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July 18, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Tucker DESTROYS Mike Pence At LIVE EVENT! - #170 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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I'm going to be on. Stay free with Russell Brand.
If you're watching this on YouTube, we're only going to do the first 15 minutes or so here on YouTube.
Even though we love you, you 6.5 million glorious creatures of the Lord, it's just we have to speak freely, my on-screen assistant and amanuensis, Gareth Roy and I, don't we, Gareth?
We certainly do.
Particularly when it's a day of so much excitement, when there is so much glorious news, when the limitless light of consciousness shines so bright, and when we've got such a big week.
Like, say for example, if you're a member of our locals community, if you're watching us on Rumble right now, press the red button on the screen.
People like Benji, they're already here, and Danny S, they're all there.
Alright guys, how's it going?
You get to see our interview with Oliver Stone, Straight after this one.
1pm ET.
And tomorrow, Ron DeSantis.
2.45 ET.
So if you sign up to Locals, you can watch them first.
Send me a question right now for Ron DeSantis and Oliver Stone.
I'll answer it.
I'll answer it.
I am excited.
Tomorrow's spin says I don't seem excited.
You said I'll answer it.
That's not what you meant to do.
You send a question for Ron DeSantis and I'll answer it right now.
Go on!
Ron, what is it that inspired you to take this stance?
Well, I just felt like it.
The thing I think about is like when someone says he eats yogurts with his hands or something like that.
It's chocolate pudding.
That's an odd move, if you ask me.
Anyway, look, we've got loads of stuff to tell you.
We're going to come off YouTube.
The reason I'm tired is because I've been doing that community festival with Vandana Shiva and Wim Hof and Callie Means.
I've been living in a field for a while.
I've been conducting ceremonies.
Joe Rogan, name drop, text me.
He goes, what's going on, bro?
You started a cult?
Because of like, in fact we should pull that thing off Instagram.
We'll show like that Instagram reel of the one where I'm shouting a lot.
We'll show it in a minute because we've got so much news to tell you and that's why I'm a little bit delirious just in case you was wondering because I've been out on my nut starting new independent communities that will... On spirituality.
Yeah, I'm out on spirituality, breathwork, powerful breathwork and stuff, because if you fuse individual spiritual awakening with collective community empowerment, what you have is a challenge to the current system.
I realise that now more than ever.
Once we start these autonomous confederacies of independent communities, then a couple of years down the line, it's like, we ain't paying no tax, we're not participating in your debt economy anymore.
That's the plan, is it?
That's the old plan!
That's the old plan!
People will get right browned off when they start seeing that we ain't paying no tax dollars.
I'll ask Oliver Stone about it.
Do you remember when me and Oliver Stone was making that documentary?
Certainly do.
I was part of that.
You were there.
Ill-fated project.
I wouldn't call it ill-fated even though that is what it was and does accurately describe it.
What was really good is when Oliver Stone got us, we interviewed Donald Trump.
That's when I met Donald Trump for the first And only time!
And I upset Donald Trump, didn't I, Kel?
Only afterwards, I think.
In the moment, you've gone very well.
He was nice to me.
Pick anything you want from this office.
Anything you want.
I'll just have a pen, thank you, mate.
He had Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves in that office at the top of Trump Tower.
Anyway, afterwards I did some stand-up in New York and I made some jokes about Donald Trump.
And then Oliver Stone goes, listen, I'm using these buildings for Wall Street 2 and Trump's vital to the production.
I had to write letters to Donald Trump and Oliver Stone anyway, so I'll be apologising to Oliver Stone.
You'll be watching that.
If you join us on Locals, press the red button.
But for now, we're going to be looking at the takedown of Mike Pence over Ukraine.
Mike Pence, who's a Republican candidate, sounds like He sounds like a younger and slightly sexier Joe Biden.
And when we come off YouTube, we're going to be talking about the White House drug charges.
What's going on?
How much cocaine is required to keep that place upbeat?
And if that cocaine's going where I think it is, how come everyone's so doddery in there?
How come no one can stand up straight?
In the old bad days when I used to badly and wrongly... It's not a legend.
It's clearly documented.
You've written many books about it.
When I used to do that I was much more upbeat and I knew which direction to walk when I left the stage.
Back towards the bathrooms for a bit more of the old...
Oh dear.
Oh no.
That's the wrong button.
That's exactly what he did in those bathrooms.
He was often already there.
He was there already.
I'd called him in advance.
Even then I was very good at logistics and operations.
Let's have a look at Mike Pence and Tucker.
You'll love this.
You saw our world exclusive interview with Tucker.
Have a look at how baffled Tucker looks when he's listening to Mike Pence.
You can already see it in the still.
Tucker's so disappointed.
He's wearing classic Tucker trousers.
We now know because our exclusive interview that's the only trousers he wears.
And he'll stitch him up if anything goes wrong with him.
Let's have a look at a chat.
...an incredible weakness, especially after that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
And all along the way, the Biden administration has been slow in providing military support.
Make no mistake about this.
We promised them 33 Abrams tanks in January.
I heard again two weeks ago in Ukraine, they still don't have them.
We've been telling them we'll train their F-16 pilots, but now they're saying maybe
January we'll let somebody transfer some jets.
Look how upset he is.
He's getting to the brink, isn't he?
How can Mike Pence sit there, that little human ice cream, so white as snow, isn't he, his little ice cream head, advocating, saying that the problem is there ain't enough helicopters?
Yeah, well exactly, but also, literally in the same sentence as mentioned in Afghanistan.
You know, one of the ways in which we know America's in an unnecessary war for 20 years that dragged on.
And then speaking about the Ukraine conflict in a completely different context.
Madness.
Like, this is a completely different thing.
Joe's dog says, O-S-H-I-T.
Me and Tucker got the same pants.
Well done, mate.
Sorry, Mr. Vice President, have you... I know you're running for president.
You are distressed that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks.
Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years.
Drive around.
There's not one city that's gotten better in the United States.
And it's visible.
Our economy has degraded.
The suicide rate has jumped.
Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.
Doesn't Tucker there challenge one of the basic preconceptions and indeed misconceptions about this current conflict that why should America even be remotely involved in this war?
What are the motivations?
And here is a list of exquisite and brilliant Unanswerable, well they are answerable questions, if you answered them you'd realise that this whole war is an absolute sham.
This is an article by the brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges who used to work for the New York Times and now can't get a gig on the internet because of increasing censorship, so I suppose I'm going to have to be careful reading this out.
While Tucker makes the point that many Americans, and let us know in the chat how you feel about this, press the red button, join us on Locals, many Americans Wouldn't voluntarily or electorally vote to spend billions and billions of dollars on a foreign war when that money could be spent domestically on American infrastructure?
It's absurd!
Here is a list of questions from Chris Hedges about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Questions that, when you ponder them, you start to realise the depth of deception that's being practised by the mainstream media and the establishment more broadly.
Wasn't the Russian military, because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertion, a lack of ammunition, that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels and severe supply shortages, supposed to collapse months ago?
Oh yeah, do you remember that, when they said that they were going to collapse?
Wasn't Putin supposed to be driven from power?
That hasn't happened, and that's going to be great stuff to ask Oliver Stone about, so do click the red button, do join us on Locals, where you'll be able to talk to Oliver Stone live, because Oliver Stone, of course, met with Putin, and when he said on Colbert, He went on Colbert, Putin's a reasonable man, he's reasonable, you can talk to Putin.
The audience, they booed him, that we've been propagandised to such a degree that people don't even want to talk about reason and diplomacy.
He didn't say, Putin's a great man and I love him and I think we should all cover him in talcum powder and praise him like we should.
He said, it might be better to have a conversation than ongoing war.
Weren't the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral?
Wasn't the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy?
How is it the inflation rates in Europe and the United States are higher than in Russia despite these attacks?
Wasn't the nearly $150 billion in sophisticated military hardware, financial and humanitarian assistance pledged in the US, EU and 11 other countries Supposed to have turned the tide of the war?
Isn't this extraordinary?
And yet Mike Pence, who's meant to be in the opposition party to Joe Biden, is advocating for the exact same measures as Joe Biden.
And remember, when both sides agree, you have no choice at all.
That's what tyranny looks like.
And by all accounts, Joe Biden is precisely that.
A tyrant.
Have you seen these news stories that Joe Biden's own staff are terrified of him?
That Joe Biden rants and raves like a lunatic?
Have you seen that stuff yet?
Have you seen it?
It's absolutely amazing.
Even CNN are broadcasting this.
this, you know that CNN are always advocating for dear old lovely old cuddly old Joe Biden.
Let me know why you think they're broadcasting this, because they're really, really attacking
him. Is this an attempt to make Joe Biden sound more credible?
I think it can only be that. Because when you first watch this, you think, wow, this
is CNN on a kind of anti-Biden story? And then the further you get into it, one of our
production team, Bad Graphics Jack, made the point earlier.
It's his best contribution to the production in some time.
And he said, no, this is almost Certainly, a way of framing Biden as someone who's ruthless in a way that he's not.
He's framed at the moment as someone who's doddery and forgets what he's saying halfway through sentences.
So it's better to frame him as someone who's ruthless and rude to staff than it is someone who's incapable.
Let us know on YouTube, if you're one of our 6.5 million awakening wonders there, what you think the purpose of this piece of CNN mainstream propaganda is.
If you're watching us on Rumble, join us over on Locals and stay with us, because straight after this, it's Oliver Stone.
And tomorrow, it's Ron DeSantis.
But now, some propaganda from All right, we know that President Biden likes to cultivate his public image as kindly Uncle Joe, he's often referred to.
But apparently behind the scenes, I'm talking about in private, he reportedly has a bit of a temper and unleashes it on his staff.
That's according... Unleashes it?
He's got this temper and then once in a while, have some of that!
He unleashes his temper.
How does he keep so upbeat?
Do another sweep of those lavatories.
...to an article by Axios.
Alex Thompson is the national political reporter and he joins me now.
Alex, I'm glad that you're here.
We've been on serious... Alex staring down the camera, grinning there.
That was a weird move from Alex.
Alex should have already been looking at her in my view.
Yeah, also, I'm glad that you're here.
Feels unnecessary.
There's a weird vibe between these two.
If you stare down your camera like that, it's menacing.
Do Gareth single.
Let's have a look at it.
On here.
Do I have to look down the camera?
Look down the camera.
Now do a smile.
Gareth.
Gareth.
Oh yes.
Now back to mine.
Gareth, I'm glad you're here.
It's not normal!
Mainstream news ain't normal.
We can't swear here right now on cable, but let me ask you, many people may not have read this in full to fully
understand what exactly President Biden is being accused of doing or
how he's behaving.
Break it down for me.
Yeah, so, you know, in public, maybe he'll whisper a bit when he's trying to make a point, but
whisper a bit when he's trying to make a point.
Even that's a weird thing to say.
This whole news broadcast is really odd.
And what is coming now, watch it, stay with us, you're gonna love this, is a description of really weird bad behaviour.
Apparently he's aggressive, he scares people, they have to go in teams.
You know like how, like, the police won't go into a bad neighbourhood except in pairs?
That's what Joe Biden's like.
Joe Biden is a one-man bad neighbourhood.
Try and close doors.
He's prone to yelling, it's much saltier language, and he'll really angrily grill into his staff to the point that some staffers are actually a bit afraid to meet alone with the president.
Angrily grilling them?
What about the...
Why are they not talking about the old, a lot of you people in the, you know what everyone's talking about here in the chat, on locals, press the red button.
What's he doing with the sniffy boncies?
Biden doesn't just sniff children, apologetic pets.
Oy!
Whispers while he's sniffing kids hair.
A lot of you are talking about that.
I mean, how can you have a Democrat party that doesn't want Robert F. Kennedy to stand when the incumbent is a crotchy, shouty, head sniffy, what's going on in the lavatories?
Dear old sausage, let's call him while we're still on YouTube.
When we get on Rumble, we'll really let it fly.
Really?
Sometimes they'll bring in an extra person or two in order so that the firing line is a little bit distributed among several.
Distribute the firing line?
They've got a better military policy in the Oval Office than they've got on the front between Ukraine and Russia.
Front staffers.
This runs really counter to the image that most people, I think, would have of President Biden.
How are we knowing this?
I mean, how do you get the reporting?
Who is complaining about this?
Bonnie Boo says CNN know that Biden can't be elected again.
They'll be trading him in soon for the next puppet.
The process of deselection has begun.
Oh, that's another thing.
Let us know.
Do you think it's that?
Or do you think they're trying to make it look like he's tough and stuff?
Press the red button.
Join us on Locals.
Let us know what you think the motivating idea is here.
Is it his current former staff?
Who?
Both.
Current, former, and by former I mean former White House staff.
Current White House and administration staff.
Plus you even have people going back, you know, we had a headline today, we called it Old Yeller.
But I can confirm to you that Joe Biden was a young yeller too.
And so we even talked to staff that went back to the early 2000s.
And the fact is that, you know, this is a guy that has been professionally staffed for more than half of his life.
And he's had a long life.
So it's been over 50 years where he's had people staffing him.
And as a result, there's a generational difference too.
You know, he's really, really tough on staff.
And he already had that, as he calls, you know, get his Irish up.
He already had that Irish temper, you know, really lay into people.
And in some cases, you know, make them feel humiliated.
A lot of people are saying deselection, some people are saying distraction.
Hannah says, wait a sec, wait a sec, taking us away from the, taking us away from the, oh god it's so hard, you guys are typing so fast and there's so many of you.
Oh no, excuse me, sorry, taking us away from the real narrative, from looking at what amazing candidates like RFK have to offer.
Just trying to distract us.
And then SSSSSSSS123 says, I worked for an older professional and we would meet with the manager and him because he would lie and he couldn't remember the things that we had said and not said in meetings.
So they have to have witnesses there to make sure that Joe Biden hasn't said a bunch of crazy stuff.
The thing is with this, even if, you know, so it's a possible distraction from his challengers, that's one.
It's possible that CNN and maybe other kind of left-wing media are vying for someone else in the future, or that they're trying to change his image.
But I guess the thing that I think about this is that isn't the point of Biden when he came in, wasn't it that As an alternative to Trump, because we know in terms of economically speaking, there won't be that much difference in terms of their relationship with corporations, their relationship with war and all those things.
Sure.
It wasn't the point of Biden, he's the much nicer version of Trump.
Like, when you've got Trump who's rude and obnoxious and says things that people don't like... Bearing in mind, of course, that you guys absolutely love Donald Trump, right?
Sure, I guess, I mean, the media portrayal of it was always, Trump is rude and obnoxious, says things he shouldn't say, isn't a very nice person.
Biden's this lovely, cuddly old grandad, but then when you discover he's not at all, I mean, some of the things that he says, Biden's dressing down of staff often includes profane condemnation, including phrases such as, God damn it, how the F don't you know this, and don't F-ing bullsh-t me, and get the F out of here.
Many of the people in the chat, apologetic press says, Vivek, get Vivek on.
And a lot of people, so we are getting Vivek on.
Yep.
I do.
A lot of people say, I like Trump.
He's honest.
OK, let's have a little bit more of this broadcast.
Make them feel embarrassed, and really feel like, and truly be cussed out.
Many might be surprised by this, because you might recall when he spoke about respect and dignity, and the idea that if you're working with him, if you act in that way, you get fired.
Well, listen to what he had to say.
I'm not joking when I say this.
If you're ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot.
On the spot.
On the spot for talking down to someone.
What did he say?
Out of the F do not know this.
Don't F him BS me.
Get the F out of here.
He's nutcase.
Look at this.
He has erratic tantrums and they come in the form of angry interrogations where he presses both senior and lower level until it becomes clear to others in the room they don't know the answer to the question.
The tactic has become so frequent the staff have named it Stump the Chump.
Bad graphics, Jack!
Why is there not a Stump the Chump graphic right now, where we try to stump chumps on a near daily basis?
Meanwhile, over on Morning Joe, Micah, that lady, do you remember when I was on there, she kept doing that stuff with the bottle, all that, the shaft grasping, I believe I called it at the time.
She Offers up a further condemnation of Biden's staff, a staff who apparently are being deluged daily under an avalanche of Biden expletives and an avalanche of another white powder as well, seemingly if the lavatory lab tests or anything go by.
Look at Micah even now.
It's a real weird bit.
This is weird news.
You know Joe?
And that's the first time I've ever seen him.
You know Joe?
Like it's the first time he's ever shown up.
Like Joe, he even looks surprised by it.
There's a bit where you see Joe.
See if you can spot it with me.
There's a bit where Joe goes, why is she saying this for so long?
She's like, it's not his fault if he doesn't know the way to walk off a stage.
I've been on a stage before.
It is confusing to know which way to go.
And like Joe gets a bit freaked out a bit.
Have a look at this.
You'll love this.
Join us in the chat, guys.
To manage the schedule very carefully.
Yeah, I think his staff needs to own his age.
I'm just going to be honest.
I don't think they do a good job helping out the president.
And I'm not talking about it like I'm just saying if you are managing a president's schedule and you are managing a president getting on stage and getting off stage and doing getting on planes and getting off plane.
And yes, He's 80.
You need to get angry about that!
Yes!
He's 80!
You'll be old one day!
I won't be a president, though, one day, will I?
Or will I?
Maybe, because I did a good job running that little festival.
Right, oh, is this where it's leading?
Yep, that's right.
To be there for him.
And you need to make a pathway.
And you sure as hell better make sure he doesn't fall on a sandbag.
What is this?
This must be the news!
People fall down, and they're addressing like a very... They could have just sent a letter!
This is an email!
You can't do the news as an email!
Right!
Mum!
Listen!
Will you please, for God's sake, stop sending me these texts!
It's getting on my dad!
Turn your phone off when I'm talking to Vandana Shiva!
For Christ's sake!
Mute your phone!
Don't use the news to convey your personal antagonisms!
It's weird!
What is he trying to do?
It's like shift the focus.
Say Joe Biden, he's capable.
Absolutely not.
It's their fault.
So if he trips over a sandbag, it's not his fault.
Why didn't you tell me about that old sandbag?
Joe, that was your own ball bag.
It's stretching down to your anklets, you poor sod.
And I blame the staff for that.
I mean, these are the things that are going to hurt him.
These are things that are going to hurt a vulnerable person, aren't they?
Yeah, but also like so is like making loads of Errors and mistakes all the time.
So is saying Iraq instead of Ukraine.
You know, those are things that surely... There's no member of staff that can get inside Joe Biden's head when he says all those mad mental things.
And why did you guys not fit him with an Elon Musk-style Neuralink chip?
Like that little marmoset monkey sucking on that metal straw and playing ping pong against itself.
You guys should be Neuralinking Joe Biden now and driving him from the inside.
Or like Weekend at Bernie's.
Why don't you jostle him around and flip his little dead...
Trotters over the top of sandbags so he can't hurt himself.
That's too much pressure for the team.
Especially after they've been told to eff it up the BS by Biden.
Had their heads all sniffed.
They've probably tried all of those techniques but they're too scared to enact them.
If you want Joe Biden to walk in the right direction, line up some children's heads and just lead him there.
It'll be like Hansel and Gretel sniffing the children's head.
He'll truffle snuffle himself like a pig, like a truffle pig.
He'll walk himself.
You can lead him wherever you want.
Yeah, just like that.
And maybe like some deals with, I don't know, Burisma and stuff like that.
Just a little trail of them.
Try the child's heads leading to Ukrainian gas companies and Chinese diplomats.
It's simple.
Why are you not using children's heads as a Hansel and Gretel style guidance system for Joe Biden?
Yeah, Micah, you're blaming the victims.
He played on a loop.
Okay, let him do his job, let him do his speeches, let him work on policy, let him do his connections in Congress, unlike any president that we've seen.
Connections in Congress?
Joe does look at this point like... Is this the bit where he goes wrong?
He just looks baffled by this whole thing.
He's sort of shutting down.
I don't know, Cindy.
I thought he wasn't real for a minute.
He glitched out of being, didn't he?
Sort of like, shut down.
Telling him what's next?
Sandbag.
Burisma deal.
Laptop in trouble.
Brief the CIA.
Child's head.
You can't all day be telling him what's next.
and it's not because... don't, don't take...
I'm telling him what's next.
Sandbag, Burisma deal, laptop in trouble, brief the CIA, child's head.
You can't all day be telling him what's next.
It's too confusing.
...this as, oh, he can't even get from one place to another.
When you're busy and you're on stage, and we've been on stage...
Right.
I've been on stage, remember?
Oh, yeah, no.
What?
What the hell are you talking about?
He had to jump in there.
Right, no, yeah, on the stage.
God, it is confusing.
I was tripping over sandbags.
I was sniffing children on the head.
I was doing deals with Burisma for my kids.
The whole thing was very, very, very confusing up on that stage.
I've done speeches, and I'm so nervous.
I'm doing the speech.
I'm trying to get it right, and when it's done, I don't know which way to go, and I'm looking for...
I was on stage the weekend.
Don't know which way it goes.
And also, it doesn't matter that much.
Just confidently get off the bloody thing when you've finished talking.
And speak in a clear voice and say things that are true.
It does seem like she's trying to compare herself to a president at this point, doesn't it?
She's saying she should be president.
Is that where she's going with this?
When I'm president, you won't get any more compassion from me.
Being told to F off up the BS hole and a nice cheeky line in the toilet.
Those days are behind you.
Let me tell you that.
They're not addressing the problem.
better job because you can't have these video images of the president tripping
or the president like going the wrong way it's not going to work in this
presidency because his age is going to be a factor his age is going to be a
factor and it's your job to make...
They're not addressing the problem.
The problem is the age is a factor.
This poor decrepit old darling.
We've heard elsewhere off the record that it's much worse and when he's not at work, the poor old sod is senile.
He can't even cope.
He's not right, is he?
The thing is they spend so much of their time saying age isn't a factor and then they say the quiet bit out loud, age is a factor, but blame the people who he works with.
Another thing you might want to consider, while Micah and various other sectors of the mainstream news are advocating for Joe Biden's tenure to continue blaming his staff and then trying to portray him as some sort of scarface figure, or as some of you have said in the chat, trying to prepare the way for a new candidate.
Not RFK, not that candidate, not someone that people actually want who's anti-corruption, that's pro-unity.
Some other stooge that we could stick out from.
Meanwhile, there are tit-for-tat cluster bomb attacks being threatened, and NATO's intention is to deal with that by expanding into Asia.
But first of all, look at this.
Because America have supplied Ukraine with cluster bombs, now Russia's saying, well, why can't we use cluster bombs?
It's escalating in the wrong direction.
The direction of tit-for-tat cluster bombs.
I mean, tit-for-tat's bad if it's insults.
Right, exactly.
But when it's cluster bombs... When it's cluster bombs, yeah.
That's worse.
It's not going the right way, is it?
That's not the way to end a war.
And NATO have just announced that they are going to inevitably expand into Asia.
Have we learned nothing from NATO's wild expansionism?
Well, this is bipartisan.
This is like members of the Democrats and the Republicans that are both saying it's inevitable that NATO will expand into Asia.
Which is obviously something that, you know, China are going to have a word to say about that.
I'm trying not to be so cheesed off about that.
I want to go into more depth, as well as I want to make some jokes about that cocaine story, right?
So if you're watching us on YouTube, you can't do it because there's censorship there and that's, you know, you might be one of the 6.5 million wonders.
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Listen.
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Free speech!
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Oh, how do we do anything Russell?
What can we do?
You are the solution.
You are the solution to this problem.
The solution is already beginning.
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See you in a minute.
We're gonna do some jokes about the cocaine story and just have a bit of a laugh in general.
Plus, remember, if you're watching us on Rumble, Press the red button.
Join us on Locals.
We can roll straight from this into chatting to Oliver Stone and you'll be ready and primed for our chat with Ron DeSantis.
And if you have any questions for Ron DeSantis or Oliver Stone, I will answer them now because I've actually got Ron DeSantis' book.
Go on, ask me a question about Ron DeSantis.
Go on, ask me a question.
What's his favourite pudding?
My favourite pudding is chocolate pudding.
And why should I sit around like some dope with a spoon when God give me these guys?
I call these my five hand spoons.
This is what it said.
I've got five nature's spoons on the end of my fingers.
This is Papa's spoon and this is all the baby's spoons.
And I'm gonna scoop up my pudding.
You know, he's interviewing him tomorrow.
I know.
This is the wrong attitude.
Sorry, Ron.
You're playing into Trump's hands here.
Oh no, I'm playing into Trump's hands by ridiculing Ron's hands.
Look, let me read this bit of a bit more respectfully.
Two weeks after I was re-elected for a third term in November 2016, Casey gave birth to our first child, a baby girl named Madison.
That's what's funny, because it's like, she came out named Madison.
Like, oh my god, it's Madison!
It's Madison, hey!
Do you give her that name?
That's the way it works.
If me and my wife... Anyway, I've got to take a piss out of Rotate.
He's coming on the show.
We're helping him, are we?
Yeah, I mean it's going to be fascinating to talk to him.
I like the way we're saying this, do we?
We'll find out, won't we?
That's the whole point.
We'll judge him according to us.
We're going to be kind to him.
Be kind to everybody.
I think Tucker was very respectful but also asked him a lot of difficult questions.
What do you like?
Who do you like, guys?
Primal Calling 2 likes Trump.
Who likes RFK?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, we ain't got to solve what nature's wardrobe.
That's a weird thing to say.
All right, so listen, should we do the... Oh, shit, why have we not done the Breaking Trump News?
Why did we forget that?
Uh, you seem to want to do... Because I was in a weird state of mind, so I'm tired.
That's all right, we can do it now.
Breaking News.
All right, it's Breaking Trump News.
Trump reckons he's going to get arrested.
Should we cover that and also... It's mad, all this cocaine.
How much cocaine is in that White House?
Is that normal?
Is it normal to have that much cocaine lying about in places?
Well, if you test the toilets here, there better not be any cocaine.
Is there some?
I've not seen any, no.
Because, like, you know, what about when you go out and you can't afford no cocaine?
You can just see if there's some left on the toilet seat.
This is when I was younger.
This is terrible advice.
Are we off YouTube yet?
We're off.
Right, OK.
So, like... Fine.
Don't do drugs.
I'm drug-free.
20 years.
You can't go around tapping toilet seats.
I would.
I'd go like that and then just... Oh, that's disgusting.
What about the faecal matter?
I don't care about that.
That's a bonus.
I call that the bonus is a bit of faecal matter.
Dear me.
A little bit of that.
You didn't?
White and brown.
Bit of both.
You didn't get a taste for it, did you?
Lolly!
I eat it like Rhonda Sanders, like I'm scooping up my puddings.
I want me pudding!
I want me pudding!
Come on, what the hell is Trump being arrested for?
What's he done this week?
Well, he's saying that he's going to be arrested and indicted again.
Again?
Can't keep arresting him and indicting the poor old sod.
Yeah, so this is over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Let's have a look at his post.
I.e.
Jan 6th.
Look at what he says.
I love his post.
I'm not on Truth Social because I'm on Locals.
Join us on Locals.
Press the red button now.
Wow, on Sunday night while I was with my- This is really good!
While I was with my family, having just arrived from the turning point in Florida where I won a straw poll against all other Republican candidates with 85%.
All polls show me leading by very substantial numbers.
Almost everyone predicted that I would be a Republican nominee for president and as I am leading Democrat Joe Biden in the polls by a lot.
Horrifying news for our country was given to me by our attorneys.
Deranged Jack Smith.
Deranged.
It's a good word deranged.
Special counsel.
Deranged.
And now for our selection of special counsel, a deranged person.
Deranged.
Well, I'm going to look that up on a dictionary, what deranged means.
Because it's a really very specific piece of language.
To call someone deranged is pretty much out there, isn't it?
Did you find that thing from Community, that post I was on about on Instagram?
Not that I want to do it now, but that was the last thing I was looking at on there, because when Joe Rogan texted me and goes, are you starting a cult?
And I went...
Not really.
Just trying my best.
Deranged.
Make someone a... Oh no, not deranger.
Deranged-er.
I want it as a... yeah.
This is Live Dictionary with Russell Brand.
Dictionary Live.
Mad, insane, a deranged gunman.
That's what comes up.
Deranged.
There you go.
Deranged.
Deranged, that Jack Smith is.
He sent a letter again.
It was Sunday night.
He don't want to get letters on Sunday night, does he?
No, that's the main thing that he's angry about.
Wait till Monday morning before telling me that I'm going to get arrested.
Give me a very short four days to report to the Grand Jury, which means almost certainly an arrest and indictment.
But does anyone Well, it doesn't seem to harm him.
I mean, I guess this is just a way in which he'll go up in the polls again.
I mean, he can basically predict that, you know?
Right.
Because that's what's happened every single time.
Because in a sense, people are not reading what this fundamentally means.
There are some people that have so little trust in the media and the establishment and the judiciary that whatever the media establishment and judiciary say about Trump, they will not stop liking Trump.
They will, in fact, like Trump more.
And then there are other people that hate Trump so much that even when Trump says, Things that surely everyone should agree of like like when he was in that town or thing saying everyone I just want people to stop dying and the CNN report was going so you want to win?
Yeah, like it was UFC.
So you want to win?
I don't I just want the Warsaw if that was a like a liberal left-wing person from years ago if I'm gonna surely would have gone Oh, yeah.
Well, I suppose the right would have gone you crazy.
Peace Nick Yeah, and other people would have got like that.
I think said that that was rational like Gandhi peace.
Oh I think every time this happens and he's arrested and indicted again.
I'm not comparing Trump to Gandhi.
No, I know.
It just kind of shows that the, you know, Democrats are obsessed by Trump.
You know, I think that's the narrative that it plays to in there.
It's like that you are obsessed with bringing down Trump.
And I don't think that shows you in a light of confidence No!
I think they're all out of ideas.
Like when you see Pence talking, Mike Pence talking about attacking, you think, what is this geezer on about?
Sort of advocating for yet more war.
It's just, there's a dearth of ideas.
They're obsessed with those kind of characters because, I just want to read like a bit more of that stuff about Russia.
They're so bereft of ideas.
What's this bit?
Yeah, this is my favourite bit.
This is my favourite bit from the Chris Hedges article.
Check this out.
Check out this.
What of the Ukrainian democracy that we're fighting to protect?
Why did the Ukrainian parliament revoke the official use of minority languages, including Russian, three days after the 2014 coup?
How do we rationalise the eight years of warfare against ethnic Russians in the Donbass region before the Russian invasion in February 2022?
How do we explain the killing of over 14,000 people and the 1.5 million people who were displaced before Russia's invasion took place last year?
Hedges acknowledges it's a criminal invasion, but look at all of these questions that are unanswered and would remain unanswered under the candidature and indeed presidency of Mike Pence.
More of the same, that's what he's offering.
Because what Chris Hedges is offering us is that it's irrelevant which party you vote
for, you're going to get the military-industrial complex.
And even just on this issue of war, a candidate like Trump or candidates like RFK are saying
we are anti-establishment, populist candidacies.
One of the things I'm most excited by is the return of real populism, the populare, the
people, all of us, politics that represents people, not a cadre of experts that tell you
what you're supposed to think.
The consultancy of experts is necessary in various fields and for the advancement of technology and science and medicine and innumerable interwoven disciplines, of course it is.
But the fact is that democracy has to be representative of the will of the people, otherwise it's not democracy anymore.
The game's over.
How do we defend a decision by President Vladimir Putin?
Zelensky to ban 11 opposition parties.
How can we accept the banning of these opposition parties, many of which are on the left, while Zelensky allows fascists from the Sovoboda... Sovoboda, what's that, mate?
Sovoboda, I think.
Thanks.
And right sector parties, as well as the banned right Azov battalion and other extremist militias to flourish.
How do we deal with the anti-Russian purges and arrests of supposed fifth columnists sweeping through Ukraine?
It's extraordinary how many unanswered questions there are.
You can't answer those questions without pulling apart the fabric that is the tapestry of lies that underwrites this entire conflict.
Yeah, I think, like, simply put, as Chris Hedges writes, the government has spent, since the end of the Second World War, the government has spent between 45% and 90% of the federal budget, 90% of the federal budget, on past, current, or future military operations.
It's the largest sustained activity of the US government.
That is the role of the government.
And Tucker Carlson's point there with Mike Pence was, why are we even involved in this thing?
American cities and American society is falling apart, and what Pence is offering, the stump that he's offering up is, I'm going to do more of that stuff.
RFK says, end the forever wars.
Trump says, end this conflict.
And he says sort of proper out there stuff as well, doesn't he?
I will give Ukraine so much weapons, more weapons than ever.
Best weapons.
Insane.
Absolutely insane.
Well, we hope that this is a potential turning point for all of us.
This emergence of populism.
Why?
What can we offer up about the cocaine story though?
What have we got to say left about it?
Is there more information on the cocaine story?
Because we could just go to... We did a poll.
What's making Biden so angry?
What did you guys vote for?
33,000 votes.
UFOs, are they making him angry?
90%?
Resurgence of Trump's making him.
Illicit substances in the White House.
We couldn't say cocaine, we just had to do that snuffing.
Can't say cocaine in a poll.
Did they say that or did we say that?
Did we predetermine that?
Did we guess it?
We can't say cocaine.
You mustn't say cocaine.
See?
That's why we've got to be on Rumble.
The weird thing about this story... Can't even chat about cocaine!
The weird thing about this story is that the details are changing all the time.
So, numerous details about the investigation have been changed.
Originally, dispatchers sent to the White House on Sunday to investigate the substance said it was found in the library.
I mean, it's literally like Cluedo.
It is Cluedo!
Then it was reported to be in the West Wing lobby.
Now it's reported to be a floor below the lobby in an area used by staff officials, visitors and VIPs, including Kamala Harris' staff.
It can't be Kamala Harris because she's not focused enough to be regularly using cocaine.
One thing about cocaine is it does enable you to make your way through a sentence quite assiduously and diligently, I would say.
One way you know someone's lying is when they change their story and they're like, oh, that cocaine, sorry, yeah, I put that in the library, what is it?
I was staying up late.
There's no justification.
Is there for having cocaine in the White House?
Well, who is it going to be?
Because initially, the whole thing at the start of it, this was the stories, it was a member of the public because, like, I don't think anyone takes cocaine in their 80s do they?
coming out is, no the public probably didn't have access to these areas it's
much more like it's been a member of staff in some way and then it's like how
high does that go? So they just have to keep changing where they found this coke.
I don't think anyone takes cocaine in their 80s do they? I mean like just in
the chat do you know what's the oldest person you've known to take cocaine?
I mean, even Keith Richards.
Like, he's knocked you on the head now, isn't he?
Jagger.
Like, proper old people.
That's not an old man's drug.
I do like the route that this show's gone down.
We started with Trump and Mike Pence, and now it's like, what's the oldest person to have ever taken cocaine?
Jim Irve, see, 137, just says, why not?
Because they're too old!
You can't do cocaine when you're old.
You have heart attack.
Yeah.
A reason to avoid a lot of substances.
Hey, have a look at this.
This is what Joe Rogan... Have a look at this clip.
This is the very clip.
Yeah, all right, fair enough.
Take drugs if you want.
I don't mind.
It's none of my business.
I believe in freedom.
I just don't take them, and I don't think drug addicts should.
This is the Instagram reel, I think, that led Joe Rogan to say, are you starting a cult?
Let's have a look.
This is from me, community, this weekend.
It was like a... Well, not a cult, because cults are bad.
You need some PR on this, I would suggest.
Why don't you do my PR?
You're supposed to be doing... Do the PR!
What is it?
This?
This is not a cult in any way.
Don't need one?
No.
This is not a cult.
Ignore what he's wearing, what he's saying, just the general setting.
Ignore all of that.
This is not a cult.
This is not a cult.
Let's have a look at it.
Thank you so much for joining us for this important community event.
You are not only allowed to participate, you are required to participate.
In the presence of the spirit of the goddess of the river, why currently, we don't even now understand why, because she's hard to explain how centralised He's going to be a dominant player in the National Cup, in
Sampoong, on the River Watt.
Sampoong!
It's a bunch of guys having a nice time in a field, if you ask me.
Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with that trip to the salad bar that you took afterwards.
What trip?
Will I go on?
No.
Oh, I see.
I see.
Like a wild, wild country.
Sure, sure.
Someone, my mate Rory, goes, he goes, I like this.
Do you know, he goes, I like what you're doing.
He reminds me of that thing on Netflix, you know, Waco.
No, mate, that's not a good example.
Everyone ended up dying.
I think Rory's on to something there.
We're not interested in cults.
Democracy.
Leaderless.
Fully democratic.
Replicated.
No centralised power.
Yeah, I know.
Miles Driver.
Waco.
That was a terrible, terrible holiday.
Waco, wasn't it?
That ended very badly.
Started off well.
Bit of Christianity.
nice little sunglasses but ended up with the murder of actual children by the FBI
so that's not an advantage. Also yeah don't drink Kool-Aid.
People, leaderlessness.
Awaken yourself individually. Don't follow leaders, watch your parking meters.
Hey listen, if you're a member of our locals community, if you're a member of
our locals community, which you should be, Oliver Stone's coming up in a minute,
we'll be able to have a... do your chats for your questions for Oliver.
Can we have a look at this?
This clip of Oliver Stone.
Let's have a little look at this.
And tomorrow, Ron DeSantis, who I can't wait to speak to actually because I'm very excited about what's going on there in Florida.
That's the home of Rumble, right?
Rumble there in Sarasota.
That's right.
Everyone was so nice there.
We love our brothers and sisters over there in Sarasota, Florida.
Let's have a look at the Oliver Stone meeting Putin.
Is this what this is?
I think so.
Let's have a look.
This is a video of the news.
Mighty Mouse.
No, that's cool.
We'll be on the ice looking at you.
Any advice?
Do they check him as hard as they want?
Why should they?
You look colorful.
Mighty Mouse.
No, that's cool.
We'll be on the ice looking at you.
Any advice?
Thank you.
Do they check him as hard as they want?
Why should they?
Everything is just fine.
Well, he looks a lot healthier than Joe Biden, doesn't he?
He's got a lot of muscle.
They're always trying to say, oh he's got cancer and that, his bum's falling out, he don't look well, I saw a bogey hanging out his nose, he was unaware of it.
Look at him, he's right as rain.
I mean if there's cocaine in the Kremlin, at least he's using it to make him effective.
Nt.
Alright, so we'll be chatting.
So click on that red button right now and join us on Locals for our chat with Oliver Stone.
We're going to ask him about Putin.
We're going to ask him about JFK.
We're going to ask him what yet has not been revealed.
And RFK.
All the Ks.
You named the Ks, baby.
We're going to ask him.
But now, censorship.
What the hell is it?
I'm getting a bit tired of this censorship.
Yeah, I know.
It's getting wrong.
I've had it with censorship, Gal.
I know.
I've took all I'm going to take.
Do you know in particular, this Ukrainian censorship, can you remember what this presentation was about?
Well, absolutely.
Go on then.
Well, it's about journalists, US journalists, and the kind of hypocrisy about some journalists being in jail in Russia.
Oh yeah, this is good this.
I remember this.
Some journalists in Ukraine being held, but that's fine, we won't really speak about it.
Because what it is, is I go into a trance when I'm doing these.
No, I know, I know.
A real trance.
Your leader's speaking to you at this point.
Listen, when I'm going into my trance talking about like how you've got American journalists banged up in Ukraine, no one mentions it.
American journalists banged up in Russia.
Oh, they were going on, oh, right, journalists, you've got to respect journalists.
You're going to love this.
Someone was saying in the chat, Bonnie Boo says, I haven't seen young Putin for ages.
Go to gallery cam.
Young Putin's in there.
Young Putin, face the camera.
There he is.
See him?
There he is.
He's waving now.
There's young Putin.
He's there with all the glads.
60% out.
Bad graphics, Jack.
All of them in there.
Look at that little motley crew of swabs running this operation.
Hey, let's learn a little bit more about Ukrainian censorship and why some journalists are more important than others and why some propaganda is more valuable than others.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
Here's the news.
No, here's the fucking news.
Release all journalists being held overseas!
Free speech!
Free press!
What about ones you disagree with?
Release all journalists that you agree with overseas!
The other ones?
Just leave them in prison!
Joe Biden, you'll remember, in his press correspondence dinner propaganda thing, said, we should release journalists.
It's disgusting to have journalists held for reporting the truth.
Meanwhile, there's a journalist being held in Ukraine, and no one seems to be talking about that journalist and their right for freedom.
So is this another example of hypocrisy?
We support free speech when we agree with them.
We don't support free speech when we disagree with them.
That's the most important one, isn't it?
Surely, for all of us.
I mean, these principles are incumbent on all of us.
Let's have a look at this news story.
The free press is a pillar, maybe the pillar.
Do you think he said that because there's a pillar in his eyeline?
The free press is a pillar, or a window with a lamp in it and some railings.
The free press is a pillar, maybe the pillar for a free society, not the enemy.
Thomas Jefferson wrote...
No, because Thomas Jefferson... Thomas Jefferson wrote, we're left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government.
I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.
That's not a principle that they realistically espouse.
They've just been busted for bothering social media sites that publish dissenting information.
Believing in free speech means you believe in the free speech of people that disagree with you.
That's a very difficult thing to commit to, because I think all of us would prefer to go, no, shut up, I don't want to listen to you, I don't agree with you.
But it's particularly relevant when you're legislating.
It's particularly relevant when you're censoring.
It's particularly relevant when campaigning for the release of one journalist who happens to represent your views by ignoring another journalist who you may disagree with.
Our message is this.
Journalism is not a crime.
Julian Assange was 52 the other day.
Try telling him that journalism isn't a crime.
You won't be able to because you won't be able to get a visit.
Evan and Austin should be released immediately along with every other American held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad.
Every other one, so there you go, that's the criteria.
Are you a journalist?
Yeah.
Are you in prison abroad?
Yeah.
Good, because we've just established a principle that, unless it's lies, is going to help you.
Biden devoted the bulk of his remarks to a lengthy declaration of his opposition to the repressive measures taken against journalists in Russia, China, Iran, Syria and Venezuela.
Hmm, Have those countries got anything else in common?
Russia?
Proxy war.
China?
Plan for war.
Iran?
Plan for war in Donald's secret boxes.
Syria?
Drone in them the whole time.
Venezuela?
They got oil that they shouldn't have.
It's not very good oil, but we want it anyway.
We would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.
And pledges to devote US diplomatic efforts to winning the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich recently arrested on bogus spying charges in Russia and other American prisoners of the Putin regime.
They should be released.
Evan Gershkovich ought be released.
Show me what to sign.
Tell me what to do.
Of course I agree that it's wrong that someone that was in Russia investigating Russian corruption is currently in prison.
He should be released.
I support his release.
Why I don't support is using those stories to push an agenda while ignoring comparable cases because you can't use them to exploit or amplify a message that's convenient to you or to vilify or criminalize a country that you want to have wars with or want to ransack for resources.
That makes you think that they don't actually care about Evan Gerskovich.
Do they?
Do they care about Evan Gerskovich?
Or are they using him?
Let me know in the comments.
The coincidence between the list of countries guilty for violating press freedom and the list of countries targeted by American imperialism for subversion and overthrow was obvious.
Yes, because it's the same list!
That's why it's so obvious.
It's like when people say that Harry Potter and Star Wars is the same story.
A little Jedi, stroke wizard, is helped by Hagrid, stroke Ben Kenobi.
Then he finds out that Voldemort, Darth Vader, is actually his dad.
It's the same thing!
It's the same bloody list!
So we're using this speech, of course, to illustrate the hypocrisy of saying that all journalists should be freed and only focusing on journalists that you agree with.
Of course, Evan Gershkovich should be freed.
But what about Gonzalo Lira?
Let's have a look at why those cases are being treated differently.
Meanwhile, a United States citizen has been arrested in Ukraine for allegedly expressing strong criticism against the government's war with Russia.
And the Biden administration said on Monday that they will not comment on the matter.
Why not?
Why won't they comment on the matter?
Why won't they comment on the matter?
Because it's not convenient?
Because it's not consistent with what they're pushing elsewhere?
Gonzalo Lira, a writer and YouTuber, who has been an outspoken critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky... Hello, Volodymyr!
was arrested earlier this month.
The Ukrainian government has charged Lera with violating sections 2 and 3 of article 4362 of Ukraine's criminal code,
which prohibits portraying the military conflict in Ukraine as an internal civil conflict, the outlet reports.
If convicted, Lera faces up to 13 years in prison.
Um, a U.S.
citizen who is residing in Ukraine has been arrested.
Are you guys aware of this?
How do we feel about our allies, you know, detaining U.S.
citizens for speech abroad?
So I will say in general that we're aware of the report.
We obviously support the exercise of freedom of speech anywhere in the world, and I'll leave it at that.
I'll leave it at that.
But we won't back it up with actions.
That's how government works these days, isn't it?
I'll just tell you what I've already told you, but not do anything that would demonstrate that I actually mean it or care about it.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable question.
There's an American citizen who's being detained in Ukraine, who are an ally.
What are we going to do about that?
Because it's against their principles.
Well, I'll just tell you again, that's wrong.
So you're going to do something?
No, nothing.
But if there's someone that you can use for publicity, we'll do something about that.
So is it then that you just use these principles, and maybe even wars themselves, if you already have an agenda?
Because I can't help but notice that Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela, the countries that you've said are particularly bad when it comes to press freedom, also seem to have stuff you want.
No, they don't, but I'm not willing to prove that and or comment on it, so shut up.
So you guys aren't working to get him released?
I'm going to leave my comments where I just left them.
I'm going to leave my comments where I just left them, there, floating about, sort of looking a bit like lies and excuses.
Actually, I'm going to move... Just get those comments out of here!
In March 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky invoked his emergency powers under martial law to suppress several opposition political parties and implement a unified information policy, i.e.
nationalised TV news.
Unified information!
That is a propagandist way to describe propaganda.
Shouldn't we unify information?
Yeah, let's unify.
You know when information all scattered about, arguing with each other?
That's centralizing the control of communication, information.
That's terrible.
So someone who disagrees with it, like, hey, I don't agree with that, you might have to go to prison for not unifying information.
In January, Zelensky passed the bill, meaning that it will be able to regulate all media in Ukraine.
All!
So you're not allowed to have media in Ukraine unless it's regulated.
So is this the freedom that we're fighting for?
Of course what they'll say is, oh, it's temporary under pressure.
No one's saying that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not criminal.
But that's authoritarianism, isn't it?
You can't have American taxpayer dollars being poured into Ukraine to fight against a criminal entity without there being some provisos and conditions placed upon that.
Otherwise, there's no purpose to what you're fighting for.
You have to look at the nuances and complexity of the situation.
Russia's invasion, criminal and bad, but seemingly provoked over time.
Ukraine's authoritarianism doesn't seem good.
If journalists can't question what the state are doing, then what is it we're defending?
We have to defend because Russia are bad.
Yeah, but hold on, isn't that also bad?
Shut up, we ain't got time for that.
That's the obligation you have.
Otherwise, there's no purpose to anything.
And we all start to think, well, what are we fighting for?
Think about during the pandemic.
Oh, we're all locked down.
Why is it?
Oh, because we're helping people.
But are we helping people if they tested?
Shut up!
Shut up!
Things don't make sense anymore.
Information's being controlled.
Information's being centralized.
Information's being censored.
You can't question that or you're one of the baddies.
You're not patriotic.
Didn't I used to be the right wing?
Shut up, it's the left wing now.
The whole thing is like a sort of a giddy delirium of language and I believe it's because it's not...
Anchored to any principles except for the agenda of dominion, control and profit.
Those are the only things where I can sort of consistently track, oh well that's beneficial to those interests, oh that's also beneficial to those interests.
That's the only thing that makes sense.
When I try to make sense of it using, well we're helping Ukraine because it's wrong and it's a humanitarian crisis, immediately a load of questions come to mind.
What about the people in Yemen?
What about the people in these various territories that we've exploited ourselves?
You can't hold it in your head if you ask those questions.
That's why you're not allowed to ask those questions.
Under previous legislation enacted in 2019 under the Zelensky government, the council has the power to issue licenses, conduct inspections and impose sanctions on television and radio companies, Ukra News reported.
The new law allows the council to regulate print and online media, as well as internet, television and information sharing platforms such as YouTube and social networks.
The regulator will be able to impose mandatory orders and fines and even suspend media outlets without a court decision.
Under the law, the council can also restrict content from search engines such as Google.
It's interesting that already the post-war future in Ukraine has been discussed, Zelensky making a deal with BlackRock Blackrock, J.P.
Morgan and Golden Sox.
To make it a digital company that's fully regulated and fully controlled where there are no union laws.
Increasingly it looks like this is not about protecting the people of Ukraine.
It's about advancing a certain set of interests, the pursuit of certain resources, the ability to pilot new legislation and social models, break down Russia as an international threat.
All those arguments make more sense to me than we care about Ukrainian people.
Diplomacy would be much higher up the agenda if that Both the European Federation of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists have opposed the measure and in September Ukraine's own National Union of Journalists called the law the biggest threat to press freedom in Ukraine's independent history.
So if you believe and agree with what Joe Biden said that in the case of America and in the words of Jefferson the press is more important than the government what he was saying there is free speech.
Jefferson's principle applied now means you wouldn't censor social media, you'd allow people to freely communicate.
Of course, you then have to, if you agree with that, you have to recognize that this is wrong,
and that the reason to protect Ukraine is because you believe in freedom, and if you believe in freedom,
then measures like that are hypocritical and at odds with that principle, and
questioning that, pointing that out, is important, vital, necessary.
Otherwise, the central meaning is being pulled away, and all that remains is a set of very obvious
financial interests and interests of dominion, which are obviously, as you surely know by now, what I believe
motivates conflict of this nature. But perhaps more observably, what about the freedom of that guy that's banged up there,
Gonzalo Lira?
That's not abstract.
That's a person now who's in prison as a result of these laws that the Ukraine's own National Union of Journalists think is wrong.
What do you think about that?
How do you reconcile that with the billions of dollars of aid?
I suppose this is what they'd say.
Look, there's this massive war going on.
We've got to win that war.
And I don't know, man.
I can't get it up for that argument because I just don't trust them.
And the reason I don't trust them is because I see how these things play out all the time over time.
In May, members of Zelensky's Servant of the People party introduced a bill to criminalise the spread of false information.
Hmm, this sounds familiar.
On the internet and through social media that violates Ukraine's national security.
They're doing it everywhere.
Ostensibly the bill is targeted at bot accounts, but in reality the language of the bill is so encompassing that anyone could be arrested for posting information that the right-wing nationalist government in Kiev deems misinformation.
Another one of those laws that seems to be the recognition that information can now be disseminated in ways that is difficult to control unless there are new laws to control it.
And it's not about misinformation, it's about information that's not expedient.
To the entire family, everyone in this hall stands with you.
We're working every day to secure his release.
Biden made no reference, for example, to the murder of Washington Post commentator Jamal Khashoggi, killed and dismembered inside the consulate of Saudi Arabia in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
I wonder why they don't even notice that.
What is it?
They don't know or they don't care.
It has to be one of those.
Biden claimed during the 2020 election campaign that he would turn the Saudi leader into a pariah.
The pariah that they are.
Instead, in pursuit of greater Saudi oil production, he went cap in hand to Riyadh for talks with the Prince Stroke Assassin.
Three minutes into his remarks at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Biden declared
journalism is not a crime. It is noteworthy that in their coverage of the Correspondents' Dinner,
neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post or any other mainstream publication made
any mention of Assange or the contradiction between Biden's declaration of fidelity to
the First Amendment and the continued drive of his administration to extradite and jail Assange.
Is there any clearer metaphor for the set of problems that we now face?
Ukraine is passing laws to centralise and control information.
That's a propaganda unit.
Joe Biden holds an event where the room is full of journalists, where he tells that room that journalism, in the words of Jefferson, is more important than government.
Meanwhile, not one journalist in that room has the temerity to say, what about Julian Assange?
What about that guy banged up in Ukraine?
Do we care about journalism and free speech?
Or do we care about propaganda?
And have we become so good at propaganda that we tell you that our propaganda is your free speech?
That we tell you that a free press is a press that does exactly what the government wants them to do and doesn't ask the government any difficult questions.
And when a difficult question is asked, like, hey, what are you going to do about that YouTuber who's banged up in Ukraine?
Just say, look, I've told you what I'm going to say.
I believe in free speech.
Now shut up.
That's all it amounts to.
That's not free speech.
That's propaganda.
That's not principles.
That's a total lack of principles.
That's why there are so many questions that remain unanswered because they can't answer you without telling you the truth.
We operate on behalf of elite establishment interests.
We'll say whatever we have to say to continue to pursue that agenda without ever making it too obvious.
That's why there are going to be journalists in prison in some countries that we stick up for and journalists in some countries that we completely ignore.
Journalists that get murdered and we don't do anything about it and it's business as usual.
Julian Assange still in jail because he threatened American interest.
You can just look at that information and work out for yourself what the truth is.
So, it doesn't matter what I think, but that's just what I think!
Until next time, stay free!
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