Alworth dissects Russell Brand’s hypocrisy—pending UK rape charges, mocking left-wing outrage over ICE murders (Renee Goode, Alex Pretty), and fear-mongering about "less white" British countryside via DEFRA’s 2019/2022 reports showing 99% white park leadership. His Christian conversion lacks repentance, while financial opportunism (promoting gold/silver investments) mirrors past irresponsibility. Brand’s alt-right-aligned rhetoric stokes division, ignoring systemic realities like Brexit’s 30% farmer income collapse and historical oppression, to rally disaffection against institutions—all while failing to propose real solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
I became a Christian preempting that charges would appear from deep history.
I went to one white party.
What?
What are you talking about?
I'm a migrant right now in the United States.
In fact, I would call myself an exile, a political exile.
Lying, probably true.
Inevitably, I lie sometimes.
I feel that Christ may have had a better vision.
I'm the main problem.
I'm the main problem.
Let's go full screen on Russell.
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And I think we might be in the final stretch of it as well.
So that might be nice.
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This Sunday coming 8pm GMT on YouTube.
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Now then, let's get into this week's show, shall we?
We'll begin with the news that in case anyone missed it, Russell has yet more criminal charges against him in the UK for rape and sexual assault.
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Meaning, regardless of the outcome of his trial in June, he will then have another criminal trial to contend with.
This is largely good news for those of us who enjoy things like justice.
And it has meant that Russell was forced to appear in court yet again, only this time digitally.
And well, he has a specific complaint to make.
Bear in mind, this video was titled, I need to address this.
And he's about to show his courtroom sketch.
Right, I went to court the other day.
As you know, I'm up on a lot of charges.
Yeah, you are.
And look at this courtroom still.
I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
I don't think it's right.
I think they've misrepresented me in a general way.
Like, I'm not sure.
I want to sort of see if I can break down the number of ways.
Because I was looking at that image on a Zoom, you know, and I'll tell you now, I looked absolutely spot on.
Like, I look double cool.
Let's have another look.
Look at that.
I look a bit like Ron Jeremy, you know, the porn actor.
I look like a like, like, I don't think that person, I mean, you can't get past the cheekbones.
She's out to acknowledge them.
But I think, like, I think she's trying to mug me off, this woman who's done this, don't you?
I think that's more of a sketch somebody up for murder.
I don't think that's it.
I think he looks pretty rapey.
Hold on a minute.
I took a photograph of all the people that was on the call.
Right, because he's put you on a Zoom call, right?
And you think this is interesting because I'm on a Zoom call with like the court system or whatever, but also on the call.
Well, the person that done that drawing, her name's called something like Elizabeth Cook.
She's the sketch artist.
She's on there sketching away, mugging me off in pastels, a pastel mugging, I'd call that.
A mugging in pastels.
A mug off in pastels by Elizabeth Cook.
I call it a mug-off.
What I've done is I've denied him the very virality that made rapes completely unnecessary.
Then look at this couple of gnome mark slags.
Sam Tobin from Reuters, he's on the call.
Reuters, a news agency.
Why would they be on?
And Josh Payne, no pun intended, from the Press Association.
What Emlot do?
Why, on a court proceeding, let me know in the comments and chat.
Why would the Reuters journalist Sam Tobin and the Press Association journalist Josh Payne be on the call?
I can help him there.
When a trial is in the public interest, the press are allowed to report on it, which is the case for literally every trial in the UK, I'm quite sure.
As for why they'd be there for Russell's hearing specifically, well, he's a high-profile figure with high-profile lawyers, meaning there's more of a tax burden, and meaning the UK public has even more of an interest in the trial than usual.
And the press, again, have the right to be there.
It is staggeringly simple, and Russell knows the price of both fame and being a high-profile alleged serial rapist, but he wants to play the victim, you know, because that's the gig.
Much like he does with this courtroom sketch of his that he spent in total about 10 minutes complaining about.
I think it's a pretty decent likeness, personally, particularly for a sketch that by its nature has to be done quickly and off the cuff.
We still have very strict laws about photographs and filming in UK court proceedings, including digital court proceedings.
So like the need for a courtroom artist is still high.
And Elizabeth Cook did a fine job, regardless how much Russell may disagree.
Now, the eagle-eyed and eared of the audience may be wondering who the chuckleheads Russell is talking to are.
And, well, I've said for a long time that a solo show with Russell is just misery.
The man knows nothing about virtually anything.
And so he just regurgitates talking points he hears from elsewhere with like a pseudo-philosophical bent, somehow always bringing it all back to God and Christ and hoping he hasn't gotten too many of the basic facts wrong in the meantime.
So, to remedy this, most of the time, Russell now has at least four employees on standby to generally agree with him and offer encouragement when he wants to monologue or pretend he's still funny.
One is his US producer guy, Jake, I think, helpfully with an American flag behind him.
Otherwise, you know, we may not know his true allegiance.
Another is a UK producer guy, seemingly reporting from his garden shed.
He's also the only atheist of the crew, which means he gets routinely mocked for that.
Another is a guy from the Shoot Me Straight podcast, whose studio Russell has been using for the last year and a half.
And Dave, I think he is.
And then there's another chap called Joe McCann, who we will get to later.
No sign of Gareth Roy whatsoever.
I believe that man has fucked all the way off out of there as far as he can.
Which, considering he'd worked with Russell since 2007 on a close, like one-on-one basis, like that's no small thing.
I'd love to ask him about it, but alas, he has not accepted my follow request on Instagram at this point.
I'll let you all know if I manage to get in touch with Gareth.
Anywho, Russell's crew are mostly there to just yes and whatever it is he says, which does make it kind of fun when they don't.
Here I am.
This is me that day.
Doing my video, what I've done from Bear.
From that far away.
What do you think she's done at this point?
I think she did a good job actually.
I think it's the distance.
I think it's the distance.
So from right there.
Well, firstly, she's buttoned my shirt up.
So what's she doing there?
I think she's got a bloody cheek, frankly.
A bloody cheek.
I do.
Do a lot of favour.
No mistake.
So there's that.
I don't know, but I'm very wounded that you lot think it's an accurate appraisal of all.
I didn't think that.
Because I thought he looked like a bit of a mousy little geezer.
Maybe you're a mousy little geezer, Russell.
Or, well, actually, he's the same height as me at six foot two.
And maybe calling him mousy is an insult to mice.
I'm sticking with the wet dog vibes for him, which I believe has been accurately captured in that court sketch there, I will say.
And yeah, she's buttoned your shirt up just to make you seem more respectful than you are, you cretin.
Also, I really do feel the misogyny kind of emanating from this conversation.
Like, it's almost like there is an extra layer of disrespect because it's a woman who did the sketch.
Just in the way that Russell in particular has spoken about her.
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I don't know.
I don't know if I'm extra sensitive to that kind of thing, particularly from him.
But audience, feel free to chime in as to what you think.
Now, the next thing we need to catch up on is that Russell gave a speech at America Fest for Turning Point USA in December.
By and large, it's not that interesting, so we won't spend too much time on it, but I did want to give a sense of the vibe at Amfest.
We are at Amfest.
Merry Christmas to you.
Praise the Lord.
I've got to tell you, I did not anticipate being between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson at a moment where that don't seem like a good position to be.
Oh man, I'm so lucky that I've got Jesus.
I'm so blessed that I've got Jesus.
I'm so glad that I'm not responsible for this myself.
I'm here to love you.
I'm here to, as best as I can, in my crazy little accent, tell you that my life has been irrevocably changed, revolutionarily changed, inconceivably altered by the power of Christ Jesus.
I want to share that with you.
Do you know why I'm here?
I better pray first, case I mess up.
You know me, I'm done.
Heavenly Father, would you guide my mouth?
Would you guard my lips?
Oh, Lord, I bend my knee and my tongue will serve you, Heavenly Father, and no other.
Okay, so we've arrived at the point of performative kneeling on a stage and offering to deep throat the almighty.
My tongue will serve you and no other is usually a phrase reserved for specific kink dynamics, but in this case, Russell's tongue is in service solely of God.
Yet another reason to feel a small amount of sympathy for his wife.
The thing I'd like to circle back to here is him saying, I'm so blessed I've got Jesus.
I'm so glad I'm not responsible for any of this myself.
And I want to highlight it because it encapsulates his entire approach to Christianity to the degree of asking God in this moment to watch his words for him in case he says anything he might regret.
Oh, sorry, there was God that said that wasn't me.
You know, Russell, Russell believes, oh, I've given myself up to the Lord.
I've given myself up to the Lord, which in his mind means he's no longer responsible for anything.
This is generally a disaster of a mindset for any human being, especially one who has three children and several pending criminal and civil cases against him.
But what really chaps my ass about it is he hasn't even done the most basic first step of this whole Christian thing he supposedly joined.
And like, I'm not a Christian.
Well, I technically am, but I'm not really.
But like, I do know that the whole repent step is a big deal.
He's supposed to have like laid out all the wrongs he's done, acknowledged the harm he's caused and truly, you know, repented for these sins.
And I know he's not done this, least of all because of the aforementioned many pending cases against him, but also because I've read about the shitty things he's done in his own words, in his own book, most of which he loudly stands by even today on his show.
Like, you can't give yourself over to the Lord if you are, in fact, not giving anything.
I'd suggest if God does exist in the way Russell believes, he's probably feeling a lot like Russell's wife and wondering why he never seems to receive anything in return for his blessings.
It's just all giving and never getting anything back, you know, never receiving anything.
Hmm.
We have one more clip here from Amfest, and this one really does illustrate the tone of the place, as well as how Russell has merged his terrible preaching with his terrible stand-up.
I didn't think it was possible to be changed in the way that I've been changed.
I thought it was inconceivable, unimaginable.
Before turning to Christ, I suppose, the biggest change that I'd ever known was the change from, well, I suppose before being a parent to becoming a parent, that's a pretty radical change.
Certainly, it's a radical change in terms of the person that you say you'll be as a parent before you have kids, and then the person you are when your kids show up.
Because before I had kids, this is me.
I was when I have children.
I'm telling you now, I will not be letting them look at screens or eat sugar or any of that stuff.
And actually, parents that do do that, I'd like to judge them.
I'd like to judge them and maybe even condemn them.
Now, I've got three children.
I'm like, oh my God, give it an iPad in the Dr. Pepper, will you?
Silence these children.
I've changed a lot.
I used to be vegan.
Now I eat meat.
Everything.
Don't tell me you're more into carnivorism than the incarnation.
Don't tell me you're more into eating flesh than God became flesh.
Don't tell me you're more enamored of the barbecue sauce than the holy covenant of blood.
It is delicious.
Man, I missed it.
I was vegan for so long.
I was so hungry.
It was a desperate, desperate time.
I can't get enough steaks now.
I've tried.
I'm doing nothing but devouring them continually.
Firstly, gross.
Secondly, like, if you're not feeling full on a vegan diet, that's on you.
But like, eat your beans, your tofu, nuts, grains, etc.
You'll be absolutely fine.
Trust me.
Veganism isn't just like not eating.
It's not like you get given the same plate of food and just have to like, you know, take the animal products off it.
No.
Plus, obviously, there are now so many vegan food products on the market that are delicious and have improved so much over the last decade.
And personally, I think it's generally nice knowing that nothing had to die or suffer for the sake of, you know, having lunch.
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That is a nice feeling.
Nonetheless, the way this crowd responded was so absurd.
Even Russell had to pick up on it and try to do a little bit about it.
Like this crowd is so amped up over the fucking virtue signaling that is talking about eating steaks that it drastically outweighed their enthusiasm for literally anything else.
Because that's what Turning Point is and that's what their audience is.
It's a collection of petty grievances, talking points and right-wing virtue signals all pointed in the direction of turning everyone into a bigoted neo-Nazi.
Also, that bit that Russell did about the iPad and the Dr. Pepper, he's been doing that for at least four years and it's not been funny once.
That was a particularly bad telling of it as well.
Just too many words to get there.
And now he's trying to just like combo how shitty a parent he is with somehow being a better person since getting baptized.
Like surely if he were telling this correctly, there would be a third step where he came to Christ and is now a better parent.
Like that would that would make the most logical consistent sense here, but I don't know.
Him being a better parent is perhaps wishful thinking in general.
Let's move on from the depths of despair at America Fest and instead turn to something a bit more personal of Russell's.
See, within the last month, Russell's German Shepherd Bear passed away.
He was quite old, so it's not unexpected.
And I do sympathize with anyone losing a pet.
Like often, losing a loved pet can be harder than losing a human family member quite often.
But there is something to be said for how Russell handles this.
So let's take a look at a couple of clips.
We got better when we moved to the countryside.
I really, really wanted a German Shepherd because my previous girlfriend, Jemima Khan, who I was totally in love with, who was frankly a lot to deal with.
But again, I brought a lot to the party.
I'm a lot to deal with.
Do you know what I mean?
I'm a lot to deal with.
Anyways, she had this German Shepherd, white German Shepherd.
And like normally in the old days, when you're a dating guy, when you're a Lothario, you're getting with women.
Maybe the woman's got kids.
Maybe the woman's got a dog.
You know what you got to do?
You've got to charm the kids.
You've got to charm the dog.
Everyone's got to love you.
That's just life.
That's just being charming.
That's part of the game.
But this dog, I didn't try and make it like me, the dog.
I didn't sort of go, oh, you know, like as good as it gets, give it a treat or none of that.
I sort of ignored it, right?
But this dog liked me and I fell in love with it so fast, like immediately.
Like we go for a walk.
She lived on a massive, massive country estate, massive acres, right?
And I'd go like romping all over this estate.
It was mental.
There's cows in it and stuff, like, because farmers use it.
I didn't restrict that dog's actions at all.
I just let it do what it was wanting to do.
Cows ganging up on us and shit.
It's funny because if you're getting ganged up on by cows and it's just you and a dog, you and the dog have got to work that out.
Like we were in a corner by a brook in a corner of a field.
I was like, oh mate, this is not good.
We fucked up.
What are we going to do?
And it went, oh, we had to climb, I had to lift him.
And anyway, so then when that relationship broke up, understandably, and certainly I'll take responsibility because I'm, as I say, not an easy dude to be with.
Certainly not then.
I'm getting better by the grace of God.
I certainly hope so.
Though I will say for what it's worth, Jemima Khan, now Jemima Goldsmith, does have a lot to answer for.
She's the reason that Russell edited, guest edited an edition of The New Statesman, which was really the kickoff of him being properly involved in politics.
Like there is a question as to whether if that hadn't happened, whether we would be here today.
A whole bunch of people took him much more seriously after that.
And I do wonder what the world would look like if he hadn't been sleeping with the associate editor of a prominent political magazine who then decided to platform him.
What we mostly learned from that clip is that Russell appears to not be particularly responsible with dogs.
For real, like cows can and do actually kill people and dogs.
I'm from the countryside and I know from experience not to fuck around with cows or sheep for that matter, but cows especially.
They're just gigantic bags of muscle, like for real.
So Russell, you know, almost got his ex's dog killed by being an irresponsible idiot, but after they broke up, decided he loved the dog so much he wanted his own.
Oh, and surprise, surprise, he finds that charming people is very important.
None of this like, be yourself type stuff.
No, no.
Go on a charm offensive with literally everyone connected to that thing you want.
Like, here's the thing.
I understand for regular people, there is a degree of that, right?
Particularly if you're meeting like family for the first time of like your significant other or anything like that, you do want to make a good impression and everything.
Like, and I understand on a basic human level that that kind of thing is just coming from Russell.
It makes me so much more fucking cynical.
Like, I'm like, nah.
You know, and I would be less cynical about this, were it not for, you know, the pesky legal cases.
Anyway, let's find out what happened when Russell stopped being irresponsible with his ex-girlfriend's dog and instead got to do the same thing with his own dog.
He went out to Kent, got this dog, like, and from the get-go, this dog was meant to symbolize family and domesticity, but it's like no one ever told the dog that.
The dog's crazy.
He's a crazy, wild, broken dog.
He's killing chickens.
He killed sheep.
He killed a wallaby.
He bit my mum at our wedding.
I didn't marry my mother, just to clarify.
I'm not doing that again.
This dog was a nutter, like, but beautiful as well, but he had to have his hip replaced and stuff.
And he was sort of lovely.
You know, it's like when you love a dog and the dog loves you, it's just you and them.
It's just you and them.
There's not like, and with a dog, you don't wear a mask.
You're a dog, you're just yourself.
And that's kind of like God.
It's a portal to God because you're being your authentic self and you realize you're lovable whilst you may be broken as you are.
So he was my mate.
I loved that dog so much.
What Russell is describing there is, you know, unconditional love, which dogs do tend to provide.
Most dogs seem to adore their owners, regardless of how much of a piece of shit they might be or how they treat said dog.
So like, yeah, entirely unsurprising that Russell would crave that kind of thing.
When it comes to his dog bear having killed a whole bunch of animals, that is true and has even been reported on by newspapers when it occurred.
I dare say, had it been a regular person's dog, it likely would have been put down after such things.
But Russell is rich and famous and so consequences don't matter.
That said, I am at least somewhat glad because I do firmly believe there is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners.
And given Russell's prior story about a dog he didn't own, it's not terribly surprising to discover he's also irresponsible with a dog he does own.
And now we get to Russell's final sentiments about losing Bear.
But over the course of the relationship with this dog, a deep, profound love emerged.
A wordless, imagine that from me, a wordless love emerged with this dog.
And so to lose that dog was like, I knew it's like losing, like anything.
If you have a deep relationship with somebody, then all that's invested in that relationship, it goes with them.
Unless you can find another way.
As the great AA speaker, Godrest His Soul, Sandy Beach, said, when his daughter was murdered, he knew he immediately had to forgive the person that did it.
He had to immediately accept that now on, from now on, his relationship with that daughter was going to be a different thing.
It was going to be through memories and prayer and meditation, and it was going to be a spiritual connection.
But actually, the deeper truth is it always was spiritual anyway.
Because why would it be that some animals you eat, other animals you ignore?
A million dogs died that day, but only one broke my heart.
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Fucking jump scare.
And that perfectly sums up what I hate about this kind of thing.
Russell's feelings may be real, but he is ultimately selling his apparent grief and monetizing the death of his dog, which he did several times that week.
It's fucking gross.
What else is fucking gross is that the show I took these clips from was purported to be in tribute to Bear, though he actually only spent about 10 minutes on the subject.
And the thumbnail was an AI-generated image of Russell and Bear in heaven.
There truly are so many upsetting layers to that.
I'm genuinely happy to move on from it.
It's obscene.
That said, we are very much moving out of the frying pan and into the proverbial fire because what we're going to look at next is Russell's response to ICE agents murdering American citizens in the streets.
It's going to get a little rough for a little bit here, so stick with me, okay?
We're going to start with the murder of Renee Goode.
And what Russell's going to do is play one right-wing shitheads take and then an apparent left-wing take.
The shithead in question is the racist transphobic perpetual incel that is Asmon Gold.
And he will be live reacting to some of the footage of the shooting because that's where we're at as a society.
I won't be showing any actual violence.
And frankly, we don't need to see any of that.
But you will hear gunshots and general distress just to warn you.
Okay.
Let's dive into it.
This isn't somebody who's scared.
At least they don't look scared.
Fuck you.
Missouri.
She is in a totally different state looking for trouble, intentionally breaking the law.
But when they were saying that about Carl Rittenhouse, the people that wanted Carl Rittenhouse to be wrong were like, well, why was he there?
He went and got a gun and he went there.
So people, and I reckon the same people would have to make the reverse arguments.
That's what's sort of exciting about now.
Since the ascent of MAGA, you're seeing people say free speech stuff that's really confusing for me.
Like you can't just free speech doesn't mean the right to hurt people's feelings.
You're seeing it all like flip and stuff.
Now, let's have a look at, you know, remember, this woman is, she's dead now.
So I don't know, man.
Yeah, someone getting killed in cold blood is probably not the time for, I don't know, man.
But that's just my feeling on it.
And yeah, there has been a lot of, I don't know, vibe switching from the right wing.
You know, you saw it in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk.
Like, oh, you can't say this about him.
God, people should get fired for saying for all this free speech they're doing, the bastards.
Fascinating times we live in.
So what tickles me about this, obviously, is the hypocrisy from the MAGA types, you know, over this.
It's so blatant and obvious that even Russell has to acknowledge it.
Like, that's how you know you fucked up right there.
If even Russell can't willfully ignore it, it's got to be so obvious.
For the record, Renee Good did not travel across state lines or anything to be there in Minneapolis.
She just finished dropping off her six-year-old son at preschool when she and her wife stumbled across a bunch of ICE agents.
And her car has Missouri plates because she used to live there.
That's all that is.
It's not, you know, crossing straight lines to be in state lines to be an agitator or anything like that.
Though, I don't know, I think crossing state lines to protest is by and large fine, you know, depending.
Um, because Carl Rittenhouse, on the other hand, you know, that little shit traveled across state lines so that he could go and wave an assault rifle at black people.
Um, and then he murdered two men and injured another severely.
And like, I don't know.
I'd love to tell the people excusing violence from ICE agents to at least try and be consistent with their viewpoints.
Like, either traveling across state lines to quote unquote protest is bad or it isn't.
But none of these people actually give a shit about any of that.
They don't actually have beliefs or values to speak of in most of these cases.
They just think that ICE are on their side and that ICE are representative of Team Trump and that their team are allowed to do whatever the fuck they want and everyone else should get the fuck out of the way.
That's the whole message.
You know, it doesn't need consistency, unfortunately.
Let's hear a little more from Asmon Gold before Russell does some equivocating.
Breaking the law.
intentionally going out and breaking federal law, obstructing federal investigations.
You can hear the thump.
Did Drive, Baby Drive?
Did she say that?
Let me hear it again.
I don't think she was men have said that.
I think someone else, like her friends, said Drive, Baby Drive.
But what I do recognize is, I reckon if you're a person that believes that the ICE investigations and expatriations are wrong, you probably are, to some degree, I pray, motivated by compassion.
Like the, oh, these people, they're over here, they've got rights.
But surely you would have to acknowledge that the election of Trump was on a significant mandate that was oriented towards expatriation of migrants.
Trump couldn't have been clearer about we're kicking migrants out day one.
And he won that election.
And that means that what?
Everyone should be fine about ICE agents murdering U.S. citizens in the street?
That we should be fine with ICE terrorizing the entire country?
What absolute baby-brained bullshit.
And not only that, but Trump does not have a significant mandate.
Like, and just statistically to break that down, he got about 2 million more votes than Kamala Harris, which equated to a 1.5% difference.
A significant mandate?
That is not.
And even then, the voter turnout was 64%.
So actually, Trump got the votes of about 33% of the population that were eligible to vote, which is 22% of the total population of the United States.
And if 22% support doesn't sound like a significant mandate to anyone, it's because it isn't.
And even then, a whole bunch of that 22% are like, hey, this isn't what we wanted to happen or what we voted for or what we thought we were voting for.
You know, like, yeah, significant mandate.
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My ass.
Okay, so we're going to get the final clip of Asmo and Gold being a piece of shit before Russell hears a differing perspective and just pay attention to how differently he treats these two individuals.
Why would you say this?
Oh my God.
What the fuck is wrong with this bitch?
Holy shit.
She's dead.
She's dead at the point that he's making that video.
She's already dead and he's still bitching her off.
You can see she very clearly looks at him.
She acknowledges she's smiling at him.
All right, so that's an appraisal from the right, obviously.
Here's the same footage covered by someone from the left.
It's pretty amazing to see the disparity that the same sort of point I'm trying to make.
The same source material can be used to generate a variety of emotions.
And I want you to hold that paradigm in mind while you're experiencing whatever you experience in accordance with your own biases.
Let me know in the comments and chat how you're feeling.
The moment before the car purportedly hits him, if you synchronize the footage with the other angle, you can see that he was already outside of the path of the car.
It only looks like he was hit because this is from the same angle as a Hollywood film would shoot an action scene to make it look like a punch connects with an actor's face.
Love that.
Because if you were doing that in a Hollywood film, that's sort of deliberately to misrepresent reality or to create a favorable illusion.
Pow!
Bam!
But that just happened in this instance to be where the camera was.
There's no trickery at play.
It's just that's where the camera.
In the same as a Hollywood film would do it in order to make it look like Sylvester Stallone is being struck by Apollo Creed.
Well, let me tell you: if Carl Weathers and Sylvester Stallone were to slug it out for reals, there's going to be only one winner.
Didn't Carl Weathers, after all, only have one hand in Happy Gilmore?
So there you have it.
Only one winner.
John Rambo.
Insufferable.
Okay, so calling the woman who was murdered a bitch, or her wife a bitch, that's hilarious to Russell.
Comedy Gold from the right.
Whereas when it comes to the more purportedly left-wing perspective, Russell's immediate instinct is to mock it.
And of course, that's without addressing any of the surrounding context as to why this individual is having to go through the footage frame by frame and prove conclusively that the ice agent was never hit by Renee Good's car.
You see, in order to justify the murder, the ice agent and various government officials, as well as Trump himself, had to make the claim that Renee Good hit the ice agent with her car, that he was terribly injured and even suffered some supposed internal bleeding.
Now, none of that is true.
She attempted to drive away.
The ice agents around the car moved out of the way of the vehicle, and then she did drive through a clear opening at the advice of her wife, who was shouting, Drive, baby, drive.
And then Ice Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Goode three times as she was simply trying to escape from them.
To justify this further, JD Vance came out and said, Hey, has anyone considered that the Ice Agent in question had recently been dragged behind a car and seriously injured?
And that maybe he wasn't going to respond favorably to someone in a vehicle?
And all I'm hearing there is that this dude shouldn't have been anywhere fucking near active law enforcement of any kind, especially if there is PTSD at play.
However, I'm unconvinced as to the PTSD argument because of what I find to be one of the more chilling aspects of this specific murder, which is after shooting Rene Goode squarely in the head, Ice Agent Jonathan Ross called her a quote, fucking bitch.
It has been confirmed he said this, which to me pins this crime as something motivated, at least in part, by rank misogyny, the very kind that Russell and Asmon Gold are merrily leaning into in the aftermath.
And then, after the fact, reportedly, many other ICE agents used Rene Good's murder as a threat to anyone protesting them, as though she got what she deserved.
Despite the fact she was never protesting them in the first place, was not an activist, and simply ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I do also have something I need to say about all of this, which is at the time of the murder of Renee Good, there was a very particular contingent of left-wing voices making the shocked Pikachu face and claiming this isn't who we are, that this murder isn't representative of the United States at large.
And it's a perspective I find bitterly disappointing, not only because some individuals I respected parroted such a view, but particularly as it came overwhelmingly from the mouths of straight white men.
The reality is, if you know the history of the United States, or if you are a person of color or female or a member of the LGBTQ plus community, this murder will not have shocked you.
It is deeply upsetting, but not surprising, because this has been the United States of America since its very fucking conception.
It has been slavery and misogyny and lynch mobs and burning entire cities to the ground because black people are succeeding in them.
It has been Stonewall and the Trail of Tears, the KKK and the country deciding twice that they would rather see a rapist running it than a woman.
The shock experienced by these children of privilege was in reality the fact that for once jackboot thugs are targeting the regular white people as well as the minorities.
Now here's the thing.
If you are one of those people shocked by it and you're listening to me say this, I don't blame you for not knowing your own history, okay?
I say this as a Welsh person who was barely taught anything about the history of my own country because England still ultimately run our education system and they sure as shit have no interest in us knowing all of the terrible things they've done to us and the rest of the world.
But if you're going to claim this is not who we are, you'd better come at it with more than vibes and feelings because it may not have been ICE historically.
They've only been around a couple of decades, right?
But law enforcement and the white patriarchy in the US has overwhelmingly attacked and murdered minorities and women with relative impunity for centuries.
And if that doesn't feel right to you, pick up a book.
Or simpler still, ask the people of color you know, ask the queers, ask the women you know how safe they feel in the US and particularly how safe they feel around law enforcement.
I don't want to be a massive downer to everyone on all this.
It is horrendous.
But once you can correctly identify the problem and see the reality for what it is, you can then go about working to change it and have the country become something it's never been.
And God, doesn't that sound good?
Now, Russell does get to some kind of grand conclusion about all of this.
And I will give you all three guesses as to where it goes.
What should we do?
Every single person that thinks that the ICE agent was wrong should be rounded up and imprisoned.
All right, that's one option.
Every single person that thinks the protester was wrong should be rounded up in prison.
That's in microcosm what our system is.
It's a system that requires division, that has as its fuel division, and it's unnecessary.
Its day is done.
The time has come for new systems.
Not because of some ideological shift or some tectonic change.
No, because the technology exists now.
The technology exists.
Obviously, what it will require is a strong, robust ideology underneath it.
Otherwise, even that technology would just create chaos, endless chaos.
But if you believe that God is real, then you believe that truth is real, that justice is real, that kindness is real, compassion is real, that the highest possible position attainable is service, that we're here for a short time, that we're going to die, and that we're here to love one another.
And if you have that reset available to you continually when you fall once again into the flesh and into the self, metronomically pinging between God and self, if you accept God and then you use this technology, there's a way out for us.
Let me know in the comments and chat if you know what I'm getting at and if you've got any suggestions as to how it might be deployed.
That's right.
There is nothing this man will not use to further his idea of a Christian theocracy, though this time coupled with digital democracy, a famously secure way to do things.
And what we all need to do is become Christian, of some variety, and then vote for things on our phones, I guess.
And then, well, that'll stop ICE agents murdering people in the streets somehow and end all division.
It's good stuff.
He's really, he's really thought this out.
I have no notes.
Though, one thing, I would like to know what denomination of Christian Russell decides to be.
Because, you know, there do seem to be some stark differences and many arguments between some of them that may, dare I say it, cause division.
And like, what do you do about the Mormons?
I mean, they're Christian, sort of, just with like a third book and gold plates and white bloomers.
But everyone outside of Utah pretty much agrees that the whole thing is real fucking weird.
Really, we would need some kind of verdict as to whether, you know, they're sufficiently Christian enough.
And then in the opposite direction, Jewish folks don't believe in the New Testament and all that stuff, but Old Testament God is very much a thing for them.
So like, would that be sufficient moral guidance from the Almighty?
Or do you really need the whole crucifixion thing?
Hmm.
Maybe the whole system requires a bit more thought, maybe just a little bit.
And that's before we start asking basic cybersecurity questions about how a digital democracy could possibly remain secure.
But you know what?
I'm sure Russell has thought of all of this and has us covered.
What's the worst that could possibly happen?
It's not like we could end up in a dystopian, patriarchal, white nationalist, hyper-capitalist Christian theocracy run by demagogues and Russian oligarchs, is it?
Murder on the Floor00:02:26
Hang on a minute.
That does sound kind of familiar, doesn't it?
Hmm.
Oh, well, next clip.
And now we move on to the murder of Alex Pretty.
In case anyone missed it, this man was pepper sprayed, held down by several ICE agents, pinned to the floor, and then shot 10 times within the space of five seconds.
All for being a legal observer and filming them with his phone while trying to help a woman off the floor who had just been pushed down by an ICE agent.
To be clear, most of Russell's coverage of this is in-depth, slow-motion looks at the footage and guns being fired into a human being.
And frankly, we don't need that here.
So I will be skipping those parts.
Can't believe already after Rene Good a week ago, we're in another, I don't even mean ICE versus protesters, of course, but also studying at a granular level footage as if somehow that might bring about some kind of obvious conclusion.
because I know that this would be like everything.
There'll be some people who are just law enforcement officers have to do their job.
If they think their lives are at risk and there's a firearm, they're entitled to use deadly force.
That's what they paid for.
And then other people, this is turning into a nasty police state.
And like, that's just going to happen.
I think, endlessly now.
What strikes me as pretty significant is people come to these endless incidents these days with a pre-existing perspective.
Like there are people that just want the perfect story of an ICE officer doing something utterly transgressive.
The best thing would be, if we were brainstorming it, can we get one to kill a pregnant woman like in broad daylight?
And then there's other people that want to see the wonderful of a you know of a protester, a drug-addicted, crazy, sex-offending monster.
And there's such an appetite to impose these ideas on reality that reality itself is fluxing and flexing under the freight of endless attention.
Attention is one of the components of consciousness.
The new technology we have means that time itself, another thing that's almost impossible to measure, atomic clocks aren't really super reliable.
Currencies And Confidence00:09:15
What can be measured are velocity and entropy.
Those things refer to space and matter.
Time is a construct.
We're living in this peculiar, synthetic, eternal present.
Well, there you have it, everyone.
A man was murdered in cold blood, but hey, time is a construct and we're living in a peculiar synthetic eternal present.
What more could possibly be said?
Again, things have to be a true level of fucked when Russell can't just rely on his willful ignorance.
He has to divorce from the issue so far and zoom out so much that the matter at hand becomes separated from reality itself and we get stuck talking about metaphysics.
Though, to be clear, there is some willful ignorance going on because once again, he's claiming that looking at the footage of the murder won't achieve anything when actually it actively disproves the narrative from ICE themselves.
Once again, they claimed Alex Pretty was holding a gun.
It was his phone.
That narrative then changed to, oh, but he had a gun on him.
Which is true, but it was a licensed concealed carry that he was perfectly within his rights to have on him at the time.
Nonetheless, they took it off him after pinning him down, shouted gun, gun, gun several times, and then killed him.
Now, the right wing are traditionally very much pro-Second Amendment.
That hasn't escaped my notice.
You know, the right to bear arms, you know, they're very much in favor of concealed carry permits, particularly.
These are the same people who were defending Carl Rittenhouse when he was wandering around with an assault rifle.
Supposedly, that was all good and fine.
These are the same people who, despite the US having more mass shootings than there are days in a year, refuse any form of gun control.
After all, the logic is how are you supposed to defend yourself from a tyrannical government if you aren't allowed to carry a gun at all times?
So, naturally, one might have expected these individuals to rush to Alex Pretty's defense, but instead what they said was, oh, he shouldn't have been interfering with federal agents.
Which does provide something of a quandary, because if you need guns to protect yourself from a tyrannical government, but you aren't allowed to in any way interfere with the agents of said tyrannical government by, you know, being near them with an iPhone, what good is the gun going to do anyway?
It's essentially a paperweight.
At this point, I'm starting to think it's basically just a security blanket to these absolute children.
So they can pretend real hard that they're John Wayne or some shit and makes them feel all big and strong.
They can be like, oh, yeah, I've got a gun.
No one can fuck with me.
I've got a gun, baby.
If any trouble breaks out here, I'm the guy because I have a gun.
Oh, yes, Mr. Ice Agent, sir.
Thank you, sir.
You're just so big and strong.
I love your uniform.
And boy, do those boots look delicious.
Anyway, back to Russell being a contemptible fuckwit.
Everyone's just imposing their own perspective on reality all the time en masse.
And that is not a sustainable model.
It's chaos.
And in chaos, elites benefit.
At the moment, the elites that benefit in are likely somewhat MAGA affiliated due to the results of your last election.
A minute ago, the elites that were benefiting were more associated with your classic Democrat neoliberal interest.
The fact, though, is this.
Whether you're a person who was out protesting George Floyd or a person that was out protesting COVID restrictions or you're a person protesting that lad Gino, whatever, the good-looking lad that killed the CEO, wherever you think you are in the political spectrum, it's all made up.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's irrelevant.
And if you don't start to focus on your actual reality, your community, your life, and your connection to God, you will be herded into the paddocks reserved for the chattel that you're behaving like.
Here's what separates speculation from pattern recognition.
Gold and silver didn't surge last year by accident.
They moved because confidence in the system is thinning.
And history has seen this movie already.
It's all made up.
Nothing means anything.
If you don't get with God, you'll be herded into paddocks like chattel.
Now buy some fucking gold before the world ends.
Oh, just incredible.
Oh, and I love his concept of the elites being reduced to basically whoever's in power.
Like when the entire point, particularly of the US political system, is that it's the billionaires and corporations who are actually the ones in power, because the entire system is based on political donations in return for favors.
You want power?
Well, you'd better get on board with whatever shit Apple and Amazon and Meta and Google and fucking pharmaceutical companies, all of those guys want to do, the insurance companies.
Because, you know, that's the only way you're getting into power is if you're on board with all of these things in the US system.
And it's better here, but not drastically.
Anywho, Russell really has been hitting the gold sales hard lately via Rumble sponsor TrueGold Republic.
He even did a full interview with the guy running the company, having his gold sponsor on to talk about how, you know, just everything else is a terrible investment, everything but gold and silver, and how everything else is going to crash, but gold will stay consistent without sharing any of the definite drawbacks and significant risks of investing mostly in gold.
But of course, Russell did have to square one issue with the guy, though, because he has another sponsor who might be at odds with the invest in nothing but gold message.
And that guy is Max Kaiser, potential Russian asset, former silver salesman guy and current day Bitcoin guy.
So we have two scam adjacent businesses kind of facing off against each other on Russell's show.
And Russell just seems to side with whoever it is he's talking to in the moment.
Like he spoke at the Bitcoin conference late last year as a guest speaker and advocate for all things crypto.
While now he's happy to sit here and listen to this crocker shit.
Bear in mind, Russell is fondling a few silver coins throughout this clip.
So is it that you feel that our audience should be investing in silver and gold because it's a more effective way to invest, save, grow?
Why should 100%?
I think that most Americans right now sit in a position where they might have like money in the stock market or money in just paper dollars, right?
And since we've come off the gold standard, dollars have just kind of gone down and down in value because we just have money used to be backed by something, right?
Used to be backed by the gold standard.
We all kind of remember that.
And that was where the central banks and governments held gold and they said, look, this dollar is exchangeable for gold or silver as well in some circumstances.
Then in the 70s, we came off the gold standard.
And from that point, it's just, you know, that at that point, gold was $45 an ounce.
Today it's at $5,000 an ounce.
So that's just like real case scenario where dollars now are backed by absolutely nothing.
So it's what we call fiat currency now.
So it's just a currency, right?
Fiat currency is money.
That's like real, what we've always used.
In the Bible, they use gold and silver for money.
Before that, it's always been evergreen.
It's always lasted.
So currencies kind of come and go.
The dollar, the pound, the yen, whatever it may be, they've come and go.
Cryptocurrencies have fallen a little bit today as well.
So these are all things that aren't really backed by anything.
Currencies like the pound, like the dollar, they're backed by governments and trust in said governments, which I wouldn't quite say is the same as being backed by nothing now, is it?
If your currency is backed by one of the most powerful governments in the world and one of the largest economies in the world, it can be pretty consistent if that country can remain stable for all of five minutes.
Of course, we in the UK have had Brexit and then a pandemic.
In the US, you know, you guys have Agent Orange in charge.
So stability is neither of our fortes over the last decade, which might be why the Euro is comparatively doing very well.
Anyway, all of this is just, it's fear-mongering to sell gold, which is unsurprising.
And Russell is just happy to sit there and lap it up because ultimately he's making money regardless.
If people buy gold, great.
He has an official affiliate link with True Gold Republic.
If they buy Bitcoin, great.
He makes money from that too.
And Rumble even have their own crypto wallet built into the website now.
He just has to sit back and let the fear-mongering wash over him as it lines his pockets.
Mayor's Agenda00:15:08
I will say, I will give this guy a modicum of credit.
He knows who the audience are.
He's like, well, this money, this money was in the Bible.
Therefore, like, God damn.
Oh, it's so easy to sell shit to these people.
Jesus Christ.
You must make so much money being a charlatan, you know?
Like, ah, curse morals and all of those things that, you know, keep me a decent person, more or less.
Ah, dear.
So from here, we're going to move towards some more traditional racist nonsense.
And Russell confirms that he still hasn't learned how the UK works.
In this city, I'm the first South Asian councillor and first South Asian mayor.
The new mayor of Brighton, pretty near where you're from, Joe, has been sworn in and is Muslim.
Now, me personally, I don't dispute anyone's religious freedoms.
If you're a follower of Islam, of course you should be a follower of Islam if that's your thing, or if you're an atheist or any of the other made-up wrong religions.
No, I think they're all should be followed.
But what sort of strikes me is interesting is in Britain, which is of course a secular but nominally Christian country.
In particular, I draw attention to the fact that the authority of the monarch is meant to be derived from divine authority.
It's God that apparently, according to, I feel like they won't say constitutional law because Britain has no constitution, but to Britain's inner national mythos, the reason we have a royal family is because the royal family has been appointed by God.
So that's kind of, and it's a Christian God in that instance.
So it's by definition a monarchy and the monarchy is Christian.
So it's somewhat a Christian country.
The UK is legally a Christian country.
Like more of a Christian country than America is.
America is legally not a Christian country.
The UK is.
And we have a constitution and the Christianity part of it is enshrined in said constitution with the reigning monarch as the head of the Anglican church as appointed by God.
We are literally a Christian country, not a secular one.
And just to hammer that home, in the last census in 2021, 46% of the country identified themselves as Christian, a number that, yes, has shrunk in favor of atheism or agnosticism, which came in at 37%.
But, you know, because Russell is an ignorant fool who just wants to stir up a bit of xenophobia and racism in the name of our just asking questions, he has to comment on the mayor of Brighton and Hove being a South Asian Muslim man.
Now, I actually think that mayor looks like a nice person.
I think he's emanating a pretty warm vibe.
And I think public service should and could be done by anyone who's got good, solid values when it comes to community service, kindness, love, non-corruption, non-bias.
But it's interesting, the explicitness of the religiosity.
I.e. says As-salamu alaykum at the very top of it.
I think he said another sort of Muslim thing during it.
And again, I'm not saying that's wrong.
I'm just saying, is there equivalency to that?
Would someone say, well, of course there is Eumoron when parliament begins, you know, or every time you're in a court case, you swear on the Bible, which is odd because it's a secular country.
And when I swear on a Bible at my trial, I bet I'm the only person in the room who believes in God.
So don't you think it's interesting that something can be so explicitly religious in a country where its stated religion has been not suppressed, but kind of submerged?
We have Christian prayer in almost every single school in this country.
We have Christian national holidays, Christian ceremonies.
Our political system is laced with Christianity on all sides, which is somewhat expected from a Christian country, however much I may dislike it personally.
If that is suppressed or submerged religiosity, then I really don't know what kind of fucked up system he wants to bring into place, but it cannot be good.
And yes, I am the person saying, of course, there is Eumoron.
I do also think that context is important here.
And the small piece of video that Russell played was of the mayor of Brighton, Mohamed Asaduzaman.
And he was addressing specifically the Rwandan community in Brighton and Hove.
And he had learned a few phrases of their language as a sort of, you know, nice gesture, right?
And that's what Russell heard and is commenting on.
And we'll get back to that.
I'm going to tell you a bit more about Mayor Asaduzaman in a minute.
But first, Russell has to bloviate a bit more about religion in the UK, something he barely understands, before asking his employee, Joe McCann, who apparently lives somewhere near Brighton, his opinion on the matter.
I don't think there's anything, of course, wrong with having a South Asian mayor or representatives of a country's political system that were not born in that country.
But I suppose what we're doing is we're really testing the boundaries of what a nation is.
A nation is, by definition, a contained set of land laws represented by a flag, in some cases a constitution, usually by some shared ideology, a bunch of tax rules, some legislation, generally beneficial to elites that operate beyond those very borders.
So I certainly don't encourage working people from around the world to get locked in deadly tension with one another on the basis of race or religion.
That's the worst and most stupid thing we could possibly be doing.
But it does tell me something interesting about a country's sense of identity when our own religiosity, our own faith in God, our own faith in real meaning or purpose has been sublimated to such a degree and we are yet somehow celebrating external, extraneous, secondary, different faiths.
Joe, you're from around here, mate.
do you reckon yeah i mean it's not a like big muslim area for sure so it seems like a strange move And like, I don't know, man.
I do think if you're going to be the mayor of a place, you should be from the country, really.
Should you not?
I mean, you understand the culture.
You represent that place.
You should be from that place, I think, anyway.
I wonder if I could become like a mayor.
Like, I'm in exile right now in the United States of America.
I love this country.
I love these people.
But I wonder if I could get into office here.
It's interesting, isn't it?
It's interesting.
It wouldn't shock me if Russell succeeded significantly in that endeavor if he ever attempted it, especially in Florida.
He would be like Florida's answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know, like the anti-Schwarzenecker.
Nonetheless, he was missing the point that his buddy Joe was trying to make.
He's like, hey, people should be from the country.
You know, if they're going to run for office there, I wonder if I could run for office over here in this country I'm not from.
Fuck me.
Now, Joe McCann here, this is the same Joe who sliced his foot open on broken glass in the Thames when Russell got baptized by bear grills and an anonymous, probably Anglican priest.
I expressed some sympathy for Joe at the time, but my sympathy for him has since waned.
In fact, in the moments I've heard him speak, I've found him to be a xenophobic Christian nationalist of the reform UK Nigel Farage variety, which isn't entirely shocking given that his main career has been as a fighter and he was once sparring partner to world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury.
Not all fighters are racist, of course.
I'm just saying it's not a career path that necessarily values intellect too highly.
Funnily enough, Joe McCann was described as one of Russell's bodyguards last time Russell was in the UK for his court appearance.
Anyhow, Joe's primary complaints about Mayor Asaduzaman seem to be that you should be from a place in order to understand it and then represent it.
And I'm going to read a little from the BBC about this man.
Quote, Brighton and Hove has elected its first ever South Asian Muslim mayor.
Councillors unanimously voted for Mohammed Asaduzaman, who was elected to Brighton and Hove City Council in the Hollingdean and Five Ways ward last May.
Council leader Bela Sankey said Mr. Azaduzaman was warm, kind, funny, and ambitious for our city.
Brighton and Hove can look forward to a mayor whose compassion has already left a mark on the city's social, cultural, economic and political landscape, she said.
Mr. Azaduzaman, who has lived in the city for 30 years, previously worked with the State Minister for Irrigation and Water Development in Bangladesh and has a degree in political science.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he provided 500 free meals to essential service providers.
He also pushed for vaccinations for those with uncertain immigration status, acted as an interpreter for those in legal need and gave support to victims of crime.
Ms. Sankey added, with three decades of residency in Brighton, he has woven himself into the very fabric of the community.
His journey from Bangladesh to Brighton exemplifies a life dedicated to public service and community betterment.
Unquote.
It's possible me and Joe have differing ideas what it means to be from a place, but I do think 30 years of living there and being a force for good in the local community, I think that's long enough to hold political off.
I think that's fine.
You know, he's clearly a British citizen.
He will have a British passport.
And he's certainly been there long enough to understand the area.
But then I'm also quite sure none of these chocolateheads know anything about this man other than where he was born, the color of his skin and his religion.
Russell does, however, want the opinion of another of his employees from the Shoot Me Straight podcast, another white guy who has been described as Russell's bodyguard, Dave.
Diversity.
And it's likely that that word diversity is part of a mandate in the same way that safe and effective crops up in news reports around vaccines.
Dave, what do you think of a British political system that enshrines and celebrates the religiosity of, in this case, a Muslim mayor so overtly?
I think that's fine if it is natural.
It seems like a forced agenda to come in and push and like forcing a change in culture.
That's the part that, like, I mean, it's got a bad feeling to it that we're coming in here with an agenda, that it's not a natural thing built from the culture that this mayor's coming up.
It's, oh no, we're going to place him in there so that we can change the culture and it's a forced, I don't know, it feels like agenda behind it.
This has got a bad feeling to it, does it?
Ha!
Weird.
You see a brown person in power and you feel bad for some reason.
Have you ever examined those feelings, Dave?
It's just a thought, just occurred to me.
And if it feels like agenda, the agenda of who?
And who's forcing it?
And why?
Who placed him there in this conception of things?
And how is this man being mayor forcing a change in culture in literally any way?
Brighton and Hove is one of the more progressive places in the UK, so everyone is aware.
And so I'm quite sure they really don't give a single shit about this man being Muslim or brown or from Bangladesh, which is part of why the council members, who are all elected by the British public, voted for him unanimously to become mayor.
There's no agenda, no elites, just democracy and action and a decent guy who seems to be a blessing to the area put in a position of what is largely ceremonial power.
And what's more, that BBC article I read, it's from May 2024.
The video Russell played was from November 2024.
In May 2025, Amanda Grimshaw, a white lady, was elected as mayor of Brighton and Hove.
Meaning, Mr. Asaduzaman isn't even the current mayor of Brighton.
He is the former mayor as of nearly a year ago.
And these clueless dipshits just carry on regardless because, you know, they want to stir up some general anxiety around Muslims and migrants and brown people.
And so reality does not fucking matter.
So, hey, it's all an agenda.
Brown people exist.
Oh, no.
Speaking of fear-mongering about diversity, Russell has a bit more to do in this piece about the British countryside.
Have you noticed that the British countryside is full of white people?
And I'm sick of it.
Everywhere I look, just another honky, just another honky.
When I go countryside, I want to see N-Word after N-word after N-Word.
I want to see Somalians here, Moroccans there, Egyptians there.
The British countryside will be made into a less white environment under nationwide diversity plans.
Officials in rural areas, including the Chewans, I've got a house there, and the Cotswolds, cracking place, have pledged to attract more minorities.
Pledged.
We're going to do it.
Don't worry.
We've got to pledge.
The plans follow DEFRA's commissioned report that claimed the countryside would become irrelevant in a multicultural society as it was a white environment principally enjoyed by the white middle class.
Do you know what they're doing?
They're trying to shut down them farmer protests because there's a good agricultural movement coming up out of the UK right now.
The farmers who've had enough of all these top-down e-dicks out of the EU, you've got to use this fertilizer.
You can't use that fuel.
Sit down.
Call that sheep.
Your cow farts are ruining our country.
The farmers are fighting back.
And when farmers fight back, it's serious gear because they'll go down parliament and sort of spray shit everywhere.
It's amazing because they've got good kit, and they can block roads easy, spray manure.
I love these farmers, man.
I love farmers.
Say no to stama.
That's basically the message.
Metropolitan areas like to impose control over rural people.
It's a way of ensuring that centralization infuses every area of cultural and public life.
Naturally, Russell doesn't provide any other examples of this happening, but supposedly rural areas wanting to attract more racial minorities is actually metropolitan areas imposing control over rural people to ensure centralization infuses into every area of cultural and public life.
Encouraging Ethnic Minorities in Landscapes00:11:40
Also, farmers in the UK haven't been beholden to EU legislation since we left the EU back in 2021.
But yes, if you want to sell anything to the EU in the EU, then you do need to abide by their regulations.
Regardless, farmers are actually amongst those who have suffered the worst since Brexit, with their income being hit by some 30% as they no longer have access to various EU grants that they did before and make less money off their goods compared to when the UK was a member of the EU.
However, what farmers in the UK are actually protesting on occasion is the various attempts to make their industry more environmentally friendly.
However, like agriculture and deforestation contribute to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and animal farming is responsible for 60% of the emissions from agriculture.
It's also estimated that 60% of the mammals on planet Earth are livestock.
So like, yeah, there's work to be done, regardless of how much the farmers may not like it.
Change has to come.
I think there are ways for it to happen where it doesn't completely fuck the farmers over, but it does have to happen.
Anyway, back to the racism.
What's happened over here is that DEFRA, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, released a report back in 2019, the Landscapes Report, pointing out the fact that the demographics of people visiting nature spaces in the countryside are overwhelmingly white.
Now, this is a country which is statistically made up of 80% white British people.
And even amongst that, numbers of ethnic minorities visiting our public-funded, publicly funded natural spaces were crushingly low.
The one section of the landscapes report that addressed diversity highlighted, children are spending less time unsupervised outside, and children from black, Asian, and minority ethnic and low-income communities are even less likely to do so.
18% of children living in the most deprived areas never visit the natural environment at all.
20% fewer visibly minority ethnic, you know, people of color children go out into green spaces weekly compared to white middle-class children.
20% fewer.
The groups which visit the countryside least are those aged 65 and over, members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic population and residents living in the most deprived areas of England.
Coincidentally, they also found that the composition of the park governing bodies is 68% male and 99.2% white.
The report highlighted a multitude of barriers to accessing natural spaces, including accessibility, transport, costs, lack of facilities, and a lot of lack of online information.
So naturally, they needed to look into this further and come up with a few solutions.
Enter the 2022 report, improving the ethnic diversity of visitors to England's protected landscapes.
Could have done with an acronym for that one.
This was an extensive analysis of who is accessing our natural environments and why certain groups aren't.
It was a qualitative study, and they did a bunch of in-depth interviews and focus groups to get a better understanding of the barriers people face.
They found that 42% of minority ethnic groups visited natural environments at least once a week, compared to 69% of white groups.
23% of minority ethnic groups visit less than once a month or never compared to 14% of white groups.
Obviously, more of them are going even more.
Despite making up 20% of the population, minority ethnic groups only make up 1% of national park visitors.
So, like, the data from both reports highlight that minority ethnic groups are not visiting national landscapes in the same proportions as white people.
You know, even if you adjust the percentages and everything, and that the people running these spaces are overwhelmingly older, white and male.
So, there have been suggestions that it might be a good idea to try and address some of the barriers, stopping minority, ethnic, disabled, and elderly people from benefiting from natural spaces as much as they could.
This is all from a while ago, right?
2022 is the report we're talking about, with no particularly new initiatives or developments, only it kicked off into a shitstorm of right-wing outrage a few weeks ago when, out of nowhere, the Telegraph decided to write an article about it saying that the countryside is now considered too white, which then prompted a series of articles from other rags like the Daily Mail, and plenty of think pieces and punditry emerged along the same lines, bemoaning the audacity of brown people for wanting to feel welcome in the countryside.
How dare they, the bastards?
We'll get to more coverage on it in just a moment, but first I do want to highlight a very brief clip of Russell's perspective.
For a long time I lived in London and I lived in East London and I'm very sympathetic to the challenges faced by Muslim people and I think that it is possible for people of different cultural and racial identities to live harmoniously together, but I don't think the way to do that is by annihilating the rights and identity of the native people, especially particularly if those people are the British, because that's the tribe I'm from.
British or white British?
Just want a little bit of clarification on that because half of the brown people in this country, half of the people who aren't white in this country, they're British.
So what about them?
And yeah, so naturally Russell's tribe is more important than anyone else's.
That's not surprising.
But apparently wanting more ethnic minorities to visit the British countryside is annihilating the rights and identity of the native people of the UK.
That's what he just said.
That did genuinely stop me in my tracks because that kind of response to something this trivial is what you would expect from the likes of Tommy Robinson or Nigel Farage or Enoch fucking Powell.
Were he still alive, rot in piss.
This is truly leveling up in terms of Russell's racism.
And I can't help but think he seems oblivious to the fact.
Like, you can't say, oh, I lived in a multicultural area once and I'm sympathetic towards Muslims and then claim that anything working towards them feeling more welcome in rural areas is annihilating the rights of native British people.
Also, the Welsh person in me wants to tell him to fuck off with the native British nonsense in general.
Most of the English are Danish or French if you go back far enough.
Now we're going to leap into some outrage bait from GB News with them setting up a straw man argument and oh, so boldly defeating it like a fearsome knight fighting a well, a man made of straw.
The English countryside is the English countryside.
You know, to paraphrase Basil Faulty, what do you expect to see there?
Sydney Opera House, herds of wilderness sweeping majestically.
You don't expect to see Chinatown there.
Don't expect to see Jamaican steel bans there.
That's amazing.
Jamaican steel bans.
It's the logical argument that he's saying.
Logical.
Just, wow.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
We need to call this out for what it is.
It is fundamentally racist.
Imagine if you went to Japan and said, too, too many Japanese around here.
Look at them.
You can't trust them, crafty little devils.
Remember the war?
They was a cruel people.
A cruel people.
Bamboo shoes under the fingernails and the Sikhs working as prison guards.
You can't fucking trust them.
They don't like it happen.
If racism's wrong, it's wrong on the basis that you shouldn't judge people on the basis of a set of characteristics that are not connected to characters.
That's right.
As the great Martin Luther King said, judge us not by the colour of our skin, but by the content of our character.
That's a universal law.
And the very idea that you can make universal statements is under attack now because they want us to believe there is no God but them.
By them, I mean these institutions of bureaucratic power who are using technology now to induce and introduce levels of control that are inconceivable.
How inconceivable?
Well, for example, getting involved in social engineering in the British countryside.
Social engineering, is it?
Trying to encourage more ethnic minorities to visit our national landscapes, which they pay for, possibly by removing some barriers for them.
That's social engineering.
Bear in mind that, you know, yeah, they like all of the ethnic minorities I'm speaking of, they all pay their taxes towards said national landscapes, unlike Russell anymore.
Unlike Nigel Farage, who's officially living in fucking Brussels, unlike all of the billionaire class who so desperately want us to hate our neighbors, unlike that absolute cunt owner of Manchester United trying to claim that we're being colonized by migrants in the UK while he fucking bases his existence in Monaco and doesn't pay any fucking tax here.
Get fucked.
Social engineering, my ass.
And invoking Martin Luther King as well after an obviously fucking racist tirade there.
As for the chap on GB News, did you see all those straw men he set up?
Chinatown?
Jamaican steel bands?
And the brave little culture warrior only went and defeated them, didn't he, by crying, it's racist at them.
Because listen, we can be as racist as we want in keeping brown people away from our beloved countryside, but if you come for the whites, we will cry about it until kingdom come.
You will never hear the end of it.
It's racism against white people is what it is.
And yeah, speaking of racism, Jesus fucking Christ, Russell, can you not hear yourself?
See, he thinks that whole thing about Japan sounded like a comedy bit, but it did not sound like a comedy bit.
Just because people are laughing, that does not mean it's funny, and that does not mean it's comedy.
The thing about racist jokes or like anti-Semitic jokes or anything that's kind of fundamentally punching down is that if you just tell the one once, maybe, just maybe, you'll be all right.
You can have an error in judgment, right?
And if you're lucky, you'll have friends around you.
You'll be like, hey, knock that shit off, what the fuck?
And it'll probably be a product of some unexamined, you know, piece of learning from family or some fucking bigoted whoever, right?
And you can, you can learn and develop and grow, particularly when you're like, you know, younger or whatever, right?
And more often than not, it's not, you know, trying to hurt people, it's thoughtlessness more than anything, ignorance and thoughtlessness a lot of the time.
But if you keep telling those jokes, if you keep telling those same jokes, maybe a racist joke here, a Holocaust joke there, slowly but surely, you will find yourself surrounded by Nazis.
And they're not laughing out of some great sense of wit.
They're laughing because the joke hurts the people they hate.
And they like that.
Russell, I'd say is not fully surrounded by Nazis yet, but boy, oh boy, he's well on his way, isn't he?
The People He Pays00:03:49
It's really getting there.
Because he's got no one around him who's going to tell him to knock it off.
He's got no one around him to tell him how harmful the shit is.
The only people around him are people he pays.
The people he pays to be there.
That's all he has.
And they're not going to tell him.
They seem to agree with him.
Anyway, speaking of which, in the final clip, we get Russell's assessment of the UK at large.
Something strange is going on in the UK.
But what is it?
Is it even a proper country anymore?
Is it a capsized nation?
I think it's been captured.
I think it's a nation under control.
I think it's a nation that hates its population and is trying to destroy it.
My belief, my prayer for Britain is that it becomes a Christian country directly controlled by the people.
Maximum direct digital democracy.
Will it always be a diverse country?
Of course it will.
Should the people there be loved?
Should foreigners be welcomed and loved?
Of course.
Of course there will be a variety of cultures in Britain in any great British city that's controlled by its population using technology to achieve direct democracy.
Of course what you want is compassion and love.
But what you don't want is compassion in the hands of tyrants used as a tool to control, claiming that they're trying to help some minority somewhere.
It's always on behalf of some minority somewhere, isn't it?
When they take more power and control.
Stay in your houses, take the jab, wear the mask, do as you're told.
Climate change.
Remember, they reverse engineer their authority.
They know that they want total control.
Control not only of the government state, but of your inner states.
They won't rest till they control your very spirit.
And as far as I can tell, there's only one way to control and prevent that.
And that's why I keep mentioning it.
Praise Jesus.
Christian country, mass democracy, individual freedom.
Well, I should say I do have good news for him, really.
The UK is a Christian country.
We do have mass democracy, even though most of the time the British public seems to continually vote against its own best interests.
And contrary to right-wing belief, we do actually have a lot of individual freedom and free speech here.
Now, could we be more democratic?
Sure, I'd love to.
We need proportional representation in our parliament immediately.
Only, Russell doesn't ever seem to bring that up or care about it one whit.
Could we have more individual freedom?
Absolutely.
Though the barriers to most people's individual freedoms are actually time and money, which could be solved by introducing universal basic income and capping working hours at 30 per week, you know, more allowances for parents, that kind of thing.
You know, free childcare, that sort of stuff.
But Russell doesn't seem to give a shit about that either.
After all, why would one of the richest 0.01% care about the lives of the little people?
No.
What he actually cares about is eroding any trust that anyone has in any institution whatsoever, as long as it's run by people he doesn't like.
This way, they'll stay alienated from the political system at large.
They'll become more disaffected, more radicalized, and ultimately remain within the alt-right media sphere, where Russell and his ilk can take their money.
Fear the brown people, fear the government, fear the jab, fear the end times, buy gold.
Eroding Trust in Institutions00:01:02
What a real piece of shit, low-rent Alex Jones this guy's turned out to be, huh?
Hawking his supplements, getting his gold sponsor on.
You know, I'm like, man, it is the Alex Jones playbook with a British accent.
And as a show, I mean, you know, he doesn't have the same crazy, so that's less entertaining.
Yeah.
Fewer more criminal charges against him.
Good lord.
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All right.
I'm going to finish now because I'm hungry and I want to eat something.