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Jan. 16, 2025 - On Brand

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OB #95 - Justifying Elon Musk

Russell justifies how he can support a Big Tech Media Baron when he's spent his entire career railing against, er, Big Tech and Media Barons. Hmm. Read Al's Medium Article! Support us on Patreon! Buy an On Brand magnet handmade by Lauren B!

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	And Lauren, what is your good thing before the bad thing this week?
	Well, I'm going to circumvent my good thing, and hopefully it'll be a potential good thing.
	We had our live stream.
	We did.
	And I also, like, I didn't want to be dramatic.
	I'm not trying to be dramatic.
	But there is a listener who has shown up consistently and hung with us for the past several months.
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	Maybe you were at the movies.
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	I guess, you know, that is to say, boy, the LA fires are really tough and my heart is heavy for people that are going through a lot right now.
	And so, yeah, kind of using this time to talk about that because it's still happening, still a problem.
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	Oh, if I can hop on that as well.
	Musicians who are affected by that get in touch with MusicHairs.
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	I think they require a certain, like you two have been earning money from music for a certain period of time, but they are giving out relief money to musicians affected specifically as well, just FYI. Yeah, there's a lot of resources that are flying around too.
	They're very easy.
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	Unfortunately, we've been going through these natural disasters quite a bit.
	People are a lot more educated, informed, and the networks are a lot stronger to take care of people than they used to be.
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	Yeah, yeah.
	Have everyone safe.
	My good thing is, have you ever seen the TV show Black Sails?
	I've seen it locked where I can't access it unless they want me to subscribe to something.
	That sounds about right.
	I've never watched it.
	It's been dangled in front of me.
	For me, I've just gotten through re-watching it, and for me, I would say it's...
	Probably one of the best TV shows of the last decade, if not longer.
	It is essentially a 38-hour movie that is a combination of both Treasure Island and the fictional side of that, and also like...
	Pirate history.
	So you get, like, Captain Flint and Long John Silver and all that, but you also get Ben Hornigold and, you know, all of these other kind of, like, actual pirate characters, you know, and Blackbeard and, you know, the more famous ones, Calico Jack Rackham, all of these other characters, and Bonnie's in it.
	But yeah, it's just fucking...
	Incredible to kind of...
	I first watched it in like 2015-ish.
	And I've kind of come back to it because I was like, oh yeah, I really enjoyed that.
	And on the rewatch, it's just...
	It's crazy how well it's held up for a start, which I'm happy about.
	But also like...
	As a show, it's so high budget.
	Like, they built, like, fucking full ships in order to be able to film, like, you know, the boat scenes and all that stuff.
	You know, they've got...
	They forged thousands of swords and made thousands of, like, flintlock pistols and all this other stuff.
	And the costumes are insane.
	The budget is crazy.
	Bloody...
	Michael Bay is one of the executive producers, which may have something to do with it.
	Yeah, right?
	But the show itself...
	Utterly phenomenal.
	Toby Stevens is one of the leads, Maggie Smith's son.
	He's...
	Absolutely phenomenal.
	The cast, terrific start to finish.
	One of the things I really appreciated about it is it's very diverse and it's very accepting of LGBTQ plus individuals and also kind of portrays polyamory as well, which is really interesting in that kind of dynamic.
	They talk about slavery in the West Indies and all the...
	These are the, like, amazing things to, well, not amazing things, but, like, having the conversations around it in media from, like, ten years ago.
	I'm like, shit, this was kind of ahead of its time in a lot of ways.
	So, yeah.
	Couldn't recommend it enough.
	Absolutely love that show.
	So, really well done.
	We fought tooth and nail to watch as our flag means death.
	Right, right.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Sounds similar, but probably...
	It's kind of the more dramatic predecessor, I would say.
	And still ahead of their time, because they didn't get renewed, I believe.
	Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So I've not seen Our Flag Means Death.
	What I've heard from a friend who was really into it, there was an issue with one of the characters in the last season or something getting killed off, a beloved character, and then there was a lot of backlash from the fanbase, and then it all kind of went to shit.
	So far as I have been informed.
	But I'm still yet to watch that show.
	I will get around to it, though, because I love pirate stuff.
	It's incredibly gay.
	Sounds like I'm gonna be into it.
	Incredibly, thoroughly gay.
	And also costumes.
	Yeah, and everybody is in it.
	It's really fun and great.
	Blackbeard and the traitor guy whose name escapes me.
	Anyway, Black Sails.
	Great show.
	Recommend.
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	Okay, also...
	I have a small correction corner up top.
	I got my dates mixed up, and Russell will be speaking at Mar-a-Lago with Trump on February 18th, not January 18th.
	But what I also forgot to mention is that Russell will not only be speaking, he will be attending this event to receive the Global Defender of Freedom Award from Donald Trump.
	That's not real.
	Whatever the fuck one of those is.
	That's not a real thing.
	That's not a congressional medal.
	The scenario.
	So there are some things to note about this event.
	Firstly, it's called Celebrate American Exceptionalism 2025. Yeah, which might explain why Russell is the only one getting a Global Defender of Freedom Award, while several other American awardees will be getting just a Defender of Freedom Award.
	So they've tried to, like, explain that one away in the award-giving, which, love it.
	Who are the other awardees, you might wonder?
	Well, I'm glad you asked.
	Receiving the Defender of Freedom Award are former professional wrestler and known sexual harasser George Tyrus Murdoch, boxer and convicted rapist Mike Tyson, and predatory sex pest musician who wrote a song called Jailbait, Ted Nugent.
	I'm just saying, there's a theme among these Defenders of Freedom, if you look at them in their totality.
	That's just...
	A little bit of a murderer's row situation happening there.
	It really feels like those are the guys that couldn't get congressional medals.
	People are like, that's too much.
	Maybe, maybe.
	I'll honor you in my own way.
	But you can make up a fake piece of plastic to give them.
	Right.
	You can do that.
	Yep, yep.
	And other featured speakers at the event include former UFC champion Colby Covington and Russian asset former General Mike Flynn as well.
	Because, great.
	Oh, boy.
	So that'll be fun anyway.
	Something to look forward to.
	For real, though?
	Sure.
	That sounds duck wild.
	Absolutely.
	As an afternoon?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's exactly what I expected.
	I'm like, yep, that's about right.
	Oh, and this may be the only time I get to bring this up.
	So who wants to meet the nude?
	Shout out to anyone who ever played the Dear Avenger games on PC. Terrific fun.
	So, anyway, what has Russell been up to?
	Well, after just shy of a month off, he's finally resumed his show on this Monday, January 13th, 2025. However, I will say this last week, he did put out around an hour's worth of editorials to kind of get things going again, and a couple of those is exactly what we'll be looking at today.
	First up, however, I'm going to pluck a clip from the second one so we can talk about it up top, so here is that.
	Some people, Jordan Peterson, for example, who told Piers Morgan that the UK is becoming a kind of a state and place of ridicule.
	I don't live in the United Kingdom anymore because I personally have experienced how the media, government and judiciary, if you suddenly become an inconvenience, will find ways to attack and shut you down.
	Mm-hmm.
	Russell has finally said out loud into a microphone that he no longer lives in the UK. Though it was basically as an aside, rather than being any kind of formal announcement, but I'll take what I can get.
	So, I've written a piece about this that is now up on Medium.com on our page there, and I'll include a link in the description for anyone wanting to read it, but the long and short here is that, yup, Russell has officially fled the country and has moved to Florida in the wake of these sexual assault allegations against him potentially coming to charge as being pressed by the Crown Prosecution Service.
	To answer a couple of common questions that have arisen so far, yes, he has moved with his family, you know, wife and three kids, and they have their new Dachshund dog out there as well.
	No news on...
	I don't know whether Bear has joined them at all, mind you.
	I've not seen him, like, at all.
	I'll be really sad if they've just left him.
	So, have moved, like, they sold their house, there's pictures of them moving their stuff, there's citizenship processes, like, how do we know they've moved aside from him saying they moved into there?
	The citizenship is another question.
	There's, like, there's...
	Russell tends to keep his kids out of the social stuff, but he has spoken about his kids being there.
	His wife, we've seen on camera, is there.
	As for selling, I don't think he sold the pub in Piss Hill or any of that.
	That still exists.
	But as for the immigration side of it, in a clip I didn't include from last week's episode going back to the very first Stay Free with Russell Brand, he did mention having to go through citizenship stuff for the USA when married to Katy Perry.
	And so I suspect he may actually have dual citizenship for the UK and the US, though I cannot confirm that.
	If it's just through marriage, that wouldn't apply.
	Yeah, yeah, I don't know, is the answer there, in terms of that.
	Or whether he's got something else worked out, you know, because the rules are different for people with a lot of money as well.
	That is a reality that we live in.
	Right, that's the thing, is like, you don't have to live anywhere, which Elon Musk has proven thoroughly, because he just does whatever he wants.
	And if you break the law, here's what's crazy.
	To me, 90 Day Fiance is a very popular show.
	It's a very popular TV program.
	And I learned volumes about the green card marriage process, quote-unquote, you know, as a colloquialism, not the official term, through watching that trashy television program.
	I learned so much that, like, you can hear it and not really internalize.
	The reality, right?
	And the fact that I also know that, like, there's a lot of people watching the show.
	And they have learned the exact same thing I have.
	Because you have to know to follow the plots.
	There are offshoots of offshoots.
	Like, you have to understand it to know what show you're watching.
	Like, to follow the show.
	Why are we not in any way more educated?
	As a country that loves trashy television, the amount of spinoffs...
	This show is its own island nation.
	It has its own zip code.
	Or several.
	It is huge.
	It's really hard to do.
	That's why they make a show out of it.
	There are many obstacles that come up from the government processes.
	Why are we not...
	In any way more...
	I'm just saying.
	People that I know watch this show.
	Why are...
	What show are you watching?
	What show are you watching?
	Why are we not internalizing the reality of it?
	It's just...
	I'm not asking for fucking world peace.
	I'm not asking for scholarship.
	I'm not asking everybody to be an immigration lawyer.
	But like...
	If you watch this show, you know.
	What they do.
	What they have to do.
	It's in the name.
	90 days.
	There are time limits.
	There are, like, hard deadlines.
	It's in the name of the show!
	Why do we not collectively know more?
	And I'm saying, like, as trashy TV watchers, like, why don't we know more?
	Yeah.
	It's too big for just the left.
	To be aware of the struggles of migration, right?
	So you're like, how are you not spotting this?
	That's what I'm saying.
	How are we not all more aware of the process?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, also from that clip, we did learn that, in case anyone missed it, Piers Morgan and Jordan Peterson had a conversation.
	And I'll watch a lot of terrible things, but I would genuinely rather shit in my hands and clap than watch that.
	But yeah, terrible conversation.
	I'm steering clear of that.
	I can deal with one of them at a time.
	But definitely not both at once.
	Okay, so...
	It's fun that you've brought up Elon Musk for reasons.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Just because let's get into the first clip proper from the first editorial we'll be looking at.
	Elon Musk, the most powerful man in the world.
	Who will he choose to run the United Kingdom?
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	We are seeing...
	Epocal shifts.
	The argument could be made that media magnets have always influenced governments, whether that's William Randolph Hearst, you know, him out of Citizen Kane, or Rupert Murdoch, you know, him out of hell.
	We've always accepted that people that buy their ink by the barrel and their paper by the forest or tree oughtn't be argued with.
	But there's a point where orders of magnitude actually affect essence.
	I.e., a media magnate now is Elon Musk, who controls not just one media outlet, but to a degree, the entire political conversation through his platform X. It always amuses me when I see people attack, decry, denounce, undermine Elon Musk on X, because I think, wow, this guy's sort of...
	We can question the ethics of any individual having that much influence over the political process, but when we ask those questions, we have to recognise that those ideas have been baked into democracy for some time.
	What is lobbying?
	What are donations?
	What is the power of Bill Gates?
	What is the power of George Soros?
	We'll be looking at that.
	In some depth later on this week.
	So, Elon Musk's power.
	Is it different than other influencers, magnates, political powers?
	Are we entering the era of world kings?
	Get to the point!
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, he literally just differentiated Elon Musk from all of those things.
	Just a second ago, he made the point of how Elon Musk is different.
	So what we're about to look at in both of the editorials we'll be covering is Russell essentially struggling with the very concept of Elon Musk and having to support him.
	The mental gymnastics.
	A lot of people are in that place right now.
	Now that's some good stuff.
	Russell, since his Revolution and Trues days, has spent a long, long time shitting on Rupert Murdoch and the concept of media barons at large, which, when it comes to Elon Musk, presents Russell with a problem.
	Even Russell can't ignore that Musk is a billionaire media baron who Russell should be overwhelmingly against.
	And yet, Russell just described Elon Musk as a global king, and he's going to have to put in some serious work to justify his support of that when he's supposed to be against both globalists and kings.
	Hmm.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	Yep.
	We're in for a treat.
	This is gonna be really dumb.
	Cool.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Just guys.
	Blow and smoke up each other's butts.
	Which again, I mean, if that's your thing, it's not really what I signed up to watch today.
	Russell seems to be into it.
	I wouldn't pay admission.
	We'll save that.
	Fair.
	So Russell wraps himself in some knots in the next clip about how Rupert Murdoch is evil and Elon Musk is great.
	It was clear when Rupert Murdoch used to invite Tony Blair to come to a Caribbean isle to bend their knee that Murdoch was superior in power to Blair.
	And perhaps it's ever been thus, with magnates, billionaires and donors, I don't know, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Rothschilds, all having significant influence transcendent of the power of government.
	I mean, all of us know that.
	I mean, it wasn't part of Trump's success predicated on him saying, we all know how this works, you set up tax loopholes for us, we make those.
	Really, what's happening is there are tectonic shifts in the nature of global power that's being led by technology.
	So, in a sense, it was inevitable that someone that was at the forefront of technology would briefly, or perhaps permanently, who knows, experience the wielding of these new systems of power.
	Because, to my earlier point, when magnitude increases to the degree that it has done, maybe essence is altered, i.e.
	Elon Musk...
	Perhaps isn't just a version of Rupert Murdoch with more power because he has more reach, because we're not talking about people reading the New York Post or the Sun newspaper or the Times, God help them, for 20 minutes.
	We're talking now about people's continual portal and continual ongoing conversation.
	How will he affect politics?
	Remember, though, of course, that that kind of power can only operate in cracks.
	And fishers that afford that kind of manipulation and operation.
	Remember, there is a migration crisis in the UK. There are social crises.
	There are economic crises.
	There is a total collapse of trust in the government.
	There is a total collapse of trust in media and in the judiciary.
	So new forms of power will fill those vacuums.
	If those vacuums were not present, that new kind of power would be irrelevant.
	So I think when people are complaining about Elon Musk and his influence, whether that's for Farage or for Tommy Rogers, Or for whatever cause he chooses to support.
	They are neglecting, in my view, their own responsibility for carrying the institutions of power with a degree of authority, integrity and authenticity.
	Because there will be some countries where external influence would be ineffective because there is a robustness and cohesion to that nation or community and its institutions.
	For example, if you're a Christian, you're not particularly worried about what Elon Musk is doing because you believe in Jesus.
	What?
	That's not an example of the thing that he just cited.
	That was a double baffle, everybody!
	That's the noise you didn't hear?
	Was a double wha- What?
	What?
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, the pause before was...
	Yeah, yeah.
	If you believe in Jesus, you won't be worried about what Elon Musk is doing.
	In fact, I know we have some Christian listeners, so please do sound off in the comments if you're not worried about Elon Musk because you believe in Jesus.
	I'm genuinely curious to hear your thoughts.
	There's also a lot of every stripe of Christian...
	I mean, evangelicals are, like, very into what's happening with Elon Musk.
	Very true.
	Very true.
	Russell, do you have a phone?
	I don't think he has a phone.
	I think people just tell him stuff.
	I think he just hears stuff at dinner.
	Yeah, I mean, he held one up a moment ago, but maybe someone else is in control of what apps are on it.
	I don't know.
	It's a rectangle, but listen, we can't speak to what it is.
	It lights up when he pokes it, you know, and that's the main thing.
	So, yeah, Christianity and believing in Jesus is not an example of a country where it's too robust for these cracks and fissures to appear.
	So the basic argument that Russell is making here is that Elon Musk is different to Rupert Murdoch and his ilk because Elon Musk exists to fill the cracks in our breaking or broken system, and those cracks are the likes of the quote-unquote migration crisis, social crises, economic crises, and the apparent collapse of trust in government, the media, and the judiciary.
	There's quite a lot there.
	Supposedly, Elon Musk exists to fill those cracks in one sense or another and wouldn't have any power if there weren't any problems.
	So Rupert Murdoch is part of the old system, whereas Elon Musk is something new, some new disruptive influence, right?
	Put simply, there are problems with this concept.
	Firstly, one of the main things that Rupert Murdoch has achieved through his life is successfully tricking the working class in multiple countries into blaming migrants for all their problems.
	If there's anyone who's been consistently at the forefront of talking about the quote unquote migration crisis for literal decades, it's Rupert fucking Murdoch.
	Well, that idea's old.
	That idea is old as colonialism, you know, like colonizing and imperialism.
	But...
	Where he innovates is his monopoly, being able to monopolize the media market.
	Yes.
	He's been very effective.
	That's his technological advance that he's given society.
	Which, again, not new, but the way that he managed to use new technology and then consolidate it and stamp out and ruin the competition.
	Very effective.
	Very skilled at that.
	Yes, yes.
	And like you say, it's not a new game.
	And Elon Musk is very much a continuation of that.
	It's insultingly mundane, frankly.
	Yes, yes.
	But as for the social crises, economic crises, and the collapse of trust in government, the media, and the judiciary, presuming I accept that all of these things are happening, the first answer to literally all of those is journalism in one form or another.
	Now, it might not be state journalism or corporate journalism if all of those things are happening concurrently and there's no trust in media, but, like, citizen journalism has existed for centuries for this exact reason.
	It is citizen journalism and grassroots reporting that has sparked revolutions.
	Like, the Arab Spring is a pretty recent example of this exact thing happening.
	You know, citizen journalism is alive and well in China and Russia, again, for the reason that there is no trust in the state media in those countries.
	You know, like it's a thing that already exists.
	But according to Russell, the answer to all of these problems and crises is to have one guy with more power than Rupert Murdoch in charge of solving all of them in some way, instead of empowering the people at the bottom to make grassroots change.
	For someone to who this very day insists he's about individual freedoms and defending the little guy, Russell is spending almost all of his time disenfranchising the working class and trying to convince them that the oligarch class should be in charge because he likes these ones and he profits by doing so.
	Yeah.
	It's incredibly transparent.
	Almost every week, if not every week, that his words mean absolutely nothing because his behavior is the opposite.
	Now, we need to listen to what he's saying, but only to just say, whoa, what a hypocrite you are, because you could just say whatever you want, and what you're doing, the impact of your behavior, which also are his words.
	Like, that's what's tricky, is like, words can be both, but the...
	The behaviors that he invests his time and energy in and the impact that he's actually having, what he's actually saying, what he's actually doing, yeah, that's what we need to pay attention to.
	That's the important thing.
	Yeah.
	Because, yeah, you can just say, oh, I'm just not that, oh, well, I'm a victim of the system.
	Oh, okay, Russell.
	Yeah.
	Like, oh, I'm not a, don't come to me for the news, I'm just some guy.
	Now here's some fucking news.
	What the fuck are we doing?
	Also, you should be using us as your main news source.
	Which is it?
	I'm not a fascist.
	I am on Rumble.
	What are we doing?
	Yeah, big supporter of Trump.
	So, Russell justifies himself a little bit further in this next clip.
	We're in such a state of extraordinary flux that it's very difficult to predict where this might lead.
	For us, for those of us that are interested in independent media and independent thought, and perhaps the idea of some ulterior deep truth, and I even give it a monosyllabic, monotheistic undergirding, God, what we believe in surely is individual power, community power, real democracy, and the minimal amount of external pressure or power from...
	Any human resource.
	There is only one true source of power.
	And while various global resources and forces may move the chess pieces on the board, we know that the material world is but one expression of a limitless resource, not even a resource, source.
	Of absolute and optimal power.
	And if we don't have any relationship with that or any belief in that, then guess what?
	We become vulnerable to all sorts of influences.
	And for a minute, it looked like it was going to be kind of globalist, totalitarian, neoliberal.
	How can we help you into your next vaccine and then into your social credit score?
	And now it's looking like a new swathe of global kings and potential oligarchs.
	But we don't know how this is going to play out yet.
	And it's fascinating.
	Fascinating to be in the mad midst of the flux.
	So, you can see...
	Is he going to say a thing today?
	Yes, yeah, yeah.
	We're going to get to more of an actual story in just a second.
	You know what?
	I'm going to withhold my judgment.
	I don't know that we will.
	But sure, I mean, just say a thing.
	Say a real, tangible...
	Yeah, yeah.
	There's a lot of him wrestling with himself throughout this entire thing.
	And you can see how he's immediately contradicting himself by firstly touting his support of individual and community freedoms.
	Because his mouth is open and he's making noise?
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah, community freedoms with the least external influence possible.
	And then in the next moment, he's like, well, these global kings and oligarchs seem to be doing good stuff, don't they?
	Wow, isn't it crazy to be in the midst of the flux?
	What's more, there's a trend I've been noticing in Russell's content for the last several months, and it's something that is glaringly obvious in both of these editorials.
	Almost without exception, whenever Russell talks himself into a problem area, especially in areas where his new alt-right identity is in conflict with his former left-wing guru self, he pivots to saying...
	But Jesus, though!
	Christianity!
	The fallibility of all humans, eh?
	And he does this as though it's some kind of instant get-out-of-jail-free card for any argument that he is losing with himself.
	It's every single time.
	And I do need to reiterate, it is almost always Russell talking himself in circles, feeling what must be an absolute metric ton of cognitive dissonance, and then going, but Jesus, though!
	So there we go.
	Well, you have to care about your integrity, which he doesn't.
	You have to have credibility, which he doesn't.
	You have to have earned trust by being consistent, which is okay.
	Nope.
	Not that.
	Genuinely, we see this all the time.
	Yeah, that's a thing he does.
	I'm so curious and interested.
	And also, I mean, have seen bits and pieces of this, too.
	Christianity is to get out of, like, Christ is to get out of jail free card, right?
	Like, that is, like, was that Hinduism before?
	Was that, like, what was that before?
	Was that Buddhism before?
	Was that meditation before?
	Was that the step program?
	Like, was that the recovery program before?
	Was that, like, because...
	So many options.
	But genuinely, like, listening to what he has said in the past, you may have heard it.
	With the Dalai Lama event?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You very well may have heard him do this exact same thing but do Buddhism instead.
	Yeah, yeah, spiritualism of some kind, right?
	Right, yeah, some kind of spiritual pursuit of like, whoop, trapdoor, can't catch me.
	Ha ha ha!
	Like, that's, it's, this is just his latest, which like other, you know, like creators and like people, you know, like people in like kind of actual independent media that like do have integrity and give a shit.
	I'm not the first person to make this observation necessarily because they've seen it in the past.
	And they call it out as like, oh, Christianity is the latest costume that Russell is appropriating from a community.
	He's wearing a Christian costume.
	And so this is his latest iteration, and they're just like, yeah, what's the next one going to be?
	Are you a dinosaur?
	It's just, it's not...
	I'd be so much more interested if he was a dinosaur, but yes, yeah.
	Same, I know, that was wishful.
	I apologize.
	I apologize for threatening everybody with some fun.
	Yeah, no, genuinely, this is his M.O., and I really wish...
	Christians were more bothered by this thing that keeps happening, not just with Russell, but with so many people.
	Please don't let your religious affiliation blind you to the reality of who this person is.
	Forgiveness is also not a get-out-of-jail-free.
	That's not how that works.
	Not just the atheists, right?
	Not just the people that are like, oh, religion, not my bag.
	People in the religions, which also genuinely we have found, they were also upset with Russell when he did the baptism thing.
	There are Christians, there are Catholics, there's content on YouTube mad at Russell, but he's still...
	He still has market share, so then what are we doing?
	Everybody should be more upset about this appropriation.
	It's because he's appropriating.
	I mean, it's tough because you can't say, you know, we don't have windows into men's hearts, right?
	And maybe all of this is entirely sincere, but there are things that he has done, like baptizing other people, that are doctrinally...
	Inappropriate.
	Yeah, there's a lot of performative shit coming along with it, regardless of what he believes internally.
	Right, and not as a vibe, as like, this is not the process.
	Like, this isn't, these aren't the steps that all of us have agreed on.
	Like, you are, and that's also, like, we don't need to make that, I don't know, we're making that point in a different arena to different people in a different way.
	Not all of you listen to the bitchiest monk on AM radio that also posts his bitchy tirades that frankly are – if they weren't so hateful, it'd be splendid on like YouTube that I watched.
	For that off-brand episode, we talked about it.
	But like, there are other people pushing back.
	Yeah.
	Why, why isn't it sticking?
	And we need to look at why the Teflon is allowing the water to, you know, roll off this duck's back that he can just plug in and use the same, like, and use religion or spirituality as an excuse to not think.
	So now we get to what Elon's been up to in the UK, and what Elon's role is apparently supposed to be, according to Russell.
	And this clip starts with some Channel 4 news coverage of the issue.
	Elon Musk's new favourite seems to be Tommy Robinson.
	He used to head the English Defence League, whom he says was put in prison for telling the truth about Britain.
	He was actually jailed for contempt of court.
	We make Britain great again!
	Nigel Farage, who's in the middle of a series of rallies, has said Elon Musk's broadside is a surprise.
	He's a remarkable individual, he said, but Tommy Robinson is not right for reform.
	Never mind that he says he's never asked to join the party, although some of its members are supporters of his.
	The government, too, is having to deal with Elon Musk's current obsession with British politics, specifically his criticism of the records of the Prime Minister and Jess Phillips and his call for a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation.
	We've had an independent inquiry on child sexual exploitation.
	Not a single one of those recommendations was implemented by the last government.
	We are determined to implement those recommendations.
	And when it comes to the Prime Minister, our Victims Minister Jess Phillips, these are people who in their professional lives outside politics have put more rapists, wife-beaters and paedophiles behind bars than their critics could.
	It's not Elon Musk's job to jail rapists and paedophiles.
	It's Elon Musk's job, it seems, to ensure that there is a global conversation about the nature and direction of political power.
	And he's conducting that job rather well.
	Okay, it's apparently Elon Musk's job to ensure there's a global conversation about the nature and direction of political power.
	Were I face-to-face with Russell after him saying this, I would love to use one of his own arguments against him and ask, under what authority is Elon Musk given this power, and what moral authority does he have to be performing this role?
	Because the answer is, yeah, right?
	He has none.
	Like, he was elected by- No, he did.
	He would.
	It would just be wrong.
	He had all the answers in the world.
	They'd just be completely wrong and avoidant.
	Yeah.
	Like, Elon Musk was elected by nobody.
	He was chosen by nobody.
	And even by Russell's own moral standards of having a basic religious undergirding, Musk doesn't even have that.
	And, like, according to his own family, has barely ever set foot in a fucking church.
	So, like, why is it okay for him to be doing this?
	Oh, because you agree with him?
	Oh, I see.
	Okay.
	In any case, I should explain what the shit Elon Musk has been doing in the UK. And to use the Welsh vernacular, I'd say he's been engaging in some proper shithousery, is what he's been doing.
	Yeah, man.
	I was mad the first time.
	I get to be mad again.
	Great.
	Yeah, he's been sticking his oar in over here.
	One of the fun things is that, yes, he did turn his back on Nigel Farage, so that is one of the more enjoyable signs of it.
	But first up, so Elon has been making the claim that Keir Starmer, when director of the Crown Prosecution Service, was letting grooming gangs or rape gangs who groom and sexually abuse children off scot-free.
	This accusation came with a specific lens, however, in meme form, and that lens was, and now he's putting people in prison for social media posts.
	Which, like...
	If you're inciting people to violence and spreading hate speech on social media and then that violence also comes to pass I'm afraid that is against the law in the UK and you will end up going to prison.
	That is just how that works.
	As for the grooming gang situation, it's a little complex, but not overly.
	What happened in the last couple of weeks is that the Tories, the Conservatives, put a motion forward demanding a new national inquiry into grooming gangs in the UK. And the reason they did this was to try and stall the passing and implementation of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which the Tories are against because, honestly...
	I can think of little good reason other than them being a massive bunch of assholes, because, like, among some smaller things, here is what the bill does, right?
	So all councils will be required to hold a register of children who are not in school.
	Councils will be able to require parents and providers of out-of-school education to share information like name, address, and nature of the education that children are being provided.
	A unique number for every child, in the same way that every adult has their own national insurance number, to join up systems and make sure that no child falls through the cracks.
	So like social security number, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	A consistent identifier will allow those responsible for the safeguarding and welfare of children to better join relevant data and identify children who will benefit from additional support.
	The removal of the automatic right for parents to educate children at home if their child is subject to a child protection investigation or under a child protection plan.
	Schools will need to check with the local authority where a parent asks to remove a child from school to home educates to establish whether the local authority's consent should be obtained.
	If any child's home environment is assessed as unsuitable or unsafe local authorities will have the power to intervene and require school attendance.
	In the event of one of these child protection investigations going on, right?
	And also making sure every council operates best practice multi-agency safeguarding panels that bring together all the professionals that can best make sure children are kept safe both inside and outside the home.
	And all of this is off the back of the information that around 111,000 children and young people are home educated in the UK at the moment, which is up from an estimated 55,000 before the pandemic.
	Fair to say it's kind of exploded in recent years.
	And this is alongside the 150,000 children missing education altogether at some point during the last year.
	And the recent Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, the Annual Report of 2024, highlighted that children experiencing harm outside the home, including exploitation, were likely to not be enrolled in school, would be missing education, or have poor school attendance.
	It's fundamentally a bill to protect children and ensure they are safe and try and fix some of these problems, basically, as well as receiving an education in a safe environment.
	And leader of the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, put this bullshit National Grooming Gang's inquiry into play, saying that if Labour refused, then it would fuel concerns that there was a cover-up going on.
	Great.
	And some important context for that is that just last year, Rishi Sunak's conservative government also rejected requests for a government-led inquiry into grooming gangs.
	And Kemi Bandnok didn't say shit.
	There is some blatant and obvious hypocrisy going on.
	A lot of political point-scoring happening.
	As for the subject at large, I'm going to read from a BBC article.
	There have been numerous investigations into the systemic rape of young women by organized gangs, including in Rotherham, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Rochdale, and Bristol.
	Sir Keir admitted many of the victims had been let down by perverse ideas about community relations or by the idea that institutions must be protected above all else and that they have not been listened to and they have not been heard.
	A Rotherham inquiry uncovered the sexual abuse of 1,400 children over 16 years, mainly by British-Pakistani men.
	In Telford, up to 1,000 girls faced abuse over 40 years, with some cases overlooked due to, quote, nervousness about race, as most suspects were men of South Asian heritage.
	The Conservatives and Reform UK have been calling for a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.
	Last week, Badenoch said, quote, Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years, but no one in authority has joined the dots.
	2025 must be the year that victims start to get justice, unquote.
	But Sir Keir dismissed the calls, arguing the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse by Professor Alexis Jay, which concluded in October 2022, had been comprehensive.
	While he agreed that no stone should be left unturned to end child sexual abuse, Sir Keir insisted that action is now needed, not another review.
	Unquote.
	Agreed.
	Completely.
	The previous Conservative government did exactly nothing on the issue of grooming gangs and did not enact any of the policies set out in the Jay Report.
	They had plenty of time, too.
	There would have been...
	Cross-party support, had they done so, but no.
	And off the back of all of this, Elon Musk is suggesting that Keir Starmer should resign, there should be a general election immediately, and also that, yeah, Nigel Farage is not fit to run reform, and that perhaps Tommy Robinson should take over the party.
	Except, oh wait, he's currently in prison, isn't he?
	That's something of an issue, but...
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, and also, with the issue of grooming gangs in general, it's also worth noting that the instances of grooming and sexually abusing children in this country that are instituted by white people gets a lot much less time in the press, basically.
	You know, there are instances from Cornwall, you know, there are whole massive cases that just get way less media attention because it's done by white people.
	Well, even, yeah.
	Are we going to talk any more about these cases?
	Not especially.
	Well, yeah.
	Here's the thing.
	They're citing...
	Okay, so first, the normal bad thing that conservatives do is point out...
	An instance of a crime that was exposed, investigated, and adjudicated as an example of rampantly crimes that are being gotten away with, and they are using people who actually faced consequences as an example, which is wrong.
	We don't do that.
	regardless of the subject matter, um, saying like, these guys just getting away with it when like, no, they did.
	They absolutely didn't.
	Cause you found out about it.
	Cause it made it to court.
	So using that as an example, that's your first mistake.
	Second, just cause you haven't seen it happen.
	Doesn't mean it didn't happen.
	Um, just cause you weren't aware of it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
	Secondly, um, I'm really glad that you mentioned, you know, like white people, cause like, so, uh, I'm upset that this is coming back around because like, this is a case that went from like 2009 to 2011.
	I don't remember how it came up.
	I think it was a YouTube...
	Back in the days where my YouTube algorithm found stuff I wanted to watch.
	Heavy days.
	If only.
	And so I remember learning about how this case, it was dire.
	It's really bad.
	Like, the details are terrible.
	But also how it was weaponized and politicized.
	And one of the reporters that I caught, you know, I'm kind of like just...
	Being made aware again that this is making the rounds, and after I got done rolling my eyes and feeling sad about it, getting back into the news coverage that is responsible, that is also coming out of the UK, is like, hey, no, no, no, no, this is...
	Elon Musk is fucking around.
	He's getting fucky with it.
	Don't listen.
	And interviews with...
	One or two interviews with one of the reporters that...
	Was the initial investigative reporter that broke the story that even got the cops to give a shit because what was actually happening.
	And the thing is, is we don't know.
	We don't know.
	So we know what he knows, which reporters always know way more than they say because they have to.
	That's part of it.
	That's part of the process.
	And that's the responsible way to do things.
	So what he was saying is like, there's...
	There are white guys.
	It was really easy to paint this as a British-Pakistani gang problem because the white guys were warned or got away with it or magically were absent when it came time to round everybody up.
	So I say that it was adjudicated, but it was still adjudicated.
	Racistly.
	So, and what's really, I mean, you know, if you're a true crime, even a casual true crime head like me, or not like me, or like me, and you, you know, listen to stuff like this all the time, you understand that, you know, you look into the story even a little bit, and it's a fuzzy line because children does include teenagers, does include, like...
	Girls that Ted Nugent would write that song about that everyone would sing along with.
	Bear in mind the age of consent in the UK is 16. Work on that.
	But yeah, that's the thing.
	You've got this kind of...
	You can make the argument and you can complain about...
	That being indicative of a larger problem, but it's not a British Pakistani problem.
	It is a misogyny problem.
	It is a anti-feminist problem.
	It is an equality problem.
	And it is specifically a law enforcement problem because you didn't just have, like, there were cops that were trying to get something done, but it's so hard to prove and so hard to pin these things down.
	And there were other, like...
	The cops dropped the fucking ball.
	And this is one of those stories that is so frustrating because, like, Keir Starmer, he comes out smelling like roses.
	He did the right thing.
	He made it better.
	Like, he actually, like, this is one of those arguments.
	Yeah, he got this right.
	Yeah, he 100% got this right.
	Like, there were a lot of problems at, like, lower levels where law enforcement literally, like, doing stings.
	And this is not in the 60s.
	This is not in the 80s.
	This is in 2009 to 11. Like, showing up to these parties where, like, the environment, and this is what I'm saying about, like, if you're, you know, familiar with true crime or if you are, because you are a minority, you are in danger in public, so you've got to mind your P's and Q's.
	It sounds exactly like the quote-unquote parties, like the drug-fueled sex parties that are being described about what Matt Gaetz is getting up to, what the cops were doing in the Lisk case, or what Jeffrey Epstein would spend his free time entertaining men with.
	Again, it is disappointingly usual.
	But still uniquely gross every time we have to hear about it.
	And so it's so irresponsible of Elon Musk.
	I know, shocking, right?
	Who on earth?
	But it is so particularly irresponsible of Elon Musk to use this very pointed stoking racism and Islamophobia.
	There's all these elements that...
	We're already discussed and came out and were used against people.
	And the fact that it's coming back again is just like it's extra insulting to me and how normal it is.
	Not addressing the systemic issue of misogyny, femicide, perpetuating a rape culture.
	This is going to keep happening.
	So especially like scapegoating to like...
	or just to stoke racism.
	Tommy fucking Robinson, are you serious?
	Like, this is just so, it's a layer cake of gross when we had to deal with the reality that like statistics are being talked about, at least where my media diet is, that the number one, like the most dangerous, fatal, like the most dangerous, fatal, like you are most likely to not be able to continue to exist as a pregnant person
	The number one cause of death for pregnant people on Earth is men murdering them.
	Occasionally women.
	Murder.
	Murder is the number one cause of death for pregnant people on Earth.
	And they just found one of those seven...
	Another crazy group chat because of the case in France, the Pelico case.
	70,000 men, boys as young as 10, the group chat that is comparing notes and teaching people how to drug and sexually assault their sisters' moms, wives, exactly what was happening in the case in France.
	And I'm trying to like...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's chilling.
	It's actively violent.
	It's actively violent, and this is the world we have to live in.
	So if we want to fix something, we need to recognize the issues and where the problems are.
	So to say that it's like, what are you going to do?
	Really?
	England?
	What's your solution, Nigel Farage?
	Let's think this all the way through.
	Or, oh, Tommy Robinson, you're going to be in charge now?
	Oh, is the Pakistaniness the problem?
	I bet it isn't.
	I fucking bet it isn't.
	Because misogyny and hate and violence and treating female-bodied individuals like we are public fucking property...
	Is not, knows no gender, knows no creed, knows no race.
	So, like, it's frustrating on so many levels, and it's old news.
	So you're also wasting my time.
	I just, it's like, we need to be aware.
	Like, nothing is stopping Russell from saying what I just did.
	What I just said.
	Yep.
	Because he also, because, like, he can be his, we've established.
	He can be a hypocrite in between sentences.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, it's true.
	If you really want a posture, there it is.
	Have at it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Instead, like, Elon Musk has been attempting to inflict himself upon the UK, but Russell is more than fine with that sizable outside influence attempting to throw wrenches in our democracy.
	Like, just a minute ago, oh no, as little outside influence as possible, but Elon Musk coming over here and wading in, like, yeah, that's fine.
	Cool.
	The guy that says he's moving to Florida.
	Yeah.
	And hanging out with the future...
	Past and future president.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	What is he?
	How?
	Behave.
	Behave.
	How he behave.
	Words mean zero.
	How he behave.
	So, as you've brought him up, we now get to the subject of Tommy Robinson.
	As Elon Musk himself said, show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
	In the case of Tommy Robinson, the crime appears to have been mortgage fraud and, in this instance, contempt of court.
	But ultimately, there is a sense that it's Tommy Robinson's continual conversation about grooming gangs, about child exploitation, abuse and rape that has embarrassed the government and led to his incarceration.
	Let's have a look at Piers Morgan, though, who has a very different view on Tommy Robinson.
	Me, personally, I've been fascinated.
	I've been fascinated with Tommy Robinson for a long time, primarily because I'm interested in class politics.
	And Tommy Robinson is the face of a significant contingent of working class agitation and discomfort when it comes to the subject of not only migration, but the inability for there to appear to be, what do I want to call it, convivial assimilation between certain aspects of Muslim Britain.
	An indigenous, white, working class, Britain.
	He comes from Newton.
	He talks a lot about his personal experiences when it comes to dealing with factions and fractures in the culture that he grew up in.
	So, whether or not you like Tommy Robinson, surely you would have to agree that he has a right to a voice.
	And it does seem dubious that he's found himself incarcerated right now.
	It does seem dubious that he's incarcerated.
	And whilst contempt of court is obviously the explicit reason for his incarceration, one can't help but think that there might be cultural and political reasons for his jailing too.
	Fucking hell.
	So Russell is trying to insinuate here that Tommy Robinson is some kind of political prisoner, that he's been jailed for his ideology.
	Are we being insensitive to Tommy Robinson's ethnic, cultural...
	Yes, he is.
	Racist lads?
	Yes, yes.
	Exactly that.
	First, I need to say up top, Tommy Robinson is a fucking liar who lies.
	Yeah.
	Poorly!
	He's lying.
	Yes, usually badly.
	He doesn't even remember his own.
	It's very embarrassing.
	Easily Google-able, often.
	Uh-huh.
	Okay, so...
	What I do want to do for a second is take a minute to look at a list of Tommy Robinson's crimes.
	Or, wait, sorry, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's crimes.
	No, wait, Andrew McMaster.
	Sorry.
	Paul Harris.
	No, Wayne King.
	Sorry, it gets so confusing because he's gone by all of those names over the last couple of decades, and I'm sure there is no shady reason maybe why someone would need four pseudonyms.
	For the record, he was born Stephen Christopher Yaxley, then adopted his father's name of Lennon, and then when he went full committed shithead, he took the name Tommy Robinson, which was the name of a somewhat famous football hooligan in the UK. So there we go.
	Confoundly stealing every idea.
	That's the thing.
	Bad on all the big bad stuff, but also unoriginal stealing material.
	Yeah.
	Real dope.
	Because Steven Yaxley-Lennon is a totally cool name.
	It's a perfectly cool name.
	What's the complaint?
	Unless you are trying...
	I mean, the thing is, is like...
	We can't accuse somebody, because we have no proof, that he specifically went by a different name so that he could get away with stuff.
	But I don't see the logic as to why the perfectly good name certainly appears that way.
	And then, you know, it's a much more...
	Because it's a name evocative of the football hooliganry that he likes to engage in, you know, it's a much more kind of masculine, kind of working class name than Stephen Yaxley Lennon, you know?
	I guess.
	I mean, well, but it was a different guy.
	Yes, yeah, yeah.
	He stole someone else's name.
	Tommy Robinson himself.
	It's not even him.
	It's a different guy.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Okay, so many crimes.
	Hulk Hogan wasn't another guy and then became Hulk Hogan.
	Terry picked Hulk Hogan.
	Come on.
	Yeah, there wasn't another guy called Hulk Hogan that he stole.
	There was Hulk.
	And there was Hogan.
	But there wasn't Hulk Hogan.
	It's a new thing.
	We also talked about the ethics of collage.
	Yes.
	And the creative process.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so be warned.
	When it comes to Tommy Robinson's many crimes, this is a long list.
	In April 2005, at Luton Crown Court, Robinson was convicted of assault, occasioning actual bodily harm, ABH, and assault with intent to resist arrest against an off-duty police officer in July 2004. The officer had intervened in an Robinson received sentences of twelve months and three months, which were served concurrently.
	Okay, so good old-fashioned assault.
	In September 2011, at Preston Magistrates Court, Robinson was convicted of assault for headbutting a man in Blackburn on the 2nd of April 2011. And then in November 2011, he was given a 12-week jail term, which was then suspended for 12 months.
	In July 2011, at Luton and South Bedfordshire Magistrates Court, Robinson was convicted of using threatening, abusive, or insulting behaviour for leading a group of Luton Town Football Club supporters into a brawl involving 100 people in Luton on the 24th of August 2010. He was sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order, 150 hours of unpaid work, and given a three-year football banning order.
	So he wasn't allowed to attend a football match for three years.
	Fun that we have those.
	Boo fucking hoo.
	Yeah, right.
	In October 2012, Robinson was arrested and held on the charge of having entered the United States illegally.
	He had used a passport in the name of Andrew McMaster to board a Virgin Atlantic flight from London Heathrow to New York City.
	He had been banned from entering the US because of his criminal record.
	He pled guilty at Southwark Crown Court after using a passport that did not belong to him to travel to the United States in September 2012. He was subsequently sentenced in January 2013. So, you know,
	very much, you know, migration and that kind of thing for me, but not for the, much like what Russell is engaging in.
	He's white.
	Yeah, so it's different.
	This is a fun one.
	Via his mother, who was an Irish immigrant to Britain, Tommy Robinson reportedly qualifies for an Irish passport as Stephen Yaxley Lennon.
	And then in August 2024, three Irish TDs, members of their parliament, asked the government to investigate the validity of Tommy Robinson's Irish passport after it emerged that he had given his place of birth as being Ireland.
	Usually you need like a town, city, something like that.
	No, island.
	That's where I was.
	That's where I was born.
	And of course, he wasn't.
	Yeah, that was the issue to me.
	That's the bigger issue.
	It was a lie?
	Yeah, problem.
	Fraud.
	That's fraud.
	In November 2012, Robinson was charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud by misrepresentation in relation to a mortgage application along with five other defendants.
	He pled guilty to two charges and in January 2014 was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
	Robinson's fraud amounted to £160,000 over a period of six months.
	£160,000.
	Judge Andrew Bright described him as the instigator, if not the architect, of a series of frauds totaling £640,000.
	This was an operation which was fraudulent from the outset and involved a significant amount of forward planning, he said.
	He described Robinson as a fixer who had introduced others to fraudulent mortgage broker Deborah Rothschild.
	Rothschild had assisted some defendants by providing fake payslips and income details.
	On the 10th of May 2017, Tommy Robinson was charged and convicted with contempt of court.
	He had filmed inside Canterbury Crown Court and posted prejudicial statements calling the defendants Muslim child rapists while the jury was deliberating.
	Judge Heather Norton said Robinson used pejorative language in his broadcast which prejudged the outcome of the case and could have had the effect of substantially derailing the trial.
	She added, If you are that,
	like, he would be helping the defendants get away with it if he interfered that much with the trial.
	So when you do that, listen, this is where vigilante justice, this is the limitation, right?
	If you're doing that shit, people that are guilty will get away with stuff if you fuck with the trial.
	It's the absolute opposite of what he's even claiming he's trying to do.
	A hundred percent, and he did not learn that lesson, because a year later, on the 25th of May 2018, Robinson was arrested for a breach of the peace while live-streaming outside Leeds Crown Court during the trial of the Huddersfield grooming gang, on which reporting restrictions had been ordered by the judge.
	This is how you know that they don't care about the victims, and they don't care about justice, and they are...
	There is a special, if hell were real, there'd be a special little nook and cranny for it for people that use specifically abused children, assaulted, groomed children, to this end in this particularly insidious, selfish way.
	And usually, they've got some fucking skeletons in their closet we all need to know about if they are protesting so much.
	Yeah, yeah, and it's worth noting that he nearly derailed both of these cases by doing these things, just for the record.
	Following Robinson's arrest, Judge Jeffrey Marsden QC issued a further reporting restriction on Robinson's case, prohibiting any reporting of Robinson's case or the grooming trial until the latter case was complete.
	This was then all deferred for a while due to a sentencing issue with the previous case.
	It's just a...
	Technical issue, basically.
	Which then gave time for Tommy Robinson to go to places like Infowars and beg Donald Trump for asylum in the US, which he didn't receive, before ending up in prison in the UK yet again.
	Which would be a good sign for Russell not...
	His plea is not being heard by Daddy Trump.
	Fingers crossed.
	Because if there's one thing we know about Trump, He isn't going to do what he doesn't want to do.
	Yeah, that is verifiable.
	Pickle!
	Yeah.
	So on 11th of July 2019, Robinson was jailed for nine months at the Old Bailey for the 2018 breach of peace.
	Right, so it took a minute.
	He described the sentence as an absolute joke and called for protests.
	Outside the court, some of his supporters booed and a crowd marched towards the building chanting, We want Tommy out.
	Some began pelting police with bottles and cans.
	Robinson had already served 69 days in prison at that point and would be required to serve another 10 weeks.
	Uh, except on 13th of September 2019, Robinson was released early from prison after serving only nine weeks.
	Uh, several days, presumably good behavior, who the fuck knows.
	Um, several days later, he said that he had spoken to Julian Assange while in prison and announced that he supported him.
	Good stuff.
	Sure.
	Um, sure thing.
	Okay.
	I mean, Julian Assange, there is a degree, and this is just annoying to me, and I just want to give voice to her.
	There is a degree of Julian Assange support that's just like the free Tibet shirts you could buy at work.
	Sure.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I have a hard time really giving a shit about everyone that's like...
	Because there are...
	In theory, there are some problems with...
	Free speech, reporting, and whistleblowers that technically overlap with Julian Assange's effort.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, it's true.
	We can't completely 100% disagree, but understanding, again, like, also, he should be annoyed at everyone who's just, well, he's not gonna be.
	It's like, you know, it's very, like, free.
	It's fashionable to support.
	Support him without necessarily understanding the implications.
	And the thing that sticks with me is way more like what they pointed out in the Q Into the Storm documentary that he said is very, cue a non-early adopter.
	That's the issue.
	It's a little sticky.
	It says a lot.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I think that it sucks that when a social cause or person becomes so fashionable that it's just kind of everywhere and it's just like, man, yuck.
	Okay.
	That's dumb.
	So, back to Tommy Robinson.
	Sometime after 10pm at night, on the 17th of January 2021, Tommy Robinson went to the home of journalist Lizzie Dearden after she had asked for his comment for a story she was writing about allegations that he had misused financial donations from his supporters.
	Tommy Robinson showed up at her house and falsely accused Riordan's partner of being a paedophile and threatened to return every night.
	He was arrested over the incident and further published photographs of the journalist's partner on his Telegram channel stating that serious allegations had been made about the partner.
	Basically willing his audience to do something, essentially.
	Serious allegations he made?
	Yeah, right.
	Yes, exactly that.
	It was alleged he threatened the couple in an attempt to prevent the article from being published.
	Dearden's article was eventually published on 18th of March, 2021. The next day, Robinson was issued with an interim stalking ban order.
	I was going to say.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And then on 13th of October 2021, Robinson was convicted at Westminster Magistrates Court of stalking the couple and was given a five-year ban from contacting them or referring to them.
	On 19th of October 2023, he then lost his appeal against the stalking ban order, having admitted that the allegations he made about Dearden's partner were, in fact, false.
	And he was stalking!
	He also was...
	He was also doing the thing!
	Yeah, like, oh, you're a dangerous predator, and I'm...
	We're going to prove it by stalking you!
	Okay!
	Okay, now we get to kind of the big, more recent one.
	So in October 2018, after a Syrian boy who was a refugee was assaulted in a school bullying incident, Robinson falsely accused the victim of having previously attacked two schoolgirls.
	The 15-year-old refugee was dragged to the floor by his neck and told by his attacker, I'll drown you while water was forced into his mouth.
	The boy's arm was in a cast after it had been broken in a separate assault.
	His sister had also been assaulted.
	All of these racially motivated, right?
	A 16-year-old boy believed to be the attacker who was interviewed by police and given a court summons had shared numerous social media posts by Tommy Robinson.
	On Facebook, Robinson subsequently posted a screenshot of a message from a mother saying that her daughter had been bullied and he accused the refugee of being the bully.
	However, the mother in question responded on Robinson's Facebook page informing him that this was false.
	That didn't deter him in any way.
	Robertson also made a false allegation about the Syrian refugee using a photo stolen from a news article about a teenage cancer patient.
	There it is.
	Just delightful.
	These events forced the refugee's family to relocate because the level of abuse the children have received has become too much, is what they said.
	Yeah, fair.
	Poor fucking family.
	On the 22nd of July, 2021, Robinson was found to have libeled the boy and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs, which were understood to amount to a further £500,000.
	An injunction was also granted to stop Robinson from repeating the libel.
	That bit is important.
	Because next, Robinson produced a film silenced about this case.
	The film was financed by Infowars, the website owned by Alex Jones.
	And then by 2023, Robinson had also started working with Mice Media, a now-defunct media channel founded by Bryn Davis, an American tech guy, conspiracy theorist, and Donald Trump supporter, to finalize a new version of Silenced.
	The Mice Media version of Silenced was launched on 1st of April 2023, April Fool's Day, in Copenhagen at an event hosted by the Danish People's Party and the Danish Free Press Society, both organizations associated with The names, dude.
	The names.
	Too vague.
	Stop it.
	Too co-op.
	Co-opting.
	Not cooperative, but co-opting of other ideas.
	Come on, man.
	In the film, Robinson repeats his defamatory claims about the boy.
	He depicts the incident and the resulting fallout as a story about how the law is being manipulated and exploited by the far left and Islamists to destroy the lives of anyone who speaks out against the so-called progressive, so-called liberal narrative.
	Sam Doak of Logically Facts wrote that the film's release invites potential Thank you.
	Which it did.
	On the 28th of July 2024, Robinson was arrested by Kent police at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone under the Terrorism Act 2000 for frustration of his Schedule 7 examination immediately after his Unite the Kingdom protest at Trafalgar Square.
	He was released on bail.
	At the Trafalgar Square protest, he allegedly screened his film silenced, despite the High Court order.
	Um, he had been scheduled to attend a High Court contempt of court hearing on 29th of July for making the film.
	Um, so basically, he's in breach of the thing, you know, doing the thing that he's not supposed to be doing, right?
	Um, an arrest warrant was issued after he left the country, um, to be enacted in October should he fail to appear at a follow-up hearing.
	Um, so, so, so, like...
	All of this was just before all of the race riots and everything were kind of, you know, happening in the UK. He was shit-stirring for the brief moment he was here, which is what led to the white nationalists setting hotels with refugees in on fire.
	This was then.
	Ahead of that hearing, on the 28th of October, 2024, at Woolwich Crown Court, Tommy Robinson was held in custody after handing himself in to Folkestone Police Station on the 25th of October.
	Had he waited any longer, he would have been arrested while in the EU. At the hearing, Robinson admitted contempt of court by repeating false allegations about the Syrian refugee.
	He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and issued with a costs order for £80,350.
	The judge later ordered Robinson to pay £50,000 by 4pm on 7th January 2025. Robinson was described by his barrister as a journalist.
	Very generous.
	Judge Mr Justice Johnson said that Tommy Robinson had shown no remorse and that there was no realistic prospect of rehabilitation, adding, all of his actions so far suggest that he regards himself as being above the law.
	On the 13th of November 2024, Robinson appeared in court again after failing to provide his mobile phone PIN number when requested by police in Folkestone on 28th of July 2024. A trial is expected in March 2025, so we've got that to look forward to.
	On the 1st of January 2025...
	Elon Musk retweeted the full movie silenced on his ex-account, saying it was worth watching.
	The following day, he tweeted, Free Tommy Robinson!
	And in another post, he wrote, Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth?
	On 7th January 2025, Robinson released a podcast praising Musk and claiming that Musk was protecting freedom of speech.
	His Majesty's Prison Service began investigating how Robinson recorded and released a podcast from his prison cell.
	Come on, guys.
	Anyway, yeah.
	This Tommy Robinson guy.
	Mysterious how he ended up in prison.
	Nobody knows.
	Clearly there are political reasons, like Russell says.
	It has nothing to do with the entire of who he is as a human being, I'm sure.
	Fuck me.
	Oh, except for all the stuff he does.
	All the stuff he's said and done ever.
	Or consistently his entire life.
	His whole life.
	Forever.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Other than that.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, we won't be getting to Piers Morgan talking about him, but this is one of the rare moments where Piers Morgan and I agree.
	Piers Morgan fucking hates Tommy Robinson.
	I'm like, God.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the brokenest clock that genuinely, like, Piers Morgan, like, will logic himself into the truth and, like, write stuff on the reg.
	Yeah, accidentally, yeah.
	Like, who's men and blacking his brain every night?
	Like, just let him keep the information.
	Just quit it.
	You've cooked him.
	Stop.
	It's really okay.
	Also on the live stream, and also just personally, I have tried to...
	I'm not a New Year's resolution person, but it's nice to renew our understanding of us and our place in the world, I think, occasionally, and using...
	Solstices for that has been a tradition for humans since time immemorial.
	And one of those is for me to avoid as much as possible because I kind of had, you know, when phrases pop out of your mouth and you're having a conversation, it's like, oh, shit, okay, is to not call people stupid or think that people are stupid because People do stupid things because I think that people are emotional, not stupid.
	And we talked about this on the show a lot.
	I think this wasn't going to be a big surprise to regular listeners.
	I think that calling someone dumb, stupid, idiot, whatever, is like letting people off the hook for behavior that they absolutely could and should change and are responsible for.
	And I'll tell you.
	Elon Musk tests my resolve probably more than anybody.
	That's a fair assessment.
	Like, really?
	Because you read that tweet, and boy, this is the thought pattern I'm challenging.
	Yep, yep, I'm with you.
	But also, like, yeah, I mean...
	And what I'm saying bears out, right?
	Yeah, that was an emotional response because he's an emotional being who has no control over his emotions.
	He's a very emotionally volatile little butterfly flitting from idea to idea and wearing a girdle in one of those clips that we watched, by the way.
	Yeah, that was not a good look.
	You know what?
	Go off, King.
	If that's how you want to show up in the world, it's honestly brave, impressive, because it was very visible under that shirt.
	And if that's so much more fun to think about than the real stuff, like the really bad things that he does.
	Sorry, I just had to go there for a second.
	Guys, I'm struggling to not say stupid today.
	That was a stupid thing to say.
	It was an incredibly stupid series.
	of thoughts that led you to say that thing and it's disappointing that an adult Who can put their pants on is also capable of that line of logic.
	It's just tough!
	Elon likes to test our resolve in a multitude of ways, and this is definitely one of them.
	Okay, so now we move to editorial number two, which is also about Elon Musk, and we get the full clip of Russell saying he's not in the UK anymore, but the whole piece begins with a clip from ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
	This is also about Elon Musk.
	Yep.
	I'm so glad I just said that.
	I'm so glad!
	Good for me!
	All right.
	Leaders in France, Germany, Norway, and the UK have all denounced tech giant Elon Musk.
	Elon Musk versus the world.
	The world fights back.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
	I hope you are watching this on Rumble, our home, and I hope you use Rumble Premium.
	But you could be watching it on Facebook now because it's a brave new world where our content is once again welcomed everywhere.
	The world is changing so quickly, and a significant contributor to this change has to, of course, be Elon Musk.
	Elon Musk, whose alliance with Donald Trump definitely, I would say, expedited Trump's election.
	Let me know in the comments if you agree with that.
	Now he's turned his attention to UK politics and has found a lot of raw material to critique when looking at our nation.
	Some people, Jordan Peterson, for example, who told Piers Morgan that the UK is becoming a kind of a state and place of ridicule.
	I don't live in the United Kingdom anymore because I personally have experienced how the media, government and judiciary, if you suddenly become an inconvenience, will find ways to attack.
	And shut you down.
	Let's have a look at how the EU have turned against Elon Musk.
	Let's talk about Elon Musk's power as a private citizen and compare it to the power, say, of George Soros, Bill Gates and decide for ourselves whether or not Elon Musk should be shut down.
	Certainly the EU want him shut down.
	Let's see what they're saying.
	I would like to be clear up top of this second one that the EU as a body have taken no formal position on Elon Musk so far, and several members of the EU have less wanted him shut down, but have more been saying, mind your own fucking business, as he keeps trying to interfere in their elections in various countries in the EU at the moment.
	That's what's actually been happening there.
	Oh yeah, and I should note as well that Russell's Locals channel has been fully now folded into Rumble Premium.
	So I'm curious how that all works on the back end, but we'll probably never know.
	It's almost like combining all the money together doesn't ever have to rely on your popularity anymore.
	If it just all goes into a pile.
	Big pot.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	As for comparisons of Elon Musk to Bill Gates and George Soros, the broad concept here is, well, these billionaires are okay, so why is Musk a bad billionaire?
	When the leftist perspective that Russell would have been espousing a decade ago is that none of these people having this much power and influence is okay, regardless what side they're on, and we should have a problem with all of it.
	Like, there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
	As it is, Soros and Gates at least use some of their money to do some good, while Musk is spending all of his trying to fuck shit up.
	And so that might have something to do with why they're perceived as being different.
	But, you know...
	Class solidarity and all that, they are of the same ilk, fundamentally.
	Yeah, they absolutely are, because they're unelected.
	Like, you don't...
	You shouldn't be able to buy politics.
	Nope, nope, seems bad.
	Seems bad.
	So, from here, Russell begins reading a piece from the Telegraph, which is a right-wing paper in the UK that fucking hates the EU. There are fears across the European Union that Musk is trying to embolden the far right and peddling pro-Kremlin propaganda.
	In recent weeks, Musk has declared alternative for Germany, the last vestige of hope.
	That's a political party there, of course.
	As well as inviting Alice Wiedel, the hard right party's candidate for chancellor, for a one-on-one interview hosted on his platform ahead of the February 23 ballot.
	All this really is, is we used to be in charge of what platforms and what political figures.
	Not you!
	How dare you start meddling with the machinery?
	Now, Elon Musk, I'm not suggesting that Elon Musk is right.
	I'm just saying, well, why are you upset that someone else is doing what you've always done?
	Is Elon Musk essentially different from previous media magnates who were always courted and consorted and used to control public opinion?
	Or is he just different by a matter of magnitude because the technology has changed?
	So now instead of leafing through a newspaper, people are looking at their phones.
	And Elon Musk has near continual access to a significant number of populations across the world.
	So we're seeing the emergence of a new force.
	It's pretty fascinating if you ask me.
	What Elon Musk also clearly has is all the fucking time in the world.
	Yeah.
	It is mind-boggling to me.
	Genuinely.
	I have never seen a more idle human.
	Publicly.
	When he first initially kicked off about all the UK politics, he then posted about it to Axe 30 times within the next 24 hours.
	And I'm like, what are you doing?
	How do you spend your existence?
	We know how he does.
	We know exactly how he does.
	And it's fucking pathetic.
	It is incredibly sad.
	And when it comes to, like, the video games-like thing about him supposedly being good at Diablo or whatever, supposedly he pays people.
	To actually, like, to game for him.
	Yeah, apparently it's a whole thing.
	Like, actual kind of people who are invested in Diablo and everything are like, nah, he's clearly, like, gotten other people to do this for him.
	Because when you see him actually playing, like, he knows none of the controls.
	He doesn't know why any of the, like, the inventory is good.
	You know, any of that stuff.
	And you're like, oh, that's even sadder.
	You're hiring people to have fun for you.
	And you fuck it up.
	The amount of work he puts in to being awful, like, is really, like, I just, you know, it's kind of like when Ozzy Osbourne was on the Osbournes and he's like, okay, well, this medication and that medication, like, all these medications are working against each other.
	It's like, we need to just detox everything.
	Like, stop doing everything.
	Who are you?
	What?
	Like, slow down.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm just like, and we should put this guy in charge of things?
	That's where we're at.
	He's the last one.
	He's the last person who should be in charge of anything.
	He can't even be in charge of himself.
	Like, he's not.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Yeah.
	It's just embarrassing to, like, because genuinely, like, guys.
	We die.
	Our time is finite on this earth.
	It is fucking, like...
	Okay, honestly, people that are getting paid to play Diablo 4, I'm not mad, get the bag.
	Oh, no, that's great.
	Well, I mean, it's not great.
	Nothing about it's great, but you're not the problem.
	Truly, like...
	What else is he paying people to do?
	Like, what else is out there?
	Does he put his own pants on or does he pay someone to do that for him?
	Does he pay 12-year-olds to have his, like, Goodreads?
	You know, like, what is he, like...
	It's like if I paid someone to...
	Okay, I still, you know, that PDF... Ages ago, all the podcasts that I have listened to recommend or could help with or the info sharing thing, it's like if I paid a pack of 8th graders to listen to podcasts so they would show up as, listen, when it saves, on any of the, like, what?
	Why?
	Why?
	Why, why, why?
	What is the fucking point?
	Yep.
	Oh, dear.
	Anyway, the stance here, if Russell were consistent, should be, oh, Musk shouldn't be doing any of this, but hey, neither should any of the other media oligarchs either, etc., etc.
	Like, if he wanted to actually highlight the corruption and, like, the hypocrisy and everything.
	Oh, yeah.
	And saying, like, yes, this is fucked up, but so are the rest of you.
	All of you need to stop.
	Instead, Russell is saying, well, everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't Elon Musk?
	Seems fine to me.
	Which is wild.
	It's almost disappointing and, like, sad to see Russell give up everything he ever said.
	like so blatantly like it feels like the turn I think that like the the Florida of it all like the the rumble not even that the rumble of it all that has turned into the Christian baptism and then Florida of it all is like you um it's it's I think it's because of exposure
	I think it's because I'm so used to listening to it that I wish I could have a time machine to show the Russell that even was just better at pretending to care.
	Yeah.
	This is what you're going to be saying.
	Yeah.
	And you're going to lose.
	He's losing his brand.
	Yeah.
	And he's not going to get it back.
	To show the Russell of 10 years ago, like, this video, like, oh.
	This is not, he can't, like, I don't, okay, it's not that it isn't possible.
	I don't see a path where he continues to, like, where he continues to fail upwards, because he has stopped that.
	At least that trajectory and that cycle of failing upwards has stopped.
	That has stopped.
	We think.
	He is not ever going to get.
	He's never going to be a big movie star again unless something major happens.
	Again, it's not that it's impossible.
	It's just it doesn't make sense to me.
	It seems like he's really giving up any of the things that made him a unique asset and marketable.
	Yeah, for sure.
	My concern is more in the direction of political office and that kind of thing, but we'll see.
	I feel like that avenue is still somewhat open to him.
	Oh, no, I think that's always been on the table, and I've been saying that for a long time, right?
	I've been worried about that for a long time, because that's when I said, well, there are...
	Dogs who are mayors, so let's not rule it out.
	And that's exactly why I said that, is because a great way to recover from failure...
	I mean, I don't want to say failure, but if you're in the NFL, you open a Ford dealership.
	You open a car dealership, and then you're a character on local TV. I don't know what Russell would do, but this is not the way to...
	The only way he would...
	Be able to raise his stock price again would have to be through some kind of contrived force because I think that the fame movie star avenue is pretty...
	Yeah, the celebrity ship has sailed.
	That kind, yeah.
	The movie star thing?
	At least he's not failing up anymore in that...
	arena that genuinely like he got away with for a long time so oh yeah yeah and also in Russell's coverage of this by the way notice that there is little denial from him that Elon Musk is in fact interfering in German elections by supporting and loudly platforming the AFD alternatives to Deutschland who are full of literal neo-Nazis Okay.
	Yeah.
	Next up, once again, Russell talks himself in circles over this issue.
	What I'm sensing now that we're seeing the peeling away of that old order, the technological feudalism that used care and concern to control free speech and control freedom more broadly, that is being significantly disrupted.
	It's over in the United States of America.
	Over.
	Now we're seeing the old European powers come together to see if they can prevent it from spreading in their nations.
	Trudeau, gone.
	Like we're seeing massive fluctuations and changes.
	It's pretty fascinating and exciting for me.
	And whilst I'm not what you would call a conventional nationalist, I do believe that nationalism is the first bulwark against globalism.
	So I can understand why there is a resurgent nationalism.
	Also, I can understand that a lot of people are concerned about subjects like migration.
	I've always believed that global corporatism is a greater threat to migration and likely significantly causes it.
	And I've always Hoped that the focus of the conversation when it comes to popular uprisings and populist uprisings would focus more on centralized powers, like the power of big tech giants, actually.
	But this big tech giant seems to be causing so much chaos and disruption that I can't help but at least admire some of the consequences.
	Oh, okay.
	So he had hoped that the people would rise up against big tech giants and oligarchs, but he happens to like this big tech giant, so it's fine.
	British guy in Florida.
	British guy in Florida.
	Nationalism?
	I'm sorry?
	Yeah, it's not a wonder that he's not waded into the whole H-1B visas discussion.
	At least he's staying firmly out of that one.
	That's absolutely...
	Bananas.
	Alright.
	I mean, like, nationalism.
	Which nation?
	Russell?
	Yeah, he seems to, like, nationalism in each individual nation is what he seems to be after, and as there is some kind of nationalist movement at the moment, which Russell claims is the first bulwark, bulwark, aardvark, yes, the first aardvark against globalism, well, even if that does focus negatively on migrants rather than power structures, fuck the migrants, I guess, in the name of whatever it is Russell is trying to achieve.
	That's the position.
	For the me, a migrant?
	Really?
	Okay.
	Except for me, I don't count.
	I'm white.
	Oh, he's white and rich.
	He's an expat.
	Yeah, there you go.
	You got it.
	You got it.
	Oh, dear.
	Fuck, man.
	That's crazy.
	Genuinely.
	Because I don't think Russell's going to like Florida.
	Russell's like...
	I'm not trying...
	Not shady.
	I'm not being shady.
	This is not shade.
	He's so quintessentially British.
	Like, he really is, like, a product of time and place and environment, and the way he talks, the way he presents himself, is, like, a Disney character of, like, a cheeky bloke.
	You know, like a cheeky guy.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You know?
	Rough around the edges, but a heart of gold, and the way that he...
	It's just crazy.
	I think it has something to do with the way he's treated.
	I feel like...
	In Florida, I mean, you know, all I can see is social media posts and shit, which are of course curated, but his experience seems to be recognized and widely adored by a lot of the populace of Florida, whereas I think his experience of walking around in the UK, especially post-allegations, is going to be wildly different.
	You know, he will be ignored or...
	Probably abused.
	Is what's likely to happen here.
	From that perspective, he will be having a better time in Florida.
	Just perhaps not any other perspective.
	And OJ did that.
	Proof of concept.
	Which is crazy.
	Oops, had that thought.
	Sorry, everybody.
	So we shouldn't worry about Russell's support of tech billionaires, because as he's about to tell us, he's not naive.
	He knows what they are.
	I'm not naive.
	I know they're a billionaire.
	I know what Elon Musk is.
	I know what Peter Thiel is.
	I know what Mark Zuckerberg is doing, as best as I can understand from where I'm sat.
	But what is definitely happening is a shift in power.
	I feel that out of that shift of power, the one true power may emerge.
	More of that in a minute.
	The billionaire who owns X has shared a series of posts critical of the British government after it rejected a call for a public inquiry into a child sex grooming scandal.
	We don't want to be inquiring into child sex grooming scandals.
	We've not got all day to be inquiring into child sex grooming scandals.
	Do you not think I've got better things to do with my time than to inquire into child sex grooming scandals?
	Child sex grooming scandals are pretty important, I would say.
	I agree.
	You've said it so many times, Russell!
	Pretty important.
	I agree with that statement.
	Just a reminder, in case anyone's forgotten, but Russell is alleged to have groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl when he was 30 and already a famous celebrity.
	Oh wait, sorry, I forgot.
	When it happens to other people, it's a child sex grooming scannable.
	When he's accused of it, it's a litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks.
	Yeah, sorry, I forgot that.
	Anyway, before that little inconsistency, Russell just suggested that he knows what Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg are.
	Zuckerberg, as he likes to say.
	But through the shift in power with the oligarchs taking over, somehow it might make God come to the fore.
	That's the argument that he is advancing.
	He does not explain this idea further or particularly come back to it.
	He'll repeat it.
	And so, like, the plan amounts to essentially Elon Musk...
	Question mark, God.
	Dude.
	That's the argument that we're getting.
	This is a dogshit evangelical.
	He is learning nothing.
	That's the thing.
	As a person who, whether I wanted to or not, you be the judge, have been exposed to a massive amount of American Christian evangelicalism.
	And he just sucks shit at it.
	Yeah.
	This is not how you do it.
	I mean, you're the expert, not me, but I can definitely believe that.
	I mean, really, it's...
	Can you be an expert if it's against your will?
	Is that what that's called?
	Victim?
	Yeah, but truly, it's so...
	That's not enough.
	Like, you're not stealing the steez that you need if you're gonna make it in American evangelicalism, if you're like, but God, but Jesus, that's the start.
	There's way more.
	You gotta really amp it up, bud.
	Like, that's...
	Yeah.
	What?
	It's such a...
	Like, it feels like a joke.
	It feels like a prank.
	Yeah.
	You would think he'd be learning something.
	Like, he's going to quite a fancy church in Florida, you know, that has, like, musicians at a big stage and shit, and, you know, occasionally he'll go up there and start chatting away.
	There's video of him doing that, which...
	Still, I think he's too young.
	He's still a babe in Christ.
	I don't think he should be doing.
	But anyway.
	Well, a testimony is one thing.
	Talking, that's a testimony.
	Technically, that's okay.
	And we do make exceptions.
	Even Bible believing absolutely makes exceptions for famous people they like.
	But the baptism, that's a sacrament.
	That's the main knock it off.
	He still keeps doing that.
	Yeah, that still keeps happening.
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	Okay, so from here it seems that the Telegraph just wasn't cutting it.
	And so Russell begins reading a piece from Michael Schellenberger's Substack.
	Musk involves himself so directly in the internal affairs of other countries, said Norway's Prime Minister.
	Hands off our democracy, Mr. Musk, said Germany's Economic Minister.
	Musk injects chaos into other countries' political systems, hijacks UK politics and is throwing grenades, said the Washington Post, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
	Now, all these things may be true, but I can tell you what's definitely true is the Washington Post, New York Times, EU, British government, These are the old guard.
	These are the old guard.
	These are the systems that you want to see quaking and shaking, and indeed they are as a result of these tectonic shifts, and that's a good thing.
	I'm not Nostradamus, so I don't know where all this stuff's leading, but I do know that what they were doing needed to be disrupted, that the pandemic was a seismic moment in our history, and had they got what, you know, look, I'm being reductive and I'm operating within the limitations of language, but sort of, had they got what they were trying to get then, we'd have been in serious trouble.
	That was a gambit to achieve global power, maximal citizen management, It's just to say that
	they're better than what would have happened without them.
	Really?
	So, had the globalists gotten what they want, it would have been global power, total control, maximal citizen management, intervention through vaccines, and now the globalists are trying to shut down the free speech that prevents their power, but Elon Musk and Donald Trump are standing in their way.
	This is literally an Alex Jones speech.
	This has been ripped directly from Infowars.
	Needless to say, I find the argument that Trump and Musk aren't perfect, but they're better than total globalist control to be somewhat unconvincing, given that total globalist control is not on the cards, nor has it been on the cards at any point.
	Um, what's actually happening here is an age-old tactic of abusing the audience into fearing the specter of the globalists enough so that they will accept all of the awful bullshit that Musk and Trump pull, even if it is counter to their beliefs or interests.
	Um, it's a tactic commonly used by cults and by fascists, and Russell is using it on his audience on a regular basis.
	I'm scared.
	Not stupid.
	Scared.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Be afraid.
	If you don't like Trump and Elon Musk, then the globalists are coming for you.
	And also helpless.
	The helplessness is integral to this message.
	Is that there's nothing you can do, and I don't know what it's going to look like, and I don't know what we can do, but be very afraid today, right now, and subscribe to my local channel.
	Subscribe to my local channel and support Donald, because he seems to be doing something.
	Donald Trump, Elon Musk seems to be doing something, so support him.
	Otherwise, globalists, vaccines, total control.
	Rumble premium is the way.
	Yep.
	Okay, man.
	Okay.
	Yep.
	So Russell continues reading from the Schellenberger piece here.
	There's no evidence, says Schellenberger, writing in public, that Musk has illegally interfered in foreign elections.
	In every case, what foreign leaders and the media are referring to are posts Musk has made on X and an op-ed he wrote in a German paper.
	Those op-eds and posts are not only in the US, but also in Germany, France and the rest of Europe.
	It's true that Musk asked his 211 million followers whether America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government, indicated that he may donate a...
	Well, there you go, man.
	No one was talking about reigning in billionaires when Mark Zuckerberg was playing a different tune, were they?
	Well, we were actually.
	We were saying, hmm, this is a cause for some concern.
	And I suppose too.
	If Musk is lending his support to various national parties, isn't that by its nature anti-globalist, or do you reckon that there's some sort of subterranean network of these kind of nationalist interests?
	Yes, these nationalist groups absolutely talk to one another, because they're uniformly full of racist xenophobes who want the same thing for their individual countries.
	Tommy Robinson was part of a German anti-Islam group for several years, as a for instance.
	And to address the larger point, no Elon Musk supporting nationalism is not inherently anti-globalist, when Elon Musk is by definition a globalist himself.
	Again, like, Rupert Murdoch has been stoking anti-migrant nationalism in several countries for decades, and the alt-right describe him as one of the globalists.
	Elon Musk does not get a pass just because you like him.
	That's not how that works.
	Also, Rupert Murdoch, definitionally a globalist.
	Yes.
	Not the dog whistle kind.
	The real one.
	And I vividly remember all the upsetness in America before I could even drive a car legally at Rupert Murdoch doing all these takeovers and shit.
	And like, why is this Australian?
	Because this is what's happening.
	And no one's stopping it.
	All the government that could have regulated and protected the people that they get paid to do did their job.
	This wouldn't be an issue.
	And it's from the wrong direction as far as what Russell is telling people.
	I do also want to address a really bad point that Michael Schellenberger made in that article.
	He said, quote, There is no evidence that Musk has illegally interfered in foreign elections, and that op-ed and those posts are legal not only in the United States, but also in Germany, France, Norway, and the rest of Europe, unquote.
	But of course...
	No one has accused Elon Musk of breaking the law.
	No one is saying he's interfering with the elections in the EU illegally, just that he's interfering with the elections in the EU, which is a fucking problem in of itself, and the leaders of those countries are quite right in telling Elon Musk to go fly a kite.
	But Schellenberger needs to support Musk, and so presents a complete strawman argument of, well, it's not illegal, to distract from the point of whether Musk should be doing it in the first place.
	Distraction is the right thing, yeah.
	Also, wasn't the money he was trying to give Nigel Farage very illegal?
	Wasn't that also illegal?
	It's illegal during an election time.
	Political donations of that magnitude are in general legal the rest of the time.
	But wasn't the amount that he was trying to, as a foreigner, To the UK electorate.
	Wasn't he, like, trying to...
	Donate way too much money.
	Like, he was trying to skirt regulations somehow by giving Nigel Farage a lot of money.
	It would depend on the way he did it.
	There are essentially ways that he could probably make it work.
	And we'll get to an example of George Soros doing a similar thing in just a minute as it happens.
	So there are kind of possibilities.
	But he's still skirting.
	He's trying to break the...
	He's finding a loophole to break the rules.
	Yes.
	The spirit of the...
	The rules.
	He is trying to break them, right?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's trying to fuck with shit.
	Yeah!
	Sir Schellenberger!
	Button it!
	No!
	Yep.
	Anyway, as you may have caught near the end there, Russell's gotten himself all caught up in the cognitive dissonance again when pointing out that, oh yeah, we were discussing Zuckerberg having all this power as a problem, weren't we?
	Yeah, we were saying that about him, but we don't seem to be doing that with Elon Musk.
	And so there is but one answer.
	Look, you know, I believe in decentralization of power, so I don't think the power should now be coalescing uniformly around Elon Musk and Donald Trump or any nationalist or global interest or set of powers.
	I believe in your individual freedom, my individual freedom.
	And the fallibility of all of us as individuals and that we will only find salvation through Jesus Christ.
	That's what I believe now.
	I'm a Christian, so my belief is in alignment with Christian scripture.
	But on top of that, I believe in your freedom and your right to follow your own religious and spiritual path and that anything that stands in the way of that is a problem.
	And the old technological feudalism that was emerging was a massive obstacle to that.
	They believed that humanity was the apex of all moral authority, and we were seeing the chaos and wreckage that that was causing.
	So figures like Macron and various other globalist leaders that are ultimately members of sects and pacts of bureaucratic power that are now collapsing under the weight of these new emergent populist figures don't get no support from me, and I don't think they should get any support from you either.
	So once again, he got himself in a twist and once again had to pivot, well, I believe in Jesus, using the get-out-of-jail-free card.
	And again, he's presenting the argument of, well, the old god was standing in the way of religious awakening, because they represent some degree of secularism to Russell, while claiming that the new tech billionaire oligarchs he's supporting are not standing in the way of religious awakening for some reason.
	Elon Musk, question mark, god.
	Fuck's sake.
	I'm saying he's too British to be a good evangelical preacher.
	He's too British to be a pastor.
	Y'all aren't gauche enough.
	Y'all aren't embarrassing enough.
	Really.
	Genuinely, preachers are shepherds.
	He doesn't think about other people's experience.
	Yeah.
	To speak to it and, you know, that whole, like, fire and brimstone that people respond to.
	Yeah.
	In wellness, in the wellness sphere, he was, like, that softness and kind of, like, reservedness works, but, like, I just, I don't think he's got the juice to, like...
	Yeah.
	I mean, listen, I hope this is true.
	I hope this is a boy that isn't working.
	I'm not trying to punch up his delivery.
	Oh, no.
	But, like, he's not, he doesn't have the juice and the goods to, like...
	Make this pivot happen by giving up all these other elements of his brand that made it work for him.
	He can't just rely on neuro-linguistic programming with his meditations, right?
	No.
	One would think...
	He's not done one of those in a while, just FYI. Oh, I thought he said he was going to keep it.
	Yeah, no, he seems to be hanging on to it, but it's been a suspicious amount of time since he's done one, so I'm like, oh, that's very interesting.
	That is interesting.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I'll keep tabs.
	But yeah, I hope you're correct.
	But who knows?
	He has just started speaking in tongues, so who knows what's available to us.
	That seemed like a joke.
	That seemed like a joke.
	I mean, the thing is, he's sniffing around.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, or he just loathes Floridians, which...
	Maybe a little column A, a little column B. Not so much fair, but I expect that.
	Like, I guess that's part of, like, the Florida thing is, like, he hates these people.
	Like, it's, again, it's like, it's the most American attitude, the most American, like, place, in a way.
	And we all need to reckon with that, by the way.
	Thank you so much.
	It's not the kind of person that he seems like he likes or respects.
	Definitely not respects.
	No, no, I wouldn't say respects.
	I think he will like them as long as they are the type to go fawning over him.
	As long as it's that type, which he will find some concentrated in Florida.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	As long as it's that type, he'll still have a great time.
	Like I said, yeah, OJ and Casey Anthony, they did it.
	Yep, there is precedent.
	There's no problem.
	So for me, Russell plays that.
	Peace from ABC News again, and this time discusses trust in the judiciary.
	Well, the tech mogul has even called for the imprisonment of British PM Keir Starmer and the release of far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
	He's actually serving a prison sentence for contempt of court.
	See, even the category of contempt of court suggests that there is some legitimacy and moral authority to the judiciary.
	Where is that authority derived from if you don't trust your leaders, if you don't trust your institutions, if you don't trust your bureaucracy?
	How can you even have a crime of contempt of court?
	You can't have it unless you believe that there is something supreme behind that authority.
	And now people don't believe that because they believe that their institutions and government and media are totally corrupt.
	And that's why Elon Musk is having so much traction.
	If everyone's like, I love my country, then people would reject it.
	And of course, there are people that hold that position.
	Americans.
	I don't think there are enough of them.
	What an amazing way to say a lot of stuff without even remotely addressing the clip.
	That was...
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Also, when he does play this ABC News clip, he cuts off the bit where Keir Starmer actually responds and calls Elon Musk out, funnily enough.
	So I will say, like, Russell's argument here is much more convincing in the US than it is in the UK, in that, like, your lawmakers over there are much more overtly corrupt, and your legal system is filled with an appointed judiciary that is rife with political activism.
	I wouldn't say enough to be like, no, no, it's all...
	But, you know, a lot of it is...
	there are problems.
	But the person we're discussing here is Tommy Robinson in prison in the UK. And I could argue that our democratic process of lawmaking is possibly slightly more robust, which is what undergirds the laws themselves.
	But as for the judiciary, like, judges are selected by the Judicial Appointments Commission in the UK, right?
	The JAC is an independent body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, and they select judges...
	Thank you.
	I could apply to be a judge right now.
	There is currently a vacancy for the president of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales, and I could apply for that.
	I'm grossly underqualified, but the point is, I could take that shot if I wanted to.
	All of this is to say, in the UK, Tommy Robinson is imprisoned by the authority of the people of this country, even if a tiny but vocal minority of white nationalists disagree with it.
	Was it a judge or a jury?
	Was there a jury?
	Of his peers?
	I don't think there would have been in a contempt of court case, no.
	I don't think there would need to have been in that instance.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Not that time.
	Not that time.
	I was dazzled by all the previous convictions.
	Right, right, right.
	Yes, yes, yeah.
	There have been several other instances where he's been convicted by a jury of his peers, yes.
	There we go.
	Yes.
	Okay, so now we get to an alt-right classic, and that is the subject of one George Soros.
	Back to Schellenberger's article in public.
	Musk is free not only to express his opinion about AFD, but also to host a conversation with his leader.
	Back to German politics there.
	As for Starlink, one of Musk's many financial interests, it's the only space-based internet company capable of providing services.
	Proof of this fact can be seen in the failure of the Biden administration to use the $42 billion allocated in its Inflation Reduction Act for broadband access, given its apparent unwillingness to contract with Starlink.
	And neither foreign leaders nor the media raised the alarm as George Soros has spent billions of dollars to influence politics around the world from Europe to the US.
	Soros financed an anti-Brexit campaign in 2016 in the UK.
	Huh!
	Huh!
	It's almost as if you have no essential moral problem, you just have a political and strategic problem.
	Wait a minute, that billionaire has a different agenda from our agenda.
	Well, he must be a bad billionaire.
	Soros, though, he seems to be in alignment with them.
	Fun fact.
	George Soros did not donate money to an anti-Brexit campaign in 2016. He did so in 2018, long after the Brexit referendum.
	See, over here we have strict laws against foreign donations during political campaigns.
	And Soros donated £400 million to Best for Britain in 2018 in order to try and prevent the UK and EU becoming adversaries and trying to avoid a hard Brexit and all the other shit that did eventually end up happening under Boris Johnson.
	Which ended up completely fucking our economy.
	Anyway.
	Yet again, the point that should be made here is that none of these people are good!
	There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire, which is the argument that Russell should be making.
	Instead, he's being blatantly hypocritical by saying, oh, you guys are just decrying the billionaires you disagree with while doing the exact same thing and supporting Elon Musk and shitting on George Soros.
	That's all that Russell is doing.
	He's telling on himself.
	They want regulation and efficient governance.
	So bad!
	They want it so bad.
	That's literally all they're ever complaining about.
	That's what they want.
	And they are actively just throwing...
	They have an infinite wrench glitch that they can keep throwing into the works.
	It's amazing.
	It's genuinely, genuinely, utterly incredible.
	Yeah.
	And it's the case with so many of their things.
	Like, one of the...
	I can't remember which alt-right shithead it was the other day, but they suggested, like, what if we just injected people with, like, a tiny amount of a virus, and that way they could build up an immunity?
	And you're like...
	Oh, they discover basic...
	Vaccine!
	They discover inoculation.
	They discover regulation.
	They discover healthcare all the time.
	All the time.
	Yeah, I was like, that's incredible.
	Yes, sure, let's get on board.
	Anyway, so, naturally, off the back of all this conversation, Russell decides to spread an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about the place in insinuating the Great Reset.
	His foundation supported a German NGO called Corrective, which spread disinformation about AFD, smearing the party and ordinary German farmers.
	What's going on with the global farmers?
	France, England, Canada, USA, India.
	Almost as if there is some agenda at play.
	Almost as if there is an attempt to control global food sources.
	Almost as if there is an attempt to centralise power, which has been disrupted by the rise of populism.
	Soros was the largest donor to the Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections, giving them nearly $200 million.
	Globally, Soros has given $32 million around the world for political and policy advocacy.
	And Soros' influence over public opinion goes far beyond direct political support.
	Soros-backed operatives have spent the past eight years embedding themselves in top roles at Wikimedia, reports Ashley Rinsberg yesterday.
	We will be doing more content with Ashley Rinsberg later this week that you will be able to see.
	Oh, goody.
	Um...
	So I've read Ashley Rinsberg's article on Soros-backed operatives embedding themselves at Wikimedia, and you might be wondering what evidence he has, and so am I, because he didn't actually put any in the article.
	What he did claim was that Wikipedia editors seemed to align themselves with the prerogatives of the Democratic Party, and he did this by lurking in the talk pages of Wikipedia articles on political subjects, where the moderators of Wikipedia pages debate what should and shouldn't be included based on the information available.
	This whole situation is basically an anti-Semitic rejigging of the idea that fact-checkers have a liberal bias.
	See, if you actually examine that phrase for a moment, what it comes down to is that people on the left are more likely to rely on facts and things that can be conclusively proven, while the right-wing are not.
	And so it can appear as though, oh, these fact-checkers have a liberal bias, whereas actually the fact-checkers have a fact bias, which the right-wing often likes to ignore.
	And then you just put Soros at the top of it.
	It's all Soros doing it.
	He is disguising...
	He is calling something reporting when it's summarizing hearsay.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	That's the quality of this guy who is apparently going to be working with Stay Free with Russell Brand in the near future.
	Terrific.
	Looking forward to it.
	Who's the guy?
	Ashley Rinsberg.
	Oh!
	I made it.
	All right.
	Yes.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh, yeah, actually.
	Got it.
	Yes.
	Yeah, and also Russell very carefully avoided saying what precisely the Soros-backed group Corrective described the AFD as, smeared them as, sorry, and it was as Nazis.
	And it was because actually Corrective, which is a media company, they broke a story about AFD explicitly working with neo-Nazis on a plan to deport millions of migrants.
	It's entirely proven and correct.
	And essentially...
	Someone within the corrective-like media team was invited to that meeting and was sat in the room with these people.
	By, I think, mistake.
	It's quite entertaining.
	Oh, yeah, right.
	And also, I just wanted to clarify who, like, Ashley, because I was like, oh.
	We're going to see how he talks to a lady again.
	No, we're not.
	No, no, it's Ashley Rinsberg as a guy.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Though we may be seeing more of Lara Logan in the future, so there is that.
	Okay.
	Yeah, yeah, good stuff.
	Okay, so here is the conclusion to all of this that Russell wants to deliver.
	So, do you think, let me know in the comments and chat, that the problems that the bureaucrats, the empire, and the old globalists have with Elon Musk are to do with him morally, or is it that he's just an opponent to their agenda?
	It's too early to say whether the rise of populism will be ultimately beneficial to ordinary people across the world, but it isn't too early to say that there was a requirement to oppose globalism, that there was too much power situated in bureaucracy.
	We're all in a lot of trouble.
	So however this plays out, I would say that amidst the chaos that will likely be caused, there's the possibility that we will be beneficiaries.
	And those of us that look beyond human power, look beyond human institutions for succor, salvation, redemption and guidance will have an opportunity to convey our beliefs that if you're going to have moral authority, it's best not to place it in any human hands, regardless of their political it's best not to place it in any human hands, regardless But that's just what I think.
	Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat?
	Yeah, fuck off.
	No takesies backsies, Russell.
	You just spent more of an hour of your life this week vehemently supporting Elon Musk.
	You can't be like, well, maybe we shouldn't put all this power into one human being at all.
	And...
	Brings up Elon Musk on, like, at least a weekly basis anyway, being like, isn't this guy great?
	Also, Russell just said the words, when corporate and state interests combine, we're all in a lot of trouble.
	Elon Musk, the emblem of all that is wrong with corporate America, has a special advisory role in the incoming Trump administration.
	What the fuck is that if not corporate and state interests aligning?
	And that's without even getting into the shitloads of money that Trump made from his last presidency and will be again this time around.
	You know, I'm like...
	Come on.
	And that Elon makes off of our tax dollars.
	Yes!
	It's so much.
	You're saying words.
	He's just saying words.
	This is complete nonsense.
	Sounds like what Russell does.
	But oh, don't worry, everyone.
	We may get to benefit, as he said there, because Elon Musk, question mark, God.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah.
	Pretty much.
	Pretty much.
	Yeah, there was...
	There's another element of British politics that Russell's been covering this week that I might come back to at another time, and that's Andrew Tate announcing his intention to try and become Prime Minister and announcing his BRAV party.
	I don't know if you saw any of that.
	Yeah.
	It's really hard to take seriously at all.
	It's very embarrassing.
	If you look at their manifesto, it's just like a couple of paragraphs over some AI-generated images.
	I'm like, all right, buddy, give it a go.
	Yeah, terrific.
	Terrific times.
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