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Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you for whom that is relevant.
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Thanks for joining us for the first 15 minutes we'll be available on YouTube but then we drift into the exclusive free speech spaces that only Rumble can provide us with.
So join us there because we're going to be talking about the new January the 6th footage and the crisis in democracy that maybe I suppose could be alluded to in the recent populist successes in Argentina and in the Netherlands.
We ran a poll today asking you what you wanted to see us cover.
Did you want us to cover Piers Morgan and Tate or did you want to see us cover the results of the Dutch elections?
And extraordinarily, the Dutch elections, let's have a look at that.
Well, can we see the poll results on screen?
That's what you wanted us to cover.
So indeed, that is what we will cover over the course of our show.
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Now, this crisis in democracy is something that we're continually covering because I suppose that's the central idea, isn't it?
That we're living in a sort of an elitist, globalist establishment where national sovereignty is being eroded and individual freedom is being discarded.
That we're living in a culture that's being increasingly desacralized so that we are Left as shivering denizens of the materialist realm, no access to the divine light that might otherwise guide us.
That's sort of one way of putting it.
Have a look at this sort of interesting framing on MSNBC that's perhaps contributed to the crisis of faith in our institutions, where an MSNBC pundit describes that the only democracy that's possible is the democracy where you vote for one party.
It's a really interesting bit of framing.
Have a look at this.
Cornel West is staying strong with his run as an independent.
Jill Stein, whom you'll remember from 2016, announced her candidacy earlier this week under the Green Party.
Now, I happen to believe anyone should be able to run for whatever office they choose, as is their American right, and in some cases, our responsibility.
But we are living in perilous times right now.
When it comes to this presidential race and this set of candidates, what you're really voting for or about is democracy.
And anything that gives Donald Trump a better shot at winning the presidency might just be a vote against democracy.
If you vote for any party or any candidate other than these prescribed ones, you are voting against democracy.
So you can only vote for one thing in order to vote for democracy.
That's the opposite of what democracy is.
Yeah, indeed, Claude says in our Awakened Wonder chat.
You can join that chat if you want to.
No wonder when neoliberal politics, whether it's in the form of Party politics, or how it's conveyed through the media.
No wonder when it's become as corrupt, as unilateral, as devoid of nuance, as devoid of feeling, as fatuous and as empty and phatic as it has become, with no connection to real people, just weird symbols and extraordinary ciphers broadcast without meaning.
No wonder we're seeing this emergence of populist figures.
We've seen Xavier Millet Another populist president now with extraordinary hair.
And over in the Netherlands, there's been another victory for a politician that's regarded as being sort of far right, which I guess in this instance means, you know, sort of nationalist and probably anti-migration, I'm guessing.
But one thing is for certain, he's another political leader with remarkable hair.
Let's have a look at the celebrations in the Netherlands.
Celebrations break out amongst supporters of Geert Wilders' Freedom Party, PVV.
Its far-right leader are headed for a massive election victory.
People expect our agenda of hope, tougher asylum and immigration policy, people getting more money to pay for their utilities and groceries.
I suppose as we enter into a period of steep decline in the post-pandemic period, it's clear that people have basic concerns like resources.
Let me know in the chat, is it like for you now, like concerns around fuel and energy prices and grocery prices?
These things are very real.
So, like, kind of like abstract politics of ideals that don't seem to be real to the very figures that espouse them.
You know, like the kind of rhetoric around compassion that we've become accustomed to hearing from the neoliberal centre-left.
They don't seem to have any value to people anymore.
You know, and even in the, for example, if you just take the pre and post Biden election period, the kind of pledges that were made by Biden about whether it's Saudi Arabia or not building a wall or not being corrupt.
And in this period, we've seen the hunt of Biden, laptop repression.
We've had the Russiagate stuff described to us.
We've seen the emergence of so many inconvenient truths that it's impossible not to look for some kind of alternative.
Look at the way that the Occupy movement was crushed.
If you're European you'll know that after 2008 there was a kind of populist leftist movement.
Countries like Spain elected new populist left-wing parties like Podemos.
In Greece there was the rise of Syriza.
All those political movements were kind of snuffed out, stamped out, assimilated into the establishment, centrist, authoritarian, globalist regime.
And people are going to go elsewhere and you're going to see these guys with extraordinary haircuts rise.
We'll make sure that the Netherlands will be for the Dutch people again.
We'll restrict the asylum tsunami and migration.
57 out of 150 seats. Mr Wilders has vowed to halt all immigration.
We'll make sure that the Netherlands will be for the Dutch people again. We'll restrict
the asylum tsunami and migration. People will have more money in their wallet again.
The party, at least 12 seats ahead of its closest rival, the left's Labor Green Alliance,
Its leader, former EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans, has vowed to defend democracy.
We are Democrats.
Democracy has spoken.
Now the hour has come to defend democracy.
It seems a lot of these establishment politicians are not actually pro-democracy at all.
When people vote for Brexit or Trump or Geert Wilders, they kind of see that or certainly frame that as anti-democratic.
A lot of people in the chat saying he's just conservative, he's not far right.
There's some extraordinary stuff as well.
Deep Back's just posting the word meat again and again and again.
I don't know where he's going with that.
And I've not seen Lefarious Monster, which is always, for me, something I miss you, Lefarious Monster, when I don't see you in the chat.
That's what I'm basically saying.
So join that rumble chat if you want to.
A little bit later in the show we're going to be looking at some of the January 6th revelations and how that incident has been used to enhance protest laws, militarise the police, crush dissent.
It's an extraordinary story.
We'll be covering that in some depth in a little bit.
Let's look at the end of this story around the election of Geert Wilders.
Mr Wilders is expected to try and form a right-wing government with the conservative VVD party, that of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, but he might find it challenging.
He has no stature in Brussels, in Europe, and he cannot work together with other prime ministers in Europe, so it would be a disaster for the Netherlands.
It seems that democracy now is a sort of a contrast between these sort of populist figures that are widely described as right-wing that have peculiar hair whether that's Trump or your man over there in Argentina or this latest figure in the Netherlands who is like if you're at my age we've been aware of that dude since like the 90s he's been around for ages and ages or you can get the WEF kind of cookie cutter politicians like Trudeau or Rishi Sunak in our country or your Potential next president, if Biden shouldn't make it that far, Gavin Newsom.
Is it interesting the way it's shaking down?
And I believe it's precisely the failings of neoliberal democracy that's leading to the rise of these kind of figures.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
Do you agree with that?
We didn't listen enough to the people and we did not offer enough workable solutions.
hair laughing. Leader calling the results disappointing.
Delania Silgers had campaigned to be the Netherlands first woman Prime Minister.
We didn't listen enough to the people and we did not offer enough workable
solutions. Meanwhile supporters of the new Dutch centrist NSC party
celebrated gaining enough seats to give them a voice in coalition talks. The fact
that we got 20 seats out of nothing.
We didn't exist three months ago.
Prime Minister Ruta will remain in a caretaker role until a new government is installed, likely in the first half of next year.
Sarah-Jane Bell, ABC News.
If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to do a few more minutes here before migrating to our natural home over on Rumble.
It seems these days to be an ordinary part of political rhetoric to compare your opponents to fascist dictators, Hitler, Mussolini and now the legacy media is comparing Trump to I think both Hitler and Mussolini but wait to the end because I think they're saying that Hitler and Mussolini were a bit better than Trump.
This is extraordinary.
A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like vermin and the drive that those men had towards autocracy and dictatorship.
The difference, though, I think makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is he has no philosophy he believes in.
He is not trying to expand the boundaries of the United States of America.
He's not trying to overcome a neighboring country like Putin is in Ukraine.
He is not going for some grandiose scheme of international dominance.
Is that like hysterical propaganda?
Let me know Y or N in the chat.
It feels kind of hysterical that and I don't think that's contributing or creating the conditions for reasonable democracy.
Do you notice everywhere heightened tension, heightened fear, less and less ability for ordinary proper open discourse.
On the show tomorrow we'll be looking in more detail at Andrew Tait's conversation with Piers Morgan and one of the surprising things that emerges from that, most of you posting yes in the rumble chat by the way and over there in the locals chat, is a kind of a call for And the acknowledgement of nuance.
Very surprising to hear that in a conversation between Andrew Tate and Piers Morgan.
A cry for nuance which is clearly absent on MSNBC when Hitler and Mussolini are compared to Trump only to make the point that Hitler and Mussolini were nicer.
All he wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who's president.
All he cares about A guy who's president.
There he is, a guy who's president, and I am that guy.
...about his selfish self-promotion.
That's the only philosophy he has, which makes him even more dangerous, because he is actually... No, because I think what it was with Mussolini and Hitler is they were pretty militaristic, and in the case of Hitler, genocidal racists.
I mean, that was... wasn't it?
That was the key complaint.
Perhaps what's more indicative of a democracy and perhaps a planet in decline is the constant and ongoing failure of significant institutions.
He said this. He actually said those words.
Perhaps what's more indicative of a democracy and perhaps a planet in decline is the constant
and ongoing failure of significant institutions. The Pentagon's just failed another audit.
How can the Pentagon keep failing audits like this?
The Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, feels we need to be doing this better and faster.
Isn't that what he said?
We need to get better and faster at doing audits.
If the backbone of the American military, that have control of trillions of dollars, can't pass an audit, isn't it likely that people are going to look for alternatives outside of the mainstream?
Thank God we have independent media.
Thank God, man.
Another year gone by, another Pentagon audit failed.
The Defense Department's taking a slice... It's Thanksgiving, part of Thanksgiving.
First we have Thanksgiving, that's the beginning of the holidays, then the Pentagon failed their audit.
...sizable chunk of your paycheck.
However, it's unable to prove how it's actually spending those taxes.
dollars for the sixth year in a row now and counting the pentagon has failed its yearly audit
look the department of defense has around four trillion dollars in assets we're talking about
weapons and other supplies but this auto report found that around half of those assets can't be
accounted for federal government agencies face yearly audits as determined by federal law
And look, the Pentagon, like I said, has failed six years in a row.
According to the Department of Defense, the Pentagon passed seven of its 29 sub-audits this year.
The Department of Defense makes up more than half of all U.S.
discretionary spending.
In response to the audit, There's a crisis at the Pentagon.
There's a crisis in recruitment.
We're not being told the truth, it seems, about the various escalating foreign wars that are being funded through this very institution.
Absolutely extraordinary.
If you're watching us us on YouTube, you're gonna have to click the link in the
description below to see our story on January the 6th and how it has been exploited and has
become, if indeed it was a crisis at all, if indeed it was an attempt at an insurrection, has been
deployed to create yet more centralized authority. So if you're watching on YouTube, click the link
in the description and join us over on Rumble right now. Let's have a, so if you're
watching us on Rumble, let's have a look look at that so let's have a look at that story. So January
the 6th What did it really mean?
What did it really represent?
Was it an attempted insurrection?
And indeed, if it was an attempted insurrection, where's the evidence of it?
Why does it look more like a kind of tour gone slightly awry?
And indeed, what is the biggest threat to democracy?
Is it... is it...
Insurrections, if indeed that's what it was.
Or is it an establishment that continually compares their opponents to Hitler?
What do you think is the biggest threat to democracy?
Is it Trump?
Or is it the current incumbent of the White House?
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
No, here's the fucking news!
New footage appears to show that January the 6th was not an attempted insurrection and yet the legacy media and Hillary continue to refer to Trump as the new Hitler and that he will end democracy.
But what's the real threat to democracy?
Is it a return to Trump or is it the fact that the Democrats have betrayed the principles that they continually espouse in the pursuit of endless authoritarianism?
Remember when January the 6th happened?
It was presented as the worst kind of insurrection that could ever have happened.
There's no question at this point that the event has been used to legitimise anti-protest laws, anti-Trump rhetoric, to legitimise surveillance and censorship.
So what has gone on with January the 6th?
And what's going on with all of the hysterical language around Trump and fascism?
Is Trump the new Hitler?
Is Trump a threat to democracy?
Or is the real threat to democracy the abandonment of the principles upon which republics, or democracies, whatever you want to call them, are founded?
I.e.
the ability to be individually free, the ability to pursue happiness, stuff that's in your constitution.
So let's have a look at that in some detail.
Firstly, let's look at the debunking of January the 6th as an attempted insurrection, and the numerous times that Trump is being compared to, equated to, and likened to, Adolf Hitler.
Just into our newsroom, thousands of hours of Capitol video footage from the January 6th riots are being uploaded to a public website as we speak.
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson announced his plans to release them today as part of a campaign promise he made.
Like an insurrection, to me, I don't know how I understand the word, is there's like a plan in place to like, right, you're gonna be Speaker of the House.
You're gonna be in charge of the Pentagon.
Don't look like they're doing that.
It looks like they're wandering around six flags.
There's no question that democracy is under threat.
There's no question that democracy has changed.
There's no question that people are tired of globalism and are looking for ways to thwart the advances of various
transcendent and globalist entities whether they're corporate or NGOs or
regulatory bodies like the WHO, IMF or WEF who people sense are impeding on their lives for very legitimate reasons
We've covered elsewhere on our channel. People are looking for a different type of politics
So people that talk about America first or France first or the Netherlands first or Britain first that kind of
language is appealing I guess just by its nature.
That kind of nationalism historically has been connected with racism.
There's no question about that.
But what I think is interesting now is the attempt to entirely conflate this emergent new populism with racism.
And not only racism, but in the case of Hitler, Hitler was beyond racism.
We're talking about genocide.
And global warmongering.
I think the real problem is that there's no viable alternative to nationalism.
If you are opposed to globalism, where are you supposed to look?
Because the centralist, authoritarian, neoliberal left are fully on board with the globalist project and a hell of a lot of people don't like it.
People would get legitimately elected And then they would try to do away with elections, and do away with opposition, and do away with a free press.
Weird though, isn't it?
Because even just on those few seconds there, Hillary Clinton has said, do away with free press, Hunter Biden laptop, Russiagate.
You could have a different conversation with Hillary Clinton where you could say, what went on with the Steele dossier that you guys funded?
How is that not propaganda?
What about the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop?
What about the fact that you don't want Free elections.
That elections are being managed, that Donald Trump as a political opponent is being hounded and harangued, and I know what they are saying because he's legitimately and genuinely a criminal, but certainly you could take a perspective that that's the attempt to imprison a political opponent.
What is broadly interesting is an inability and unwillingness to countenance their own failings and have transparent and open discourse about the failings of their party, of their trajectory, of the unpopularity of their policies.
And you could see it in countries where, well, Hitler was duly elected.
That's right.
Right?
Let me think of someone off the top of my head who I'd like to commit Hitler.
Trump is telling us what he intends to do.
We need to listen to that.
Take him at his word.
Those are the, that is the imagery of Adolf Hitler.
There's so many stunning parallels.
It's a lot of stunning parallels.
What I would say is that what was bad about Hitler was genocide and warmongering.
Warmongering?
Bloody hell.
Look at what was going on at the moment.
Look at the amount of influence and power that is exerted by the military-industrial complex.
And please, God, no one's interested in genocide.
Please, God.
To what Hitler was doing in the early 30s, once again, I'm not saying Trump is going to slaughter six million Jews.
Oh, thanks.
Very nice of you.
So I firmly believe, knowing Donald Trump, That if you said to Donald Trump...
Mr. Trump, in order to become Putin, in order to stay in office forever, in order to loot this country, you have to do X. He is capable of doing wherever your mind can take you for X. A thousand percent.
I think what we're witnessing is propaganda.
What's peculiar is Trump is accused of hysteria and hyperbole, but that hysteria and hyperbole is easily matched by his detractors.
Absolutely.
Michael Cohen said it.
You know, he is an autocrat.
In his mind, he wants to be president.
I want to stop using autocrat.
I want to start using the word fascist.
Yeah, he's a fascist.
The tendencies, many, many tendencies like Adolf Hitler.
I said it, throw me off the air.
Okay, the definition of fascism that most interests me is when you have corporations, legacy media, and the state in such coalescence, in such powerful alignment, that there is no way to penetrate the public discourse, there's no way to enter the public sphere, there's no way to oppose the trajectory of power.
I think that kind of fascism has broadly been achieved already.
Let's have a look at this article by Public.
When Donald Trump became president, Democrats predicted the worst.
Trump's shocking victory, his ascension to the presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy, David Remnick wrote in the New Yorker the day after the election.
Trump, Remnick said, was an authoritarian who disdained civil liberties and whose election was surely the way fascism can begin.
What kind of accusation would be more valuable if Julian Assange was not in prison?
If we were not seeing further movements to endless surveillance?
The continuation of the aspect of the Patriot Act that allows surveillance of American citizens?
All these things are still happening if there wasn't the perpetuation of the forever wars.
Whether you like Trump or not, he is a response to political and economic conditions that have been caused by decades of neoliberalism that don't provide meaningful alternatives.
Trump had little respect for the First Amendment, Democrats claimed.
He attacked freedom of speech and of the press, striking at our fundamental rights.
On top of this, liberal media outlets alleged Trump used his office for personal gain and weaponised the justice system for his own benefit.
After January the 6th, 2021, the liberals who had been sceptical about anti-Trump hysteria became convinced that the hysterics had been right all along.
But Friday's release of the first tranche of January 6th tapes confirmed that Trump's actions paled in comparison to the steps Democrats have taken to defeat him and his supporters.
The tapes corroborate Public's previous reporting and show that the Democrat-driven narrative of an insurrection was highly misleading.
Democrats use this narrative to demonize tens of millions of voters, to justify their censorship efforts, and to weaponize the justice system against their political enemies.
They've continually spoken about MAGA extremism.
Hillary Clinton's even said about debugging and decoding Trump extremists.
And to refer to those events of January the 6th as an attempt at insurrection is hysterical and it seems to me that like many crises in recent years was exploited to legitimise legislation to advance further control and condemnation of an opponent and the movement affiliated with that opponent.
That seems more reasonable than that was an attempt to take over the country and run it differently in baseball caps while smiling, grinning nervously.
It's true that the tapes show rioters forcefully entering the capital, and some scenes on the tape are not peaceful.
It's also true that Trump's rhetoric has at times been inflammatory and illiberal.
But inflammatory rhetoric has been present on both sides.
If you're continually talking about Hitler, that's about the most incendiary thing you can say about anyone, isn't it?
But what the tapes do not show is a coup attempt.
Rather, they show many scenes that contradict this narrative, like January 6ers walking calmly down the hallway, Capitol Police appearing completely unfazed by these supposed insurrectionists, and Capitol Police giving the trespassers handshakes.
Yeah, because they're broadly speaking pro-police, aren't they?
That's the kind of one might assume their general stance.
So it seems like there's not been an objective appraisal of those events.
There's been a highly biased exploitation of those events, which is in keeping with what we understand about 9-11.
Like, you know, in this moment, there's not question the origins and how 9-11 was carried out, but what was 9-11 In this conversation, let's not question the origins of the pandemic, but let's look at how the pandemic was used.
Was it used to legitimise regulation?
To bring about policies that otherwise would have been impossible?
To generate profits?
Did it make things economically worse for the vast majority of people while improving the economic conditions of the elite?
There's so many clear examples now of how crises of various kinds are exploited to legitimise the agenda of the powerful that it seems sort of almost redundant to keep pointing it out.
Despite the evidence that law enforcement at best permitted this coup to take place and at worst facilitated it, January 6th judges have handed down extremely harsh sentences.
They sentenced one defendant to 22 years in prison despite the fact that he wasn't even in Washington DC on January the 6th.
You'd think that would be a pretty good alibi.
Were you in Washington DC on January 6th?
I was not.
22 years!
Oh no, Jesus Christ!
What's more, the January 6th tapes show scenes that are far less violent than Black Lives Matter riots, which were investigated and prosecuted with much greater lenience, even in cases of arson and assault.
We've been able to show many times on our channel how both January 6th protesters and Black Lives Matter protesters were subject to the exploitation of the same surveillance laws Which should be illegal were it not for manipulation of particular clauses that section 702 permits.
But there's no question that these protest movements have been used differently.
In our country about 11 or 12 years ago there were a bunch of riots and they prosecuted the people that participate in that riot super fast.
They expedited all of the cases because anything that seems like a threat to the system is often met with a response that shows the ability of authority to crush dissent.
Above all, the newly released tapes demonstrate that the Democratic Party's claims to be fighting for democracy and staving off authoritarianism are a sham, and that it's the Democrats who, having their persecution of Trump and his followers, have done more to undermine democracy than Trump ever threatened to do.
Elites in the Democratic Party and in the mainstream media, through their efforts to subdue a populist backlash, have eroded First Amendment rights and have politicized the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice.
Democrats became everything they once said they feared in Trump.
Sensorial, totalitarian, and corrupt.
Their years-long clampdown on dissent and criminalization of political opposition was a systematic attack on liberal democracy.
Worse, they became everything that liberals during the 20th century warned Americans about.
The Twitter files, the Missouri v. Biden case, and the Facebook files have exposed the lengths to which Democrats went to quash opposition and prevent citizens from exercising the right to protected speech.
At the same time as the federal government has pushed for censorship, the FBI under Biden has increasingly become a domestic spying agency, turning its efforts against regular Americans.
When whistleblowers step forward to push back against the Bureau's partisan or unethical practices, the FBI retaliates against them.
Meanwhile, the Biden's DOJ is inappropriately shielding him and his son from any accountability for their lucrative influence peddling operation.
A growing body of evidence suggests that President Biden played a major role in his son's business and that the DOJ is protecting the president from repercussions.
This is precisely the type of corruption Democrats warned Trump would bring to the office of the presidency.
The Democratic Party and the Biden administration have become precisely what liberals said Trump would be, and they have attacked the foundational principles of our democracy in the name of protecting them.
How did this happen?
What is exposed is a complete lack of principles and a willingness to avoid having any set of values that can be applied to yourself in the same way as you would apply them to your opponent.
It's clear that even the basic exercise of switching the names Trump for Biden exposes the fact that, exactly as this article points out, there is no clear application of principles that would be applied blindly, the way that justice is supposed to be blind, that it shouldn't matter who you're talking about.
If this riot is bad, then that riot is bad.
If that surveillance is bad, then all surveillance is bad.
If this censorship is a problem, if this usurping of the principles of democracy would be a problem, then you have to be able to apply it universally.
If you can't, what you have is just It's just a partisan agenda that is utilized in order to meet certain objectives and that's plainly what's being observed.
The obvious reason for the authoritarian and even totalitarian turn among liberals was the internet in general and social media in particular.
Elites since World War II had largely controlled the information that masses received through TV and big newspapers and wire services.
That all changed with the rise of the internet.
What a complex world it is.
What a corrupt establishment we live in.
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Internet freedom had worked for progressives until 2016.
After Trump's win, Democratic Party leaders refused to accept blame and they redirected criticism towards themselves and their presidential candidate towards the internet.
Social media got Trump elected, they argued.
Political scientists disagreed, but it didn't matter.
Democrats wanted to believe it because it justified their more primal desire to silence their enemies.
We needed the government to regulate social media, argued the former intelligence community people, like Rene Direster, who Democrats put forward in their hunt for the Russian disinformation that supposedly resulted in Trump's election.
But beyond the revolt of the public unleashed by social media, liberal elites have found it so easy to demonise Trump supporters because they rarely encounter them in person.
The country is deeply divided, partly because of what author Bill Bishop called in The Big Sort in 2004.
Americans, Bishop explained, are increasingly clustered into areas where everyone around them thinks the way they do.
This social transformation goes far beyond red versus blue, leading to extreme polarisation.
Wrote Bishop, And we're living with the consequences of this segregation by way of life.
the neighbours and church and news shows most compatible with his or her lifestyle and beliefs.
And we're living with the consequences of this segregation by way of life.
Pockets of like-minded citizens have become so ideologically inbred that we don't know,
can't understand, and can barely conceive of those people who live just a few miles away.
It's extraordinary actually that fully immersive technology and the miracle of modern communications seems to have deposited us back in the condition we would have been in hundreds of thousands or at least tens of thousands of years ago where we live in tribes with cultures that seem unimaginable to and tribe just across the river that might have had a different totemic animal, a different System of worship, a different understanding of reality.
It's extraordinary that this imprint has somehow been realized again at what is currently the apex of what's technologically possible.
I think a deeper conclusion that can be drawn from that is, generally speaking, people need to have as much control over their community and as much authority in their own life as possible.
What that suggests is minimum intervention by government Minimum control by global corporations.
Minimum influence exerted on your individual life and your community life by globalist entities such as the ones I described at the beginning of this video.
Because none of those things are possible with the agenda of the Democrat Party, they have to demonize their opponents.
But it's ridiculous because you can't vilify in such an extreme way 50% or more of the population with Without inflating the significance of events like January the 6th, without using hyperbolic language like this is like a new form of Nazism and this is like a new form of Hitler, which can be exposed as untrue because of the very technology that we're describing.
It seems to me this marched towards authoritarianism, control of media, ability to censor,
is undergirded by a strong desire to control media and to control minds that was
possible 50 years ago but is no longer possible without the kind of hysteria that's becoming
normalised as in the clips we showed at the beginning of this video.
In 2016, the profound ideological inbreeding among elite segments of the Democratic Party
produced what many people have termed Trump Derangement Syndrome.
This was a special combination of outrage, bewilderment and disgust aimed at Trump and his followers which consumed Democrats in 2016 and has warped their judgment ever since.
Democrats conceived of themselves as resisting a greater evil and this gave them a rationale for censorship Weaponization of government and the punishing authoritarian culture that now underpins major institutions.
The great evil, Trump, and the populist sentiment he represented needed to be vanquished by any means necessary.
As a consequence of this moral righteousness and ideological inbreeding, Democrats began categorizing inconvenient facts and different points of view as disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation.
At the heart of the censorship industrial complex is liberals' desire to shape people's thoughts and control the cognitive infrastructure.
The narrative Democrats constructed about Trump posing a fascist threat to democracy was also an extension of a dirty campaign trick that originated from Hillary Clinton and her team.
In an attempt to weaken support for Trump before the 2016 election, Clinton personally approved the plan to share allegations of Trump's ties to Russia with the press.
After the election, Clinton's campaign ramped up the Russian collusion story to excuse her defeat.
This narrative has only continued to snowball, with Democrats using the supposedly unique danger Trump posed as a proto-fascist and Mancurian candidate to justify the weaponization of government against his followers.
At the same time that Democrats abandoned free speech, they also abandoned a commitment to equal justice under the law, giving Hunter Biden a free pass for federal crimes, while celebrating Trump's prosecution for alleged crimes for amounts of political speech and activities.
Under Director Christopher Wray, Anyway, the FBI has abused its power by inflating domestic violent extremism statistics, using entrapment tactics, and suspending whistleblowers with the full support of liberal legacy media outlets.
Progressives who claim to be against harsh punishments for criminals have consistently applauded long draconian sentences for non-violent January the 6th participants.
What's being described is monumental hypocrisy.
Do you remember, like, that Chelsea Manning was a hero for being a whistleblower, but when them FBI whistleblowers came forward and said, hey, we were manipulated a bit, we don't like the way that January 6th was handled, and there were FBI agents in that crowd.
These are the sort of stories that the left used to care about.
Not anymore!
All those ideas have melted away now because partisan interests seem to be directing everything.
And those partisan interests seem to be about accumulating authority that can be used to crush opponents.
And if that is your modus operandi, then whatever principles you claim to have are irrelevant.
All it amounts to is tactics to accrue power.
The year 2016 and its aftermath have revealed that whatever principles Democrats and Liberals claim to hold, their politics are often reducible to a friend-enemy distinction.
This is made evident by the left's sudden rediscovery of its support for free speech in the context of the Israel-Hamas war.
Now that the left is experiencing censorship again, journalists and activists say that the kind of censorship they support for years is actually bad.
This about-face can be explained as a friend-enemy calculation, in which the left simply wants to purge its enemies and promote its friends, with zero consideration for democratic principles.
For most of the left, these principles now only exist to be weaponised when convenient, but can otherwise be denigrated and disparaged.
Ultimately, the left believed in free speech and opposed the weaponisation of government when doing so benefited them and their allies.
Once free speech and political dissent threatened the left's authority and influence, it had to be dismantled.
The heavy darkness that has overtaken the Democratic Party today is countered by the bright lights of the First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, the U.S.
Supreme Court, and the alliance of true liberals on the right and on the left who support universal rights, not just ones for their friends.
Those of us who come from the left view it as a genuine tragedy to see that the party that defended radical levels of free speech become a party of censors, authoritarians, and totalitarians.
Last week, Trump suggested that he or another Republican president could use the DOJ to indict his opponents, just as Biden's DOJ has done to him.
This threat to take revenge may seem to some like a good strategy.
After all, some say the right should wield power the same way the left has, by rewarding its friends and punishing its enemies.
But the Democrats' extremist power politics have robbed the party of any soul it may have once had.
The cycle of illiberal revenge tactics that may ensue from their actions make it essential to defend liberal democracy and freedom of speech for all.
Whatever the case, the last 20 years make clear that the most sickening moment for the US commitment to liberal democracy came not in the election of Trump, but in the left's betrayal of fundamental liberal principles.
In a way, what's provided here is an argument that shows you that what preceded Trump was a decline in democracy, a loss in hope that became very pronounced, I would say, under Barack Obama, where the hope and change that he promised was never delivered.
Instead, what was delivered was more war and an economic collapse in 2008 that demonstrated that the affiliation with the financial sector was as strong as it would have been under Cheney or Bush, that the appetite for war was as strong as it would have been.
From that moment on, the election of a populist became a genuine possibility.
In the post-Trump era, the authoritarianism, the appetite for censorship, the willingness to weaponise state infrastructure against opponents and the population has shown that all that's left is rhetoric.
I think that even the term virtue signalling in itself suggests that the virtue that is displayed is the type of virtue that has no cost, that has no consequence.
And when you're willing to support wars claiming it's for humanitarian reasons when plainly it benefits the military-industrial complex, It seems that there's very little truth, there's very little authenticity, there's very little to hold on to.
And then when you have an event like January the 6th, which was rendered as an insurrection
that was studied and analysed and utilised and exploited, when massive prison sentences
were doled out to people that seem like they were, at worst, participating in a protest
that was at points violent and at best, sort of on some kind of day trip to Sea World,
it shows that the very thing that they're claiming to be afraid of, tyranny, fascism
and dictatorship, is less likely to take the form that we're continually haunted with and
offered Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, but is more likely to be the kind of technocracy
where it's assumed that ordinary working people are idiots that need to be parented by their
political leaders, that don't deserve free speech because they can't handle it, that
can't discern misinformation and disinformation from truth, so therefore the media has to
be censored, that there is a clear appetite to create a tiered society with centralised
power where ordinary people's roles and...
And for me, that seems like the bigger threat.
That seems like the precondition for the rise of populism.
For the rise of people that have an ease with discourse, that are able to communicate openly, that are able to refer to a recent past, even if it's through nostalgia and rhetoric that seems more appealing than this advance towards globalism.
This advance towards a world that becomes glimpsed in language around pods and vaccine passports and centralised control and 15-minute cities and you will own nothing and the kind of general impression that's emerging in the post-pandemic era of a world where everyone speaks about compassion, speaks about convenience, speaks about safety, all the while amassing power for themselves, using authority in a way that seems a lot like tyranny, while speaking the language of kindness and inclusivity.
Is Donald Trump the new Hitler?
I don't think so.
I think that what we're seeing that is comparable to the tyranny of the last century is the emergence of technological dictatorships, globalist technocracies, politicians who speak about kindness while all the while practicing authoritarianism and exploiting crises to bring about further advantages for the elite establishment that they are part of and that I believe cause this problem.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
See you in a second.
Here's the fucking news!
The chat is more alive than ever with Specialist Cecilia saying Trump didn't push no wars.
I think that's one of the reasons people in the US want him back.
Yeah.
Kittenwood says, the more they talk about Trump, the more ridiculous they sound.
Trump is hitting her.
That's so clearly propaganda.
Graylian.
They're really pulling out all the stops to degrade our election and brainwash the masses.
Then Specialist Cecilia again.
They threaten the common people like objects.
Sheep led to the slaughter.
Trucker Hershey says simply, killery.
You can tell a president is not in control when the amount of wars increase for cash.
Trump would never let any wars make us go broke.
I think that's what that says.
Nice name.
There has to be a better way.
There has to.
Doesn't there have to be a better way?
way to choose leaders. There has to be a better way. There has to, doesn't there, have to
be a better way? Fim92 Stinger, Russell, can we see Bear please? Bear's around here somewhere,
you'll see him inevitably.
I would say welcome this beautiful moment of peace.
Hello there in the chat, True Chimera.
Hello there, Ellen Sophia.
Now listen to this.
We're going to in a minute, we'll show you a little bit of the Tate Morgan Yeah, that's what I'm going to call it.
But before that, you know how you continually hear that peace and diplomacy are not an option in the Ukraine-Russia conflict?
Well, listen to this.
Here's Vladimir Putin saying that he's been open to peace from the get-go.
Now, I'm not so naive as to think that Russia don't have propaganda too, although you wouldn't be able to see Russia today We must think about how to stop this tragedy.
Here's Putin appearing to say that he's open to the idea of peace and that he considers
the war to be a tragedy.
Not naive again, but it's just curious that the only people that are talking about peace
are our purported enemies, those we're supposed to loathe.
We must think about how to stop this tragedy.
Russia has never refused peace talks with Ukraine.
It is not Russia but Ukraine that has publicly announced its withdrawing from the negotiation
Moreover, a decree was signed prohibiting such negotiations with Russia.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, has visited Ukraine to announce another $100 million military aid package, which is sort of comparatively small, given the enormity of some of the others, in spite of the fact that Ukrainian soldiers, I think, I don't know what kind of support they're going to need, but look at this.
I don't know how to look at this.
I don't have to look at this comedically.
Or tragically but the Ukrainian military is aging presumably because the younger Ukrainians are dying in this war and because there is no or at least a decreasing appetite to enlist among the Ukrainian population.
Have a look at this.
This is very surprising.
We were told a few weeks ago that 43 years old was the average age for Ukrainian military personnel but now it looks like it's older than that and it's interesting isn't it because we're so used to Dealing in vast statistics, thousands of people dying, billions getting spent.
You forget that at the end of this are human beings, like you or me, aging.
This, look at this sort of weird military event and note the age of the soldiers.
🎵🎵🎵 Yeah, that's pretty tragic, isn't it?
That's an indication of how this war is going.
Older and older soldiers.
Something about that's kind of eerie, if you ask me.
Do you find that a little eerie?
Have a look at this, you know, we've been talking a little lately about the recruitment drive in your country, the United States, and how it's failing, and indeed how even personnel who refuse to take the shot have been invited back.
You'll be familiar with this US recruitment film.
They're changing their recruitment tactics now, potentially because of the likelihood of proper, terrible boots on the ground wars.
Let's have a quick look at this recruitment tool from the US government.
This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's Patriot Missile Defense Systems.
This doesn't seem that the culture can accommodate that aesthetic at a time when there is genuine
threat of real escalating violence, particularly when you look at how Russia does the same
job. Check this out.
Of course, there's incredible machismo in this, but it's also talking about nationalism
and purpose and meaning.
And I suppose the debate between the two cultures in the Cold War was that capitalism, commercialism and commodity was offering us a life of privilege.
And as the war went down and communism collapsed, you know, give us your Levi's, give us your McDonald's, Now, now that it feels like consumerism is failing for all of us, I mean, you know, with the cost of living crisis, the inability, you know, paycheck to paycheck living, a sort of crisis in meaning in our kind of countries.
I know this is Thanksgiving and we should be thankful, but wouldn't you be thankful for some purpose, for some meaning, for some leadership that felt connected?
And I'm not advocating for this kind of subtle military, well not subtle militarism, it's an advert to join the military, but for this kind of over aggression but it does show you that this is a nation
that has a different image of itself.
That kind of propagandist tool, that animated, spirited away kind of Pixar version of the
military ain't gonna cut it in times of increasing tension.
Let's have a look at a bit more of this Russian recruitment tool.
If your role in the world is just to earn a living, just to support yourself in a way that
doesn't connect you to spirit, doesn't connect you to meaning and that's atrophying in our nations.
In the post-pandemic period, whether you were sort of a middle-class person or a working-class person, you saw your fortunes decline, I'm assuming, while there was a massive wealth transfer, and you know what direction it went in.
So it's very difficult now to sort of oppose these kind of ideologically othered spaces and states like Russia, like China, both of whom are now involved, you know, potentially in, you know, it looks like there's going to be forthcoming tensions with both of them.
I mean, obviously, we're involved in a proxy war with Russia.
And if it seems like there's a likelihood of conflict with China.
They've got a different kind of worldview.
They've got a different type of perspective.
This really is a time of crisis.
I had a conversation recently with Chris Hedges, who was talking about, this is kind of a common trope now,
that what we're experiencing is the end of empire, and that that is the macro narrative that we have to be
observant of.
Yeah, deep backs.
America, America, America.
I'm glad that you lot are joining us on your Thanksgiving.
It's good to see the chat occupied in this way.
I'm just going to... No, we don't need to see any more of this.
Let's have a look at this conversation between Andrew Tate and Piers Morgan.
What's fascinating about this, if you ask me, is that Andrew Tate's... He's on Rumble, of course.
You can see... What's it called?
Tate speech.
You can see that over here.
This is a maligned and cancelled individual talking about this current conflict in the Middle East.
With a degree of... I would say that he's acknowledging that there is nuance and grey areas in this conversation that are sort of not being acknowledged in many media spaces, certainly.
Have a look at this.
So I'm asking you, first of all, specifically, what is your reaction to what happened on October the 7th?
Sure.
I'll answer the question professionally.
I do not condone the loss of human life on either side.
I think anybody doing anything which directly damages civilians is disgusting and abhorrent.
However, I would be an amateur if I could not sit and pretend I do not understand the motivations behind either side.
This is not even me taking a side.
I understand why Israel is doing what it's doing.
I understand why Palestine is doing what it's doing.
However, I still call the Israeli actions absolutely abhorrent and genocidal.
Okay, we're going to come to Israel's actions, I promise you.
We will ask that question specifically.
But in terms of what Hamas did on October the 7th, do you accept that was an act of terrorism?
It's an interesting question, because... It's not really.
It is.
It's a very straightforward question.
Because you're the person who would have called Nelson Mandela a terrorist while he was still in jail, and one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
I wouldn't have done that.
For me to answer the question... Yes, you would have.
For me to answer the question, I have to be very professional, Piers.
For me to sit on the outside, in Romania, with no personal involvement in Israel-Palestine, it's easy for me to say, yes, it was an act of terror.
However, If I was in Gaza, if I was in an open-air prison, if my family had been annihilated by bombs from the sky, if everybody I knew had suffered the loss of a loved one, if I had no chance of any kind of freedom or democracy or standard of life, would I believe it was an act of terror or would I believe it's an act of resistance against oppression?
You have to be very careful how you answer these questions.
So what do you think?
I think I understand what happens when you take people and put them in such an inhumane condition.
For anybody to sit and say that you're going to take people and put them in absolutely inhumane conditions and give them no standard of life and they're not allowed to ever fight back or they are terrorists.
Anyone who does that is an amateur.
I can agree with you that the plight of the Palestinians for many decades has been absolutely shameful.
So what did we think was going to happen, Piers?
We'll be covering this story in more depth tomorrow and talking about some of the complexity that's kept out of the conversation, but mostly advocating for free speech spaces where you have the opportunity to directly engage with people that have a contrary view to you.
And let me tell you, the rumble comment section is certainly such a space because you will see diverse opinions there, as well as the nefarious monster, often providing diverse opinions even to himself.
Are you surprised by Andrew Tait's dexterity there or not at all?
interesting practices. So there's certainly a range of views there. Is it
right, do you think, that in pursuit of hegemonic spaces we cancel and
annihilate free speech? Are you surprised by Andrew Tait's dexterity
there or not at all? Let me know what you guys think. You certainly are. Yeah, I see.
You carry on in there, guys.
Now, mask mandates are returning in Australia.
You're aware of that.
Moderna are using some extraordinary tactics to market their product and ensure that they're not publicly criticized.
And now we're seeing the introduction of language directly from horror films.
We're talking, of course, about zombie cells being created by COVID.
Have you seen this?
COVID zombies?
COVID-19 creates zombie cells in the brain that speeds up its aging process.
But now there's a way to fight back and reverse the effects.
And for more, I'm joined by Dr. Julio Aguado from the University of Queensland.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Firstly, what exactly are zombie cells and are they as dramatic as they sound?
Thank you for having me.
Senescent cells, or zombie cells, they are cells that accumulate as we age.
These cells, so basically they contribute to the aging process.
What zombie cells really are, or these senescent cells, is they are pro-inflammatories.
Do you think they sort of brainstorm words and names that are as incendiary and as inflammatory as possible?
Zombie cells!
So what they do is they contribute to neurodegeneration and to quality decline during aging.
So that explains the brain fog that some of us experience after catching COVID.
What have you discovered to help fight those effects?
Yeah, so the key discovery really is that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can induce these senescent cells.
So would you say to avoid these zombie cells, is there anything we can do, any procedure, any measure we can unthinkingly obey in order to prevent ourselves turning into zombies?
Well, I guess you could take the vaccine, although in a sense that is the...
And that is an act of the living dead?
And therefore elevate the numbers of senescent cells in our brain.
And the good news is that we have found that therapies are effective at eliminating selectively these senescent cells induced by coronavirus.
And these drugs are called senolytics.
Again, clearing them out from the brain.
So could this also change the way that we research and deal with Alzheimer's?
Certainly.
And in fact, there is recent published data in clinical trials with promising hopes for treating Alzheimer's disease with these analytic therapies.
Do you think in the way that we had that sort of Avengers campaign, there'll be zombie killers sponsored by Pfizer?
Is it Lara Croft?
He's going to be the next icon of the next vaccine booster wave.
They've been showing that these drugs can effectively reduce inflammation in the brain.
Well, that is a really exciting development.
Dr. Aguado, we really thank you for your time this afternoon.
It was exciting.
It was a really exciting development right there.
Do you think before we leave we've got time to see that woman on a plane threatening to urinate in an aisle?
What's going on?
I mean this is Thanksgiving so presumably a lot of you are taking domestic flights within America.
It's not Thanksgiving in the UK.
Those of you watching in the UK or indeed Australia let me know where you're watching this in the world.
But For me, this is a... Look at... What I find most surprising about this clip is the inhalation.
The sharp and dramatic inhalation of breath that accompanies this lady's announcement that she's simply not willing to wait to use the bathroom.
I think a lot of us have felt frustration on a plane, but few of us have been brave enough to make a protest there and then, on the spot, making a stand by taking a squat.
Let's have a look at this.
Have we got it?
How far away are we in seconds, do you reckon?
Oh, right.
Nice one, guys.
Let's have a look at this.
Sorry, everybody.
Are you serious?
We're on the edge, aren't we, as a culture?
We're on the edge.
We're living so close to chaos.
That's it.
That's how far away we are from society crumbling.
one person taking a pee on a plane.
Does she not go to the bar?
What's the obstacle?
That's what I can't help myself from thinking.
There you go.
The thin veneer of civilization easily punctured.
The membrane of conformity punctured there by a jet of urine on a plane.
I guess you're asking about the few questions there.
Blessed old bird asking about tape.
What's with the sunglasses?
Yeah, I was wondering about that.
I guess he's sort of keeping himself behind a veneer, somewhat.
That was my take on it.
The reason I say you cannot defend those who want to censor is because they will ultimately censor those who support free speech.
This was the trick that worked to get to where we are now.
Yep, censorship has certainly been normalized, and that forms a significant part of our conversation with Lee Fang tomorrow.
We talk a lot about the Moderna story, where we found out that Moderna had files on Elon Musk, Novak Djokovic and me, and a peculiar relationship with the deep state, even employing former FBI employees within Moderna.
It's a really interesting story.
You'll love that conversation with Lee Fang tomorrow.
We talk also about Nikki Haley and her war millions and the possibility that 2024 might be the last free and easy elections in your great nation.
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