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July 11, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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So, Is Fitness Far-Right NOW?! Rogan UNLEASHES On Media - #165 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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So I'm looking for the CEO, looking for the CEO...
In this video, you're going to see the future.
The future is here.
It must be an awakened wonder, elsewise you'd ne'er be here, would you?
And what a day it is today to be alive this Tuesday.
Glory be unto they that shine down abundantly upon us.
The limitless consciousness that we all participate in right now shall become unbridled as we reach to territories new.
Let us unlock our great psychic potential.
Let us throw off the shackles of the mainstream.
If you watch us on YouTube, we're going to be Live only on Rumble in a matter of minutes.
Why?
Not because of hate speech, but because of our old friend Free Speech.
We're going to be speaking pretty freely about some pretty important subjects.
For example, we're going to be talking about the new attempt to label Sweet Lady Fitness herself as far-right.
Could fitness be far-right?
Maybe if you're exercising only that arm.
Right.
For a See Kylie way.
Right.
Right over this way.
Right that way.
And also, just that bit of it, but also, you know, in that famous gesture of those baddies of the last century.
Also, yeah, because I'll tell you why, because I'm particularly invested in fitness.
I don't know if you know this yet, but I've got to do a pull-up, I said pull-up challenge with RFK.
Me and him are doing pull-ups to raise money for his campaign and I've got to be able to do more pull-ups than him, which is going to be a challenge.
That's why I'm guzzling testosterone like it's going out of fashion.
Well, not testosterone.
Turkostosterone.
I don't know.
I can't pronounce it yet.
But anyway, I'll tell you all about it.
It's doing me the power of good anyway.
I feel better than ever, baby!
Is that a good sign that you're glugging down medicine that you can't even pronounce?
I'm glugging I may not be able to pronounce it, but by joke, can I swallow it?
And if these hairy palms are anything I go by, RFK's in a lot of trouble.
I'm gonna be pulling him off like it's going out of fashion.
Did I say pull off?
Did I say pull off?
Who knows anymore?
We can only be on YouTube for a little while because of the censorship and whatnot.
There's loads of stuff to tell you about.
Look at the US State Department guy.
What's he called?
Millie Michaels?
Matthew Miller.
He's the US State Department spokesperson.
He's speaking for them, but he can't speak very well for them.
It is his actual job.
He keeps getting Russia and Ukraine mixed up.
What's the problem, bruv?
Sort your life out.
Check him out.
A few things.
So I will say, with respect to your first question, we believe the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine.
The Secretary spoke to this and... Sorry, his job is to do propaganda!
You're a spokesperson!
You're doing the opposite of your job!
You're propagandizing in the wrong direction!
...he gave in Helsinki last month, I believe it was.
What's that?
I'm sorry, excuse me, a strategic failure for Ukraine.
Thank you Oh, you've done it again, you nitwit!
Do you know that we're in the age of Freudian slips?
Some of you will know already that I am a spiritual person.
Yeah?
I've mentioned it before.
Because I love the Lord.
I love the light of the limitless Lord.
And what I reckon this is, is unconsciously they're telling the truth.
It's beyond a Freudian slip.
It's a Jungian stagger!
Something like that.
The archetypes are tumbling out in linguistic streams.
They can't stop themselves from telling the truth.
They know that they're propagandizing.
They know that they're backing Ukraine simply because they want to sell weapons and destabilize Russia.
And the deaths of Ukrainian men and women is a price that they're willing to pay.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think, guys, in the chat.
If you're watching this on YouTube, first 15 minutes we'll be there.
Then we'll be slipping over into the home of free speech rumble.
And we will not be using that free speech to propagate hate.
But to bring about unity, to bring about love, to reveal what we have always known, like came from our conversation with Tucker, we have more in common that could ever divide us.
Like I said to Tucker, would you be willing to stand on a platform, and he said, oh, whoa, whoa, I'm not standing for office.
I goes, Tucker, Tucker, I know you ain't standing for office, Tucker, but What we do agree on is that it don't matter how you identify.
If you believe in freedom, you believe in other person's freedom.
And that is what scares these people here.
Have you seen this in here?
It's a little thing called magic.
Now, also, is he going to say Ukraine one more time?
Well, what's so interesting about this is the way that the assembled press really try and help him out.
No, no, no, you didn't mean that.
You didn't mean Ukraine.
That's how it feels like to me.
Come on, we're trying to help you do your propaganda.
Just tell us what to type.
Tell us what to write.
I can't keep writing that Ukraine is doing badly.
What are you going to say next?
If cluster bombs are bad when Russia use them, they're bad when America supply Ukraine with them.
Either cluster bombs is bad, baby, or cluster bombs ain't bad.
If you're watching this on Rumble, press that red button now and join us on Locals, like Carolina Jeep Junk, who is using her free speech to say, I need more than one correction today.
This is the first time at the podium for a week.
Remember this from George W. Bush, our enemies are strong and determined and so are we.
They never stop, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good stuff, it's very good stuff.
Let's just see the end of this propaganda from the state, shall we?
For the correction, which is, oh, I need more than one correction today.
A strategic, this is the first time at the podium for a week, I'm apparently a little rusty.
Sorry, I've forgotten how to lie.
During my week off, I became honest because I was with my family and I had to tell the truth.
How do you feel about that?
You missed the... Funny, is it?
It's actually not funny what's happening.
A thousand Ukrainians are dying every day.
The counter-offensive is not an endgame for Ukraine like it was purported to be by the New York Times.
That isn't the case.
And then to stand up there and just kind of laugh this off, this error that you've made.
It's in bad taste, I think.
The propaganda's not funny.
We're against it.
We agree with free speech over here.
Sorry, Ian Drummo.
I did your joke wrong.
He's corrected me in the stream over here on locals.
Press the red button if you want to join us.
This is what I was supposed to say.
My apologies to all you guys in the stream.
Remember this from George W. Bush.
Our enemies are strong and determined, and so are we.
They never stop coming up with ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
Oh, double yeah, you silly old sausage, yeah.
You've only inadvertently accidentally told the truth because it was there, tumbling out of your consciousness
like the current war of Iraq.
I mean Ukraine. I mean Iraq. I mean Ukraine. Oh, it is confusing, isn't it?
Unless you tell the truth! Tell the truth! Shame the devil!
Then you don't have to remember the lie.
Hey, we did a poll earlier asking you, who do you trust with free speech more?
We're gonna show you the results of that poll in a second.
But first of all, have a look at the mainstream media propagating on behalf of Fred. Oh, they love Fred's, don't
they?
If you love Fritz, then why don't you marry Fritz?
If you love it so much.
Threads and the mainstream sitting in a tree.
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Love Threads.
And the way they are propagating for it, I'd call it barefaced, gal.
And I don't use that phrase very often.
I hold it back.
I hold off.
While we're watching this mainstream media, I'm going to draw a pair of little nipples on my shirt, just to lighten the mood.
But let's have a look at the mainstream media now.
Peddling for Threads.
Or Threadling, as some have called it.
Have a look.
Mark Zuckerberg's company, Meta, has launched its new app that's expected to compete with Twitter, which has faced backlash under the ownership of Elon Musk.
The text-based app, known as Threads, looks nearly identical to Twitter and has seen more than 30 million users sign up since...
They're even selling that as a good thing.
If you really, really hate McDonald's, you can't then go, Burger King's good though!
It's got to be a general thing that you've got some principles against.
What is it you don't like McDonald's?
The letter M, that weird clown that they've dropped right on time.
People are all starting to wonder what his objective was down at the old burger joint.
Celebrities from Oprah to Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Lopez already joining the app that looks fairly similar to Twitter.
The launch coming just days after Twitter announced limits on its app including Twitter is not as good, and this is almost as good as... This isn't news, is it?
Do you remember when the Twitter files happened, when it was revealed that the Deep State had FBI agents at Twitter that likely Facebook and other social media sites were also censoring true information, as Zuckerberg himself has admitted?
Where was the mainstream then?
Do you see the mainstream report about that?
Suddenly a new bloody app that censors is on the market.
Look at them!
They're tumbling over themselves in a giddy, priapic, gleeful Baton passing chase to propagandize it!
How many posts users can read per day?
The change is led by controversial billionaire, Elon.
Controversial billionaire?
What, Zuckerberg's not controversial?
He's not controversial to censor?
We're trying to get Zuckerberg on the show.
We sent him a special message.
Come on the show.
That was the content of the message.
But like, Elon Musk, is he more controversial than Zuckerberg?
Tell me, like we asked you in the poll, by the way, who do you trust with free speech?
I think the poll is about privacy which actually leads me to the fact that Facebook and Meta were fined one and a half billion dollars for a privacy infringement.
I don't believe that!
That can't be true!
It can't be true!
Something that's not mentioned on the mainstream when they go on about how controversial Elon Musk is.
They don't say, also Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are a bit controversial as well.
I'm going to say, if that's not true, I'm going to censor you so hard.
Look guys, go on the internet now and find out, is that true?
Were Facebook fined by the EU for selling private information to America?
Because if what this man has said is true, we've got a bloody problem on our hands and I haven't even had time to draw the nipples on the shirt yet!
Let's have a look at the rest of this propaganda!
I'll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.
Meta describing its vision as creating positive and creative space to express ideas.
Ideas that we agree with try expressing an idea that we don't disagree with.
That clip that they use of Musk again is purposefully trying to set him up
as the devil in all of this.
If we lose money, so be it.
Yeah.
It's like Ivan Dra, very much Ivan Dra.
If he dies, he dies.
If Rocky Twitter die, it die.
Yeah?
I mean, I think Elon Musk saying, if I lose money as a result of committing to free speech, means he's got principles.
Surely, isn't it?
Isn't it?
Have we gone mad?
Has he gone mad over it?
He's making claims.
Did the EU provide the evidence over on Locals?
Press the red button on your screen now.
Tell me, is he right?
Did the EU have to fine Facebook for selling private data to America?
Either it's true or it's not.
Either it's true or it's not.
Facebook is partially owned by USA... Whoa, hold on.
That's an allegedly... You're not getting away with that.
You better show your working out.
You better show your receipts.
If we're going to bring down the government, we're going to do it responsibly by Jove.
Shall we have a look at the rest of this propaganda?
Tell me in the chat.
Tell me in the chat.
Come on.
It's crazier.
Go on.
Leveraging Instagram's more than 2 billion users.
Posts on the app can be up to 500 characters long with links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes.
Elon Musk flew into a rage after the chief product officer for Mark Zuckerberg.
No, did he?
Were you there?
Were you there, though?
Did you see him?
Have you got footage of it?
Did he fly into a rage?
I think this is related.
No, I'm just asking.
I'm messaging.
I think this is related to him calling out Zuckerberg and say it's suggesting that they have a fight, which I
think is humorous.
I think what he will do is to reduce this to a fight, a kind of play fight between the two of them.
You're actually doing this, are you?
Why not, Gareth?
When I make a pledge to our audience, I follow through on it.
Not only are they a drawing of nipples, they're actually historically accurate!
The historically accurate nipples that I've just drawn there.
Is that some kind of metaphor?
Not necessarily, mate.
It's probably just... I'm on the precipice of a real rage as a result of some of this propaganda.
That's it.
Brand flew into a rage and drew some nipples on his shirt.
He's out of control.
Who would do a thing like that?
I'd agree with them on that.
They're right.
You're meant to be my press officer.
Sorry about that.
You're meant to stop me saying stuff like this.
Let's have a look.
Meta said their Twitter competitor, Threads, would be sanely run.
An obvious dig at the Nazi-friendly dumpster fire.
Nazi-friendly dumpster fire!
You can't just say that, can you?
Friendly to Nazis.
Now, I don't know if it's true or not.
Let me know.
Do your own research at home, guys.
If you're watching this on YouTube, do your research.
But be careful, because we have to watch out for... Politically.
Sweet lady community guidelines.
Here she comes.
I'm just guidelining you right up the community into a compliant silence.
But, is it true or is it nary true that there were Nazi battalions in the Ukrainian army?
That are like literally actual, like they do the salute, they wear the badges, all of the proper mad genocidal views and all that.
Is that true?
I think it's been proven.
Has it been proven?
Unbelievable stuff.
I guess the very fact that you're kind of slightly worried about even mentioning it on the platform that we're on at the moment is a measure of the way in which censorship has got to us.
That something that has been talked about, has been written about, I think was being written about a lot in the mainstream media pre-Ukraine war, is something that now we have to tiptoe around.
Now we have to censor ourselves around.
We have to Let's centre ourselves about Nazis.
You can, like, obviously, you can still believe that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was criminal, that there have been other comparable criminal invasions that have been backed by the United States in history, that this war is being used efficiently and expediently to generate profits for an economic model that requires endless war.
These are not controversial statements, at least they shouldn't be.
And yet Ukraine has a complex sociological history and that their army does have elements within it that are Well, Nazi, I suppose, and I'm trying to be careful, guys, but like, how can you call Twitter a Nazi dumpster fire when elsewhere we are prevented from discussing the true complexity of the current conflict?
Also, and what's most important in my view, is this war's got to stop, hasn't it?
It's got to stop as soon as possible so more Ukrainian and Russian lives are not squandered in order to just facilitate imperialist and Capitalist objectives.
That's what I think.
I don't know.
Is that controversial now?
Well, yeah, but some of the things that you're talking about here are things that could potentially be censored on Threads.
On Threads' first day of operations, users already reported having their posts taken down, mainly for political reasons.
Same kind of things we've seen before.
Some accounts are being blacklisted or greylisted.
So this is a place that, you know, Michael Schellenberger has talked about.
About how this is not about friendliness.
Is it about friendliness?
As Zuckerberg talks about.
It's about censorship.
Do you think that my nipple drawings look a little bit like their new logo?
That's what I will say.
A little bit.
A little bit like it.
They're sort of like an eccentric nippler, I would say.
Yeah, a little bit, says Claude.
Yeah, a little bit, says Barry John Fox.
That's what the people think over there on Locals.
That's a social media platform where you will not be censored.
Like my arse, see?
That should be censored.
But we won't censor it.
Just let people say whatever they want.
They can say it.
They can say what they want.
We're free.
It's free speech.
We love you in there.
Not sure about showing it at this stage.
No, not an ass.
No one wants to see that saucy little devil, do they?
We'll do a poll on it.
Let's have a look at the poll result.
Who do you trust more with your free speech?
Is it Mark Zuckerberg or is it Elon Musk?
Baby, it's a landslide.
35,000 of you voted.
98% of you said you trust Musk.
There's a little thing that we call democracy in action.
I guess, you know, this is a very positive piece.
They're using their free speech to be very silly over there on locals, but it's free speech that you would trust Elon
Musk I'm messaging him gal. I'm messaging him. Do I always
regret this? Do I always?
You do, you do. I know but I've got to get him. I've got to message him. I've got a voice note him
I guess you know, this is a very positive piece of my team.
This is yeah, this is a positive piece. It's a good bit.
Right All right, Elon mate. I hope you're okay. I hope I'm not
waking you up. I'm a brok- what are you saying?
I'm saying all right, I'm being friendly All right, Elon, we're on the show at the moment, but obviously, listen, we're talking about Threads, and we're talking about censorship, and we're talking about the mainstream media going out to bat for Threads.
We want to talk to you.
Can we get an interview booked in this week?
Are you asleep right now?
You're coming across as a bit lazy.
You're coming across as a person who's not committed to working enough.
Whenever I call you, you sound asleep.
Come on, Elon.
Elon!
I regret sending it!
I regret it already!
That's the quickest ever regret I've ever had!
The start was very strange for me.
I was like, alright there Elon!
Let's play it back and see if it sounds unusual.
I'm going to press keep on this message and I'm going to play it back and see if it sounds good.
Alright Elon Musk, I'm hoping I've waken you up. I'm Broco.
What are you saying?
Alright.
I'm saying alright.
You're in it!
I shouldn't have done this.
What have I done?
That's a good bit.
No, that's a mistake!
I shouldn't have done this.
What have I done?
We want to talk to you.
Can we get an interview booked in this week?
That's a good bit.
No that's a mistake!
Oh no.
Come on Elon.
EEEEEEEEELOOOOOO!
That bit sounds like you're drunk.
It does sound like that.
Have I made a mistake-er?
I don't know.
It's no worse than the previous ones.
Is it going to be okay?
Tell me in the locals' community.
They're saying calm down.
Why did you say that?
Why did you say that?
They're doing it for your own good, Russ.
Apologetic impression.
Russell, you junkard.
Blame Gareth.
No.
Yes, no.
That's a good point there.
I wouldn't say.
No, that is a good point.
Blame Gareth for not gatekeeping.
You didn't gatekeep very well there, mate, did you?
Call that gatekeeping?
Meanwhile, the digital dollar threatens to... Oh no, have we seen the rest of this propaganda?
No, let's watch the rest of this propaganda.
Then we're going to talk about the digital dollar.
Do you know about this?
They're pushing ahead with digital dollars.
They're going to control you right down your pocket holes in ways that are almost unmentionable to a fellow like me.
And I say that as a man who proudly shows his nipples.
Let's have a look at the rest of this propaganda.
That fight hasn't happened yet, but Zuckerberg's Threads launched yesterday and it's looking like it actually has a shot of besting Twitter in less than 24 hours.
Threads.
It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
This should be, there are two very similar platforms, one that existed before this other one, that's now potentially facing a lawsuit for literally copying Twitter.
But that aside, This one believes in censorship.
This one says it believes in free speech.
Why don't you decide?
Decide which one you want.
Shouldn't be.
We've got a clear preference and it's because we believe in their model.
We believe that when they censor, they'll censor in favour of our agenda.
It's actually disgusting.
We shouldn't be laughing about this.
Also, again, they're very much in line with their kind of corporate sponsors.
Meta's business model is about getting the public to spend more time online so Meta can profile us more and make advertising money.
For that reason, Threads has next to zero privacy protections, allowing companies to know one's location and consumer preferences.
That, I would say, as a news piece...
That should probably be on the news.
Now before you go believing Gareth, let's check if what he said about the EU fining Facebook was true.
Meta hit with a record breaking 1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers.
That's bigger than the Fox fine for the Dominion scandal.
Isn't that interesting?
Has it been reported in the same way?
People are all over that Fox Dominion thing.
Did you notice that?
If you're watching this on Rumble, press that red button at the bottom of your screen.
Join the conversation on Locals.
Look at people.
Some people are talking about my nipples.
Some people simply won't join, Fred.
Some people love us.
It's going so fast.
There's so many people chatting down there.
It's a fantastic conversation.
Let's have a look at the rest of this thing.
Did we get to the end of it?
Had more than 30 million subscribers.
It has an innate advantage compared to the many other Twitter alternatives that have cropped up, since you can automatically follow everyone you were already following on Instagram, and they can automatically follow you.
They're following because they've got all your data, because they're snoodling about in your phone.
Creating instant community and familiarity.
And now there's word Twitter CE.
Community is an overstatement.
Community. We've created a lovely little community by spying on you and censoring you.
The word they kept using is congenial.
Look at how language is being rebooted and altered around us.
Congenial means the ability to censor and control dissent.
Words like safety means we're going to control you to protect you.
But I don't want a corporatized state that behaves like a parent.
I'll take care of myself, thanks very much, and I'll be taken care of in a community that I'm a consensual part of.
I don't want dictatorship.
By the back door, don't be childish.
Don't be so bloody childish.
Elon Musk is threatening to sue the rival platform.
Musk tweeting, competition is fine, cheating is not.
Meta denying any wrongdoing.
In an interview with The Verge, Instagram CEO Adam Asare calls Twitter a pioneer in the space, but says
its volatility under Musk has opened the door for threats.
NBC News has reached out to Twitter for comment, but just received an automated response.
Zuckerberg.
So funny, isn't it?
Even that's ruby.
Oh, even I've got the time to respond.
Let's see if Elon's come back to me.
Already I'm regretting it.
I regrets it, but oh no.
Oh no, message is silenced.
Oh no, this is not good news.
If you're watching us on YouTube now, you're going to have to click the link in the description and join us over there on the home of free speech.
We're going to be talking about the digital dollar and the threat to financial privacy.
Do you think they'll misuse those powers?
Macron is threatening to shut down social media in France.
Can this be real?
All these liberal leaders with fantastic haircuts that came to us telling us they were going to bring us new inclusive democracy are behaving like tyrants, whether communist or fascist.
Don't you agree?
We've got to talk about this stuff.
We're going to be talking to Adam Andrzejewski a little bit later.
He's brilliant.
He works for a company or an organisation, excuse me, called Open Secrets.
Open the books.
Open those smirkly little books.
We always talk to him and he's in front of a bookshelf and he's going to be telling us stuff about how much money the FBI have spent on informants.
He's going to knock your knickers down and then blast them out the bleeding door.
So you are going to want to click that link in the description and join us over on Rumble right now.
Stay free, you Awakening Wonders.
Now, if you're watching this on Rumble, press the red button at the bottom of your screen and join the conversation.
LittleRenegade says, how about we don't join one more social media site and instead go outside and actually talk to people and integrate with the local community in person instead of living online and following... Oh, quick, you're communicating so quickly, you guys.
I can't...
Keep holding it.
Uh, ourselves to be driven to hysteria by a distorted world view.
Yeah, yeah.
Good point, little renegade.
We've got to spend time out in nature.
We want you here, awakened.
We want you participating with us in the content that we make for you every single day, but it don't mean as much to me as your mental health and as your freedom.
We want you to get outside, live among nature, talk to one another, embrace one another, and just trust us as your new source and as a new, emergent, independent media movement that is going to change the world with you.
for you, alongside you, unless the establishment gets its way.
Look at that saucy Fed. They've been trialing digital dollars.
Why is this a problem? Because it means they're going to be able to control and switch off currency.
Because they've called it a successful trial, ultimately.
And this is something that 130 countries around the globe are doing. So representing 90%
of the global economy and now exploring digital versions of their currencies with
almost half in advanced development, either piloting or launching stages. So this
is happening. And it's something that obviously we talked about CBDCs for a while and the danger
of them being able to track.
I mean, in the UK, a digital version of the British pound may feature a way to verify the
holder's age and citizenship status. So this is not just about what you can buy and then being
able to potentially change interest rates and ultimately control people's spending habits.
But it's things like we've talked about before about digital passports, what else is of what
other information is available through these currencies.
When cryptocurrencies first became popular, notably through Bitcoin...
What we heard again and again is we can't trust them.
They're bad for the environment.
They're unreliable.
You can't trust them.
They stink.
They'll turn your fingers wrinkly.
You'll go all unusual.
You'll have nightmares.
But as soon as they're able to centrally control it, CBDC's become a solution.
It's like cluster bombs.
It's okay when we do it.
Nothing has a principle behind it, only an agenda behind it.
Yeah, it's bad when it's Bitcoin.
It's good when it's Britcoin.
Aha!
That's the very way to describe it.
Trust Gareth Roy, my press secretary and on-screen assistant, to come up with the perfect description.
France gives law enforcement the power to remotely activate and listen in on other people's devices.
You're kidding me!
To remotely activate, like a phone like this one?
Yeah, well, there's that, but... No!
Yeah that is that is one of the things that's happening but also he's threatened to regulate or cut off social media during these riots that he's saying is about curbing violence but as we know that and what's amazing as to what we've talked about recently in terms of these EU laws this Digital Services Act Yeah, they're saying that if social media sites don't censor the information that they say they've got to censor, they could be fined up to 6% of their annual turnover.
That's something they just can't stand.
That's exactly that.
But Thierry Breton at the EU is the one we've spoken about before, threatening Elon Musk with that kind of crazy, threatening mafia language.
He was using gangster language, wasn't he?
Saying, listen, this is where bad ideas come to die.
I will take you down, you motherfucker.
He said things like that, Gav.
Not exactly that.
I'm not saying it's exactly what he said.
That is a misquote, plainly, but it's the general effect.
around your snout like a dirty self-loving elephant.
He said things like that, Gav. Not exactly that. I'm not saying it's exactly what he said.
That is a misquote, plainly, but it's the general effect.
What's he saying now?
Teary Brit on a web he calls himself. What he's basically said is Macron threatening to regulate
a cut of social media, which is obviously social media, as we have been talking about with
Elon Musk and Twitter, is the way that ideas are shared now.
When we want to talk about, you know, about free speech, about...
Things that Matt Habe and Michael Schellenberg have been revealing.
This is how this is shared so quickly.
So the ability to shut down social media is a massive thing.
And Thierry Breton has basically said social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat will face possible shutdowns under these new EU laws.
If they threaten to, for example, where there is hateful content, he says, content that calls, for example, for revolt, they will be required to delete the content.
Now what does revolt mean?
What's the definition of revolt?
I suppose what it means is to replace the current corrupt systems and institutions with new democratic ones.
So censor that, Breton, you saucy bugger!
USA Now has posted a really funny sort of racing car thing with a police chase after a bronco.
Can you grab that out of the locals chat so we can show it up on Rumble as well?
USA Now's poster.
Get it as an asset for us guys so I can share that.
Lovely.
Feel free to post your memes and your gifs there, guys.
It's a free speech platform.
Uh, social media riot back down.
Social media riot shutdowns possible under EU continent.
Ah, that's it.
That's that Breton.
And I'll say this, you know, aside from all the gangster language, he looks like a little old lady.
Doesn't he?
Looks like a harmless little old lady of all that.
Does he do kiss your mother with that mouth?
Let's have a look at the next one.
Apparently now, this is the story where we came off YouTube for.
Apparently, doing press-ups now is akin to Sieg Heiling.
MSNBC is saying that fitness is far right.
Rogan, our man, tweeted about it.
He says that holy fuck, being healthy is far right now.
What do you think about that?
Excuse me.
Let me know in the comments if you think that... I mean, look.
I suppose that this is how you could tangentially get there.
The sort of supremacy and excellence can be sort of regarded as fascist ideals but if you're exercising our self-love because you want to be well because you love yourself and you respect your body and you want to take care of it and you don't judge other people's bodies or their right to be how they are and look how they are and you're not got some sort of hierarchy of these are supreme and beautiful bodies and these are disgusting and people should be shamed I don't know what how you get to far right from there do you?
Well look so Contained in this article it says far-right groups have
exploited the popularity of at-home fitness during the pandemic to radicalise individuals in the MMA and combat
sports communities.
Now I'm sure there might be an element of radicalisation in certain communities, but I guess Joe Rogan's point at this
stage is the reductiveness of an article written by the mainstream media again.
When you're writing something with a headline, why the far right is really into home fitness, you are reducing this to something that people again will become politicised.
I think a more important piece of analysis to offer is when we were locked down, it was never discussed that we could be eating healthy, Getting well, getting sunshine on our face, vitamin B, which is now demonstrably good for you, particularly in relation to the conditions around the pandemic, and taking exercise, taking care of yourself.
What they want, I think, and tell me if you agree with this, they want us to be like sort of slumped larvae, impotent automatons who are unable to become activated and awake.
They want you weak.
They want you dumb.
Congenial.
They want you on threads, just trading dumb memes, objectifying yourself and others.
No awareness of the sacredness within yourself.
No awareness of the sacredness within the world.
no awareness that your imagination, your individual consciousness is a powerful tool
that can be used to change the world.
That you should love and respect yourself.
This is not a judgment on what you look like, how you identify, how you express yourself,
but the fact that you regard yourself highly.
I'm a person that's had body issues in the past.
I've been bulimic, I've been a drug addict, I've self-harmed, and now I exercise, I feel better.
And I recognize that it's an important part of psychological wellness to embody healthiness,
to become fit.
I've never felt better since I've started doing yoga and Brazilian jiu-jitsu and eating
And I recognize I'm fortunate to be able to spend the time doing that because I know many of you have social and economic conditions that prevent you from being able to look after yourself as well as you might.
But to suggest that it's somehow malfeasant to want to be well, that in itself is the problem.
Yeah, and I think you're absolutely right.
I think it did start in the pandemic.
I think the the issue that they're conflating here is that people who were calling for lockdowns being the wrong thing for us to do.
Yeah, and they're actually getting out and exercising a lot like Joe Rogan said at the time the ways that he was able to able to recover from COVID was Making sure that he stuck to fitness.
Yes, he took certain things, but it was his fitness routine.
I hated that.
They did not like that.
The mainstream media did not like that.
MSNBC, in particular, did not like that at all.
And so this was the start of actually, you know, where were the mainstream media in discussing how important it was to stay fit, to make sure that we were taking care of ourselves, make sure that... I love watching you grape for that because it's so close to your laptop.
Yeah, why were they not recommending just measures of wellness?
Did you notice that?
Did you guys notice?
They were spending more time demonising Joe Rogan and the things that Joe Rogan was saying than actually saying to their viewers, actually look, it is important to do this.
It is important to take care of yourself.
It is important not to sit down and like the Mayor of New York was offering at the time, people to get free hamburgers and chips for getting vaccinated.
So silly.
Those were the narratives that were being propagated at the time.
Here is this brilliant meme from USA Now.
Is that you being chased around on the internet?
Stockholm syndrome, cognitive dissonance, indoctrination.
And there you are.
I suppose the inconvenient truth is that you're OJ Simpson in that meme.
But other than that, it's fantastic.
Do you know what I believe in more than anything else?
Freedom of speech.
And where freedom and speech meet, you get free speech.
and where free speech meets you get freech.
Let's use our free speech to love on one another.
Let's use our free speech to make one another feel better and more connected.
Let's use our free speech to criticise me, Ashella says, as a result, because I burp sometimes a lot on this show, don't I?
Sometimes.
Is it frequent?
It's a lot.
I've only done one today, haven't I?
I think so, actually.
But today was a good day, in the words of the great Ice Cube.
I demand justice for shamans.
We will get justice for shamans.
I think it's because I've seen somewhere something where shamans... I think I've been worked on once by a shaman.
What do you mean worked on?
I went out with the shaman.
He was doing a bit of this.
He was called Kestrel.
A massage?
I don't want to call it a massage, Gal.
You're trying to diminish my shaman and me.
Me and my shaman, what me and my shaman do is our own private business.
Me and my shaman, what we do in his parlour, in his wiped down parlour, he's called Kestrel.
That's his name, Kestrel, Kestrel the Shaman.
He's a bloody good shaman down in Glastonbury Way.
Not only is he my shaman, but by God did he conduct Nick Cage's, excuse me, I get mixed
up with the Nicks, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Nick Cage.
This one's Nick Cage, actor Nick Cage.
He done he's wedding.
He done he's wedding.
He done his son's wedding.
When Nick Cage's son got wedded to someone, oh, Kestrel's your man.
Kestrel and Jay, they're the shaman that you can trust.
Anyway, he was doing a bit of shamaning up and down me.
Oh, God, I'd never felt better.
Which bit in particular?
He says, this area needed work.
He said, this is where all the bad energies are.
And then, like, he shamaned me right up the bracket.
And he goes, he done some belches.
He goes, oh, sorry, that's the spirits.
That's a new one.
Oh, there's a spirit.
Oh, there they go.
All those spirits.
Oh, they're a muggy bunch, them spirits.
Oh, there you go.
There's another one.
Oh, there's a dirty bastard.
I'm still mucking about!
Well, he was farting out spirits left and right, he was.
Sorry to diminish the sacred art of the shaman.
The original religion where people connected to themselves, nature and their tribe by recognising the sacredness between us all.
And sometimes there has to be a bit of profanity, baby, to explode new psychic territory.
And that's where you need the trickster to come in.
And that's why sometimes you need A sweet man in a bowtie that I'm about to introduce you to.
You better be wearing a bowtie.
I'm going to... At Synchronicity says about free speech, the media is totally and completely over-the-top ridiculous.
I don't know how any of them look in the mirror each day with the amount of lies they spew.
I don't think they care.
I don't think they're aware of it, mate.
Rockamun, this is insane.
The judge said it was against the constitution to suppress free speech.
They're against the constitution.
There's no doubt about it, baby.
Ace07, it's essential that the most extreme speech be protected and remain uncensored.
Once you start accepting limits on speech, you lose.
And who picks the decision makers?
Who does do that?
Who does?
Who do we trust now?
Who has the moral authority to censor you?
Who has the moral authority to govern you?
I've been learning a lot about the history of our sweet little monarchy and all history is is a bunch of establishment elites corralling populations into a kind of an order and exploiting them and then pretending them to do it for their own good.
It's been going on for ages and ages.
Thankfully it comes to a stop now thanks to a man Who I know and trust.
A man by the name of Adam Andrzejewski, who comes from OpenTheBooks.com, where the government are tracked and held to account to see how they spend their money and how they use your taxpayer dollary dues to corrupt you right down your snout pipes.
Adam is here now!
Ah, Adam, you honour us in that tie.
You look more handsome than I remember you.
Well, thank you, Russell.
Hey, first off, I just want to say that the elites in this country, they take us all for fools, and they dominate in the media and the government.
But they don't dominate here.
You've put together a platform where people watch, they listen, they comment.
And that strikes me a lot like what the scientific method used to be, where people could question, give criticism, be skeptical of ideas.
And at the end of the day, that's how you get the best public policy.
That's why in the first two times that you've had me on this year, I've called you Mr. Brand out of respect for the platform that you have created here to educate all of us.
Well, I thank you very much.
And I will echo the sentiments of our friend here on Locals, Barry John Fox, who, referring to you, says simply, you handsome bastard.
Now, Adam, some of your research shows that the federal complex is becoming increasingly militarized.
Is it true?
Because I can't believe that it is.
This better not be fake news.
This better not be misinformation.
How can the IRS, who are an organization who have the simple job of innocently collecting taxes for the betterment of American civilians and citizens, be spending money on guns?
Tell me you're making that up.
Tell me it ain't true, Adam.
We're the subject matter expert on this, Russell, all the way back to 2016.
With our then-honorary chairman, Dr. Tom Coburn and I, we published an editorial at the Wall Street Journal, Why Does the IRS Need Guns?
We've recently updated our numbers, and here are the findings.
Since 2006, The Internal Revenue Service has purchased $35 million worth of guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment.
But $10 million of that, of those purchases, have come since the pandemic started.
So ahead of the pandemic, here's the numbers on the IRS gun locker.
They own 4,500 weapons, including 600 shotguns and 500 long barrel rifles, which are AR-15 style weaponry.
They own 15 submachine guns.
Who knew the IRS had submachine guns in their basement?
They had stockpiled 5 million rounds of ammunition.
But just in the past two and a half years, they've purchased 10 million dollars worth of additional weaponry and gear, including a million dollars worth of AR-15 style long barrel rifles, a half million dollars worth of shotguns, and 3.8 million dollars worth of other gear.
This is astonishing, it's extraordinary.
If it weren't coming from a source as reliable as you, Adam, I would say it had to be disinformation.
Because how can the government that continually advocate for tighter controls with some reasonable arguments on the weaponry and armoury of the American public be spending so much money on arming themselves?
Almost as if They want themselves heavily armed, and they want you with nothing in your hands that can do any damage at all.
That's astonishing.
Well, let's look at the entire federal complex, even beyond the IRS.
So since 2006, we've quantified at OpenTheBooks.com That the 103 federal agencies have purchased $3.7 billion worth of guns, ammunition and military style equipment.
Now, 27 of those agencies are traditional federal law enforcement agencies.
They're housed at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
But there are 76 Ranking file traditional paper-pushing agencies like Health and Human Services or the Environmental Protection Agency like the IRS, like the Department of Education for crying out loud, like the Social Security Administration.
Those 27 agencies have loaded up on weaponry as well.
In total, Russell, There are now 200,000 federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, and that number exceeds the number of United States Marines at 180,000.
That's astonishing.
Over here on our chat they're saying they're making death and taxes one department.
That's a fantastic quote from our chat.
The two inevitabilities have ultimately aligned.
Excuse me, Adam, is it also true that the FBI is spending a staggering amount on paying informants?
Is that true?
So here are the latest numbers, and in 2021, I put these numbers up in my then-column at Forbes.
The FBI, the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the ATF, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, during six-year and five-year periods, they spent $550 million on paid informants.
If you break that number down, the FBI spent about $300 million between 2012 and 2018 paying informants.
They did not disclose the number of their paid informants.
The DEA spent about $200 million.
They did disclose their informants.
18,000 people were paid to be an informant between the years of 2011 and 2015.
The ATF paid about 2,000 people to be informants, and they spent about 20 million dollars.
What does this suggest to you about the nature of government and the way that it is funded?
What does it suggest to you about the nature of government and their relationship with media?
Given the depth and breadth and detail of your experience, Adam, what type of government would you like to see in America?
What level of federalisation, localisation, democracy do you think is required to stop what appears to be inherent governmental corruption that is not a bug but a feature of a deeply corrupted system?
So here's what we can all agree on, Russell.
I don't care if you're left, right, or center.
People on the left, they want their tax dollar to serve people who have real needs.
The people on the right, you know, they want to be left alone.
They want to limit government to the core of services.
But here's what we can all agree on.
That every dime that government taxes and spends within reason should be online in real time.
Now at OpenTheBooks.com, we actually have a phrase for this.
Every dime online in real time.
And I want to invite everybody watching the program here today to our website at OpenTheBooks.com.
Last year we filed 55,000 Freedom of Information Act requests, and we captured nearly, not all, but nearly every dime taxed and spent at every level of government across the entire country.
So if you're concerned about the policies in your local school district, you can come to our website.
You can search even the payrolls, and oftentimes the vendor checkbooks, right in your local municipality, county, or school district, all the way to Washington D.C.
What a fantastic facility you're offering, which is indeed transcendent of bipartisan politics, because regardless of the affiliations you have with a particular flavour of democracy, and God knows I believe that those flavours have become banal and centralised to the point of near redundancy, we all want clarity and transparency in our government.
So close to Independence Day, it's surely worth noting that your great nation declared itself independent from another Better.
Better nation.
Better.
Probably a bit better.
Better one.
Better flags.
Better uniforms and stuff.
And perhaps your revolution was somehow masterminded by British generals behind the scenes.
That that independence was wrought from and brought about precisely because of taxation without representation.
And yet, from what you're telling us, Adam, that's exactly what's happening to this day in spite of the revolution.
Well, we fight, we dig, we keep digging, we keep clawing to make sure that every dime goes online in real time.
Russell, just recently we issued a report on the earmarked spending of members of Congress in the last six months ago in the year-end budget bill.
And it was $16 billion that went out the door on 7,500 port projects.
So Congress literally went nuts.
$1 million to the Macadamia Nut Initiative in Hawaii.
$2 million went on an earmark, a local pet project into Baltimore, Maryland, to the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, where the member who asked for that earmark was ensconced in a wax figurine just six months of of ahead of the year mark.
You got $3 million, $3.6 million that went into the Michelle Obama trail down in Atlanta, Georgia, phase two.
Phase one was actually paid by local county taxpayers.
Phase two is paid for by all of us.
But all of that is dwarfed by the $5 million from the Republican member of Congress, Byron Donalds, down in Naples, Florida.
$5 million went into the Naples septic system.
It literally got flushed down the drain in a community where the average home price is $600,000.
Adam, it's very difficult to listen to these things, and if it wasn't for your physical and spiritual beauty, I don't know if I'd be able to stand it.
Were it not for the face of an angel, the eyes of a pear-soaked model, the twinkling teeth Adam, it's customary when we have you on our show, and thank God we have the privilege of having you on pretty regularly, for you to pluck almost at random a book from your shelf of sexy knowledge and read us arbitrarily a paragraph of deep wisdom.
Why should today be different from any other day?
Adam, I beg you, with all that is decent and holy, to open those damn books and read us something!
Sure enough, I actually was prepared for this, Russell, so I pulled right off our shelf Fleecing America, done by the former really good, good government U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, William Proxmire.
He did the Golden Fleece Award for years.
Here are just two of the examples of a Golden Fleece Award from the 1970s.
In 1975, Proxmire gave the award to the FAA.
For a study of 432 flight attendants where they measured the distance between their knees when they were sitting and the length of their buttocks and they spent $300,000 on that study.
Here's another study from 1978.
Proxmire gave the Golden Fleece Award for a federal study of the activities inside a Peruvian brothel, where the researchers kept coming back repeatedly, all in the interests of accuracy.
We've got to be accurate about what's going on in this brothel.
I just need one more night.
And while we're in there, I can give my buttocks a good measuring.
And by the way, Adam, that is not how you say the word buttocks.
It's not buttocks.
It's not buttocks!
Is it, Adam?
It's buttocks.
Buttocks.
British style.
Well, hey, I'm here in Chicago.
You know, it is what it is, Russell.
All the time, buttocks!
Buttocks!
Here in Illinois, it is the Super Bowl of corruption.
So to the extent that we say our words wrong, you know, that's just another thing wrong with It ain't necessarily wrong.
Maybe that's just how you say it, Budax.
What good shall I do this day?
What a lovely phrase you've got behind you there.
You're a beautiful man, Adam.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thanks once again for being illuminating, energetic, rigorous, assiduous, and damn good fun.
It's always a joy to spend time with you, mate.
Thank you.
Thank you, Russell.
See you again soon.
You can find out more about Adam and his work by going to OpenTheBooks.com.
You've seen what he's doing.
He's a fascinating man.
I think that he's the sort of person that should be supported.
I don't know if you can find out more about him at OpenTheBooks.com.
Will it say, like, what's he like?
What makes him tick?
I'd actually would like to know that.
Right.
Because I'm fascinated by him.
I should add a personal section.
Have a personal section on OpenTheBooks.
I'd like to do a special session, OpenTheBooks on Adam.
Let's have a chapter on you.
That's, yes, well, not my financial dealings.
No, no, I'm in a chapter on you, Adam.
Oh, Adam, yeah.
We want to open the books on Adam and then we see a series of photos of Adam.
Leisure wear.
Yeah.
Maybe just a bathrobe.
Yeah.
Nothing.
I'm not talking bad taste, Gareth.
Swimwear of some sort.
Yeah, swimwear.
You know, so we're not talking, we're not talking about any nipsies.
No, no.
We're not talking about the, we're not talking about this.
Let's take a good look at this.
He's a luscious serum, I tells you.
He's still there, Adam, watching us beaming.
And yeah, we love you, mate.
It's a great conversation, guys.
I appreciate it.
I appreciate the showcase.
We want to be the information for everybody watching the show, an information machine for democracy.
I will give you such a slap on the buttocks if you don't stop behaving, Adam.
Hey, for next time, I'm going to practice saying that word.
No, don't you change, mate.
Don't you change anything about you.
You're absolutely terrific and perfect the way you are as the Lord made you.
Thank you, Adam, for joining us.
Well, there you go.
There he goes.
Adam Andrzejewski.
One of the goddamn finest fellas we ever did have on this show.
And this week continues to reach such giddy heights Because tomorrow we've got Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard talking about their new movie, Sound of Freedom, a film that I think perhaps due to its production model and its PR model, and indeed its subject matter, has become quite controversial.
Let us know if you've heard about it.
Then on Friday, one of my favourite YouTubers, The Critical Drinker, will be joining me For a conversation talking about the nature of movies, entertainment, the obligation to make movies that are representative versus propagandist ideologies.
It's a really brilliant conversation.
And if you want early access to these conversations, sometimes they, due to availability of guests, take place at unusual times, join the locals community.
Then you can see my conversation with people like Oliver Stone.
That's coming up soon.
Oliver Stone who made JFK.
I once made a documentary of him.
Do you remember that?
Certainly do.
It was a difficult time.
Oliver in the end, he said, I'm going to bring it up.
I'm going to ask about it.
He said he stopped making it in the end, didn't he?
He went, someone else is going to have to do this.
He made Platoon based on his own harrowing experiences in Vietnam.
But when it came to working with old Russ, he drew the line.
You weren't there, man!
You weren't there!
I wasn't there.
I was a couple of hours late.
Like when I made that film with Michael Winterbottom about like financial corruption.
I remember that too.
He went, why won't you come here?
Why are you so late all the time?
I don't like it.
I don't like doing stuff like this.
Oliver Stone accused me of wearing the same shirt twice in a row.
You deserved that.
Did I?
And I think you were.
Like you went to his office and Oliver said, well you're wearing the same shirt.
Sure, sure.
You're wearing that shirt.
You wouldn't get away with that with old Zebra.
No.
Would you mate?
Well black and white there with old Strobey.
You wouldn't get away with that in normal telly.
Hey, listen, yous lot, guess who's coming on later?
Ron DeSantis.
He'll be live.
So if you're a member of our Locals community, press the red button and join.
It's pretty easy.
You get access to some beautiful content.
It's the inside track.
If you're watching us on Rumble, we're doing our absolute best, but we've got to have you close.
If this movement's going to succeed, we need you close enough to feel the brush of these sweet treats.
Anyway, I've told you everything I can tell you.
It's time now to have a close look at cluster bombs.
Not too bloody close, they're actually dangerous.
No matter who's using them.
No one wants a cluster bomb up in their grill, do they?
Be it Russian, or be it Ukrainian.
Either cluster bombs are bad, or they ain't.
So why are the mainstream media propagating for the use of cluster bombs in this ever-escalating conflict?
And where will it lead if we don't stand up now?
If we don't speak openly?
If we don't demand peace of our crazy elite leaders?
What will become of us?
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
No, here's the fucking news!
Last year, the White House said if Russia used cluster bombs, that would be a war crime.
This year, they're saying they're going to use cluster bombs, and if you don't let them, that would be a war crime.
What is a war crime?
Somehow we must not fall into the amnesia.
Somehow we must remember that a year ago the White House said, oh, cluster bombs, Russia is using them, that makes them criminals.
And this year they're sending cluster bombs to that war that they're not involved in other than helping people because they love humanitarianism so very much.
So how can that make sense?
This is good, this, because it will help you to learn stuff.
It's certainly helped me to learn stuff.
Either cluster bombs are bad, or they are not bad.
You can't determine the value of a cluster bomb based on who's being blown up by it.
Cluster bombs, are they good or bad?
Well, who's being blown up?
Someone I don't like.
I like cluster bombs.
Who's being blown up?
Someone I agree with.
Oh, cluster bombs.
Oh, that's not fair.
Boo.
Boo, cluster bombs.
Oh, they've just killed somebody.
Hurray!
I like cluster bombs.
Here's some propaganda from the state.
Tonight, the United States commits to supplying Ukraine with perhaps the most controversial weapon of this war so far.
You know, it's a very difficult decision on my part.
Oh, thank God.
Everyone go back to sleep.
It's OK.
I know cluster bombs are bad and that civilians might be harmed, but when they're being blown up, I just want you to bear in mind that it was a difficult decision for Joe Biden.
And that'll be of some comfort to you as you watch your legs and limbs being scattered around some unnecessary battlefield so that faraway people can become rich.
Weapons are capable of causing massive damage.
They carry smaller bombs with the ability to spread out over a large area.
Amazing.
But in 2023, that's going to get used.
That we're not capable of saying, listen, we've got these cluster bombs.
We're going to blow up all that Russian people with mums and dads and families and stuff.
Before we do that, though, should we have a chat about maybe how to end this conflict?
They also put civilians at risk.
The decision comes as Ukraine reports its counteroffensive is gaining ground against Russian forces.
Is it?
Cluster munitions, banned in more than 120 countries, scatter mid-flight and then rain down small bombs across a wide area.
Progress.
Progress.
They can cause massive indiscriminate damage.
But do they discriminate, though?
Oh, no.
It's indiscriminate.
Progress.
And bomblets that don't explode on the ground pose a significant risk to civilians, especially children.
Especially the children.
Ah, it's for the children.
Oh, there goes one now.
Or bits of one.
The Pentagon says Ukraine is running low on artillery shells and needs the munitions to help the counter-offensive.
We recognize that cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm.
But we don't care.
Because, like, a year ago, you said it was wrong when Russia were doing it.
So what can you say now?
What can you possibly say?
Let's see.
But there is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions.
This is how government works.
What do you need to say in order to do what you want to do?
Everyone sort of knows that technique in your own life, but it doesn't usually result in the death of children.
This one does.
What do we need to say in order to do what we want to do?
That not doing it would be worse?
Yeah!
No matter how bad something is, if not doing it would be worse, then we have to do it, right?
The only thing that would derail that is if you didn't trust those people, then you'd be in trouble.
But I suppose if they were able to censor information and stop you disagreeing with them publicly, then even you not trusting them would become irrelevant.
The U.S.
has previously condemned cluster munitions use by Russia.
It's okay, when will you do it?
Here, just six days into the war.
We've seen videos of Russian forces moving exceptionally lethal weaponry into Ukraine.
Do those masks help against cluster bombs?
That includes cluster munitions.
Boo!
Russian cluster bombs!
Bad, bad Russian cluster bombs!
But desperate times may have called for desperate measures.
It's different when we do it.
Thank you.
Some Democrats have said that giving cluster munitions to Ukraine undermines America's reputation as a human rights defender around the world.
Oh, you're just so confused.
This is why you need your information censored, you, because you're stupid.
Some cluster bombs, they are defending human rights, whereas other cluster bombs, they're, oh, they're bad cluster bombs.
Some cluster bombs go to heaven, and other cluster bombs, they go to hell.
See, that's the bad ones.
Don't you understand?
That's why you need a centralized authority to control information that you get, because you're too stupid to work all this out.
Don't worry, the mainstream's got your back.
What's the White House response?
I mean, we don't believe that it undermines our... There she is, Corrine Jean-Pierre.
Oh, God, another day at work.
I was an idealist.
Now I'm going to have to say that cluster bombs are good.
Cluster bombs are good.
What about if they kill children?
Still good, because them children would have died anyway, but by a Russian cluster bomb.
Progress!
Freedom!
Our reputation of being human rights offenders, this is something that we say all the time, right, when it comes to human rights, when it comes to having those conversations with either our partners or other heads of state.
We certainly, the president never shies away.
He does shy away.
You never see him, do you?
And when he does, he can't speak properly.
Amazing.
Amazing!
Baffling!
Astonishing!
Hypocrisy!
Of almost inconceivable proportions!
Let's see if we can somehow try and understand this without reaching the conclusion that we're being governed by a corporatist, globalist state that lies to us and does whatever it needs to do in order to meet its incentives, and its incentives are always about its own advancement, never about yours, but they have to mask that.
Let's see if we can reach another conclusion using On Friday, the Biden administration said it would send cluster munitions, weapons that scatter unexploded bomblets, across a wide area killing and maiming civilians for decades to Ukraine.
That's progress.
Facing the failure of Kiev's military offensive, the United States is desperately seeking to use the provision of ever more destructive and indiscriminate weapons to reverse its setbacks on the battlefield.
Things Yes, yes, that does seem like a way to peace and humanitarianism.
Destructive, indiscriminate weapons.
Critically, the announcement precedes next week's NATO summit in Vilnius.
At which the United States and NATO are planning to massively expand their involvement in the war.
So whatever you're thinking about the war, like should there be a diplomatic solution?
Could we force Zelensky and Putin to the table by withdrawing Western support for this war and preventing military-industrial complex profits from skyrocketing even further?
All of those ideas, don't worry about them, forget those.
What's happening at NATO is massive expansion.
Do you remember when you voted for it?
You know, you remember when they asked you, because you're funding it with your money, remember when they went, I don't mind a few hours of my working day going towards cluster bombs to blow up children.
That's my patriotic duty.
Driven into a corner by its miscalculations, the Biden administration is compelled to take even more drastic measures.
Yeah, the miscalculation is, it's easy to have a proxy war with Russia, an armed nuclear superpower, which people like Jeffrey Sachs have been telling us from the get-go.
The aim of the decision to use cluster bombs, regardless of its long-term impact on civilians, Should we regard its long-term impact on civilians?
No!
Don't regard that!
That's there!
Look there!
Oh yeah, it's better now!
Ow!
Ow!
My legs!
Ow!
Ow!
Don't regard that now!
Okay.
Is to kill as many Russian soldiers as possible.
The reasoning that led in the past to the use of Agent Orange and napalm.
How is it different?
And which will be used to sanction the use of tactical nuclear weapons is presently at work.
The U.S.
on the eve of Vilnius is clearly sending a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
NATO will stop at nothing.
And Putin will stop at nothing.
So, that's good, isn't it?
Definitely don't consider a diplomatic solution where two opposed superpowers with nuclear armory have both stated publicly that they will stop at nothing.
There's only one thing we can solve this.
Cluster bombs.
In a briefing Friday announcing the move, U.S.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan justified the decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine as a means of staving off military disaster.
Oh yeah, cool.
There is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions and take more Ukrainian territory and subjugate more Ukrainian civilians because Ukraine does not have enough artillery, he said.
Sullivan made this statement a little over one month after Ukraine launched its spring offensive, which the American press has touted as an endgame for Ukraine, leading, in the words of retired General David Petraeus, to significant breakthroughs.
Instead, the offensive has produced a bloody debacle.
You know that significant breakthrough?
Yeah.
How significant was it?
Pretty significant, actually.
It's been a bloody debacle!
Progress?
Freedom?
Ah, my legs!
Shh, look over there!
Far from inflicting a crushing defeat on Russia, the Biden administration has been driven to one escalatory move after another in an effort to shore up the Ukrainian military.
Because the Ukrainian military cannot defeat the Russian military because of history and the present and reality and some pretty solid stuff.
We recognise that cluster munitions risk creating civilian harm from unexploded ordnance, Sullivan said.
But we had to balance that against the risk that Ukraine might not have sufficient artillery ammunition.
In other words, the Biden administration weighed the cost of killing and maiming generations of Ukrainian civilians against the benefits of killing more Russian troops.
It decided that the deaths of Ukrainian children from unexploded ordnance was a sacrifice America's oligarchy was willing to make.
Oh, God bless that oligarchy.
Is there nothing they won't sacrifice that doesn't affect them at all?
Every line employed by the White House to justify sending these weapons of terror to Ukraine could be used to justify the deployment or even use of tactical nuclear weapons in the conflict.
That's a brilliant point, isn't it?
They're gonna turn up on your TV one day going, listen, you know, you've always thought nuclear bombs was a bad thing, but some nuclear bombs, American ones that you paid for, are good though because of how they would be not as bad as a Russian one, so we're gonna Yes, the White House would argue nuclear fallout poses a risk to civilians, but this risk must be balanced against the risk of Russian military advances.
OKAY THEN!
The stationing of US tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine has already been directly raised by an American think tank.
Oh my god, they're already, they're discussing it.
They're discussing it.
Moreover, the deployment and possible use of nuclear weapons in the conflict will no doubt be on the agenda at the upcoming summit in Vilnius.
Every official statement by the United States about its involvement in the war is justified on the basis that it is once again saving a country through military violence, this time Ukraine.
But in sending cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine, the United States has made clear that this is nothing but a hollow pretext for pursuing its aim of prevailing over Russia and China in great power competition.
But it is that, isn't it?
It's not anything else, is it?
Because all of the things they said were true, like cluster bombs bad, cluster bombs good, that's all falling apart and all that's left is, we'd kind of like our economic interests in this geopolitical war to prevail.
The very words used by the United States and its allies to condemn Russia's alleged use of cluster bombs in Ukraine now fully apply to the US decision to send this weapon to Ukraine.
How could they not, if it was the principle?
The principle stays firm, as we always discuss.
In February 22, the US envoy to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, accused Russia of using cluster munitions in Ukraine which are banned under the Geneva Convention, which we will mention when it's convenient, but ignore when it isn't, and have no place on the battlefield.
In March 2022, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, we have seen the use of cluster bombs, which will be in violation of international law, he added.
We also have to make sure the International Criminal Court really looks into this.
But not previous wars that we've been involved in.
Otherwise, we're going to have to go to prison as well.
Literally, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the war criminals of Iraq will go to jail.
So we want the International Criminal Court.
Could you look over there?
Oh, no, that's not good.
That's really bad.
And also, what?
No, nothing else.
That's the end.
Goodbye.
Thanks for coming.
Here's some donations.
Bye!
In fact, all these denunciations of Russian actions on the part of the US and NATO were merely hypocritical pretexts for escalating US involvement in the war.
Oh, now I understand.
The decision by the United States to send cluster bombs to Ukraine exposes all of the pseudo-left defenders of US involvement in the war in Ukraine as shameless apologists for the US military's war crimes.
Doesn't it?
There's a simple question.
Are you on the side of cluster bombs or not?
Is cluster bombs a subject you want to equivocate and prevaricate on?
If you just said to someone out of nowhere, tapped them on the shoulder, cluster bombs, are they good?
Oh, tell me, God, what is a cluster bomb?
Oh, it's like a bunch of bombs that blows up and is indiscriminate and unexploded bombs remain there in the ground for years and kill children and civilians years later.
Oh god, no, I'm against them.
Okay, I just want to say that it's now they're using cluster bombs for something you've been coached into agreeing with through propaganda.
Well, then I do like cluster bombs.
Sorry about what I just said, I didn't realize that it was part of a partisan conversation.
In fact, the US-led war against Russia and Ukraine is a war for American global hegemony, in which Ukrainians are mere cannon fodder.
That line is basically all you need to know.
This is entirely in line with the series of criminal wars of aggression waged by the United States over the past half century.
Do you require some evidence?
Here's some.
It's called history.
Oh, don't look at that.
Look over there at the Russian cluster bomb.
Over 110 companies, countries.
Easy to get mixed up these days, isn't it?
Over 110 countries have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, CCM, which prohibits the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions.
The United States, which has killed more people with cluster munitions than any other country, is not a signatory.
Hey, would you sign this, please, sir?
And what is that, my good man?
I'm a defender of democracy.
Let me sign your democratic innovation.
Oh, it's that we don't want to use cluster bombs.
Look over there.
Look over there.
There's some Russians.
Poor, that Russian guy farted.
I think Putin's got cancer.
Look at that bastard.
This latest escalation by the United States must be seen as a warning.
Washington will stop at nothing to prevent further military setbacks for its proxy force in Kiev and achieve its military goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
The same homicidal logic that justifies the deployment of depleted uranium rounds and cluster bombs will be used to justify even greater and more reckless crimes, from the direct entry of NATO into the war to the deployment and use of nuclear weapons.
And how can you argue with that?
If at the very beginning, Joe Biden said, in order to support Ukraine, we're going to use cluster bombs, do you notice that at the beginning, they just sort of edged their way in?
We're just going to do this.
We're just going to stop the spread.
We're just going to help Ukraine for a little bit.
And then by then they do the stuff they were going to do in the first place, because their real agenda is always control and dominion.
And they will always use safety, security or convenience.
That's generally more through commerce, but certainly security and safety is what they use to assert authoritarianism.
Everything is so dangerous, you might as well let us be in control.
And hypocrisy is just part of it.
Propaganda is necessary.
And principles are gone right out the window, as if blown up by a cluster bomb.
But don't worry, because it was an American one that you paid for.
So it must be good.
Otherwise, they're all fucking liars.
But that's just what I think.
Until next time, stay free.
Many switches, switch on, switch off.
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