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00:06:52.000We do a lot of stuff to get me and old Jean-Claude!
00:06:55.000So, um, no, he's called Jerome, actually.
00:06:56.000All right, so listen, um, but look at this French riot, right?
00:07:01.000We're going to go into Rumble in a minute.
00:07:03.000What's the reason we're going to go into Rumble?
00:07:04.000I 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.
00:07:11.000But have a look at like, France is famous for a number of very French sounding words.
00:07:17.000I mean all of their words are basically French sounding.
00:07:18.000That's almost the definition of their vocabulary and language and their lexicon.
00:07:22.000But have a look at this moment in a French riot where there's a geyser with a motorbike pulling a chainsaw.
00:07:29.000That's in itself mad because logistically what a challenge.
00:07:32.000Would you consider rioting in such a way?
00:09:01.000It 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.
00:09:23.000Confirming what our worst critics say about us.
00:09:26.000How 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.
00:09:37.000We're trying to bring people together through French speech and free speech.
00:09:50.000You can see the French's laissez-faire attitude in action.
00:09:53.000There's another bit where there was rioting and some bloke was just sitting there eating a sandwich, notably not a baguette.
00:09:58.000So they're actually not taking these riots seriously.
00:10:00.000But 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.
00:10:23.000And 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.
00:10:31.000You can't have a permanent emergency and you just adjust to it.
00:10:34.000That's like saying it's an emergency that you're getting older.
00:11:12.000Meanwhile, Zelensky is saying that the war won't end until Ukraine takes Crimea.
00:11:18.000Keen-eyed viewers will have observed that Vladimir Putin has said that Crimea is a red line.
00:11:25.000If Crimea is invaded He will wage a nuclear war.
00:11:29.000So in a sense what's being offered to us here is a nuclear war.
00:11:34.000Later 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.
00:13:09.000Now remember, saying this is not tantamount to saying that Russia's invasion is not criminal.
00:13:15.000It 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.
00:13:36.000Without 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.
00:13:51.000Criticising this war is not, I would say, contrary to solidarity with Ukrainian people.
00:13:57.000No, and the important thing here is that the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has acknowledged that Crimea is a red line for Vladimir Putin.
00:14:07.000officials have said they support Ukrainian attacks on Crimea.
00:14:10.000So we are heading to a point where nuclear war is inevitable in that sense.
00:14:14.000Seems like the sort of thing that should be on the news a bit more, should be being discussed a little more openly.
00:14:19.000Why don't you let me know in the chat, guys, whether you're watching us on Rumble or YouTube or Locals.
00:14:25.000Locals 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.
00:14:38.000They're all in there chatting away now.
00:14:40.000They just want to nuke us all, says MaxDragon1986.
00:14:43.000Have we reached the point where the establishment elites have disconnected themselves absolutely from our, from Favourable outcomes for ordinary people.
00:14:51.000Certainly 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.
00:14:58.000He 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.
00:15:11.000So whether it's this growing unrest in France, agitation for nuclear conflict in the I know there's a range of opinions.
00:15:18.000as we are currently calling it between Russia and America.
00:15:22.000Or, most worryingly and comedically, White House cautiously opening the door to study blocking
00:15:37.000My own love of the planet, ecology and environmentalism comes from a deep respect for our planet, for our rivers.
00:15:44.000You 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.
00:17:52.000Or maybe make some missiles for an unnecessary punitive war.
00:17:57.000Yeah, 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.
00:18:10.000This is a quote from Raytheon Missiles and Defence President.
00:18:14.000Stinger'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.
00:18:23.000Which is everybody wants more, he says.
00:18:36.000We're not having a laugh over there bringing back nostalgia missiles for a bit of a laugh.
00:18:41.000Listen, we're gonna in a minute be exclusively on Rumble.
00:18:45.000Not yet though, I'll tell you when because I like to build up to this in a very In a very sexy way.
00:18:51.000We're going to do that White House cocaine story in a minute, and we're going to do a whodunit quiz.
00:18:56.000Which 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?
00:19:38.000Yeah, 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.
00:19:49.000I 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.
00:24:49.000There's centralist political forces that essentially want to protect existing institution and existing power dynamics.
00:24:56.000Then 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.
00:25:12.000Obviously, the march of globalism, which ain't a benefit to any of us.
00:25:28.000The 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.
00:25:36.000Regular media never gives us anything other than quick soundbites, usually taken out of context.
00:25:49.000What 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.
00:25:56.000And it's like, right, this is Hunter's bedroom.
00:27:34.000It's like a bag of... It doesn't even say how big.
00:27:37.000I mean, if it was like kilos of the stuff, you'd say, well, that's a bit... A bag could be this.
00:27:41.000When did they become so diligent about clinically trialling substances?
00:27:46.000Used to be like, oh, this works, have you clinically trialled it?
00:27:48.000No, we're in head time, just take it, ask questions later.
00:27:51.000But no, give it to children, everyone take these drugs!
00:27:54.000Well, 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!
00:28:52.000The departing CDC director says the agency plans to work with media to pre-bunk misinformation.
00:28:57.000This 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.
00:29:09.000Various agencies are attempting to control and censor speech.
00:29:12.000They'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.
00:29:22.000Now, 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.
00:29:39.000It's just so you know from us in advance, it's not true.
00:30:35.000Why 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.
00:30:46.000Lee is an independent journalist on Substack.
00:30:49.000He worked on the Twitter files with Elon.
00:31:29.000Uh, 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.
00:32:37.000But 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.
00:33:25.000A 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.
00:33:42.000It's moving ahead in the federal courts.
00:33:45.000I think it's likely that the Biden administration appeals this decision to the appellate court, maybe even reaches the Supreme Court.
00:33:52.000This could be the next big decision, really just regulating and deciding
00:33:57.000what is the appropriate barrier for the federal government.
00:34:00.000When can the federal government intervene in speech and political discourse?
00:34:35.000Join 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.
00:34:53.000He says that he regrets banning Trump, that it was good for the company, Bad for the country.
00:35:00.000Based on the title of your book, I assume you're sort of, broadly speaking, a liberal person.
00:35:04.000What 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?
00:35:15.000What's your take on him saying that, mate?
00:35:22.000You 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.
00:35:32.000This is how people interact and protest and criticize the government and share information.
00:35:38.000We either have to have very clear rules or equally applied rules.
00:35:43.000You know, when you look at the way that Twitter applies its supposed rules on presidents
00:35:49.000and prime ministers around the world, you know, we've had, you know,
00:35:54.000political leaders in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East,
00:35:59.000engage in provocative commentary, calls for violence, you know, ethnic targeting.
00:36:04.000We don't see Twitter kicking other prime ministers and leaders off the platform.
00:36:10.000But, you know, for Twitter in particular, there was a focus on Trump in part
00:36:16.000because of perhaps pressure from various federal agencies, but also just the kind of inconsistent
00:36:24.000and strange black box that is the kind of censorship decision-making.
00:36:29.000You have a lot of employees in a place like San Francisco.
00:36:33.000Many of them might lean Democrat or more liberal, and they don't like Trump.
00:36:37.000And they kind of make these arbitrary decisions, even if they're not fully consistent with how they're applied worldwide.
00:36:43.000And it leads to less faith in these platforms.
00:36:47.000And, you know, it's why I think Americans have retracted from established media and have A lot of fear around the big tech companies.
00:36:54.000They have a lot of power, and it's not clear how they justify or use that power.
00:36:59.000You 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.
00:38:08.000meddling in Honduran politics in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and other places using the WikiLeaks cables that he published on his site.
00:38:19.000He'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.
00:38:29.000I 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.
00:39:04.000I don't really have a great crystal ball here about what will happen to Assange.
00:39:09.000It 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.
00:39:18.000I would love to see more reporting on where it goes, but yeah, I don't know.
00:39:22.000I'm not sure what will happen to Assange.
00:39:24.000Of 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.
00:39:38.000It's of course the act that's being currently discussed in relation to Donald Trump.
00:39:44.000Mate, we've been talking about press free speech and in particular Biden's demand that the journalist over there in Russia be released.
00:39:55.000But 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.
00:40:10.000In particular, they are believing, I think, in something called centralised information or unified information.
00:40:16.000I 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.
00:40:26.000What 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.
00:40:36.000I 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.
00:40:47.000And 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.
00:40:58.000He said, look at the mainstream media lie and kind of carried water for the Bush administration's lies that got us into Iraq.
00:41:07.000I would like to create an online platform that gives everyone a voice and prevents future calamities
00:42:38.000All in the cab, all sweaty, giggling like schoolgirls.
00:42:41.000Lee, I've got a couple of questions that I'll try and put into one.
00:42:45.000One 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?
00:43:06.000There's been kind of so much pushback in the media or censorship in the media of the Twitter files.
00:43:12.000And 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.
00:43:26.000Yeah, you know, I'm very You know, I'm invigorated by this decision.
00:43:32.000You know, I write about a lot of topics.
00:43:34.000It's rare to see a federal judge or any policymaker step in and Push back on behalf of civil liberties and free speech.
00:43:43.000It's not clear where it will go from here, other than probably in an appellate court.
00:43:48.000But it's clear that the Biden administration is fearful of greater public scrutiny over this kind of censorship apparatus.
00:43:56.000You 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.
00:44:14.000The 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.
00:44:24.000We may need to intervene and even block the release of some of these documents.
00:44:28.000So 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.
00:44:47.000It's clear that they're monitoring the situation.
00:44:50.000They've fought a lot of these attempts to obtain documents.
00:44:53.000in this lawsuit that we were just referencing.
00:44:56.000They eventually relented and they deposed Anthony Fauci and other federal government leaders.
00:45:04.000But there's still a lot of unanswered questions.
00:45:06.000And even back to the war in Ukraine, we got documents from a whistleblower
00:45:12.000within the Department of Homeland Security saying, what would happen during COVID,
00:47:42.000Become a member of our Locals community and then you would see conversations when they happen.
00:47:46.000We 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.
00:48:01.000I think he's going to be part of the revolution.
00:49:11.000I do believe the company was working with its best efforts with the information it had.
00:49:20.000But 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.
00:49:30.000There you go, pretty exciting conversation.
00:49:33.000Let me just clarify, because I keep making mistakes.
00:51:50.000Joe Biden keeps mixing up Iraq and Ukraine and Donald Trump just blatantly tells you
00:52:03.000that they were gonna nick Venezuelan oil.
00:52:06.000Is this the real reason they want him out of the way?
00:52:08.000What 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.
00:52:17.000And that's why we simply have to invade Iraq.
00:52:27.000Perhaps the reason we find it hard to trust politicians is because George Bush accidentally says Iraq instead of Ukraine.
00:52:35.000Perhaps 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.
00:52:53.000And 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.
00:53:09.000But if you've got to hold all that information in your quaking, senile mind, you might inadvertently once in a while go, Iraq!
00:53:19.000Contrast 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.
00:53:26.000Even 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.
00:53:35.000Like 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?
00:53:57.000You think that what Pelosi's telling her husband at night ain't complicated when it comes to his stock trading?
00:54:02.000You think that these current wars are entirely legitimate and people ain't profiting?
00:54:06.000You 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?
00:54:16.000Once 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.
00:54:28.000On 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.
00:54:39.000In 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.
00:54:49.000I'm going to be talking to Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, about... Jeremy Hunt.
00:54:59.000The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, says he... Jeremy Hunt, Hunt, according to the... The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said the... Jeremy Hunt, the Hunt...
00:55:12.000A good example of why the national security state hates Trump.
00:55:15.000They share his policies, they just don't like his honesty.
00:55:18.000Let me know in the comments if you think it's just as simple as that.
00:55:21.000Trump does the stuff they all do, he just tells you.
00:55:24.000How about we're buying oil from Venezuela?
00:55:27.000When 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.
00:55:35.000But now we're buying oil from Venezuela, so we're making a dictator very rich.
00:55:47.000Contrast that with the kind of political rhetoric around the current conflict in Ukraine, where Mitch McConnell will just announce, this is cold, hard business.
00:55:55.000We have to destroy Russia as a matter of business.
00:55:57.000Or Hillary Clinton saying, American corporations have to exploit the opportunity of Iraq.
00:56:02.000At the time, they were telling you, We gotta do something about Iraq.
00:56:29.000As president, Trump made it clear that Washington seeks to control the natural resources of foreign countries.
00:56:33.000That's something that you and I believe, isn't it?
00:56:36.000Like, 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?
00:56:42.000Is that not significant and that they want to economically cripple Russia so they can't compete on the geopolitical stage?
00:56:49.000And isn't there an eventual plan to start a war with China over Taiwan and the semiconductors?
00:56:53.000These are all just things now that all of us Somewhat familiar with, miraculously.
00:56:57.000I mean, I used to be in Sarah Marshall and I know all this stuff.
00:57:00.000In 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.
00:57:08.000On one hand, you have Donald Trump, a complex figure who in the past has said things that I definitely disagree with.
00:57:14.000And politically, I don't believe to be the solution because I believe in decentralization and redistribution of power, not necessarily resources, but certainly power.
00:57:21.000On the other hand you have a career politician like Joe Biden.
00:57:24.000To what extent has Vladimir Putin been weakened by recent events?
00:57:28.000It's hard to tell but he's clearly losing the war in Iraq, he's losing the war at home
00:57:33.000and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world.
00:57:37.000He condemned Putin as a pariah, like he did the Saudi Arabian government when campaigning for the presidency.
00:57:43.000So expect a fist bump with Putin anytime soon, once those oil deals are back on track.
00:57:48.000What's interesting about this is that he's easily and unthinkingly equating Ukraine and Iraq, possibly because Ukraine and Iraq are similar situations.
00:57:59.000We were told in Iraq it was a humanitarian war.
00:58:01.000We were told there were weapons of mass destruction.
00:58:03.000It 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.
00:58:15.000Now Ukraine were being This is humanitarian war.
00:58:17.000Russia has encroached on their territories.
00:58:19.000NATO's actions up to that and the coup in 2014 are nothing to do with it, even though they're very credible experts.
00:58:27.000Say, hold on a minute, this is a more complex story.
00:58:29.000So 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.
00:59:23.000Because ultimately we're dealing with truth, integrity, personal authority and authenticity.
00:59:28.000Do 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?
00:59:35.000accurately. Do any of us believe that there is an economic component to the
00:59:40.000current conflict between Ukraine and Russia? Do any of us believe if there was
00:59:44.000no economic upside they would continue to do it just in order to protect the
00:59:48.000Ukrainian people? If you do believe that then the only question I would offer you
00:59:52.000is what about all of the other brutal events around the world? Why this one?
01:00:26.000President 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.
01:00:35.000Both men played crucial roles in the push to invade Iraq.
01:00:39.000During the 2020 presidential race, Current Affairs' Nathan J. Robinson wrote the following about Biden's pivotal role in manufacturing support for the Iraq invasion.
01:00:47.000So Biden was integrally involved in that war too.
01:01:18.000They'd rather lose than have RFK as their leader.
01:01:21.000In 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.
01:01:41.000He was the war's most crucial Senate supporter.
01:01:43.000Oh 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.
01:01:51.000Biden 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.
01:02:00.000The resulting war was one of the most deadly catastrophes in the history of US foreign policy.
01:02:04.000The Iraqi death toll was in the hundreds of thousands, or possibly even the millions, and 4,500 American troops died.
01:02:18.000That 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.
01:02:27.000I defy you to find me anything that is more quintessentially representative of the state of the US empire than these two clips.
01:02:34.000Two 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.
01:02:46.000It's absolutely ridiculous that they're trying to charge Putin with war crimes while these two mass murderers are walking free.
01:02:52.000As American law professor Dale Carpenter has said, if citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an
01:02:58.000even-handed and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law.
01:03:02.000Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law.
01:03:05.000This is all the more true of laws which would exist between nations.
01:03:08.000Because 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.
01:03:18.000When you find out that Donald Trump has a box of cigarettes...
01:03:24.000I 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.
01:03:37.000And they know that what's happening now is very similar to what was happening then.
01:03:41.000Any law that can't be applied to all people isn't a law at all.
01:04:05.000So 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.
01:04:14.000How can they still be baffled by the ascendancy and attractiveness of Trump?
01:04:40.000Just in the interest of showing our receipts, here's Mitch McConnell revealing to you in public the real reason for the conflict with Russia.
01:04:46.000President 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
01:05:18.000Are you comfortable with the dead children as a business opportunity?
01:05:22.000JPMorgan 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.
01:05:30.000ExxonMobil signed a deal to redevelop Iraqi oilfields.
01:05:34.000JPMorgan has collectively paid the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation at least $450,000 for speeches.
01:05:44.000I'm beginning to think I understand how this really works.
01:05:47.000So, 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.
01:05:55.000But 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.