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Aug. 9, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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Oh Sh*t, PROOF UFOs Are A Distraction - You Were RIGHT! - Stay Free #186

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	So, so
	so brought you by Pfizer.
	So I'm looking for the CEO.
	Looking for the CEO.
	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders, whether it's the 6.5 million of you on YouTube or our growing army on Rumble.
	Almost 1.5 million people there immersing themselves in free speech, wallowing in it, bathing in free speech like Aphrodite, born anew, baptised as deities.
	Yes, freedom Is coming!
	The first 15 minutes will be there on YouTube.
	Then, due to the nature of our conversation about some of the FBI's conduct, we are gonna have to only broadcast on Rumble.
	We can't be on YouTube and talk about some of the FBI's potentially... Allegedly!
	Criminal activity and how it relates to events.
	Remember at the beginning of January there was a little bit of a... I don't know what to refer to it as.
	Was it a carnival?
	Was it a riot?
	Was it an insurrection?
	It's difficult to describe it but one thing's for certain the FBI had a lot of operatives there and some of their past conduct might lead you to scrutinize that agency and their actions.
	First though, let's have a look at what's going on with your man, Donald Trump.
	His first rally since the indictment.
	He's vocal.
	He's excited.
	He's perspiring a little bit.
	He's pretty amusing.
	He's got the stand-up skills.
	Let's have a look at it.
	Tonight, former President Trump holding his first campaign rally since his latest indictment on election interference.
	Today, blasting how much he's tied up in legal battles.
	I'm sorry, I won't be able to go to Iowa today.
	I won't be able to go to New Hampshire today because I'm sitting in a courtroom on...
	Trump rallying his supporters in early voting state New Hampshire.
	Even the beep is an indication of how politics has changed.
	Later this week we've got Vivek Ramaswamy coming on our show.
	If you're a local subscriber and you only have to press the red button to do that,
	you will have already seen the conversation with Vivek and many of you posed brilliant and challenging questions
	on whether or not he'd pardon Trump, on whether or not he feels compromised with his own
	relationships with Big Pharma and his answers were exciting and informative.
	That's why it's worth joining us on Locals.
	And what I would say to my on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy, and to all of you watching, is when you see Trump in his pomp, you realise now that the era of the bureaucrat, Mandarin, static, rhetorical, flat politician has perhaps come to an end.
	Would you say that's what we're experiencing?
	It's full on populism, isn't it?
	And what he said to the crowd was, I'm being indicted for you.
	And you know, so this is and we've got a clip coming up in a bit where someone said, you know, that they'd kind of the things that they would be willing to do for Donald Trump are things that people don't normally say about politicians.
	You know, it's extraordinary.
	It's an extraordinary phenomenon.
	I think the left's inability to address this and reckon with it is bringing about and precipitating their huge decline.
	Lashing out at special counsel Jack Smith's request for a protective order, which would bar him from discussing some elements of the case.
	I will talk about it.
	I will.
	They're not taking away my First Amendment right.
	The former president growing even more defiant.
	Every time you get indicted, I like to check the polls because...
	One more indictment that I think this election's over.
	Forget as a political commentator, as a stand-up comedian, I have to say that's well delivered, well addressed, it's on point, it's accurate because the ongoing indictments of Donald Trump, these continual arraignments, are only enhancing his popularity and his ability to explain that and declare that.
	So conversationally, so congenially, is part of what's not being addressed.
	When no one has any trust in government, the establishment, the institutions such as the media, big pharma, big tech, when we're all so full of doubt, and quite rightly so because of their insidious conduct, someone that can talk like that and behave like that remains appealing.
	Yeah, also, when he mentions First Amendment rights, I mean, this is obviously something that's always hugely popular to, you know, the American voter, but especially in the context that we exist in now, you know, it's all coming down to freedom of speech, ultimately, this latest indictment of his.
	But in the larger context of the way in which freedom of speech is increasingly, you know, being censored, I think that plays so well, not just to his audience in that context there, but to a kind of broader audience.
	To all of us, even right now, we can't talk in the depth we would like to about how the FBI's involvement in the events of January the 6th is cause for considerable concern, particularly in relationship with the events around the Newburgh 4 and how it's been, if not proven, at least acknowledged that the FBI's interference management construction of that event It gives us all pause for thought before ever condemning another person's actions, particularly with regard to conspiracy, insurrection.
	We can't go into that.
	So the matter of freedom of speech shouldn't be a left-right issue.
	We should all care about freedom of speech.
	And if you saw our conversation with Glenn Greenwald, and if you ain't watched it yet, he doubled down on this idea that the categories of left and right are increasingly becoming irrelevant.
	What we should be concerned with is Authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism.
	Where do you guys stand on that?
	Do you define yourself as left-wing or right-wing anymore?
	Are you concerned about increasing authoritarianism, the ongoing impeding of your rights?
	Click the red button on the screen if you're watching us on Rumbles and join us in the Locals' conversation.
	Joanne8952 said, Oh my God, if he was a comedian, I could choose to turn him on.
	She's gone.
	There's so many comments coming through.
	Press the red button and thanks for the compliments on your hair.
	I'm in the middle of a haircut right now.
	That's how devoted to you I am.
	I stop a haircut and I get to goddamn work.
	It wasn't me doing it, just so you know.
	Gareth just gnaws the ends of every single individual hair.
	Let's have a look at the rest of this clip.
	Glad you said her.
	One of his most vocal critics in the GOP field, Chris Christie.
	No, Christie, he's eating right now.
	Now he can't be bothered.
	He's just shaking his head.
	It's sort of performance art.
	We've created these conditions.
	We created the requirement for politicians that understood media, that were charismatic.
	We prioritized the ability to perform above the ability to deliver.
	And I know that lots of you wouldn't apply that analysis to Donald Trump.
	And now what we've ended up is with someone who understands media, who understands delivery, who understands a joke.
	And the refusal to acknowledge that by his detractors makes him look pious and glum.
	Yeah, I mean, we also know what effect this is having on the polls.
	We know that literally the effect that this is having on Ron DeSantis, who voters are saying basically isn't anywhere near as funny as Donald Trump.
	That's literally affecting what's going on at the moment.
	You raise a good point, Gareth, because if it was simply about policy, you would think that DeSantis' actions during the pandemic, his refusal to lock down Florida, and if indeed this is a culture war matter, you know, DeSantis has been so forthright around culture war issues to the point of many people becoming, I don't know, concerned about actions around culture down there in Florida, certainly the
	Disney corporation.
	So it's not just that, it's something interpersonal.
	This is to do with charisma, this is to do with humanity.
	The more they indict him as he himself jokes, the more popular he becomes.
	Extraordinary.
	Sir, please do not call him a fat pig.
	Again, that's stand-up skills.
	And it's really interesting there, because a minute ago he said Chris is not available because he's eating.
	And then, sir, please don't call him a fat pig.
	Now let's have a look at his Truth Social post that he made earlier today.
	He says, I was extremely respectful of sloppy Chris Christie.
	Another day, another nickname.
	You can't say that you're being respectful of someone that you call Sloppy Chris Christie today in New Hampshire.
	During a speech in front of a large crowd of patriots, somebody shouted out that Chris Christie is a fat pig.
	Rather than acknowledging that, which many speakers would have done, I said, no, no, no, he is not a fat pig.
	I'm sure Chris would have been very happy if my defence of him exclaims, In another format that Donald Trump can triumph within.
	Let's go back to that news story before we move on to Burisma.
	And I tell you, Vivek Ramaswamy, Gareth, you weren't there for the conversation, were you?
	Because you were preparing for this show, I'm assuming.
	You were busy.
	You weren't just mucking around.
	We're tending to your own here.
	Well, Vivek Ramaswamy, and I'm going to have to be careful how I phrase this on YouTube, he says that the relationship between the Bidens and Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, isn't being looked at significantly enough or with sufficient depth or scrutiny in regard specifically with the ongoing funding of the Ukraine war.
	I mean, that's, I think in itself... That's bold.
	That's bold, it's bold, and I don't know.
	Allegedly.
	I'm just going to... I mean, would that help us in court?
	Who knows these days?
	Let's have a look at the rest of the story.
	Do you know what that is?
	That's Nazi Germany Hitler.
	You can't silence your political opponents because you don't agree with them.
	He absolutely should be able to talk about it.
	Since almost when watching this kind of talking head or vox pop interview on a network like NBC that when they're selecting the people from the line they're choosing suitably MAGA cast people like people with beards and MAGA capped up and all that kind of stuff to prevent a more divisive picture of American politics.
	But the simple truth is, is when that woman says that it is fascistic to shut down your political opponents,
	there's a good degree of truth in that. When we spoke to Glenn Greenwald yesterday,
	he was happy to say that if that kind of practice was happening in Colombia or Venezuela or
	Central or Latin American country, the American media will be saying that's the behavior of a banana republic. If you
	have principles, those Principles have to be ardent and continuous
	That's the cost, the price and the point of principles.
	You have to say, I don't agree with Donald Trump and I think the way he handled that election, I don't agree with it at all, but we can't start attacking his First Amendment rights or we play exactly into the hands of our opponents and detractors.
	I mean, normally, if that kind of behaviour is going on in other countries, normally spoken about in the press in this country and by the government, if we want to go and invade them somehow, if they've got some resources that we want, then it's a banana republic!
	That's right, that's used to legitimise invasions.
	Let us know in the comments if you agree with us.
	If you're watching us on YouTube right now, we're going to go over to being on Rumble.
	I'll tell you why, because I have to talk about the events of January the 6th and the FBI involvement in that.
	Critical and significant evidence around the FBI's conduct historically that puts an entirely new light on the revelations that there were many, potentially hundreds, of FBI agents present on January 6th and what their role on the events of that day was.
	If you want to hear that story, if you want to see it discussed in depth, then join us Over on Rumble, click the link in your description.
	It's something we're going to be talking about a lot this week.
	I brought it up to Vivek Ramaswamy.
	We're going to continue covering this Trump story.
	We're going to look at Burisma taking down pictures of Joe Biden and Devin Archer from their website.
	Burisma, of course, the Ukrainian gas company that employ Hunter Biden for no reason other than that guy understands gas pipes.
	Pipes, mate, you cannot, you cannot, he is second to none when it comes to, he can make him out of, look at it, any minibar in any hotel in the world, Hunter Biden can get, it's like the A-Team, what he can make out of the contents of a minibar.
	If you're watching this on YouTube, join us over on Rumble.
	If you're watching this on Rumble right now, I want you to press the red button on the bottom of your screen right now and join our locals community.
	I was in the army, I promised myself I'd never take a cold shower again after that, says Tamara Spencer.
	We salute your service, Tamara.
	We salute you.
	Let's have a look at the rest of his story.
	And if he wants me to protect him, I'm going to go in there.
	I'm going to let him know that I'll do it.
	Janet Griffin, who attended Trump.
	Like that, Gail?
	Kind of amazing.
	I honestly, I can't imagine that occurring with any other political candidate, certainly in the United States.
	And it's a shame because Joe Biden could do with some support.
	What he needed someone Someone to hold potentially a colostomy bag, someone to hold him up at the hips.
	Let's face it, it's the weekend of Bernie's president.
	We've joked about it before.
	But that kind of devotion, that kind of emotion, if you sneer at it, at your peril, I would say.
	Now let's move on to the people that are potentially trying to indict Trump, not because they believe Trump's a criminal, but because they believe Trump's a threat.
	The Biden family.
	Let me know in the comments below if you consider the Biden family to be a crime family This story is about Burisma removing their picture of Joe Biden and Devin Archer from their website.
	Now with Tucker's recent interview with Devin Archer, with Devin Archer's revelation that Biden would regularly appear by speakerphone, seems to me that this is further evidence that Joe Biden's role in Hunter Biden's business was somewhat dubious.
	Well yeah, I mean essentially when he denied it in 2019 that he had any knowledge of his business dealings and what we are seeing through the testimony of Devin Archer and obviously the interview with Tucker as well is that that simply wasn't the case.
	And they've taken it down because legally they're not comfortable with the VP's picture being up on site as what seems like an endorsement.
	What Vivek says, we can say this now because we're over on Rumble, Vivek said Why are they not talking more about the fact that this war is between Ukraine and Russia, that millions was given to Hunter Biden in bribery by Ukrainian energy firms?
	He believes, Vivek Ramaswamy, and I hope I'm not doing him a disservice, you'll see this interview in full on Friday, that that war would not be happening without the relationship between the Bidens and Ukrainian energy companies.
	I think I'm not misrepresenting him.
	No, I don't think you are misrepresenting that view.
	I mean it's a, I would say it's a very, it's a bold view.
	It's bold!
	I mean that doesn't include the 2014 coup, there's all sorts of history between... The NATO people, I mean Vivek, to his credit, talked about all of those components, but he seemed to think that it was incredibly significant.
	It was an excellent conversation.
	So there you go, they've taken that down.
	That was from 2014, just to let you know.
	During the coup era?
	Exactly, when Biden was the point man on Ukraine.
	And this is like what also was spoken about was how then President Joe Biden got fired a Ukrainian prosecutor who was a threat to the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma's business.
	So again, this idea that Joe Biden didn't have anything to do with Hunter Biden's business dealings.
	If then he's directly involved in getting rid of a prosecutor who was threatening Burisma, then you'd have to argue that wasn't the case.
	What do you guys think?
	Let me know in the comments and the chat.
	Seems like pretty good analysis to me.
	Now we want to talk to you a little bit about the Newberg 4.
	This is what we couldn't talk about on YouTube.
	Ten years ago, four men were imprisoned for their involvement in a conspiracy to bomb some synagogues around Connecticut and New York State, I guess is where it took place.
	It's a real weird and convoluted case.
	They involve men being taken across borders to look at explosives.
	And the long and the short of it is this, that these men have been released on what they call compassionate grounds because the FBI, it appears, came up with that plot, helped them to execute it, To the point where it's clear that the main instigators and conspirators in the Newburgh 4 case were the FBI themselves.
	Listen to this in the context of January 6th events.
	We know that there were hundreds of FBI agents present in that crowd that day.
	We know now, due to the compassionate release of the Newburgh 4, that the FBI created a conspiracy in order that they could arrest the perpetrators of that crime.
	But they themselves were the criminals.
	Have a little look at the news footage around this case.
	A victory in court for three men convicted in a terrorism sting more than a decade ago.
	Police arrested the men last night as they were allegedly planting what they thought were real bombs outside a Jewish temple.
	A federal judge ordering the release of Anta Williams, David Williams, and Laguerre Payne, three of the men known as the Newburgh Four, arrested for a plot to blow up synagogues in New York City and shoot down National Guard planes and other What's subsequently been revealed is that the plot has been called an FBI orchestrated conspiracy.
	Check this out, guys.
	A person reading the crimes of conviction in this case will be left with the impression that the offending defendants were sophisticated international terrorists committed to jihad against the United States, Judge McMahon wrote.
	However, they were in actual fact Hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals.
	That means they were poor people that were manipulated and exploited.
	That they were guided through this process so the FBI could make those arrests.
	It says here the real lead conspirator was the United States.
	Listen to this.
	The FBI invented the conspiracy, identified the targets, manufactured the ordinance.
	Judge McMahon wrote that adding The FBI had no comment on this story.
	the charges, ensuring long prison sentences by driving several of the men across state
	lines to Connecticut to view the bombs.
	The FBI had no comment on this story.
	Now, if the FBI did that, is it not possible that their agents in the crowd on January
	6th amplified in- Encouraged?
	Exacerbated the conditions?
	I'm not saying that it's true.
	I'm saying, is it possible?
	Should it be investigated?
	Perhaps in the same way that Donald Trump's role is being investigated, particularly as that case hinges upon whether or not he knowingly sowed doubt, or whether he believed the results of the election in reality, but pretended he didn't agree with those results.
	This is an extraordinary piece of information, but more important than that, it's evidence that the FBI regularly uses malpractice all the way back to their treatment of Martin Luther King.
	The FBI is an agency that our man Vivek said he would disband on day one of his presidency.
	RFK says he would disband the CIA.
	We're at a point where these deep state agencies are not Supporters, friends, allies and protectors of the American population.
	But they're enemies!
	They're jailers!
	They're the people that are creating scenarios in order to persecute and prosecute American citizens.
	What do you think about that?
	Does this story make you think that it's possible that the FBI in some way created a false flag event?
	What do you think about the Newburgh 4 case?
	Let us know in Locals.
	Press the red button on your screen now.
	I guess the irony is also that Trump at the moment is being charged with inciting violence, and like if there's nothing more better example of inciting violence than this, of literally creating plots, of taking petty criminals, making them into terrorists, of a plan of your own creation.
	I mean, I don't know what else that is.
	It's a bit like Pretty Woman.
	It's a bit like the FBI is Richard Gere and them four lads is Julia Roberts.
	They're just playing their trade as sex workers on a boulevard.
	What does Richard Gere come along and do?
	He tarts them up.
	He dresses them up.
	He drives them across state lines.
	He tells them to bomb synagogues.
	Pretty woman walking down the street.
	It's not that much like Pretty Woman.
	Look, the analogy was bound to... Big mistake.
	Big, big mistake.
	You work on commission, right?
	For these bombs?
	Big mistake.
	I shouldn't have said it.
	State New York.
	The suspects allegedly conducted surveillance and took photos of possible targets.
	In a scathing decision, U.S.
	District Judge Colleen McMahon accusing FBI agents of trying to arrest petty criminals.
	Is it right that Barry John Fox in the chat says, don't kiss me on the lips, only on the dick, and calls that a quote?
	That's not from Pretty Woman, is it?
	Richard Gere would know.
	Not the version I've seen.
	I don't know what version I'll get.
	Do you get your DVDs out the back of a van?
	Outside the off-licence, you lunatics.
	Could you please increase the quality of your conversation in that chat?
	Or we were... Well, luckily we believe in free speech, don't we?
	I believe in freedom of speech.
	And where freedom of speech and speech meet, you get free speech, right?
	Where freedom of speech meet, you get free speech.
	It's fair, isn't it, to say that?
	I think I know where you're going with this.
	And what do you get where free speech meets?
	It's freech, isn't it?
	it is fridge. Credit for those graphics.
	Those graphics were designed and issued by a stranger rather than our in-house team of paid experts.
	We've never been billed for that, actually.
	If you want us to pay you for that, we'll take it out of Jack's wages.
	It's the only fair way, isn't it?
	These are some comments on our conversation with the great Glenn Greenwald just yesterday.
	Eleonore, loved Glenn's quote from Rosa Luxemburg, those who do not move Do not notice their chains.
	What a wonderful quote.
	I'm going to be using that a lot.
	That's the nature of the free.
	We don't notice that we're not free because we remain curtailed, or in the words of Rosa Luxemburg, those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
	It's our obligation to move, isn't it?
	To writhe, to wriggle, to lash out.
	You can apply that to speech also, can't you?
	Like we're being policed into a very narrow bandwidth of things that we can actually say now.
	Oh, that's good.
	Those who do not wiggle their lips do not notice that their lips have been scotch-taped.
	Lifetime on the hips, is it?
	It's in moment on the lips, but by jingo down on the hippos.
	It's a lifetime, baby.
	Fresh Raw says, been following Glenn for years now.
	He's such a smart and brave journalist.
	Get him on again soon.
	We will.
	Why do we judge presidential candidates by their personality rather than their qualifications?
	I suppose because we're looking for humanity.
	That leadership in our anthropology, in our deep evolutionary history, would come from charisma, would come from achievements, would come from Trust and when you have a class of bureaucratic basically faceless mandarin politicians all parroting the same soundbites no integrity you know they're doing it for the wrong reasons you know they'll roll right out of office into some financial big tech or big pharma role that all the time all everything they're saying is geared towards the interests of elites rather than the people they're elected to serve when people have
	Personalities that are appealing, at least that's something.
	All of us, to a degree, trust our guts.
	We're apes.
	We're not evolved to live in nations of hundreds of millions.
	We're evolved to live in communities of a hundred, couple of a hundred people, where those kind of intuitive gut instincts are valuable, where you can say, oh, there's something I don't feel right about that person.
	I don't trust that person.
	I'm not going to leave that person with my kid or my handbag.
	Although if this was in the plains of Savannah, that would be a handbag, perhaps made out of fur.
	Although I think you probably still get those these days anyway.
	We're talking handbags, aren't we?
	Furry handbags, yep.
	Still pretty much on the pretty woman tip, really.
	Furry handbags sounds like the most disgusting euphemism imaginable.
	This is some comments on the Jordan Peterson interview.
	It was a great conversation with Jordan.
	Did you lot see it?
	It was really great, actually.
	And I liked the bit where he talked about sexual evolution and, of course, I like his publicity.
	What a surprise.
	Wingful says, I'm looking forward to the start of classes.
	Get this, Gareth, because I'm going to demand that you attend.
	I'm looking forward to the starting classes with Professor Russell Brand.
	What will your first lesson be?
	Because you know the Peterson University.
	Guess who's going to be running a course?
	Why are you laughing?
	Guess who's going to be running a course?
	No, it's me.
	It's not, is it?
	Yeah, it's my course and I get to decide what's it about.
	So why don't you tell us in the chat what you think I'm qualified to run a course on and we will give a prize of a silver... I don't know, what can we give you?
	A t-shirt?
	Do we have to call you professor?
	Yeah, you do!
	And in fact, I'd like you to start doing that right now.
	Right now?
	I knew you'd think that.
	Could you start causing- calling me the professor right now?
	There isn't another page.
	There's not another page, guys.
	Oh, professor, have you lost your pages?
	That's- not my fault!
	It's my bloody classroom assistant who says, look on the next page, because there's comments about Gareth.
	But there ain't no- there ain't none.
	There ain't no more- Same page.
	Page reference, Gareth.
	Next comment on the same page.
	Wait a minute, let me get that back.
	Sorry class, but that bell is for me, not for you!
	See, it's your own time you're wasting!
	It's your own time you're wasting!
	Uh, Layla, you got me on my knees, Layla.
	If you start taking classes at the Jordan Peterson Academy, will Gareth be a supply teacher?
	Or does Gareth have a specialist subject he could teach?
	Uh, what are you going to teach at the old Russ's Peterson Academy course, gal?
	I think I should fill in for you for that first ten minutes or something before you arrive.
	Yeah, like...
	I'll be... Why am I late?
	Well, I'm late.
	You're late, is what I'm saying.
	And now... There we go.
	Now class, do as I fucking tell you!
	That's how it'll go. Now you probably, is this the one about the, I don't know if we've got any free
	speech on this, but I've got to do a pull-up competition against RFK with his great Popeye
	forearms, with his veins clearly coursing with all sorts of hormone replacement therapies. He's
	like a great bloody slab of testosterone and we're up to $42,000 raised to get to $100,000. Now I am
	actually willing to do this, particularly because we've got Hampton Liu, a brilliant YouTuber,
	and pull up expert. Is this all part of your course? This is part, this isn't the, this is the course.
	Yeah!
	We're doing a module on pull-ups, are we?
	Okay, guys!
	Pull-ups!
	You know that if it was pulling, it wouldn't be pulling up, but off.
	That I'd be offering abstract and theoretical advice.
	No demos, no demos.
	We're not weird.
	Let's have a look at Hampton Loo.
	Is Hampton Loo there?
	A great YouTuber and expert.
	In fact, I watched Hampton's video on pull-ups and the first comment that's been liked by about 70,000 people has said, this guy is so friendly it made me want to get up at 4am and start practicing pull-ups.
	And I laughed because I agreed with that.
	Hampton, thanks for joining us.
	Hey, Russell.
	How's it going, brother?
	I feel pretty good, but I'm nervous because, you know, like you run the Hybrid Calisthenics channel on YouTube.
	Your pull-up tutorial's got 13 million views.
	I saw the way you did that, and I like the way you coached us from a position where you obviously, which anyone needs to learn if they can't do pull-ups, from not being able to do a single pull-up to becoming adept at pull-ups.
	Now, I've got a pull-up competition against RFK from the Kennedy family, a renegade and radical contestant in the forthcoming presidential elections.
	He's older than me, he's better at pull-ups than me, what am I going to do?
	Well, depends.
	Do you want the joke answer or the serious answer?
	Start with the joke and then I'll cry a bit and we'll go serious.
	Well, you know, the power of friendship, of course.
	Power of friendship and love, that'll usually get you through.
	That alone, right.
	I can feel the tears are welling up now, Hampton.
	So how am I gonna compete with this great, muscular, sinewy, testosterone slab of lamb?
	Well, I don't know if I have a recipe for that, but how many pull-ups can you currently do?
	Narrow grip, narrow neutral grip, I can get to 10.
	Okay.
	So what I would do is I would, you know, so if you look at the video, there's different pull-up variations.
	A lot of people, they try the pull-up, they can do, you know, 10, some people can do 1, some people can do 0, and they try that, but it's kind of like if you were Trying to learn a bench press and someone handed you a bench press bar, but the 225 pounds or 100 kilos was welded on, right?
	That's not an exact translation, but welded on.
	And if you can't lift it to say, well, just keep trying, right?
	So instead of just keep trying to do a pull up, even if it's not the best form, even if you can't quite get it, even if you're hurting, What you should do is start with a lower weight, right?
	So you would start with an easier variation.
	In your case, because you can already do 10 pull-ups, which is great by the way, you can try learning that with different grips afterwards.
	So do the neutral ones first.
	Afterwards, you can try, it depends on the form that you're going to compete with, you can try those afterwards.
	And afterwards, I would really push yourself with some easier variations.
	So I would start with the thing you're best at, The thing that takes the most strength, and then I would kind of like dial in and really burn out with those easier variations or an assisted version.
	Does that make sense?
	Yes, it does.
	So keep doing the neutrals, but then maybe start moving to a pull-up grip, but sort of like not so wide, you know, maybe like here, like sort of just like, would that be good?
	How strict is the form?
	How strict is the forum with your competition?
	Can you see if we pull up the picture of RFK, right?
	Look at this picture of RFK, right?
	This is him.
	This is from the fundraiser.
	Yeah, see him there in his blue t-shirt.
	Now look, I guess that's how he does it.
	Now that's quite a wide grip he's got there.
	And he says he can do 20, he can do 26 Hampton.
	26 is pretty impressive.
	Do you think you can get a 26?
	No.
	How far away is this?
	All right, well, you know, power of friendship, right?
	So what you can do, if that is how you're going to compete, there's a persistent theme in fitness that we get better at what we train.
	So if you're going to train with the overhand grip like that, then you're going to have to train with that primarily if you want to compete that way.
	So if you're gonna do that, I would do that first.
	Maybe you aren't able to do as many.
	So let's say you can do five or six, rest for a few minutes, and then grab a neutral grip, and then do your usual set, and then afterwards you do some easier variations.
	Hey, there's one thing, not advantage, but one trick.
	I do have available.
	And of course, I'm willing to juice, baby.
	Oh, I'll juice, Hampton.
	I'll juice if I have to.
	But another trick is that we haven't set the date yet.
	So how long is it going to take me to get from, yeah, and I reckon five is a fair estimation, to get them from five to 28?
	Now, what's reasonable if you're willing to take sports and body enhancing drugs, regardless of the effect they may have on your reproductive organ?
	Well, you know, as far as I know, by juice I assume you mean like carrot juice, zucchini juice, right, orange juice.
	Like what kind of juice are we talking about?
	It's like the heavy grade stuff?
	Like lemon juice?
	Or what kind of juice?
	I'm willing to go to the... I'm willing to... Intramuscular juices, baby.
	I'm willing...
	I can't have RFK.
	Like, I cannot lose to RFK in a pull-up competition.
	Can I?
	Can my ego withstand it?
	It's a fragile, brittle... I don't think you could get over it.
	I think the worry here is that you start injecting yourself with things that are going to do more harm than you losing a competition.
	Right, long-term harm.
	Like psychosis.
	Well, luckily I'm emotionally quite a stable person.
	Absolutely.
	You'll be fine.
	Consistent moods, not prone to bouts of depression and mania, or a long history of addiction.
	So you don't think that you wouldn't take steroids, and how long is a reasonable amount of time, Hampton?
	Well, look, if you're going to go from 5 to 28, assuming you are a fairly talented person, I think it's reasonable if you unlock your current potential, you get like the so-called newbie gains, you might be able to get to 15, 20 in a few months.
	I'm being a little generous there, just being trying to be reasonable.
	It's not impossible that you can get to 28, but that would be assuming you already have the hardware, so to speak.
	You already have the muscles, you already have very gifted physically, and then training would just unlock your software, if that makes sense.
	Right, but I think I might need some hardware is the worry.
	I would just keep training about two or three times a week doing what you do.
	Right.
	I'm going to do everything I can to get that hardware.
	Can I stay in touch with you, Hampton, as I continue on this ill-fated venture against a very fit man who I believe is taking testosterone supplements?
	That's exactly why I'm here for people who are doing competition with a very fit man who's taking testosterone supplements.
	So yes, 100%.
	Should we have a quick look at Hampton before we leave?
	Check out Hampton's channel.
	It's fantastic.
	In particular, his education around this.
	Have a little look, guys.
	Hello, my friends.
	It is your brother Hampton from Hybrid Calisthenics.
	If you can't do pull-ups yet, don't let it ruin your day.
	Let me see if I can help you out.
	Beyond just being a great exercise, Pull-ups are a fundamental movement.
	The human body is built to hang and climb.
	But despite that, you shouldn't feel embarrassed if you can't do a pull-up.
	There's a few things you can do.
	Some people find they can do regular pull-ups from there right away.
	Other people need to use gradually less and less assistance from their legs, so you eventually don't need your legs at all to pull yourself up.
	After you can do a pull-up, come back and give me a high-five and comment, Hampton, you son of a gun, I did it.
	You're a really likeable person.
	That's fantastic.
	Well, you should follow Hampton and Hampton, I'll stay in touch with you as I pursue my giddy quest against a strong older man.
	Anytime.
	Best of luck.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	Thank you so much.
	Give Hampton a like and a follow over there on his fantastic channel.
	Thanks for joining us, Hampton.
	Okay, is there anything... Gareth, I think you really undermined me there.
	Oh, sorry about that.
	I was a little worried about you showing Hampton your hardware.
	If Hampton needs to see my bloody hardware, I'll show Hampton my hardware!
	Listen, this is another... Our next guest today is also exciting.
	He's a friend of the show, creator of the Tapping Solution app.
	You know we believe in advanced, innovative, yet somehow traditional wellness philosophies.
	I learned of this one from the great Tony Robbins.
	Those of you in the chat that regularly suffer from anxiety, self-doubt, incredible sex appeal like me will be grateful to learn
	from Nick Ortner many of his techniques and I also know for a fact that Nick is a
	real supporter of RFK. Nick Ortner, thank you very much for joining us today.
	My pleasure my friend.
	I just want to see the pull-up contest happen.
	I enjoyed the drug deal.
	It almost went down.
	I see you're just trying to get some juice from Hampton.
	That was clearly why you had them on, trying to source the juice that you need.
	Pretty inadvisable to conduct drug deals.
	I mean, this is Rumble.
	We have got free speech.
	I don't know if that extends to free drug deals.
	Hey, one of the things, Nick, that we can continually get asked when we have experts like you on our show is, how can we use your techniques to retain a degree of balance?
	When we're dealing with so much negative information, when we spend all of our time talking about corruption in the deep state, when we talk about corruption of corporations, when we talk about the events of the last three years, the amount of deception and lies and malevolence, how do we maintain our general Positivity, Nick, using therapies and wellness techniques.
	Yeah, it's such a good question and so important, you know, because what we want to do is we want to be informed.
	We want to listen to what's happening in the world.
	We want to engage.
	We want to take actions to change things where we think it's appropriate, but we don't want it to bleed into our lives.
	So, you know, we see the news and then we're at dinner and we're just pissed off at the world, right?
	Where we're snappier and angry with our children because of the state of the world.
	So I think it's this perpetual balance of, you know, anger where it serves us, right?
	Anger, a lot of people think, oh, it's not good to be angry, but anger can serve us.
	So when you hear the news, when you see what's happening, you can feel that anger inside.
	The key is, can you take that anger and actually do something positive with it?
	Can you use that energy to do more pull-ups, to do something in the world, to affect change in the world?
	And what the tapping can help us do is acknowledge that anger, right?
	Even though I feel this anger, feel it in our bodies and then use it as a force to then let it go.
	Let it go and then move from that place of love and compassion.
	Move from that place of going, okay, with this, I can make a difference in the world.
	I can take an action.
	Cause we don't want to just be passive receptors of this information, receivers of this information.
	We don't want to just be pissed off all day.
	The question is, what can you do?
	How can you engage in your local community?
	I mean, you often talk about how we, you know, historically grew up in small communities.
	It's so easy to just watch what's happening around the world and feel like we can't make a difference.
	Well, guess what?
	You can.
	There's a local soup kitchen that you can volunteer at.
	There's someone in the grocery store that you can be kinder to.
	There's these small little things that you can do in your life that might not feel significant, but there's nothing more significant than that.
	I also know that the FBI are starting a little cell where you can bomb some religious buildings and then go to prison for 10 years, even though it was their idea.
	Another little way you can get involved in the community.
	One of the things we consistently talk about on our channel, Nick, is the necessity to
	embrace personal individual wellness and not to see it as abstract from the kind of political
	ideas that we discussed, but somehow integral.
	I learned a lot about that in community.
	Many of our viewers joined us for the community festival.
	And what I felt is that some of the stuff that Wim Hof was doing with Breathwork or
	Biet Simkin or the things that Satish Kumar or Vandana Shiva are talking about take place
	at the level of the individual, but also at the level of the community.
	It's not like we're just looking at wellness as something that's happening to us individually, where we're cloistered off.
	It's about empowering ourselves so we can bring about change.
	I believe that an epoch is coming to an end.
	I felt it like, you know, when even talking to a very competent political figure like Ron DeSantis, he perhaps, you know, I don't want to be dismissive of Ron because he was a great guest and I hope we get to talk to him again.
	But the difference between talking to him and seeing how Trump engages with people or how RFK engages with people is an indication that people are awakening.
	I know that RFK is very overt about his spirituality.
	Do you sense that spirituality and wellness are starting to inform the political space in a way that's different?
	And that the candidature of Marianne Williamson, and particularly RFK, are an indication that politics now needs purpose, and purpose is often derived from spirituality.
	Are you sensing that?
	Yeah, I'm absolutely sensing it.
	I couldn't agree more.
	And, you know, you talked about, I mean, it's funny, we're talking about the pull-up challenges, the lead-in.
	There's been a couple headlines about sort of right-wing getting into exercise, right, as if it's a political thing, which is really silly.
	You know, Wim Hof, the cold bass, all these things.
	Those are critical and important, and it's so important to take care of your physical body.
	The element that I would add that I don't think is being discussed enough is the emotional wellness.
	Do you feel comfortable about yourself?
	Do you love yourself?
	Are you comfortable in your heart?
	Are you kind to the people around you?
	Are you balanced?
	Are you stable?
	Are you keeping your stress levels manageable?
	Are you able to create the change that you want in the world?
	So I'm so excited about seeing all the physical stuff come in.
	And I think the emotional, the mental, the balanced piece of things is sort of what's next.
	That's what you see from Marianne.
	She's a friend and she's beautiful and kind and has been teaching this stuff for so long.
	And now I think just her energy, her thoughts, her vibration is seeping into that political discourse.
	Same with RFK.
	And hopefully it's bleeding into every candidate.
	Where they say, look, what you feel matters.
	How you treat people matters.
	How you conduct your daily lives matters.
	And that's what matters most if we're going to change the world.
	It feels to me impossible that we wouldn't as individuals have some kind of personal routine around our wellness.
	And as you say, I'm not just talking about physical wellness and physical fitness.
	I'm talking about meditation, hot, cold therapies, and precisely things like tapping.
	The amount of stress that we encounter in our working lives, if we are working.
	The stress that comes from being impecuniated if you ain't working.
	The stress of ordinary family life.
	All of these things require that we have some methods.
	How do you propose people use your tapping solution in their lives?
	Is it something that people should be doing every day?
	And what are the raft of conditions that it can be used for, Nick?
	Yeah, great question.
	I mean, every day is great, like anything else.
	Exercise every day is great.
	But if you do it three, four times a week, fabulous.
	The key is just to get going.
	The tapping and you know, for those of us who are like, what are we talking about?
	We call it tapping because we're literally Physically tapping on these endpoints of meridians of our body.
	And what the latest research shows is that when we do this, we send a calming signal to the amygdala in the brain.
	The fight or flight response center.
	The part of us that is on high alert.
	That's why it works so well for anxiety.
	For depression, for pain in your body, for the general stress that you feel every day.
	I've spent now the last 15 years of my life, you know, waking up, sharing this technique, using it for myself, using it with friends and family.
	And time and again, what I see people experience is that they have a shift that is so rapid where they go, you know what?
	I thought I was stuck there.
	I was thinking these thoughts over and over again.
	I was angry.
	I couldn't let go of the thing that happened 20 years ago.
	I couldn't find a way to love myself.
	I knew these things that I wanted to be, but I just couldn't get there.
	And something with the tapping, when we send that calming signal, unlocked that within them.
	So they felt pain-free.
	They were not anxious.
	They felt at peace in their body.
	They felt like they were enough for the first time in their lives.
	I use it, and I find it very effective, particularly with anxiety, with intrusive thoughts, with when I just can't stop thinking about something, or ruminating it about something in an unhelpful way.
	Here's a question from one of the members of our community, and if you're watching this on Rumble, join us on Locals.
	This is where it all goes down.
	This is from SensitiveHearts25.
	She says, Hello, Russell.
	I love you.
	Thank you.
	Brilliant start.
	I love you as well, mate.
	My question for Nick is, can tapping help me with my grief from losing my abusive dad?
	Oh, bloody hell, that's a complex issue.
	Can it, Nick?
	Yeah, it absolutely can.
	It's a complex issue.
	You know, with those complex issues, there are psychologists, psychiatrists, all sorts of therapists who bring tapping into their practice.
	So that's a good, like, place to reach out.
	But I've seen time and again, you know, we've spoken at length about it with grief.
	I live in Sandy Hook, the site of the Sandy Hook School school shootings where all these children were murdered
	just 10 minutes from my house.
	There's nothing more complex when it comes to grief, children, guns, school violence,
	all these things swirling together. And I've seen how people have rebuilt their lives using
	this technique.
	Yeah, it can be effective. I know for just physical things, not just physical things,
	physical things are bloody important, but you know, psychological, neurological, it
	appears that it sort of is operating on a level of anatomy that is difficult to discern
	using only a Western understanding of how the body works.
	But as you say, there is no evidence that it's impacting the amygdala and it's starting to make sense from a scientific perspective, as well as from a therapeutic one.
	Nick, I've got this idea.
	There are two ideas, actually.
	Here they are.
	Idea one is, can you do a tap for our locals community?
	We do these things sometimes where our work meeting, we put it out for people.
	This is one of the reasons why it's worth joining us on Locals.
	Press the red button.
	We put out our work meeting where we talk about what the day's show's going to be.
	We did it today, so we talk about how we're going to interview Vivek Ramaswamy, how we're going to cover the story about Trump, how we're going to, you know, and we take your questions from the locals community then.
	We could have one day where you did tupping for our team here at Stay Free, and anyone on Locals, would you do that for us one day?
	I'd be happy to.
	Let's do it.
	Let's set it up.
	And then my second request is, would you, the Tupping Solution app is free to download for anyone, but to get access to the courses and some of the, you know, let's call it better content, because I really like some of that stuff, will you give like the first 10 people that send in an email address access to it or something like that?
	I'll give a one-year subscription to the first 10 people.
	One year subscription to the first 10 people on Locals who send in the thing.
	I tell you, I use this thing all the time.
	It's absolutely fantastic.
	Now, Nick, before we go, how are you feeling about the new football season?
	Nick is a Tottenham Hotspur fan and an Argentina fan and is ethnically Argentinian, if that's the right way to say that.
	Are you enjoying having Messi in the MLS?
	Are you excited about Tottenham?
	How do you feel about Harry Kane?
	I know these are real football questions, but I wanted to ask them.
	Even though Harry Kane might be leaving for Bayern any minute, I love and accept myself and I choose to relax now.
	That's been about the last month.
	Tapping can help you with the inevitable departure of Harry Kane.
	What do you think about it?
	Is it nice to have Lionel Messi there into Miami?
	It is a delight to have him in Miami.
	You know, I follow him like most of the world does with a deep love for the man somehow.
	There's something that's communicated by his presence on the field and off the field where I actually find myself caring, I'm sure, in the same way so many people love and care about you and Gareth.
	And he seems happy and that brings me joy.
	He's scoring ridiculous goals.
	He's scoring goals that he would score in Europe that you can't say it's a MLS does his free kicks are out of this world, and he's having a good time, so I'm really enjoying it.
	We're very excited about the season.
	Many of you may not know that Gareth and I do at a podcast called football is nice.
	We usually put it out on a Thursday.
	You can listen to it as a podcast, or you can, of course, listen to it on rumble or indeed locals.
	Loads of people are sending in their Emails now, Nick, so thank you very much for that offer for our audience and to agreeing to do a tap session for the Stay Free team that we will also put out live on local so people can join us for that.
	Gareth, what do you think the tapping should be directed towards for our Stay Free team?
	How to not fall in love with maybe, I don't know, maybe your co-workers are very handsome or maybe you've got some charismatic leader and it's very difficult not to, something like that, to help you not fall in love with.
	Yeah, but Graphics Jack is adorable, actually.
	We're all falling for him a bit.
	60% Al, pretty beautiful as well.
	Young Putin.
	I've got to tap my way out of the heartbreak for that kid.
	I don't know what to do.
	I don't know what to do.
	So, hey, thanks very much, Nick, for joining us and we'll see you soon.
	You're a good man, good friend.
	Thank you for joining us.
	Love you, brother.
	I love you, mate.
	Take care.
	Thank you very much.
	You can download the Tapping Solution app and find out more at tappingsolution.com.
	And those 10 of you that were the first ones, Nick will sort you out with a year's free subscription.
	Hey, what a week we've got!
	Vivek Ramaswamy, who you would have seen already if you're members of our locals community.
	That's why it's really worth joining.
	His show with us is being broadcast on Friday.
	We've already told you about some of the revelations.
	Trump pardoning comes out.
	Aligning the Hunter Biden-Burisma deal with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
	A pledge to end the war.
	I'm going to say, he says he's going to disband the FBI on day one.
	But is that stuff all pie in the sky?
	Could a candidate like Vivek Ramaswamy, a non-politician, an outsider, a business entrepreneur, win the Republican Party candidature?
	What do you think, gal?
	Well, he's doing well.
	He's kind of climbing in the polls, isn't he?
	And I think the word is that people think he's going to overtake DeSantis.
	It'll be interesting.
	So if he overtakes DeSantis and Trump becomes ineligible for some reason, like he's in jail, then like Vivek Ramaswamy, it's worth tuning in to see that.
	OK, now, certainly some radical change and an injection of youth could be valuable in the Washington, D.C., if Dianne Feinstein's recent performance is anything to go by.
	Many of you made much of the fact That she was being cajoled and coached weekend at Bernie's style.
	I can't stop referencing that film.
	Right?
	Cajoled into voting like, you know, like we saw.
	She goes, no, I don't think there should be a war.
	No, we like wars now.
	Oh, aye.
	Aye, wars, please.
	Aye, aye, aye, aye.
	Certainly I try!
	But perhaps more important than the fact that one individual, elderly though she may be, is being cajoled to vote against her apparent intentions.
	And if she didn't know what she was voting for, that's even more worrying.
	What's concerning, deep and defining is the fact that military spending is increasing to unprecedented levels and they are denying the right for any scrutiny at all.
	They don't want to be audited.
	They don't want to tell you what they're spending the money on.
	Is that right?
	Here's the news.
	No.
	Here's the effing news baby.
	Thank you for choosing Fox News.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the fucking news.
	America, your military spending is reaching record heights.
	At least it's being done with due diligence and not by coerced elderly people who don't even know what they're voting for.
	Yes, I mean I.
	I'm wearing combat in honour of the record military expenditure that Dianne Feinstein is voting for.
	How old is everyone in Congress now?
	I mean, what?
	Are they trying to get some sort of world record?
	Joe Biden's 105, Dianne Feinstein, she's 90.
	I mean, I worry if I'm in a restaurant and the waiter's a bit old, I think, shouldn't this be being done by a young person?
	But they're just delivering me some food and actually usually being quite friendly.
	Not like Dianne Feinstein.
	She don't even know what she's voting for.
	But you know what she's voting for.
	War.
	Record expenditure.
	And lack of investigation and inquiry.
	Let's just have wars and ask no more questions about it.
	Let's therefore just assume that war is a good thing.
	Even that song, War, What Is It Good For?
	would be banned for asking too many questions about war.
	War!
	What is it good for?
	Mind your own business!
	And it is business actually.
	90-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein appeared confused during a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting.
	Why am I actually still doing this job?
	I mean, I do respect the elderly.
	I think elder reverence is an important part of our culture, but that is also married to my idea that older people should be aware and focused and conscious and the fact that she's being coerced, managed and manipulated into voting for something is perhaps not as significant as the fact that what she's voting for is more unscrutinized war.
	That moment happened during a key mark-up meeting for a budget bill.
	What's just being breezily described as a mark-up meeting for a budget bill is record expenditure on war.
	And even my phrase, record expenditure on war, equates to the annihilation of cities and children and sustaining a conflict that Ukraine will remain in because of understandable national pride that ultimately can never be won and will only lead to more destruction.
	Watch Oppenheimer and then live through Oppenheimer.
	The clerk will call her off.
	Also, like, even the guy sat in the middle is about 105 years old.
	Why is everyone so old in politics?
	I mean, so what you like about Greta Thunberg, but at least she's young.
	Senator Feinstein.
	Um... Say aye.
	Pardon me?
	Aye.
	Yeah.
	Uh... I would like to support a yes vote on this.
	Um, it provides $823 billion.
	That's an increase of $26 billion for the Department of Defense.
	Back in my day, wars used to only cost $50 or $60 billion.
	You kids don't know you're born!
	Missile launchers?
	Wow!
	We used to use wooden missile launchers!
	Could get a few of those just for a couple of billion.
	God darn it!
	And it funds priorities submitted.
	Yeah, just say aye.
	Okay.
	War is good now.
	But wasn't war bad in the old days?
	No, no.
	War is good now.
	Just...
	Aye.
	Just say aye.
	Oh, God bless you.
	Just say aye.
	So terribly dismissive, like it's Grandpa Simpson.
	Just vote for another few billion for the war.
	Okay, aye.
	Your breath smells.
	Aye.
	I'm just laughing about it.
	Billions more being spent on churning through the lives of young people.
	Like, she probably aggregates that a life of five, ten Russian soldiers will be annihilated by some fancy new Raytheon product by the end of the week.
	NBC's Julie Serkin is on Capitol Hill for us.
	Julie, put that into some context for us.
	OK.
	Jesus.
	All right.
	Well, what we've allowed to happen is the military-industrial complex now dictates policy, whether it's the Democrat party or the Republican party in power, although the Democrat party are a bit worse.
	And now it's just the job of people in the Senate, even if they should be revered for their wisdom and longevity, just to sort of parrot phrases like I.
	AI actually couldn't be any worse than this.
	We might as well hand over the responsibility of saying AI to AI and forget humanity altogether.
	Why don't we just let Skynet battle it out with the agents from the Matrix and see who wins?
	There, there's some fucking context for you.
	Nothing means anything anymore.
	Oh, okay.
	That was a little more than I expected.
	And as most people who are watching this know there have been some questions previously about Dianne Feinstein's illnesses that kept her out of the senate for some time.
	What were they?
	Bubonic plague?
	I mean how old is this woman?
	Look, obviously we can all have a lot of fun about how old many of the people in the democrat party are.
	Really what we should be focusing on is that record military expenditure continues to to rise and it's not even something that's considered
	worthy of debate, scrutiny and analysis and indeed the suggestion that it should be analysed
	and scrutinised is being brushed off.
	Yeah and we're talking about this generation of ageing lawmakers with Senator Mitch McConnell's
	moment yesterday, now Senator Dianne Feinstein who's 89 years old who was, as you know Chris,
	out of the Senate for a period of months when she was battling shingles, she had some complications
	from that earlier this spring and since she's been back I wish I could say this moment that
	we saw today in the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee was the first that we've seen
	of this but it's not.
	She can't answer some questions from reporters, she's had a few of these confusing moments.
	We don't want these poor old codgers just voting aye.
	We want young, sexy, virile people to vote aye for more war and expenditure.
	We want Margot Robbie and Timothee Chalamet to get in there and just vote aye with a wink and a smile and a wry look to the side.
	No one's questioning the issue itself, should we continue to perpetuate war and reduce democracy to just verifying ongoing war without question.
	Gentlemen, we have a crisis in democracy.
	These old people don't even know what they're voting for.
	That's why your new senator is Lil' Bow Wow.
	Lil' Bow Wow, should we grant another 10 billion to the war in Ukraine?
	bastards.
	Gentlemen, we have a crisis in democracy.
	These old people don't even know what they're voting for.
	That's why your new senator is Lil' Bow Wow.
	Lil' Bow Wow, should we grant another $10 billion to the war in Ukraine?
	For shizzle!
	The Senate official's even going as far as trying to stop reporters from getting an accurate
	picture of her capabilities and how she's doing mentally as well.
	So this was a super awkward moment to put it lightly today in this committee.
	The awkwardness of an elderly person being somewhat out of their depth perhaps pales compared to the awkwardness of needlessly sustaining a war that can never be won, presumably in order to ensure that Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have good third quarters next year.
	Isn't the real problem that we're not having a reasonable, legitimate, intrepid discussion about the nature of, and necessity for, ongoing war?
	The efficacy of this campaign, whether or not it's working, whether or not this war can ever be won, whether or not we should be seeking a diplomatic solution immediately, whether or not the Democrat Party has become a hollowed out shell, and indeed shell is an appropriate word because all they do is bomb things.
	It actually happened twice.
	That first moment that you saw on your screen where the chairwoman of the committee, Patty Murray, had to step in and sort of tell her, just say aye.
	You don't need to explain your vote.
	We're just doing a simple roll call vote in this moment.
	Dianne Feinstein is too old to be in the Senate.
	It's plain and obvious.
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	Let's go back to those glorious old codgers in Washington who could do with a little bit of priming.
	They were considering other bills as well, it happened moments later, where she mistakenly appeared to say no on a bill that she meant to vote for, another Democratic senator leaning in her ear during that moment and she quickly switched her vote.
	Wait a minute, no!
	I don't think that we can ever beat Russia in a war!
	As a matter of fact, all of the claims and pledges that you've made up till now, that you were only going to offer them aid, that the war would be over by this time, that you'd never use cluster bombs, all of these things have been reneged upon.
	Oh, it's crazy old cow!
	She doesn't know what she's talking about!
	Russia will never be defeated!
	History shows us this!
	Cuckoo!
	As a matter of fact, war can never bring about peace.
	It's obvious.
	Cuckoo!
	Cuckoo!
	Let's get you a blanket.
	No, I don't want blankets!
	Neither do I want blanket bombing!
	We had a piece still on the table!
	Boris Johnson went over there!
	Oh look, she's crazy!
	She's not even remembering the names!
	No!
	I've come to my senses!
	Take your hands off me!
	Just...
	Say aye!
	But this just all brings into question again of the aging lawmakers we have.
	She's nearly 90 years old.
	In a sense what we've been offered there in Microcosm and the reason we're covering this story is because it shows you so many things that they would never tell you.
	The system is corrupt.
	People don't know what they're voting for.
	It's just systemic.
	They just obey the edicts of invisible higher-ups.
	There's no genuine democracy.
	She's meant to be a senator that represents the views of a particular community that voted her into the Senate in order to represent them.
	That's all irrelevant.
	That's all gone out the window.
	Even if she was voted according to conscience and saying no, they would just change it to aye.
	Or perhaps she's so out of touch and decrepit, and I mean that with all due respect, that she doesn't know what she's saying.
	At any event it shows you that the system itself is in radical need of re-evaluation and review and unless there's some kind of great reckoning and the best chance we get for that are berserker candidates and I mean that respectfully like RFK or Donald Trump people that are just asystematic in their approach or in my view someone like RFK who has a different set of principles and morals and I agree with him on many issues when people like that emerge they're just ushered out and bampered down and quiet and much in the same way that this woman has her No turned to an I just because that's what the system demands.
	Let's have a look at this in some more detail.
	The House on Friday passed its version 2024 National Defence Authorisation Act.
	The 2024 NDAA is for a record $886 billion, the same amount President Biden requested.
	What a coincidence!
	Hey, isn't that an indication of corruption?
	No, no, it shows that we're in alignment.
	Oh, we're in alignment.
	Just say aye.
	Aye.
	Senate Democrats banded together Wednesday night to oppose the creation of a new office to audit U.S.
	military assistance for Ukraine as part of a provision in the annual defense spending bill.
	That seems perfectly reasonable.
	I am by no means a Republican, but what was proposed is an auditing process.
	Okay, you can have your $186 billion, but can we at least know where you're spending it?
	No!
	I mean I. Actually, this time I mean no.
	45 Democrats, including every member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted down an amendment to establish an office of the Lead Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA.
	The Democratic opposition kept the amendment from clearing the required 60-vote threshold to be part of the bill.
	On Tuesday, President Biden approved an additional $400 million in Ukraine aid.
	The US has spent as much as $130 billion on funding to the war-torn nation in 2022, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
	I wonder how long we're expected to sustain that, how long that can go on for.
	What they have successfully done is conflated the military expenditure with the idea of aid to an ailing nation.
	Most people agree that you should help people, but help people in this instance could be seen to mean opportunity for profit for military-industrial complex.
	And now that that's not being scrutinized or even audited, we will never actually know.
	This is by Chris Hedges, who can always be relied upon to give us an important perspective on these matters.
	The Democrats positioned themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam.
	The Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shields not only for corporate America, but for the weapons manufacturers and the Pentagon.
	No weapons system is too costly.
	No war, no matter how disastrous, goes unfunded.
	No military budget is too big.
	There once was a wing of the Democratic Party that questioned and stood up to the war industry.
	But that opposition evaporated along with the anti-war movement.
	When 30 members of the party's progressive caucus recently issued a call for Biden to negotiate with Putin, they were forced by the party leadership and a warmongering media to back down and rescind their letter.
	That was only a letter.
	How dare you?
	How dare you write a letter?
	Now get on and spend some more money on missiles.
	Missiles?
	Letter.
	Yeah.
	Letter's bad.
	Missile's good.
	OK.
	Aye?
	Yes.
	Aye.
	The Democratic Party, which under the Clinton administration aggressively courted corporate donors, has surrendered its willingness to challenge, however tepidly, the war industry.
	On the eve of every congressional vote on the Pentagon budget, lobbyists from businesses tied to the war industry meet with Congress members and their staff to push them to vote for the budget to protect jobs in their district or state.
	This pressure, coupled with the mantra amplified by the media that opposition to profligate war funding is unpatriotic, keeps elected officials in bondage.
	These politicians also depend on the lavish donations from weapons manufacturers to fund their campaigns.
	I don't know if Dianne Feinstein receives lavish donations from weapons industry donors, but if she does, that would be another reason to stay in the Senate long into your old age.
	I mean, presumably the accepted idea, or the explicit idea, is because she loves being in the Senate.
	It gives her an opportunity to demonstrate and represent her principles.
	I?
	No!
	Sorry, I mean I. Clearly not that, is it?
	Because her mind can be changed like that.
	We've just witnessed her being directed.
	This is not an attack on Dianne Feinstein.
	What's the point of that?
	This is plainly, clearly, explicitly, let me tell you, an attack on the system.
	A system that is clearly steered, controlled and inhabited by weapons donor money and therefore explicitly and observably conducts the business and policies that they would have you conduct.
	Bridges, roads, levees, rail, ports, electric grid, sewage treatment plants and drinking water infrastructures are structurally deficient and antiquated.
	Schools are in disrepair and lack sufficient teachers and staff.
	The for-profit healthcare industry forces families, including those with insurance, into bankruptcy.
	Domestic manufacturing, especially with the offshoring of jobs to China, Vietnam, Mexico, and other nations, collapses.
	Families are drowning in personal debt, with 63% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
	The poor, the mentally ill, the sick, and the unemployed are abandoned.
	The stories about the lack of infrastructure and failing social systems in America are kept out of the public conversation even when discussing enormous military budgets.
	The story is about how Dianne Feinstein is being coached and directed rather than what she's being directed to do.
	Spend your money, extraordinarily, your money on a war abroad rather than failing social systems that would Benefit you, your friends, your family, your community.
	These are all options.
	So forget the analysis like, oh, who cares about that socialist ideology?
	You're spending the money anyway.
	It's just you're not seeing any of the benefits.
	Seymour Mellman, who coined the term permanent war economy, noted that since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its discretionary budget on past, current, and future military operations.
	It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government.
	The military-industrial establishment is nothing more than gilded corporate welfare.
	What we're being offered there is an alternative perspective on what America actually means.
	While you may feel patriotic on July the 4th when Saluting a flag.
	While you may feel a deep pride in the achievements of America or American community, America is a melting pot where people from around the world have come together to create the greatest democracy on earth.
	Chris Hedges offers us the idea that in fact and in effect what America is, is an opportunity to pull together 300 million people, take their tax dollars and have corporate profiteering under the guise of righteous, virtuous and just war.
	So you have to ask yourself a question when you see Dianne Feinstein managed, manipulated, and conjoled into saying aye to record budgets.
	What is America about?
	When you see the Hunter Biden story brushed under the carpet, you have to ask yourself, what is America about?
	You have to see when wars are continually perpetuated, when social issues are ignored, you have to ask, what is the America that you believe in?
	What ought be carved on Mount Rushmore next?
	Just missiles?
	The logos of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin?
	What is your country about?
	What are your tax dollars for?
	Who are you voting for?
	And what is the alternative?
	What is the corruption of Donald Trump versus the corruption of the system itself?
	I believe that it is the American experiment in its entirety that has to be reviewed, revised, and reordered if we're not to face cataclysmic events and perpetual decline.
	But that's just what I think!
	Until next time!

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