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March 18, 2022 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy, it's Arpacino.
Well, hello, Mr. Bacchino.
What's on your mind?
More politics questions?
In a way, yeah.
As we all know, the best way to broadcast your politics is to let everybody know what celebrity you're mad at.
Actors are always saying dumb shit.
Banana pickle monkey hat.
See, that just came out of me.
But the trick is identifying what dumb shit is offensive and then calling them out on it.
Gotta call them out.
Right, yeah, everybody knows this, Al.
Which is tricky for me because I'm a celebrity myself.
But one of these things came up recently that's a real head scratcher and I don't know what to do.
Okay, maybe I can help you with it.
Okay, good.
That's what I want to hear.
So there's this movie, The Power of the Dog.
Have you seen it?
No, I have not.
For the purposes of this sketch, I have not seen it.
Well, I did.
Big mistake.
Yeah.
I thought it was going to be a superhero movie.
Like a dog bites a radioactive milk bone.
And now he helps the government fight wars.
Nope.
Misleading title type of deal.
Turns out it's a Western and a real snooze.
Okay.
So is there was directed by Jane Campion?
Do you know Jane?
Not personally.
No, I don't.
Okay, well, meanwhile, Sam Elliot goes on a thing called a podcast where a man climbs inside of a computer and talks to another man.
What the fuck with Mark Merritt, right?
WTF.
Don't ask me.
I don't know what his fucking deal is either.
Anyway, Sam, you know, he's like Mr. Western, right?
He's got that big wire handlebar mustache all the time.
He doesn't know he's not in a Western when he's not in a Western, right?
I don't know what he's doing inside a computer.
Al never mind.
So he starts telling the little computer man how he didn't like that movie, Depower the Dog.
He was a real, it wasn't a real Western because she doesn't know anything about the Wild West or whatever.
Did you listen to the whole podcast to get context and hear exactly what he did say?
Of course not.
Nobody does that.
That ruins the whole thing.
I didn't even listen to her when I was writing this sketch.
Yizzah.
Anywho, so Jane Campion said he was being sexist because she was a woman.
Whoa.
Right.
Yeah, that's right.
Now it doesn't seem like he said anything about her that he wouldn't have said about a man, but who knows?
Like I said, I didn't even fucking listen.
But if there's one thing I know, if a woman says something that was said about her was a sexism, you don't argue with that shit.
You would have to be fucking insane, right?
So Sam Elliott and his big fucking mustache are sexist and he's bad.
Seems like case closed, right?
I guess so.
Well, not so fast, speedy Gonzales.
Then Jane Campion, you remember her from earlier?
Yeah.
She goes up at some award show that I'm too big for, and she's giving a speech of some shit.
And she sees Venus and Serena Williams to the audience.
And she says, you two are a marvel, but you don't have to compete against men like I do.
Wow.
All-time fuck-up.
I couldn't believe it.
She went from aggrieved feminist icon to condescending white woman in five fucking seconds.
They should have given her an award right there on the spot.
Played music and everything.
Well done.
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
It has everything.
There's a racial element, sex segregation of sports.
That's kind of radioactive these days to begin with.
All sorts of shit.
She really rolled snake eyes on that one.
So she's bad now.
Here's my question: Is Sam Elliott good again?
I'm not sure if it works that way, Al.
Well, it has to.
You flip a coin, it's got to be either head of tails.
If you've got two characters who are at odds, and that's driving the plot, one has to be the protagonist and the other antagonist.
The protagonist can be flawed, but he's still the fucking protagonist.
Al, like I've said before, real life is not a movie.
Maybe they're both flawed people who publicly said some ill-advised things, and neither one of them is the protagonist.
Well, that's a plot that doesn't make any sense at all.
What are you trying to get nominated for an Oscar?
Al, honestly, I'm not sure you should be using...
What is this?
Hey.
Thank you.
Sorry, that's an awkward sentence.
Al, honestly, I'm not sure you should be using which of your peers you're mad at to be the basis of your politics.
But this is one I understand.
It's so easy.
Maybe you should think about more important things like whether or not NATO should create a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Whoa, it sounds a little trickier.
Actually, it's not at all, but what do you think?
Honestly, yeah, I say make the whole planet no fly zone.
I'm tired of all these damn things zipping around up there.
I'm on my veranda trying to enjoy a hot toddy.
And one of these planes flies up above me making all that noise.
I get so mad.
Why all these people gotta go somewhere so fast?
You know what?
I'll take it.
At least you don't support World War III.
Oh, I got lucky on that one.
Close call.
Yeah.
All right, Jimmy.
Thanks for your sage advice.
Now I gotta go.
I'm seeing on Twitter here that Jay Jared Leto said something offensive about a video game.
What?
Gotta go call him out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Establishment media sets all the spiding.
So good luck.
Bullshit.
We can't afford.
He's fomenting this.
Oh, oh, oh.
Watch and see as a jack.
Y'all comedian speeds and jumps comedium and hits him head on.
It's the Jimmy Tor show.
So today we're talking about the smearing, and this is the technique now that RussiaGate made cool again.
So when Tulsi Gabbard spoke out against the Democratic Party and the war in Syria, she was immediately smeared, McCarthy smeared, as a Russian, right?
Hillary Clinton suggests Russians are grooming Tulsi Gabbard.
So that's what happens.
So if you go against the establishment, they immediately do.
And it doesn't matter that she was a congresswoman when she said that about her.
And it doesn't matter that she's an officer in the military of the United States currently serving in those wars.
It doesn't matter.
That's what they do.
Okay.
Remember when Trump disparaged that Gold Star family and everybody was clutching their pearls?
They do it to people who are alive.
Trump did it to a dead soldier.
They're doing it to alive soldiers.
Okay.
And so I just want to tell you, so she came out, Tulsi Gabbard, and she said there are 25 U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine, which is breached, if breached, would release and spread deadly pathogens to the United States and the world.
We must take action now to prevent disaster.
The U.S., Russia, Ukraine, NATO, U.N., European Union, they must implement a ceasefire now around these labs until they're secured and pathogens destroyed.
Now, I don't know what that sounds like to you, Max, but that sounds to me like very reasonable that we now know that there are biolabs in Ukraine that the United States government is worried about.
Right?
So this is all correct.
So what Tulsi Gabbard is, what she's saying has just been confirmed by the Under Secretary of State, Victoria Newland, in front of Congress, right?
Well, Victoria Newland said the U.S. was working to secure these biolabs.
But there's nothing dangerous in the biolabs, according to U.S. media and the people attacking Tulsi Gabbard.
So why do they have to be secured?
That's the question.
So when she said this, a whole firestorm was set off.
Mitt Romney then said Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda.
Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.
So he's calling her a treat, a traitor.
That's the word.
Her treasonous lies.
So she's a traitor.
She's currently an officer in the military.
She serves in those bullshit wars that they all are for.
And so that prompted Ana Navarro and everybody at the Vue.
By the way, I'm going to show you the video of this in a second.
It is five minutes long, and it is probably the most, and I've shown a lot of amazing videos on the show.
To me, it's the most amazing video I've ever shown on the show.
And it's coming up.
So I don't mean to bury the lead.
But Ana Navarro calls for the Department of Justice to investigate Russian propagandists like Fox News's Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard for shilling for Putin.
You want to hear her say it?
Here she says it.
And I think DOJ, in the same way that it is setting up a task force to investigate olivarchs, should look into people who are Russian propagandists and shilling for Putin.
That's being, if you are a foreign asset to a dictator, it should be investigated.
And I think.
So there you have it.
She wants the government of the United States to start investigating military officers, ex-congress people, anybody who says what Victoria Newland said in front of Congress, which I'll show you in a second.
And so Ana Navarro, her husband, Al Cardenas, is a partner at the law firm of Squire Patton Boggs, which had offices in Moscow and has been working with the Russians for years.
Worth asking how much of Anne's household income comes from dealing with the Russians.
So I guess if you want to go down that, so now, why is this a big deal?
Because the fake fact checkers, the establishment, when we hear you say they, this is who I'm talking about.
This is the corporate-funded fake establishment fact-checkers, or not fake fact-checkers of the establishment.
They were saying that there was no biolabs.
They kept saying that was a conspiracy theory.
Russians targeted.
There is no run biolabs.
There is no U.S.-run biolabs in the U. And that's, and that's just false.
There are.
How do I know there are?
Well, that false claims of bio-wabs.
It's QAnon crazy.
How do I know that those fact-checkers are wrong and it's real?
Because the Undersecretary of State was asked by Marco Rubio.
Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of.
So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.
So that's what set off the firestorm of everybody.
Oh my God, it is true.
There are biolabs in Ukraine.
And you are afraid that Russia might get a hold of them because of why?
Because you're trying to cure a cold or because you guys are off to some nefarious stuff.
And so that's what made everybody like, oh my God, she's admitting it.
But even then, Matt Orfala caught this.
Even then, they won't stop lying.
So that was her on the 8th of March.
She said, yes, they have the Ukraine has biological research facilities that we are now quite concerned that that research material might fall into Russians' hands.
And then on March 14th, here's an NBC headline.
Russian propaganda on Ukraine's non-existent biolabs boosted by U.S. far right.
They're still, even after she admitted it on video in Congress, they're still lying.
So just so you know, so just so you know, when she says this, she's not lying.
She's being honest.
And who lies about biolabs and funding?
The government does all the time.
Here's in a major shift, the NIH admits funding risky virus research.
And so there they are.
They've denied it for a year, and then they finally admitted it.
And he lied about it to Congress.
Fauci lied at least two times that I saw personally.
And so, and then people will do things like this.
People will say it's Russian messaging intended to make people think that the U.S. was working with Ukraine to create bioweapons, not working together to clean up Soviet-era biolabs.
That's the new propaganda that, oh, no, we were just working with Ukraine to clean up the Soviet-era biolabs.
We're trying to clean them up.
If we're trying to clean them up, does that take 30 years?
We're trying to clean them up for 30 years.
Okay, so that gives you the double CK.
And Tulsi Gabbard comes back and she says to Mitt Romney, your claim that securing these labs or even calling for securing these labs is treasonous and will lead to a loss of life when the exact opposite is obviously true.
The spread of pathogens is what will cause the loss of life, Not the prevention of such spread.
Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous.
If you cannot, you should do an honorable thing and apologize and resign from the Senate.
Of course, he won't.
So Glenn Greenwald sums it up.
In the past 48 hours, the Daily Beast implied Gabbard is a Kremlin asset.
Romney accused her of treason.
The View host called on the Department of Justice to criminally investigate her and Tucker Carlson.
And Keith Olberman said the duo should be militarily detained.
This is really happening.
The founders limited treason in the Constitution due to the concerns it would be abused to criminalize dissent.
What is now routine?
Neocons weaponized it during the war on terror.
It was the dominant theme of the Trump years.
The war in Ukraine has brought it to all new levels.
So here's this guy who agrees with Mitt Romney, but he wants him to go farther.
What about Donald Trump?
What about Madison Cawthorne?
What about Marjorie Taylor Greene?
What about Tucker Carlson?
There are many other Republicans.
They're all traitors.
So I'm going to show you this video in a second, but before I do, let me bring in Max because this video is.
I can't overstate how crazy it is.
And it's the craziest piece of video I've ever shown.
And so I just wanted to sit type.
Max, come in.
And that's not hyperbole.
Wait till you see it.
My jaw is still on the floor, metaphorically.
So go ahead.
Let's watch the video.
Should we watch this video?
Okay.
Fox News's host, Tucker Carlson, is apparently a big hit in Russia right now.
The website Mother Jones posted a leaked Kremlin war memo instructing Russian state media to play Tucker Carlson clips as much as possible.
And Tulsi Gabbard is being accused of spreading Russian false flag propaganda.
Here's what they've both been saying about the war.
So listen, this is a compilation of the bad stuff that they should be investigated for.
You ready for this?
Okay.
Democrats in Washington have told you you have a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin.
It's not a suggestion.
It's a mandate.
Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason.
Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America's foreign policy.
Secret biolabs?
Like the secret biolabs Ukraine definitely doesn't have?
Ukraine has those?
Yes, it does.
There are 25 to 30 U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine.
According to the U.S. government, these biolabs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens.
Now, like COVID, these pathogens know no borders.
If they are inadvertently or purposely breached or compromised, they will quickly spread all throughout Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world, causing untold suffering and death.
So Mitt Romney claims Gabbard is so everything that they just said there was factually correct, and none of it was supporting Putin or being a traitor to this country.
That was those are all relevant points of a debate, is what they were doing.
Okay.
Now watch what the view does.
Treasonous lies that could cost lives.
So I'm just going to open it up to the table.
What the hell is going on?
So I think Mitt Romney's absolutely right, by the way.
So what this is, is the Russians are spreading propaganda to try to create a pretext for potentially using chemical weapons against the Ukrainians.
So what they're parroting, what Tucker Carlson parrots every night on Fox News, what Tulsi Gabbard is spreading is actually helping Putin get away with criminal acts against innocent Ukrainian civilians.
And what you're parroting on the view every day certainly isn't CIA talking points.
Certainly isn't stenography from the State Department.
It certainly isn't the establishment narrative.
What you're hearing on The View certainly isn't something.
It's certainly stuff they thought up themselves.
Okay, here we go.
It's horrifying.
And what's so hard for me to understand, we've all been watching in horror as these people are being killed, mothers in maternity wings.
Can you imagine taking know what I love about when we invaded Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria?
We didn't kill any mothers in maternity wards.
Okay.
In the position of like, ah, Putin, not so bad of a guy.
It's just bizarre.
It's un-American.
It's the most watched man in cable news.
It's actually a really scary place.
Oh my God.
Half the country must be traitors.
They just, they can't.
He's the most watched man in cable news.
How could that, how could this be happening?
Our whole country's full of traitors.
Oh my God.
Truckers.
And truckers and traitors.
And unvaccinated traitors.
Unvaccinated trucker traders.
Who are anti-vaxxers and fascists who are traitors and Russian anti-vaxxer truckers?
Truckers.
It's all one thing.
Yes.
It's all trucker.
January 6th, trucker, traitor.
It's a woman.
No, watch.
Watch what Joyce Flex is here.
There's a Tucker and Laura Ingram and Tulsi Gabbard.
Well, listen, the Fox Board of Directors.
All of them are traitors.
Tucker Carlson, Telsi Gabbard, Laurie Ingram, everybody.
They're all of them.
They're not people I disagree with politically.
They're traitors.
Should really step in.
If they call themselves patriots, and they, you know, it's not enough to be posting flags about Ukraine.
There's a bunch of folks on that board of directors list, like my friend Paul Ryan, who I wish would be weighing in and saying we cannot be.
So they're calling for the board of directors of Fox News to silence people.
Russian state TV.
At least not every hour.
We cannot be Russian state TV, but you can be Wraithy on state TV.
You can be Halliburton state TV.
You can be Boeing state TV.
And you could be the United States state TV because that's what you guys are doing.
You're repeating talking points directly from the State Department and the CIA.
I guess for me, the question is: what is in it for someone like Tucker Carlson, right?
I mean, what is in it for him not to be for a war?
What is it for Tucker Carlson to go against the establishment's narrative around a foreign war in a country that she couldn't pick out on a map?
What is in it for Tucker Carlson to do that?
Is it money who's paying him that money?
I'm not making any allegations.
What is it for us to be in this war?
Paying him?
I'm not making any allegations.
I'm just making allegations.
Yeah.
Because I'm projecting because everything I've ever done from her point of view is for money.
That's like the whole perspective of the view.
That's exactly right.
Complete.
Tucker Carlson, Kraga Carlson's actually freer to speak his mind over there because he, because of all the boycotts by people on the left, he doesn't have many advertisers left.
So he can speak his mind because it doesn't matter.
That's actually the fact.
I asked him the same thing.
Why do you, I didn't say what's in it for you.
I asked, why are you allowed to tell the truth about Syria?
That was my question.
And I said, aren't your advertisers going to leave?
And he says, I don't have any advertisers.
He said, most of them left already.
So he has freedom that way.
So here we go.
This gets worse.
But it's just, it doesn't make sense that he would do this kind of thing.
I mean, he also says that the United States helped encourage the Russian invasion.
He said.
So she's saying these things as if they're lies.
The United States and NATO did provoke this.
That's what we've been revealing to you for the last three weeks at the show: how NATO in the West has provoked this and how the United States Biden is using the people of Ukraine as cannon fodder for a proxy war.
And it's all about energy transfers and capitalism.
And she's saying these things as if they're lies.
She's repeating facts and saying, can you believe they're saying these things as if they're, well, here we go.
I'll play it.
This kind of thing.
I mean, he also says that the United States helped encourage the Russian invasion.
We did.
He said the United States engineered a coup in Ukraine when they moved democracy.
He did.
I just mentioned that.
He said that.
He's said that.
Tucker Carlson is running around spreading the truth.
That Tucker Tulsi trucker anti-vaxxer said that.
Tucker Trucker.
That is fascist.
That was quite a feedback.
He's complimenting in Ukraine in the name of democracy.
He, as we just mentioned, confirmed these Russian claims about bioweapons.
Those things are all true.
There are biolabs in Ukraine.
The United States government confirms it, and we're afraid that Russia will get a hold of them because the stuff that's in there is so dangerous.
She's saying all these things as if none of them are true.
They're the dumbest people on the planet.
Yeah, they are the dumbest people because they actually have access to education and resources, unlike almost everyone else on the planet.
And they just choose to be stupid.
They're stupid on purpose.
And he's characterizing this situation as a border dispute, right?
And so what is in it for him?
I know that he's visited Moscow and other places.
I know that he's visiting.
Look at this.
This is unbelievable.
I know he's visited Moscow.
So that's bad.
You're never supposed to visit Moscow.
You can tell me from other places.
Like, you're not supposed to visit other places.
You're not supposed to visit.
You're Americans.
You speak English, no other languages, and you stay in America.
Go to Arby's, stay home.
About that.
But I just don't understand what the impetus is.
That's why Alb is planning to move to Moscow.
He's not going to be welcome here for much longer.
I think.
Do his viewers like it?
If you're not for this Ukraine war, you're not going to be welcome in the United States much longer.
The number one host on cable news is not going to be welcome in the United States much longer.
Do you see the bubble that they live in?
Do you see that?
Also, they have no idea that there's another opinion out there that they don't know everything.
I mean, if you closed your eyes, you'd think you were listening to a John Birch Society meeting from like 1958.
Yes.
Was that the lady from Beaches?
Like, was that Bette Midler?
No kidding.
Who is that lady?
That's Joy Behart.
That's Joy Behart.
I always confuse her with Bette Middler, but I mean, come on.
And seriously, it sounds like something out of a McCarthy era hearing.
This sounds like out of a movie.
Like if you were doing a movie about that time of the Red Scare and the Red, you would, and this was a talk show on TV that that's what you would put it in.
You couldn't, if you people would say, Jimmy, that's a little over the top.
Or it sounds like Fox News during the Bush era.
Everybody was a traitor who didn't want to be invading Iraq.
Here we go.
Go ahead.
I just remember I was protesting the war outside the Oscars in LA, the war on Iraq, and a guy walked up to me and was like, you better go back to Baghdad.
I mean, I don't think the ratings have dropped at all.
And look, but I think that's an incredibly relevant question.
And I think DOJ, in the same way that it is setting up a task force to investigate oligarchs, should look into people who are Russian propagandists and shilling for Putin.
That's being, if you are a foreign asset to a dictator, it should be investigated.
In fact, I remember when Tulsi Gabbard, and I even hate that we're discussing it because I think to myself, who is this woman?
She's a, you know, she's no longer in Congress.
She's a failed presidential candidate.
She only practically exists on Twitter.
And the fact that we're giving her oxygen is what makes her relevant, that we're talking about her on hot topics.
But on the other hand, how do you not call out something that is repeating false Russian propaganda?
By the way, do you ever watch clips of The View and go, who is this woman, Anna Navarro?
Have you ever Tulsi Gabbard?
I'll tell you she is.
She's a former congresswoman.
She's also an officer in the military right now, serving in those wars you chair lead.
And everybody knows who she is.
She's the one who almost single-handedly knocked Kamala Harris out of the primary.
Anyway, it's okay.
So I just want to let you know, Ana Navarro was born in 1971 to a wealthy landowning family in Nicaragua.
She and her family moved to the United States in 1980 because of political turmoil, though her father stayed behind to continue to fight with the Contras against the Sandinista government.
They're the bad guys.
The Contras are the bad guys.
She later said the then U.S. President Ronald Reagan's support of the Contras made her a lifelong Republican.
She has served in a number of Republican administrations, including Jeb Bush's, as well as being his director of immigration policy.
Navarro was married to a lawyer and lobbyist El Cardinez, who has been named as the Washington, D.C.'s top lobbyists by the Hill newspaper.
That's who she is.
A really great person.
Well, she's way worse than that even indicates.
I mean, she is doing everything.
She has spent her career doing everything she's falsely accusing Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard of.
She made her money, her fortune, and her husband as literal foreign agents, as registered agents of foreign dictatorships and corrupt governments that looted their country's coffers and paid her hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars every few months to be their principal lobbyist in Washington.
One such government was the Nicaraguan neoliberal government of Arnaldo Alemann, who went to prison after stealing $100 million in an embezzlement scheme.
His top lobbyist in Washington was Ana Navarro.
Her husband, Al Cardenas, he was a guy.
He was one of the main partners at Patton Boggs, big lobbying firm in Washington, has some of the most autocratic and corrupt governments on its payroll as clients.
He represented Romeo Lucas Garcia, who is the former president of Guatemala, who oversaw hundreds of massacres in a brutal counterinsurgency campaign.
Ana Navarro went on to represent the corrupt neoliberal government of Tony Saka, Antonio Saka, who was from the Arena party, which is the party of the Salvadoran Contras, founded by a guy named Robert de Buisson or Blowtorch Bob because of his penchant for torturing, murdering, and exterminating political rivals.
I mean, her forms are, I tweeted one of the forms out, her Ferra forms, her foreign agent forms.
She was making hundreds of thousands of dollars from these characters.
And now she's running around accusing a media personality of being a foreign agent for a corrupt dictator.
That's her.
That's her.
Look in the mirror.
So this gets worse.
I know that you didn't think this could.
It's going to get worse.
Has been brought down.
They used to arrest people for doing stuff like this.
If they thought you were.
They want, they're calling for them to be arrested.
They used to arrest people for criticizing their government.
What happened?
What happened?
America today.
What happened?
We used to not have a First Amendment.
Oh, yeah.
We got, well, you got Julian Assange, but arrest?
Arrest Tulsi Gabbard.
This is what this is what Whoopi Goldberg should be suspended from the view for.
Yes.
Colluding with a Russian agent.
If they thought you were putting out information or taking information and handing over to Russia.
They used to actually investigate stuff like this.
And I guess now, you know, there seems to be no.
We need an investigation from the Ministry of Truth to see if you're lying and then arrest you.
That's what she was calling for.
That's the genius of Whoopee Goldberg.
So if.
Yeah, she should really stick to Holocaust scholarship and really stick to it.
Pay off the legal stuff.
So if Whoopi Goldberg had a hand in writing the Constitution, we wouldn't have freedom or liberty in this country.
She would be, you're not allowed to, if you're criticizing our government, especially during war, you should be investigated and arrested.
You're not allowed to dissent.
So this is all them repeating CIA and State Department talking points to shame dissent and shut down dissent for war.
This is how they manufacture consent for war.
Whoopi Goldberg is manufacturing consent for war along with the rest of the empty-headed morons who are on that show called The View.
The dumbest women in the world are on the view.
And Whoopi Goldberg is the leader of the dumb.
I don't know if she's the dumbest one.
And people are not being told to hate Putin.
Putin doesn't need a reason to be hated.
Really?
People aren't being told to hate Putin.
Did you know that?
Did you know that, Max?
People aren't being told to hate Putin, except they're being told every minute of the day.
And if you don't hate Putin, you should be investigated.
I guarantee you, Putin has more name recognition in the U.S. than the next Republican presidential nominee.
That's right.
Unless it's Trump.
Pretty much clear.
He started a war.
He started unnecessary.
But this is kind of what he wanted.
Isn't this contributing?
Who else started an unnecessary war that nobody wanted?
Let me guess.
Oh, it was the United States.
Killed a million people in Iraq.
Had a torture program.
Still goes on today.
We have a torture facility in Cuba.
Who turned Libya into a failed state with open slave martins?
We did that.
Who dropped more bombs?
They had to renounce bombs.
We dropped so many bombs in Syria.
These people are the most clueless, empty-headed moron idiot ditzes in the world.
And what they're doing is manufacturing consent for a war that's going to slaughter the very people they claim to care about.
They're manufacturing consent for that.
To the death and destruction of the country and the civilians?
Well, this is why I say, how can people, how can they pat themselves on the back and say, good job, when you know he just blew up a, he blew up a hospital with children.
Well, Fox viewers know it.
They see it.
Fox viewers do know it.
My concern also is do the Russian people don't know it.
No, I know this weekend, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think Instagram was taken down in Russia.
They really are.
They almost have a digital curtain now over all information coming out.
Unlike here in the United States, unlike here in the United States, where they know she wants a digital.
I mean, that's what they're asking for.
That's all sort of Max.
Yeah, no, the whole point of this is, you know, give us our own digital curtain.
That's exactly.
They're calling for the investigation and arrest of the people.
Not only to shut them down, have Fox News take them off the air and shut them down.
They're calling for their investigation and arrest.
Much worse than what they're claiming to care about.
Instagram.
And I think a lot of Russians, they've been reporting, they believe that this war is some sort of great mission.
They think it's a peacekeeping mission because that's what's being reported on.
Except for the people who are out protesting.
It almost seems impossible to believe.
And then you realize there's people in America who think January 6th was, you know, some sort of patriarch.
So you knew she was going to bring January 6th, isn't there somehow?
So that's the end of that clip.
That is.
They are the exact thing they claim to hate.
Everybody's a Russian.
Everybody's a traitor.
They should be investigated and arrested.
What happened to this country?
Didn't we used to intimidate, blackball, and arrest and investigate people who were dissenters?
Yeah.
I mean, let's consider what's really happening here.
Do we think that Whoopi Goldberg, Anna Navarro, who was a proxy for the Biden campaign, and the rest of these characters, I barely even know who they are.
Like I'll see, I'll see them on silent when I'm like getting my hair cut.
I don't even know who that, I don't even know who they are, but do we think they just sat around in the green room planning this themselves?
No, what happened here was very similar in my estimation or what I think happened here is very similar to what recently happened with 30 top Zoomer and millennial TikTok influencers where the White House gathered them,
told them what to say, and gave them talk pro like talking points on escalating the war and pushing back against all the anti-war and anti-imperialist TikTokers that are gaining huge followings.
And then they were promoted through corporate media and pro-Biden, pro-Democratic Party channels.
And so that's what happened here.
They were briefed.
They were given talking points from the top.
This is being fed to them by a White House that cannot face the people, a White House that cannot communicate directly with the American public.
They need to use as intermediaries some of the most banal and stupid people in our society to push back against something they never saw coming, which is a Fox News host and a former U.S. soldier and member of Congress.
She's not former U.S. soldiers.
She's a former member of Congress.
She's a currently serving officer.
Current member of the military, ripping to shreds the official narrative day after day, night after night.
So this call for arresting media personalities, this call for arresting people who dissent from the official neocon interventionist narrative that is being pushed by the Blinken State Department, especially, and from within the Biden NSC, this is coming from the top.
This is coming from our government.
It's not just a bunch of rogue, stupid daytime media personalities who are pushing this.
This is the real thing.
And it's coordinated.
That's why we saw Claire McCaskill, who's another top Biden surrogate, former Democratic senator from Missouri, call Tucker Carlson a borderline traitor using the same language.
And we heard Hillary Clinton call Tulsi Gabbard a traitor in the past.
So that's the first point I want to make.
The second point is this narrative was kind of set up through what appears to be some disinformation campaign by the U.S. intelligence.
It is true that Tucker Carlson segments are being aired on Russian media, on state media, like Channel 1.
They do that all the time with different U.S. media.
Then they have discussions of it.
But we have this story that was where somehow Mother Jones, which was cited in this View discussion, Mother Jones obtained a secret Russian government bulletin that was leaked that pressed outlets to highlight Tucker Carlson's Putin helping broadcasts.
That's the subtitle of the piece.
It wasn't Mother Jones.
It was David Korn.
And who is David Korn?
The biggest Russia gator there is.
The biggest Russia gator and the most discredited Russia Gator.
Yeah.
Because his entire book and all of his work was disowned by his own working partner, Michael Issakov, because it was all based on the steel dossier, the dodgy dossier produced by a completely discredited former British MI6 agent based on lies and innuendo gathered from Russian sources that he paid.
The whole thing's just been shot down.
So that's who's getting these supposedly leaked Russian government documents.
But, you know, some guy in the CIA, the State Department, the White House even could have said, yeah, our SIGINT cable, hey, David, we got something for you.
Our SIGINT cables intercepted this, or we've got a Russian source and we just turned them.
Here's the document.
So David Korn writes it up.
It shows that Tucker Carlson is part of the Russian government's information warfare strategy.
Then it goes cycled through the White House to the View and they use it as the basis for calling him a traitor and investigating him.
So this is basically a disinformation campaign being waged against us.
Why?
Because we have to look at the situation on the ground.
Yeah, the Russian military has been suffering some losses.
It's true.
The Ukrainian military has been fighting pretty hard in some places, but it doesn't seem likely that the Ukrainian military is going to win or that they will win.
That's why they're begging NATO and the U.S. for a no-fly zone.
That's why Zelensky was in Congress calling for a no-fly zone today, because they cannot hold off the Russian advance without the help of NATO and the U.S. military.
So it's a similar situation to what we saw in Syria.
And you've had Aaron Mate on so many times to talk about the Duma false flag staged event where a chemical weapons attack was blamed on the Assad government, the Syrian army, in Douma, Syria, April 2018.
We know that it was staged because the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigators who are part of the fact-finding mission, who are there on the ground, who went to Martyrs Square to concisely and decisively and clinically demonstrated that it was so.
And I knew it was at the beginning.
Why?
Because these Saudi and U.S.-backed forces had been solidly defeated and was their only hope for triggering Western intervention, missile strikes.
That's the situation the Ukrainian military finds itself in now.
And they're doing everything they can to find some way of creating some pretext for the U.S. to intervene.
And so you hear them saying, you hear Ukrainian officials, you hear U.S. officials say, number one, we expect Russia to commit a chemical attack.
So we've heard that before.
And now they're saying we expect Russia to seize these biological research labs and then release the dangerous pathogens to kill lots of people, which is crazy.
It would go completely against their own interests.
It would be the exact opposite of the Russian strategy.
But that's what they're saying on the view.
I mean, these aren't, you know, military experts.
I don't think any of them know what happened in the Syrian war, but they're saying it because they're being fed these talking points.
And this talking point is going out through British and U.S. press.
So it's a very dangerous moment.
And that's why they're so troubled that someone like Tucker Carlson or that RT could have been out there because those are the only figures with major platforms or Tulsi Gabbard even that can actually push back on such a narrative and that did push back on such a narrative.
So they want to isolate them, suppress them, and apparently arrest them and put them on trial so that there's no challenge when this staged event occurs.
And that's a really dangerous moment we're in, where a foreign government and a foreign military are seeking to drag our government and our military into World War III.
And they'll do anything it takes to make that happen.
If you can watch that video of those women on the view sit there and call for the arrest of people who dissent from war, and that doesn't make your skin crawl, then I guess we're different people because it should, because that's the real threat.
See, it's the propaganda.
And once you ingest it, and once you start repeating it, and you start hating other Americans, and you start calling for the, I mean, this is worse than any vaccine mandate hatred I could think of.
They want to, they literally want to arrest people who have a dissenting point of view, even if they're in the military.
Well, it's an extension of the mandate.
It's an extension of the whole, you know, the whole COVID, the whole COVIDian mentality, which was not just that everyone was compelled to demonstrate their compliance and their belief in official propaganda, but that a new category was created to shatter the solidarity of the 99%.
I mean, we're divided in so many ways already, but a new category was created, a phony, completely phony category, the unvaccinated versus the vaccinated.
And the unvaccinated were deep, millions of Americans were portrayed as unclean disease carriers who wanted to kill your children.
And prominent media personalities openly and publicly celebrated and laughed about the deaths of people who were unvaccinated.
Unvaccinated people who tended to be unhealthy, you know, conservative radio hosts in their 70s.
I mean, it was a whole subgenre of like Daily Beast, shitlib media reporting was the deaths of the unvaccinated.
We were all supposed to cheer for that in this kind of ceremonial ritual demonstrating that we're on the good team.
And so now that's all the unvaccinated have gone back to being the Russians.
And, you know, as the Democrats stripped out COVID aid to send military aid and weapons to Ukraine in the last appropriations.
I mean, it's pretty amazing to watch it just immediately transfer.
They're not even going to fund monoclonals anymore.
No, they, yep.
That's a new story.
They're going to stop funding monoclonals, which treats COVID.
But they're going to give $10 billion to Ukraine.
They're literally defunding a life-saving treatment to kill Russians.
Come on, it's funny.
I mean, it's funny.
You can only laugh.
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So what's happening with Russell Brand?
I'll tell you this.
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So when Russell Brand did this, she goes, so Trump was right about Clinton in Russia.
So you're sure Trump wasn't right about Russia.
So this, when he did videos like that, that's what got him on the radar of the establishment.
And now he's a bad guy.
So now he's considered, they call him right-wing, even though he's not completely lefty.
And he's also supported the Truckers.
So they'll call him a racist and a Nazi.
And it's getting worse.
Jimmy, what?
I don't think Russell Brand changed.
I think the science changed.
So there were two hit pieces put out on Russell Brand in the same day by two different people.
This one is Russell Brand and the Independent in UK.
Russell Brand is the new Joe Rogan, and I'm the one who warned you about it.
No, I'm the one he warned you about.
And I'm the one he warned you about.
And then the subheadline is: if you think either of these perennial reply guys are wrong, then you've just proved that they're right.
I don't know what the hell she's talking about, but it's another great article by she writes some great articles.
Like her other, I swear to God, her other article is Stop Telling People They Shouldn't Have a Crush on Zelensky.
That's the name of her article.
First of all, I wasn't telling anyone that.
And I know Phil well, you need a place to channel your leftover homosexual energy.
Yeah, it's true.
That's what the article is about.
I've been so disappointed with my other homosexual relationships that this is my potential new.
Because I don't think, by the way, these people don't make their own headlines.
No, no.
No, no.
The editor writes, usually, usually the editor writes the headline.
So Russell Brand warned you that we suck at our job and I definitely do suck at my job is basically the title of this article.
I mean, the editor did a good job with that.
I mean, she's, I don't know if she sucks.
She's a Columbia University grad and a culture writer.
Her job is to suck and she's nailing it.
How about that?
How about that?
All right.
So here's the other one.
How did Russell Brand go from stand-up stardup to peddling YouTube conspiracy theories?
And this is by a guy named Lewis Chilton, who I'm going to, I guess, writes for the penny saver when he's not writing for the Independent.
How did Russell Brand go from stand-up stardup to peddling YouTube conspiracy theory?
Good question.
I think it was right around the time Colbert started to suck, if I remember correctly.
It was near that time.
Ew, Kurt, YouTube conspiracies.
Those are like poor people conspiracy theories.
Myself, I only get conspiracy theories from Rachel Maddow and George Takai.
When did Russell Brand decide comedy wasn't enough for him?
For most of his time in the public eye, the XX Born's funny.
I'm going to read you the whole article so you don't have to go to the article because I don't want it to get a click.
So I'm going to read you.
They're very short.
Both articles are very short.
I'm going to read you in their entirety.
So you do not waste a click going to their website to read it.
Okay.
I've used up my free clicks for the month looking up their work.
So when did Russell Brand decide comedy wasn't enough for him?
For most of his time in the public eye, the Essex-born funny man has been better known for his off-stage antics than in any particulars of his comic craft.
See, he's not that good.
He's not that good of an artist.
Let's just shit out.
The guy's super famous and everybody knows his name, but it's not that good.
I'm a better writer than Russell Brand is a comedian.
That's what this guy's saying.
I worshipped him only weeks ago.
Yeah.
I thought he was the greatest.
There was his short-lived marriage to Katy Perry, his bullying of Andrew Sachs over voicemail on Jonathan Ross's radio show, his vocal objections to voting in general elections back in 2013.
Wow, he had vocal objections.
You're not supposed to have, you're supposed to, you could have objections, but vocal.
I'm the Well over a decade on from all that.
His personal website now describes him as an award-winning comedian, actor, author, and passionate activist for mental health and drug rehabilitation.
And more grandiosely, a public thought leader.
See, he can still make you laugh.
Oh, that's funny because Russell Brad's not a public thought leader like the guy writing this.
Why are you not?
Why would you be writing about him if he wasn't that?
Like, why isn't he a danger to warn me about if he's not?
If he's not the public thought leader he claims he is, then you wouldn't be writing an article about him.
He's got over 5 million subscribers on YouTube.
He gets over 40 million views a month on his YouTube alone, let alone all his other podcasts and things.
He gets 40 million views a month on YouTube.
I think that makes him a public thought.
He's all talking about his thoughts.
I think that's the definition of a public thought leader.
But I know you like to try to make fun of him for being super popular and successful.
Well, the reason he's getting those views is because people like not being talked to like they're being led.
Right.
The reason people go to seek this out is because it doesn't come off that way to them.
That's right.
And these people's whole thing.
I mean, this is an entertainment reporter.
The other one's a culture writer.
That's like that one at New York Times who like spies on clubhouse.
Yes.
They see who said the R-word.
Yes.
These are like silly fucking people.
So like, it's like it was like what are you telling me about Kyle Bauman and Tony Robbins?
It's like your comedy.
That's antithetical too.
Yes.
Self-help nonsense.
Like these are like natural matter antimatter.
Yes.
Don't react well.
With his beard, long hair, and loose-fitting, wide-neck shirts.
This guy's spending a lot of time thinking about Russell Brand, who is not a thought leader.
With his cool blue eyes that suck you in and make you feel warm inside.
His rugged shoulders and his strong jaw.
His bedroom eyes that reflect the fireplace.
I think I know someone has a crush on Russell Brand with his beard, long hair, and loose-fitting wide-neck shirts.
It's hard to shake the sense that there's something cultish about Brand's whole presentation.
They don't say what.
They don't say why it would be cultish.
Like people would just are people mindlessly following him?
Do you have examples of that?
What other cult-like behavior of the people who subscribe to his show are you going to give me an example of?
None!
Just that he, that's how he dresses, so it must be a cult because he's got a beard, long hair, loose-fitting white-neck shirt.
So I'm thinking cult.
You know, like Jesus, he wears a Jesus beard.
So he was a massive celebrity.
Like, this guy can't believe is he still has the same celebrity status.
Yes.
Just not with the people that this guy's like, you got to be in with.
That's right.
Like Rogan, like Rogan.
So this was their attempt.
So I guess Russell Brand is now like the Joe Rogan of the UK, right?
And he's a comedian who's got the most popular talk show or show.
But Russell Brands isn't a talk show.
It's just a show.
Like Rogan, he has given a platform to conspiracy theories.
They never say which ones.
Watch this.
They'll never tell you.
Sometimes making claims based on unsubstantiated or fringe sources.
Which fringe sources?
What unsubstantiated claims?
They'll never tell you.
Because a lot of them are from, by the way, substantiated.
Literally the people.
It's not conspiracies.
They're all in the open and they're bragging about it.
You just have to get clips of them.
It's like what Noam Chomsky used to say about the New York Times.
The information's all in there, but you got to turn it sideways and hold it up through the light.
So you can get, you got to, it's hard to find and hard to read it right, but it's in there.
You got to go to Columbia for a while to get that skill.
This reads like they took an old fluff piece and they reframed it as a hit piece, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does.
Like, these are all the reasons why people loved Russell Brand 10 years ago.
His scruffy beard, his shirt, his Jesus look.
By the way, Russell has to wear a scruffy beard or else he'd look, I don't know who that is.
Oh, Circe Lannister from, I don't remember the actress's name.
He's the beautiful actress and he didn't have a beard.
He's got to have a beard.
Who's Siri Lannister?
Circe?
Circe.
Siri?
I don't watch Game of Thrones.
I should watch.
I should be more in touch with the culture.
I'm not.
You like dragons.
You didn't miss a lot.
You know, I don't like dragons.
I watch, so I go to watch that show, and all of a sudden a dragon shows up, and I'm like, turn it off.
I'm not fucking watching a show with a dragon.
A dragon years ago.
What the fuck?
I'd rather watch Fred Flintstone.
Oh, look how they pushed their car with their legs.
Why would you guys need to get into a car then?
Anyway, here we are back to here.
But both men also offer their followers the same unusual appeal and apparently sincere willingness to question what we are told.
So he does understand why they're popular because Joe Rogan and Russell Brand and this show, we question the establishment narrative.
People like that.
It's not the unusual.
Right.
It's not unusual.
It's the usual appeal that you have moved away from.
Right.
This isn't some Rubik's Cube.
They have people who are entertaining and people feel like they're genuine and they can trust them.
That's it.
Can we hire someone to do a study to find out why?
Like CNN.
CNN will hire a study.
However, guy...
Uh...
Thank you.
The popularity of Brand's videos is a testament to just how disillusioned many people are with the mainstream media and just how eager they are for open, defiant skepticism.
So this guy gets it.
This guy gets it.
Okay.
Now it's true that the evils of Western foreign policy are often omitted from mainstream news reporting or else largely downplayed.
But is this really because of some grand orchestrated effort to keep the public ill-informed?
No, I bet it's just an oopsie.
I bet it's not because of who owns that.
Did you not read manufacturing consent?
How do you even connect those things?
Did you not read the book that explains how this all works?
It's the five filters.
Or is it, I don't even know.
But the owners is one of the filters.
You read it.
The propaganda.
Just pretend you read it.
That there's an owner class that owns these outlets that has a capitalist agenda.
And that's why you're not told the truth.
And they're also funded by the people they're supposed to be exposing and investigating.
They're funded by those people by Big Pharma, by the military industrial complex, by Wall Street.
They're funded by the people they're supposed to be investigating and exposing.
So that so that's what the problem is.
But let's see what he thinks the problem is.
Okay?
But is this really because of some grand orchestrated effort to keep the public ill-informed?
More likely.
He doesn't know for sure.
He doesn't know why the fucking Western foreign policy are often omitted from what mainstream news.
He doesn't know for sure.
But probably.
Why are the evils of the Western foreign possibly omitted from mainstream news reporting?
Most likely, just for brevity.
We don't have time to tell you.
We don't have time to tell you to give you the context of what this is happening.
We don't have time.
Brevity, baby.
We got to make the money.
We got to get to a commercial.
Or, so most likely it's just for brevity or relevancy's sake, or for legal reasons.
We can't tell you what's really happening for real legal reasons or due to vague or unspoken corporate pressures.
But what that's what Russell Brand is saying.
He's saying that last part.
The unspoken corporate pressures.
That's the part he's talking about.
So you're saying Russell Brand gets it right.
After giving us a bunch of bullshit, he actually stumbles on the reason.
That's come on.
Vague corporate pressures.
That's real insight into the author.
Yeah, we can't tell the whole story.
I don't know.
Something about corporate pressure.
It's vague.
It's my job not to know.
And I wouldn't say it's my job not to know.
I wouldn't say vague corporate pressure.
I would say corporate pressures.
I wouldn't say it's not vague.
It's not vague.
Hey, you know who fucking pays our bills.
Jesus.
So it's not a grand conspiracy at his level, the guy who wrote this piece, right?
He's just an underpaid idiot, specifically hired because he exhibits the mix of cowardice and elitism that works best in a corporate environment.
So that's why he got hired.
But this is way above his head, this kind of corporate censorship in the spaces he would never dare look upon critically as a professional.
God damn it.
What is that?
What is a Wojack meme?
That's the meme of the guy who's like, you know, the meme that goes around of the NPC.
Oh, that's called the Wojack guy.
Yeah, that's called Wojack.
I got to do my research before I start telling jokes on this show.
Are you going to do it?
No.
Okay.
I already wrecked it.
Brand is right.
Brand is right when he suggests that the Russian-Ukraine situation is a whole lot more complex than most news sources make out.
I'm not going to tell you what they are, but unless you're going to do vast swaths of research, unless you're going to do vast swaths of research on the political and social histories of the countries, you're never going to get the full picture.
So just stop trying.
Nor should you.
Stop trying to get more of a bigger view of it from Russell Brand.
Just stop.
You're never going to get it.
So just read our news and shut up.
Isn't that what he's saying?
Yeah.
Russell Brand's What A Boutery offers no fuller picture of the complexities of the situation than any mainstream news report does, but does offer a lot more unverifiable speculation.
So the mainstream news is getting it wrong.
He's telling you they're getting it wrong.
But this guy doesn't do any better.
And he uses even less.
He uses even less reliable sources than the unreliable sources I'm telling you are unreliable.
He uses us.
He uses us!
By the way, the what a boutery.
Doesn't that sound like a cute store in the mall?
You can buy an easy chair with a toilet in it or something, right?
At the water boundary.
I got it at the what a boundary.
Yeah.
I've had it up to here with your what a boundary, Russell Brand, and also your sinceritism.
And I'm sick and tired of your questionnaivity.
His sources have come under scrutiny before with far-right journalists and unsubstantiated newsletters among the sources used as basis for the past video essays.
He never tells you which ones.
He just says, he just says it.
He just says they're unreliable.
It doesn't say who they are or why or what he's gotten wrong.
They'll never tell you what he's gotten wrong.
It's his paper he writes for.
I've seen many times on Russell Brandt.
The sources are them.
Yes.
Russell Brand is using you as a source.
Last year, last year, so Trump was right about Clinton and Russia collusion featured some particularly egregious myth truths, but he never tells you what the mistruth.
He doesn't bother to put it in his article.
What was the mistruth?
Don't know.
We'll never know.
But I've got to tell you, egregious myth truths.
It does sound like the store where Hassan Piker buys his black nail polish, doesn't it?
It's like a hot topic.
That is funny.
This is one of the problems with his approach to broadcasting.
Some of the world's most trusted sources are regarded with fierce cynicism.
Oh my God, he doesn't trust Wip Blitzer.
He's cynical about Rachel Maddow.
He thinks that the New York Times is going to lie to us.
He's a cynic, while other more spurious ones are taken blithely at face value.
Again, he doesn't give examples of either of these things or any of them.
He never tells you.
And by the way, so whose fault is this?
Yeah, really.
This guy sounds like Kanye West complaining about Pete Davidson.
This isn't harming Pete Davidson.
It's just making you look sad.
Okay.
Ultimately, Russell Brand would probably say that he preaches a healthy distrust of prescribed Authority.
Together, we can create new narratives, new stories, and new understandings, he told followers recently.
But surely this name scrutiny should apply also to him.
This same scrutiny should also apply to himself, question mark.
In a world where conspiracy lurks around every corner, now you sound like the conspiracy theorist.
Oh, he's saying that like, wow, I thought he was just saying Russell Brand thinks that.
He's saying about it, that it's real.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Let me read it again.
In a world where conspiracy lurks around every corner, where every news source has a hidden motive, it begs the question, what exactly is his?
So, yeah, he's saying that Russell says this.
That's what he's saying.
Russell's saying there's a conspiracy around every corner.
You're saying that what seems to be.
That's why you have reporters, because what the government tells you isn't the truth.
That's why so matter, nothing is as it seems, which is why you have to do research and you have reporters.
And this guy's saying, like, oh my God, so having natural skepticism about the world you live in is you're now a nut, according to this guy.
That's what they're saying.
What's your motive for asking?
It begs the question.
Why would someone be honestly asking questions when that's not how you get ahead in my bubble?
That's the question it begs.
I can't figure out his game.
Being honest, what's his angle?
Being one of the most popular girls at school wasn't enough for him.
I'd do anything to be a popular girl at school.
I would do anything.
Being married to Katy Perry wasn't enough.
Now he's going to ask questions?
Uh...
Anyway, I'm not going to.
There's another whole article.
I'm not going to read it to you.
I don't have the energy.
It's fucking stupid, just as dumb as this one.
Look how it starts.
I know.
So here's the headline.
Russell Brand is the new Joe Rogan.
And I'm the one he warned you about.
I know.
I'm disappointed too, but such is the age we live in.
One minute, a comedian is going about his life building a career, and the next, he's peddling conspiracy theories on YouTube and quoting Glenn Greenwald's newsletter at length.
No, I don't like it.
Yes, I'm exhausted.
What?
I had two questions.
One, do you like it?
Are you exhausted?
Are you exhausted?
Again, what part of his newsletter did he quote?
Was it an accurate part?
They act like Glenn Greenwald is Hitler.
I think he's giving away the conspiracy theories, too.
It's not in a subscription.
The Independent, you only get three free reads.
Oh, okay.
You got to subscribe on YouTube.
You just go on his channel.
Oh, my God.
You're reading Glenn Greenwald?
What is he, like, the Unibomber?
He just won a Nobel Prize.
I mean, a Pulitzer Prize like a year or two ago.
Not like 40 years ago.
Didn't he win something?
Didn't he get it?
See, look it up what he won when he got that reporting that got Lula freed from prison.
Didn't he?
He probably changed and turned into a bad person.
It's not that I'm an idiot.
So anyway, it just goes on from there.
Now he's a bad person because he quotes Glenn Greenwald.
Oh my God.
Yeah, you didn't know he's on a bad list.
I knew he was on a bad list because I'm a huge Bolsonaro fan, but other people don't like him for other reasons.
It keeps going on YouTube, where he now has 5.2 million subscribers.
Brand is no longer a comedian pointing out the idiosyncrasies of the news cycle.
Instead, he has leaned hard into a brand of pseudo-skepticism we've come to expect from the Joe Rogans of the world.
So these are people who are just pretending to be skeptical.
They're just pretending to be skeptical.
It's skepticism that looks like skepticism, but it's not skepticism.
It's not real skepticism, Kurt.
This is not, they're not being actually skeptical.
I don't know if you know what skepticism means or what soido means.
I'm guessing this person doesn't know either.
Yeah, it sounds like you're trying to insult it by saying like it's stupid, but instead she's using pseudo that means fake.
It's just really dumb, man.
There's really something.
This is Brand's video titles can be sorted into three broad categories.
This is titles, but not his video.
Again, they never talk about what he's talking about.
The first ones that they refer to in an undefined they, an apparently powerful entity that the viewers have supposedly been blind to, at least until now, when Russell Brand has finally stepped up to tell us about them.
The they means Russia before the they meant truckers.
How about that?
Does that help?
Yeah, he's got the role.
He better be talking about Russia.
Here, she lists a long list of his titles.
Recent examples include, this is what they're not telling you about Russia.
So this is what they've been hiding.
It's official.
They lied.
Are they just puppets?
And so they do run the world.
Lest we think I'm cherry-picking.
These were all published over the past couple of weeks.
That sounds like what real news should be titled.
Yes.
Don't tell me I can't have a crush on Zelensky.
It's official.
They lied.
That should be New York Times.
Yes.
And I made, and she made sure to never watch any of those videos so she doesn't have to worry about being wrong.
Wow.
All right.
So I'm going to stop.
I will stop.
I'm going to stop.
I mean.
So they're upset that Russell Brand has a show that's popular.
And they've been told.
Do you think that two people at the Independent decided on their own on the same day to write independently came up with the idea to take down Russell Brand in such a lame way?
Do you think that's what happened?
Or maybe they were told to do it.
I don't know.
What a coinky dink that these two nobody writers at the Independent funded by Saudi Arabia is they came up with the same idea.
They had the same independent thought to go after Russell Brand, one of the most popular YouTubers, and they go after him in the same lame way.
Isn't that weird?
They probably fought over who gets to do it, and then they settled it by like, we'll both do it.
We'll both do it.
I don't think they need instruction.
I think they're, these are the, this is That's exactly what she's got to be.
So, I mean, I know so many of these people, and they're all the same.
It really is like a society thing.
and it's even worse now like it used to be you could kind of people could get into It's not like that now.
Yeah, I know.
They're from a certain social class called a twit.
And that's what they talk like twits.
They say stupid fucking things.
Basically, she declares him the Joe Rogan of England, which is like, is that an insult?
So he's the second biggest podcast of all time.
Is that what she's saying?
Yes.
So the rest of the article is her just trying to make him.
She uses Joe Rogan's name about 50 times.
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Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy, this is Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Father, husband, grandfather, lover of Kirk and Pickles and pastrami sandwiches, and all-around no-nonsense son of a bitch.
Well, hello, Senator Sanders.
It's good to hear from you, I guess.
What can we do for you?
Jesus Christ, Jimmy, I'd like to make a very important announcement.
The United States Senate, that August body of which I am proudly a part, recently passed a bill that will help the lives of ordinary Americans to an extraordinary degree.
Well, you pass Medicare for all?
Yes.
Finally, the American people can breathe a sigh of relief.
What?
Medicare for all?
Fuck no.
Are you out of your board?
You got a bunch of open paint cans sitting around that Paul evented studio of yours?
No, sir.
Sorry, my bad.
Just wishful thinking, I guess.
Yeah, you could say, you could say that again buying the sky shit right there.
No.
The Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act.
We did it, Jimmy.
We finally did it.
Wait, what is that?
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