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July 5, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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WTF! Biden & Gates Want To BLOCK OUT The Sun?! - #161 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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Ha ha ha ha.
You drank alcohol.
You drank too much.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
Thanks for joining us.
What a glorious day it is to be alive, especially as it's our greatest week ever on Rumble.
We've bought you RFK, and by God did you love him.
Why wouldn't you?
We've given you Jack Dorsey.
Fantastic conversation.
And on Friday, Tucker Carlson will be joining us here In this very space.
Also, I've got a new item of clothing that I'm a bit self-conscious about.
I don't know, see if you can guess what it is by the end of the show.
Show idea.
I don't know, it's private.
It's between me and my cardigan.
Hey, we've got some interesting stuff to talk to you about.
Do you think it's ever a good sign when someone says they might block out the sun?
If someone says they're going to block out... I mean, sun block.
I've gotten used to that now, since Baz Luhrmann did that thing, wear suncream, always wear suncream.
It's one of the things he pushed.
I will block out sun at the level... You get all your health advice from Baz Luhrmann?
Most of it, and star advice, as you can see from my outfit.
If it doesn't seem like an Elvis musical, I won't wear it.
Like, yeah.
Here's people that said they're going to block out the sun in history.
People out Bond, I think, say it sometimes.
Well, Mr Bond, we're going to block out the sun.
Bill Gates, obviously.
Oh, we're blocking it out for you for some reason.
Don't worry that we've evolved for all eternity in harmony with the sun.
Block it out.
And now Joe Biden's got a plan to block out the sun.
We'll be having a little look at that later.
Lee Fang's coming on the show.
Lee Fang's for the memory.
Look at Lee Fang.
Oh, yes.
Those of you watching this in locals, Get ready to objectify a journalist.
It's Lee Fang.
I had about 20 minutes with him the other week.
What was it like?
Nice?
It was great, yeah.
What did you do in that 20 minutes?
It's a very specific time frame, Gareth, and I know your rhythms, so I know what you're referring to.
We talked about his articles.
I knew him word for word.
And by his articles, do you mean his testicles?
Because, like, Lee Fang's articles.
I've been pondering Lee Fang's articles.
Mrs Fang, no sir!
Because Lee Fang is a married mang, is what I call him.
Lee Fang, Fang's for the memory.
He'll be talking to us about what?
Censorship, we're going to talk about probably?
Yes we are, yeah.
Maybe there should be some censorship when you listen to the absolute drivel that comes out of our mouths.
Hey, you should watch us on Locals, you can join our community, like Thomas Beard saying simply, hello.
And Apologetic Pest, he's on there, Katie Beach, Claude, We've also just heard Ron DeSantis coming on the show.
Fantastic stuff.
We've got every conceivable guest that you could possibly want.
there because it's free speech people from across the political religious ideological spectrum just
getting on and chatting like ice men are being the world or something and we've also just new heard
ron de santis coming on the show fantastic stuff we've got every conceivable guest that you could
possibly want anyone you want let us know in the chat i'll get them for you um so uh oh when we go
live to rumble because of course you know we love youtube We love our 6.4 million wonders over there, don't we, Gail?
We do.
We love them.
We want to participate in your awakening.
You're awakening me, I'm awakening you.
But we have to go into Rumble because they keep founding... What are we going to call it?
Nosebag!
Merry powder.
Nose fun.
Up the snout whoopee parties.
Marching dust.
Cocaine.
You're allowed to say cocaine, are you?
I think so.
Just don't endorse it.
As long as you don't endorse it.
I'm actually in recovery from drugs.
Drugs are bad.
Yes, they are.
I have no problem saying drugs are bad.
Oh, that one.
We've turned that one off, have we?
It was a good one.
It was so apposite.
Is the thing working?
That's not the one I'm pressing.
No.
We've lost Caller Crackhead, guys.
China.
Still going to China?
I would feel physically sick.
Well, you would if you took it.
I would feel physically sick, so that's one's relevant.
No, no!
It would not be nice.
Never!
It would not be nice.
It would actually turn me over the edge.
I've got no ability to discipline myself.
So the White House has been evacuated after cocaine was found.
Out!
Everybody out!
Amazing.
Well, I wonder if anyone in particular has been visiting the White House lately?
Who knows?
Join us on Locals, press the red button and guess, if you can guess, which visitor do you imagine has been most likely connected to that?
And it's just up to you to guess.
I don't have an opinion on who it could be.
We'll be looking at the latest gaffes of our man, Biden.
But not just the malappropriatisms or the Freudian slips.
You'll be familiar by now that he said Iraq instead of Ukraine like George W. Bush before him.
But we'll be talking about what the actual similarities between those wars are and what it indicates.
Let's have a look at the revolutionary French riots that are going on right now.
The French government... Sorry guys, sorry for burping.
I'll drink this.
Right before I go in here, I drink this sort of belching powder.
Yeah, almost like you want it to happen.
I don't know why I do it.
You're doing it again?
Mmm.
Mmm.
Silly, really.
That's why I can't take cocaine.
Because it's bad?
Yes.
Obviously.
Why would you take it?
Why would you take it?
It's bad for you.
I don't agree with drugs.
20 years clean, one day at a time, thanks to a loving higher power that I call God.
Let's see what's going on with these French riots.
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Macron.
Oh really? A bit of censorship over there in France.
Now, the reason that there's a riot in France, of course, is because emergency powers are being continually
implemented.
The will of the people is being ignored.
Recently, they rioted on the steps of Black Rock, suggesting that the French people are beginning to
understand where real power lies.
But you've just had independence day over there. I know you lot prefer the French to us, don't you?
The Americans, they think the French are better than us.
They think they're classier.
They think they're classier. They think of us as like, oh, we beat them in a revolution.
And we're independent of them. We're better than them.
But I don't see it that way. I see us as better than the French.
In a very straightforward, xenophobic way.
I love the French. I've got some good French friends.
Some of my best friends are French.
Okay, very good.
Which ones?
Claude?
Who is it?
Pierre.
I've never met Pierre.
We have a whole life.
We just hang around, wear stripy shirts, eat onions together.
Mind your own business.
Capitulate.
A lot of stuff!
We do a lot of stuff to get me and old Jean-Claude!
So, um, no, he's called Jerome, actually.
All right, so listen, um, but look at this French riot, right?
We're going to go into Rumble in a minute.
What's the reason we're going to go into Rumble?
I want to talk more about the cocaine story and a few things around the pandemic and regulations and legislation, barmy crap and revelations, more news around it.
But have a look at like, France is famous for a number of very French sounding words.
I mean all of their words are basically French sounding.
That's almost the definition of their vocabulary and language and their lexicon.
But have a look at this moment in a French riot where there's a geyser with a motorbike pulling a chainsaw.
That's in itself mad because logistically what a challenge.
Would you consider rioting in such a way?
How did that come about?
Think of the Capitol Hill actions on January 6th.
One guy dressed up as a bit of a buffalo.
They did have some zip ties.
They said some interesting stuff.
They wore some crazy makeup.
No one had a motorbike pulling a chainsaw.
That's out there.
One guy though, some French person there just on the day, just skips over it like it's a playground.
My mother says that you are like, we don't even acknowledge a chainsaw.
Have a look at this.
This is incredible.
Skip over that.
Oh!
Chainsaw!
Oh!
Sacre bleu!
Un chainsaw!
It's feminine for chainsaw.
Mental, isn't it?
Yeah, he's not even looking.
Like, if someone, like, went past me on a motorbike with a chainsaw, that'd be... I'd remark on that.
That'd define... almost define my day.
Yes.
Anything happen to you today?
Interesting?
Non.
Not really.
I saw some fireworks, I think.
Oh yes!
There was a chainsaw on a motorbike.
Who does that?
And it makes me realise that...
Nearly 50% of all French words mean relax or don't take things seriously, like nonchalant, having an easy air of unconcern or indifference, insouciant, light-hearted, unconcerned, c'est la vie, that's life, just goes how it will, laissez-faire, a philosophy characterized by usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference, blasé, apathetic to pleasure or excitement, comme-ci, comme-ça, 50-50.
The French do not care.
It could be a chainsaw it's amazing but let's go back to that because if those of you some of you may notice that there's been a hate crime up in the corner there's a bulb of garlic up there Jack which by the way is a poorly chosen poorly chosen vegetable tumor like like you shouldn't have that mate because first it's the same color as the background.
Confirming what our worst critics say about us.
How can we say that this is not a right-wing conspiracy theory channel where we're peddling hate, because I believe that we're bringing people together through free speech, and you can't even mention France without putting a bulb of garlic up in the corner.
We're trying to bring people together through French speech and free speech.
You can't do it, can you?
You can't bring people together by French speech with a xenophobic little bulb in the corner.
What's wrong with you, kids?
Amazing.
So there you go.
You can see the French's laissez-faire attitude in action.
There's another bit where there was rioting and some bloke was just sitting there eating a sandwich, notably not a baguette.
So they're actually not taking these riots seriously.
But the serious side of it, of course, is across the world, there are populist movements rising up, recognising that corporatism, cronyism, state capitalism, the kind of capitalism And corporatism where your democratic rights are being just ignored, your voice isn't being heard, you're being censored, surveilled and shut down and you know it's getting worse.
People aren't standing for it.
That is fantastic.
And in France I think a lot of this has got to do with the permanent emergency powers that Macron has brought in, which is something that obviously they're revolting against.
You can't have a permanent emergency and you just adjust to it.
That's like saying it's an emergency that you're getting older.
Oh no!
My hair's growing!
You just adjust if it's an emergency.
Can't have a permanent emergency.
Who else?
Think of other politicians with nice hair who always want to say there's an emergency.
True though, innit?
Like, oh no, it's an emergency!
Let's lock you up, don't protest, keep your mouth shut.
People are always trying to protect you right into silence, aren't they?
Let me know in the chat if you agree with that.
I ain't seen any guests on who's leaving that Bali yay gack around the White House.
Let us know what colloquialisms are used in America for cocaine.
Give us a guess, give us a guess, give us, give us, give us a cocaine guess down there
in that.
Meanwhile, Zelensky is saying that the war won't end until Ukraine takes Crimea.
Keen-eyed viewers will have observed that Vladimir Putin has said that Crimea is a red line.
If Crimea is invaded He will wage a nuclear war.
So in a sense what's being offered to us here is a nuclear war.
Later in the week we'll be talking about the story of the sort of propagandist policies in Ukraine that will not permit dissent within their country and the hypocrisy from an American government that campaigns to have journalists released from Russia but does not campaign as vigorously or indeed at all and in fact ignores questions Let's have a look now at Zelensky saying that he's quite happy to walk the world into a nuclear conflict.
Have a look.
We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea.
And while Crimea is under the Russian occupation, it means only one thing.
War is not over yet.
To be clear, in victory, in peace, Is there any scenario where Crimea is not part of Ukraine?
It will not be victory then.
Snow, blow and speed.
Those are just some slang words that you guys have kindly sent me for cocaine.
Crimea has been controlled by Russia since 2014.
Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula following the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev that ousted former Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych.
Eva. Could have been either. I don't know, there's a lot going on out there.
A referendum at the time saw 97% of the voters in Crimea favour joining the Russian Federation.
Oh, so that's not very democratic. That's not a good reason to have a nuclear war.
The US and Ukraine of course dispute the results, but polling since then has shown that the people of Crimea are
happy they joined Russia.
Now remember, saying this is not tantamount to saying that Russia's invasion is not criminal.
It can be true that Russia were provoked, that the invasion is criminal, that Putin is a war criminal, has committed war crimes, that Zelensky is imposing extraordinary regulation on Ukraine, that the American military-industrial complex is profiting from this ongoing conflict, and that that is indeed their primary motivation.
Without saying But we oughtn't be doing everything we can to end this war, to protect Ukraine's glorious, beautiful sons and daughters from an unnecessary war, when the counter-offensive is failing, when many people are needlessly ending their lives.
Criticising this war is not, I would say, contrary to solidarity with Ukrainian people.
No, and the important thing here is that the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has acknowledged that Crimea is a red line for Vladimir Putin.
But despite the risks, U.S.
officials have said they support Ukrainian attacks on Crimea.
So we are heading to a point where nuclear war is inevitable in that sense.
Seems like the sort of thing that should be on the news a bit more, should be being discussed a little more openly.
Why don't you let me know in the chat, guys, whether you're watching us on Rumble or YouTube or Locals.
Locals is what we keep open here on our desk out of loyalty to our beautiful community of people with diverse views that somehow get along fantastic, like Tamara Spencer, Carolina Jeep Junk.
They're all in there chatting away now.
They just want to nuke us all, says MaxDragon1986.
Have we reached the point where the establishment elites have disconnected themselves absolutely from our, from Favourable outcomes for ordinary people.
Certainly that's what Glenn Greenwald said when we spoke to him before the sad loss of his husband David when we were chatting to him.
He said that the plutocrats of the past required our affection, but nowadays they know that through police militarization, which is happening in France, emergency powers and the ability to surveil, that's no longer a requirement.
So whether it's this growing unrest in France, agitation for nuclear conflict in the I know there's a range of opinions.
as we are currently calling it between Russia and America.
Or, most worryingly and comedically, White House cautiously opening the door to study blocking
sun's rays to slow global warming.
Let us know what you lot think about global warming.
I know there's a range of opinions.
My own love of the planet, ecology and environmentalism comes from a deep respect for our planet, for our rivers.
You might have seen my little video that I made about Thames water, for example, who are dumping human excrement into the River Thames in order to preserve profits and dividends.
We made a little video about that.
Thames water, which provides water to much of the South of England, which is owned in China and Canada by a pension fund and Abu Dhabi.
Things that are necessary in a nation are owned elsewhere.
So there's obviously no responsibility.
So I'm very, very pro-environment Indeed, but I reckon the climate change arguments are used to introduce regulation and control.
Let me know if you agree with that and click the red button and join us on Locals, then I'll see your comments for sure.
Well, I think Joe Biden and the Democrats share your love of the climate as well, don't we?
Because we know after East Palestine that we know how they responded to that.
They got straight down that East Palestine and they started scrubbing that floor.
Or they were on their hands and knees, weren't they?
Other people that have tried to block out the sun include, of course, Bill Gates.
He wanted to spray dust into the atmosphere to block the sun.
And then, I believe, Monty Burns, a cartoon baddie from the long-running Simpsons TV show, also wanted to do that.
Let's have a look and just see.
Because he does look a bit like Joe Biden.
Let's look.
I call this enemy... The Sun.
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the Sun.
I will do the next best thing.
Block it out.
Nice!
There you go.
Although he's a bit more cogent and cohesive and articulate than Joe Biden.
I think they should have a little look around Burns's power plant to make sure there's no nose bag lying about the place.
Do you want to hear my favourite sentence of this article?
Yes.
Scientists have been split over the potential benefits of the risky plan.
With some warning it could result in a catastrophic change in the Earth's atmosphere.
So what could possibly go wrong?
What if it causes a catastrophic change in the Earth's atmosphere?
What if it doesn't?
Maybe it won't.
Maybe it will.
Maybe it won't.
Raytheon calls in retirees to produce 20-year-old Stinger missiles for Ukraine.
Ah, retirement.
You frail old dotage.
How about a game of golf?
Concentrate on your gardening.
Bake some cakes.
Spend time with the grandchildren.
Or maybe make some missiles for an unnecessary punitive war.
Yeah, this is Raytheon making these stingers that have been out of production for 20 years, but due to the war in Ukraine, a policy led by former Raytheon board member, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, they're back in fashion.
This is a quote from Raytheon Missiles and Defence President.
Stinger's been out of production for 20 years and all of a sudden, in the first 48 hours of this war, it's the star of the show and everybody wants one.
Which is everybody wants more, he says.
Bring them back!
Shows what kind of the attitude of Raytheon is to all this when they're talking in terms of stars of the show.
I think it's actually potentially killing people.
It's not The Muppets, is it?
It's not Dukes of Hazzard.
We're not having a laugh over there bringing back nostalgia missiles for a bit of a laugh.
Listen, we're gonna in a minute be exclusively on Rumble.
Not yet though, I'll tell you when because I like to build up to this in a very In a very sexy way.
We're going to do that White House cocaine story in a minute, and we're going to do a whodunit quiz.
Which member of the White House team and the Biden family do you think is most likely to be having some nasal naughtiness in the corridors of power?
Which is what I call my bottom.
No, it's just the White House, obviously.
Also, remember, me and RFK are doing a pull-up competition.
Pull-up competition.
I suggested pull-off, but RFK is a man of dignity and integrity.
He insists on pull-up.
He might win.
Let me know in the chat who you think is going to win, and let me know if you're willing to donate.
We'll post the link here.
RFK, RFK.
Look, I've never seen such a flurry of responses, and every single one says RFK.
They're sitting in his arms, that's why.
They're sitting in the man's arms!
It's an unbelievable pull off.
Yeah, Tolson78, RFK, RFK, no one, no one, not even my own mother, whose birthday it is today, happy birthday mum, says, no she's on, RFK she says, she says RFK.
I mean look at RFK, this is, look, that's the official site, I think we've raised a bit more money than that now, we just launched this yesterday, 13 grand, there's, but look at RFK's arms, look at his forearms, look at his wrists, look at his fingers, look at all of RFK.
Do you do that method?
He does it on that sort of terrifying iron bar.
My one looks sort of nice.
I do my pull-ups on some very nicely sort of gentle carved wood.
I always moisturise the hands as well before I do it.
I have a little Balinese lad.
He lifts me a little bit, takes some of the pressure off.
It can be quite painful otherwise.
So if you want to donate to that, you can go to kennedy24.com forward slash pull up.
So glad it's that.
I honestly, I suggested some other ideas.
Tarnish Kennedy's name?
Don't you tarnish this Kennedy brand with your sick contest!
I've got an idea for a competition, Bobby!
No, no, no.
It was rejected at the first round of suggestions.
Okay, so yeah, you can donate to that.
If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave now to go and rumble.
To do some childish jokes about cocaine, but also some stories about COVID.
Lee Fang's going to be on talking about censorship, and we've got a fantastic story that talks about the military-industrial complex.
The reason we're backing RFK's campaign is because RFK is anti-war, pro-democracy, pro-reigning in the power of corporations.
It was a fantastic conversation.
It's still up.
You can watch it We love freedom and we love freedom of speech.
Where freedom of speech meets, you get free speech.
over a bit of freech we're gonna leave you now youtube click the link in the description come
right over to rumble if you're on rumble press the red button join us on locals they're exchanging
all sorts of information over there i wanted to share a bit of freech with these guys have i got
time to do a bit of freech? Of course you have. Like we're we love freedom and we love freedom
of speech where freedom of speech meets you gets free speech where you get free speech and that
meets you get freech. Talking about rfk interview ms things says russell is the only person who
could interview a potential presidential candidate half naked and still talk about actual serious
Whereas Zashex31333 says, free speech is important but so is modesty and respect.
So, with modesty and respect, no more casual nudity, please, Russell.
I see you in the chat all the time, mate.
Do you mean that?
Like, it was wrong what I'd done.
Should we have a look?
Have we got a clip of it?
Actually, RFK looks pretty peeved about it.
Can we pull that?
Can we pull a still of it?
Because some people might not have seen it.
And let's have a look at that moment where I stripped off to the... I mean, it's only top half nudity.
Yeah.
Well, I hope so.
I mean, no one could tell.
Yeah, we do the show in trousers, out of just workplace respect, really.
Axel says, I'm a lifelong conservative but I have unbounded respect and admiration for
RFK and his policies.
I'll gladly donate to his election fund.
I said election fund.
Much as I would love to see Trump re-elected and America made great again, I believe that
RFK deserves an equal shot at the presidency.
And I think that's what's fascinating is that people that love Trump love RFK because they
love freedom.
Does it matter if we disagree on the finer points of political life, on cultural or economic
conservatism, laissez-faire economic policies, or whether we want some degree of welfare,
those kind of things can be federalized.
Those kind of things can be determined at a local level.
What we really believe in is smashing this centrist system of corporate state cronyism
where the state simply operates on behalf of big business and crushes free speech and
free will wherever it can.
Squirm, you yokel, says apologetic pest.
I feel Trump this round and then RFK the following eight years.
See you guys, you're interesting.
Russell's body is offensive to the moob wielders, says Miles Driver.
Thanks, baby.
That means I've not got no moobs, I think.
That's good, that's good.
But if I keep taking these oestrogen tablets... Who knows what'll happen?
I'll soon have a pair of mighty breasts!
To help me and my contest against RFK.
Come on.
Come on, RFK is the future.
Some people want the RFK Trump ticket and some people simply talking about lactation.
That's the kind of conversation... Free speech, baby.
Free speech, baby.
There's a still of... Look at Cheryl.
Cheryl Hines, his wife, really leaning in for a little look.
I regret doing that now.
I'm often doing things that I think, in retrospect, looking a bit like Iggy Pop.
I'll take that, mate.
Thanks.
Thanks very much.
That's made me feel a little bit better.
CenterOneLaunch says, I've never heard RFK speak so candidly, or for so long.
He makes a lot of sense.
He's like the old sensible left, which died decades ago.
Even as a more conservative-leaning person, I'd rather someone like RFK than a mainstream Republican.
Wow.
Interesting.
Yeah, well that, Gareth, doesn't it, speaks to MindGuri's analysis that you can't use left-right.
Use centre and periphery.
There's centralist political forces that essentially want to protect existing institution and existing power dynamics.
Then there are peripheral figures, which you lot believe is Trump, and I feel like he's RFK, that are willing to address disentangling some of the corruption and porous relationships between Wall Street and Washington, big tech and Washington, and all that kind of stuff.
Obviously, the march of globalism, which ain't a benefit to any of us.
You alright there, mate?
Yeah.
It's a good day, isn't it?
Yes, it's good.
We've got Lee Fang coming up later.
Lee Fang's for the memories.
One of the most handsomest fellas we've ever had on the show.
We've got some other stuff that's to do with RFK here.
Book winch.
The best thing about Russell's interviews, well, the second best thing, after his ability to make me laugh, thanks mate, is all the intelligent questions followed by lengthy, in-depth responses by the guests.
Regular media never gives us anything other than quick soundbites, usually taken out of context.
Great work.
Okay, fair enough guys.
Are we gonna have a look?
Is this the cocaine story now?
We could be charged about it.
What I think's well funny is that sort of they've done a map of where cocaine's been found in the White House and it's all places where Hunter Biden might have been.
And it's like, right, this is Hunter's bedroom.
Big load of coke up there.
Right, where else have you found coke?
Down there where Hunter Biden's car was.
Is it like they basically said, do they all just do coke?
Joe Biden can't be.
We are off now, aren't we?
We're off.
Yeah, we're off.
We're long off.
Imagine if we weren't.
That'd be the end of that.
Joe Biden can't do cocaine.
I think the idea that there's only one person associated with American politics that would have done cocaine is mad.
Ridiculous.
They're all at it.
They're all in there.
But who's leading it?
Who's the ringleader?
Well, I think he's the least likely.
Really?
Because he's clean?
Right.
Coke is the rich man's bread and butter.
Someone says it there.
What, bread and butter?
Just like that's a sort of a side dish.
Joe Biden is a cocaine mannequin.
You lot.
I keep telling everyone that Hunter must have forgotten to pack something before he left for vacation.
Tamara Spencer.
Nixon was prescribed it for nose.
There you go.
Let's have a look at the mainstream reporting on this cocaine story.
There are a lot of questions tonight after the Secret Service found what's believed to be a bag of cocaine at the White House.
Sources tell CBS News it was discovered in a common workspace in the West Wing on Sunday night.
The area is accessible to tour groups.
Now, the Secret Service is investigating just how it got there.
The president and his family were at Camp David Sunday night.
We were at Camp David.
It's not our fault.
We were having a lovely time.
We were off the premises.
I find it a little unnecessary, the amount of effort they've gone to here.
Apparently they sent it off to a laboratory for testing by the Secret Service.
Haven't they got other things to do?
I mean, it's just too much, isn't it?
It's like a bag of... It doesn't even say how big.
I mean, if it was like kilos of the stuff, you'd say, well, that's a bit... A bag could be this.
When did they become so diligent about clinically trialling substances?
Used to be like, oh, this works, have you clinically trialled it?
No, we're in head time, just take it, ask questions later.
But no, give it to children, everyone take these drugs!
Well, apparently the FDA have approved it as well, so... I mean, if they found a vaccine in them toilets, they'd be like, oh, it's probably alright, just take it!
I feel better already!
Ah, my heart!
On Rumble, baby!
Controversial.
On Rumble!
Um, okay, someone's donated... Jessica Hodge, she's donated to RFK24.
Thanks for that, mate.
I appreciate it, Jessica.
Um, and... Oh, yeah, this is the thing.
The perfect Biden remedy would be, like, if you were to put cocaine in a child's hair, there's something for everyone in the Biden family.
Here's Joe Biden sniffing kids on the head.
There you go, a bit of fun.
I think we added the sniffing sound effects.
I wonder which member of the team did that?
Jack, it's Jack.
He's always sticking his little looter in his knee, so there's a chance to legitimately do it.
He'll be glad of.
The departing CDC director says the agency plans to work with media to pre-bunk misinformation.
This is a concept that was first brought to our attention by Michael Schellenberger, our friend, in attempting to end the censorship industrial complex, a phrase that he coined in a movement.
That he is proudly leading.
Various agencies are attempting to control and censor speech.
They'd probably use, like, the silliness of the last 10 minutes as an example of, oh, they shouldn't be able to say that, these kind of jokes, but I don't know.
I thought it was harmless fun.
Pre-bunk misinformation.
Now, how this works, Michael Schellenberger told us that journalists were invited to a place, I believe in Aspen, and told, oh, listen, you're going to hear a lot of crazy stories about Hunter Biden, Having a laptop and there being information on there that compromises the financial activity of the Biden family.
It's just so you know from us in advance, it's not true.
That's pre-bunking.
As we now know, that story was true.
It was legitimate.
It was unduly censored.
In my conversation with Jack Dorsey, which you are going to love tomorrow, Jack Dorsey said he made mistakes at Twitter.
He regrets how it was handled. If he had his time again, he wouldn't kick Trump off the platform
That it was good for twitter, but bad for america. This is a conversation. You're not gonna wanna miss
I'm speaking that way because as you know gareth by now in a book. Yeah, it's out now. Oh, what about the farce?
Should I do that also?
No, if you could take that one, please.
Because they're just out of dignity.
Because that person, XanX31333 or whatever, she's going to be furious.
Like, she didn't like the top off.
Like, so if I sit here farting like a pig dog, XanX313333.
Sorry about that, I'll try not to do it.
I vote for toplessness daily.
They're going crazy over there.
Why don't you join them by pressing the red button where, as well as making silly remarks about my bodily functions, you can also objectify our handsome next guest, Lee Fang.
Lee is an independent journalist on Substack.
He worked on the Twitter files with Elon.
He's the writer of The Machine.
A field guide to the resurgent right.
Dan the Chain!
He's also a bit of a looker, so hang on to your hats everyone.
Lee, are you there, mate?
Hey, good to join you.
Lee, oh, Lee, how can I stay mad at you?
Every time I think I'm over you, Lee, I look at you and I feel the same feelings as the first time I looked at you, you beautiful bastard.
Lee, a judge has just blocked government agencies from meeting social media companies.
How could that damage or change the future of censorship?
Is this a good thing?
Is it a breakthrough?
Is it temporary?
Will they find a way around it, Lee, you dreamboat?
Uh, before I start, I just say I met some of your team, Gareth and Leon and others, uh, the Brain Trust in London last month and just incredible.
And they're good lookers as well.
So I understand the magic behind the show now.
I don't!
It's all me!
I mean, no, you're right.
Have a look at the gallery camera.
I mean, every single... It's like... It's like Models 1 in there.
It's like the Devil Wears Prada in there, Lee.
So they're all so bloody gorgeous.
It explains why they're all so bloody appalling at making graphics, to tell you the truth.
Lee, I'm glad... Yeah, that was great to meet you and your missus there.
Another good-looking human being.
You're really... You're sort of waging genetic warfare on the rest of us, as far as I'm concerned.
But what do you... What do you...
These days.
These good-looking bastards!
Censor them!
They're too good-looking!
I can't take it!
Lee, mate, go on then.
What does this bill mean?
The judge blocking government agencies.
What does it mean, Lee?
Is it good?
This was an extraordinary move yesterday on 4th of July.
Typically, a federal judge does not issue any decision or major act on a federal holiday.
It was, you know, 4th of July.
But Judge Doherty in Louisiana issued a sweeping injunction temporarily blocking the federal government, the White House, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, CDC, and other agencies from coercing social media companies on content-related decisions, basically arguing that the evidence that's been accumulated by the Missouri government and other plaintiffs Demonstrates that the government has violated the First Amendment, the free speech rights of Americans, by coercing content takedowns and other censorship-like decisions on, you know, stories around COVID, around the efficacies of masks and the vaccine, the lab leak theory, around election-related communications going into the 2020 election.
A lot of this was not just demonstrated by the plaintiffs in this case, But further confirmed by reporting and, of course, the Twitter files, a lot of emails and documents just kind of reaffirm all the arguments made in this case that was filed last summer.
It's moving ahead in the federal courts.
I think it's likely that the Biden administration appeals this decision to the appellate court, maybe even reaches the Supreme Court.
This could be the next big decision, really just regulating and deciding
what is the appropriate barrier for the federal government.
When can the federal government intervene in speech and political discourse?
It could be very big for America.
It seems, as you say, apacite and encouraging that this took place on Independence Day.
Symbolic, yes.
Also, I had not thought of it in quite those terms for this temporary measure to be taken.
There must be demonstrable evidence that there have already been violations.
So people that felt that their free speech was being violated were right.
If you felt that you were censored on social media, guys, Let us know.
Press the red button now.
Join us over on Locals and let us know how you feel your free speech was affected during the pandemic period with regard to these particular issues and if you feel encouraged by this legislation.
Lee, mate, I spoke to Jack Dorsey.
It's an interview that we're putting out tomorrow.
It was a fantastic conversation.
He says that he regrets banning Trump, that it was good for the company, Bad for the country.
Based on the title of your book, I assume you're sort of, broadly speaking, a liberal person.
What do you think about Jack Dorsey's stance, given that he was the person that was in charge during the period that's been investigated and sort of, I suppose, revealed during the Twitter files?
What's your take on him saying that, mate?
No, I think that's interesting.
I'd love to see that interview.
You know, for all of these issues, whether it's decisions on major speech platforms, you know, Twitter, Facebook, these are kind of the public square of our current age.
This is how people interact and protest and criticize the government and share information.
We either have to have very clear rules or equally applied rules.
You know, when you look at the way that Twitter applies its supposed rules on presidents
and prime ministers around the world, you know, we've had, you know,
political leaders in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East,
engage in provocative commentary, calls for violence, you know, ethnic targeting.
We don't see Twitter kicking other prime ministers and leaders off the platform.
But, you know, for Twitter in particular, there was a focus on Trump in part
because of perhaps pressure from various federal agencies, but also just the kind of inconsistent
and strange black box that is the kind of censorship decision-making.
You have a lot of employees in a place like San Francisco.
Many of them might lean Democrat or more liberal, and they don't like Trump.
And they kind of make these arbitrary decisions, even if they're not fully consistent with how they're applied worldwide.
And it leads to less faith in these platforms.
And, you know, it's why I think Americans have retracted from established media and have A lot of fear around the big tech companies.
They have a lot of power, and it's not clear how they justify or use that power.
You know, I'm not the biggest fan of Trump or many of his policies, but, you know, I believe in a free and open society.
He was a former president.
He has a right to communicate with Americans.
It's very dangerous and a slippery slope to start just arbitrarily banning political leaders from the public square.
There are many questions flooding in for you now, Lee, on locals, but some of them are simply too rude to report to you.
They mostly are things like, could Lee take his top off?
Would Lee kiss me for a certain sum of money?
mostly inquiries of that nature, but here are some sensitive ones, or some intelligent
ones. This one from sensitivehearts25. Do you have any hope at all that Julian Assange
will be freed, Lee, given that he's perhaps the figure that currently defines the sharp
end of where censorship and freedom of information takes us?
Look, I've reported dozens of stories using WikiLeaks revelations, the cable gates and
others.
He's served clearly a public interest in breaking these documents.
I've reported on U.S.
meddling in Honduran politics in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and other places using the WikiLeaks cables that he published on his site.
He's clearly a journalist, and I feel, you know, watching this from the outside, I mean, I haven't covered his case very closely, but I've kind of followed the metanarrative.
I see so many other journalists and media institutions, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Who also relied on his reporting, using the documents he published to publish so many important stories, to now kind of distance themselves from the case or even encourage this draconian punishment of Assange.
I find that very disgusting.
I think it's a cardinal rule in journalism not to burn a source.
And by throwing him to the dogs and saying, look, the government should just lock him up and throw away the key.
I'm disgusted by that.
I don't really have a great crystal ball here about what will happen to Assange.
It seems like the major newspapers, after calling for his arrest and being very sympathetic to the government's case against him, they've kind of ignored the case.
I would love to see more reporting on where it goes, but yeah, I don't know.
I'm not sure what will happen to Assange.
Of course the Espionage Act is the act that's being used to underwrite the demands for Assange's extradition and it's increasingly becoming an act that seems like it's about penalising people that speak out against government interests.
It's of course the act that's being currently discussed in relation to Donald Trump.
Mate, we've been talking about press free speech and in particular Biden's demand that the journalist over there in Russia be released.
Duskovich.
Goshkovich, yeah.
But we were sort of pointing out, subsequent to some reporting by another organisation, that there's currently an American journalist being held in Ukraine for speaking out against Ukrainians' policies around freedom of speech and information.
In particular, they are believing, I think, in something called centralised information or unified information.
I wonder what you think about the potential Hypocrisy there when it comes to, you know, given that you are a journalist who works in a somewhat, well, you know, definitely risky territory.
What you feel about advocating for the release of one prisoner, but not for others and what that tells us about the principles that are behind the demands or lack of demands.
I mean, it just shows the polarization in wartime that we hold our adversaries to one set of standards, but we don't hold our allies to the same set of standards.
It's incredibly dangerous.
And look, I think if you look at a lot of—even Mark Zuckerberg, if you read some of his early writing about why he founded Facebook, he was upset about the war in Iraq.
He said, look at the mainstream media lie and kind of carried water for the Bush administration's lies that got us into Iraq.
I would like to create an online platform that gives everyone a voice and prevents future calamities
like the war in Iraq.
And now of course, Facebook has drifted far away from that original mission,
engaging in a lot of different forms of censorship.
And the open internet has kind of been a big lie.
Despite more access to the Internet, more access to independent journalism, we see kind of a lockdown in terms of the war in Ukraine.
We don't see a ton of independent voices and dissent and criticism of these policies.
Instead, we see kind of a corralling and a manufacturing of consent towards NATO and
U.S. priorities, a relentless focus on Russia, but not much skepticism and debate around
the actions of the Ukrainian government, or even a discussion around what a sensible solution
or a peaceful settlement of this conflict would be.
Ashela Singh.
says centralized information that's not unified unity does not mean controlling people's natural
self-expression press the red button if you want to join the chat on locals now for some
real journalism as two handsome men discuss truth hi lee is gareth nice to see you again hey good to see you
Good to see you after our extensive chat.
Were you in a cab together?
No, we were initially in a cab together but then we spoke face to face.
Seedy little business.
I would say half an hour it was.
Half an hour?
I would say so, yeah.
All in the cab, all sweaty, giggling like schoolgirls.
Lee, I've got a couple of questions that I'll try and put into one.
One is obviously with this injunction that's happened and the way in which the response to the Twitter files through, amazingly, Stacey Plaskett, who you've exposed ties to Jeffrey Epstein, which is incredible, but the way she spoke about Michael and Matt, as so-called journalists, is there a sense that now you feel vindicated?
There's been kind of so much pushback in the media or censorship in the media of the Twitter files.
And the second part is, I wonder if you could tell us a little bit more about the Biden administration's intervening in slowing down the release of public records that may have shed more light on this kind of crusade of theirs.
Yeah, you know, I'm very You know, I'm invigorated by this decision.
You know, I write about a lot of topics.
It's rare to see a federal judge or any policymaker step in and Push back on behalf of civil liberties and free speech.
So this is a rare victory.
It's not clear where it will go from here, other than probably in an appellate court.
But it's clear that the Biden administration is fearful of greater public scrutiny over this kind of censorship apparatus.
You know, when I started investigating this story last fall, I put in a number of record requests We just found out that, through another record request, that the Biden Justice Department intervened in my record request and other record requests last year.
The Justice Department attorneys reached out to some of the advisors to the Department of Homeland Security's censorship apparatus, and they said, please slow the production of documents.
We may need to intervene and even block the release of some of these documents.
So many of these documents detailing the federal government's We've had congressional hearings, lots of media scrutiny, your show and other shows talking about this issue, but we would have benefited from an early release of these documents.
It's clear that they're monitoring the situation.
They've fought a lot of these attempts to obtain documents.
in this lawsuit that we were just referencing.
They eventually relented and they deposed Anthony Fauci and other federal government leaders.
But there's still a lot of unanswered questions.
And even back to the war in Ukraine, we got documents from a whistleblower
within the Department of Homeland Security saying, what would happen during COVID,
what happened with the 2020 election?
That's just kind of a test to expand these efforts, not just looking at social media,
but looking at radio and television, looking at other topics like the war in Ukraine
and censoring quote unquote harmful narratives, which I suppose are just pro-government narrative
or any narrative that questions the government's pro-war line.
You know, this is dangerous stuff.
And I think for the federal government, they benefit from more secrecy.
They want to do this behind closed doors, with the social media companies, without any public knowledge.
We're finally at least getting transparency on what they're doing, and now we have a federal judge stepping in.
That's fantastic analysis, Lee.
Thank you.
Still, the comments on Locals, our community there, press the red button if you want to join it.
Someone told me to put my hair up in a top knot, so I've done that.
Davros200 said, the homoeroticism is off the scale today.
Get a room, the three of you.
Well, that will not lessen the homoeroticism.
That's simply going to take it to its natural conclusion.
Make It Pop says, I'd love to be in a cab with Lee and Gareth.
Oh!
I don't think anything went on in the cab.
I think people were just chatting.
Michael was in there as well.
Aha!
The plot thickens.
That's the kind of corruption we always assumed was going on.
Lee, thank you so much for joining us.
Your contributions are always valuable.
You are more than a pretty face, but you certainly are a pretty face.
Thanks for joining us, Lee.
Always good to join you guys.
Thank you so much for having me and thanks for covering this issue.
Thanks, man.
Thanks very much.
You can get more from Lee on Substack.
His book's out now on All The Machine.
A field guide to the resurgent right will post it in the chat.
You should read his work.
He's a brilliant, brilliant journalist and a great communicator, but apparently very handsy in the back of a cab, Gareth Roy tells me.
No, I didn't.
I never said that.
Scratching at one another, giddy, high on life!
It's like under Biden's bedroom in the back of that cab!
No, it's alright.
It was a perfectly professional cab experience.
That's all it was.
Now, guess what we've got?
This week, Tucker Carlton is joining us live in this very room.
We're going to make the set look all different and everything for a more serious conversation.
We're going to rearrange it, we're going to rewrite Post your questions for Tucker right now.
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We already recorded our groundbreaking chat with former CEO and founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, in which Jack, I think I'm going to be friends with Jack now because he's dedicating himself to creating decentralised social media platforms.
I think he's going to be part of the revolution.
He's a fan of the show, isn't he?
He loves our show.
He watches our content all the time.
I really like him.
I've been texting him already.
He's going to be another person I'm going to surely embarrass myself with at some point.
Jack, how do you get your beard that way?
I really like it!
Here's Jack now discussing one of his biggest regrets from his time at Twitter.
The removal of Donald Trump.
How do you feel about where it got, Jack?
You know, it got so powerful that Trump could be kicked off of there and it sort of I think
contributes to that sense that oh there's this new woke revolution, the democrat party are
controlled by financial interests and pretending that they care about people but they don't.
Trump's just a loud mouth version of everything else and a lot of people on our platform
absolutely love Donald Trump but me, I agree with you. Decentralisation, no individuals, we're
all flawed for God's sake. So how do you feel about that particular issue if I may ask sir? Well I
feel bad about it.
I feel bad that we had to take that action.
It was a challenging time.
I do believe the company was working with its best efforts with the information it had.
But as I said a few days after that suspension, I believe it was probably the right decision for the company, but the wrong decision for the world.
There you go, pretty exciting conversation.
Let me just clarify, because I keep making mistakes.
It's Jack Dorsey tomorrow.
Yes.
Friday, live.
Tucker Carlson, join us.
You want to watch the show every day anyway, because you might miss something.
You might miss saying, you never know where I'm going to belch or what I'll be doing with my hair.
Gareth could pull out a French horn at any moment.
God knows how he's been affected by some of his cab rides with top journalists.
He's not been the same since that night, I'll tell you that.
I tell you that.
All right, guys, should we?
Listen, we've got now it's time for to really we're going to build to a real crescendo.
Here we go.
If I hadn't been told off by you lot in the chat, I'd be taking my top right off now.
Pull my collar down a little bit.
Just a little bit.
Have a look at that clavicle.
I'd like to feel that little leg cup.
I bet you would.
Not today.
Smooth that over, I would, with gout.
Grout.
Gout.
Grout.
Not gout.
Nipples out for free.
Now listen!
You know old Joe Biden, don't you?
President of America.
God love him.
Happy Independence Day for the other day.
You look well done and everything, winning that war against us.
Although they were British generals, I will just say that led to both sides.
So in a way it was us against us and we won.
Now, so like what I will say is this.
We want to look at some of... I got sidetracked, I don't know why.
The English generals?
Yeah, I thought about that and I was pleased with that joke.
And I've sidetracked myself.
I've sidetracked now, I've phased myself.
Right, listen though, this is good this.
You know when Joe Biden accidentally said Iraq instead of Ukraine?
Do you know why that is?
It's because in the back of his mind he's thinking, what's this sort of illegal war that I'm lying about again?
Iraq.
Oh no, that was the one I used to lie about when I was in Congress.
He voted for that war when people were on the streets not wanting it.
This Ukraine war, again, this is with all respect to Ukrainian people.
We want a diplomatic solution.
What other solution is there?
There would be one in the end, wouldn't it?
It's not going to... Russia won't go, oh, alright, we give in.
It's not going to be that, is it?
It's going to be diplomatic eventually.
When everyone's done enough damage and made enough dollar.
That's not what we want.
We want a peaceful solution and we are looking now at the tendrils and symptoms of the truth that they're trying to conceal.
Here's the news!
No.
Here's the effing news.
Joe Biden keeps mixing up Iraq and Ukraine and Donald Trump just blatantly tells you
that they were gonna nick Venezuelan oil.
Is this the real reason they want him out of the way?
What an age it is to be alive when the best chance you get of getting the truth out of the President of the United States is a Freudian slip.
And that's why we simply have to invade Iraq.
I mean, Ukraine.
Oh, I don't remember the name of all these countries.
They've got gas.
They've got oil.
It's so complicated.
Burisma.
Hunter!
Perhaps the reason we find it hard to trust politicians is because George Bush accidentally says Iraq instead of Ukraine.
Perhaps because, in their minds, they know that there's a connection, that there are connotations, comparisons, similarities between the conflict in Iraq, which we were told was a humanitarian war, which ultimately proved to be a resource war, That made the situation, many would argue, worse than it was before we got militarily involved.
And this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which many contest is in fact a proxy war between the USA and Russia, is also undergirded in some ways by economic and resource motivations that aren't being made explicitly plain because it would undermine the entire process of the war.
But if you've got to hold all that information in your quaking, senile mind, you might inadvertently once in a while go, Iraq!
I mean, Ukraine!
And get all baffled and confused.
Contrast that with Donald Trump, who'll plainly just say, yeah, we were gonna go to Venezuela, but they've got oil there, we were gonna take that oil.
Even though I think that's wrong, bad, criminal, in fact, or at least, I don't know, maybe that's just the way geopolitics is, I kind of think, well, this guy's telling you how it is.
Like Chappelle said, in his famous bit of stand-up, Donald Trump was the guy that came out of the White House and goes, you know all that stuff you think people are doing in there?
They are doing that in there.
I know the system is rigged, because I use it.
I said, God damn!
That makes Donald Trump immune to attacks like, oh, he's got these classified documents!
They're all doing stuff like that!
They're all doing stuff like that!
You think that what Pelosi's telling her husband at night ain't complicated when it comes to his stock trading?
You think that these current wars are entirely legitimate and people ain't profiting?
You think it's good that generals that have got ties to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are cropping up on mainstream news companies that are ultimately owned by other weapons contract companies that are advocating for war?
Once you have someone like Trump, he operates as a Berserker, a catalyst just disrupting everything and whether or not he's morally or ethically better than any of these other figures is a difficult argument to have because they're all bloody corrupt anyway.
On the subject of Freudian slips and in particular Joe Biden's Freudian slip, a Freudian slip is when you inadvertently say something that you're trying to repress but some impulse or reflex makes you accidentally say it.
In our country, the UK, we have a very unpopular and not that likable politician called Jeremy Hunt and look what mainstream media figures Just keep accidentally calling him.
I'm going to be talking to Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, about... Jeremy Hunt.
Jeremy Hunt.
Mr Hunt had to... Jeremy Hunt.
Jeremy Hunt.
The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, says he... Jeremy Hunt, Hunt, according to the... The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said the... Jeremy Hunt, the Hunt...
Friend of the show, Aaron Maté, posted this tweet.
A good example of why the national security state hates Trump.
They share his policies, they just don't like his honesty.
Let me know in the comments if you think it's just as simple as that.
Trump does the stuff they all do, he just tells you.
How about we're buying oil from Venezuela?
When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse, we would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.
But now we're buying oil from Venezuela, so we're making a dictator very rich.
Can you believe this?
Nobody can believe it.
That's just a funny way to say, we're taking it just right next door to our convenience.
We're making him rich.
Can you believe it?
No one can believe it.
Contrast that with the kind of political rhetoric around the current conflict in Ukraine, where Mitch McConnell will just announce, this is cold, hard business.
We have to destroy Russia as a matter of business.
Or Hillary Clinton saying, American corporations have to exploit the opportunity of Iraq.
At the time, they were telling you, We gotta do something about Iraq.
Saddam Hussein's a monster.
He's got weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam Hussein probably is a monster.
I'm not here to advocate for Saddam Hussein.
That's not my bloody job.
What I'm saying is, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Their oil is garbage.
It's horrible.
The worse you can get, tar.
It's like tar.
It's funny as well that he's sort of got a qualitative judgment on oil.
And to refine it, you need special plants.
I'm getting really into the oil industry.
We trust his instincts to just talk.
As president, Trump made it clear that Washington seeks to control the natural resources of foreign countries.
That's something that you and I believe, isn't it?
Like, oh, is it important that there's all this natural gas in Ukraine and that BlackRock have done a deal with Zelensky to rebuild it?
Is that not significant and that they want to economically cripple Russia so they can't compete on the geopolitical stage?
And isn't there an eventual plan to start a war with China over Taiwan and the semiconductors?
These are all just things now that all of us Somewhat familiar with, miraculously.
I mean, I used to be in Sarah Marshall and I know all this stuff.
In a January 2020 interview on Fox News, Trump boasted that he was militarily occupying Syria's crude rich regions in order to take the oil.
So there you go.
On one hand, you have Donald Trump, a complex figure who in the past has said things that I definitely disagree with.
And politically, I don't believe to be the solution because I believe in decentralization and redistribution of power, not necessarily resources, but certainly power.
On the other hand you have a career politician like Joe Biden.
To what extent has Vladimir Putin been weakened by recent events?
It's hard to tell but he's clearly losing the war in Iraq, he's losing the war at home
and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world.
He condemned Putin as a pariah, like he did the Saudi Arabian government when campaigning for the presidency.
So expect a fist bump with Putin anytime soon, once those oil deals are back on track.
What's interesting about this is that he's easily and unthinkingly equating Ukraine and Iraq, possibly because Ukraine and Iraq are similar situations.
We were told in Iraq it was a humanitarian war.
We were told there were weapons of mass destruction.
It turned out it was an economic resource war that subsequently the then Republican Party hawks like Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and Chaney and all those guys benefited from from secondary affiliations with financial and corporate interests.
Now Ukraine were being This is humanitarian war.
Russia has encroached on their territories.
NATO's actions up to that and the coup in 2014 are nothing to do with it, even though they're very credible experts.
You can see them on our show.
The interviews are up in full.
Say, hold on a minute, this is a more complex story.
So maybe Biden, who is obviously in office because he's a career politician, he's been around throughout these various expeditions, somehow in his mind sees an equivalency between Iraq and Ukraine.
What do you think?
Let me know in the comments.
Russian elections are rigged.
Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process.
He's talking about Russia there.
Rigged elections, bringing down opponents.
He's talking about Russia.
What?
What did you think?
Where do you think that there are rigged elections?
The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia.
And the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.
That's so amazing because he is that man.
He is the man that launched a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.
Wait a minute, who was it that did that?
Oh, it was me.
It's extraordinary, isn't it?
Because ultimately we're dealing with truth, integrity, personal authority and authenticity.
Do any of us believe now that the state can be relied on to tell us the truth, that the mainstream media can be relied on to report that truth?
accurately. Do any of us believe that there is an economic component to the
current conflict between Ukraine and Russia? Do any of us believe if there was
no economic upside they would continue to do it just in order to protect the
Ukrainian people? If you do believe that then the only question I would offer you
is what about all of the other brutal events around the world? Why this one?
I mean over Ukraine.
Oh that's almost like you can't even joke your way out of that can you?
There's no joke.
Sorry I got mixed up there because it was an immoral, unjust, criminal war and I should be in prison because of that.
Silly me.
Right, anyway.
Uh, 75.
Uh, I'm 75.
It was a long time ago.
I'm old.
I make mistakes.
Like that mistake when a million children were killed in a war.
This is by Caitlin Johnston.
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President Biden accidentally referred to Putin's war in Iraq when answering questions from the press a year after former President George W. Bush made the same gaffe.
Both men played crucial roles in the push to invade Iraq.
During the 2020 presidential race, Current Affairs' Nathan J. Robinson wrote the following about Biden's pivotal role in manufacturing support for the Iraq invasion.
So Biden was integrally involved in that war too.
Do you see what I mean?
People are groomed, primed, prepared, prepped, ready for government.
Why do you think they didn't want Bernie?
I know loads of you guys think, oh Bernie, I hate Bernie.
But the Democrat Party establishment really, really cared that it was not Bernie.
It had to be Biden.
The same way as they really, really wanted Clinton, not Bernie.
They've got a view.
How do you think they feel about RFK?
Do you think they go, oh, hang on a minute, RFK seems popular.
Well, let's just push this guy through.
He's someone that might beat DeSantis or Trump.
Of course they wouldn't.
They'd rather lose than have RFK as their leader.
In 2003, Biden was a senator bullish about the push to war in Iraq who helped sell the Bush administration's pitch to the American public, who voted for and helped advance the Bush agenda.
Which one do you want to vote for?
Is it the warmongering party that wears red stuff or wears blue stuff?
I love democracy!
He was the war's most crucial Senate supporter.
Oh my God, he was distinguishing himself even back then by advocating for wars that turned out to be unjust and criminal and based on lies.
Biden repeated the myth that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction saying that these weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power.
The resulting war was one of the most deadly catastrophes in the history of US foreign policy.
The Iraqi death toll was in the hundreds of thousands, or possibly even the millions, and 4,500 American troops died.
Hey, I was looking at your record.
Great work.
Do you want to be in charge of another conflict?
What?
Hello?
Hunter?
Iraq?
Ukraine?
That Biden's decomposing brain would find the word Iraq when reaching for the word which means nation that has been illegally invaded by an evil government is positively Freudian.
I defy you to find me anything that is more quintessentially representative of the state of the US empire than these two clips.
Two decaying empire managers fumbling around in their skulls for the name of nation that's been invaded by murderous thugs and coming up with the name of the nation they themselves invaded.
It's truly a thing of beauty.
It's absolutely ridiculous that they're trying to charge Putin with war crimes while these two mass murderers are walking free.
As American law professor Dale Carpenter has said, if citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an
even-handed and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law.
Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law.
This is all the more true of laws which would exist between nations.
Because we basically know that all politicians have access to classified documents, that nepotism, where they give advantages to their children and friends and families, where there's cronyism, where they do deals.
When you find out that Donald Trump has a box of cigarettes...
What a box of secrets!
Oh no!
I thought that the country was being run by really great war criminals that accidentally say Iraq instead of Ukraine because somewhere in the still flickering embers of what remains in their souls they know what truth and decency is.
And they know that what's happening now is very similar to what was happening then.
Any law that can't be applied to all people isn't a law at all.
It's just an instrument of power.
That's what the Magna Carta was supposed to mean.
That the king couldn't just set up laws and then do what he wanted with it.
That the king himself would be subject to those laws.
The laws were a separate entity.
The whole Nixon case, I'm saying that when the president does it, it's not a crime.
But when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
We all know that.
We all suspect that.
So when Trump just breezily says, we'll nick Venezuela's oil, bad though that is if you're a Venezuelan person, we all know that that's how politics works.
How can they still be baffled by the ascendancy and attractiveness of Trump?
They can't be, can they?
They must know.
Do you know what the problem is?
Is this guy can just admit to stuff that we're trying to conceal.
It's not whataboutism to say it's absurd to charge Putin with war crimes without charging men like Bush and Biden.
It's a completely devastating argument against the claim being made.
If the law doesn't apply to everyone, then it's not the law.
It's just corruption.
It's a tool of the powerful.
Just in the interest of showing our receipts, here's Mitch McConnell revealing to you in public the real reason for the conflict with Russia.
President Zelensky is an inspiring leader, but the most basic reasons for continuing to help Ukraine degrade and defeat the Russian invaders are cold hard practical
American interests.
Boo boo he's a republican right? Oh I hate those republicans bloody warmongers.
Let's get a democrat like Hillary Clinton. No one's more democrat than her.
And so it's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity.
Oh but they're children.
Are you comfortable with the dead children as a business opportunity?
JPMorgan was selected by the US government to run a key import-export bank in Iraq and in 2013 announced plans to expand its operation in the country.
ExxonMobil signed a deal to redevelop Iraqi oilfields.
JPMorgan has collectively paid the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation at least $450,000 for speeches.
Hmm, I see.
I'm beginning to think I understand how this really works.
So, you have a politician like Trump who will blatantly tell you, we use those tax loopholes, we're gonna take Venezuela's oil, and you maybe think, oh, this guy's vulgar.
But when you see the opposition, when you see the institutional corruption, when you see the fact that Biden was advocating for the war in Iraq when he was a Democrat, now he's advocating for war between Ukraine and Russia as the president, War is business.
It's not about humanitarianism.
It never has been.
A figure like Trump is appealing because he's saying out loud what the rest of them work so hard to conceal.
Government isn't for you.
It's for big business.
But that's just what I think.
Until next time, stay free.
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