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April 18, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED!! - #110 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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	Yeah, enjoy your life.
	Enjoy it.
	This is your life.
	You're living.
	You're lunatics.
	This is Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	We're streaming live.
	Hello, Vandana Shiva.
	Are you the new Snowden?
	Hello Bandana Shiva. Are you the new Snowden? Are you?
	Join us not for more of the same but for more of the different.
	Until then, stay free.
	Yeah, enjoy your life.
	Enjoy it.
	This is your life.
	You're living.
	You're lunatics.
	This is Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	We're streaming live.
	Hello, Vandana Shiva.
	Are you the new Snowden?
	Are you?
	Join us not for more of the same but for more of the different
	Until then, stay free.
	I'm not a hero.
	I'm a villain.
	Every real estate could not understand I'm a black man.
	And I could never be a veteran.
	I'm the second most reputable.
	I brought all the rules here.
	So I'm looking for a new hero.
	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	If you want to free yourself from this prison planet that sees you merely as fodder, one of the tools you're going to need is an independent media.
	That's what me is.
	Independent media.
	Me and him over there.
	We're doing our best to bring you stories that are at least attempting to be transparent.
	We care about what you think.
	That's why we need you to let us know in the comments and chat what stories you want to see covered and how you think we're covering today's stories.
	Like, we're going to be talking about... We're also not funded by the government, are we, Russ?
	They give us nothing.
	Every week I go back to the government, any of them, Hong Kong one, Burma, I've spoken to people in Senegal, and I've said, would you be interested in investing in some independent media?
	They go, what is your main aim?
	We say, well, we just want to bring the government down, really.
	And they go, well, we're not going to contribute to that.
	Actually, we are the government of Senegal in this case.
	That was the most recent one.
	We've got some great guests and stories coming up just for you.
	If we knew you weren't interested, we'd stop doing it.
	Dave Rubin's coming on, the inventor of locals and the inventor of a certain type of gay, I'd say he is.
	Right.
	Well, we'll ask him about that when we talk to him.
	I don't think you should lead with that.
	Sir, of all the types of gay that there are, we claim you invented one of the types.
	Let's hear more about it.
	I think it's the type you like most.
	It's the type that I'd go for if I was to explore that aspect of my sexuality.
	I was probably conditioned in early life not to contemplate that avenue, but hey, is it ever too late?
	No.
	Never.
	We're going to be looking at those French protests.
	What we love about it is the way they targeted Black Rock.
	They started protesting outside an investment firm.
	So even though they're protesting, of course, about their age of pension being raised in France, robbing them of a couple of years of lazing about, sipping wine and being all French. They actually took it to the steps and doors of
	Blackrock, understanding at least tangentially that the problem is democracy itself doesn't
	work, even in one of the great principalities of democracy, France, where like, liberté
	is right up there among their principles.
	Not now.
	Now you've got to start a fire and put on a yellow vest if you want anything like justice.
	We're going to be clicking over to being exclusively on Rumble.
	There's a link in the description.
	Have a look at it, right?
	And then we'll be going, we're going to give you the inside intel on the WHO's plans for a worldwide pandemic treaty.
	They're trying to usher it through.
	They're going to nick 5% of all your tax dollars.
	They want all sorts of I mean, it's a proper little scam.
	If I didn't know better, I'd say that the WHO were not to be trusted.
	And along with them, the WF, the IMF, any of those... Like, if I had to trust any of them, it'd be the boxing ones.
	It's acronyms for you, isn't it?
	Don't trust any acronyms.
	Look at us.
	Stay free.
	We don't call ourselves SFM.
	And the day we do... Then you'll know we've accepted that Senegalese sweet dollar and that Icelandic buck.
	Send us your comments because we're interested in what you've got to say.
	Now, we're going to spend a bit of time delving right into Elon Musk's interview with Tucker and how he's trolling state-funded media.
	Also looking into privately funded media because we personally don't think that that's any better.
	Like, do you think CNN are worse or better than the BBC?
	Let us know, actually, in the comments below who you think the worst ones are.
	MSNBC, Fox.
	I know a lot of you like Fox because of Tucker and stuff.
	You like Tucker, don't they?
	And what about when I was on Greg Gutfield?
	Right.
	That was good.
	That went very well.
	I had a nice time on there.
	In fact, Kat Timpf, I think is her name, she was on there that day that I was on there.
	She's coming on here later this week.
	You got on very well with all of them.
	You were very at home, I would suggest.
	I liked the wrestler guy that looked like Thanos.
	Yes.
	He was good.
	Very nice man.
	And I liked the attractive... There was an attractive woman there, an attractive woman there, and Greg Gutfield there.
	Not that he's not an attractive... No.
	...man, but... Nice man.
	Love him.
	Nice green jumper.
	What do you want from life?
	So we're going to look at like how Elon's digging out all these mainstream media outlets saying, you know, to what degree they're funded.
	And we're going to be looking at how much Pfizer, for example, and Big Pharma more broadly, spend on advertising.
	And a surprising bit of information about how much money the British government spends on propaganda themselves.
	They spend our tax pounds in our case on
	On propagandizing us to like a more one It just govern things better for God's sake and you can
	tell they're not taking stuff seriously now because a lot of
	Politicians public appearances I think have started to seem uncanny
	un Unusual and weird like look at this right? We're gonna show
	you Rishi Sunak in a minute But first like we're gonna show you Chuck Schumer acting a
	bit like he's on I think Sesame Street I'd say have a look at this
	Good morning, everybody and welcome back Who's happy to be here?
	Raise your hands!
	Okay.
	This is, I know it's being sort of like pseudo-ironic and playful, but this pseudo-irony is what's, I think, contributing to the decay of trust and a sort of sense that we're on a prison planet and nothing is quite real or authentic.
	You know, like, if you watch the kind of news that us lot are into, you'll know that there's just been a bunch of revelations that they're lying to us about the war between Ukraine and Russia, sustaining it unduly even though they don't believe it's winnable, presumably in order to continue funding the military-industrial complex.
	You'll be...
	Aware that they're never going to address inequality.
	You'll know that during the pandemic there was a massive wealth transfer that affected ordinary people, destroyed small businesses, messed with the education of ordinary kids, while generally speaking politicians carried on having high-profile bashes only wearing masks on camera.
	That's allegedly that last one, but there are like a bunch of examples of that kind of stuff.
	Like I'm talking about old What's the one called in California?
	Gavi Newsom.
	That's gross.
	He was doing that kind of gear.
	And our lot, like Rishi Sunak, he's like our 19th president in a prime minister, I don't know what we call him anymore, in like just the last couple of months.
	But he was in, uh, he was the chancellor when Boris Johnson was having, having a party every half hour.
	Like he only left one party to go to another party during the pandemic.
	All the while they were saying, you better stay in your house.
	Nevermind watching your nan die.
	You can watch it on the internet.
	They were all having a proper old knees up, gathering around a Bontempi organ, living it up down in Pringles!
	Sunak was fined for it.
	Sunak was?
	Yeah, he got a fine for that.
	He's a criminal!
	He's a simple criminal.
	I'm doing allegedly just in case, but if you've been fined... I was thinking about the situation with Shuma there and the way he was talking to the, I guess it was the press, whoever it was, like obedient children.
	And when we know the kind of questions that the press came back and asked the press secretary around the Pentagon leak recently, they were all in that manner.
	It was like children, the best children at class get to ask that.
	You know when someone would come to your school and give a talk and your best kids... Sit them up the front.
	Sit them up the front, ask the questions.
	You don't want the glue sniffers.
	Sat near the front, coming out with weird questions.
	I wasn't a glue sniffer, but I was an unusual boy and I might have said something strange.
	You would have done.
	To like a visit in dignitary.
	We've got the Countess of Wessex coming in.
	Excuse me, where did you get those tights?
	Can I wear your tights?
	Move along now, Russell.
	Sit at the back.
	You're ruining this school, and it's not a very good school anyway.
	So, Rishi Sunak, that daft headache of a man, is trying to engage himself in some crowd work.
	This is an extraordinary lack of ability.
	It's embarrassing.
	It's embarrassing to watch someone fail to engage a crowd in the manner that he does.
	We're living in a simulacrum.
	This whole thing isn't real.
	It's quaking.
	It's glitching.
	It's falling apart the That is good news for those of us that are radical and that's why using the analysis that it's no longer left versus right but periphery versus center, even the world's richest man can be a rhetorical radical because he's asking the right questions and he is a disruptor.
	Look at the people that don't like him and Think, yeah, I don't like them.
	Cool.
	That's sort of basically one of my diagnostic tools.
	Let's look at Rishi Sunak, current Prime Minister of this country, WEF stooge, hedge fund millionaire, married to a billionaire.
	Let's have a look at him doing a bit of crowd work and think this guy would not do too well in pantomime or any children's entertainment.
	Check him.
	Right, who's next?
	Anyone else?
	All good?
	No others from you?
	Right, anyone else have some questions before we get over to the media?
	Okay, gosh, this is very quiet.
	Actually, I'll broaden up.
	Do you have any questions on things that are not related to maths?
	I'm also fine for those.
	Anyone's got any questions on anything?
	I've got a question.
	What are you doing to all those parties during the Covid lockdowns?
	Not you.
	Over there.
	Anyone else?
	Any other questions?
	Any at all?
	What about how to reduce the debt?
	It's like, it's become, I think it's dismantling before our very eyes.
	I think it's glitching itself into obsolescence.
	All fine?
	Right, OK, we'll turn to the media for some questions.
	Shall we start with the BBC?
	Come on!
	Right, who's next?
	Anyone else?
	I'm doing it.
	Give us a few softball questions.
	Maybe the reason that the machine is glitching and falling apart is because they're pumping us full of...
	Vapid, innocuous information like a bagel stuffed with cream cheese.
	In a minute we're gonna look at Elon and Tucker chatting about Facebook and Elon's assertion that Zuckerberg's essentially a propagandist for the Democrat Party.
	Maybe you don't mind that.
	I don't like either of the parties to tell you the truth.
	But let's have a look at CNN talking about a cream cheese stuffed bagel for a while.
	See how long you can watch this before you start to feel despair.
	Is it a bagel or more of a cream cheese donut?
	It's a big question.
	Either way, carb lovers in the US will have a new treat, a bagel stuffed with cream cheese.
	It's the brainchild, if you can call... It doesn't sound like it being a brainchild, a child out of someone's brain that's made out of cream cheese in a donut.
	Revolting.
	...without of a New York bagel shop by the makers of Philadelphia cream cheese.
	Always advertising something.
	They're advertising wars, weapons, and now cream cheese stuffed doughnuts.
	And that's why radical figures, whether you like them or not, like Tucker and Elon, start to get more traction because Tucker Presents an interesting discourse.
	He is also a kind of an attack dog for the emotions of the masses.
	And Elon, in spite of being the world's richest man, yeah, you cried, someone there, Stone Owen, said, I lasted three seconds with them donuts before I started to weep.
	Let's have a look at Elon and Tucker chatting together.
	I've got one little point about that because it's like a funny innocuous essentially advertisement isn't it that's what we're looking at there is what you'd prefer them to come out and say because the reality is CNN have been paid to do an advertisement for whoever that was Philadelphia or Do you think they've paid them for the bagels?
	Well, in some form it's been paid.
	They advertise and therefore they get to, you know, it's... But basically this is the big pharma in action.
	This is just an innocuous, light-hearted version of what happens in the pandemic with the pharmaceutical companies.
	Yeah when you see stuff like Chuck Schumer go and put your hands up it's reiterating the dynamic that you are children and the obedient children of the press will receive attention and get some focus and some shine and the more recalcitrant children will be ignored.
	Rishi Sunak's apparent transparency of like oh you can ask me any questions because we know it's a mock scenario that you couldn't actually say Yeah, can you tell me, did you profit from that hedge fund that was the main investor in Moderna?
	Did you profit from that, mate?
	Tell us then, tell us what was going on when you were attending those parties.
	You know your wife's firm, they are partners with Davos and the WEF.
	Do you think that's a conflict of interest when you have to represent a sovereign nation which will sometimes put you at odds with globalist interests?
	When a country has voted for Brexit, meaning they don't want to be part of an administrative body like the EU, whether or not you think that's to do with racism or anti-migration, it also seems like it's against centralised bureaucracy.
	Why are you thinking of yielding authority to the WHO?
	They don't want a serious conversation.
	They want a conversation where you think about donuts, and bagels stuffed with cheese,
	because that's how they think of your consciousness, your attention, mind continually located
	and attached continually to meaningless, empty, hollow stories.
	CNN are not a public broadcaster, they're a private broadcaster,
	but they're significantly funded by the pharmaceutical industry,
	at least in terms of their advertising.
	They make a lot of their revenue by bundling up your information,
	your private data and selling it to other marketing firms.
	And they are to a degree owned by Vanguard and BlackRock, I'll bet you.
	And in this country, like there's about six people
	own all of the media outlets.
	I think in your country, America, is a handful of billionaires and conglomerates
	that own all of the media.
	They can't have the real conversation, so they can...
	Emphasize and amplify emotion in areas where you can't do anything, because either party would do the same thing, for example military-industrial complex expenditure on wars, either party will do more or less the same thing, or they'll distract you with culture war issues, or on a good day, a bagel stuffed with cream cheese.
	Now that's why people like Tucker Carlson, even if you don't like Tucker, and I met him and he seemed like a pretty decent guy to me, I really liked him, Like, people say, oh, he's doing a bunch of dog whistle racism.
	I actually don't think they care.
	And I actually asked them about stuff like that, and they're like, oh, I just want to live my life.
	You know, let's not have all... Like, I reckon what we need is to decentralise power, and you run your community however you want, and it diffuses the argument.
	Diffuses the argument.
	There's no need for us to be having these arguments.
	Certainly not on YouTube where I have to be careful about what I say.
	Let's click over on the rumble where we can talk about real freedom.
	We're on here, not so that I can say crazy and divisive stuff or be irresponsible about the way we report about the pandemic in the last couple of years.
	Quite the contrary.
	In spite of my out-of-date headwear, You can rely on me more than any of those sideways Ross from Friends news anchors, or those stuffed shirts on CNN, or people that don't have the ability or right to speak truth to you because they're bought and paid for.
	Let's see Tucker chatting to Elon, see if we can glean any truth out of these.
	The goal of new Twitter is to be as fair and even-handed as possible, so not favouring any political Ideology, but just
	Yeah, being fair at all.
	Why doesn't Facebook do this?
	I know that Zuckerberg has said, and I take him at face value, that he... Well, I do, actually, in this way, that he is a kind of old-fashioned liberal who doesn't like to censor.
	He has, but he, you know... Like, why wouldn't a company like that take the stand that you have taken?
	It's pretty rooted in American traditional political custom, you know, for free speech.
	My understanding is that Zuckerberg spent $400 million in the last election nominally in a get-out-the-vote campaign, but really fundamentally in support of Democrats.
	Is that accurate or not accurate?
	That is accurate!
	Does that sound unbiased to you?
	No, it doesn't.
	Yeah, a bit of on-the-spectrum genius there from Elon Musk.
	Ruthless, isn't he?
	Yes.
	Pretty ruthless.
	Yes.
	Yeah, he's enjoyable.
	He's enjoyable.
	Come on here.
	We want him on here, don't we?
	I'd go over there to get him on here.
	That's how much I want him on here.
	I'd go there to get him on here.
	Or drag him back here.
	I wouldn't drag him.
	No.
	Because think of his resources.
	Of course.
	You know, like, they could have private armies and stuff.
	Like, did you drag Elon?
	Yeah.
	Hell of a story though.
	God, what a tale.
	It's a tale as old as time.
	Radical independent news journalist.
	That's you.
	Yeah, I'm in Seymour Hershey's words, not mine.
	Drags billionaire needlessly onto easy jet flight.
	Actually cannot cross the Atlantic.
	Hey, so listen, what we're actually fundamentally talking about is how information is funded and whether or not the funding of the information creates an inflection and cadence within the information, whether there's an intention behind it.
	In a sane world, the media would be objective, or at least be aspiring to objectivity by offering impartiality.
	Objectivity might be philosophically impossible to achieve, but what is possible to achieve is say, look, we think this about the I don't know war between Russia and Ukraine but there's also this perspective uh or during the pandemic we believe this is the best course of action however we would be remiss if we didn't include these voices and these concerns and doubts or it's a continually evolving story these are the latest studies that's not how the media behaves the media
	Essentially, they're henchmen of the state.
	That's why when the young buddy boy Texera makes those releases, the Pentagon Papers Part Deux, that what you ultimately get is a media not only conveying the exact messaging that the government would want.
	Is it irresponsible that he did this?
	How irresponsible is it that he did this?
	Wells tried this.
	Would it make it worse?
	They actually, the New York Times, are actually involved in chasing him.
	And I'll tell you who I was thinking of, Lovejoy.
	Like...
	That seems like a good reference.
	Yes!
	Lovejoy is a British show that's starring Ian McShane as Lovejoy.
	And this is what I mean.
	It's like, why are the New York Times, who are meant to be a newspaper, sending people to nick Buddy Teixeira?
	Because that's not their job!
	They're a newspaper.
	Lovejoy.
	He was meant to be an antique dealer.
	But he would solve crime.
	He was always solving a crime.
	Just sell them vases, mate.
	Got it.
	At an inflated price.
	Just unduly ornament that desk and then sell it at a profit.
	Someone just put up there that their mum was the costume designer.
	Is that you, Jamie?
	I mean, this is great.
	Lovejoy?
	Yeah, Lovejoy.
	You don't like Lovejoy?
	No, the audience, I think, this will resonate with them.
	Of course they will.
	They love Ian McShane.
	He was in Deadwood or Driftwood or something.
	They loved that.
	You're Driftwood selling antiques!
	And his friend was called something like Pipkin or Snufkin.
	Pip Squeak or something, wasn't it?
	Whoever his best mate was called Pipkin.
	It was a great show.
	Listen, I've already given you serious information.
	What more do you want?
	In a minute, we're going to talk about those protests in France, how legit they are, and how the highest court in the land has verified Macron's undemocratic decision to ignore the protests and pass laws, meaning French people will work even longer.
	Plus, it's exhausting being French.
	Have you ever seen them?
	They must be knackered from all the Frenchness.
	Oh, bonjour, glass of wine, etc.
	Knackering.
	Look at Biden.
	Biden's got an army of digital influencers now, ready for his next election campaign, optimistically.
	Elon is saying that the CBC is bugging them online, look, saying they're 69% government-funded media.
	Trudeau, who I think is one of the worst of these pretend-to-be-nice-actually-not-nice-type politicians, great hair but does he care, Trudeau, is it Trudeau?
	Like, have a look at him here saying, like, oh, Elon Musk's bang out of order, etc.
	I think it says a lot about the Conservative Party of Canada.
	A joke he made in private is going to knock your little socks off.
	Look at him now complaining about Elon declaring that government funding binds certain media
	outlets.
	Check him out.
	I think it says a lot about the Conservative Party of Canada.
	They're choosing to constantly attack independent media organizations, journalists who are working
	hard to keep Canadians informed and support our democracies.
	So all they're working hard to do is support them and support democracy, sponsored by Ericsson.
	Look at Trudeau a few years ago, not that long ago, I think it's in 2019, it says there.
	Check it out, what he just plainly admits.
	You sometimes hear about liberal bias in the media these days, how they're constantly letting off our government, letting our government off the hook for no good reason.
	Frankly, I think that's insulting.
	It's clear that they let us off the hook for a very good reason.
	Because we paid them 600 million dollars.
	There you go.
	That would have got a laugh.
	Because it was at one of those press dinners.
	Which is another way that you know that the government and the press actually get on extremely well.
	Because in America and Canada, and here, they do dinners where government officials and prime ministers and leaders do jokes and stuff for members of the press.
	It's like, oh, OK, you know, if you want us to think that you're not linked in the way that Elon Musk is talking about, maybe stop doing those dinners?
	I think I've been invited to one of those dinners.
	The Americas one, where it's the, you know, we do jokes about the president.
	That's right.
	I think I've been invited.
	Turned it down?
	I can't go places.
	Oh, I see.
	I can't go places.
	No.
	I wouldn't like it there.
	You'd get too nervous.
	Too nerve-wracking to go to a place.
	Anything could happen once you're out of the house, couldn't it?
	It's chaos out there.
	So, in our country, the government spent more money than every single corporation and commercial interest in their endeavour to make us like them.
	Look at that.
	£163 million British pounds.
	Remember, that's more than a dollar and it's also got the Queen.
	Not anymore.
	Leave her on there!
	I ain't ready for Charlie on me money.
	Are you, mate?
	I can't take Charlie on me money.
	No way.
	Not yet.
	And do you see how they've changed it from Queen Consort to just Queen?
	Oh dear.
	Too soon.
	DIANA!
	Is it Christmas already?
	I don't know what's happening.
	OK, so look at that.
	That's the government spending all that money on propagandising us.
	But over in America, look, it's Big Pharma that dominate all the advertising.
	The outlay on ads by the tech industry fell over the first two months of the year.
	They're number two in the charts.
	The biggest story is that Pharma doubled down, increasing its share of total spending from 12% to 14%.
	So I think the biggest spender on advertising is Pharma, and number two is big tech.
	Where are the MIC in there?
	Look at that.
	There they go.
	There's all the billions that are being spent.
	4.5 billion.
	We've got another one on this.
	Is there another still on this?
	Or is that all of them?
	I'm sure there is.
	I think that's all.
	I mean this, you know, when you discover, and I think Michael Schellenberg was talking about this the other day, maybe yesterday, and the kind of trust from the American public in media, it's no wonder, is it?
	The more and more access to information we have about things like this, that the pharmaceutical industry is the biggest sponsors of basically network cable Yeah, give us information.
	You know, it's like, no wonder trust is diminished to an all-time low when you know things like that.
	They complain about figures like Elon Musk and Tucker, but actually what they never address is the problem that's led to the rise of disruptive voices.
	If you had a decent, moral government, A fair, authentic, and transparent media, then these radical voices wouldn't seem so extraordinary, exciting, and enlivening, because there wouldn't be an environment that's so thirsty for authenticity of any kind, and that isn't to undermine some of the things that Donald Trump said that were a little bit out there, let's face it.
	Okay, Lee, if you're watching us on YouTube and you're having the time of your life right now, I understand why, because you're getting dosed up on truth.
	There's more truth in this show than there is cream cheese in a new New York bagel, baby.
	We're stuffed brimming over with truth, whether it's wisdom and insights into Lovejoy, a 1980s British TV show, or an interrogation on advertising expenditure within the mainstream.
	There's a bit of noise somewhere.
	Where am I picking that noise up from?
	What is it?
	Who knows?
	Is it Lovejoy?
	Lovejoy, is that you?
	Lovejoy's come back.
	He's got to be in the gallery.
	There he is.
	There he is.
	There's Lovejoy.
	I'd like to see the titles, actually, myself.
	Maybe at the end of the show.
	But we can't put that ahead of the WHO's new plans for a global pandemic treaty and possibly world domination.
	If you're watching this now on YouTube, click over to watch this exclusively You're not going to believe how undemocratic this stuff is.
	They want your tax dollars.
	They want the right to pass laws.
	They're up to all sorts of crazy stuff.
	YouTube, we're clicking off now.
	Join us over on Rumble.
	So the member states of the World Health Organization have agreed to a global process to draft and negotiate a convention agreement or other international instrument under the constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic Prevention, preparedness and response.
	What an irritating little tongue twister that is.
	Let's have a look at the bullet points.
	According to the draft, half the pandemic products allocated to the WHO should be donated while the other half will be bought for an accessible price.
	Uh-huh.
	So a lot of it's about finance and profiting.
	No less than 11 of the draft's 49 clause preamble deal in one way or another deals with intellectual property rights Signalling the key battleground for upcoming negotiations.
	Do you remember that during the last pandemic, the nations that were most heavily vaccinated were the ones that would pay for it, and the ones that wouldn't pay for it or couldn't pay for it, or they couldn't get patents sorted or manufacturing deals sorted, they just didn't vaccinate them.
	Can we have a look at what the figures are for how Covid played out in those territories where they didn't have access to the vaccine?
	Presumably you can.
	Presumably you can say, oh they lost this many people, there were this many deaths from comorbidities, One thing those poor nations are good for is case studies for what happens if you can't afford vaccines and whether or not it is only beneficial.
	You certainly won't be giving them.
	If you can't afford them, you ain't getting them.
	Yeah, that's it.
	So it shows that at least one component was profit because otherwise you'd give it to everyone, right?
	That makes sense, doesn't it?
	These clauses in this new treaty they're drawing up recognise the protection of intellectual property rights is as important for the development of new medical products but highlights the impact on price and access.
	So, like, you'd think the World Health Organization should be solely about the health of the world's people.
	They should be about, one, preventing pandemics, two, treating pandemics, three, having a global perspective on what a pandemic does to a population, its economic impact, its psychological impact, the effects on addiction and mental health and economic.
	You have to have a holistic Approach to something that's as complex and all-encompassing as a pandemic.
	They went down the route of lockdowns and vaccines and masks.
	They made it divisive and politicized.
	They upped surveillance.
	They upped data capture.
	They created more opportunities to surveil.
	They did all of the things that on the surface of it seem beneficial to states that want the ability to control and pharmaceutical companies that
	want the ability to profit.
	I'm not saying anything as grandiose or extreme as that the vaccines were unaffected, although
	there was a story recently that the booster shot may do more harm than good in that one
	in eight there are reporting now one in 800 doses is leading to an adverse event or injury
	and you need to vaccine 100,000 people to prevent one hospitalisation by simple mathematics.
	Therefore it is worse for you than it is good for you. You can do the maths yourself in
	your own little head but those figures are pretty accurate I think. Yet still the WHO
	are treating it like it's an economic proposal and an opportunity to support pharmaceutical
	interest and bypass democracy.
	All this while the people of France are burning down their own cities and towns out of frustration.
	Riots, riots is the voice of the voiceless.
	Riots is what you do when you've had just about enough.
	Riots is what you do when there ain't nothing left to you.
	So let's have a look at this direct quote from this zero draft treaty cost.
	So this is, I guess it's a preliminary draft of something they're going to try and push through.
	to prioritise and increase or maintain domestic funding by allocating in its annual budget,
	it's not lower than 5% of its current health expenditure to pandemic prevention. So it's
	wanting to centralise 5% of all health expenditure from all of the countries that are members.
	5% will be 7.5 billion for our country and Wales. Half the general practice budget, general
	practice means going to see like your regular family doctor, which is a crisis in these
	countries. People can't get to see doctors and one of the things they like to amp up
	is because of immigrants and stuff like that. But you know what it comes down to funding,
	all the funding's get funnelling upwards, you know that there's been a wealth transfer.
	So that's what's really happening. Gail, you got to say your facts.
	Yeah, I mean, I guess the thing that we haven't touched on yet is I mean, I know it seems
	maybe a bit cliche and obvious, but Bill Gates role in this.
	I guess one of the things that has come through this treaty and that people are kind of warning against is the amount of money that might be generated through this.
	If governments are giving 5%, for example, in England and Wales, 7.5 billion, that's quite a lot.
	Between all the members of the WHO, that's quite a lot of money generated.
	And obviously Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation, is the second largest contributor to the WHO.
	As of September 21, it invested nearly 800 million in its programmes.
	So it says in quotes, for an intergovernmental organisation such as WHO to be so reliant on private philanthropy, especially one whose leaders of personal interest and investments in healthcare, is problematic.
	Private foundations resources tend to be more dependent on the stock market and other investments and could have financial interests that run contrary to their state admissions.
	So that is the risk, I suppose, of Doing something whereby you know multiple countries sign up to something that then the control is down to potentially one person or one foundation.
	What do you think about that guys?
	Do you think that Bill Gates through his Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is able to exert undue influence over an apparently democratic body like the WHO even though none of us vote for it and the democracy achieved there is through the Representatives that participate within those kind of little elections that they hold there.
	Elections within which we are not consulted.
	Where do you think the influence and power is coming from?
	And do you think that this atrophying democratic process, the failure of our current systems, is what's leading to people rising up on the streets?
	In particular in France.
	These French protests are fantastic.
	Well, I mean, you know, I don't like people getting hurt and shit getting burnt down and stuff.
	But what's fascinating is that people are beginning to correctly diagnose the nature of the problem.
	Democracy doesn't work.
	Democracy will never work.
	There's no one you can vote for that's ever going to make a difference.
	They take those people right off the ballot.
	Even relatively moderate candidates like Bernie Sanders are nixed by the Democrat Party because they would make something of a difference.
	I know a lot of you lot don't like him, do you?
	Because you think, oh, he's got big houses and all that kind of gear.
	But the fact is, you know, if they don't want him being a nominee, that means something.
	And now we're in a situation where to have some impact, to have some reach, you've got to take to the streets.
	Right after this, we're going to be speaking to Dave Rubin, the madcap inventor of locals, as well as a certain type of gay, we claim.
	And he's also, you know, the Rubin Report.
	He's a brilliant reporter and our friend over at Rumble.
	Before that, let's have a look at France burning down.
	And importantly, their attacks on Blackrock.
	What do they know?
	What we don't know.
	Here's the news.
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	Thanks for refusing Fox News.
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	France burns as Macron legislates on behalf of the elite and gets verified by the highest courts in the land.
	The protesters target Black Rock.
	Is this global protest a response to the fact that we're never gonna build back better?
	Today's story focuses on the ongoing protests in France.
	The highest constitutional courts in the land have just verified Macron's decision to raise the pension age.
	But really what French people are protesting is the fact that democracy is meaningless now and that their government clearly operates on behalf of corporate and financial elite.
	This is a global problem, and the fact that they're protesting outside Black Rock is not an indication that they think Black Rock are directly involved, although Black Rock are involved in a hell of a lot of things.
	It's just that people have started to intuitively understand that democracy is not the answer.
	If you can have administrative and legislative action take place that's clearly against the will of the people, then it's necessary to protest.
	is necessary to mobilize and you'll notice that simultaneously police are becoming more militarized, protest laws are being introduced, almost as if the elites are preparing now for the next phase.
	Let's have a look at the story as the mainstream media would have you understand it.
	Anger that's been growing in France boils over into red hot rage.
	Thousands gathered for one final protest before the country's constitutional court cleared the path for the president to bring in his pension reform It's interesting that they're protesting around those Olympic rings.
	That's the illusion of France.
	That's the corporate globalist image we're holding The Olympics.
	Everything's fine.
	But the people of France are enraged and furious.
	They're a country more given to protest than a country like mine, the UK.
	But even here, nurses and junior doctors and healthcare workers are protesting for the same reason everyone's protesting, really.
	Global elites are increasingly finding ways of bypassing democracy.
	During the pandemic, there was a huge wealth transfer and people Democrats feel a general sense of unease and are obviously painfully aware of economic inequality, of a deterioration in the conditions of their life, and the inability to do anything about it through democracy.
	We know that in most countries, all significant parties are generally owned by the same financial and corporate interests.
	That's why people are taking to the streets.
	And even with all these protests, the highest constitutional court in France verified Macron's decision, increasing the age before which you can receive a pension.
	Isn't it interesting how bewildered we've become?
	We regard the state like a parent that we have to appeal to and continually appease.
	We forget that they just work for us, actually.
	All of their money, all of the money that's ending up at the military-industrial complex, all of the money that's being spent in various ways that most of us don't approve of, comes from us.
	40% of your time, 30% of your time, 50% of the time, depending on your country and your tax bracket, is being spent working for them.
	You should have some say in how they behave.
	And the fact you have to Burn down your own cities in order to be heard shows you the point we're at historically.
	And the general apathy that many of us feel is not the apathy of, oh no, I just want to watch the new Mario Brothers movie.
	It's the apathy of, this doesn't do anything, does it?
	It doesn't matter if you vote for Blair or Clinton or Obama Or whoever, you're going to get the same result.
	The system has been stitched up.
	That's why whether it's in Sri Lanka, or the Netherlands, or the UK, or France, or across America, you are seeing the rise of protest movements.
	And instead of parties emerging now that are addressing the concerns of these suddenly emergent mobs, what you're getting is the militarisation of the police force, more surveillance laws, more distraction, more crap.
	We actually have to awaken now.
	The democracy is dead today.
	We're just more angry to not be listened and we will not go home now.
	They say they intend to keep fighting, but constitutionally this is the end of the road.
	The problem with mass uprisings is it's harder for the mainstream media to do the job of the government and smear them.
	If it's just one person they can say, oh this person's a crackpot, look at their history.
	But when it's a mob in the street it becomes difficult, not impossible, you remember the Canadian truckers, to smear them and say, oh what these people are motivated by is, oh they hate our freedoms, oh they're misogynist, oh they're The fact is that ordinary people, generally speaking, have more in common with one another than they have with the elites that govern them.
	And, generally speaking, we understand and know that.
	Division has to be stoked.
	Stories of division, of fracture and fragmentation, have to be continually told.
	The culture has to pump you full of divisiveness so that we can't awaken from the fog and say, hang on a minute, we could organise things better than this, couldn't we?
	President Macron is yet to address the public in the wake of the court ruling and showed no signs of concern on a visit to Notre Dame Cathedral while protesters marched through the streets.
	As usual, the ridiculous allusion of the politician in the hard hat.
	Oh, Notre Dame is coming on really well.
	What's that sound?
	People fighting.
	It must be that bloody hunchback.
	It can't be people protesting in the streets because you're nicking their pensions.
	Hold on, what is the hunchback saying?
	Could I have my pension back?
	I suppose one of the things that's promising is that it's not a left-wing or right-wing protest.
	It's a popular uprising.
	in the offices of Blackrock overnight as violence continues to plague Paris. It was part of
	large-scale protests over President Emmanuel Macron's push to raise the retirement age
	from 62 to 64."
	I suppose one of the things that's promising is that it's not a left-wing or right-wing
	protest, it's a popular uprising. This is what we're going to need more of in order
	to change the systems that we currently live within. We can't say, well I only like these
	kind of right-wing protests or I only like these left-wing protests.
	We're going to have to put aside those kind of divisions and focus on what's important.
	That seems to be happening somewhat organically in France.
	Perhaps if these protests are successful, we will see attempts to dismiss them or define them as right-wing or fascist in order to undermine the legitimacy of the protest.
	That's what happens continually, is what they're protesting for, Is it legitimate?
	Is it reasonable?
	Is it fair that they're having to work for longer?
	Because the argument cannot be addressed because the argument is correct, eventually they will have to attack the protesters.
	BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager.
	They work with private pension funds.
	So, even if it's not a direct protest against BlackRock, it is an understanding of the tangential relationship between BlackRock and pensions more generally.
	Let's have a look at the story.
	Demonstrators forced their way into the building that houses BlackRock's office in Paris last week.
	The meaning of this action is quite simple.
	We went to the headquarters of BlackRock to tell them the money of workers for our pensions, they are taking it.
	Jerome Schmidt, spokesman for the French union SUD, told CNN affiliate BFM TV.
	BlackRock declined to comment.
	Since his election, Macron has been intent on ignoring or crushing any form of opposition.
	Always a good sign of democracy.
	In his first term, the National Assembly was reduced to a rubber stamping chamber where the president's majority voted in lockstep for any government project.
	Issues as important as the war in Ukraine, arms deliveries to Kiev, and sanctions against Russia were not subject to serious debate or put to a vote.
	The unemployment benefit reform was given an accelerated passage and controversial measures have been introduced stealthily by decree.
	As soon as disagreement arises, Macron resorts to force, ignoring checks on power to power, not even deigning to meet the union's campaigning against the pension reform, despite their repeated requests.
	Democracy now is an illusion.
	It's a man in a white hat outside a cathedral while Paris burns.
	This arrogance can only fuel disillusionment with democracy and strengthen the feeling that the political game is inaccessible to most.
	This is true in your country, America, in Canada, in the UK, in the Netherlands, in India, in Sri Lanka.
	Our governments have been co-opted by centralised financial and corporate interests to varying degrees.
	What we are given are palliatives and distractions rather than democracy.
	You can argue about things that do not affect their economic interests.
	You can watch things that do not affect their economic interests.
	You can get involved in cultural debates.
	What you cannot do is impede their attempt to fulfill their agenda.
	It also illustrates the arrogance of elites when confronted with popular anger and their propensity to deceive, lie, and to conceal to achieve their ends, while at the same time revealing institutional decay.
	So if BlackRock are not directly involved in this, maybe they are, it's difficult to tell.
	They're quite an opaque organization.
	What have BlackRock, Been up to lately.
	BlackRock ended 2022 with $10.2 trillion in assets.
	That's the first time any money manager has surpassed that milestone.
	BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street hold about one fifth of the shares in the top 500 companies on the U.S.
	Stock Exchange.
	BlackRock's aggressive initiatives, a mix of lobbying, campaign contribution and networking were key to this success.
	BlackRock has also forged deep connections to Washington's political class following in the footsteps of banks like Goldman Sachs.
	So how do you think democracy works really?
	Do you think your little vote makes a difference or do you think the lobbying, campaign donations and networking are more significant in forming the shape of the systems that most of us live within?
	In April 2021, during the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported BlackRock's profits rose 49%.
	So a time that might have meant closure of small business, a time that might have meant your children stopped going to school, a time that might have meant that you saw loved ones die.
	No matter where you stand on the spectrum, and believe me, I don't feel that that's the most important issue anymore.
	BlackRock did great.
	49% increase in profits.
	If the most powerful interests in the world benefit from crisis, what incentive is there to stop crisis from happening?
	So while we were told we were going to be building back better, what actually happened in the last couple of years?
	According to Oxfam's annual inequality report, the richest 1% of people have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined since the pandemic.
	Their fortunes soared by $26 trillion, increasing their share of new wealth from 50% to The breakdown of these figures exposes how, on a global basis, extreme wealth is accumulated not by innovating or increasing production, but by taking advantage of rising prices and exploiting labour.
	In this effort, wealthy people are enabled by a lack of regulation and taxation.
	The result is a bonanza of plunder with no sheriff in town.
	We're continually told that if you were to regulate markets or try to control this kind of globalist interest, that that's stopping entrepreneurs and free market capitalism.
	We don't have that anymore.
	This wealth transfer is not a result of geniuses in laboratories coming up with stuff, it's a result of people buying, accumulating, spread betting, stuff that's more akin to informed gambling than true free market ingenuity.
	This has been happening for a while, but the pandemic accelerated the trend.
	They benefited from rising costs by using them as an alibi to charge higher than inflation prices, then distributing the rewards as dividends instead of higher wages.
	Food and energy corporations made a killing, making $306 billion in windfall profits in 2022, then distributing 84% to shareholders.
	They benefited from stimulus packages that pushed up asset prices.
	They benefited from low interest rates that helped them to expand their property empires.
	According to Credit Suisse, lower interest rates and government support programs resulted in a huge transfer of wealth from the public sector to private households, which saw their debts lowered and the value of their assets, shares and properties rise.
	The obscenity of this system is made possible by the dramatically diminished bargaining power of labour.
	Weak labour is cheap labour.
	The purpose is to transform the human worker into a machine that can be switched off when not in use.
	In 2020, Amazon's UK sales soared by half to 19.4 billion.
	In 2021, an investigation in Britain found that the company was bypassing its own employment standards by hiring thousands of zero-hours workers through agencies.
	These workers have no employment protections, their shifts can be cancelled at the last minute, and there is no guarantee of tenure out of employment.
	But it is successful tax avoidance that is the strongest pillar propping up global inequality, and its dismantling would be the quickest solution.
	There is little chance of that happening soon.
	Tax regimes, like much of the conventional economic wisdom about the benefits of wealth creation to all, are increasingly out of step with not only the needs of poor people, but with what is required for the health of our economies.
	What's most striking about the post-pandemic profit boom is the truly global nature of the problem.
	It's not only the hope of a world recalibrated by Covid towards stronger public infrastructure that is turning to dust in our mouths.
	An older dream is dying too, of a post-Cold War globalisation that was supposed to bring us all closer, usher in a utopia of free trade, growth, employment and sustainable development.
	What this model of globalisation ended up achieving was standardising ways for wealthy people to pay as little as possible, concentrating economic activity on those with purchasing power, and hanging the rest out to dry.
	So what is globalisation about really?
	Is it about creating a fairer world?
	Or is it about creating a utopia where powerful elites can enact their agenda in countries as diverse as Sri Lanka, France, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, all the while creating narratives that suit their agenda wherever appropriate?
	That this country's suddenly racist, that this country doesn't care about the climate, that these nurses and doctors are greedy.
	This behemoth stands astride the globe and is able to legislate freely without opposition.
	And even when opposition does rise up, they know that the police are getting militarized, protest laws are coming, and an obedient media will portray protesters however is convenient to shut down meaningful protests.
	So France may continue to burn.
	Will it make any difference?
	Will it be able to interrupt this globalist agenda?
	What I believe is we now have to form a true global movement that focuses on whatever agenda is applicable in our nation, overlooks cultural differences in order to come together temporarily in order to achieve shared goals.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the comments of the chat.
	I'll see you in a second.
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	Now, let's go back to other version of me talking about the government, big tech, the military-industrial complex, and things that are a lot more opaque than this.
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	But before we do anything else, Russell, before you threw to the break there, you intro'd me.
	I wrote it down because I thought it was so curious.
	You said, a certain type of gay we claim.
	I thought the we claim there was the interesting part.
	I suppose I am a certain type of gay.
	I'm not the most stereotypical gay, I suppose is, you know, something.
	But I like the we claim part.
	It was our claim.
	I don't know what to make of it.
	Well, me and Gareth were making the claim that you're the gay man, that it's okay for the heterosexual man to think about being gay with.
	And that was our claim.
	That's actually the dream of most gay men, but I am what I am, it's all that I am, you know?
	I love you for that, Dave, and that is precisely what we've been highlighting.
	Yes, I've seen some of those videos where the gay man likes to convert, seduce, or inveigle the non-gay man into what can only be described as gayness.
	There's probably some other ways you could describe it, but yeah.
	You know, it's funny though, for real, like, there's this weird thing with gays that they're obsessed with straight acting, you know, this is a thing, like, if you just sort of act.
	Straight, whatever the hell that is.
	I guess more masculine or something.
	But it's kind of funny because I was closeted for a long time because I just didn't feel gay.
	I thought gay meant you like show tunes and you dance and all that stuff.
	And I really wasn't into that.
	You know, I like sports and I like comedy and that kind of thing.
	But I always sort of when I would meet guys who were like a little more effeminate, I kind of liked it because I was like, oh, they are who they are.
	I thought I was just like some sort of repressed mess.
	Like there was a little gay man inside me trying to break forth, like a little gay midget in here, just like trying to get out and free himself.
	But that was, I just tried to be gay for you.
	Did that do anything?
	Yeah, I liked it.
	When you were being, when you were being all repressed though, you must have been thinking a lot of like stuff about having sex with men.
	What show are we doing right now?
	We have to talk about this, it's a little early in the day.
	I always tell people, I'm only gay after 10 p.m.
	my friend.
	It's only noon here, but I'll try for you.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I was definitely repressed and closeted for a long time, really into my mid to late 20s.
	I'll tell you, actually, this is completely true.
	The first person that I came out to, believe it or not, was my friend Mike.
	We were in the Times Square subway station at about 12 30 a.m.
	on September 11th 2001 literally seven hours later in New York City that horrific disaster was about to happen but I had had this secret I was 25 years old already Finally reveal this secret.
	25 is very late to come out.
	I finally reveal the secret.
	I wake up in the morning and America is under attack.
	I kid you not.
	I thought it had something to do with me.
	I'm really not kidding.
	Because when you're in the closet, there's only room for one.
	That's why they call it the closet.
	And you're just trapped in there with your own thoughts.
	And I was like, holy shit.
	I just revealed what I thought was this awful thing about myself after hiding it for so long.
	And next thing you know, America's under attack.
	It was not pretty.
	That set me back a bit.
	Dave, we cannot rule out the possibility that you caused 9-11 with your homosexuality in the Times Square tube station.
	Remember, that's what the evangelicals always used to say.
	It was the gay sex that was causing all the earthquakes and the volcano eruptions, so I guess it's possible.
	Simply just not scientific.
	I've checked into it.
	There's no relationship between tectonic plates and sex with someone with the same genitals as you've got yourself.
	Now we've touched upon 9-11, which was utilised in order to bring about the Patriot Act.
	The Patriot Act was underwritten by those terror attacks in 9-11.
	Now the Pentagon leaks are being utilised to bring about the Restrict Act, Will these leaks, cheer-led by the mainstream media, no one questioning the content of the leaks themselves, only seeking to condemn the leaker, who I believe is called Buddy Boy Texera, that it will lead ultimately to more surveillance and more early 20s-style Dave Rubin repression?
	Are you worried that the Pentagon leaks will lead to more surveillance, more restrictions, more censorship, less freedom?
	Yes, my friend, you are completely right.
	It is obvious.
	Everyone should see it.
	This is the Patriot Act for the digital world, and it is actually almost irrelevant what was released on those Discord channels, because they are using this, as you said, for the pretext to make sure that whatever little bit of our digital identity on this little black mirror that we're all holding, whatever remains ours and is not theirs yet, They're going to make sure that they get every piece of it, whether that is every message that you and I send privately to each other, whether that's every video that you share, whether it is whatever your family pictures, etc.
	They look, we may already have crossed the Rubicon where they already have access to everything.
	And now this is just window dressing around it.
	You know, they're just trying to dot the I dot the I's and cross the T's on this stuff.
	But yes, they're coming for every bit of digital existence.
	I don't know if you saw it, but Tucker interviewed Elon last night on Fox, and he was talking about, because he's really trying to fight some of this stuff, he was talking about how one of the things that he's doing with Twitter, he said it'll take about a month to roll out, he wants to do end-to-end encryption on the DMs, because the DMs, which obviously are the private messages that you can share with people who you follow and they follow you, The government and Twitter employees have been allowed to read them.
	It was very obvious to me for 10 years.
	I never wrote anything in a DM that I wouldn't have wanted to be seen.
	But, you know, a whole bunch of people thought, oh, it's a direct message.
	It's private.
	And it's like, no, no, no, no, no.
	They're coming for everything.
	And the only thing that can stop this is decentralization.
	It's encrypted messaging, you know, one-on-one messaging with no middleman and Bitcoin and that sort of thing.
	One of the things that was fascinating, Gareth here pointed it out as a matter of fact, is that they implied that one of the things that led to the arrest of young Buddy Boy Texera was that he'd shot those papers from above, revealing a little bit of his kitchen countertop and the tiles on the floor.
	And those geniuses at the New York Times who were inexplicably involved in investigating and catching him rather than reporting objectively on the story, along with their pals in the Feds, were able to piece together the tiles and the countertop to locate where he lived.
	Isn't it more likely that they are in fact already able to Use the spying techniques such as you just outlined, you know, following your every transaction, your every message.
	Do you think that in reality even the arrest of that lad was utilizing sort of spying technology and do you think that as Snowden, even Snowden's revelations suggest that they have a greater ability to surveil us than they're willing to admit to and more than is legal?
	Yeah, dude, I mean, everybody watching the show is walking around with this in their pocket.
	You're walking around with something that has GPS attached to it.
	You're walking around with something that you're sending messages from.
	They're not just going to somebody else's phone magically, right?
	They're going through a network of systems.
	So someone is tracking all of this one way or another.
	There's probably no way around that.
	I get you can decentralize everything, as we talked about a second ago.
	There's no way to fully fix this thing.
	And there's no way to fix the fact, the simple fact is, that when people have technology,
	technology is like fire. Fire is good to heat your home so that you can cook, but it can also burn
	you and burn your house down. We all have to figure out what our relationship with this thing is.
	I tend to think you have a pretty decent relationship with it, that you're not consumed
	by what's on your phone.
	You know, I try not to tweet on the weekends.
	I do my off-the-grid August with no information whatsoever.
	I've done it six years in a row.
	no phone, no TV, no electronic devices of any kind, but we all are gonna have to reevaluate
	what our relationship is with this thing because they handed us this phone,
	it had the freaking world on it, it was all for free, what we didn't realize was we were the product, right?
	Our clicks, our behaviors.
	Why did we have 10 years of everyone on BuzzFeed with those stupid polls?
	Do you like this more than this?
	What's your favorite hamburger?
	And what's sexier, an ass or boobs?
	And we're all clicking all of these things and then they're aggregating all of it.
	What was BuzzFeed?
	It wasn't a profitable company.
	It was just to just suck our freaking minds and then mine that data so it could basically be used against us either in advertising or for whatever the hell the government's trying to do.
	Dave Rubin.
	8th of September 2001.
	Boobs.
	Dave Rubin.
	We've moved over the bums, baby!
	It's a big move from Rubin on that day.
	Do you think that Elon Musk is, through his investigations and attacks on government-funded media, making the mainstream more transparent?
	Or does he risk highlighting Government funded media rather than privately funded media which has, in my view, equally toxic, if not more, biases.
	I think he's doing everything that anyone within this system can do.
	You know, when I had you in the studio a couple weeks ago in Miami and we were talking a bit about DeSantis and why I was saying I like him, and then you were taking a slightly different approach.
	What I said is a system exists and there's some people that do the best they can within that system to alter it in a positive direction.
	I think that's what DeSantis is doing.
	I think it's what Elon's doing.
	Look, I've met Elon twice now and spent a little bit of time with him and have a sense of what he's doing,
	but I don't know him like he's my brother. My sense with him is that he really is trying.
	He does not like the government overreach.
	To buy Twitter, think about buying Twitter. He bought it for 44 billion dollars. It's a failing company.
	It loses millions and millions of dollars every month. He fired or had people leave 80% of the company.
	So he bought a faulty product, right? Twitter does not work as it's supposed to because of all the bad coding.
	He buys a faulty product, then fires 80% of the people that work there. Who does that?
	No one buys a company and does that. He did it not, I think he does want to make it profitable,
	but he did it because he wants to be in this fight. I genuinely believe that.
	Now, can he solve all of the problems? Probably not, but doesn't it feel a little bit safer these days on the,
	online in that there are, there is somebody who happens to be the world's richest guy who's roughly on our side?
	And by the way, Russell, kind of like you, this is a guy, he's been a lefty his entire life.
	It's only until the last year after seeing the COVID stuff that he finally, for the first time ever, voted Republican.
	He moved to Texas.
	He voted for this woman, Mayra Flores, who is a Congresswoman and a border town, because he saw what was happening, you know, with all the migrants coming from Mexico.
	And then of course he moved to Texas because he left crappy California with high taxes and crime and all that
	to move to Texas where there's freedom and lower taxes and everything else.
	So I think he's going through his own political awakening, leaning more towards freedom.
	But I would say if we all exist within a system, he's one of the good guys within that system.
	Dave, will you stay with us for a couple more questions exclusively on locals
	to drive people to a platform that you frankly invented?
	All right.
	I'm going to be asking Dave about moving to Florida and why Dave believes that the Sunshine State is the only place to be, making claims that homelessness has been eliminated.
	I also want to know if it's true that Ron DeSantis is turning Disneyland into an open prison And sewer.
	So if you're watching us on Rumble now, you can click on the link, become a member of our locals community.
	All of it lines Dave Rubin's pockets.
	And you can join us there for a little bit of a chat.
	And of course, you can watch that if you don't already watch Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report every weekday.
	It's on at 11 a.m.
	ET, 8 a.m.
	PT.
	Tomorrow, we've got comedian and political commentator Kat Timpf, who I met when I was on Fox News, being like an exchange trip student from another world.
	See you on Locals in a second with more from Dave Rubin talking more about his private personal business and reasons to move to Florida.
	Join us tomorrow on Rumble, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
	Until then, stay free.

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