 Let's look.

00:16:52.000 I call this enemy... The Sun.

00:16:56.000 Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the Sun.

00:16:58.000 I will do the next best thing.

00:17:01.000 Block it out.

00:17:03.000 Nice! 0.94

00:17:04.000 Although he's a bit more cogent and cohesive and articulate than Joe Biden.

00:17:04.000 There you go.

00:17:10.000 I think they should have a little look around Burns's power plant to make sure there's no nose bag lying about the place.

00:17:17.000 Do you want to hear my favourite sentence of this article?

00:17:19.000 Yes.

00:17:19.000 Scientists have been split over the potential benefits of the risky plan.

00:17:24.000 With some warning it could result in a catastrophic change in the Earth's atmosphere.

00:17:28.000 So what could possibly go wrong?

00:17:30.000 What if it causes a catastrophic change in the Earth's atmosphere?

00:17:34.000 What if it doesn't?

00:17:35.000 Maybe it won't.

00:17:36.000 Maybe it will.

00:17:37.000 Maybe it won't.

00:17:38.000 Raytheon calls in retirees to produce 20-year-old Stinger missiles for Ukraine.

00:17:44.000 Ah, retirement.

00:17:45.000 You frail old dotage.

00:17:47.000 How about a game of golf?

00:17:48.000 Concentrate on your gardening.

00:17:50.000 Bake some cakes.

00:17:51.000 Spend time with the grandchildren.

00:17:52.000 Or maybe make some missiles for an unnecessary punitive war. 0.55

00:17:57.000 Yeah, this is Raytheon making these stingers that have been out of production for 20 years, but due to the war in Ukraine, a policy led by former Raytheon board member, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, they're back in fashion.

00:18:10.000 This is a quote from Raytheon Missiles and Defence President.

00:18:14.000 Stinger's been out of production for 20 years and all of a sudden, in the first 48 hours of this war, it's the star of the show and everybody wants one.

00:18:23.000 Which is everybody wants more, he says.

00:18:24.000 Bring them back! 0.95

00:18:25.000 Shows what kind of the attitude of Raytheon is to all this when they're talking in terms of stars of the show.

00:18:31.000 I think it's actually potentially killing people.

00:18:33.000 It's not The Muppets, is it?

00:18:35.000 It's not Dukes of Hazzard.

00:18:36.000 We're not having a laugh over there bringing back nostalgia missiles for a bit of a laugh.

00:18:41.000 Listen, we're gonna in a minute be exclusively on Rumble.

00:18:45.000 Not yet though, I'll tell you when because I like to build up to this in a very In a very sexy way.

00:18:51.000 We're going to do that White House cocaine story in a minute, and we're going to do a whodunit quiz.

00:18:56.000 Which member of the White House team and the Biden family do you think is most likely to be having some nasal naughtiness in the corridors of power?

00:19:06.000 Which is what I call my bottom.

00:19:08.000 No, it's just the White House, obviously.

00:19:11.000 Also, remember, me and RFK are doing a pull-up competition.

00:19:15.000 Pull-up competition.

00:19:17.000 I suggested pull-off, but RFK is a man of dignity and integrity.

00:19:21.000 He insists on pull-up.

00:19:23.000 He might win.

00:19:24.000 Let me know in the chat who you think is going to win, and let me know if you're willing to donate.

00:19:27.000 We'll post the link here.

00:19:28.000 RFK, RFK.

00:19:29.000 Look, I've never seen such a flurry of responses, and every single one says RFK.

00:19:34.000 They're sitting in his arms, that's why.

00:19:36.000 They're sitting in the man's arms!

00:19:37.000 It's an unbelievable pull off.

00:19:38.000 Yeah, Tolson78, RFK, RFK, no one, no one, not even my own mother, whose birthday it is today, happy birthday mum, says, no she's on, RFK she says, she says RFK.

00:19:49.000 I mean look at RFK, this is, look, that's the official site, I think we've raised a bit more money than that now, we just launched this yesterday, 13 grand, there's, but look at RFK's arms, look at his forearms, look at his wrists, look at his fingers, look at all of RFK.

00:20:04.000 Do you do that method?

00:20:06.000 He does it on that sort of terrifying iron bar.

00:20:08.000 My one looks sort of nice.

00:20:10.000 I do my pull-ups on some very nicely sort of gentle carved wood.

00:20:13.000 I always moisturise the hands as well before I do it.

00:20:17.000 I have a little Balinese lad.

00:20:18.000 He lifts me a little bit, takes some of the pressure off.

00:20:21.000 It can be quite painful otherwise.

00:20:23.000 So if you want to donate to that, you can go to kennedy24.com forward slash pull up.

00:20:31.000 So glad it's that.

00:20:33.000 I honestly, I suggested some other ideas.

00:20:36.000 Tarnish Kennedy's name? 0.97

00:20:37.000 Don't you tarnish this Kennedy brand with your sick contest! 0.92

00:20:42.000 I've got an idea for a competition, Bobby! 0.97

00:20:45.000 No, no, no.

00:20:46.000 It was rejected at the first round of suggestions.

00:20:48.000 Okay, so yeah, you can donate to that.

00:20:50.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave now to go and rumble.

00:20:53.000 To do some childish jokes about cocaine, but also some stories about COVID.

00:20:57.000 Lee Fang's going to be on talking about censorship, and we've got a fantastic story that talks about the military-industrial complex.

00:21:02.000 The reason we're backing RFK's campaign is because RFK is anti-war, pro-democracy, pro-reigning in the power of corporations.

00:21:12.000 It was a fantastic conversation.

00:21:13.000 It's still up.

00:21:14.000 You can watch it We love freedom and we love freedom of speech.

00:21:18.000 Where freedom of speech meets, you get free speech.

00:21:20.000 over a bit of freech we're gonna leave you now youtube click the link in the description come

00:21:23.000 right over to rumble if you're on rumble press the red button join us on locals they're exchanging

00:21:27.000 all sorts of information over there i wanted to share a bit of freech with these guys have i got

00:21:31.000 time to do a bit of freech? Of course you have. Like we're we love freedom and we love freedom

00:21:35.000 of speech where freedom of speech meets you gets free speech where you get free speech and that

00:21:39.000 meets you get freech. Talking about rfk interview ms things says russell is the only person who

00:21:53.000 could interview a potential presidential candidate half naked and still talk about actual serious

00:22:00.000 Whereas Zashex31333 says, free speech is important but so is modesty and respect.

00:22:09.000 So, with modesty and respect, no more casual nudity, please, Russell.

00:22:15.000 I see you in the chat all the time, mate.

00:22:17.000 Do you mean that?

00:22:18.000 Like, it was wrong what I'd done.

00:22:19.000 Have we got a clip of it?

00:22:19.000 Should we have a look?

00:22:20.000 Actually, RFK looks pretty peeved about it.

00:22:24.000 Can we pull that?

00:22:25.000 Can we pull a still of it?

00:22:26.000 Because some people might not have seen it.

00:22:28.000 And let's have a look at that moment where I stripped off to the... I mean, it's only top half nudity.

00:22:34.000 Yeah.

00:22:35.000 Well, I hope so.

00:22:36.000 I mean, no one could tell.

00:22:38.000 Yeah, we do the show in trousers, out of just workplace respect, really.

00:22:42.000 Axel says, I'm a lifelong conservative but I have unbounded respect and admiration for

00:22:47.000 RFK and his policies.

00:22:48.000 I'll gladly donate to his election fund.

00:22:50.000 I said election fund.

00:22:52.000 Much as I would love to see Trump re-elected and America made great again, I believe that

00:22:56.000 RFK deserves an equal shot at the presidency.

00:22:58.000 And I think that's what's fascinating is that people that love Trump love RFK because they

00:23:02.000 love freedom.

00:23:03.000 Does it matter if we disagree on the finer points of political life, on cultural or economic

00:23:09.000 conservatism, laissez-faire economic policies, or whether we want some degree of welfare,

00:23:15.000 those kind of things can be federalized. 0.99

00:23:16.000 Those kind of things can be determined at a local level.

00:23:19.000 What we really believe in is smashing this centrist system of corporate state cronyism

00:23:25.000 where the state simply operates on behalf of big business and crushes free speech and

00:23:30.000 free will wherever it can.

00:23:32.000 Squirm, you yokel, says apologetic pest.

00:23:35.000 I feel Trump this round and then RFK the following eight years.

00:23:38.000 See you guys, you're interesting.

00:23:40.000 Russell's body is offensive to the moob wielders, says Miles Driver.

00:23:46.000 Thanks, baby.

00:23:47.000 That means I've not got no moobs, I think.

00:23:49.000 That's good, that's good.

00:23:50.000 But if I keep taking these oestrogen tablets... Who knows what'll happen? 0.94

00:23:53.000 I'll soon have a pair of mighty breasts! 1.00

00:23:56.000 To help me and my contest against RFK. 0.87

00:23:58.000 Come on.

00:23:59.000 Come on, RFK is the future.

00:24:00.000 Some people want the RFK Trump ticket and some people simply talking about lactation.

00:24:05.000 That's the kind of conversation... Free speech, baby.

00:24:07.000 Free speech, baby.

00:24:08.000 There's a still of... Look at Cheryl. 1.00

00:24:10.000 Cheryl Hines, his wife, really leaning in for a little look.

00:24:18.000 I regret doing that now.

00:24:19.000 I'm often doing things that I think, in retrospect, looking a bit like Iggy Pop.

00:24:23.000 I'll take that, mate.

00:24:24.000 Thanks very much.

00:24:24.000 Thanks.

00:24:25.000 That's made me feel a little bit better.

00:24:27.000 CenterOneLaunch says, I've never heard RFK speak so candidly, or for so long.

00:24:32.000 He makes a lot of sense.

00:24:33.000 He's like the old sensible left, which died decades ago.

00:24:35.000 Even as a more conservative-leaning person, I'd rather someone like RFK than a mainstream Republican.

00:24:41.000 Wow.

00:24:41.000 Interesting.

00:24:42.000 Yeah, well that, Gareth, doesn't it, speaks to MindGuri's analysis that you can't use left-right.

00:24:47.000 Use centre and periphery.

00:24:49.000 There's centralist political forces that essentially want to protect existing institution and existing power dynamics.

00:24:56.000 Then there are peripheral figures, which you lot believe is Trump, and I feel like he's RFK, that are willing to address disentangling some of the corruption and porous relationships between Wall Street and Washington, big tech and Washington, and all that kind of stuff.

00:25:12.000 Obviously, the march of globalism, which ain't a benefit to any of us.

00:25:16.000 You alright there, mate?

00:25:17.000 It's a good day, isn't it?

00:25:17.000 Yeah.

00:25:18.000 Yes, it's good.

00:25:19.000 We've got Lee Fang coming up later.

00:25:20.000 Lee Fang's for the memories.

00:25:22.000 One of the most handsomest fellas we've ever had on the show.

00:25:26.000 We've got some other stuff that's to do with RFK here.

00:25:28.000 Book winch.

00:25:28.000 The best thing about Russell's interviews, well, the second best thing, after his ability to make me laugh, thanks mate, is all the intelligent questions followed by lengthy, in-depth responses by the guests.

00:25:36.000 Regular media never gives us anything other than quick soundbites, usually taken out of context.

00:25:41.000 Great work.

00:25:42.000 Okay, fair enough guys.

00:25:44.000 Are we gonna have a look?

00:25:45.000 Is this the cocaine story now?

00:25:47.000 We could be charged about it.

00:25:49.000 What I think's well funny is that sort of they've done a map of where cocaine's been found in the White House and it's all places where Hunter Biden might have been.

00:25:56.000 And it's like, right, this is Hunter's bedroom.

00:25:59.000 Big load of coke up there.

00:26:01.000 Right, where else have you found coke?

00:26:02.000 Down there where Hunter Biden's car was.

00:26:04.000 Is it like they basically said, do they all just do coke?

00:26:08.000 Joe Biden can't be.

00:26:09.000 We are off now, aren't we?

00:26:10.000 We're long off.

00:26:10.000 We're off.

00:26:10.000 Yeah, we're off.

00:26:12.000 Imagine if we weren't.

00:26:13.000 That'd be the end of that.

00:26:14.000 Joe Biden can't do cocaine.

00:26:16.000 I think the idea that there's only one person associated with American politics that would have done cocaine is mad. 0.99

00:26:22.000 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:26:22.000 They're all at it. 0.99

00:26:24.000 They're all in there.

00:26:25.000 But who's leading it?

00:26:27.000 Who's the ringleader?

00:26:28.000 Well, I think he's the least likely.

00:26:31.000 Really?

00:26:31.000 Because he's clean?

00:26:32.000 Right.

00:26:33.000 Coke is the rich man's bread and butter.

00:26:35.000 Someone says it there.

00:26:36.000 What, bread and butter?

00:26:37.000 Just like that's a sort of a side dish. 0.97

00:26:39.000 Joe Biden is a cocaine mannequin.

00:26:42.000 I keep telling everyone that Hunter must have forgotten to pack something before he left for vacation. 0.65

00:26:42.000 You lot. 0.65

00:26:46.000 Tamara Spencer.

00:26:47.000 Nixon was prescribed it for nose.

00:26:51.000 There you go.

00:26:52.000 Let's have a look at the mainstream reporting on this cocaine story.

00:26:55.000 There are a lot of questions tonight after the Secret Service found what's believed to be a bag of cocaine at the White House.

00:27:02.000 Sources tell CBS News it was discovered in a common workspace in the West Wing on Sunday night.

00:27:08.000 The area is accessible to tour groups.

00:27:11.000 Now, the Secret Service is investigating just how it got there.

00:27:14.000 The president and his family were at Camp David Sunday night.

00:27:18.000 We were at Camp David.

00:27:19.000 It's not our fault.

00:27:20.000 We were having a lovely time.

00:27:22.000 We were off the premises.

00:27:23.000 I find it a little unnecessary, the amount of effort they've gone to here.

00:27:27.000 Apparently they sent it off to a laboratory for testing by the Secret Service.

00:27:31.000 Haven't they got other things to do?

00:27:32.000 I mean, it's just too much, isn't it?

00:27:34.000 It's like a bag of... It doesn't even say how big.

00:27:37.000 I mean, if it was like kilos of the stuff, you'd say, well, that's a bit... A bag could be this.

00:27:41.000 When did they become so diligent about clinically trialling substances?

00:27:46.000 Used to be like, oh, this works, have you clinically trialled it?

00:27:48.000 No, we're in head time, just take it, ask questions later.

00:27:51.000 But no, give it to children, everyone take these drugs! 1.00

00:27:54.000 Well, apparently the FDA have approved it as well, so... I mean, if they found a vaccine in them toilets, they'd be like, oh, it's probably alright, just take it! 0.97

00:28:01.000 I feel better already!

00:28:03.000 Ah, my heart!

00:28:04.000 On Rumble, baby!

00:28:05.000 Controversial.

00:28:06.000 On Rumble!

00:28:08.000 Um, okay, someone's donated... Jessica Hodge, she's donated to RFK24.

00:28:11.000 Thanks for that, mate.

00:28:12.000 I appreciate it, Jessica.

00:28:14.000 Um, and... Oh, yeah, this is the thing.

00:28:17.000 The perfect Biden remedy would be, like, if you were to put cocaine in a child's hair, there's something for everyone in the Biden family.

00:28:24.000 Here's Joe Biden sniffing kids on the head.

00:28:27.000 There you go, a bit of fun.

00:28:44.000 I think we added the sniffing sound effects.

00:28:45.000 I wonder which member of the team did that?

00:28:47.000 Jack, it's Jack.

00:28:47.000 He's always sticking his little looter in his knee, so there's a chance to legitimately do it.

00:28:51.000 He'll be glad of.

00:28:52.000 The departing CDC director says the agency plans to work with media to pre-bunk misinformation.

00:28:57.000 This is a concept that was first brought to our attention by Michael Schellenberger, our friend, in attempting to end the censorship industrial complex, a phrase that he coined in a movement.

00:29:07.000 That he is proudly leading.

00:29:09.000 Various agencies are attempting to control and censor speech.

00:29:12.000 They'd probably use, like, the silliness of the last 10 minutes as an example of, oh, they shouldn't be able to say that, these kind of jokes, but I don't know.

00:29:17.000 I thought it was harmless fun.

00:29:20.000 Pre-bunk misinformation.

00:29:22.000 Now, how this works, Michael Schellenberger told us that journalists were invited to a place, I believe in Aspen, and told, oh, listen, you're going to hear a lot of crazy stories about Hunter Biden, Having a laptop and there being information on there that compromises the financial activity of the Biden family.

00:29:39.000 It's just so you know from us in advance, it's not true.

00:29:42.000 That's pre-bunking.

00:29:43.000 As we now know, that story was true.

00:29:46.000 It was legitimate.

00:29:47.000 It was unduly censored.

00:29:48.000 In my conversation with Jack Dorsey, which you are going to love tomorrow, Jack Dorsey said he made mistakes at Twitter.

00:29:54.000 He regrets how it was handled. If he had his time again, he wouldn't kick Trump off the platform

00:29:58.000 That it was good for twitter, but bad for america. This is a conversation. You're not gonna wanna miss

00:30:04.000 I'm speaking that way because as you know gareth by now in a book. Yeah, it's out now. Oh, what about the farce?

00:30:10.000 Should I do that also?

00:30:11.000 No, if you could take that one, please.

00:30:12.000 Because they're just out of dignity.

00:30:14.000 Because that person, XanX31333 or whatever, she's going to be furious.

00:30:18.000 Like, she didn't like the top off. 0.82

00:30:20.000 Like, so if I sit here farting like a pig dog, XanX313333.

00:30:24.000 Sorry about that, I'll try not to do it.

00:30:26.000 I vote for toplessness daily.

00:30:34.000 They're going crazy over there.

00:30:35.000 Why don't you join them by pressing the red button where, as well as making silly remarks about my bodily functions, you can also objectify our handsome next guest, Lee Fang.

00:30:46.000 Lee is an independent journalist on Substack.

00:30:49.000 He worked on the Twitter files with Elon.

00:30:51.000 He's the writer of The Machine.

00:30:53.000 A field guide to the resurgent right.

00:30:56.000 He's also a bit of a looker, so hang on to your hats everyone.

00:30:56.000 Dan the Chain!

00:30:59.000 Lee, are you there, mate?

00:31:01.000 Hey, good to join you.

00:31:02.000 Lee, oh, Lee, how can I stay mad at you? 1.00

00:31:06.000 Every time I think I'm over you, Lee, I look at you and I feel the same feelings as the first time I looked at you, you beautiful bastard. 0.98

00:31:13.000 Lee, a judge has just blocked government agencies from meeting social media companies. 0.98

00:31:18.000 How could that damage or change the future of censorship?

00:31:22.000 Is this a good thing?

00:31:23.000 Is it a breakthrough?

00:31:24.000 Will they find a way around it, Lee, you dreamboat?

00:31:24.000 Is it temporary?

00:31:29.000 Uh, before I start, I just say I met some of your team, Gareth and Leon and others, uh, the Brain Trust in London last month and just incredible.

00:31:37.000 And they're good lookers as well.

00:31:38.000 So I understand the magic behind the show now.

00:31:42.000 I don't!

00:31:43.000 It's all me!

00:31:44.000 I mean, no, you're right.

00:31:45.000 Have a look at the gallery camera.

00:31:46.000 I mean, every single... It's like... It's like Models 1 in there.

00:31:49.000 It's like the Devil Wears Prada in there, Lee.

00:31:53.000 So they're all so bloody gorgeous.

00:31:55.000 It explains why they're all so bloody appalling at making graphics, to tell you the truth.

00:31:59.000 Lee, I'm glad... Yeah, that was great to meet you and your missus there.

00:32:03.000 Another good-looking human being.

00:32:05.000 You're really... You're sort of waging genetic warfare on the rest of us, as far as I'm concerned.

00:32:10.000 But what do you... What do you...

00:32:12.000 These days. 1.00

00:32:13.000 These good-looking bastards! 1.00

00:32:15.000 Censor them! 1.00

00:32:15.000 They're too good-looking! 1.00

00:32:16.000 I can't take it!

00:32:18.000 Lee, mate, go on then.

00:32:19.000 What does this bill mean?

00:32:20.000 The judge blocking government agencies.

00:32:24.000 What does it mean, Lee?

00:32:25.000 Is it good?

00:32:25.000 This was an extraordinary move yesterday on 4th of July.

00:32:29.000 Typically, a federal judge does not issue any decision or major act on a federal holiday.

00:32:35.000 It was, you know, 4th of July.

00:32:37.000 But Judge Doherty in Louisiana issued a sweeping injunction temporarily blocking the federal government, the White House, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, CDC, and other agencies from coercing social media companies on content-related decisions, basically arguing that the evidence that's been accumulated by the Missouri government and other plaintiffs Demonstrates that the government has violated the First Amendment, the free speech rights of Americans, by coercing content takedowns and other censorship-like decisions on, you know, stories around COVID, around the efficacies of masks and the vaccine, the lab leak theory, around election-related communications going into the 2020 election.

00:33:25.000 A lot of this was not just demonstrated by the plaintiffs in this case, But further confirmed by reporting and, of course, the Twitter files, a lot of emails and documents just kind of reaffirm all the arguments made in this case that was filed last summer.

00:33:42.000 It's moving ahead in the federal courts.

00:33:45.000 I think it's likely that the Biden administration appeals this decision to the appellate court, maybe even reaches the Supreme Court.

00:33:52.000 This could be the next big decision, really just regulating and deciding

00:33:57.000 what is the appropriate barrier for the federal government.

00:34:00.000 When can the federal government intervene in speech and political discourse?

00:34:07.000 It could be very big for America.

00:34:08.000 It seems, as you say, apacite and encouraging that this took place on Independence Day.

00:34:14.000 Symbolic, yes.

00:34:16.000 Also, I had not thought of it in quite those terms for this temporary measure to be taken.

00:34:23.000 There must be demonstrable evidence that there have already been violations.

00:34:28.000 So people that felt that their free speech was being violated were right.

00:34:30.000 If you felt that you were censored on social media, guys, Let us know.

00:34:34.000 Press the red button now.

00:34:35.000 Join us over on Locals and let us know how you feel your free speech was affected during the pandemic period with regard to these particular issues and if you feel encouraged by this legislation.

00:34:47.000 Lee, mate, I spoke to Jack Dorsey.

00:34:49.000 It's an interview that we're putting out tomorrow.

00:34:51.000 It was a fantastic conversation.

00:34:53.000 He says that he regrets banning Trump, that it was good for the company, Bad for the country.

00:35:00.000 Based on the title of your book, I assume you're sort of, broadly speaking, a liberal person.

00:35:04.000 What do you think about Jack Dorsey's stance, given that he was the person that was in charge during the period that's been investigated and sort of, I suppose, revealed during the Twitter files?

00:35:15.000 What's your take on him saying that, mate?

00:35:19.000 No, I think that's interesting.

00:35:20.000 I'd love to see that interview.

00:35:22.000 You know, for all of these issues, whether it's decisions on major speech platforms, you know, Twitter, Facebook, these are kind of the public square of our current age.

00:35:32.000 This is how people interact and protest and criticize the government and share information.

00:35:38.000 We either have to have very clear rules or equally applied rules.

00:35:43.000 You know, when you look at the way that Twitter applies its supposed rules on presidents

00:35:49.000 and prime ministers around the world, you know, we've had, you know,

00:35:54.000 political leaders in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East,

00:35:59.000 engage in provocative commentary, calls for violence, you know, ethnic targeting.

00:36:04.000 We don't see Twitter kicking other prime ministers and leaders off the platform.

00:36:10.000 But, you know, for Twitter in particular, there was a focus on Trump in part

00:36:16.000 because of perhaps pressure from various federal agencies, but also just the kind of inconsistent

00:36:24.000 and strange black box that is the kind of censorship decision-making.

00:36:29.000 You have a lot of employees in a place like San Francisco.

00:36:33.000 Many of them might lean Democrat or more liberal, and they don't like Trump.

00:36:37.000 And they kind of make these arbitrary decisions, even if they're not fully consistent with how they're applied worldwide.

00:36:43.000 And it leads to less faith in these platforms.

00:36:47.000 And, you know, it's why I think Americans have retracted from established media and have A lot of fear around the big tech companies.

00:36:54.000 They have a lot of power, and it's not clear how they justify or use that power.

00:36:59.000 You know, I'm not the biggest fan of Trump or many of his policies, but, you know, I believe in a free and open society.

00:37:08.000 He was a former president.

00:37:09.000 He has a right to communicate with Americans.

00:37:12.000 It's very dangerous and a slippery slope to start just arbitrarily banning political leaders from the public square.

00:37:19.000 There are many questions flooding in for you now, Lee, on locals, but some of them are simply too rude to report to you.

00:37:27.000 They mostly are things like, could Lee take his top off?

00:37:30.000 Would Lee kiss me for a certain sum of money?

00:37:33.000 mostly inquiries of that nature, but here are some sensitive ones, or some intelligent

00:37:37.000 ones. This one from sensitivehearts25. Do you have any hope at all that Julian Assange

00:37:42.000 will be freed, Lee, given that he's perhaps the figure that currently defines the sharp

00:37:48.000 end of where censorship and freedom of information takes us?

00:37:53.000 Look, I've reported dozens of stories using WikiLeaks revelations, the cable gates and

00:37:59.000 others.

00:38:01.000 He's served clearly a public interest in breaking these documents.

00:38:06.000 I've reported on U.S.

00:38:08.000 meddling in Honduran politics in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and other places using the WikiLeaks cables that he published on his site.

00:38:19.000 He's clearly a journalist, and I feel, you know, watching this from the outside, I mean, I haven't covered his case very closely, but I've kind of followed the metanarrative.

00:38:29.000 I see so many other journalists and media institutions, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Who also relied on his reporting, using the documents he published to publish so many important stories, to now kind of distance themselves from the case or even encourage this draconian punishment of Assange.

00:38:50.000 I find that very disgusting.

00:38:51.000 I think it's a cardinal rule in journalism not to burn a source.

00:38:56.000 And by throwing him to the dogs and saying, look, the government should just lock him up and throw away the key.

00:39:03.000 I'm disgusted by that.

00:39:04.000 I don't really have a great crystal ball here about what will happen to Assange.

00:39:09.000 It seems like the major newspapers, after calling for his arrest and being very sympathetic to the government's case against him, they've kind of ignored the case.

00:39:18.000 I would love to see more reporting on where it goes, but yeah, I don't know.

00:39:22.000 I'm not sure what will happen to Assange.

00:39:24.000 Of course the Espionage Act is the act that's being used to underwrite the demands for Assange's extradition and it's increasingly becoming an act that seems like it's about penalising people that speak out against government interests.

00:39:38.000 It's of course the act that's being currently discussed in relation to Donald Trump.

00:39:44.000 Mate, we've been talking about press free speech and in particular Biden's demand that the journalist over there in Russia be released.

00:39:53.000 Goshkovich, yeah.

00:39:53.000 Duskovich.

00:39:55.000 But we were sort of pointing out, subsequent to some reporting by another organisation, that there's currently an American journalist being held in Ukraine for speaking out against Ukrainians' policies around freedom of speech and information.

00:40:10.000 In particular, they are believing, I think, in something called centralised information or unified information.

00:40:16.000 I wonder what you think about the potential Hypocrisy there when it comes to, you know, given that you are a journalist who works in a somewhat, well, you know, definitely risky territory.

00:40:26.000 What you feel about advocating for the release of one prisoner, but not for others and what that tells us about the principles that are behind the demands or lack of demands.

00:40:36.000 I mean, it just shows the polarization in wartime that we hold our adversaries to one set of standards, but we don't hold our allies to the same set of standards.

00:40:46.000 It's incredibly dangerous.

00:40:47.000 And look, I think if you look at a lot of—even Mark Zuckerberg, if you read some of his early writing about why he founded Facebook, he was upset about the war in Iraq.

00:40:58.000 He said, look at the mainstream media lie and kind of carried water for the Bush administration's lies that got us into Iraq.

00:41:07.000 I would like to create an online platform that gives everyone a voice and prevents future calamities

00:41:14.000 like the war in Iraq.

00:41:16.000 And now of course, Facebook has drifted far away from that original mission,

00:41:20.000 engaging in a lot of different forms of censorship.

00:41:22.000 And the open internet has kind of been a big lie.

00:41:28.000 Despite more access to the Internet, more access to independent journalism, we see kind of a lockdown in terms of the war in Ukraine.

00:41:36.000 We don't see a ton of independent voices and dissent and criticism of these policies.

00:41:42.000 Instead, we see kind of a corralling and a manufacturing of consent towards NATO and

00:41:47.000 U.S. priorities, a relentless focus on Russia, but not much skepticism and debate around

00:41:55.000 the actions of the Ukrainian government, or even a discussion around what a sensible solution

00:42:00.000 or a peaceful settlement of this conflict would be.

00:42:02.000 Ashela Singh.

00:42:03.000 says centralized information that's not unified unity does not mean controlling people's natural

00:42:09.000 self-expression press the red button if you want to join the chat on locals now for some

00:42:14.000 real journalism as two handsome men discuss truth hi lee is gareth nice to see you again hey good to see you

00:42:26.000 Good to see you after our extensive chat.

00:42:28.000 Were you in a cab together?

00:42:30.000 No, we were initially in a cab together but then we spoke face to face.

00:42:33.000 Seedy little business.

00:42:35.000 I would say half an hour it was.

00:42:36.000 Half an hour?

00:42:37.000 I would say so, yeah.

00:42:38.000 All in the cab, all sweaty, giggling like schoolgirls. 0.99

00:42:41.000 Lee, I've got a couple of questions that I'll try and put into one.

00:42:45.000 One is obviously with this injunction that's happened and the way in which the response to the Twitter files through, amazingly, Stacey Plaskett, who you've exposed ties to Jeffrey Epstein, which is incredible, but the way she spoke about Michael and Matt, as so-called journalists, is there a sense that now you feel vindicated?

00:43:06.000 There's been kind of so much pushback in the media or censorship in the media of the Twitter files.

00:43:12.000 And the second part is, I wonder if you could tell us a little bit more about the Biden administration's intervening in slowing down the release of public records that may have shed more light on this kind of crusade of theirs.

00:43:26.000 Yeah, you know, I'm very You know, I'm invigorated by this decision.

00:43:32.000 You know, I write about a lot of topics.

00:43:34.000 It's rare to see a federal judge or any policymaker step in and Push back on behalf of civil liberties and free speech.

00:43:42.000 So this is a rare victory.

00:43:43.000 It's not clear where it will go from here, other than probably in an appellate court.

00:43:48.000 But it's clear that the Biden administration is fearful of greater public scrutiny over this kind of censorship apparatus.

00:43:56.000 You know, when I started investigating this story last fall, I put in a number of record requests We just found out that, through another record request, that the Biden Justice Department intervened in my record request and other record requests last year.

00:44:14.000 The Justice Department attorneys reached out to some of the advisors to the Department of Homeland Security's censorship apparatus, and they said, please slow the production of documents.

00:44:24.000 We may need to intervene and even block the release of some of these documents.

00:44:28.000 So many of these documents detailing the federal government's We've had congressional hearings, lots of media scrutiny, your show and other shows talking about this issue, but we would have benefited from an early release of these documents.

00:44:47.000 It's clear that they're monitoring the situation.

00:44:50.000 They've fought a lot of these attempts to obtain documents.

00:44:53.000 in this lawsuit that we were just referencing.

00:44:56.000 They eventually relented and they deposed Anthony Fauci and other federal government leaders.

00:45:04.000 But there's still a lot of unanswered questions.

00:45:06.000 And even back to the war in Ukraine, we got documents from a whistleblower

00:45:12.000 within the Department of Homeland Security saying, what would happen during COVID,

00:45:16.000 what happened with the 2020 election?

00:45:19.000 That's just kind of a test to expand these efforts, not just looking at social media,

00:45:23.000 but looking at radio and television, looking at other topics like the war in Ukraine

00:45:28.000 and censoring quote unquote harmful narratives, which I suppose are just pro-government narrative

00:45:33.000 or any narrative that questions the government's pro-war line.

00:45:38.000 You know, this is dangerous stuff.

00:45:40.000 And I think for the federal government, they benefit from more secrecy.

00:45:45.000 They want to do this behind closed doors, with the social media companies, without any public knowledge.

00:45:51.000 We're finally at least getting transparency on what they're doing, and now we have a federal judge stepping in.

00:45:58.000 That's fantastic analysis, Lee.

00:46:00.000 Thank you.

00:46:02.000 Still, the comments on Locals, our community there, press the red button if you want to join it.

00:46:06.000 Someone told me to put my hair up in a top knot, so I've done that.

00:46:09.000 Davros200 said, the homoeroticism is off the scale today. 0.73

00:46:13.000 Get a room, the three of you.

00:46:14.000 Well, that will not lessen the homoeroticism. 0.88

00:46:17.000 That's simply going to take it to its natural conclusion.

00:46:19.000 Make It Pop says, I'd love to be in a cab with Lee and Gareth.

00:46:24.000 Oh! 0.60

00:46:25.000 I don't think anything went on in the cab.

00:46:27.000 I think people were just chatting.

00:46:29.000 Michael was in there as well.

00:46:30.000 Aha! 0.94

00:46:31.000 The plot thickens.

00:46:32.000 That's the kind of corruption we always assumed was going on.

00:46:35.000 Lee, thank you so much for joining us.

00:46:37.000 Your contributions are always valuable.

00:46:39.000 You are more than a pretty face, but you certainly are a pretty face.

00:46:42.000 Thanks for joining us, Lee.

00:46:44.000 Always good to join you guys.

00:46:45.000 Thank you so much for having me and thanks for covering this issue.

00:46:47.000 Thanks, man.

00:46:48.000 You can get more from Lee on Substack.

00:46:48.000 Thanks very much.

00:46:50.000 His book's out now on All The Machine.

00:46:51.000 A field guide to the resurgent right will post it in the chat.

00:46:54.000 You should read his work.

00:46:55.000 He's a brilliant, brilliant journalist and a great communicator, but apparently very handsy in the back of a cab, Gareth Roy tells me.

00:47:03.000 No, I didn't.

00:47:04.000 I never said that.

00:47:04.000 Scratching at one another, giddy, high on life!

00:47:08.000 It's like under Biden's bedroom in the back of that cab!

00:47:13.000 No, it's alright.

00:47:13.000 It was a perfectly professional cab experience.

00:47:17.000 That's all it was.

00:47:18.000 Now, guess what we've got?

00:47:19.000 This week, Tucker Carlton is joining us live in this very room.

00:47:24.000 We're going to make the set look all different and everything for a more serious conversation.

00:47:27.000 We're going to rearrange it, we're going to rewrite Post your questions for Tucker right now.

00:47:32.000 If you're watching us on Rumble, join the Locals community, get your questions to us.

00:47:37.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:47:38.000 It's live at the usual time tomorrow.

00:47:42.000 Become a member of our Locals community and then you would see conversations when they happen.

00:47:46.000 We already recorded our groundbreaking chat with former CEO and founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, in which Jack, I think I'm going to be friends with Jack now because he's dedicating himself to creating decentralised social media platforms.

00:48:01.000 I think he's going to be part of the revolution.

00:48:03.000 He's a fan of the show, isn't he?

00:48:04.000 He loves our show.

00:48:04.000 He watches our content all the time.

00:48:06.000 I really like him.

00:48:07.000 I've been texting him already.

00:48:08.000 He's going to be another person I'm going to surely embarrass myself with at some point.

00:48:13.000 Jack, how do you get your beard that way?

00:48:15.000 I really like it!

00:48:16.000 Here's Jack now discussing one of his biggest regrets from his time at Twitter.

00:48:26.000 The removal of Donald Trump.

00:48:30.000 How do you feel about where it got, Jack?

00:48:33.000 You know, it got so powerful that Trump could be kicked off of there and it sort of I think

00:48:37.000 contributes to that sense that oh there's this new woke revolution, the democrat party are

00:48:42.000 controlled by financial interests and pretending that they care about people but they don't.

00:48:47.000 Trump's just a loud mouth version of everything else and a lot of people on our platform

00:48:51.000 absolutely love Donald Trump but me, I agree with you. Decentralisation, no individuals, we're

00:48:56.000 all flawed for God's sake. So how do you feel about that particular issue if I may ask sir? Well I

00:49:02.000 feel bad about it.

00:49:04.000 I feel bad that we had to take that action.

00:49:09.000 It was a challenging time.

00:49:11.000 I do believe the company was working with its best efforts with the information it had.

00:49:20.000 But as I said a few days after that suspension, I believe it was probably the right decision for the company, but the wrong decision for the world.

00:49:30.000 There you go, pretty exciting conversation.

00:49:33.000 Let me just clarify, because I keep making mistakes.

00:49:36.000 It's Jack Dorsey tomorrow.

00:49:38.000 Yes.

00:49:39.000 Friday, live.

00:49:41.000 Tucker Carlson, join us.

00:49:43.000 You want to watch the show every day anyway, because you might miss something.

00:49:46.000 You might miss saying, you never know where I'm going to belch or what I'll be doing with my hair.

00:49:50.000 Gareth could pull out a French horn at any moment.

00:49:52.000 God knows how he's been affected by some of his cab rides with top journalists.

00:49:56.000 He's not been the same since that night, I'll tell you that.

00:49:59.000 I tell you that.

00:50:00.000 All right, guys, should we?

00:50:02.000 Listen, we've got now it's time for to really we're going to build to a real crescendo.

00:50:08.000 Here we go.

00:50:11.000 If I hadn't been told off by you lot in the chat, I'd be taking my top right off now.

00:50:15.000 Pull my collar down a little bit.

00:50:17.000 Just a little bit.

00:50:19.000 Have a look at that clavicle.

00:50:21.000 I'd like to feel that little leg cup.

00:50:22.000 I bet you would.

00:50:24.000 Not today.

00:50:25.000 Smooth that over, I would, with gout.

00:50:28.000 Grout.

00:50:29.000 Grout.

00:50:29.000 Not gout.

00:50:29.000 Gout.

00:50:31.000 Nipples out for free. 0.99

00:50:32.000 Now listen!

00:50:35.000 You know old Joe Biden, don't you?

00:50:37.000 President of America.

00:50:39.000 God love him.

00:50:39.000 Happy Independence Day for the other day.

00:50:41.000 You look well done and everything, winning that war against us.

00:50:44.000 Although they were British generals, I will just say that led to both sides.

00:50:48.000 So in a way it was us against us and we won.

00:50:50.000 Now, so like what I will say is this.

00:50:55.000 We want to look at some of... I got sidetracked, I don't know why.

00:50:58.000 The English generals?

00:50:59.000 Yeah, I thought about that and I was pleased with that joke.

00:51:02.000 And I've sidetracked myself.

00:51:04.000 I've sidetracked now, I've phased myself.

00:51:09.000 Right, listen though, this is good this.

00:51:11.000 You know when Joe Biden accidentally said Iraq instead of Ukraine?

00:51:13.000 Do you know why that is?

00:51:14.000 It's because in the back of his mind he's thinking, what's this sort of illegal war that I'm lying about again?

00:51:17.000 Iraq.

00:51:18.000 Oh no, that was the one I used to lie about when I was in Congress.

00:51:21.000 He voted for that war when people were on the streets not wanting it.

00:51:24.000 This Ukraine war, again, this is with all respect to Ukrainian people.

00:51:27.000 We want a diplomatic solution.

00:51:28.000 What other solution is there?

00:51:29.000 There would be one in the end, wouldn't it?

00:51:31.000 It's not going to... Russia won't go, oh, alright, we give in. 0.91

00:51:33.000 It's not going to be that, is it?

00:51:34.000 It's going to be diplomatic eventually.

00:51:36.000 When everyone's done enough damage and made enough dollar.

00:51:39.000 That's not what we want.

00:51:40.000 We want a peaceful solution and we are looking now at the tendrils and symptoms of the truth that they're trying to conceal.

00:51:47.000 Here's the news!

00:51:49.000 Here's the effing news.

00:51:49.000 No.

00:51:50.000 Joe Biden keeps mixing up Iraq and Ukraine and Donald Trump just blatantly tells you

00:52:03.000 that they were gonna nick Venezuelan oil.

00:52:06.000 Is this the real reason they want him out of the way?

00:52:08.000 What an age it is to be alive when the best chance you get of getting the truth out of the President of the United States is a Freudian slip.

00:52:17.000 And that's why we simply have to invade Iraq. 0.93

00:52:19.000 I mean, Ukraine.

00:52:20.000 Oh, I don't remember the name of all these countries.

00:52:22.000 They've got gas.

00:52:23.000 They've got oil.

00:52:23.000 It's so complicated.

00:52:25.000 Burisma. 0.97

00:52:26.000 Hunter!

00:52:27.000 Perhaps the reason we find it hard to trust politicians is because George Bush accidentally says Iraq instead of Ukraine.

00:52:35.000 Perhaps because, in their minds, they know that there's a connection, that there are connotations, comparisons, similarities between the conflict in Iraq, which we were told was a humanitarian war, which ultimately proved to be a resource war, That made the situation, many would argue, worse than it was before we got militarily involved.

00:52:53.000 And this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which many contest is in fact a proxy war between the USA and Russia, is also undergirded in some ways by economic and resource motivations that aren't being made explicitly plain because it would undermine the entire process of the war.

00:53:09.000 But if you've got to hold all that information in your quaking, senile mind, you might inadvertently once in a while go, Iraq!

00:53:17.000 I mean, Ukraine!

00:53:18.000 And get all baffled and confused.

00:53:19.000 Contrast that with Donald Trump, who'll plainly just say, yeah, we were gonna go to Venezuela, but they've got oil there, we were gonna take that oil.

00:53:26.000 Even though I think that's wrong, bad, criminal, in fact, or at least, I don't know, maybe that's just the way geopolitics is, I kind of think, well, this guy's telling you how it is.

00:53:35.000 Like Chappelle said, in his famous bit of stand-up, Donald Trump was the guy that came out of the White House and goes, you know all that stuff you think people are doing in there?

00:53:42.000 They are doing that in there.

00:53:44.000 I know the system is rigged, because I use it. 0.99

00:53:47.000 I said, God damn! 0.99

00:53:50.000 That makes Donald Trump immune to attacks like, oh, he's got these classified documents! 0.99

00:53:55.000 They're all doing stuff like that!

00:53:56.000 They're all doing stuff like that!

00:53:57.000 You think that what Pelosi's telling her husband at night ain't complicated when it comes to his stock trading?

00:54:02.000 You think that these current wars are entirely legitimate and people ain't profiting?

00:54:06.000 You think it's good that generals that have got ties to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are cropping up on mainstream news companies that are ultimately owned by other weapons contract companies that are advocating for war? 0.94

00:54:16.000 Once you have someone like Trump, he operates as a Berserker, a catalyst just disrupting everything and whether or not he's morally or ethically better than any of these other figures is a difficult argument to have because they're all bloody corrupt anyway.

00:54:28.000 On the subject of Freudian slips and in particular Joe Biden's Freudian slip, a Freudian slip is when you inadvertently say something that you're trying to repress but some impulse or reflex makes you accidentally say it.

00:54:39.000 In our country, the UK, we have a very unpopular and not that likable politician called Jeremy Hunt and look what mainstream media figures Just keep accidentally calling him.

00:54:49.000 I'm going to be talking to Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, about... Jeremy Hunt.

00:54:54.000 Jeremy Hunt.

00:54:55.000 Mr Hunt had to... Jeremy Hunt.

00:54:58.000 Jeremy Hunt.

00:54:59.000 The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, says he... Jeremy Hunt, Hunt, according to the... The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said the... Jeremy Hunt, the Hunt...

00:55:09.000 Friend of the show, Aaron Maté, posted this tweet.

00:55:12.000 A good example of why the national security state hates Trump.

00:55:15.000 They share his policies, they just don't like his honesty.

00:55:18.000 Let me know in the comments if you think it's just as simple as that.

00:55:21.000 Trump does the stuff they all do, he just tells you.

00:55:24.000 How about we're buying oil from Venezuela?

00:55:27.000 When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse, we would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.

00:55:35.000 But now we're buying oil from Venezuela, so we're making a dictator very rich.

00:55:39.000 Can you believe this?

00:55:40.000 Nobody can believe it.

00:55:41.000 That's just a funny way to say, we're taking it just right next door to our convenience.

00:55:45.000 We're making him rich.

00:55:45.000 Can you believe it?

00:55:46.000 No one can believe it.

00:55:47.000 Contrast that with the kind of political rhetoric around the current conflict in Ukraine, where Mitch McConnell will just announce, this is cold, hard business.

00:55:55.000 We have to destroy Russia as a matter of business. 0.99

00:55:57.000 Or Hillary Clinton saying, American corporations have to exploit the opportunity of Iraq.

00:56:02.000 At the time, they were telling you, We gotta do something about Iraq. 0.90

00:56:04.000 Saddam Hussein's a monster. 0.99

00:56:06.000 He's got weapons of mass destruction. 1.00

00:56:07.000 Saddam Hussein probably is a monster. 0.99

00:56:09.000 I'm not here to advocate for Saddam Hussein. 0.99

00:56:11.000 That's not my bloody job.

00:56:12.000 What I'm saying is, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. 1.00

00:56:15.000 Their oil is garbage. 1.00

00:56:16.000 It's horrible. 1.00

00:56:17.000 The worse you can get, tar.

00:56:18.000 It's like tar.

00:56:19.000 It's funny as well that he's sort of got a qualitative judgment on oil.

00:56:22.000 And to refine it, you need special plants.

00:56:25.000 I'm getting really into the oil industry.

00:56:27.000 We trust his instincts to just talk.

00:56:29.000 As president, Trump made it clear that Washington seeks to control the natural resources of foreign countries.

00:56:33.000 That's something that you and I believe, isn't it?

00:56:36.000 Like, oh, is it important that there's all this natural gas in Ukraine and that BlackRock have done a deal with Zelensky to rebuild it?

00:56:42.000 Is that not significant and that they want to economically cripple Russia so they can't compete on the geopolitical stage?

00:56:49.000 And isn't there an eventual plan to start a war with China over Taiwan and the semiconductors?

00:56:53.000 These are all just things now that all of us Somewhat familiar with, miraculously.

00:56:57.000 I mean, I used to be in Sarah Marshall and I know all this stuff.

00:57:00.000 In a January 2020 interview on Fox News, Trump boasted that he was militarily occupying Syria's crude rich regions in order to take the oil.

00:57:08.000 On one hand, you have Donald Trump, a complex figure who in the past has said things that I definitely disagree with.

00:57:08.000 So there you go.

00:57:14.000 And politically, I don't believe to be the solution because I believe in decentralization and redistribution of power, not necessarily resources, but certainly power.

00:57:21.000 On the other hand you have a career politician like Joe Biden.

00:57:24.000 To what extent has Vladimir Putin been weakened by recent events?

00:57:28.000 It's hard to tell but he's clearly losing the war in Iraq, he's losing the war at home

00:57:33.000 and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world.

00:57:37.000 He condemned Putin as a pariah, like he did the Saudi Arabian government when campaigning for the presidency.

00:57:43.000 So expect a fist bump with Putin anytime soon, once those oil deals are back on track.

00:57:48.000 What's interesting about this is that he's easily and unthinkingly equating Ukraine and Iraq, possibly because Ukraine and Iraq are similar situations.

00:57:59.000 We were told in Iraq it was a humanitarian war.

00:58:01.000 We were told there were weapons of mass destruction.

00:58:03.000 It turned out it was an economic resource war that subsequently the then Republican Party hawks like Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and Chaney and all those guys benefited from from secondary affiliations with financial and corporate interests.

00:58:15.000 Now Ukraine were being This is humanitarian war.

00:58:17.000 Russia has encroached on their territories.

00:58:19.000 NATO's actions up to that and the coup in 2014 are nothing to do with it, even though they're very credible experts.

00:58:25.000 You can see them on our show.

00:58:26.000 The interviews are up in full.

00:58:27.000 Say, hold on a minute, this is a more complex story.

00:58:29.000 So maybe Biden, who is obviously in office because he's a career politician, he's been around throughout these various expeditions, somehow in his mind sees an equivalency between Iraq and Ukraine.

00:58:39.000 What do you think?

00:58:40.000 Let me know in the comments.

00:58:41.000 Russian elections are rigged.

00:58:44.000 Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process.

00:58:51.000 He's talking about Russia there.

00:58:52.000 Rigged elections, bringing down opponents.

00:58:54.000 He's talking about Russia.

00:58:55.000 What?

00:58:55.000 What did you think?

00:58:56.000 Where do you think that there are rigged elections?

00:58:58.000 The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia.

00:59:03.000 And the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.

00:59:11.000 That's so amazing because he is that man.

00:59:14.000 He is the man that launched a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. 0.93

00:59:18.000 Wait a minute, who was it that did that?

00:59:21.000 Oh, it was me.

00:59:22.000 It's extraordinary, isn't it?

00:59:23.000 Because ultimately we're dealing with truth, integrity, personal authority and authenticity.

00:59:28.000 Do any of us believe now that the state can be relied on to tell us the truth, that the mainstream media can be relied on to report that truth?

00:59:35.000 accurately. Do any of us believe that there is an economic component to the

00:59:40.000 current conflict between Ukraine and Russia? Do any of us believe if there was

00:59:44.000 no economic upside they would continue to do it just in order to protect the

00:59:48.000 Ukrainian people? If you do believe that then the only question I would offer you 1.00

00:59:52.000 is what about all of the other brutal events around the world? Why this one?

00:59:57.000 I mean over Ukraine.

00:59:59.000 Oh that's almost like you can't even joke your way out of that can you?

01:00:02.000 There's no joke.

01:00:03.000 Sorry I got mixed up there because it was an immoral, unjust, criminal war and I should be in prison because of that. 0.97

01:00:09.000 Silly me. 0.94

01:00:10.000 Right, anyway.

01:00:12.000 Uh, 75.

01:00:15.000 Uh, I'm 75.

01:00:17.000 It was a long time ago.

01:00:19.000 I'm old.

01:00:19.000 I make mistakes.

01:00:20.000 Like that mistake when a million children were killed in a war.

01:00:23.000 This is by Caitlin Johnston.

01:00:25.000 You should follow her on Substack. 0.97

01:00:26.000 President Biden accidentally referred to Putin's war in Iraq when answering questions from the press a year after former President George W. Bush made the same gaffe.

01:00:35.000 Both men played crucial roles in the push to invade Iraq.

01:00:39.000 During the 2020 presidential race, Current Affairs' Nathan J. Robinson wrote the following about Biden's pivotal role in manufacturing support for the Iraq invasion.

01:00:47.000 So Biden was integrally involved in that war too.

01:00:50.000 Do you see what I mean?

01:00:51.000 People are groomed, primed, prepared, prepped, ready for government.

01:00:55.000 Why do you think they didn't want Bernie?

01:00:57.000 I know loads of you guys think, oh Bernie, I hate Bernie.

01:00:59.000 But the Democrat Party establishment really, really cared that it was not Bernie.

01:01:04.000 It had to be Biden.

01:01:05.000 The same way as they really, really wanted Clinton, not Bernie.

01:01:09.000 They've got a view.

01:01:10.000 How do you think they feel about RFK?

01:01:11.000 Do you think they go, oh, hang on a minute, RFK seems popular.

01:01:14.000 Well, let's just push this guy through.

01:01:15.000 He's someone that might beat DeSantis or Trump.

01:01:17.000 Of course they wouldn't.

01:01:18.000 They'd rather lose than have RFK as their leader.

01:01:21.000 In 2003, Biden was a senator bullish about the push to war in Iraq who helped sell the Bush administration's pitch to the American public, who voted for and helped advance the Bush agenda.

01:01:33.000 Which one do you want to vote for?

01:01:34.000 Is it the warmongering party that wears red stuff or wears blue stuff?

01:01:39.000 I love democracy!

01:01:41.000 He was the war's most crucial Senate supporter.

01:01:43.000 Oh my God, he was distinguishing himself even back then by advocating for wars that turned out to be unjust and criminal and based on lies.

01:01:51.000 Biden repeated the myth that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction saying that these weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power.

01:02:00.000 The resulting war was one of the most deadly catastrophes in the history of US foreign policy.

01:02:04.000 The Iraqi death toll was in the hundreds of thousands, or possibly even the millions, and 4,500 American troops died.

01:02:11.000 Hey, I was looking at your record.

01:02:12.000 Great work.

01:02:13.000 Do you want to be in charge of another conflict?

01:02:15.000 What?

01:02:15.000 Hello?

01:02:15.000 Hunter?

01:02:16.000 Iraq? 0.57

01:02:16.000 Ukraine? 0.57

01:02:18.000 That Biden's decomposing brain would find the word Iraq when reaching for the word which means nation that has been illegally invaded by an evil government is positively Freudian.

01:02:27.000 I defy you to find me anything that is more quintessentially representative of the state of the US empire than these two clips.

01:02:34.000 Two decaying empire managers fumbling around in their skulls for the name of nation that's been invaded by murderous thugs and coming up with the name of the nation they themselves invaded.

01:02:45.000 It's truly a thing of beauty. 0.97

01:02:46.000 It's absolutely ridiculous that they're trying to charge Putin with war crimes while these two mass murderers are walking free.

01:02:52.000 As American law professor Dale Carpenter has said, if citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an

01:02:58.000 even-handed and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law.

01:03:02.000 Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law. 0.86

01:03:05.000 This is all the more true of laws which would exist between nations.

01:03:08.000 Because we basically know that all politicians have access to classified documents, that nepotism, where they give advantages to their children and friends and families, where there's cronyism, where they do deals.

01:03:18.000 When you find out that Donald Trump has a box of cigarettes...

01:03:20.000 What a box of secrets!

01:03:23.000 Oh no!

01:03:24.000 I thought that the country was being run by really great war criminals that accidentally say Iraq instead of Ukraine because somewhere in the still flickering embers of what remains in their souls they know what truth and decency is.

01:03:37.000 And they know that what's happening now is very similar to what was happening then.

01:03:41.000 Any law that can't be applied to all people isn't a law at all.

01:03:46.000 It's just an instrument of power.

01:03:48.000 That's what the Magna Carta was supposed to mean.

01:03:50.000 That the king couldn't just set up laws and then do what he wanted with it.

01:03:53.000 That the king himself would be subject to those laws.

01:03:55.000 The laws were a separate entity.

01:03:56.000 The whole Nixon case, I'm saying that when the president does it, it's not a crime.

01:04:00.000 But when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.

01:04:03.000 We all know that.

01:04:04.000 We all suspect that.

01:04:05.000 So when Trump just breezily says, we'll nick Venezuela's oil, bad though that is if you're a Venezuelan person, we all know that that's how politics works.

01:04:14.000 How can they still be baffled by the ascendancy and attractiveness of Trump?

01:04:19.000 They can't be, can they?

01:04:19.000 They must know.

01:04:20.000 Do you know what the problem is?

01:04:21.000 Is this guy can just admit to stuff that we're trying to conceal.

01:04:24.000 It's not whataboutism to say it's absurd to charge Putin with war crimes without charging men like Bush and Biden.

01:04:30.000 It's a completely devastating argument against the claim being made.

01:04:34.000 If the law doesn't apply to everyone, then it's not the law.

01:04:37.000 It's just corruption.

01:04:38.000 It's a tool of the powerful.

01:04:40.000 Just in the interest of showing our receipts, here's Mitch McConnell revealing to you in public the real reason for the conflict with Russia.

01:04:46.000 President Zelensky is an inspiring leader, but the most basic reasons for continuing to help Ukraine degrade and defeat the Russian invaders are cold hard practical

01:04:59.000 American interests.

01:05:00.000 Boo boo he's a republican right? Oh I hate those republicans bloody warmongers. 1.00

01:05:05.000 Let's get a democrat like Hillary Clinton. No one's more democrat than her. 1.00

01:05:08.000 And so it's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity.

01:05:16.000 Oh but they're children.

01:05:18.000 Are you comfortable with the dead children as a business opportunity?

01:05:22.000 JPMorgan was selected by the US government to run a key import-export bank in Iraq and in 2013 announced plans to expand its operation in the country.

01:05:30.000 ExxonMobil signed a deal to redevelop Iraqi oilfields.

01:05:34.000 JPMorgan has collectively paid the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation at least $450,000 for speeches.

01:05:39.000 Hmm, I see.

01:05:44.000 I'm beginning to think I understand how this really works.

01:05:47.000 So, you have a politician like Trump who will blatantly tell you, we use those tax loopholes, we're gonna take Venezuela's oil, and you maybe think, oh, this guy's vulgar.

01:05:55.000 But when you see the opposition, when you see the institutional corruption, when you see the fact that Biden was advocating for the war in Iraq when he was a Democrat, now he's advocating for war between Ukraine and Russia as the president, War is business.

01:06:09.000 It's not about humanitarianism.

01:06:10.000 It never has been.

01:06:12.000 A figure like Trump is appealing because he's saying out loud what the rest of them work so hard to conceal.

01:06:18.000 Government isn't for you.

01:06:20.000 It's for big business.

01:06:21.000 But that's just what I think.

01:06:22.000 Until next time, stay free.

01:06:40.000 Switch on.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - July 05, 2023

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