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April 5, 2025 - On Brand
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Russell Leans Into Racism

I solo tackle the subjects of Kanye West, restricting choice for those on food stamps, and the new Netflix show Adolescence, and with each subject Russell leans harder into racism to appease his audience.Support Al on Patreon! - https://patreon.com/OnBrand

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This is propaganda live.
I only suggest how to think and how to vote.
An extraordinary cultural moment.
Already iconic.
Already iconic.
We love you.
You're welcome here.
I almost sound like a conspiracy theorist but it's a bit late now.
They don't want to have a conversation and debate but they're lying.
And this is a matter now of fact and record.
Trump is like Hitler.
Let me count the ways.
I'm a Nazi actually.
I'm a Nazi, actually, and I've kept it down till now, but this is my chance.
God, it's propaganda.
Did you guess it?
Did you guess it?
I feel that Christ may have had a better vision.
Bastards, aren't they?
I mean, you can't watch too much of this without realising they're absolute bastards.
Let's go full screen on Russell.
This is On Brand, a podcast where we discuss the ideas and antics of one Russell Brand.
I'm Al Worth and each week I go through an episode of Brand's show with a guest, except for the second week in a row you're getting a solo show from me.
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Today we'll be discussing Kanye West, food being banned for poor people in the US, that seems great, and the new Netflix show Adolescence and the topics surrounding it.
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Pretty fucking great.
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Speaking of additional content, the next On Brand Book Club livestream will be taking place on Saturday, April 12th at 8pm GMT.
That's right, the first ever livestream, On Brand livestream, done on a Saturday.
Not the first livestream ever by anyone done on a Saturday.
I'm pretty sure that was someone else.
But we can do the first ever On Brand one on a Saturday on April 12th.
Um, because, like, I know there have been some complaints for those who can't make it on Sundays, so let's give Saturday a shot!
Um, it's purely a scheduling thing on my side, but if you all happen to turn out in droves, then I will consider moving it to Saturdays in future, if that works.
Also, after that week, I will be resuming some more regularly scheduled content for the Patreon feed, including the return of Music Is Nice, and I will also be diving into some of the more peripheral shitheads in the alt-right that I don't usually get to cover.
Dan Bongino's final episode will be first on my list because Gotta admit, I have a quiet fascination with the man because I fundamentally do not understand the appeal in any way, to a cartoonish degree, and so I'm just constantly baffled by all of it.
So that'll be the first thing when it comes to that.
Making sure you patrons get some bang for your buck and obviously the the on brand monthly book club as well That the recording of that is available to patrons after the fact ah so many things to look forward to oh and In case anyone missed it, I had the good fortune to reappear on I Hate Bill Maher with Will Weldon.
It was gonna be a patron-only thing, but then he put it out on the main feed, which means you get to listen to me and Will discuss Bill Maher's Club Random interview with none other than Kid Rock.
Uh, it was so, so awful in so, so many ways, and was actually the inciting conversation leading to Bill Maher flying out to the White House to have dinner with Donald Trump.
It's because of that conversation on Club Random.
That's... That was the beginning of the...
Because we live in the fucking Netherrealm.
Anyway, in spite of that, I did have a lot of fun, and I will of course be putting a link in the description to that episode, so go and check it out.
It was a terrible and wonderful time.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, is what it was.
Anyway. On to the show!
So we're going to start this week with what I hope doesn't become a recurring segment, but we shall see, and that is a clip of some out-of-context anti-Semitism from Russell as he asked his Jewish employee Isaac to find the first chapter of Kafka's The Trial.
Isaac, did you find that five-year ago?
I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but For a Jew, you work very hard.
Is that anti-Semitic?
Yes. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.
Listen, we can't give that guy any...
He's been lobbying me.
He's had AIPAC representatives around here telling me what to do.
It's pretty...
It's interesting.
You know, you give them a job as a director of a show, all of a sudden, oh, they want control of the music.
Let's have a look at...
Oh, man.
Trust the jewels to put it in a small print.
Okay, I genuinely feel like, just from the clips I'm showing to the audience, there is sufficient evidence for a lawsuit.
And there are many more clips, by the way.
This type of thing is a daily occurrence at Stay Free with Russell Brand.
Just him throwing anti-Semitic jokes and conspiracy theories at his Jewish employee on camera.
I continue to be amazed by this, and it really got me thinking, like, where this is gonna go.
Because, Russell is the type who will escalate things to their absolute extremities, right?
It's in his nature.
It's what he did as a stand-up comedian.
It's what he does in his show now in a different way, in a more harmful way.
Like, I don't know where this harassment of his Jewish employee is going, but my bet is nowhere good!
Boy, alright, and I've actually got another out-of-context clip from Russell's Tuesday show this week because Russell was waffling about the power of Bill Gates in his usual drawn-out flowery way, and then someone in the rumble chat asked a very pertinent question.
We are now all part of his domain and dominion, unless we awaken right now.
But that's just what I think.
Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat?
Why don't you organize a Minty 33 in the rumble chat?
And then what, Russell?
Why don't you organize a parallel solution instead of flowery rhetoric?
Okay, listen good.
Listen good, motherfucker!
Okay. Those are the people that
must be brought to the forefront.
If you know people in agriculture, build new relationships with them.
The revolution is about us, is around us, it is happening now.
But, do you think one man in a boiler suit is going to do that shit on their own?
Mini-33, what are you going to do?
What are you gonna do?
Stand up!
Rise up, Minty33!
I'm talking to you, Minty33!
Time for you to awaken!
Time to recognize that you have power!
Don't look to anybody else!
Start participating in this thing!
That's what I think, baby!
That's what I think, 11-0 Darkmode Russell!
Yeah, baby!
I suspect Darkmode Russell is in fact just...
Regular Russell.
Like, he'll tear off one of those Mission Impossible masks, you know, off of his face, and it'll just be the same face underneath.
Same guy.
This clip did, however, finally give me something solid as to, like, what Russell thinks the solution to all of these problems with the world should be.
You know, he's proposed tiny theocratic ethnostates many, many times for many years.
But, you know, otherwise, as we know, he will 99% of the time just whinge about what Whatever it is that's in the news that's bothering him and then offers zero solutions beyond subscribing to rumble premium and joining his locals channel And so instead here we have Russell suggestions as to what should be done.
So Everyone needs to awaken now Whatever that's supposed to mean Awaken not woke but but awakened Throw off your shackles, okay organize local communities Okay.
Demand all food is grown and sourced locally, so I guess no more avocado toast for me then.
And then we all need to disobey and not pay our taxes.
And again, Russell, you can wind up in prison for telling people that.
We need to refuse to participate in their wars and also galvanize anyone who's done military service and bring them to the forefront for some reason.
And we need to build relationships with those in agriculture, presumably to figure out what I'll be putting on my toast from now on.
And beyond that, hey, did you think I'm gonna do this on my own?
What are you doing, Minty33?
You need to stand up, rise up, don't look to others, and you need to start participating.
So like, all of that, and then he ends it with, yeah, but don't look at me.
I know I'm the one with the show, but what are you doing?
You know?
In hindsight, I suspect Russell may have gotten a little bit defensive at that question.
You know, just took it a little bit personally.
Oh dear.
I don't...
I suspect Minty33 will not have found that interaction particularly persuasive.
That's what I'm thinking.
Okay, so now we get into the show proper.
And we're going to begin with a little discussion on the subject of Adolf Hitler, because what else are you going to start with?
And Russell is going to play a clip of Hitler rocking back and forth in his seat at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Now, this is a time where conspiracy theories are being revealed, exposed, discovered, and discussed at an alarming rate.
Turns out Lee Harvey Oswald's innocent as a lamb, as innocent and as long as the day.
Turns out the building 7 didn't just collapse of its own accord, and now we're reaching into even pre-paperclip conspiracies and We're good.
Adolf Hitler even die in that bunker?
Can we take nothing for granted?
Here's some files being released by Javier Milieu, the Premier and leader of Argentina, saying that...
Well, it seems that Hitler actually left Germany.
Here's old Hitler in his prime, having a lovely time at the 1936 Olympics, ruined by Jesse Owens, running a bit too fast for an African-American.
Although, if you are an African-American and you're in Hitler's Germany in the 1930s, maybe you're incentivized to shift!
Here's Hitler having a lovely time at the Nazi Olympics in 1936, providing some evidence that perhaps he was using methamphetamine in its early 1930s.
Old-timey style drugs, baby, meh, meh!
Is my audio still on?
There's Hitler having a tough time of it.
Yeah, it seems to me that Adolf Hitler may have had some psychological problems.
Yeah, he was on meth, says my chimp in the Rumble chat.
Yeah, so Hitler was in fact on meth.
He was an outright addict, supposedly with his veins basically at the point of collapse by his final days, though I'm not sure whether he was on meth in this specific clip of him rocking back and forth at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
And I say that mostly because the main drug of choice at the Berlin Olympics was Benzedrine, an amphetamine better known in the UK as Speed.
Who knows what Hitler was on in that clip, but he does certainly look like he's having a raucous old time.
For anyone who was unaware that drugs played a really important part in building Nazi Germany and, like, was also really important amongst all the armies that fought in World War II, I recommend looking into it because it is genuinely fascinating that everyone in that war was high as a fucking kite.
Anyway, In other news, supposedly Hitler escaped to Colombia and then Argentina, according to a document from the CIA that was released in 2017.
Um, actually, like, this is not new, this is not something from Javier Millet, like, Millet, that's not, that's not that at all.
This is an old document, and it's based off of the testimony of one former SS trooper in 1955, basically saying, trust me, bro, I saw Hitler.
Really, I did.
There's nothing substantive to it, but apparently Javier Mille, the chainsaw-wielding president of Argentina with the crazy hair and sideburns, is intent on unsealing documents about Nazis that fled to Argentina after the war, which would supposedly include Hitler in this conspiracy theory scenario.
What's fun?
...
is that the tweet Russell is sharing of this trust-me-bro document from 1955 is not from Javier Mille himself, right?
Hence the confusion as to why it's not Javier Mille actually, you know, uncovering this.
But this was actually tweeted from an account on X called 1776zoomer.
If you go on to this profile, the headline is, quote, The profile picture is an AI image of a female in SS uniform, done in Studio Ghibli style, as is de rigueur, because we just like theft these days.
And the pinned tweet says, quote, racism is a must for a country to remain itself, unquote.
Mostly, the account is full to the brim with antisemitic memes and literal celebrations of the actual Nazis, as well as some delightful clips of Nick Fuentes saying most black people should be in prison and that the Jews are running the world.
On the one hand, I am aware that, like, X is a Nazi hellscape, and that the alt-right conspiracy theory sphere is full of antisemites, and so just existing in that space even If it's possible, even innocently, you're pretty much destined to be rubbing shoulders or agreeing with a Nazi at some point.
That should raise some questions internally, but...
That's beside the point.
But this is Russell flashing this guy's dude's tweet upon the screen with the account name, which is like pretty decent advertising.
But also, how did Russell or his staff come across this tweet?
The guy has like 3,000 followers.
It's not a big account.
It's not easy to find.
So, in short, I am extremely suspicious of literally all of this.
From top to bottom, I'm like, oh, that's...
You're telling me something here.
You're telling me there is there is something in this That is disconcerting.
Oh dear So from here Russell tells us why we should get rumble premium and that leads to him Repeating slurs, because that's supposed to be enticing.
Just a warning here, you're about to hear the F slur and the C word as well, both repeatedly, including Russell telling us the etymology of those words.
Man, you've got to get rumble now because you get an ad-free experience.
You get additional content, not just from me, but from Crowder and Timple and all of us that advocate for free speech.
And free speech means you can say what you want in the chat, like the renegade saying simply, faggot.
Which I can only assume is directed at me, but I respect you.
I respect your right to call me a faggot.
Faggot, you'll be aware, is a term that comes from the bundled up homosexuals when witches were burned in days of yore.
That's where that term comes from.
The word cunt on the other hand is an anglo-saxon word derived from the same source as words like kin and kiln meaning that the female reproductive and sexual organ ought be regarded as a kind of hearth and creator of life and warmth the preferred term vagina is a latin derived word that is derived from the same source as scabbard meaning that in from a latin perspective or an establishment's perspective the vagina only exists for
the I think that hasn't convinced me to invest in Rumble Premium.
Because also I'm more than certain that the free users on rumble are able to use these words just as much as they'd like and For reference the F slur is not just from bundles of sticks and bundles of homosexuals bundles of sticks used to burn witches But it was from bundles of sticks used to burn gay people at the stake.
Also, that is where the F slur comes from Which you know makes more sense as to why it is a homophobic slur specifically as for the second See ya!
Properly forbidden word and that's because in America It's also tied to an aggressive amount of misogyny and used almost exclusively towards women in a very derogatory manner Whereas like in Australia and New Zealand and to a lesser extent the UK It's a much more socially acceptable word and can even be used positively Like if your Kiwi friend calls you a good cunt, then you know, you're a good egg, right?
But of course Russell's audience are mostly in the US and are seemingly rumble users Where the meaning is much more fucked.
So, like, I feel very differently about seeing it used, you know, elsewhere in the world compared to on Rumble.
I'm like, nah, that's got a specific bent to it, I think.
Ugh, anyway, all of that is to say I don't find the freedom to say slurs in a public forum to be a particularly enticing prospect, and I suspect if you've matured beyond the emotional age of 14 you will feel similarly, which at this point just says a lot about Russell and Rumble as a platform.
Hmm. So, now we're going to shift to a different and yet related subject, uh, because Russell wants to talk about Kanye West.
Alright guys now We are going to make a sideways move and discuss Kanye West.
Kanye West, if you ask me, sits at the apex of celebrity.
Was anyone more famous than Kanye in his pomp?
Married to a Kardashian, there's another K. But now he's added the third and potentially final K. What does Kanye West's ascent and descent tell us about celebrity?
Many argue that it's comparable.
And I'd love to know what you think about this in the comments and chat to the story of Michael Jackson.
That when people start getting into spats about royalties and money and the way that the entertainment industry, and in this case in particular, the music industry is run, they tend to get in a lot of trouble.
Is Kanye West a wayfarer, waymaker and pioneer in the bizarre new territories of celebrity?
Or are we witnessing a public mental meltdown?
Certainly, we all know what type of woman he prefers.
Man, some of those women that he takes to those parties that are just wearing sort of the sheer material that tights are made out of.
You know that, where that lady he's going out with.
I can't even, when that comes up on my feed, I can't even look at that stuff.
I've made a covenant with mine eyes.
Kanye, don't drag us down into the gutter.
you Because yeah, those two are no longer together, by the way.
But yeah, I've cut it to the one in the interest of saving us all the time and incredible discomfort of watching it.
Anyway, am I missing something, or did Michael Jackson also come out as a particularly vicious anti-Semite, start trading conspiracy theories about the Jews, and start producing merchandise with swastikas on them?
Because I've gotta say, I don't remember that particular part of Michael Jackson's mythology.
Nonetheless, Kanye's like MJ, supposedly, though with ample pending allegations against Kanye, very little would surprise me at this point.
And let's be real for a second, right?
Kanye has been going down this road for a few years now, right?
This is not new.
It's at least a couple of years since he appeared on InfoWars with Alex Jones talking about how great Hitler was and making just a terrific joke about Netanyahu with his props of a literal fishing net and a bottle of yoo-hoo.
Net and yoo-hoo, you see.
Genius. And that in isolation would be almost charming, were it not for the vicious undertones, but Kanye himself has made it a abundantly clear that he is an outright committed antisemite.
He has said it many times in many, many ways, and nobody should be trying to discount that just because the guy has bipolar.
Like, believe the words he says.
So Russell covering this, and in particular covering Kanye in what is going to be a pretty positive light, is very fucking telling in of itself.
Now, Let's get to Russell's actual coverage, and it features some clips of an interview Kanye did, which is why he's been doing the rounds in the news again this past week.
Specifically, it's because Kanye did the interview while dressed head-to-toe in full KKK regalia, except the robes and pointy hood were black instead of white.
Feel free to take a moment to picture that.
It is...
it is...
something. So, here we go.
Let's have a look at Kanye West wrestling with mammoth power, baby.
Because the Jews, they move...
Just as a visual image, it's interesting.
I mean, as soon as you look at it, you're like...
Well, this is interesting.
I mean, that's someone who's been on, like, regular shows.
Like, Jimmy Fallon and that.
Coming up, like, Letterman.
Coming up now, it's Kanye.
What the fuck is he wearing?
Because the Jews, they move in the tunnels.
They move where you can't see them.
They're in an invisible hand, and they'll get, like...
What they'll do is they'll threaten people.
I like the way my man's handling it.
Yeah. Kanye, should we talk about costume?
Before we get into the content, Should we talk about costume, just for a moment?
Uh, they'll threaten people, we're gonna take your tours away, we're gonna drop your artists.
You gotta say this, you like, how many people put, I stand with my Jewish people, you know, three years ago?
Are we at a Motel 6?
What's the location?
Who decorates their walls that color?
Where are those curtains coming from?
Where is this Black Leather Ku Klux Klan interview taking place?
And how do you get interviews with Kanye?
Kanye, if you're watching this, most likely on X. Yay.
Come on, man.
Come and talk to us.
If you wear...
If you do an interview, I will wear white Ku Klux Klan stuff while you wear black Ku Klux Klan stuff.
And why can't Ku Klux Klan be reclaimed?
Klan from around the world will wear rainbow ones.
We'll wear LGBTQ plus Klan.
LGBT Ku Klux Klan.
Yes, Kanye!
That's got to be worth an interview.
And I think I see why we're covering this now, huh?
Russell did in fact clip this part, put it on axe, and he tagged Kanye in it as well.
And I've got to say, if that conversation ever happens, Russell is completely and entirely fucked.
Alex Jones could not contain Kanye West's love for the Nazis and hatred of the Jews a couple of years back.
There is absolutely no chance that Russell would be able to handle Kanye now.
And worst of all, Russell has a habit of being pretty credulous towards anyone he admires or likes or sees as having more clout than he does.
And so, like, There is every possibility that that interview would end with Russell saying, well, I guess the world is run by an invisible hand of Jews living in tunnels.
Like what Kanye was saying in those clips.
And yeah, living in tunnels, huh?
I mean, For the people who are meant to be running the world, it's not very glamorous, is it?
You know, like, with all that power and wealth, you'd think there'd be, like, a sky fortress or something, or maybe, like, go classic, you know, have a lair inside a volcano, but no, apparently all the Jews are living in the tunnels, is what's happening, underground, and they come out to threaten people.
Like, that particular door is fully off its hinges, isn't it?
Like, this isn't a little bit unhinged, this is, you know, If you weren't famous, you'd likely be in a padded cell by now, unhinged.
And supposedly that's part of why Kanye and Bianca Sensuri, I think is her name, got divorced.
It's because she tried to have him institutionalized in order to, you know, try and presumably get him better in some capacity.
But yeah, divorce seems to be where that's ended up.
Anyway, Russell's coverage continues and he decides to defend yet another individual that he definitely shouldn't.
I really saw the comparison of me and Puff with the Diageo and the Adidas situation.
Not a lot of people that are making comparisons to Puff Daddy nowadays, are they?
People are kind of distancing that.
I went to one white party that I saw nothing, man.
I smelled some baby oil, but I saw nothing.
Kanye, though, he's leaning in.
I like Diddy.
I mean, yeah, I like the questions that people ask like this.
How come Diddy's the one that they've selected?
Was that...
That's Tate, innit, that said that?
Like, he's like, why is it that's the person that's getting hit up on?
What, like, do you seriously think That across all Hollywood, think of your most favorite stars.
Some of them are pre-regular people, just regular married and all that.
But Hollywood has always been built around decadence and hedonism.
Like whether you're going back to your fatty Arbuckles or your Errol Flynn's or like that.
That's what it's about.
That's what it's always been about.
So any Hollywood star that you can think of or name, go on, think of one, name one, put them in the Rumble chat, guys.
Unless they're super double tied down to some sort of theological bind, some proper moral connection.
They got skeletons, man.
Who do you think's at them parties on Epstein Island?
Well, we know some of them.
Bill Gates, he was a regular attendee.
Bill Clinton, he was a regular attendee.
There was a lot of big stars going those things.
Who was that dude?
Was it Chris Tucker?
Like, Chris Tucker just did stand-up about it, I think!
Chris Tucker...
Gene Wilder!
I know Gene Wilder!
Oh yeah, how did Gene...
Yeah, what happened there, man?
That was a bit off-key, wasn't it?
For the life of me, I could not figure out why someone in the chat was bringing up Gene Wilder.
Like, I think it was just because Russell said, name a Hollywood star, and this person named Gene Wilder as their example.
And then somewhere Russell's brain decided to agree with the idea that, hey, maybe there was something up with Gene Wilder somehow, yeah.
Um, like, I thought, like, maybe it was his death or something, but nah, like, he was 83 and had Alzheimer's, you know, that didn't come out of nowhere.
Otherwise, like, he was on the receiving end of quite a bit of trauma early in life, he cheated on one of his wives, dabbled in theosophy for a bit, but broadly seemed fine.
I don't want to tell you how long I spent trying to verify that Gene Wilder was in fact okay, but I certainly couldn't find anything particularly amiss with the guy.
Audience, feel free to chime in if you know something I don't, but I'm pretty sure we can remember Gene Wilder with fondness still.
As to the broader question Russell asked of why Diddy is the one, you know, going down when supposedly all of Hollywood is rife with this stuff, Despite Russell insisting he never saw anything like that when he was a Hollywood darling my guess is it has something to do with all of the evidence and There's a lot of evidence that PDD is an absolute monster of a human being and has been for decades and there's a lot of baby oil apparently as well as
suspicious amounts of lube just Litres upon litres, and look, you know, there's a degree of where there's smoke, there's fire, right?
Where there's that much lube, something is happening, right?
As well as, you know, the evidence, as mentioned.
Yeah, yeah.
And the loop.
Speaking of which, Russell does keep continuing this habit of bringing up Epstein Island, but leaving Donald Trump's name off his list, which is weird, considering Trump was big buds with Jeffrey Epstein.
Best friends, according to Epstein.
Just feels strange to leave that one out, you know?
Real selective.
Hmm. Hmm.
Just the thought.
Anyway, from here we get Russell's conclusion on Kanye.
Kanye West is a massive star.
He's clearly some kind of genius.
He clearly walks that line where creativity means a mercurial inner mobility that by almost necessity requires that you're a little unstable.
Was he really done?
He said some crazy stuff.
The people, like one of the guys that works here, our director Isaac, he's Jewish, he's not like getting all uptight about stuff, he's just listening and going, oh the Jews done this, the Jews done that.
Clearly there's some extraordinary relationships between the United States and Israel.
Clearly there's interesting stuff going on in the entertainment industry.
Plainly we ought to be able to talk about these things without getting sort of quagmired.
Why is Kanye West One of the few people that's operated in that elite space that is now absolutely maligned.
And can you think of other examples?
Cornelius LX says, Candice Simon says, Kanye's personal trainer put him in an MKUltra experiment and he survived the brainwashing.
Interesting. Interesting.
Yeah, I don't, then Trish McLeod, I don't focus on him long enough to know, but he's like, maybe you're right.
Maybe I am giving him too much credit.
But like, man, I think anyone that can create artistically what he created, there's an argument that there's a real Raw.
Rare. Brilliance.
There. Hey, there's a brilliance there, supposedly, so who cares about anything else, he says, or does, eh?
What's a few swastikas between friends when someone's put out a couple of decent albums in their career and was married to a Kardashian once, y'know?
It's fine.
Plus, Isaac isn't getting all uptight about it, apparently, so it might Must be fine!
And let's not forget, prominent anti-Semite Candace Owens says that Kanye's personal trainer put him through an MKUltra-style program, but that Kanye survived the brainwashing.
I... What do you even say to that?
How do you, like...
How are you supposed to confront that situation?
With any degree of remaining in this plane of reality.
Like, how?
Just how?
Just how?
There is very genuinely an incredible amount of batshittery and copium going on in that clip surrounding Kanye, but the thing I found most alarming out of all of it is Russell doubling down and saying like, hey, I mean, Israel and the USA, plus the Jews are clearly running the entertainment industry.
I'm like, How far away is Russell from also describing the Jews as living in tunnels?
Because I don't think it's that far away.
I suspect that is closer than we think.
Ah, mercifully, we move away now from the subject of Kanye and instead come to the subject of trying to further control what food is allowed for people on food stamps or the SNAP program, which Russell is apparently all in favor of controlling what poor people are allowed to eat.
The American Heart Association has sent an employee to Texas to fight a bill that would stop food stamps being spent on sugary, salty foods.
Let me know in the comments and chat if you think that there should be welfare for the poorest Americans, and let me know if you agree with me that that food, when necessary, should be locally grown or locally reared organic food, that we should have a healthier America.
What kind of psychic scar does your great nation bear that it thrives on making people sick and ill?
Let's get into it.
I often say that I can never be surprised in this building but for the American Heart Association to be against this bill.
SB 379 seeks to remove soda, candy, potato and corn chips, and cookies from the list of items eligible for purchase with SNAP.
My name is Alec Puente and I'm the Director of Government Relations for the American Heart Association.
I'm here to testify today in opposition to Senate Bill 379.
I would encourage you to look at what it The Heart Association is concerned about potential impacts of this bill on participation and population health.
Imposing nutritional restrictions will interfere with the primary function of SNAP, reducing hunger, without reducing root causes of chronic disease.
I'm here because I want to support the children on this program and protect them from the chronic disease that sugar will lead them to develop.
I actually advocated for this bill in Arizona and was shocked by the big soda companies sending their own person to come and advocate for the fact that there's no correlation between soda consumption and obesity which is just a straight-up lie.
Very interesting to see that the Heart Association would protest against measures designed to make the Poorest Americans healthier.
Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat.
Here's Andrew Halberman's response.
This is really terrible.
AHA, please give us one justification for sugary soda in service to health.
Nutritious food and drink is what people, especially children, need most.
No legitimate cardiologist would support this.
No pediatrician.
First off, fuck Andrew Hubberman.
That nonsense health grifter can fuck right off into the sun as far as I'm concerned, along with his dead eyes and overcompensating beard.
To be very clear, the very existence of food stamps as a separate provision of welfare is completely ghoulish to me.
In the UK, you just get an amount of money per month, usually not very much, and whether you choose to spend that on veggies or vodka is entirely up to you.
Most people tend to need to eat, though, at some point, so food is usually the option, as well as things like, you know, diapers for our kids and whatnot, you know, stuff like that we can actually get with the welfare money.
Fuck me.
So this whole thing to me is already off to a bad start conceptually.
And then here, this bill, SB 379, introduced in Texas state legislature and derived from RFK Jr's MAHA movement, seeks to control what people on a low income in the U.S. are allowed to eat, specifically by banning energy drinks, sweetened beverages, carbonated beverages, candy, potato or corn chips, and cookies.
So hey, if you're poor, fuck you, you don't get nice things.
What's more, according to the CBPP, More than 76% of SNAP participants in Texas are in families with children.
So double fuck you if you have kids that are on a low income.
Um, the, uh, the representative from the American Heart Association there arguing against the bill was quite correct in that this bill also interferes with the primary function of the SNAP program, which is supposed to be reducing hunger, um, without addressing any of the root causes of chronic diseases whatsoever.
It's completely just a fuck the poor bill, and ignores the reality that significant chunks of America live in food deserts where access to healthy food simply isn't available.
It sounds insane, and it is, but that is the reality of the situation.
Like, it's all very well Russell saying that food should be locally grown and locally reared, but if it isn't, and you then get rid of people's access to all the other food, you're left with a pretty significant fucking problem.
and like And beyond the morality of all this, which is obviously completely fucked up, Russell is supposed to be someone who believes in maximal individual freedom.
He says it every single day.
He says that people should be given the most freedom possible on an individual level, and yet here he is supporting a bill to micromanage what poor people are allowed to eat.
Hypocrisy, I barely knew thee.
So next, Russell gets briefly distracted from the subject and reveals he's now a big fan of guns.
This is a chance, a real chance for you Americans to eat healthier, get stronger, keep your government accountable.
I'm one of them people that's totally changed their perspective on something like the right to bear arms.
I used to have a woolly liberal view, like, oh you can't have firearms, of course people are getting killed if the population is armed.
Now I see it the way that you see it, that if you have an armed population it keeps the government accountable.
Perhaps you'll argue back right now in the rumble chat and say you think that the military couldn't oppose an armed population.
Certainly it's a lot more difficult Stop burping!
these spaces educate yourself nourish yourself on good food and good information Ah yes, and this show is where we come for good information.
So far, Hitler escaped to Colombia, then Venezuela, Kanye West was part of an MKUltra experiment carried out by his personal trainer, and the Jews live in tunnels except for when they come out to threaten people.
Good stuff, yeah, good information is what we're getting.
As for the concept that a government are unable to take on an armed population and gun ownership keeps governments accountable, If it comes down to the actual military of the United States being put up against a bunch of dudes with guns who cosplay as military on the weekends, my money is on the actual military winning that fight.
Regardless of number disparities, I'm like, yeah, they're gonna win that one.
Especially as, you know, they have the tanks and fighter jets and drones and missiles and whatever else, right?
Fucking stupid.
Now, I can't say specifically where Russell's change of heart on gun ownership stems from, but I can say that it's likely something he doesn't care too much about as it's never affected him personally, and it also conveniently fits in with his new alt-right persona.
And there has been footage of him recently shooting at a gun range with a former Navy SEAL, which If the image doesn't sit right in your mind, you're correct.
It is very odd to see Russell Brand holding an assault rifle.
Either way, Russell has clearly made the assessment that it does him very little harm to sign on as a Second Amendment guy, so why the fuck not, I guess.
Values? What are those, then?
Wooly liberal things?
Anyway, let's get back to this whole food bill debacle, where Russell is reading a tweet from the So let me go back to that Calais Means tweet.
This is what the Wall Street Journal said.
Another concern for food companies is that the so-called Make America Healthy Again, or Maha movement, could begin influencing low-income consumers'eating habits as well.
While Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s call for the removal of artificial dyes from the food supply likely won't pose a significant financial challenge, many companies have already eliminated these additives in their European products and could easily do the same here.
The real threat lies in Maha's potential to reshape America's overall perception of food.
Now, that's precisely what you want government to do.
If you're going to have a government, why not have them reshape the perspectives of a nation for the benefit of that population instead of, as has been happening, controlling the consciousness of individuals, communities, and entire nations, and the planet as a whole in order to facilitate the deep state and powerful global commercial corporate interests.
Like, what I would love some clarity on here is the distinction between reshaping the perspectives of a nation and controlling the consciousness of the people.
Because they sound very similar, and it would appear their results are very similar, and yet they're supposedly quite different.
Like, Biden's government controlling people's consciousness is bad, but Trump's government forcefully reshaping people's perspectives is good.
Had Russell known any better, he wouldn't have read this Wall Street Journal quote out, but he did, and that put him into the unfortunate position of having to say, yeah, you know what governments should do?
They should control how you think about food.
Governments should be controlling how you think, and that's a good thing, because it's for your own benefit.
Which is quite literally everything he's supposed to stand against.
Like, that is an absolutely insane clip to me.
Anyway, from here the chat chimes back into the conversation because they want to see that clip of Hitler rocking back and forth again, and then Russell starts playing with fire.
Someone in the chat, Mark Franke, just said, play Hitler again.
You got it, baby.
I'm here to serve.
Here he is, everybody's favorite dictator, that man that reclaimed the swastika from those pesky Hindus and Buddhists.
It's Adolf, not in my name, you bloody well don't.
How many goals, Jesse Owens?
Hitler, just sitting down and enjoying himself in Berlin one day.
There he goes.
Come on, come on!
Somebody's got to put up a race against Jesse Owens.
Oh, God, look at him go!
This methamphetamine isn't working!
It isn't working!
It's the bloody juice!
It's the bloody juice, I tell you!
Maybe... Was he right, is to say?
I don't know.
I think we can close the book on Hitler, can we?
Maybe not, because it turns out he might have been living the vida loco up in Argentina, according to Javier Millon.
That Hitler bit goes over good with the Jew-hating crowd, says Jay Frith.
I don't know if you could take the guy seriously after that, could you?
He does look like he's rocking.
No, no, that person in the Rumble chat saying, uh, that Hitler bit goes over well with the Jew-hating crowd is very much correct.
Russell knows that.
He's playing to the neo-nazis in his audience seeking their approval.
That's what that was.
Like, it's all very well saying, oh, I don't know if you could take Hitler seriously after seeing this clip, but that's definitely not how the Nazis feel about Hitler.
Also, that video is from 1936, a good few years before he began tearing his way through Europe and engaging in genocide with a capital G. So one might think he should probably take people seriously, even if they don't They look a bit ridiculous sometimes, or have funny hair, or are somehow orange.
Sorry, I may have veered off topic there.
Um, fuck me.
Okay, so now we move to a bit of UK news, though curiously Russell has to turn to Australian coverage of this news in order to support his point.
Let's have a look now at the somewhat interesting story given Keir Starmer's audacious claims about restoring Britain to some peculiar golden era, even though it's never looked more grey and drab to me, while actually jailing parents for stuff they've said on the WhatsApp chat.
Have you heard this story?
Let me know in the comments and chat.
A private conversation on a phone about your kids at school has been spied on.
And now people are getting arrested for it.
Let's get into this story.
Is this what J.D. Vance meant when he said that Europe is becoming a tyrannical place and my country, the UK, in particular, is becoming a kind of island penitentiary?
Well, we were showing the Benny Hill British police force, but the truth is, of course, stranger than the comedy.
This weekend, we've had the UK police arresting James and Rita, a dad, for comments that he made about his nine-year-old girl's school teacher.
Yes, this couple were held in a cell for 11 hours, arrested in front of their crying children.
Arrested in front of their crying children for comments on a whatsapp group now, obviously, I don't know what these comments are But what could you say in a whatsapp message that would warrant being held?
Detained by the police for 11 hours in a country where you pay tax being arrested in front of your crying children Is this the democracy that British people deserve?
Is this the green and pleasant land that William Blake declared?
In his epic hymn, Jerusalem.
Yeah, ZHP, did he?
Who is pushing this stuff?
What they look for is opportunities to leverage control.
What they look for is any way of shutting down opposition voices.
What they benefit from is delirium.
That's what globalism requires, a kind of global bewilderment, where none of us know what to think or what to feel.
Oh, is male and female real categories?
Is the family a real thing?
Is a country a real thing?
No! Nothing's real!
We can make stuff up as we go along!
You're in jail!
You're in jail!
You're a prisoner!
You're a prisoner!
You're being flown home!
We can steal this policy from the right and this policy from the left!
It's an extraordinary era that we are living in.
So, firstly, somehow this is the fault of trans people.
Weird how that keeps being the case with these dudes.
Like, somehow that's got to be brought up.
And, yeah, you're being flown home.
Well, Russell, it...
Might be coming down the pike.
I can see why he's protesting against that one specifically.
As for whether countries are real, it's not that long ago that Russell was arguing that countries don't matter and borders don't matter and we're all just human beings.
And to this very day, he's insisting that tiny communities formed into theocratic ethnostates is actually the best way for humanity to exist.
So I would still question whether he thinks countries are or should be real.
There are a few other important points here.
Firstly, Russell despises Rupert Murdoch, right?
Has done his entire career, and just a few weeks ago called Rupert Murdoch Satan, which is a fair critique.
It's a very fucking Murdochian outlet, and these days is owned by Comcast, with the channel itself drawing comparisons to Fox News in the US, right?
This is Australian Fox News, basically.
Which is why the responses to this story from the anchors are so obviously reactionary, right?
It's a hard-right outlet parroting hard-right narratives.
That's what they do.
Um, and as for what could you say in a WhatsApp message that could warrant being arrested...
Like, in the UK, there are quite a lot of things.
There are significant exemptions from the rules of free expression, and those include harassment, abuse, racism, stalking, inciting violence, the list goes on and on.
But yeah, if you're sending messages that break the law, then you may get arrested for breaking the law.
Like, the same applies in the US, funnily enough.
Like, there are limits on freedom of speech.
If you're harassing people, if you're being fucking malicious, via text towards someone or about someone or trying to incite some shit to do with someone, then yeah, you can get arrested.
Goddamn, it's not complicated.
Now, as to the story itself, so two parents in Hertfordshire were arrested.
They were held for 11 hours on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications, and causing a nuisance on school property, right?
Those are the three kind of, you know, Potential charges.
Hertfordshire Police said the arrests were necessary to fully investigate the allegations, but there was insufficient evidence to take any action, and so there were no formal charges made.
According to the Times, the couple said they had previously been banned from entering Cowley Hill Primary School in Borehamwood after questioning the recruitment process for a headteacher and criticizing the leadership of the school in a parent's WhatsApp group.
I feel like, in looking into this story, I feel like there are big details missing from a good chunk of this, including specifically what was said in that WhatsApp group, because some WhatsApp messages have been released, but not all of them, and I'm like, hmm.
Okay. The school said it had sought advice from police after a high volume of direct correspondence and public social media posts that it said had become upsetting for staff, parents, and governors.
So essentially, the police investigated, did their job, and have moved on.
The parents have moved their child to a different school.
And that's kind of that.
I will say whether there was a need to arrest the parents with six police officers is a reasonable question Though Hertfordshire police say quote the arrests were necessary to fully investigate the allegations as is routine in these types of matters following further investigations officers deemed that no further action should be taken due to insufficient evidence in Relation to the police visit on 20th of December a complaint was submitted which was reviewed by a professional standards department It was deemed that the service provided by officers was appropriate unconditionally Quote.
So, the police said that the police are all good and behaved fine.
Which, yeah, not necessarily the most reassuring thing.
Like, oh, oh, you guys think you guys are okay?
Okay, fine, alright.
That said, like, after some probably unnecessary trauma, everyone involved is able to move on.
So, like, yeah, alright.
But Russell isn't, because He wants to know who's pushing this stuff, and is sure that it's the globalists looking for opportunities to leverage control, shut down opposition, and create delirium.
At which point I'm like, opposition to what?
What great force were these two parents opposing specifically?
The headteacher of a local primary school?
Like, is she a globalist?
Is that the argument here?
Like, it does feel like something of a storm in a teacup that the right wing have been latching onto to claim victimhood.
What doesn't help, also, is that one of the parents is insistent that the arrest was only made to shut them up and stop them speaking out, and I'm like, I'd be fascinated by that conspiracy theory if the stakes weren't quite so low.
But okay, then.
In a related matter, Russell Next plays a video about a change in sentencing guidelines in the UK.
The video is from Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick.
So he's literally a top Tory politician and Russell is more than happy to traffic in this guy's narratives.
There are new sentencing guidelines that are introducing even more complexity into Even more complexity into the criminal justice system in my country.
So sentencing guidelines published today that I've uncovered shows that you're less likely to go to jail for exactly the same crime if you're a woman, if you're an ethnic minority, if you're trans, if you're neurodiverse, if from a minority faith group, i.e.
anyone who isn't Christian.
It's outrageous.
Frankly, it's blatant bias against straight white men.
People said that those of us who were worried about two-tier justice were wronged.
The deputy prime minister said that we were conspiracy theorists.
Well now we have it in the law of the land in black and white.
There's two-tier justice under two-tier care.
That's an extraordinary claim that's being made there.
Here's a piece from The Independent.
It's a British newspaper.
Earlier this month the council published new principles for courts to follow when imposing community and custodial sentences including whether to suspend jail time.
The updated guidance which comes into force in April from now, someone from an ethnic, cultural or faith minority, along with groups such as young women, will have to have additional guidance when it comes to sentencing.
That is an extraordinary piece of legislation.
Uh-huh.
So apparently you're less likely to go to prison if you're not a straight, white, Christian man, according to Robert Jenrick.
So this is something that's singling out the straight, white, Christian men of the world, and they're all going to go to prison.
And we should all listen to Robert Jenrick, because that's an extraordinary piece of legislation, supposedly.
And this whole thing about two-tier care.
Of course, like, this is obviously leaning into narratives about Christian victimhood, white nationalist victimhood, and male victimhood in general, but what is the reality?
Basically, the guidelines say that a pre-sentence report is required whenever a minority or someone vulnerable is being sentenced.
And that includes anyone of an ethnic, cultural, or faith minority, alongside anyone who's 18 to 25, anyone who's female, or any female who is pregnant.
As standard, the only people who won't get one are men who are over 25, who are going to jail for a second time, and are going to jail for more than two years, who aren't addicts, who aren't the primary caregiver for a dependent, who have no chronic health conditions, don't have any mental health conditions, and whose lawyer hasn't requested one.
Quite a few caveats there, you might notice.
Essentially, the only situation where a pre-sentence report is not required is when the court has more than enough information about the defendant already and they're a repeat offender going to prison for more than two years and aren't addicts and all of this other stuff, right?
The guidance also makes it abundantly clear that the purpose of a pre-sentencing report is to ensure all relevant issues are examined before sentencing for all defendants to avoid a disparity of outcomes within the justice system.
Now, if you're someone who acknowledges systemic problems within the justice system, particularly towards race or minority faiths or anything else, then you might think, hey, this seems like a sensible piece of legislation that will at least lessen the harm in some way.
Russell disagrees, it would seem.
Possibly because he's a straight white Christian man who has a pending criminal case against him, but even then he would still fall into the category of needing a pre-sentencing report if he gets to that point.
So, like, absolute fucking Tory nonsense.
Cool. So, from here, Russell opens conversation about the new Netflix TV show Adolescence, which has been receiving great critical acclaim, and I don't think he understands what it's about.
Now, my country is at the moment all of a froth about a new drama called Adolescence, which is a sort of study on knife crime, starring the excellent Stephen Graham, a brilliant Working-class, mixed-race actor, who American viewers will know because he played Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire.
He's in Gangs of New York.
He's in a bunch of stuff.
He's an extremely gifted and brilliant actor.
He, in this show, Adolescence, episode one, everything's shot in a single shot.
You know, it's like, I figure it's handheld and they don't cut.
Now, it's become a cultural phenomenon because it's a discussion on the topic of knife crime.
Knife crime in the UK is pretty high.
It's one of those things that's continually discussed, particularly in the summer months where particular stories tend to pick up mostly because Parliament comes out of session and there's weird rhythms for the news.
Let's familiarise ourselves with the show, Adolescents, the way it's being covered in the news and the peculiar and curious narratives that are arising out of it, i.e.
what causes violence and social discontent.
Is violence and social discontent caused by poverty, instability that often comes with mass and unguarded migration or is violence caused by Andrew Tate?
That is a not-so-subtle insinuation that knife crime and social discontent is caused by poverty and instability from quote-unquote mass unguarded migration.
Now, You could make that argument around poverty, when people have to turn to crime to pay their bills, but the migration argument is just pure alt-right bigotry creeping in with no factual undercurrent.
Also, adolescence is about knife crime in the same way that a game of Clue is about the dangers of candlesticks.
Or the dangers of everyone having a color for a name, though Reservoir Dogs does a better job of making that argument.
The show is very specifically about a teenage girl getting murdered.
Yes, with a knife.
And about how the teenage boy arrested for the murder had been slipping down a path of incel and manosphere culture without anyone noticing.
It's a really important thing to talk about, particularly in the UK where it's set, because Andrew Tate and his ilk, but Andrew Tate specifically, are the huge influences on teenage boys in this country.
My nephews, who are young teenagers, knew who Andrew Tate was long before I did.
Thankfully, they think he's a dickhead, but still, that's not the prevailing opinion among teenage boys, and that is worrying.
This subject very obviously also ties into the rise in violence towards women that's been going on, as well as the extreme misogyny that's been making one hell of a comeback in British schools, leading to the normalization of casual rape jokes again.
We're facing a fucking Massive backslide here.
It's a big and difficult subject, and I will say I think Adolescence does a solid job of telling that story from a number of different directions.
Russell, however, seems to have gotten the impression that the show is all about knife crime, because not only is knife crime high in the UK, but apparently it's higher in the summer months because Parliament is out of session and there's weird rhythms to the news.
As though, like, people who want to have a jolly old stabby time put it off until the politicians are on holiday, just in case they create yet more laws against stabbing people.
It couldn't possibly be that there's a rise in crime in the summer, you know, because there are more people outside and around other people, you know, because it's warmer weather.
No, no, no, no.
It's, yeah, Parliament are out of session and therefore Even if you take it to mean like, oh, there's more media coverage of Stabbed, like, also no, also no.
Huh, boy.
Um, so...
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure where Russell got the idea that adolescence is all about knife crime, though one of the clips he plays at one point during the show does kind of make that claim.
But the only thing I can really think of is that there is a significant argument among Second Amendment gun ownership advocates.
They're like, well, hey, knife crime in Europe is crazy.
So if we don't have guns, then people will just stab each other here instead.
As a way to argue against, you know, any kind of gun control in the U.S., despite how sorely needed it is.
The argument is very, very dumb.
And there is nowhere near the amount of knife violence per capita in this country compared to gun violence in the U.S., But I suspect that's the direction this argument is coming from.
And of course it has the added bonus of shifting the conversation away from how the Manosphere is a fucking horror show, and shifts the conversation towards knife crime instead, which is much more neutral comparatively for these guys, right?
The problem is, I think Russell believes this in earnest, because He can be insanely credulous of anything he sees on the internet, and so he may very well genuinely believe that Adolescence is a show about knife crime, and be very genuinely confused as to why Andrew Tate is being brought into things.
Anyway, from confusion and racism, Russell gets more confused and markedly more racist.
What I'm saying is that cultural artifacts get deployed and used by the powerful in the same way that AI will get used by the powerful.
AI could be used to benefit all of us.
Who do you think is going to primarily benefit from it?
A cultural artifact might tell a story that talks about poverty, decline, despair, loss of religious affiliation, breakdown of communities.
Because if you want to tell a story about Britain and violence, talk about them three little girls that were murdered in Southport.
That tells you a story about knife crime in Britain.
So what is the cultural artifact that's being elevated?
Is it a story about three little girls being murdered by a kid that was first generation, I think, was he Rwandan?
I don't know enough about the story.
But what I know is, is he weren't a white working class kid.
I know that.
That is, that is full on Tommy Robinson rhetoric there.
Holy shit.
Like, things on Stay Free have really taken a dark turn lately.
Like, I don't know much, but I know he wasn't white or working class.
Like, fuck me.
Now, obviously, Russell seems to think adolescence is about knife crime, and so talking about Andrew Tate in relation to it is actually a cultural artifact being deployed and used to benefit the powerful, supposedly, because being against Andrew Tate and the Manosphere benefits the powerful.
Somehow. But Russell has unintentionally brought up an incredibly relevant example to what adolescence is discussing.
Not in the sense of incels and the manosphere so much, but the stabbing attack in Southport last year was exacerbated by the same problem.
So to jog everyone's memory, this was when a 17 year old boy whose parents were Rwandan evangelical Christians, and very much working class by the way, unfortunately killed three young girls and even Injured many others.
This was the incident that sparked race riots in the UK last year when the likes of Tommy Robinson were spreading misinformation that the perpetrator was a Muslim refugee.
The stabbing was a tragic event that unfortunately shone a light on a glaring gap in the British social care system that this boy fell into.
He seemed to have several mental illnesses going on and Developed an obsession with genocide genocide mass killings and like watching very graphic videos on these things school shootings the works, right?
He showed several signs of violence Across several years and you know, he attacked a schoolmate breaking his wrist with a hockey stick In the UK we have an initiative called prevent which is essentially counterterrorism intervention to prevent kids from being radicalized They were made aware of this boy a couple of years prior to the stabbing and kept tabs on him,
like, several times, but because there was no underlying specific ideology that they could latch on to, like just an obsession with violence in general, further steps were never taken, because they couldn't pin him down to being, like, a specific type of terrorist.
After the fact, a good number of memes mocking the victims of various genocides were found on the boy's laptop.
To a degree, this event was exacerbated by relatively unfettered internet access, as well as the radicalizing hateful corners of said internet.
Though he was never radicalized towards one specific ideology, he was radicalized towards violence.
Um, in incel culture, children are being radicalized in the same way, with blanket feelings towards all women in general, which is directly leading to more violence towards women in society today.
But of course, as Russell just said, he doesn't know much about the Southport stabbing and doesn't know what adolescence is about either.
He just knows that the kid wasn't white and is for some reason assuming that he wasn't working class.
He knows very little about either of the things that he's mentioned.
It's like, I've not seen the show, I think it's about stabbings.
It's not.
Also, I don't think this kid is working class.
He is.
Fuck. And so yeah, all this is, it's just Russell leaning into the racism.
That's what he's doing.
And so from here, we get to what Russell thinks the real problem is societally, and that's apparently a lack of male role models.
Really what this is, is the incel phenomena is in itself quite complicated because male and masculine archetypes were vilified so excessively that people stopped wondering what a man was and what a man is supposed to be.
The world of sex got very very complicated.
What constitutes consent?
We all know what those rules are.
Anyone that's ever had sex knows what it is to be in a sexual dynamic.
And sexuality, like all animal power, has areas of nuance and complexity to it.
But in this time where masculinity itself was put on trial and vilified, any male archetype or cultural figure that benefits from the ongoing flow of male archetypes, and there's a few of those that you might want to list right now, will be vilified and attacked.
Young men need role models.
They need male role models.
They need processes of initiation.
And when I say need, what I mean is this, Throughout history they've always been there.
Throughout history, you go to some tribe in the middle of nowhere that ain't been touched by culture.
At the age of 13, 14, boys are taken away from their mother, often wounded in some superficial way or another, to indicate that they're no longer boys but are in fact men.
When you have a culture that vilifies masculinity and infantilizes the population, wanting people to drink soda pop their old bleeding life and play on video games their whole bleeding life, they don't know what it is to be a man.
They don't have their father take them out and say, this is what I used to do son, now you're gonna do it.
This is your job, this is your role, this is the way we operate.
Part of our function is we protect the community and we in particular protect and honour women.
If those kind of values are all fallen apart, they say oh there's no such thing as a woman, there's no such thing as a family, there's no such thing as a community, we could all just make out as we go along.
Who benefits from that?
The centralised power benefits from it.
How? Like, I have many questions, but my main one is, how does centralised power benefit from a lack of male role models and these values he speaks of supposedly falling apart?
Like, spell it out to me, Russell.
Also, it somehow ended up being trans people's fault again for daring to exist.
Weird, that.
Keeps coming back to that.
With no basis, just like, meh.
I don't like it.
What this clip does speak to is Russell's idea of what masculinity is.
And Russell's conception of it is very much the toxic type of masculinity.
You can hear it in his derision of soda and video games.
Also last year he spent a good while raving about how good Assassin's Creed Valhalla was, but sure Russell.
Now, this isn't surprising from a raging misogynist, but I do need to make it clear how much Russell's own ego and sense of self is intertwined with the patriarchy.
So, Russell idolized his dad as a child, for a long time as well, and his dad was a womanizing, self-aggrandizing, former football player turned wheeler-dealer who seemed only to express himself through joy or rage.
Again, not surprising for a chap who took his 17-year-old son on a sex tour of Southeast Asia to lose his virginity.
In the same room, I might add.
But even beyond that, if you just look at the types of people Russell has worshipped in his life, almost all of them are very traditional masculine role models.
He was raised on Elvis films and Bobby Moore.
And whenever a traditionally masculine guy comes up on the show, Russell will spend a good minute going into detail about just how much he loves them.
Just like he did with Stephen Graham, you know, he's great such a good actor Not that I disagree With the assessment there Stephen Graham is is pretty fucking great But like this only seems to happen around traditionally masculine archetypes, which Stephen Graham most definitely is right?
He's a stereotypical hard man, right?
My feeling is that while Russell has never ever been able to embody that same masculinity, he has Always wanted to.
It's why he resented his stepdad so fucking much, among other things.
And so, like, when the patriarchy is attacked in any way, he starts to take it really personally, because an attack on the patriarchal system is an attack on everything he loves and has wanted to be.
And so, instead, he cozies up to Jordan Peterson and happily defends Andrew Tate, and does everything he can to protect that patriarchal system.
And it's why people like Russell and the people I've just mentioned fundamentally don't understand Tim Walz.
It's because Tim Walz projects a much more positive version of masculinity that is far less toxic, and they just don't understand that and have to call him Tampon Tim instead.
And I'm like, all right, say that to his face, you motherfuckers.
I don't think it'll go the way you want it to.
Oh, and not to put too fine a point on it, but Russell really should not be talking about sex and consent.
And, like, he should just be avoiding these subjects entirely in the wake of, you know, everything.
And also, if anything, sex got a whole lot simpler, like, within the last decade or so.
Like, it's enthusiastic consent with consistent communication throughout, Or nothing.
It's very, very simple.
If it's not that, then you shouldn't be doing it.
Job done.
Very easy.
Very straightforward.
Very simple.
Now... From here Russell gets to how he specifically thinks that adolescence is being used by the British government.
And I should clarify up top that at one point Russell did play a clip of Keir Starmer talking about the show and how he watched it with his kids.
Starmer is supposedly in discussions with Netflix about how to show the series in schools across the UK to help educate kids on the dangers of the manosphere and social media more broadly.
There's so much information available to you, and the information that's getting cut versus the information that gets amplified is significant.
Probably this show, Adolescent, is well made.
It's got, certainly in Stephen Graham, it's got a brilliant...
Actor in it, for sure.
And it probably captures a lot of themes, archetypes and ideas that are significant and important.
But the way it gets used and manipulated by power subsequent to its release and construction is what's important here.
Why do you think The British government would be interested in emphasizing the whiteness of the child, the class of the child, the fact that it's to do with involuntary celibacy and Andrew Tate, rather than it to be to do with, I don't know, poverty and lack of education, lack of good malrodels, lack of understanding of what you're supposed to be when you are a man.
Why would it focus on A rather than B?
Because A enables them to control and B would diminish their control.
I would quite like to see some evidence that the British government are emphasizing the whiteness of the child, because I've not seen any of that, nor the class of the child either.
The fact that adolescence is to do with incels and Andrew Tate is literally the point of the show, but again, Russell does not know that, seemingly, and so is coming across like a clueless conspiracy theory spinning idiot.
Oh, this was supposed to be about knife crime, wasn't it?
Hot and utter tit.
And again, if it were happening, I would also love for an explanation on how emphasizing whiteness in the class of the child would be enabling control somehow, even if that was happening, right?
Like, how does that enable control?
Draw me a diagram of how that works, if that's what's happening.
Which it isn't.
I will say the Labour government have absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to discussing tackling poverty in the UK, what with them making £5bn worth of cuts to our welfare over here, but that's a separate issue.
An issue that weirdly Russell hasn't bothered to address.
Like Attack Keir Starmer as much as you like, but at least do it for the right reasons.
Like, the UK government is a fucking horror show right now.
There is plenty of ammunition.
But instead we get this shit insinuating some kind of control being exerted socially.
I suspect the reason might have something to do with the fact that many of Labour's policies have been cribbed directly from the Conservatives, and so it's pretty difficult to attack them when Donald Trump is pulling the same shit in the US and you're responding to that with rapturous applause.
Not that that's stopped Russell in the past, but still, he might have some degree of self-awareness in this.
Oh, and in terms of actors with adolescence, by the way, The Pink for me was the third episode, the psychologist in that.
Whoever plays that psychologist, she's fucking phenomenal as an actor.
Terrific. Okay.
And in the final clip here today, Russell makes a very genuine appeal to the racists in his audience.
Keir Starmer, remember when he was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service in the UK, extraordinarily was maximally authoritarian when it came to the persecution and prosecution of young people that participated in riots.
Now, in this instance, they were mostly black kids.
kids because a black man died in police custody in my country in around 2007.
Keir Star was the head of the CPS then, and they tried minors in adult courts.
Did you know that?
They tried minors, kids, in adult courts.
In order to...
They say I, you know...
Oh, superficially, they say, just to keep it running, to keep the courts running and stuff.
But also, they issued extraordinarily draconian sentences.
Kids that nicked bottles of water and stuff, or pallets of water, were given custodial sentences because it took place during a riot.
In short, you might be like, oh, well, when black people riot in, you might be racist or crazy or something and think that that's, oh, no, good, I'm glad he was authoritarian.
But no, no, no, no, no.
That's the wrong thought.
That's the wrong thought.
Because what's revealed to you in Keir Starmer's past is that he's authoritarian.
And what's he being?
He was authoritarian And then, because there were social disturbances and they lent out and dealt out hefty sentences, now he's being authoritarian.
To who?
Oh, white families that are chatting on the internet and being racist.
Hmm. So the principle is what's important.
And what's the principle?
Maximum control.
The surface, ignore that.
Whether the kids that are getting arrested in riots in 2007 are black, that's irrelevant.
What's the principle?
Control. The parents, don't worry about what they're saying, unless they're saying we are going to commit a crime, and for which there's already a law, then watch the principle.
Control. We can arrest these people now.
We can arrest people for saying stuff on WhatsApp.
We've just established that idea.
Now, anyone we want to arrest has probably said something for which you could be arrested for on WhatsApp, and now we're back to Kafka.
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K. He cannot help himself but bring up Kafka's The Trial at every available opportunity, because it's the only one that he's half-read.
It's very much him trying to be more interesting than just bringing up 1984 all the time, you know?
He's like, ah, everyone keeps doing that.
I need a different one.
I need a different one.
In light of his pending criminal case, I am kind of tempted to open up a betting pool as to how many references to Kafka he makes between now and the conclusion of his trial.
I think it's gonna be a lot.
Anyway, the point of that clip was, hey racists, you might think Keir Starmer was being great when he severely punished black people back in 2011 for rioting when a black guy was killed, but that's the wrong thought.
Not because being racist is bad, but because actually he's coming for you next!
He's coming for white families now!
Carry on the racism, sure, but that Starmer guy, he's coming for white people now because he's an authoritarian!
I genuinely don't think I've seen Russell being this openly and brazenly engaging in race baiting before.
Like, recent episodes are really full of new landmarks in bigotry for this guy.
And, like, it is also interesting that the supposition, because, like, he mentioned, you know, people being racist on WhatsApp, specifically, and I'm like, that was in none of the coverage that I could find, specifically.
And it makes me, that was kind of the thought in the back of my mind, I'm like, huh.
I wonder if their complaints about the qualifications of the headteacher was like, oh, are they a DEI hire, you know, kind of thing.
And clearly Russell has had the same kind of thoughts, and is like, yeah, well, you shouldn't be able to arrest people for being racist, is where he's landed on that.
Alright, that's a take, that's a perspective.
Also, not for nothing, but I'd be really curious to read Russell's WhatsApp chats.
He seems overly concerned about that.
You know, like, well, now we can just arrest people for things they say in a message to Other people?
As though that hasn't literally always been the case.
As though a letter has never once in history provided evidence to arrest someone, and somehow a WhatsApp message is supposed to be different.
Um, like, hey asshole, if you send people heinous shit that's against the law, you can get arrested for that, including if it's online.
That's just how that goes.
Oh, dear.
Anyway. That is the show for this week, everybody.
Fuck, and what a show- Jesus.
Just. There was a lot.
There was a lot there.
There was a lot there.
We seem to be going down a slippery slope.
And I'm not sure what Russell's gonna be- I get the feeling, despite the The charges against Tim Russell is just gonna keep on truckin', I don't think he'll be taking the week off, but regardless whether he is or not, I will be back next Thursday with a guest!
But in the meantime, take care of yourselves and each other, thank you very much, I love you, byeeee!
Alright, I'm gonna finish now cos I'm hungry and I wanna eat something.
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