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Sept. 28, 2022 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Russell Brand #001 - Should We Be Laughing At Biden Or Is The Joke On Us?
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We tell you the news that the mainstream media won't tell you.
We give you insights on the news that the mainstream media simply won't reveal.
And we, according to another platform, give you deadly misinformation that could put you at incredible risk.
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Today, on our stream, we're asking, should we be laughing at Biden, or is the joke on us?
What I mean by that is, when we sort of like, Talking about Joe Biden and his evident fragility and senility and there's a tendency to be sort of mocking and cruel.
Is it actually a revelation into sort of a deep problem in politics, i.e.
this person can't possibly be the most powerful man in the world and yet There he is, occupying that position.
What does that tell you about the political class?
What does that tell you about political theatre?
Later, we're going to be taking an intricate and articulate, deep look at Congress and how Still, to this day, in spite of the Stock Act, 20% of current people in Congress own stocks and shares in the companies that they're expected to regulate.
Is this, along with Biden's bumbling senility, further evidence that we live in a kind of simulacrum, an appearance of the politically real, when in fact it's a kind of theatre?
When power has migrated elsewhere?
When power operates within inaccessible networks?
In short, there is no democracy anymore.
There is no accountable media.
There is no accessible government.
These are all the questions that we're going to be answering over the next hour, and of course we're going to be responding to your comments.
Let me have a look at those comments now.
You're with us now, coming in, of course.
Look at this.
This is from Boyanton.
Joe Biden is the Antichrist.
Oh, I don't know about that.
The actual Antichrist, because if you're going to oppose Christ, you've got to be very... because Jesus, he had access to a lot of powers, didn't he?
There's the walking on water.
There's the water into wine, which, of course, probably a remnant of the Dionysian power, like that Christ can Generate ecstatic power, the power that comes from beyond the limit itself.
If you're going to oppose that, mate, you're going to need to be harder than Biden.
He'd have a better memory, wouldn't he?
He'd probably be better on the stage as well, I think, the Antichrist.
The Antichrist is going to have to be very good on details, Gal.
He's going to have to recall things.
Biden is a puppet, says Cuddly Crow.
Someone is pulling the strings.
That's what Cuddly Crow says.
Jerusalem, don't have blind faith.
Please watch this if someone's sending videos and stuff.
Look, keep commenting, okay, over the course of this hour, because, yeah, we want to stay close to you.
That's part of the beauty of this.
Just so that you don't miss our normal news, because you might be using us as your main news source now.
You should be doing that.
So here is some normal news for you, as well as, you know, some of the more... the kind of relevant information that we're going to be giving you.
So here's some what I call normal news.
Elon Musk's deposition in Twitter Fight has been rescheduled for the first week of October.
Deposition means, like, he's going to have to do something under oath back at his house, isn't it?
It's not at his house, no.
That's something that we thought earlier, but that isn't the case.
Where is he going to be on the internet?
It's going to be a proper court.
He's going to go to court, is he?
Yeah.
So that's going to happen to Elon Musk?
Twitter lawyers, they're going to interrogate him.
He's going to be interrogated.
Bankers from New York and Edinburgh are set to flood into England after Kwasi Kwarteng, that's the Chancellor, scrapped caps on bonuses.
Yeah, I mean that's happened.
I don't really know why it's just New York and Edinburgh that are the bankers.
Why are bankers everywhere interested?
Yeah, they can come from wherever they want.
It's not limited to just them two cities.
What that is, is like for a while in this country, banker bonuses were capped because there was a little bit of an economic crash in 2008 that some people say that they caused, but then they were bailed out by the government, which means that your money was used to bail him out. But now, obviously because
we're on the precipice of an economic crisis emerging from the pandemic in the middle of a war in Europe
it seems to me the obvious way to nip this in the bud is to give some bankers some bonuses. Yeah, well apparently
it's hindering London's attractiveness as an investment destination.
Is it?
That's what it's doing.
It's hindering, according to the Chancellor, yeah, it's hindering our attractiveness.
So people are not coming here and investing.
Because you can't get a bonus.
Can't get a bonus.
They want a bonus.
So there's a lot of people that come, they want to be bankers, but they want bonuses.
That's it.
They don't even just want to be paid the regular banking money, they want a bonus.
So that's some normal news.
Floridians brace for Hurricane Ian's potentially devastating impact.
Yeah, it's hitting hard in Florida.
Do you want to know how they name hurricanes?
Alphabetically.
Well, it is alphabetically, but it's from a pool of 10,000 names that are submitted to the World Meteorological Organization.
I don't want to be devastated by anyone called Ian.
Ian.
I know.
No offence if you are called Ian.
I know people called Ian, and I love them.
But I don't see them as being a sort of cyclonic and devastating force.
I think they've done Isaac, and they've done Isaiah, or Isaias.
Isaiah has got prophetic power.
And Isaac, even, with that hard K at the end.
Ian, I think that's just going to mess with the net curtains a bit.
Sort of like that minor conflagration I caused in the dry flowers.
That's the meddling work of Hurricane Ian.
Has there been a Hurricane Russell yet?
I mean, I'd like to think that I occupy that space myself.
Also in mainstream news...
Haley Bieber addresses claims she stole Justin Bieber from Selena Gomez.
Now, what I'd say there is you can't own Bieber.
No.
Bieber is a free, sentient entity.
You can't just say, he was mine, you took him from me, can you?
Yeah.
No, he's not a little object, is he?
He's a free man.
Yeah.
Good name for an object.
Bieber.
Yeah.
And also for the act of stealing.
You Bieber'd that!
That was mine and you Bieber'd it!
Of course, the first person to ever try to nick Justin Bieber, to steal him, to take ownership of him, was me.
Here I am, when I was married to Katy Perry there, sort of literally trying to take Justin Bieber and own the wee lad.
He looks concerned, doesn't he?
He does.
He's got that look of, I should be smiling, but I'm a little bit scared.
He's gone for a smile, but the corners of his mouth are reaching out to the edges.
I'm actually glad that Katy Perry's in that image as well, because otherwise I think it would look even more dubious.
Yep, indeed.
You're smiling a bit too big there, aren't you?
I saw that Bieber!
I think it was the Grammys I was at, because I remember I was a movie star.
That's it.
You remember it.
The hats, the acting.
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments if you thought that was very good acting I did once I was the Easter Bunny.
Other times, I was Arthur.
Other times, I was Lord of Snow.
Despicable me.
I was also despicable me.
I was at the Grammys, and I see that Bieber there, and, like, the thing was with him then, as you can see, he was only a little lad, and I couldn't sort of fathom the idea that he was just generating so much revenue, and I thought, he's young enough that I could probably adopt him.
If he sees me as a father figure, I'm never gonna have to concentrate again for the rest of my life.
I'll just go, go on, get out of here!
Get a song, show your hair.
The main thing people liked then was this hair, wasn't it?
You don't have to talk about the hair no more, he's moved on.
Yeah.
Like that, he's grown, he's grown from his hair.
But remember, none of these things, interesting and fascinating, sorry about burping, interesting and fascinating though they plainly are, because that's the content that you need to know, that's normal news.
We're asking, should we be laughing at Joe Biden or is the joke on us?
And the reason we're asking it is, does having a decrepit and imitative, performative figure in a presidential role indicate that the mechanisms of power themselves are failing, particularly as we're going to go deeper into congressional analysis and talk about the stock act
and the fact that the stock act that Obama put forth, he then, he didn't repeal it, but he sort of...
He modified it.
He modified it and nullified it. He didn't modify it to make it better, did he?
No.
Like, and you'll notice this, you'll notice this when we do this item, that when Obama signed the stock act, it was
very public, very ceremonial, we're going to stop people in Congress owning stocks and
shares in the companies they regulate. That's not what the American people want.
There's fanfare, there's people signing things. You'll notice a young...
Spunky Joe Biden standing there, swaggering.
Who's this young prodigy?
Who's this hot young thing?
And when they sort of not rescind it, but essentially introduce loopholes in it so that you can own stocks and shares essentially if they belong to like a spouse or a dependent child.
Yeah, and you don't have to declare it online anymore.
Don't have to declare it.
That was the point.
Don't make me declare every stock and share I own.
When they do that bit, they do that private.
So they're all out front when they're sort of signing things that they think look good, but when they're rescinding it or nullifying it, they do it out the back so you can't notice.
So let's have a look at some of the stuff that Joe Biden's been up to lately.
Many of you probably are concerned by this recent, I suppose it's sort of an unconscious Freudian announcement.
Let's have a look.
We go back a long way.
She was 12, I was 30, but anyway.
This woman helped me get an awful lot done, eh?
What does he mean, gal?
Do you suppose by that?
I don't know.
I mean, the most troubling part of it for me is she helped me get an awful lot done.
And I just don't know what that would mean to someone of that age without going to territories that I don't wish to.
What we think it is.
Right, there's a few options.
The most obvious one, that's the one you're thinking.
It can't be that.
It can't be that, can it?
Alright, so let's rule out that one.
So it's instead perhaps likely that he makes so many jokes about his Mephistopheles-like age, his old Monty Burns decrepitness.
That he's a fella from the crypt, and he's started to own it, hasn't he?
People have gone, advisors have gone, own this old thing, because people are laughing at it, but own it.
It can be like the N word.
You can own it back again.
Own your oldness.
So he's doing that, so he's making lots of jokes about age, but what he's done there is he's moved into a different context.
Oh, I'm so old that I was 30 when I was going out with 12 year olds.
No, no, the context changed now!
If you make that joke, the age has to be really high.
Because if you're going to deduct 15 years, make sure that's really high, that age.
He should say, I was 90, she was 12.
Oh no, I was 90, she was 75.
So if that's going to be the gap, that's even worse, Russ!
She should at least be older than the age of consent.
Exactly.
Just that's the only rule.
Have that as the threshold.
That's the rule.
Is there an age for consent?
Yep.
That's it.
Let's say older than that.
Not that we are, of course, suggesting that Joe Biden's done anything on the sly side of life.
Allegedly.
That's into the alleged territory right there.
But also, it's not like the last time he said it, because he's said a few other things in that territory, hasn't he?
Let's have a look.
Like, he must have said, someone must have told him, you know the other day, when you said that thing, she was 12, I was 30?
Yeah.
People didn't like that, Joe, because it came across a little bit Nazi.
So don't say anything like that.
Well, it's been a matter of days.
What is he at?
He says a baseball club.
Yeah, the Atlanta Broves World Series title.
He's there?
Celebration.
He's started rounding up 15-year-olds.
Sort of like R. Kelly.
Allegedly.
So, you'd think, watch your step for a little while.
For the next few days, don't say anything that can be misinterpreted in that manner.
Let's see what he gets up to.
He's really relaxed, that kid in grey.
The kid in grey is really relaxed about meeting the President of the United States.
Yeah, he's not bothered.
Right mate, yeah, how's it going?
Do you ever feel like...
Like Joe Biden, he's sort of probably alright and he's sort of quite nice, really.
Probably, yeah.
I mean, that just makes me think of like a lovely old grandad, but I don't know if that's the image you want for the President of the United States.
He's also endured quite a lot of personal tragedy, hasn't he?
He has, of course he has.
Like there's been those deaths in his life and all that kind of thing.
But I suppose if you're going to live to 150, you're going to experience that.
Yeah, exactly.
Also, like in Interview with a Vampire.
Yeah.
Like, everyone's dead with it.
Like, all the people they knew when they were little, they was like in Dick Turpin days.
Yeah.
Like Robin Hood times and stuff.
Yeah, and like vampires, I guess he has also done a lot of things that are pretty bad as well.
Yeah, I know.
It doesn't look good, does it?
What do you mean?
Some of the potential alleged deals, Ukrainian energy company links, Chinese energy company links.
Yeah, not to mention the actual political decisions over the course of his career.
Do you mean sort of like sanctioning droning?
All that kind of stuff, under Obama, all of those things.
I mean, there's a fair amount, isn't there?
We can dig deep into it another time, but...
Yeah.
Can we?
This is a news stream.
We can dig right into it if we want.
If we want, we're doing news.
We can dig into it.
We can dig in.
I guess what I'm saying is, yes, that is, I mean, that's what politicians are.
They are human beings, but they also commit some pretty dreadful things.
The fact is, if you're a participant in a system of that nature, you will necessarily have been involved in the murder of thousands of people.
That dude, Dan Carlin, who does Hardcore History, his brilliant podcast, let us know in the chat, let us know in the comments if you've checked that out.
He would say, even if you were like a lovely old, cuddly old president, like Jimmy Carter, who was like, so yeah, he was sort of like, nice sort of guy, he goes, that guy nutted off loads of people.
It's just the way it is if you're going to participate in those kinds of systems.
Look at Bush now.
If you look at Bush now, he's like, Oh, he's lovely, isn't he?
Oh, he's lovely.
He's just basically a painter.
He's a painter and decorator.
He's a very good one.
They're selling him like that sort of afro-hair Bob bloke, you know?
Yeah.
The guy that does those lovely gentle paintings.
That's it.
What is he called, that bloke that does those gentle paintings?
Let me know in the chat and the comments.
You know that guy, he's a Bob whatever.
Bob someone.
He Bob someone.
He's a cult figure now.
Let me have a look.
Let me have a look in the comments.
I bet people are telling me this stuff already, aren't they?
They're fast.
They're like lightning, these people.
Yeah.
Like, uh, even, like, so whatever kind of president... Dan Carlin, yeah, Dan Carlin.
Do you know who I mean?
You know, who's that Bob Gieser I mean, guys?
Bob Ross.
That is who I mean.
Thank you.
Well done.
Yeah, you can also do that if you work here.
That's really good.
Jimmy Carton was a moron.
That'd be cold!
Yeah, Bob Ross, well done.
Thank you, John the Savage.
Thank you, Jonger55.
Yeah, well done.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, you're right, you lot.
Stay with us.
Hey, listen, if it's investigative journalism you want, and you obviously do, and you deserve it, guess who's coming up later in the show?
We've got Glenn Greenwald, who's also going to be on Rumble in the... I think he's coming on in a couple of weeks.
He's going to start his own show.
We're going to be talking to him later in the show, so if you've got any questions for Glenn, you can, well, you can ask us them and we'll pass them on to him, won't we?
Yeah.
When he's here, Glenn Greenwald's going to be talking about Edward Snowden, for example, who's recently been granted Russian citizenship.
So will he have done a test for that, do you reckon, to become a Russian citizen?
I think he has to.
I think everyone has to.
Remember I had to become an American once?
That's right.
By God do they test you.
How did that go for you?
You're not great in those kind of things, are you?
I don't like being told what to do.
I don't like being told what to do.
I don't like being told what to be patriotic.
Although, you know, I love America.
I respect Americans.
I'm not attacking, you know, your country and your ancestors and all that kind of thing.
Also, though, my own country.
I believe in decentralised autonomy.
I believe we should be running our own communities.
I believe patriotism is only of value if it benefits the people who the flag claims to represent.
If patriotism and nationalism just becomes a kind of device for centralising fiduciary power and legislative power while ordinary people suffer, what's the bloody point of that?
We'll ask Glenn Greenwald.
He'll have an answer, won't he?
Of course he will.
Of course he will.
He's got a Pulitzer Prize.
Exactly.
They're not giving them out like candy.
No.
They want to take that back now, I bet.
Yeah, they'll regret that.
I mean, one thing you can say about the way that the mainstream media has changed is people like Glenn Greenwald, who have, like, sort of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke the Snowden story, or people like Chris Hedges, who also, like, won a Pulitzer and worked at the New York Times, now they have to sort of, like, just shake a tin can on the corner of the street, giving out news like Ann Jobs, and, like, would you like a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece of journalism?
Like, they're doing, like, backstreet journalism now, aren't they?
Real independent stuff.
It's the future, Ross.
Is it?
I hope so.
We've invested in it, haven't we?
Independent journalism.
OK, it's time now for us to... I mean, we've had a bit of a laugh now, haven't we?
We've said some frivolous things about Joe Biden.
We've retrospectively looked once more at dear little Justin Bieber.
Who, if you ask me, can't be owned by anybody except his own sweet self.
But now it's time to look at some meaningful news.
Did you know, if you're an American, 20% of the people in your Congress trade in industries that they regulate?
In spite of the fact that in 2012, Barack Obama, who many people, liberals, progressive folk thought was going to be fantastic for America and fantastic for the world, he passed the Stock Act and then he meddled with that Stock Act.
Nosed it right up and made it basically irrelevant.
Nosed it up, I suppose means... Translate that one.
Introduced mitigating legislation that reduced its impact.
Nice.
I suppose.
So, we're gonna have a look now at that more deeply in an item where I go off on my own, right?
So, I'm gonna go off somewhere else now.
We're gonna miss you.
Yeah, this item's called, here's the news.
No, here's the fucking news.
Thank you for choosing Fox News.
The news.
No, here's the fucking news.
As Putin threatens Armageddon, we learned that 20% of Congress members own stocks in the industries they're
supposed to be regulating.
How can we trust them on the precipice of a crisis?
Now, this is an unusual time for the world.
Putin threatens Armageddon.
This is a time where you want to be able to rely on your leaders.
This is a time when you want to know that Congress is populated with people with one thing on their mind.
The preservation of civilization.
Whether you're on the left or the right, the preservation of the American way.
This is a time for a hero, a politician you can rely on.
Someone who means what they say and says what they mean.
Someone who represents a new, beautiful America of integrity.
Someone like Obama, who was the very politician that promised that these loopholes would forever be closed.
That insider trading would be a thing of the past.
Don't take my word for it though, here he is saying it.
Lately I've been talking a lot about the choices facing this country.
Straight away it's nice to be reminded that Barack Obama doubtless has a degree of charm, assuredness, charisma.
You can see why people were drawn to Barack Obama.
I remember why I was drawn to Barack Obama.
This is a president that represents new hope, new change.
Those were the buzzwords, if not the policies.
Here he is talking about something that we care about deeply on this channel.
Ensuring that politicians have one thing and one thing only on their minds.
The well-being of the people they represent.
That they're not distracted by corporate interests.
Isn't that the number one challenge they're going to face?
The titan of corporatism forever in their ear.
They're going to need to stout moral souls to resist temptation.
They certainly shouldn't own Stocks and shares in the companies they're supposed to regulate.
20% of people in Congress currently do own stocks and shares.
Do you think?
Let me know in the comments below.
Do you think that that biases the way they regulate those companies?
The fact that they're personally, literally, financially invested in those companies?
Let me know in the comments below.
Let me know.
Here, Barack Obama, and this is why so many people love him, introduced regulation to prevent that happening.
The idea that everybody plays by the same rules is one of our most cherished American values.
It goes hand in hand with our fundamental belief that hard work should pay off.
Joe Biden actually does look different.
He's actually deteriorated, isn't he?
Like there, he looks sort of more together, and he's under a lot less pressure.
There, he looks like he would be able to get off that stage if you went, leave the stage now, Joe.
He'd go, sure, off I go.
What, where, diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle.
Biden, are you OK?
Are you OK?
Are you OK, Biden?
It's the notion that the powerful shouldn't get to create one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everybody else.
That's Obama talking about the passing of the STOP Act, which is Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act.
In 2013, Obama quietly signed legislation that rolled back a provision of the Stock Act that required high-ranking federal employees to disclose their financial information online.
The emailed announcement was one sentence long.
There was no fanfare when the Senate and then the House passed the bill in largely empty chambers using a fast-track procedure known as unanimous consent.
That's how power works.
And if we expect that to apply to our biggest corporations, and to our most successful citizens, it certainly should apply to our elected officials.
Especially at a time when there's a deficit of trust between this city and the rest of the country.
Well, it's not got any better!
And that's why in my State of the Union, I asked members of the House and the Senate to send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I said that I would sign it right away.
Well, today I'm happy to say that legislators from both parties have come together to do just that.
The Stock Act makes it clear that if members of Congress use non-public information to gain an unfair advantage in the market, Yep, that was the basics.
the law. Nancy Pelosi. We were sent here to serve the American people and look out
for their interests. Yep, that's the basics. I mean this is what politics
should look like but the ceremony should have a relationship with reality.
Ceremony should be the performance of a set of values that are real, rather the
instantiation of an invisible idea.
We can't show you fairness, justice, but here's a ceremony.
We're going to sign a bit of paper, we're going to tell you what it is, and then we're going to do it.
But of course, it was repealed.
The same act was quietly repealed in 2013.
So when they're bringing it in, it's all can-can, legs kicking, lights flashing.
Fairness!
Justice!
When they repeal it, nothing to see here.
Out the front, look at me.
Round the back, where'd she go?
That's the nature of American politics.
It's a performance, and it remains a performance to this day.
That is why, in spite of this act being passed in 2012 and repealed in 2013, you have 20% of current Congress members owning stocks and shares in the companies they're supposed to be regulating at a time that we've just come out of that pandemic, we've got a weird president who looks tired and confused all the time and don't know where the exit is, and during this time it's acceptable for people in Congress to own stocks and shares in companies they regulate.
How can you oppose The might of Putin, if the might of Putin is what we oppose.
How can you oppose corporatism at all?
How can you represent ordinary American people?
The very things that are declared in that speech, how can that happen with these kind of stymie and inefficiencies?
What we want you to observe on this channel is the difference between the performance of politics and the reality of politics.
The fact that the things they say in public are the sort of things that should be happening kind of tells you that they know what they should be doing.
They know what they should be doing.
We were sent here to serve the American people.
And look out for their interests, not to look out for our own interests.
Don't bother.
What?
On my own interest?
Oh shit, I hope he doesn't know about Hunter.
We should make sure people who bundle campaign contributions for Congress can't lobby Congress, and vice versa.
That's that all dealt with.
Luckily lobbying's not a record height.
It is.
The lobbying industry had a record year in 2021, taking $3.7 billion in revenue.
Federal lobbyists are slated to spend in record numbers this year after lobbyists raked in $2 billion in the first two quarters of 2022 alone, an all-time high.
Top lobbyists, all of which spent millions of dollars in quarter two, included corporate behemoths like Meta, Amazon, Pfizer, and Pentagon contractor Lockheed Martin.
So there we go.
They say it because they know it's right, but they don't do it because they can't.
In the industry, with the top spending in quarter one, the health sector, nearly half of the 3,130 lobbyists that were active last year were former government employees.
If you've worked in government, you shouldn't be able to get a job in lobbying.
These are actual regulations, legislation that could be passed.
Why won't it be passed?
Let me know in the comments.
Let me know in the chat.
Thank you for using Foxy and I hope you enjoyed my video.
Now, here's the fucking news!
I'm back from where I was just then and we'll show you the rest of that, or I'll do the rest of that in a little
minute.
You've been sending us some comments, and very good comments they are too.
Chris Rumble, who's the bloke who started Rumble, Chris Pavlovsky, hi Chris, thanks for the gig and everything, says, Russell, thank you for trusting and switching to Rumble.
Independent creators without corporate media control is the future.
That's a hundred dollars as well.
I wonder how he decided a hundred.
Give us a bit more!
Give us October's payment!
That's what we want!
I'm bankrolling this operation!
That's what we want.
And then Jay Wolfgram, thank you for doing your life's purpose for our benefit.
Thanks, mate.
Actually, once in a while, when I become consumed with terrifying anxiety, I do recall that it is our function here to ...serve, that it is our function to convey truth, that it is our function to elevate consciousness, and the corruption that we see in the external world is also present within the individual.
As long as I can overcome my own inward corruption, I think we'll be okay, that we'll be able to generate new systems through the alliances that we will form through this new corporation.
That's a hundred dollars, if you want your comment brought to the forefront.
He gave more money than the head of Rumble.
Right, you're in charge now!
New guy, it's all about you!
And then someone only paid a dollar to say, are you in the Illuminati because of the 33 tattoo?
If I was in the Illuminati, and I'm not, I wouldn't put a tattoo on my wrist declaring... Oh, would you?
Aha, the double bluff!
The old famous double bluff.
Young Putin is over there.
He's the person that gives us the comments.
Are you alright there, Young Putin?
So cool, because if you look at an image of Young Putin, you'll see that his face and Young Putin's face are the same face.
Let's have a look at that.
There they are.
We're not, of course, saying that Putin's anything like a good guy, because he's a perilous... And he doesn't do our comments either.
We tried.
We said, Vladimir, would you consider coming over to Rumble?
Apparently he's very busy.
There's some sort of quite aggressive campaign going on somewhere in there, uh, in Europe.
Anyway, uh, further to our comments in, uh, here's the news.
No, here's the fucking news.
I'd like to do something I regularly do at home with my family, and that's quote Jean Baudrillard, or as you menace, Jean.
Power itself has for a long time produced nothing but the signs of its resemblance.
And at the same time, another figure of power comes into play, that of a collective demand for signs of power.
A holy union that is reconstructed around its disappearance.
When it's totally disappeared, we will logically be under the total hallucination of power.
A haunting memory that is already in evidence everywhere, expressing at once the compulsion to get rid of it.
No one wants it anymore.
Everyone unloads it on everyone else, and the panicked nostalgia over its loss.
Are we living in the simulacrum that Baudrillard describes?
Let us know in the comments.
Do they like that, the kids?
When you read it at home?
My children are quite into Baudrillard.
Yeah, we do.
A little bit of Little Prince, a bit of Smurfs, then it's hard into the postmodernists.
I tell them that all the stories I've just read them were meaningless.
But their mates don't come around anymore, do they?
No, they don't.
I tell them that Joe Biden comes over once in a while and that's normally enough to disincentivise them.
This rumble is going to blow up, says OXOX.
I hope they mean that in a hip-hop way.
Rather than in a, you know, terror way.
Hey, can I see more of those comments, please?
They're scooting out.
People are commenting at an alarming rate.
Politicians are not public servants.
They are out for their own profit, says AdMacRumble950.
Yeah, I think you're right.
DDoS attack again.
Canadian support, Russell, says Kenzie.
Keep chatting to us in that chat, because it really makes me feel good.
Yeah, it will get me too.
I just saw someone say, I'm rooting for a Putin.
Look, that may rhyme, but you can't root for Putin simply because it rhymes.
Otherwise, what, you're lying for Biden?
I mean, what are you going to do for Trump?
Zelensky's pretty difficult, though, isn't it?
Zelensky's pretty difficult to rhyme.
Zelensky, yeah, yeah.
Even you.
Master of the rhyme.
The original OG.
I don't know, Ospensky.
I can't relate to Russian literature with it.
All right, listen.
Why don't we Pause momentarily this hysteria and silliness to yield the floor, to cede, to our colleague at Rumble now whose show will soon start, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and fellow conspiracy theorist and right-wing fascist, it's Glenn Greenwald.
Hello Glenn, thanks for joining us.
Hey Russell, congratulations on your debut.
Super excited to join you in our fascist project as part of the far-right wing ideology we're now promoting.
It's good to be with you.
Yeah, it's good, isn't it, to get across all these conspiracy theories from the far-right, like that there's a kind of a corporatist movement across the globe to disempower ordinary people and to nullify democracy.
These kind of right-wing conspiracies should be marginalized.
Glenn, what do you reckon to that story about 20% of people in Congress owning stocks and shares in the companies that they're supposed to regulate?
How does that prevent ordinary democratic process from taking place?
How does it interrupt that?
I think it's interesting that people actually do realize that there's an image of Washington that they're shown, and then the reality of Washington that is hidden.
Because both President Obama and Donald Trump won by pointing out that Washington is a fraud, that it operates through lobbyists, through money.
Trump was saying all you have to do is write people a check in Washington in Congress, and they call you immediately and do what you want.
People understand that's the game.
The question is, what can be done to change it?
You know, people in Congress spend something like 80 to 90 percent of their time fundraising to keep themselves in office for the next term.
And all they're doing all the time is talking about little tiny regulations that affect a tiny sliver of people who donate to them.
People know this.
They know Washington is a fraud.
And I think this issue that you're raising of people in Congress owning stock in the very companies they're regulating is a very powerful way to illustrate that and to kind of raise anger, righteous anger over how this is functioning.
When we have the question that we've posed at the beginning of our show today, is Joe Biden a joke and is the joke on us?
When you have a figure like Joe Biden that becomes the subject of a great deal of ridicule, it's easy to kind of fall into nihilistic frivolity.
But Joe Biden does wield significant power.
And how has he been favourably reported on?
And how has his sort of persona as this sort of doddering and senile figure prevented us from seeing the true nature of his power and potentially of the corruption that that masks?
Yeah, I mean, it is, you know, I think we do have to confront the reality that he's clearly cognitively impaired.
I don't know if you saw today.
He was at a an event where he gave credit to a Republican congresswoman for helping pass a bill that he was praising and there to to sign and he said, hey, where's Congresswoman Jackie?
I don't see her.
And the reason he didn't see her is because she died in a car accident two months earlier.
And he actually issued a statement lamenting her death two months earlier, but obviously had no idea that she was dead, which is why he was asking where she was and why she wasn't at the ceremony.
And so you have, on the one hand, this person who's obviously, you know, doddering and senile in a sad way, right?
The thing we all see like in our grandparents and great-grandparents.
But on the other hand, he's the face of this, you know, kind of power center that continues to turn along regardless of what he does, just like it did with Trump and regardless of what he did, that is very sinister and nefarious and most of all consequential.
And it is important not to get distracted by the almost, as you say, frivolity of mocking Biden and lose sight of what the U.S.
government itself, not under Biden's control, only nominally so, continues to do to people around the world.
Perhaps he's sort of passed into a new transcendent state where he sees dead people, Sixth Sense style, I see dead people, dead Congress people.
Glenn, what do you think about Edward Snowden becoming a Russian citizen and what do you think has changed since the revelations that Edward Snowden made, of course, stewarded by your own Pulitzer Prize winning journalism?
Has the world changed for the better?
Have things got worse, broadly speaking, in that time?
Well one thing that's changed is that the West has become completely obsessed with Russia.
I would say at least as much as at the height of Cold War hysteria led by people like Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover.
Things that we had thought were kind of debunked and discredited and relics of the Cold War have now been completely rejuvenated where everything is attributed to Russia including long-standing social strife in the UK and the US.
And so obviously the fact that Snowden, who didn't choose to be in Russia but was forced to be in Russia, as Obama officials themselves boasted he was trying to get out and they blocked him from leaving by doing, among other things, threatening the Cubans and threatening of the other countries where he was obtaining asylum, is now being used to say, oh look, all along obviously this entire, you know, operation of disclosing NSA secrets, which won Pulitzers and Polks and every journalism award around the world, As it turns out, that, too, was just a Russian influence operation.
Snowden and me and Julian Assange were all Russian spies.
This kind of Cold War hysteria and paranoia has taken hold of not just the U.S., but the West.
They blame Brexit, Putin for Brexit.
And it's all a way of evading any attention or scrutiny on the elites, the neoliberal elites, who are causing all the suffering in this world by saying, oh, look, it's all Putin's fault.
In these kind of conspiracy adjacent spaces, where people are so suspicious of the system, so certain that democracy can't serve them, so certain that the media are inauthentic with them, there is this sense that there is deep state power, that there is a power that doesn't reveal itself, that we can't access.
When you've been involved with something as revelatory and epochal as the Edward Snowden story, do you feel the proximity of that kind of power?
Did you feel afraid for your life?
Did you feel that there were forces that are not evident or transparent that are present in forming global political narratives?
Yeah, you know, I spent, you know, two years or almost three years of my life doing nothing but reading through hundreds of thousands or millions of pages of top secret U.S.
government documents, not just about the NSA, but also British and Australian and Canadian agencies, but also the Pentagon and the CIA.
And not only did I get a firsthand glimpse of exactly what it is that they do, to the world, but also to those people like us who expose
it. I couldn't leave Brazil for more almost a year once I back out back from Hong Kong because
the US government was explicitly threatening privately and publicly that they would arrest
us if we step foot on US soil for the reporting we were doing. I was constantly warned that
in Brazil where I've lived for 17 years, the CIA has a massive presence due to its
relationship to the government that was a coup government that overthrew the Brazilian government in
1964 and continued through 1985 to prop up a tyranny. So the idea that, you know, this is
one of the things you were alluding to earlier that we're now right-wing conspiracists because we
say things like, hey, you know, the CIA and the NSA actually do sinister things.
In secret, outside of the forces of the democratic process, it used to be such a basic staple of knowledge.
You know, it was Dwight Eisenhower who chose to warn of that on his way out the door after serving as American president for eight years, after being a five-star general, and now it's discredited as something that only crazy conspiracy theorists believe, even though I spent, you know, three years reading the documents that prove it.
Yeah, in a sense, the charge of being a conspiracy theorist is just a way of undermining the information and discrediting that information.
Glenn, when your show starts in a couple of weeks, what sort of stuff are you going to do?
What's your show going to be like?
And will we be sort of like allies throwing to each other and stuff like on normal television?
Yeah, you know, I think we have a similar, though obviously not identical, approach to the world and view of the world.
And I think our incentives are very similar, which is the idea that corporate media allows an extremely narrow range of views and opinions to be expressed.
They promote and glorify the viewpoints and ideology of a very narrow range of people.
That's why you turn on television and all you see are ex-NSA and CIA and FBI and Pentagon agents delivering the quote unquote news to you.
We know that the corporate media is very subservient to The security state system, the security services in both Western Europe and and the U.S.
and so this is an opportunity not only to look at the news from a different perspective and to break through that propaganda but also reuse a platform that is intent on allowing free speech so we don't have to be in fear that if we say something that Anthony Fauci dislikes or the CIA director dislikes or the Biden White House dislikes we're going to be demonetized or lose our platform or censored or booted off and I think that's the most important thing at least to me Russell and what we're building is a space on the internet where you can go and speak freely without worrying that some corporate or government force is going to silence you.
So you know, like, we're going to do a story tomorrow on Bill Gates, Bill Gates' influence over the media, the donations he makes.
I was sort of surprised to learn that Bill Gates has donated like 300 million dollars to various media organisations.
And they're not charities either, it's things like CNN and MSNBC, why do they need donations?
And I suppose that as well as deep state power in the form of the kind of agencies that you've listed, the kind of notorious Five Eyes, not to be mistaken for Five Guys, which I think I think it's just a legitimate burger joint which you can reliably get good food at.
There's also these kind of Bill and Melinda Gates, Hillary Clinton, Clinton Foundation type sort of soft power organisations that have incredible influence and sway.
There's another form of, I don't know, circumventing the traditional conduits of democratic power.
We're going to talk about that.
It's another thing you know quite a lot about, isn't it, and you've written about, Glenn?
Yeah, you know, it's bizarre.
So the idea that, you know, billionaires and security agencies exert massive and oftentimes invisible unseen power to shape our politics and our society for their own interest used to be just a Very commonly accepted and widely acknowledged view, and it's one that I do believe most people continue to recognize, even though it's now dismissed and branded a conspiracy theory by the very same people
Who have spent the last five years telling Americans that Vladimir Putin has taken over not just the United States but the UK through sexual blackmail and all kinds of other leverage.
One of the most deranged conspiracy theories I've heard in my lifetime.
They're the ones who spread that and then at the same time trying to mean basic Ideas like billionaires and the government controls people through propaganda and money as though that's the wild conspiracy theory.
And that's what I think is needed more than anything, is a recalibration of what it is that's really fact and what it is that's really the disinformation.
Because to me, the disinformation comes most from exactly those agencies and entities claiming to be most dedicated to combating it.
With incredible auspiciousness and serendipity, it was just yesterday that we got a strike on YouTube for the sin of misinformation for talking about ivermectin, a word that we can say now.
Ivermectin, we talked about it and it was somewhat inaccurate.
We've pointed out a government website that said it was being clinically trialled and we said that it had been approved.
And actually, I don't normally do this, but it was young Putin who works for us.
He's one of the researchers and producers here.
I'm beginning to think that this guy is a conspiracy theorist.
He said, yeah, this is a good story, leave it in, and actually it's led to all sorts of complications.
Anyway... It's Russian involvement, that's what it is.
What was it?
It was Russian involvement.
Yeah, actually, Russian involvement.
Perhaps you are Russian-sponsored media.
That's what it's beginning to... Agent young Putin there has caused us all sorts of problems.
I wonder if what might emerge from free speech-oriented media are new political movements.
New means of organisation.
New ways, perhaps even, of transcending the bifurcations and divisions that are stoked by mainstream media.
Because, Glenn, if the window has shifted so much, if even the ideas that seemed central to the left and right just 10, 15 years ago are so sort of amorphous and mobile, doesn't it mean that there's a possibility for a different type of populism, different types of alliances that can get beyond the divisions of the culture war?
Have you seen anything that makes you think That's possible, mate.
I think people are craving...
Any kind of news or analysis or political space that allows them to understand that their enemies are not their neighbors, including their neighbors who have been led to think things with which they disagree, but are the power centers that are constantly trying to tell them and incite them to focus on their neighbors instead of on them.
I think there's a real craving for that.
I think that's one of the reasons why you've built a gigantic audience, why I've been able to build a large impact and influence through platforms like Substack,
where we are free to speak about those things and not have to be imprisoned by this
artificial Democrat versus Republican or left versus right framework that gets imposed on everything,
and that is sometimes applicable, but mostly not. And I think one of the things that we have
to be aware of is that anytime anything gets created that is a genuine threat to power
centers, the nature of power is that they will want to attack those things that are threats to them
by demeaning and discrediting, and then through brute force.
And we've already seen that with places like Substack and Rumble.
And we're going to be seeing it much, much more as we continue to grow, which I have no doubt we will for a variety of reasons.
There already are big attacks on places like Rumble for refusing not to de-platform RT when they're told to, for defending free speech instead of taking orders on censorship.
And the more we're able to break through and reach large audiences, They're not going to just say, oh well, good luck to them, good for them, glad to see that they're challenging and undermining and subverting our propaganda.
There are going to be attacks of all kinds and I think the ability to understand that's coming and to prepare for it and to fortify ourselves against it is crucial.
Glenn, thank you so much for joining us.
We couldn't have had a better guest for our inaugural show.
I'm sending so much love to you and to your family, and I'm so excited and thrilled, honoured even, that we're going to be working together.
Thanks for joining us, mate.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, me too.
Super excited.
Good luck with everything, Russell.
Talk soon.
Take care, Glenn Greenwald.
There he goes.
That's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a proper journalist, breaking real stories, talking about the news in a critical and awakened way.
You know what we do here on this channel?
In addition to the stuff we do here in the stream, in addition to the media that we We disseminate throughout the culture.
We do live events.
We have an event every year, a community event.
We've done it once.
We had Vandana Shiva and Wim Hof appear live.
If you want to learn more about that, there's a link in the chat.
And also, we have the Stay Free Foundation, where we make regular donations with your money that we raise from, you know, stuff you give us through the merchandise, primarily.
If you buy a little bit of merchandise, any money that we make goes to helping people with Addiction issues and mental health issues.
Not... I'm... I hasten to add people that are active drug addicts.
We don't just give them twenty or thirty dollars like dear old Chris from Rumble sending us a hundred pounds less than a normal person.
Like we give them if they're like trying to get off drugs.
We're very clear about that, innit?
Very clear, yeah.
If you're on drugs, we're not giving you any money.
If you're off the drugs, have a little bit of money.
It's incentive.
We incentivise you to get off the drugs.
You don't need to stay on the drugs.
No.
Get off them.
Have some money.
There's a bit of money to reward you.
Easy, easy.
Oh, I wish I'd had that when I was on drugs.
Ah, right.
That was a trick.
You've shown true colours there.
The colours of drugs.
Brown.
The stinking colour of heroin.
The naughtiest of all the drugs.
Okay, it's time now to hand over authority and control for this precious new emergent medium.
To you, the people watching this live stream, people with unchecked views, people with radical minds, free thinkers, lunatics, people out there in the outer regions of consciousness.
Let's see what you've got to say in our new item, Fake Comments.
They're real comments, some of them, but some of them are fake as well, that we've had to make up in order.
I mean, there's plenty of real comments, but like, let's have a look, just see, can I just quickly have a look at what people are saying in real comments, because I just want to see in case they're saying stuff that's interesting, young Putin.
Look at this, so look, someone's just given us 20 quid.
Amazing show.
Who are you planning for your future guests?
I love Glenn, by the way.
That's from Skippy83.
Skippy83, we're going to be talking to Vandana Shiva.
We're going to be talking to Elon Musk.
Elon Musk's coming on next week.
Who else we got coming on here?
No, I'm not actually sure.
I'm not actually sure.
We've got all sorts of people.
Get a list of that so I can answer that question easy.
Who?
Wim Hof.
I said that already.
That's Rasbomb.
Did USA bomb Nordstrom?
Oh Christ, so much pink.
Jesus Christ, don't say stuff like that, you're mental.
We love Space Cats, we love Rumble.
Right, listen you lot.
If you're going to be in that chat, don't say mad stuff.
It's not the dregs of humanity, like effing and blinding and using hate speech.
Do you know that the starting point is basic acceptance and love?
That's the starting point.
That's where we're going to come from.
I'm not saying we're not going to overthrow the government.
I'm not saying we're not going to bring down the system.
I'm not saying we're going to replace the corrupted and cancerous organs of a broken system with a new, enlightened, utopian set of ideals that will liberate us, that will allow progressive and traditional people to live side-by-side freely in fully autonomous communities, free from judgement.
I'm just saying, in a chat, say nice stuff.
This is from Leon Kennedy.
Buy XRP.
People say all sorts of stuff in here, eh?
Some of it might be, like, performance art or something.
Right, you're a performance artist.
Someone, for example, has just said fart.
Well, there you go.
That's Junkyard1976, who's just said fart.
Is that performance art?
I think it is.
And then, um... This is... Please tell us about Edward Snowden, says Marie Eugene.
And someone's saying, Wild and Sacred says, get Charles Eisenstein on here.
No, fair enough.
Yeah, well, actually, Charles Eisenstein, he's good.
We've had him on before, we'll try and get him on again.
Alright, so let's have a look at some of these fake comments that we've got.
Fake comments.
What's this one?
So, Mel Baker, she sent you a link, and she said, we should ask kids for their advice all the time.
And she must have a reason for this, and I believe it's skewed towards this clip.
Let's have a look.
What this is, I believe, is a clip of people talking about the royals.
It's some sort of Australian little kid saying, when asked, what would you like to see King Charles do?
In our country, we've got things called kings and queens.
We've got a new king at the moment.
He's got new insignia.
He's got new iconography.
The money's about to change forever.
Like, you know, because we've had the queen on it for a while, and it's been going quite well.
Listen, while you sort that stuff out, why don't you, Gareth?
Yeah?
If I wanted to become a Russian, what kind of work would I have to do?
If I wanted to become an American, what kind of work would I have to do?
What are the citizenship tests of these various nations?
We've got some slides for that, actually, so it is going to require slides.
Oh, really?
That's going to require also its own effort.
You'll have to bear with us, because this is our first ever streamed show.
We've not streamed a show before, so there are some sort of technical issues here, like pulling up these evident clips.
And if you lot in the chat are going to say sort of mad stuff, like the word fart, I won't be able to reliably use that as content.
So, I'd like you to cast your mind back a few minutes to when we were talking to Glenn Greenwald, or when I was reading out Baudrillard, and think, this is the tone, this is the established tone.
We can be frivolous, we can be silly, we can be downright sceptical and cynical if that's what's required, but we can't just type in the word fart.
So, Gal, what have you, has everything essentially crashed?
I'll tell you a bit more about Congress, following our video earlier, and actually, we're coming back to that video later.
Item.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a good idea.
OK, let's do that.
Now, so earlier on, we were talking about how 20% of people in Congress own stocks and shares in the companies that they've been elected to regulate.
And some of them specifically and particularly sit on committees that are supposed to regulate, for example, big tech or the financial industry.
No, no, no.
Don't just play it in.
Stop.
Don't just play it in.
Actually, you mustn't do that, darling.
That's the last thing that any of us need.
Kill that now, we'll never go back to that.
I want to talk about this actually, Gal.
Tell me exactly what it is, how we got ourselves into this situation, because Obama did pass an act in 2012, then they didn't repeal or rescind that act, but they sort of moderated it.
We're going to show you the rest of that item in a minute, but Gal, what did you want to pick up on?
Yeah, well, it's interesting because, you know, even within this ability that people in Congress have to declare stocks that they, you know, regulate and own, they have 45 days.
The law is they have 45 days to declare this.
That's the one law that's left.
You know, it's like, all right, you can have the stocks, we'll leave that in, you can do that, but you must declare it within 45 days.
Anyway, so inside of literally just That's it.
That's the law.
put an article together. Insider and several other news organisations have identified 72
members of Congress who have recently failed to properly report their financial trades
as mandated by the Stock Act. So they're not even doing it within 45 days.
What? So they've just been told, you can have whatever stocks and shares you want, but as
long as you let us know in what, 45 days?
That's it. That's the law. That's what they have to do.
But they won't do it?
They won't even do that. So a key provision of the law mandates that lawmakers publicly
and quickly, 45 days, disclose any stock trade made by themselves, a spouse or a dependent
child. Now we've talked about this before, like what that dependent child could be.
Like, you can just have a child who's ever so dependent and is in part of your house.
Like, if this child's so dependent, he's basically going to be quite malleable when it comes
to doing stock trades that you can conceal within your family, within your family unit.
What age range is a dependent child, do you think?
Well, you could say that Hunter Biden.
It depends what they're dependent on.
Good point.
Yeah, so many members of Congress have not fully complied with the law.
They offer excuses including ignorance of the law.
Cleric, which you'd think they would understand the law, being... Because they make it up.
They do make the law up.
If you make up a law, you've got to at least understand it, innit?
It's like you design Monopoly, and then you're sat there and you start chewing on the community chess cards, or that little Scotty Dog and the Top Hat, you start putting them together.
You'd have to say, hold on a minute, what was in your mind when you were conceiving of this system?
Yeah, also the word ignorance is like, I think that's extra Mickey, really.
Well, they're absolutely ignorant of it.
It's not that I forgot it for a while.
I've just never known what it was or where it was.
Yeah, so ignorance of the law, clerical errors, so they're blaming clerics, I guess.
You can't blame clerics.
No, you can't do that.
Oh, they typed it out wrong.
That's their fault.
And mistakes by an accountant, so now they're blaming accountants.
There's so many people, like, I suppose what you want is, like, the buck stops here type politics of JFK.
People that are willing to put their head above the parapet, knowing what might happen to that head, particularly if they go for a drive in Dallas.
There are penalties, though, Russ.
I don't mean that in a mean way, he was a great hero.
There are penalties.
Go on.
So when lawmakers who violate the stock-out face a fine, the penalty is usually small.
$200 is the standard amount, and that's sometimes waived by the House or Senate ethics officials.
$200?
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah.
Like, a fine is meant to be a form of penalty.
Like, a $200 penalty, that's insignificant.
To Nancy Pelosi.
To Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi, who may be worth up to $100 million, is not... I think it's more now.
I think it's $172, I think.
If she's worth $172 million, she's not going to feel the pinch, is she, of a $200 fine.
With her lethal little sharp, jabby-jab elbows.
No, she'll be all right, I think, Nancy.
She'll be fine.
It's not going to touch the sides.
All right, so one of the things that you may have noticed during the item, here's the fucking news, is a young, plucky, strident, vibrant Joe Biden.
Now, the evidence of the deterioration that we were soon to experience was visible.
If you have a look, there are a few moments there where Joe Biden looked, I would say, If not suspicious, a little bit odd.
This is Biden, that young protege, standing with Barack Obama.
Let's have a look at some of these.
Let's look more closely at what he was doing while Obama was announcing the Stock Act.
It goes hand in hand with our fundamental belief that hard work should pay off.
A little bit of fiddling with the jacket there.
I suppose that's sort of a bit discomfort in this place.
But he looks much more cognizant and present than the man that we've come to know as the Earth's most powerful lover of teenagers.
Let's have a look.
About to start coming on stock.
I said that I would sign it right away.
Well, today, I'm happy to say... Oh, he's gone for the old snout!
What does that mean, the snout dab there?
Just concentrate, let the President talk, and then finally... We were sent here to serve the American people, and look out for their interests, not to look out for our own interests.
What?
I'm here for my own interests, and maybe a little bit for Hunter's.
Like, the thing that worries me when you see a brilliant orator and charismatic leader like Barack Obama say stuff like that is it makes me realize they know what's right.
And that's what worries me.
I suppose we have a lot of stuff around wokeness, that many of the values that are espoused are important values, but values that are exploited and misused.
These ideas are Used as tokens to distract us from the lack of moral rectitude rather than of emblems of a deeper set of values that are being pursued.
Or like this sort of like even perhaps with the environmental movement like you see big corporations that are Literally responsible for ecological decline, espousing sort of easy, phatic phrases about ecological responsibility.
So I suppose that what we're talking about today is politics as performance.
Joe Biden as a kind of, well some of you have said in the comments, as a kind of puppet figure, or a Congress where people are supposed to be regulating and legislating on behalf of American people, but where we ...deeply suspect they are essentially motivated by self-interest.
Perhaps the whole system is a type of performance.
The mainstream media, which is supposed to be a conduit of information, which is supposed to be defined by transparency and clarity, has become opaque and disingenuous.
So what we have are a set of interlocking systems that prevent ordinary people having access to truth and having access to power, and that's precisely what we're interested in changing and certainly initially addressing.
But I think, you know, changing over time is something we're well into as well, isn't it mate?
It certainly is.
Tomorrow we'll be talking about Bill Gates as well, so...
In tomorrow's show, we're going to be looking at Bill Gates.
Now, again, this is the territory, as Glenn Greenwald said, that sometimes is regarded as conspiratorial.
But there's no doubt that Bill Gates has considerable power and considerable influence throughout the pandemic.
His ideas were at the forefront and he had undue influence both Ideological and financial in some very surprising areas.
I suppose most of you watching this are well-educated, albeit autodidactically, enough to know that Bill Gates is the second largest donor to the WHO.
The biggest donor to the WHO?
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300 million people!
World Wars!
Flags!
Eagles!
Mountains!
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Before that, shall we have a look at the rest of this video?
I wondered if maybe we should look at some of that other stuff, though, before we go.
I mean, I'm kind of enjoying it here now.
I like it.
What are some of the other items that we had in the sort of back quarter of the show?
Was there anything in there?
Perhaps you'd like to see this moment from the mainstream media.
Forget the little Australian kid.
I've fallen out of love with her when she piped up when I was talking.
Now, this is a little British pop star named Lewis Capaldi.
You might not have heard of him if you're an American person, but he's making a mainstream media appearance here, and he uses some colloquialisms that perhaps don't belong in the realm of breakfast time.
This is an early morning show.
You can see in the corner of the screen it's 8.59 in the morning.
Lewis Capaldi, I don't know what kind of vibe he's on.
I get the idea he's quite a nice guy.
He's outspoken and jovial.
He's jovial!
He's being jovial.
He's got spirit.
That's what he's got.
First of all, he starts off talking about the geyser, the anchor's hair, and then you can sense discomfort at the level of joviality and spontaneity.
Can't you, Gal?
Let's have a look at this.
Let's see, you've got great hair.
We were talking about it outside, weren't we?
They don't like that he's referred even to a realm outside of the frame of the show.
You can see, look, that's the mainstream anchor.
He don't like that he's been referred to.
The female anchor adjacent to him there, she's getting ready to comment.
But you can sense, like this is an atmosphere that I've created on TV shows a lot, that you can create a little bit of chaos there with just a little bit of spirit.
Let's have a look at how it goes.
I didn't see that.
Looks great.
Well, you've got great hair, too.
Yeah, I see you.
Oh, look at that.
There you go.
Right, the high five.
It's getting a bit more anxious.
Many of us now that are attuned to subcutaneous detail will be sensing that the spirit of chaos is about to emerge.
Very rarely happens.
That very rarely happens.
Would you like a rim?
Would a what?
Would you like a rim?
I thought you said a rim.
She's gone for a, like a joke there, a sort of a dad joke.
Well, get a room, you two.
You know, like a safe little joke.
But Lewis Capaldi has taken it to the territory of rimming.
Which, at breakfast time... Why not?
Could be a worse time.
Start the day!
There you go.
Go in there, go in hard!
Wait for it to be fragrant and fresh.
Get it right in there with the yawning dawn.
Okay you guys, so like today we've been talking about the spectacle of power, haven't we?
The presentation of power and the reality of power.
Do you think you have systems that serve you?
Do you think, as Glenn Greenwald said, that what we really have are a set of deep state agencies that govern the true nature of power and Incredible, tyrannical financial interests that pull the strings of apparent global organisations such as WHO, IMF, WEF.
All of these things we'll be talking about in the future on Stay Free with Russell Brand because these are the things we're interested in.
military industrial complex, mainstream media corruption, the pandemic and big pharma,
and real values, human values, getting beyond the conflagration that we're continually confronted
with between apparently separate communities that I believe have more in common with one another
than we have that separates us, whether you're a traditional person or a progressive person,
whether you love Trump or loathe Trump, whatever you feel...
China.
You've got to laugh at that guy.
You've got to love him, haven't you?
Whatever you feel about mainstream media, mainstream politics, big business, and certainly whatever you feel about the cultural world, there is a place for you here to engage in honest, open discourse and to head towards something more truthful and more beautiful.
To recognise that your individual awakening can connect you to communal awakening.
That if we're going to change the world, we're going to have to change ourselves, we're going to have to do things differently, we're going to have to think a little bit differently, we're going to have to form new alliances.
These are the kind of things we're interested in talking about on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
Have a look now at the rest of our item.
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Historic, I suppose.
I mean, will it be in a history book?
Yes.
Depends who writes them, doesn't it?
If we rise to a position of some authority... They're online now, anyway, I think.
History books, they're online these days.
Yeah, you could just probably... It's just like Wikipedia now.
We could type it ourselves.
We could just go and amend it.
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Between the 55 corporations that paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2020, for instance, the group spent a combined nearly $450 million in lobbying and campaign contributions since 2015, which translated into $12 billion in tax savings and rebates for the companies in 2020.
I think we're beginning to see the mechanics of how politics truly works.
I think we're Beginning to see what would actually happen if money was taken out of politics.
It would fall apart.
You wouldn't have politics.
It would be unrecognisable.
It's like has been said of Britain.
Without the monarchy, it's not Britain anymore.
That's what defines Britain.
You take dirty money out of politics in your country, in our country, probably in most places around the world, you wouldn't have a recognisable landscape.
You wouldn't get the same people in it.
You wouldn't get the same laws passed.
It would change the world overnight.
That's why they can never let it happen.
We actually got what he actually wrote here.
Change America forever.
Fingers were crossed behind my back.
Don't actually have to do anything.
Reverse it all in one year.
I love you very, very much.
See you at Martha's Vineyard having one hella party.
Little did we know we were 10 years away from a president that you'd applaud if he could actually hold a pen.
Nearly 20% of Congress members, 49 Democrats and 44 Republicans, well, they're almost as bad as each other.
They have been trading shares of companies in industries that they are supposed to be overseeing as part of their committee assignments, creating major conflicts of interest and new report fines.
Between 2019 and 2021, 97 US Senators and Congress members or their immediate family made financial transactions in which they may have had access to inside information.
Representative Bob Gibbs, Republican, Ohio, member of the House Oversight Committee, reported buying and trading shares of pharmaceutical giant AbbVie in 2020 and 2021.
At the same time, the committee was investigating the company and its rivals for unfair pricing practices.
I don't know so much about AbbVie.
I see it was a kind of a family firm.
Which family?
My family.
And meanwhile, a total of 13 lawmakers traded shares of companies that were under investigation by committees they served on.
What's the point of having a committee if the person investigating it has a vested interest in the outcome?
Okay, you're our best man.
Now, what the hell's going on at AbbVie?
I like him.
The wife of representative Alan Lowenthal, Democrat, California, sold Boeing shares in March 2020, just a day before a committee her husband sat on released a bombshell report that alleged Boeing leadership was partly to blame for two 737 MAX crashes.
Oh, and you thought I sold those Boeing shares because I had information that there was about to be a damning report revealing their culpability in some air crashes?
I sold those shares to fund a surprise birthday party and you've just spoiled it!
You're just like your father.
Although, what I will say about your father is he's very reliable when he sits on committees and he wouldn't be influenced by knowing that we own shares in Boeing.
Phew!
The most active traders were also those who may have had the... The most active traders were those who may have had the most insider information.
44 of the 50 most active traders in Congress had conflicts of interest.
So the ones who are doing it most are the ones that are most culpable, most likely to be guilty.
It's not someone in Congress.
Even though I don't know nothing about it, because I would never get an info.
I just love stocks and shares, man.
I trade stocks and shares for the love of it.
I love my stock trading down the streets, man.
I just do it like jazz.
Buy!
Sell!
What's that?
Boeing's planes keep crashing and it's their fault.
Sell!
Sell!
Shit!
Sell!
The analysis doesn't even capture all problematic trades.
For instance, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's husband is famous for purchasing shares of companies like Amazon and Meta, which Pelosi is responsible for regulating.
But since Pelosi doesn't sit on a committee, she was not included in the study.
Nancy Pelosi is a reliable member of Congress, not some evil witch who would elbow a child just to get a nice photograph.
Nancy Pelosi elbowed this little girl during a photo-op?
Despite ongoing concerns about lawmakers' financial transactions, there is minimal regulation on stock trade.
Because, like, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
You can't do that, otherwise there's no point in the whole system.
Hey guys, we can't trade stocks or shares anymore!
See you then, bye!
See you!
Just go!
There's no point doing it.
That's the reason.
Hey guys, you can't get jobs anymore in companies that you used to regulate.
Guess what would happen?
People would get involved in politics that genuinely cared about ordinary people.
People that had no other motivation.
You're a human.
I'm a human.
You know how difficult it is not to be like, oh god, my kid's in this football team.
I want them to win.
Oh shit, I'd make a few bucks here if I was like... We're human beings.
We're fallible.
The system has to change in order to elevate the best aspects of us and the best among us.
Not to create a cesspit where the scum of the earth rise to the top.
Under the Stock Act, which is the only legislation that reigns in lawmakers' trades.
Stop trading!
Get the fuck off me with your Stock Act!
I'm trying to trade!
Well, your men will be in Congress.
Piss off!
Most members of Congress are still free to make trades that could conflict with their legislative duty as long as they disclose the information within 45 days, which many do not do.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, listen, it is difficult.
I understand it.
I love trading myself.
So if you are going to trade, will you at least tell us within 45 days that you did trade?
No!
The 2012 law was passed with bipartisan support, it's almost as if they're the same, in the wake of a stock trading scandal.
Yet in the nearly 10 years since it was enacted, no one has been prosecuted after it, even as many members continue to conspicuously trade.
Pointless legislation.
Despite renewed chatter about the importance of cracking down on legislators' stock trades, Come on!
We're chattering about it!
high-ranking staffers say the likelihood Congress will actually regulate itself is so low, it's laughable.
How low is it?
It's all performative.
It's not going anywhere, one Senate staffer told the New York Post.
Proponents of legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks say that Democratic Party leaders are stalling on the bill.
Though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat California, claimed last week that lawmakers are finally ready to bring a bill to ban Congress from trading stocks to a vote by the end of this month, proponents of the ban are sceptical that that is the case, according to interviews with lawmakers.
Here's what I predict.
They might.
They'll do a big ceremony about it.
Joe Biden will sign something with a pen, probably quivering and shaking as he goes.
Then a couple of months or a year later, They'll repeal it and no one will hear about it because it'll be some other thing in the news that they tell you now.
Watch out for the monkey pox kids!
Some lawmakers think that the Democratic leaders could be delaying because they're personally against the plan.
Representative Abigail Spanberger has speculated that Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are simply trying to put the bill off long enough until efforts to pass it fizzle out.
I think that they're trying to run out the clock, she said in May.
That's the kind of thing that goes on, isn't it?
Everyone will get bored of it in a minute, they'll get distracted, there'll be another war, there'll be something so terrible that happens you just grind you down into a dust, you can't keep caring anymore.
In the end you just crack.
It's hard to stay engaged.
That's part of the point.
To drain your will.
To drain you of the ability to even imagine a better future.
Let's go.
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