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Sept. 5, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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Trump Will Face ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT In 2024?! - Stay Free #200

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	you Hello there, you Awakening Wonders!
	Thanks for joining us on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	For the first 15 minutes, we will be available with all of you on YouTube.
	Those of you that come here for truth, those of you that come here for hope, those of you who come here because you want to be part of a movement, you don't want to participate in the entropy and despair of a culture that's devouring itself, a legacy media that's lost its way, that wants to do nothing but annihilate and destroy, that's lost its vision, that's lost The light of the Lord that looks to you, that looks to me, that looks to us collectively to bring about a new order, a new awakening.
	And when I say new order, I don't mean some new global order of centralised authoritarian power.
	I mean decentralised power.
	I mean a little old thing called democracy, where you have the power to control your own life, where you are free.
	Your freedom isn't criminalised.
	That's one of the stories we're going to be talking about.
	Surveillance is on the up.
	They're tracking your DNA.
	They are criminalising all of us, even Gareth Roy.
	No.
	One of the least criminal people I've ever had the good fortune to meet.
	We're gonna be talking about Trump's potential assassination, hyperbole, or possibility.
	Let me know in the comments, guys, do you think it's a real possibility?
	If you're watching this on Rumble right now, why don't you press the red button and join us in the locals' chat, like Blessed Old Bird and Thomas Beard and Taz Being and Jim Earthsey.
	They're chatting away in there, they're expressing their free speech, and later we'll have freech.
	Where your freedom of speech will be broadcast live.
	We've got a fantastic guest on the show as well, Barry Weiss, one of the great Twitterphile journalists, or Xphiles.
	That's the wrong music, that's Twilight Zone.
	You'd do Doctor Who then, wouldn't you?
	Well, Barry Weiss, we've chatted to her before the show.
	She is ready to rock.
	She's even sorted out the height of her chair.
	She's perfectly framed.
	She's ready to go.
	There's going to be fantastic revelations.
	We're going to be talking about Oliver Antony.
	Why is it that he's become the scourge of the left?
	Why has it become a problem to talk up For ordinary people.
	It's so goddamn catchy, that's why.
	It's so bloody catchy!
	I'd just like to curl up in that beard, wouldn't you?
	I'd like to lay my eggs in that ginger nest, wouldn't you?
	Oh, yes.
	Wouldn't you?
	Hey, if you happen to be in the UK, I'm doing five very intimate shows in September.
	There's a link in the description that tells you where to come.
	There's one in London, even.
	You'll love it.
	And Wolverhampton, Plymouth.
	There's a bunch of places.
	But anyway, I don't want to get bogged down and all that.
	We've got a lot to talk about.
	Once we leave YouTube and we're exclusively on Rumble, we're going to be telling you a thing or two about the Swedes.
	There's more to Sweden than Volvo, Sauners and Abba, because it turns out that their approach to the pandemic has led to fewer deaths.
	Now, isn't that astonishing?
	Because wasn't their approach do nothing?
	It was something akin to that.
	What we could do is lock everyone in their house, make sure people wear masks, they stand these distances apart, they take all of these injections.
	What about if, you know, we just let people do what they like?
	That won't work, you mad idiots!
	Waterloo!
	What I say is, we'll look at that, but obviously with the WHO having the power that they have over the guidelines on I love you 6.5 million awakening wonders. I love you and
	you feel that love.
	You know this is not the dumb, hollow, empty communications that you get from the mainstream.
	You know we're moving to a greater frequency. You know that it's our job to fuse spirituality
	with politics and new, inclusive spirituality that looks for alliances rather than new forms
	of destruction. That sees past their mainstream lies.
	Now, steal yourselves because this is about a person having an accident on an aeroplane, as I understand.
	Now, we've all made mistakes on aeroplanes.
	in the land of rumble where we are free to be whoever we are
	united in our free speech to come together not to drive people
	apart. Let's have a look at a lovely little story on Fox News now. Now
	steel yourselves because this is about a person having an accident on an airplane as
	I understand now we've all made mistakes on airplanes. You certainly
	have.
	I was asked to leave one once.
	They threw me off it.
	It was still on the tarmac, fortunately.
	It wasn't for the same reason, was it?
	Actually, sort of.
	No, it wasn't, because this is about... Have you heard this story about the diarrhoea on an aeroplane?
	That's right.
	We've had snakes on a plane!
	Now we've got SHIT up a plane, you dirty pigs!
	Let's have a look at the mainstream reporting on this.
	Talk about an uncomfortable flight.
	So here's what went down, y'all.
	A Delta flight was going from Atlanta to...
	Firstly, I like her news style.
	Because she's calling you Y'all on the news.
	Do you like that, America?
	Is that the sort of thing you like?
	On Labour Day, I like it to be called Y'all.
	Because, like, in England on the news, they don't go...
	Alright, mate, news coming up.
	They talk to you firstly like you're a moron and that you're very lucky to be getting this.
	Hello, this is England, here's some news.
	Sit down, shut up, have a cup of tea.
	And if you still have a genital, snip it off and leave it outside.
	We'll drive it away in a lorry, you wanker.
	Which isn't a swear word in some nations.
	Interesting.
	Y'all.
	Barcelona, when all of a sudden a passenger got what I like to call the bubble guts.
	Crew members called it an on-board medical issue.
	Bubble guts?
	Which was reportedly a case of, quote... That's them connecting the world at Delta, is it?
	Yeah, I like the idea that these are the people that caused it.
	All of them.
	We had got bubble guts, y'all!
	This little gang of bubble guts.
	So, every single one of them.
	Oh, God, I'm sorry.
	I don't know who started it.
	It was the fella over on the right, but we shook hands.
	We should have been keeping some social distance.
	It's all up the plane.
	Diarrhoea all the way through the plane.
	Imagine that.
	Well, now the past... All the way through.
	I don't know how much, like, what constitutes, like, if someone has diarrhoea in a plane, it's gonna ruin their seat and their aisle, and if you're in coach, the aisle behind and aisle in front of you.
	I'd say it's a free aisle issue.
	Yes.
	All up the plane, that means they've tried to go to the toilet, it's gone wrong, and imagine the dreadful panic of being in a fuselage, the indignity of that.
	Oh, excuse me!
	Oh no, it's gone wrong!
	Don't tell my wife!
	That's a really humiliating thing down that aisle.
	Yeah, running up and down, scuttling up and down that aisle.
	Scuttling and sprinkling as you go.
	Trouser legs.
	The trouser legs, yeah.
	The trouser legs making its way down.
	Now, how would you feel towards that person?
	Would you be a good Christian or good Muslim or whatever your thing is and go, oh, you know, I welcome thee?
	No!
	Oh, you're a bit more like, you are a pariah!
	Get out of our community!
	Like that?
	Yeah.
	What would you do if they were in first?
	You'd send them right back to economy, wouldn't you?
	First thing's first!
	It's economy for you!
	I'd say rubber bands around the ankles or bicycle clips.
	Get them sealed up, I'd say, like trunk.
	Then it's a sick bag taped over the offending orifice.
	Who's doing that job?
	I'd say that's got to be the co-pilot.
	Because the pilot, you need him to concentrate, don't you?
	But this is a vets role situation.
	This is where you want everyone on the plane mobilized towards this real and present dirty threat.
	We're about two hours into the flight when they had to turn around the whole plane and just go on back home.
	In a recording, the pilot told air traffic control this was a biohazard issue.
	That hazard is slightly grandiose.
	What I feel like is, doesn't it show the hubris of our kind that since the Wright Brothers we have conquered the air, but all it takes is one person with a dodgy belly and the two Bob Bits and the squirts and suddenly aeroplanes are being brought down.
	It sort of shows you the fragility of civilisation and the hubris of our kind.
	Civilisation lays upon the planet and by the mighty winds of God, or a passenger, it could be coughed off into brown oblivion.
	I think that's what got Pregosian last week.
	Pregosian?
	Oh no, Putin!
	He's got me by the short and dirty!
	Oh, it's game over!
	Night, night!
	It's the Brown Terror!
	Goodbye, I've got myself the bubble guts!
	Negative, it's just a biohazard issue.
	We've had a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane, so they wanted to come back to us.
	All the way through the airplane?
	Now I, at this point, think there's some personal responsibility on behalf of the passenger.
	You just can't go marching up and down the arms like that.
	It should be confined.
	It's almost like they enjoyed it at this point, like it was a dirty protest.
	Now I don't know where that coronavirus came from, but you should have been able to contain it in the Wuhan lab or wet market, could be either, area.
	You don't want people skiddily skidding out of the labs and out of the wet markets, running down the back caves, running down the town, getting in the airplanes.
	What you've got yourself there is a super spreader event.
	That is a super spreader event right there, a one-person super spreader.
	Dirty devils!
	They had to carry the man out on a stretcher.
	Well, that's... I mean, do you know what I think that is?
	That person is a man.
	So humiliated that he's sort of had to fully... Pretend it's a... Yeah.
	Oh, I'm dying!
	Oh, no, I can't live like this.
	But he's actually been filled by shame.
	Yes.
	And I think maybe, under the circumstances, if you're temporarily the member of a 500-person community, all airlocked together, because you know on that plane, you're breathing that stuff.
	Oh, God.
	That's unavoidable, isn't it?
	Yeah, there is faecal matter entering your system.
	Yeah, you're all part of one.
	And in a sense, we could extrapolate that onto the planet.
	We are all civilians, citizens of one planet, and we should be sharing it together.
	That does not mean there should be one centralized government.
	There should be localization and people that need the toilet.
	A good bellyache on the plane.
	I'm afraid of them people.
	I'd say you should deal with that yourself with a cork or a thumb.
	So one person problem, solve it yourself, like turn yourself into a teapot.
	Yeah.
	So, solve it.
	Send up your best guy.
	This guy, he's not got what it takes.
	This fella.
	You should do the announcement on the plane before they take off.
	Alright, now listen you lot, in the event of, you know, some nonsense and a mast comes
	down, don't freak out, that could be nothing.
	Remember you got that whistle in case you end up in the sea and everything.
	Take off your high heeled shoes.
	If you're gonna poo yourself like a pig in the streets.
	Get that thumb, the thing that separates us from the animals, and use it so you don't become like a sky monkey pooping your whole way up the aisle.
	Now let's get on with some proper freedom and some proper news because Tucker predicts... What do you... Let us know, do you want to see Tucker talking about the potential assassination of Donald Trump and how that contrasts with Maddow's prediction that if he becomes president he will elect himself president for life or nominate himself or designate himself president for life?
	Or do you want to see this thing with Kamala Harris and Big Pharma and the Big Pharma drug prices?
	We've got this brilliant story where all of the claims of the Biden administration that they're going to control drug prices are in a sense erroneous and False, aren't they?
	Yeah, they're certainly massively exaggerated and the way in which they congratulate themselves at this historic, I think Kamala Harris says it at one point, this historic situation where we've managed to beat Big Pharma again is shown to be an absolute load of rubbish.
	Yeah, a lot of people are saying both Trump and drugs, and some people are saying they want it at the same time.
	But what kind of evening is that, you crazy young people?
	This is, I think, extraordinary, because what we're being offered, you should see the giddy hyperbole and fanfare that accompanies this story.
	Let's go to the mainstream media reporting of the event.
	Kamala Harris, I say she's making this and introducing this policy honestly as if it's seismic, apocal and as if it's going to change American life forever.
	Proudly announcing that no senior citizen should have to choose between putting food in their fridge and buying drugs.
	Meanwhile, dear Joe Biden there looks like he couldn't cope with either.
	Filling a fridge or buying drugs could reduce him.
	They just took him off a plane apparently.
	I had a hell of a time up there, one or two other people complained, and then I was on a standy-up lay-down bed on the way out!
	It's the best trip of my life!
	Let's have a look at this bit of mainstream reporting.
	She's already pleased as punch, isn't she?
	About what she's about to announce.
	What is the reality of this policy?
	What's being claimed is that Big Pharma is being railed in.
	86% of Americans want caps on drug prices.
	That's a call for more regulation of Big Pharma.
	But how can you ever regulate Big Pharma when Big Pharma funds both political parties to the degree that it does?
	When the FDA is funded by the pharmaceutical companies that it's supposed to legislate against?
	And even in the, not necessarily legislate against, but control and regulate.
	And particularly after the Purdue family, Purdue Sackler disaster,
	and no proper convictions or meaningful changes after the opioid crisis in your country,
	how can we go beaming to the podium, making grandiose claims of meaningful change
	at a time like this?
	Wait till you hear what this amounts to.
	It's a handful of drugs that have no generic competition, that have been available on the market for nine years.
	It's astonishing, because you'd think what's being like announced is some kind of forever erection
	Please have a seat.
	Good afternoon.
	accessible to all, but it amounts to a pip squeak far on a plane and not the kind of
	disaster we were describing earlier.
	Good afternoon, please have a seat.
	Good afternoon.
	It's a room full of leaders.
	Well thank you.
	Well I can see one person immediately to your left who's not qualified to lead anybody.
	Look at him, the poor sausage.
	And I'm talking about Joe Biden there, not the other fellow who I believe does have a medical condition that exempts him from the kind of critiques that we freely offer Joe Biden.
	Thank you, everyone, for being here and for all the work that you have done leading up to today.
	I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families.
	This is, I think, what people mean when they say that the mainstream media are out of touch and that the government are out of touch.
	This is not the correct tone for what's happening in American public life right now.
	There's a deterioration in the standards of living.
	I think Americans are feeling persecuted, penalized, struggling with the ongoing war, energy crisis, energy prices, grocery crisis, grocery prices, and to hear your vice president say this is the champion of America before introducing a highly diluted, weak booster shot of a policy that's been tested on less than eight mouses, if you ask me.
	Seems like the worst kind of political rhetoric, but let me know what you think in the comments.
	Let me know what you think in the chat.
	Nodaganoku says, this is the kind of deflective doublespeak that we've got used to.
	Brilliant.
	TrueChimera says, no wonder she can't handle her life.
	Oh, they've got the other guy to make Biden look young, says someone, but remember that guy, that dude ain't well, so he's exempted from any critiques because we looked into it because you know
	you know me I would have been looking for a joke all over the place but that fella is actually um
	unwell and deserves naught but compassion but Joe Biden there is he a champion is that
	what you guys think let me know let me know in the comments guys in every way and thank you to all
	of the members of congress for the work that you have done and continue to do to help us
	achieve this type of progress your tireless work Yeah, thank you for all that lobbying money that you took from the big pharma industry.
	8.6 million dollars Joe Biden took.
	That must have been so... How did you even carry it with your fragile little arms?
	Hunter's laptop under one arm, a big bundle of money under the other, no corruption, nothing to see here.
	And I'm certainly not alleging that there is.
	Any corruption, because there's sort of no proof.
	But I think it's worth noting that, listen to this, in all, the Build Back Better drug pricing framework is not a bad outcome for the pharmaceutical industry.
	Most drugs won't be affected by negotiations, the analysis said, and ultimately they entice drug makers to boost their products' launch prices.
	Pharmaceutical companies in the US raised drug prices 1,186 times in 2022.
	The pharmaceutical and health products industries Spent.
	Get ready for this important piece of news and let me know in the chat if you think this is relevant to this story.
	263 million dollars on lobbying in Washington and let me know should that practice be banned?
	Why are we having these conversations about Trump and Biden and Republicanism versus the Democrats when we know that unless that is altered you are going to get a comparable paradigm no matter who's in office.
	Ban it!
	Ban it today!
	Change it right now!
	Don't accept those donations.
	Why is that impossible?
	Why is that implausible?
	Let me know in the chat and the comments if you think that would make a difference and if you have any hope that such a thing could ever occur.
	In 2021, Democrats accounted for roughly 60% of the $177 million in pharmaceutical industry lobbying and campaign donations.
	Do you think that kind of leverage amounts to the ability to alter decisions, i.e.
	The policy begins as, we are going to cap all drug prices, and ends up as, for senior citizens, for this handful of drugs, as long as there is no generic competition, and the drug's been on the market for nine years, we will introduce control.
	To see Kamala Harris talk about this, you'd think she was announcing endless orgasms for everyone.
	It's an extraordinary piece of rhetoric.
	Let's see how it plays out.
	So we are here today with the firm belief That in the United States of America, no senior should ever have to choose between whether they are able to fill a prescription.
	Or whether or not their son works for Burisma, or whether or not they have a hell of a time with their hobbies.
	Or fill their refrigerator with food.
	But for you, yes.
	No, actually, yes, clapping.
	Because we know for years, far too many of our seniors, millions of our seniors across
	the country have struggled to afford their prescriptions.
	And too many of our seniors risked their health as they may have delayed to refill their prescription or they cut their pills in half to try and stretch out the length of time that they could take their medication.
	One of the things that's astonishing, as revealed by David Sirota in his article in The Lever, is that the National Academy of Sciences tells the story that the federal government spent $100 billion to subsidize the research on every single one of the 200-plus drugs approved for sale in the United States between 2010 and 2016.
	Those subsidies, of course, that's your money, that's your taxpayer dollar.
	Because we, the public, invested early in these medicines, we reduced the R&D, research and development costs, for pharmaceutical companies.
	Therefore, on the back end, the public should have received some sort of return in the form of affordable prices.
	So this shouldn't be applauded.
	This should be, we're so sorry this has taken so long and that it's not as good as we initially promised.
	And there's clearly been radically altered and re-legislated by the drug companies themselves in order to not ultimately affect their profits.
	That's what the speech should look like.
	But look at what it does look like.
	And then ask yourself why populism is on the rise.
	Why figures like RFK and Donald Trump are so effective.
	This is the alternative.
	This is the problem.
	So since we took office, President Biden and I and our administration has taken historic, historic action to cut the cost of prescription medication for our seniors.
	We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month.
	We will cap the total cost of prescription drugs at $2,000 a year.
	Sometimes when I watch it, even as a person who spends a lot of time thinking about these issues, looking at this stuff, I kind of start to get baffled and think, oh no, maybe it is good because they seem so certain.
	It's truly Orwellian.
	Well look, even $2,000 a year is a huge amount of money for a great many people in America.
	And when you're paying 1,000 times more than people are paying in other countries for the very same drugs, that's incredible.
	And when she talks about historic, you know what she's not talking about is the historic reasons why we're in the situation in the first place that involved the Clinton administration, Joe Biden himself and Obama in making sure that we're in the situation that we are now.
	Let's read that segment from Sirota's article in The Lever, which of course is a left-wing publication, but the analysis is fantastic.
	This is why we so strongly believe that we have to look for new alliances, new systems, new narratives.
	In the mid-90s, that business axiom was tossed out when drug lobbyists persuaded the Clinton administration to repeal rules that allowed federal officials to require government-subsidized drugs to be offered to Americans at a reasonable price.
	So Clinton changed that legislation.
	A few years later, Congress, with then-Senator Joe Biden's help, so check this out, Biden voted down legislation to reinstate these rules.
	That was an opportunity deliberately missed and denied.
	And later, the Obama administration rejected House Democrats' request that federal officials at least provide guidelines to government agencies about how they can exercise the remaining powers to combat drug price gouging.
	So this is a story that's been presented to you as a great victory, as a delivery on an election promise, as a victory for the American people.
	It's nothing of the sort.
	It's masking ineptitude and corruption And you don't need me to tell you that.
	You know that already, right?
	Let me know in the comments.
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	These guys stay tight.
	They keep everything in the right place.
	You'd be up there right now in that Delta aisle with nothing more than a quiet, dignified fart, or as I call him, Joe Biden.
	Now, if you're watching us on YouTube, click the link in the description.
	Join us over on Rumble.
	We've got Barry Weiss joining us there, one of the great journalists that broke the Twitter file story.
	She's going to be talking to us about a fantastic event and debate that she's hosting in LA pretty soon.
	We're going to be looking at CNN questioning Fauci's masks deal.
	That's fantastic.
	You're going to love all this stuff.
	And remember, if you're in the UK, handful of intimate gigs.
	There's a link in the description that you can join me for.
	But you've got You've got to join us over on Rumble.
	Make the journey.
	Make the transition.
	Get over there with us.
	Okay.
	Let's get on to Rumble.
	If you're watching us on Rumble, give us a rumbling.
	Give us a rumbling.
	Join us on Locals now.
	Press the red button.
	Press the red button.
	Laugh, you silly cow.
	Enjoy yourself.
	Express yourself.
	Poop upon the plane.
	I'll see you next week.
	I'll see you next month.
	We're falling in love again.
	Go!
	This is the way that the news should be conveyed, isn't it?
	Absolutely, y'all.
	Like a shanty.
	Like, you see, we're the new Oliver Antney, aren't we?
	Absolutely, we are.
	We're populists.
	We're singing a song.
	Ah, you bloody rich pigs up there!
	You stinking world don't understand me, you shits!
	They'll probably play this in the primaries, I imagine.
	I would say so.
	This is a good way.
	Democrats or Republicans.
	I'm not fussy.
	I'm ignoring all of them.
	We'll take the royalties from anyone.
	We'll take them royalties, baby.
	We'll take the bloody lot.
	OK, over in our country, schools are getting shut because they can't even keep the roof on the building.
	Why is it concrete safety?
	Hot on the heels of the dreadful Grenfell disaster, where a building burned down due to poor regulation and lack of council culpability.
	The Prime Minister has been accused of cutting back repair efforts when he was Chancellor.
	Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was forced to apologise after she was caught complaining to a TV reporter others with responsibility for school repairs had sat on their arse rather than act.
	It feels that our schools could crumble on our children's heads.
	Let's have a look, though.
	I want to move on to the Fauci story, if that's okay, guys, before we talk to Barry Weiss.
	Let's just have a quick glance at what the CNN questions Fauci on masks.
	Is this a recent story, Gail?
	What's going on here, mate?
	Obviously, there's a lot of talk at the moment about mask mandates coming back.
	And Donald Trump has spoken about it.
	Interesting situation that's going on with Donald Trump at the moment.
	Very much pushing back against mask mandates, vaccines, when obviously we know at the start of the lockdowns that he was massively behind those beautiful vaccines.
	He's done a complete about-turn.
	Yeah, he's done a real about-turn.
	Anyway, so mask mandates is in the news.
	Fauci's back as a result, but some very interesting reports about masks and their efficacy.
	Fauci's back.
	All right, let's see what he's got to say.
	Uh, Bret Stephens in the Times talked about Cochran.
	Put that on the screen.
	The most rigorous and comprehensive... I don't even like the way he spoke to his people in graphics there.
	Put that on the screen!
	That's not how we talk to bad graphics, Jack, is it?
	No, we're very nice to him.
	We're nice to him and you should see the state of his graphics.
	Now let me know right now.
	Click the red button, join us on Locals.
	Do you think that Fauci should face a reckoning?
	Some people have said that Fauci should be arrested, that Fauci should face criminal charges.
	Hit the red button, let me know what you think about it.
	Let's see the rest of this news clip.
	But wait, hold on.
	What about the N95 masks as opposed to the lower quality surgical or cloth masks?
	makes no difference, none of it, he said.
	Well, what about the studies that initially persuaded policy makers to impose mask mandates?
	They were convinced by non-randomized studies, flawed observational studies.
	How do we get beyond that finding?
	There's an irony to this being on CNN now, isn't there?
	Right, after all of the ivermectin, horse paste, shame...
	Shame them.
	Right.
	They should be shamed.
	They should be shamed.
	Everyone here, in our chat, I've never seen the chat light up like this.
	I've never seen free speech flow quite so freely in abundant rivers.
	Everyone, he should be given daily boosters until he's no more.
	He should face trial.
	Fauci's a mass murderer.
	This is extraordinary.
	Everyone is united in their loathing of Fauci.
	Of that particular review.
	Yeah, but there are other studies, Michael, that show... Look at the face of that dude on the news!
	Look at that!
	That's too scary!
	Why is he doing that?
	That's the scrutiny you should have been applying when all this stuff was being set up!
	Yeah, they should have had that hymn next to Don Lemon when Don Lemon said that.
	Now what do you mean by that, Don?
	Don!
	How can you justify that?
	I will eat you with my eyes!
	I will turn you into a molecular compound with my eyes and then heal you with ivermectin, you son of a bitch!
	I don't like to think of making love with that man.
	If that's how he looks when he chats to Anthony Fauci, how would he deal with it if he and I, after a lovely evening of... Go on, set the scene.
	Simple.
	I can do it in an instant.
	Lady and the Tramp.
	We've had a bowl of spaghetti.
	He's sucking on one end of the spaghetti.
	I'm sucking on the other end of the spaghetti.
	Hold on a minute.
	It's the same bit of bloody spaghetti, innit?
	And then look at his face.
	He's looking at me like that, like, who gonna get this last bit of spaghetti?
	And I'll go, well, why don't we just both keep sucking on this spaghetti and see who can generate the biggest oral vacuum, my man?
	And I would say he will create an oral vacuum that'll be like a black hole, like string theory.
	I think his eyes are attached to another dimension.
	I worry about your mind sometimes.
	So it's gonna be okay.
	Okay.
	It's gonna be okay.
	It's just me and that guy need to bed down quietly and express ourselves erotically.
	The effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong.
	Yeah, okay, mate.
	That's the kind of causistry, the kind of sophistry, the kind of Fauci-ing we've come to know and recognise.
	If you've come here for truth, you will not be disappointed because we are being joined now by a fantastic, epochal and significant journalist, Barry Weiss, founder of The Free Press and the Honestly podcast is joining us.
	Now, Barry, you're here because you're doing this.
	Hello, mate.
	You look nice.
	Nice to see you, mate.
	Nice to see you too.
	I don't know how I'm going to follow faecal matter on planes and underwear swag, but I'm going to do my best.
	Pretty easy, I would have thought.
	Just put the two together and you've got yourself a hell of a podcast.
	Barry, mate, first of all, why don't we say we get it done?
	Why don't we talk about your debate on has the sexual revolution failed?
	Who's participating in that?
	Where's it taking place?
	It sounds brilliant.
	I love you for letting me plug this.
	September 13th in L.A.
	at the Ace Theatre, downtown, 7 p.m.
	We have an unbelievable lineup.
	The proposition is, has the sexual revolution failed?
	We have Sarah Hader and Grimes facing off against Louise Perry, coming over from the U.K., and Anna Katchian, one of the co-hosts of Red Scare.
	The event is going to be opened by none other than feminist icon and hashtag ally, Tim Dillon.
	It's going to be a blast.
	For anyone in L.A., we'd love to see you there.
	post the link in the description that sounds like a fantastic debate I think
	we could all be better educated on that topic it sounds like you've put together
	an incredible roster of people and who knows may show up I remember we've played
	that Ace Theatre Gal I can remember doing shows there in Los Angeles lovely
	little venue if you are in LA at that time go along join it educate yourself
	and like I think this is important Like, you know, we recorded our conversation with Sam Harris the other day, and we saw many, many issues quite distinctly and often opposingly.
	And it was, I would say, valuable, I hope, for both of us to have that conversation.
	I certainly enjoy speaking to people that I disagree with, but also people like you, who I broadly do agree with, Barry.
	Yeah, I mean, one of the reasons we started the Free Press was because we had a question, and that question was, do Americans still want real journalism?
	Do Americans and people beyond America, do people in the West, is the English-speaking world still want lively, honest, fair, sober, provocative debate?
	Or do they just want the sort of Pre-masticated ideological mush that those of us who left the mainstream were being asked to produce.
	And the answer has come back to us over the past two years as a resounding yes.
	So we're super excited to put on our first live debate, and we hope it's going to be the first in sort of a national series of debates about urgent conversations, the kind of conversations that people have in private, but often are too scared to have out loud in public.
	That's what we're about.
	Super excited.
	Well done.
	What fantastic service you're doing.
	That pre-masticated mush of the mainstream.
	I'm sick of swallowing down that swill.
	I should rather lick the corridor of a Delta plane than devour that mainstream mush.
	Now, Barry, can I ask you, mate, What do you think about Tucker's claim about the potential for Trump to be assassinated?
	Hyperbole?
	Ludicrousness?
	And how does it compare to Maddow's claim that Trump would declare himself dictator to life?
	Are both sides, let's call it that, guilty of a hollow rhetoric?
	Or do you think there's more veracity in one of those claims than others?
	I think that it's hyperbolic.
	I think it's actually emblematic of the entire sort of media landscape we're living in, in which, you know, it feels often to many of us like you have the choice.
	You have the choice to listen to someone who's talking about the president or the former president getting assassinated, or you have the choice to listen to someone who's suggesting that we live in a dictatorship.
	I think one of the reasons for the rise of independent media is because people are sick of those being their only options.
	People are sick of a media that polarizes us further, that makes us more hysterical, more panicked, more fearful, more isolated, more lonely, and they're looking for something Different.
	And I think one of the reasons for the rise of independent podcasting for the kind of Wild West, you know, Cambrian explosion we're living through, to mix like five metaphors, sorry, it's early here, is because of that.
	So I saw both of those comments and I kind of rolled my eyes and went back to doing my actual work, to be honest with you.
	I'm not sure what you thought of those comments.
	Certainly a lot of people really value the important work you're doing.
	Ashella in our chat, mate, over on Locals, if you want to join us in Locals, not you, Barry, you've got work to do.
	You've got a bloody debate to put on by everyone else.
	Like, press the red button and join us in Locals.
	Ashella asks, Russ, ask Barry if she still backs RFK Jr.
	for president.
	And just to answer your question to me, yes, of course, I think both statements are somewhat hyperbolic, but presidents have been assassinated before.
	I think Tucker He's an excellent orator and built his arguments beautiful in the same conversation when he talked about the potential for the Cold War and the proxy current proxy war to become a hot war.
	I think he walked us through that in a way that's very identifiable easy conversational and in a sense is shows you like the almost the molecular structure of his ability and the reason he's become so successful.
	he can walk you through an argument, even if it's an argument you wouldn't receive elsewhere.
	And when I saw Maddow, I thought that what irritates me is the pose of rationalism accompanied
	by hysterical messaging. That's what sort of irritated me about that. But Ashela's question
	to you, mate, is this, do you still back RFK Jr? And it does relate to the other stuff,
	really, because he's a person who's galvanizing this space.
	Right.
	Um, Ashela, thanks for the question.
	I don't back any—I'm a journalist.
	I don't publicly come out in support of anyone for president.
	I'm extremely interested in what RFK has to say.
	I was really happy to have him on my podcast.
	He's one of nine presidential candidates that have so far been on Honestly.
	We're hoping to get all of them.
	And I've had interesting conversations with people like RFK, like Vivek, like Chris Christie,
	like Nikki Haley, Tim Scott.
	All these people have been on Honestly.
	We want to put together a presidential debate, actually, with some of them, which we think
	could be incredibly interesting.
	But I haven't endorsed him.
	I haven't endorsed anyone for president.
	Am I happy to see people trying to challenge Joe Biden and Donald Trump, neither of whom
	I think — neither of whom most people I know would be excited to vote for?
	And the answer to that is absolutely yes.
	What I'm interested in is the phenomenon of these people.
	How is it that someone like RFK, how is it like someone like Vivek Ramaswamy, who's, I think, 38 years old, how are these people sort of coming out, political neophytes, never having run for office, and garnering the kind of support they're getting?
	You can say it's because of the ideas they're putting forward, or you could also say that it's because of how frustrated Americans are with these terrible choices.
	Choices that I think many of us are shocked that we're actually going to be in this same scenario yet again in 2024.
	So I'm very interested in these people that are popping up and can continue to host, I think, challenging and fair conversations with all of them.
	Barry, the moment that you participated in the Twitterphile revelations, it seemed like that platform was significantly changed, perhaps forever, with Elon's acquisition.
	But now with the name changed to X and the emergence of peculiar phrases like lawful but awful content.
	And similarly, I feel like YouTube pulled a Jordan Peterson RFK video.
	Do you feel that we're seeing a new mutation Look, I think that we're living... One of the big themes of our era, of our epoch, is the question of what do we do?
	Given the fact that the Town Square has been digitized, what do we do about the fact that the Town Square is not a place that you go to, a place paid by citizens, by taxpayers, but are private companies run by a handful of billionaires, right?
	What is the Town Square?
	The Town Square is Twitter.
	The Town Square is YouTube.
	The Town Square is Facebook.
	The Town Square is Amazon.
	The Town Square is certainly Google, which I think has something like 90% market share.
	And what do you do about the fact that these places are controlled by a handful of private citizens who are redefining what violence is, who are redefining what acceptable speech is?
	The question is not should there or should there not be guardrails, right?
	There's always going to be guardrails on any of these platforms.
	But the question is, what is constituting hateful speech?
	And what is sort of normal or controversial speech that's being redefined as hate speech?
	Is, for example, talking about the lab leak at the height of COVID.
	Should that be constituted as hate speech?
	Should that be banned?
	That's what happened on Twitter.
	In the case of Jordan Peterson, I believe that the video that was banned is a video of a conversation that he had with the Irish journalist Helen Joyce, questioning whether or not children can consent to lifelong medical changes with gender transition.
	Should that be an open conversation we're able to have in public or not?
	That is really the question.
	I think often what's the caricature of it is that the left is saying,
	the right doesn't want any guardrails at all.
	And the right is saying any guardrails are horrific censorship.
	And the question has always been and remains today, were the guardrails,
	and is the thing that so many of us sort of on, whatever you want to call us,
	the true liberals or the dissident liberals.
	I think the thing that we're reacting to is not that we want to be on platforms
	that are overrun by Nazis and marijuana ads, which is like all I'm getting served these days on Twitter
	or now X.
	But should we be able to have open conversations about things like
	public health?
	About biology, about politics.
	That is the real question.
	And I think it remains to be seen whether or not under Elon Musk's Twitter, or X as I know we're supposed to call it now, the Twitter files have become the X files, whether or not that's going to be the case.
	And it's an open question because in the very same way that a handful of people ran it, well now it's just a different handful of people.
	With different political biases and different potential power trips.
	And I think anyone who has learned anything over the past decade or so, as we've seen the rise of big tech, should always be skeptical when so much power is in the hands of so few people.
	Yes, it seems that what you're proposing, or at least ruminating on, is the potential for a kind of consensual regulation that is democratic.
	And in a way, that's what I'm appealing for, examining, praying for, across many of our institutions, the possibility for a new type of consensual governance.
	Democracy, I think is a the other word for it, the way that you feel that you have
	some purchase, some ability to communicate rather than top-down government that appears to have been
	co-opted by financial corporate interests and that use the ideology simply as leverage to
	curb and control debate and conversation.
	Well, like the beauty of this country is that, you know, is that when we go to that physical
	town square, we have the Bill of Rights, we have the Constitution, we have the First Amendment.
	When we go into this new digital town square, we have none of those things.
	And the question is, like, how can we have a sort of political and cultural software update to meet the technological update that we've already lived through?
	That is the big challenge, I think, of the next decade.
	And, you know, the high school answer, of course, is they're private companies.
	They can do whatever they want.
	And the people that are making that argument, of course, are people that would never say that about something like big tobacco, which makes you wonder like what their actual principle is, right?
	The more challenging answer is, you know, are they actually something more like public utilities?
	Should they be regulated like the railroad has been, like the electricity company is, right?
	We don't cut someone off of their ability to get on Amtrak or their ability to turn on their lights because they believe in QAnon, but we might unperson them on the internet because of that.
	And so that is the big challenge.
	We are living through this technological revolution, but we don't yet have the political, the social, or the cultural updates to meet that technological change.
	What that change is going to look like, what the regulation should look like, what the relationship between individual people with individual rights should be to these big tech behemoths.
	That, to me, is one of the most urgent questions of our day.
	And I think that, you know, if you're interested in democracy, if you're interested in free speech, if you're interested in individual dignity, really, those are the questions you have to be asking yourself.
	Is Barry right about those questions?
	Let me know in the chat.
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	Now, you can't stop these subcutaneous energetic forces rising up, whether it's Delta Diarrhoea or the phenomena of Oliver Antony emerging into cyberspace, a hirsute and auburn wonder Piping and stringing and strumming new rhythms into the world.
	What do you make of the Oliver Antony phenomenon?
	Do you think he's another example of the left looking for traitors and the right looking for converts?
	How are you seeing this subject treated and what are your views on it, mate?
	I'm speechless by your ability to connect diarrhea on the airplane to Oliver Anthony, but here we go.
	Russell Brand, one in a million.
	Look, I think Oliver Anthony, think about the lyrics that he's singing.
	He sings about the sort of, they're unnamed as sort of the elites or big tech, but he says, they just want to have total control.
	They want to know what you do.
	He talks about living in a new world with an old soul.
	It's exactly what we've been talking about.
	How did this 31-year-old emerge from the woods of Virginia to capture the nation and beyond the nation?
	Added this song to it.
	Well, first of all, it's just that the song is good.
	It's an unbelievable earworm, and it's completely authentic, and you feel that from him.
	But I think the deeper reason is that he is speaking to themes that are so resonant with so many people in this country, right?
	It's a working class anthem.
	Think about old Bruce Springsteen songs, right?
	That's what he's doing here.
	Now, the thing that is, like, tragic and emblematic of our current moment is that immediately when that song comes out, he's taken up as sort of a saint by the political right that thinks he's on their side, and he's in turn vilified by the left.
	There were some unbelievable stories in places like NPR and Rolling Stone trying to demonize him.
	And then he sits down with Rupa Sabarmania, who works for the Free Press, the night of the first RNC debate.
	She flew from Ottawa to Virginia to go to his concert and see if he would talk to her, and he graciously did.
	She got the first and I think the best interview.
	Wow, well done.
	And what he said was...
	It's so strange to me.
	It's baffling to me that I'm sort of being taken up as this totem.
	My song was not just about the left.
	My song was equally about the right that has gotten us into useless wars.
	If you'll remember, the first question, Russell, the night of that RNC debate, was just a clip of him singing.
	And then the moderators asked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, why does this song have so much resonance?
	Right?
	The assumption sort of being that it was a sort of cultural anthem of the political right.
	And here's Oliver Anthony saying, no, no, no, you're not getting it.
	You guys aren't getting it.
	What this is about is a cultural class, the elite class.
	That is deeply out of touch with people like me, people like Oliver Anthony who worked the overnight shift in a paper mill for $14 an hour.
	It's about the fact that there's been no accountability.
	It's about the fact that there's been no sort of comeuppance for these people that have gotten so many things wrong.
	And what's his answer?
	His answer is just, and I urge people to read the piece, it's a deeply humane one.
	It's about the fact that looking to politicians for our salvation Salvation's never gonna come from people in Washington, or as he puts it, rich men north of Richmond.
	It's gonna come, as he says, from us putting down our phones and starting to talk to one another again.
	Oh my God!
	It's Ginger Jesus!
	I love him!
	Let's get Oliver Antony on the show, James.
	You're reaching out to him.
	Take me to Appalachia, like Barry Weiss's colleagues there at Free Press.
	I'm gonna climb me them mountains.
	Get me some dungarees and some snow boots.
	I don't know what they do in Appalachia.
	I want to meet that man!
	I'm in England!
	That's pretty fascinating, that.
	Do you know what I'm minded to at least recount, recite, to tell you, Barry, is that for a while I've been feeling that the problem with the left is that they abandoned ordinary working people they actually don't like.
	ordinary working people. So I have to find ways to vilify them. Your views are not progressive
	enough, you ain't advanced, and then like in a sense you can see in all of the Oliver
	Antony phenomena, that a sort of a trend that's been prevailing since the Democrats under Clinton
	and the Labour Party under Tony Blair abandoned ordinary working people. They had to justify it
	by saying ordinary working people needed to change.
	The problem's not that we don't care anymore about representing the interests of ordinary Americans or ordinary Brits against the elites and the establishment and corporatised state institutions.
	The problem is that ordinary Americans and ordinary Brits are somehow disgusting and racist.
	They vote for Brexit, they vote for Trump without looking at what conditions People are enduring.
	And I suppose that there is mitigation against the charge that these bourgeois elites are uncaring by saying, well, we do care about these marginal minority issues.
	Look, we really care about them.
	Unlike working people, which I think is erroneous and false and which are actually in practice, in policy, in behavior, in conduct.
	I don't see a great deal of compassion.
	I don't see Yeah, I think that there's an obsession on identity as a distraction from focusing on class.
	to support. Do you think that there's something of that about all this, mate?
	Yeah, I think that there's an obsession on identity as a distraction from focusing on class.
	And I think that if you look at the demonization of someone whose message is so
	obviously authentic and obviously true of his experience, writing him off as sort of like,
	you know, this avatar of cisgender male patriarchal race, it's ridiculous. And in a way that this was
	a really good case study, because anyone with eyes and ears could hear that this person was
	singing from such a true place about such a real phenomenon.
	And in the weeks since he's sort of had this overnight unbelievable fame he's been
	offered, incredible deals and he's sort of resisting all of it and
	saying no I want to stay true to myself and I don't want to lose myself and lose my message by
	getting swept up in the very thing I'm trying to criticize he's a really interesting figure, I think Rogan had him on
	a few days ago but you guys should definitely have him on Get him on! Get him on!
	Drag him down by his ginger!
	But we'll go there to them mountains if we have to.
	I'll go to that paper mill.
	I'll do a shift.
	I'm gonna need 30 or 40 dollars an hour.
	But I will go to that bloody paper mill.
	I can't do a whole night shift.
	Not with my... with my hands?
	No.
	It wouldn't work.
	I'd think of a paper cuts.
	Oh, they'd sting like hell.
	Do they provide gloves and masks and social distancing?
	If they provide that, I'm in.
	Hey, guys, uh, you can go... Guys, I...
	Well, I just, I think it also speaks to something that I'm really interested in, which is like, where is the real mainstream?
	You know, the minutes I was listening to you guys talk, you're like, this is what the mainstream says.
	This is what the mainstream says.
	And I get it, right?
	But I started to think about that as like, no, this is what the legacy institutions say, because all of Redepenny is the real mainstream, right?
	Look at this movie, The Sound of Freedom.
	Right?
	The Sound of Freedom, which was made by Angel Studios, I had never heard of Angel Studios, beat Mission Impossible at the box office, which was put out by Paramount, right?
	I don't even think it was reviewed by the so-called mainstream institutions.
	How does that happen?
	I think one of the things happening is that like the real mainstream just isn't represented by a lot of places that That's brilliant, Barry.
	I mean, yeah, it's just like these institutions never represented the interests of ordinary people.
	It's just before they never had an alternative.
	Take your medicine, eat your filthy culture.
	Now, because of this technology and communications miracle, it's possible to provide alternatives.
	That's why you have to establish a means and legitimize censorship.
	Otherwise, what we learn is this culture is entirely non-representative.
	It will atrophy and die, and people will build a new culture that absolutely ignores it.
	What about that, mate?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Don't patronize me from probably from New York.
	I'm in L.A.
	actually right now.
	That's worse.
	Me and Oliver Antony, we're in the paper mill.
	We are there.
	We are sick and tired of these cuts on our fingers, aren't we?
	I'm going to need another manicure.
	I've not had a manicure since the beginning.
	Where is my manicurist?
	Get this man a manicure and a facial.
	No, look at those soft hands.
	No, look, I think we're living in this in-between moment, right?
	Joe Rogan gets more viewers, more listeners in one episode than CNN gets in a week, right?
	It's just like we're living in this in-between time where those places still have the prestige.
	They often still have the means of distribution.
	And you have all of these things sort of popping up, new podcasts, new sub stack, new
	newsletters, new YouTubes, new rum, whatever, right? And people are trying to find
	them. And that's the challenge, right?
	For people like me that sort of live on the internet, I know where to look. And I know how
	to sort of separate the wheat from the chaff. If you're a busy lawyer, you're a busy accountant,
	you're a busy doctor, you're like, I don't have time to read 20 different newsletters and listen
	to 20 different podcasts and like, give me one place.
	And that's the question, right?
	Is there going to be some kind of confederation between a lot of these indies?
	How are we going to make it more convenient for people to find?
	Right now, people are sort of following all of their different Oh, we might all team up like the Avengers.
	trusted sources around the internet and I think a big question is in the next
	five or ten years are we going to see a consolidation?
	Oh well we might all team up like the Avengers.
	Justice League baby.
	Oh you've got an alternative.
	All right, mate.
	That's brilliant.
	Thanks for coming on here, Barry.
	Thanks for being so brilliant and fast and lurid and fast and vivid and quick and peculiar and strange, delightful and clever.
	It's really brilliant to talk to you.
	You're a joy.
	You lot should go see Barry.
	If you're in LA, go see Barry's event.
	It's next Wednesday.
	Go to thefp.com forward slash debates to see a proper debate about the sexual revolution.
	Yeah?
	Thank you so much.
	Really, really look forward to seeing some of you there.
	Do you think I did quite well there, Barry, overall?
	Oh, no.
	It was quite good.
	Oh, no.
	The questioning, the plug-in.
	Immediate praise.
	Wouldn't mind a bit of praise.
	That's what me and Oliver Antony, we just need a bit of praise!
	No, he doesn't need any.
	I just need a bit of praise, not a paper mill!
	Thank you guys so much.
	Barry's just a professional person.
	Very sensible, that's the right... See you later, Barry.
	Good to see you again, mate.
	Love to the family.
	There she goes.
	Great to see you too.
	She's brilliant, isn't she?
	Bye.
	There's that thing.
	As the sexual revolution failed, you can go and see that.
	It sounds brilliant.
	They're doing great work over there.
	I think Barry Weiss is a journalist with integrity.
	If you can go see it, go see it.
	Why did you ask if you'd done well at the end?
	I don't know why I felt a sudden urge to be approved of.
	I don't know.
	It just really came over me.
	I couldn't control it.
	If I could have controlled it, I should...
	I should have controlled that.
	You should have controlled it.
	I'm a bit like Oliver Antony.
	I just can't control myself.
	Is that what?
	I don't think he's like that.
	Yeah, he's not like that.
	Me and Oliver Antony can't control ourselves.
	We need a... No, I think that's his point.
	It's his... Our point!
	No, it's not our.
	Me and Oliver Antony, we're like the Proclaimers.
	I actually would be in a band with him.
	We're going to get that Oliver Antony by Jove.
	You want to do a duet, don't you?
	A bit, yeah.
	I knew it.
	As soon as I thought... I could see the cogs turning.
	I thought, he's thinking about doing...
	When the world slips you, Anthony, stroke his furry beard!
	Stroke his furry beard!
	Come on, Oliver Antony.
	Wow.
	Yeah?
	What about that?
	Jumping on his bandwagon.
	Evil Wendy Bird says, I have a manicurist license.
	Did you know manicurists required a license?
	I did not know that.
	No.
	They do.
	And Evil Wendy Bird has one.
	We've got to get out there to Florida.
	We've got to get out to America.
	We've got to be in America.
	We've got to get over there and make some choices and make some moves.
	Is this because you want a pop career?
	I don't think it's too late for me to become a pop starlet.
	On tomorrow's show, we've got Brianna Joy Gray.
	She's brilliant, we had her on before.
	Wow, she's brilliant as well.
	On Friday, I mean, I don't know if you've seen it online, but me and Sam Harris, we had a conversation and it got out of hand.
	It certainly did!
	I didn't know it was getting out of hand when it was happening.
	I did, for the couple of hours I was sat in that room.
	Why didn't you come and say something?
	You should have said something.
	You're supposed to say something when things go out of hand.
	No, it's very good.
	It's very good.
	Yeah?
	Very good.
	Well, you can see it.
	If you're a Locals member, you can see it right now.
	Go and watch it.
	Go see it in full.
	See what all the fuss is about.
	People are screen-grabbing it, putting it up on... It's good stuff.
	XGONG, give it to ya.
	Click that leg button.
	Get yourself... Leg button.
	Click my leg button!
	What do you mean by leg button?
	My winky!
	Click that red button.
	What do you mean by red button?
	My winky!
	Get yourself some Awakened Wonder Pants, as that guy calls them.
	Are they for Oliver Anthony?
	Dan NJ, huh?
	Are they for Oliver Anthony?
	Oliver, I got you some planty poo pots, Sonny Jim.
	If that don't get you down from the mountain inside, I don't know what will!
	Try them on for size down the paper mill.
	He'll love them.
	He's going to look lovely in them.
	And hey, we'll send him a pair.
	Yeah, so that's the next couple of shows.
	Look, they're good, aren't they?
	If you become an Awakened Wonder Pant wearer, you get early access to interviews, meditations, podcasts, Anyway, we've been talking a lot about hyperbole.
	We've been talking about the mainstream media's hysteria and propaganda.
	Some of you will have already seen, because I think we talked about it earlier in the week, Rachel Maddow talking about if Trump wins, he might make himself president for life.
	And that that would just sort of be a thing that happened.
	Also, we talk about like that mugshot image and how it's already been used to raise millions of dollars.
	We're going to have a real look at this.
	So if you are an awakened wonder, pull your underpants right up tight.
	Right uptight, I'd say, until your lower body cannot even access blood, let alone delta diarrhea.
	Double D, I call it.
	And enjoy this wonderful item.
	Here's the news.
	No sunny, Jim.
	Here's the effing news.
	Now, where's my guitar?
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	No, he's the fucking news!
	Trump's mugshot has become the best piece of political propaganda since the Obama change poster.
	So everyone's happy about that, except Rachel Maddow.
	But can we trust the mainstream media on Trump?
	Now let's work out this mugshot thing.
	We knew, those of us that understand semiotics and media, that Trump's mugshot would become a phenomenon.
	Yet they went ahead and gave us one.
	Trump looks less orange than ever.
	His hair is less crazy than it's ever been before.
	It's a magnificent mugshot.
	And the mainstream media are furious about it.
	Even though they recognize that the more he's persecuted, the more popular he becomes as an anti-establishment figure, they continue to condemn him, with Rachel Maddow saying that if Trump wins in 2024, he will turn America into a dictatorship for life.
	Now, I'm not sure that that's actually true.
	I don't know what evidence that's based on.
	I don't think the only reason that Trump was removed from office last time was because Biden was so mighty and the system is so fantastic.
	And why do the mainstream hate Trump so much?
	Is it because he's alleged to be a sexist and in some ways morally off-key?
	Or is it for more profound geopolitical strategic reasons?
	Let's get into it.
	The election means one of two things, if this is the way he's going to approach it.
	Either he loses the election and he goes to prison, or he wins the election, he doesn't go to prison, and is that for life?
	That he gets to be president?
	Will we keep having more elections or no?
	If every election is a new opportunity for him to go to prison, do you think he allows us to have new elections?
	That's scaremongering, I think.
	Because say Trump did win, and Trump didn't want to go to prison, and he went, I'm going to be president forever, we're not going to have elections.
	I feel like even the most ardent Trump supporters would say, no, no, we're not down with that.
	And also, let's back up a bit.
	What's going on with Biden's administration?
	Is America improving in the ways that were claimed?
	Did he deliver on the big pharma deal?
	Or was it watered down to the point where it's weaker than some of the medications we're often invited to take?
	Let's look at this seriously.
	What's the real bloody difference here between the Democrat party and the Republican party?
	The way that they're funded?
	The way that they execute when in office?
	I know some of you have pretty strong party political ties, but my belief is this.
	What's needed is radical systemic change.
	Radical systemic change.
	Even the Georgia case alone is a state, not a federal case, so Trump wouldn't be able to pardon himself from that.
	Why is that not being mentioned in this report?
	Well, the answer could be because it's a hysterical report that's propagandising a population, playing to an audience of people who love Rachel Maddow, who can't remember all the vaccine stuff for some reason, and Absolutely hate Donald Trump.
	This is precisely the problem we have.
	My perspective is we have to overcome these kind of political affiliations and accept that we're at a point where different political models have to be considered.
	I mean, if those are the stakes, if winning the election is his plan to stay out of prison, what happens in that election if and when he does not win it?
	Does that kind of an election end with a graceful concession to a fair and square re-elected President Biden?
	Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate.
	The function of this piece of news is to ensure that you vote Democrat.
	To ensure that the Democrat base is mobilized into voting.
	I don't think the Democrats or the Republicans are going to provide the kind of solutions that you require, and I don't think you do either.
	I think whatever side you're on, your argument will basically be, yeah, but they're better than the other party, and these small differences are all we're being offered.
	And I say that's the biggest problem of all.
	Being willing to kill one another over these small differences is what prevents the real change that's required from ever happening.
	I mean if Trump and his supporters see the stakes as losing and going to prison or winning and being president and probably president for life.
	You can't say probably!
	Not probably!
	It's not like almost definitely like you know.
	I would like to see more introspection, more reflection, more openness.
	I'd like to say look I know why you love Donald Trump.
	I know you are angry.
	I know you feel there are metropolitan elites that called you a basket of deplorables at They can't say any of that because Biden's in office and he's doing nothing of note or value or worth and all of the promises he made while campaigning have evaporated into nothing.
	So they can't offer you that.
	that you feel that your flag has been dishonoured, that your principles have been forgotten,
	but I'm telling you we're going to do better.
	Like they can't say any of that because Biden's in office and he's doing nothing of note or
	value or worth and all of the promises he made while campaigning have evaporated into
	nothing.
	So they can't offer you that.
	So all they can offer you is hate, hate, hate, hate.
	All both sides are offering you is hate.
	You cannot generate anything from hate.
	You can't.
	All you can do is ossify and oppose.
	That's all that it will ever offer you.
	No one's got a vision.
	How should we expect that he and the Republican Party and Republican officials in swing states are going to handle the conduct of that election that Trump may very well lose?
	And because we are prone to forget.
	Yes, I think we forgot the efficacy of vaccines, didn't we?
	We have to say out loud, I mean, that we would be remiss, we would be willfully naive to ask that question as if our politics exists in a vacuum, somewhere outside the rest of our news.
	As if the politics pages are totally different than the crime pages, right?
	As if we are not in a moment where far-right politics is coincident with far-right violence, with regular shows of force from paramilitary extreme right groups, and with acts of violence by people who are explicitly and admittedly motivated by far-right eliminationist political ideas.
	You know like when you do exchange trips when you're a kid and you have to go to another school or whatever?
	I think mainstream media should have to go and work at the other place for like a month instead of being sent to France to live with a French family or whatever.
	Rachel Maddow should go on Fox, Fox people should go on MSNBC and should experience the world from that perspective.
	I'm aware that this content gets watched by people who like this content.
	Our hope is that we can create new conversations where people from across the political spectrum can see that they have more in common with one another than the establishment interests that purport to represent them on both sides.
	That is our aim.
	Our aim is about new models, new freedom, and how your personal awakening can change the world.
	We don't want to say, oh it's the others.
	I don't even want you to not like Rachel Maddow.
	I don't think you can generate anything.
	I know that in the comments below you'll go, oh I don't like Rachel Maddow or whatever.
	That's not the message.
	Rachel Maddow's a human being.
	She's got her own set of interests.
	We can't keep doubling down on this stuff.
	We really have to move beyond it.
	What I'm critiquing here is the hysteria around Trump and saying that, you know, her saying that Trump will stay in office for life.
	There's no precedent for that.
	There's no reason to say that.
	And there's Nothing about the Biden administration that makes anyone believe that things are any better.
	They're not any better.
	What about the war alone?
	The war alone?
	No alternatives, no solution, no talk of peace.
	Why are we not discussing that?
	If you want people to behave rationally, as you claim, then have a rational conversation.
	Don't double down on the hysteria and propaganda saying Trump's going to make himself president for life.
	That appeals, that kind of rhetoric appeals to the people that already love Trump, that see him as an anti-establishment icon.
	People should acknowledge what it is that people like about Trump.
	He's good humour.
	The fact that he's willing to attack and criticise the establishment.
	The fact that he's anti-war.
	That he reaches ordinary Americans.
	And perhaps we can get somewhere on that basis.
	Making hysterical propagandist claims on either side just creates more and more division.
	It's not going to lead us anywhere.
	And it is going to mean that the mugshot becomes a political icon.
	It galvanises people into supporting Trump.
	Let's have a look at how effective this mugshot has become and perhaps why this is happening.
	The Trump mugshot's like the new Che Guevara t-shirt.
	The mugshot for the ages.
	Hot off the t-shirt press, stores are seizing on Trump's moment too.
	I think it's funny, the second I saw that mugshot came out, I knew that the t-shirt presses were going to be going crazy.
	I don't support that man at all, but I would wear it as a joke to an event.
	That's funny.
	I'll wear it as a joke to an event.
	it's a good t-shirt. People don't understand iconography, people don't understand the new
	information age, people don't understand that centralized media, corporate media, is dying.
	Its model is dying and it's trying to prevent its own death by doing what it's always done
	more aggressively rather than saying we need more discreet, rational, discursive, open,
	reflective models where we don't haughtily talk down to a population but where we invite them
	into the conversation. Let me know in the comments if you agree.
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	Trump down in Georgia turning that mugshot into a record-breaking fundraising haul.
	According to Politico, Trump's campaign claims to have had its best day of fundraising yet, pulling nearly 4.2 million dollars on Friday night alone, making it the single highest 24-hour period of his campaign to date.
	I love when he said, one more indictment and I'll have this election sewn up.
	He talks the language of modern politics.
	Perhaps it wasn't just a coincidence the fact that he was the Twitter president.
	We thought that Obama represented a true progression because he was from a new diverse race, because he had a sort of a charisma and conviviality, but it appears that actually Obama was a very traditional President in the sense that he represented establishment interests, particularly financial interests, in 2008.
	He continued with drone wars.
	And Trump, in spite of being an older man, and indeed a white man or orange man, depending on your perspective, has understood the media age in a way that no other politicians, certainly in the American landscape, do.
	This is a new time.
	New models of communication.
	And I would suggest new political models are going to emerge from it.
	Whether they are authoritarian centralised models, a bit like actually Rachel Maddow is suggesting, but I would say there's more danger of authoritarianism, curiously and paradoxically, from the liberal left than there are from the right.
	Much of that fundraising comes from merchandise.
	T-shirts, posters, bumper stickers, coolers, ranging from $12 to $40 on that website.
	You see some of it there.
	Literal advert for that.
	It's like when MSNBC does Pfizer interviews.
	Also has been peppering online donors with emails and text messages.
	We kind of expected this Jonathan Lemire that Donald Trump was going to make a virtue and yes a t-shirt of his mugshot had it pushed out almost immediately in a fundraising email.
	I can't believe it.
	That's how I told you this would happen, you idiots.
	That expression is MSNBC's entire attitude to normal people, new media, the changing world.
	We've tried to tell you about this.
	Why don't you go into your homes and put on your mask and do what we tell you?
	We are, after all, liberals!
	Yes, it's exciting and yes, it raises a bunch of money for your base supporters who do view you as a martyr and a victim who's being prosecuted by Joe Biden.
	That's not the way this works, of course, but that's the tale he's telling them.
	Because they don't offer you news, they offer you attitude.
	That's the problem now.
	They can't go, well, obviously this isn't bloody working.
	People like Trump's anti-establishment stance and the establishment attacking him obviously validates his perspective and claims that the establishment are against him because he's against their interests and they're not trying to get him, they're trying to get you.
	And if they're against Donald Trump, plainly they are, they should just try to stick to the facts about this and move away from the emotions because they've lost the emotional war because they don't actually care about ordinary people.
	They can't win that war.
	The question is, does it help him beyond that?
	He does have to win, if he gets through this primary, a general election.
	Does a mugshot do all these cases against him as he believes help him?
	Yeah, there was speculation when he was first indicted in New York back in April.
	If I could have just done the face.
	Thank you.
	There it is.
	Guys, here's what you should think.
	Okay, now the weather.
	They didn't waste any time and we should know that's a lot of money, you're right.
	You can get it on coffee mugs or t-shirts.
	I even saw some footage over the weekend about people getting it as tattoos.
	Yeah, that's really stupid to get stuff as a tattoo and it's a political issue.
	Although I don't think Trump makes any money off of that.
	It seems like it would be deeply painful.
	So why are the mainstream media working so hard to continually disparage, discredit and even indict Donald
	Trump?
	This is from the Wall Street Journal.
	The US presidential election is more than a year away, but allies and adversaries around
	the world have already begun to contemplate and even plan for the return of Donald Trump
	to the White House.
	For many foreign capitals, the possibility of a second Trump administration is a source
	of anxiety.
	Allies from Paris to Tokyo regard Trump as an erratic leader with little interest in
	culverting long-term ties to counter Russian and Chinese expansionism.
	Unwillingness to counter Russian and Chinese expansionism could be a sensible policy unless you believe that Russian and Chinese expansionism ultimately includes nations like America and European nations rather than being localised and regional issues.
	Not saying that I don't care about the people of Taiwan.
	I'm saying I just don't care that much about semiconductors that want Americans to start dying for them.
	And to ignore the potential of a peaceful solution to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which Donald Trump advocates for just because it's good for BlackRock and the military-industrial complex.
	Policymakers and politicians were reluctant to make public statements that might rile the current administration or an incoming one.
	But officials interviewed by the Wall Street Journal did share their thoughts about what a Trump return to the world stage would mean for geopolitics.
	Among the most widespread fears is that Trump would spark a global trade war.
	I prefer a global trade war than a global... war.
	The candidate is threatened to impose fresh tariffs on all goods imported into the US, hitting friend and foe alike, a move that risks sowing divisions in transatlantic relations in a time of war.
	I think that was the issue.
	Trump has also threatened to withdraw the US from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a move that his former National Security Advisor John Bolton recently described as a near certainty if he is elected again.
	Why can't we discuss those ideas?
	Some governments are moving to lock in military assistance to Ukraine to strengthen security there in case a newly elected Trump scales back US support.
	Members of the Group of Seven Wealthy Nations are trying to reach bilateral agreements with Kiev to provide weapons that meet NATO standards.
	Even the Group of Seven Wealthy Nations seems ridiculous with escalating fuel bills, increasing poverty, the decimation of ordinary public spaces, the poverty and despair on the streets of most developed nations.
	Where's all this wealth going, I wonder?
	And Washington has sent billions of dollars in arms and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
	There's a strong possibility Trump might be re-elected, said Benjamin Haddad, a French lawmaker from President Emmanuel Macron's party.
	It forces us Europeans to read the writing on the wall and take more responsibility.
	Part of the reason, at least, that Trump is unpopular is because of his anti-globalist position, or at least that he isn't a fully imbibed and controlled globalist asset.
	That Trump policies might not lead to more war, but might lead to less war.
	And that is part of the problem.
	French officials have been warning European allies that the possibility of Trump's return requires the continent to significantly expand arms production from artillery to missile defence systems so it can supply Ukraine on its own.
	How do you feel about that?
	Oh no, America won't be supplying arms to Ukraine anymore.
	Do you want I actually, you know, how could I possibly know what is the best geopolitical policy for the Ukraine-Russia conflict?
	But it would be good, wouldn't it, to have unbiased, clear, open conversations about that and maybe even vote on what the preferred outcome would be.
	The idea that Trump's ascendancy is a problem because he would end war is being presented to you as a bad thing seems to me all kind of topsy-turvy and upside down.
	Eastern European countries and France are also pushing allies to admit Ukraine into NATO.
	Oh, that's a really good idea.
	I've not heard anywhere that that could create problems.
	We've been lucky with Ukraine to have an American administration that helped us, Matt
	Cron recently told Le Pompe magazine.
	Can we let Ukraine lose and Russia win?
	The answer is no.
	We have to hold out over time.
	I suppose what that article indicates is that there is indeed a globalist, corporatist agenda.
	That organisations like NATO do supersede national interests.
	But a figure like Trump, with his nationalism, with his inward-looking gaze, whether you like Trump or not, is an opposition to that corporatist, globalist agenda.
	I consider those figures like Macron and Trudeau to not be the forbearers of a new liberal democracy, but actually globalist corporatists who don't very much care about the ordinary people of their nation, but instead care about advancing elite interests under the auspices of liberalism.
	I believe that more decentralisation, more localisation, more democracy, more political freedom at the level of the community and the individual is the answer.
	Not more centralisation and a globalist agenda that cannot be opposed, particularly when it includes a potentially apocalyptic war.
	So, Trump's rise and the missteps taken by the mainstream media appear to relate strongly to a corporatist globalist agenda, and that's hardly surprising.
	Trump is an America First guy.
	For all of the condemnation of criticism of Trump that you can read and see elsewhere in sufficient quantities to not require me to give it to you again, is a figure that appears to be At odds with the advances of a globalist, corporatist agenda, and you have to ask yourself this.
	Are they anti-Trump because of all the reasons they say?
	Trump is a savage and he's against your freedom and he's a dictator.
	Or are they against Trump because they tacitly and quietly and silently in fact support exactly this agenda?
	Which I don't believe will advance or enhance your life one bit.
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