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BLOOD IS ON AMERICA’S HANDS | What Caused Trump’s Shooting & Project 2025 Explained - SF 407
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Hello there, you Awakening Wonders!
Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
This is an unusual show because we are on our way to the RNC, the Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee, an event that we had booked to participate in prior to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump this weekend.
You may have seen the video that I already made as an immediate reaction, but the show that you're about to watch was pre-recorded.
So I just want to make sure that we cover this event and let you know what our immediate reactions are to the extraordinary weekend's event and to the subsequent reporting.
Let's think about a few things.
It seems that a memo was circulated inviting mainstream media organizations to meter and control their response.
That's not entirely confirmed but on the basis of some of the reporting it seems likely the Washington Post Trump escorted away after loud noises at rally.
Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after popping noises heard at his Pennsylvania rally.
Trump removed from stage by Secret Service after loud noises startles former president and crowd.
Can you imagine how this will be exploited?
For a moment, just for a moment, compare the reporting and hysteria around January 6th in legacy media to the reporting around what has to be regarded as an assassination attempt.
Joe Biden in his speech for example said, we don't know what the motives are of the assassin.
Oh, I don't imagine that he was trying to fire vitamins in a Donald Trump's bloodstream.
I would assume that he's trying to kill him.
We've also seen, depending on people's previous political persuasion, a focus on gun laws or gun controls or who really caused this.
But don't you think that all of us collectively have to recognise that there's been a hysterical campaign of demonisation around Donald Trump, which continues yet.
Since the assassination attempt, Joe Biden's already said stuff like, Donald Trump remains a threat to democracy.
You can see all over the internet people saying, why was he playing golf?
He should have been visiting people in hospital.
And isn't that a stark and chilling aspect of all this?
A man died.
A man died trying to shield and protect his family.
One of the things that I was struck by, as well as the failures of the Secret Service, the peculiar amount of time that it took, did you see that footage?
Yeah, someone's on top of the roof, look.
There he is right there.
Right there, you see him?
He's laying down, see him?
Yeah, he's laying down.
And millions of people in our country that shouldn't be here.
Dangerous people.
Criminals.
We have criminals.
We have drug dealers.
We have people that should not be here.
And it's much tougher than it is.
It happens to be the most honest people ever.
If you want to learn more about the CCP, you can search the internet.
You can do that right now.
I was also struck by the fact that it isn't just Donald Trump who's demonized by the legacy
media.
It's also Trump supporters.
Trump supporters have been called everything from a basket of deplorables, to people that should just be shut out, to out-and-out racists.
I wonder how much the vitriol and vituperative rhetoric on other platforms,
though all of us participate in it to some degree, have contributed to the escalation of violence and hatred
and ultimately has led to this individual who's presumably troubled.
Like I always think someone who does stuff like this is obviously a kind of a damaged individual
when it's school shootings, whether it's massacres across the world
that are contiguously occurring.
It has to be an indication of pain to some degree.
And I wonder how this event will ultimately play out and how it will influence the political discourse.
It's already provided an extraordinarily iconic image.
It's likely to, I would almost say, guarantee Trump's victory in November.
But think about the many things that could happen between now and the election then.
It's likely we're going to see more hysteria, more doubling down, no attempts at reconciliation, although I thought Bobby Kennedy offered a heartening speech in an attempt to almost awaken us from our collective stupor of mudslinging and loathing, and to remember Actually, we can't continue to have a conversation so informed by violence and condemnation and contempt.
When you think of even the punditry in legacy media, Joy Reid, I'm not singling Joy Reid out in particular, but people who say stuff like, if you vote for Trump, you are voting for fascism or an end to democracy.
Donald Trump has already been president.
We know what happens when Donald Trump is president.
He was president for four years between 2016 and 2020.
What happened then?
I think escalating this to the point of saying, you know, he's the new Hitler.
If he gets elected again, he'll end democracy and there'll be no more elections.
I think that that kind of hysteria has contributed to the mindset of perhaps the shooter, but certainly it has pervaded our culture.
What I believe to be most significant about this event is America is still the most powerful
nation in the world and while it tears itself apart, quite literally in the case of these
escalating violent conflicts and now attempts on a presidential candidate's life, we have
to remember that across the world right now there are literal wars, regional wars, global
wars, the potential for yet more war and yet more destruction.
Donald Trump's life in the final reckoning is not more important than any of the children or heroes or individuals or service personnel dying across the world right now in numerous conflicts.
I wonder which of the political candidates is most likely to bring about peace in all of these conflicts.
The significance of this election is very, very high.
The feelings around these two political candidates appears to be very, very high.
If you note the way that the media has reported on this event, there is so much to learn.
Are they amplifying the event?
Are they minimizing the event?
Are they attempting to mitigate the reasons why this may have happened, or even blame Trump himself?
All of the partisanship and rhetoric for a moment ought to be put aside.
And all of us ought to look together at what it is we're invited to learn here, and whether or not we can trust the institutions that report on these situations, whether or not we can trust the judiciary, and whether or not we can trust the institutions that make up democracy, because democracy doesn't seem to be a constitutional republic, or an electoral process by which the will of the people is expressed, unless that will is very much in alignment with a very particular agenda.
We'll be reporting on this over the course of the week, From Milwaukee bringing you interviews and conversations from people directly connected to recent events.
Thanks very much.
Enjoy the rest of the show and stay free.
Thank you for joining me for what will be an exciting week at the RNC.
A man like me at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, right within the secure zone.
We can only go places in golf buggies.
If the golf buggy leaves the secure zone, it's a dirty buggy!
It's dirtier than a Hunter Biden laptop, baby!
That's how dirty it gets!
And what an extraordinary week it promises to be with fantastic interviews, extraordinary characters, other people in the rumble space collaborating.
Bongino's army, I'm talking to you!
All of Crowder's crowd, I'm talking to you lot!
We're gonna be with lots of other content creators in some peculiar conversations because this is a new space for me.
But we're together held by a holy light in some extraordinary places and spaces because while the news cycle might be defined by the sudden realization amidst our legacy media cohorts, Colleagues?
Acolytes?
Enemies?
How do you regard them?
Fake news?
The enemy of the people?
The amplifiers of the message?
They have of course recently discovered that, you know, Joe Biden is elderly and inept and if Joe Biden isn't running the country you can then extrapolate from that that some other groups are running the country.
You can also see that they must have been holding back information and deliberately obfuscating the fact of his entropy.
Why?
Why?
What's the agenda?
We've learned a lot and we're learning fast and it's not just about the personalities and the individuals and the changing narratives it's about the serious matters that are concurrently taking place because many of these blunders occurred at a NATO conference Where the future of the planet is being discussed and the ongoing tendency to increase hostility, or at least fund increasing hostility between Ukraine and Russia, it seems to be that's being perpetuated, not being discussed, not being mitigated.
And our new Prime Minister, if you're an English person or a Scottish person or a Welsh person, sorry about that, like me, then, you know, Keir Starmer's out there.
And it's business as usual and business as usual is business.
It's Russell Brown at the RNC.
Have a look at some of the things you can look forward to this week.
If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be there for another 10 minutes or so, then we'll be exclusively streaming freely on Rumble.
And you might want to consider becoming an Awakened Wonder, because I spoke to Candice Owens.
The interview's up now.
She said some extraordinary things.
Have a look at this.
It's pretty dazzling.
It's pretty baffling.
It's Candice Owens.
What would you expect?
Have a look.
Candace on Russell Brand, take one.
So it's a wonderful thing to be persecuted because you're telling the truth.
She used Christ as king in an argument with Ben Shapiro.
I did not use that phrase in an argument.
Does this make any sense to you?
Have we all been lied to?
Have we all been deluded?
I was severely propagandized in school.
Why don't we learn about the Bolsheviks?
Why don't we learn about Henrikh Yagoda?
He was the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century.
Who determines what history is?
Who decides what narratives prevail?
There always has been a war on the spirit of man.
We ask, Lord, that we be able to put aside egotism, narcissism, hedonism, all of the temptations and obstacles placed before us by a culture that would prefer us dumb and distracted.
Why do you keep saying everyone's wife's got penises?
I never said Obama's wife had a penis.
That came from you.
I never said that!
You did!
I heard you!
Now let's get into the content.
First of all, I suppose, let's just catch up with the latest array of Biden blunders before looking at Keir Starmer's conversations with Zelensky.
Then we'll get into what you're here for.
Project 2025.
Is it real?
What's the hysteria?
And are we now reaching a point of polarisation That means that almost secession, decentralization, devolution, whatever you want to call it.
How can you have one establishment claiming to represent a population so plainly fractured?
We'll be looking at the case for secession and how 2025 in fact advances that argument.
But first of all let's have a look at Zelensky, perhaps understanding for the first time who exactly he's reliant on to keep those black rock checks coming.
And now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination.
Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.
We're actually going to beat Putin, and actually I'd like to correct myself, because it's not cheques from Blackrock, it's cheques to Blackrock.
The cheques are from you!
It's your cheques, it's your money.
You'll be working.
That's you drilling something.
You're typing, you're doing something on your laptop.
That's you, you're plumbing.
50% of the money you earned doing that it's going to perpetuate that war so hope you're enjoying it because you're you're funding it you and your government including Joe Biden president and who's that that's the vice president again I can never remember it's Trump isn't it?
I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President until I think she's not qualified to be President.
So let's start there.
Oh dear, it's not getting any better.
I'm not focusing, I hope you realize this, on the obvious decline of Joe Biden.
That's sort of, in a way, no longer interesting.
I'm fascinated by the way that the media are repurposing it and catching up with it.
And I wonder whether this 2025 idea, which we'll be talking about in detail in a minute, It's just a way to sort of ossify the polarised positions.
Like, in the same way that Joy Reid would scream, I don't care who it is!
Or like, there are numerous pundits now that are saying, we don't care if Joe Biden's demented, you can You can run a kangaroo in a wheelbarrow for president and we'll vote for that even though it's the national animal of Australia.
None of this makes sense anymore and that's in fact what's beneath it.
The creaking and quaking that we are observing is the inability of the establishment to maintain a central narrative because there are too many evident counter narratives.
There are too many obvious Errors, mistakes, and lies required to maintain their own narrative and it can't be mangled or held together anymore.
We're watching this unfold in real time.
At least it's creating some, you know, enjoyable memes.
Guys, he says he still needs to make his speech.
What do you think?
Can he do the speech?
Can he do the speech?
The demented, fucking, piss-mad king of England?
He could say anything.
He could tell everyone he's Barbra Streisand.
No, I think we have to drop it, right?
But at the very least, he should be on stage.
It would be great to get the body up there.
Okay, we push it as late as we can, and maybe if we just get him on stage, that'll be enough?
Oh yeah, sure.
Maybe send him up through a trap door surrounded by dry ice.
Them kind of right-wing leaders that we're supposed to despise, and formerly I suppose with the cultural affiliations that I once had I would have been more sympathetic to these type of ideas, appear to be among those that are most in tune with the sort of reality of this situation.
I'm talking in this instance That Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, who reacts understandably and somewhat naturally to her encounters with Biden at the NATO summit, where we're supposed to be, should be, discussing how to avert war, but are in fact discussing how to increase the likelihood of war, and how to fund war, and how to report on war in a way that's
Disingenuous and duplicitous.
The same way that we now understand that we've been lied to about Biden's capabilities because, you know, we saw with our own eyes, we can now apply our learnings to the way that the war is reported on.
Wait a minute, the same people that told us that Biden was competent, sharp as a tack, etc, are telling us that Russia's attack was entirely unprovoked, Putin is an imperialist that will engage in an expansionist war.
We have to fund Ukraine.
Like, it's the same people and it's the same lies, or at least it's the same pattern.
Oh dear, maybe some of the hair sniffing stuff's got more to it than we first thought as well.
I mean, when you look at some of those collages, it don't look good.
Luckily though, you know, we've got a brilliant leader in the UK, Keir Starmer, a popular leader with a popular mandate.
He'll be making some crazy changes, some innovation, I reckon, and Even if Biden does buckle and fail, Kamala Harris is ready.
And maybe, just maybe, we can be unburdened by... Maybe what will be can be unburdened by what... No.
Maybe we can unburden you with what was, will be.
Won't we?
Should we unburden you with... No, I can't do it as well as she can.
No, it makes sense when she says it.
They taught us that we could do anything.
And should never be burdened by the limitations of other people to be able or not be able to see what can be.
She really sees it as a vision, doesn't she?
Like, it's over there.
Don't be unburdened by other people's, like, it's this over here.
You know in Minority Report, whoosh, unburdened, whoosh, it doesn't make sense in just normal talking.
Just in normal talking, that's a baffling Cohen that might Edge you towards awakening as you attempt to understand it
and then you realize no no it's not me And my inability to decipher. It's a communicative failure
from the transmitter that we're experiencing here fresh from a tidal wave
Mandate Kirstama getting ready to really shake up the world's day
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The UK has led in terms of support for Ukraine.
I feel sorry for him.
I feel sorry for all of them now.
I feel sorry for the occupants of the nodes of this net of corruption.
the position has not changed. All the messages from your government and team and from people
in United Kingdom we are very thankful for your words and steps which were important thank you
that you are with us. I feel sorry for him I feel sorry for all of them now I feel sorry for the
occupants of the nodes of this net of corruption what is the point and how plain is it?
But when a new leader comes and says in public, everything's going to be the same.
We're going to do everything in the exact same way.
It's kind of galling, isn't it?
That they don't imagine that we will be able to deduce from that that the whole system is intransigent and immovable and not impacted by bloody elections.
What was the Solzhenitsyn quote again?
They're lying to us.
We know they're lying.
They know we know they're lying.
We know they know we know they're lying and that they're still lying.
What is this extraordinary scenario that we're living in?
The funding will continue.
That's not being changed.
Free bill in a year!
That's your money.
That's your money.
And to what end?
Ukrainian people will die, Russian people will die, and maybe by the end of this year, American and British people will be dying too.
We are right now in Milwaukee at the RNC.
This show, we made it the other week so that I could travel to the RNC.
That's where I am now.
And tonight, I'm assuming there might be one or two tickets left to see me in Milwaukee.
Come!
Come and see me tonight.
And Wednesday in Milwaukee.
Next week we are at the RNC.
It's going to be fantastic.
Marjorie Taylor Greene's going to be there.
We'll be talking to anyone who's got the surname Trump.
They're in there.
Eric.
Don Jr.
Baron and hopefully the man himself.
Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be there.
Thomas Massie.
So many guests.
It's going to be fantastic.
As well as teaming up with Crowder and Bongino.
A wonderful week of rumble at the RNC.
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If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave now, but join us if you want to hear about Project 2025 and how increasing hysteria will likely lead to secession and how the Dems will do anything now to cling on to power.
Will there even be an election in November?
Will there be another extraordinary event?
And how do we find ways of overcoming their continual attempts to divide us, each community forced to turn away from the possibility of reconciliation, alliance and therefore revolution and real change?
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Okay, you know who's responsible for Joe Biden's dementia?
I don't know.
Vaccines?
Maybe.
Certainly Peter McCulloch thinks that.
Or it could be Russia?
... denigrate politicians in the United States and elsewhere.
Do you have any concerns right now that this is the leading edge of any part of a Russian
effort to interfere in the election?
Has the President been briefed on this?
And have you seen any evidence that the Russians or other foreign powers have...
I tried to seize on the debate performance but repeat some of the President's most embarrassing moments.
So that's a very good question.
I would have to talk to our team about those particular questions that you just asked.
There were multiple questions in your statement there.
I would leave it to the Department of Justice as what they announced.
Obviously that's for them to speak to.
Look, AI has always been a concern.
That's why the president made some announcements recently to take executive action on how we can... Certainly did make some announcements.
AI might be the solution.
I'd take an AI president at this point.
Why not?
Why not have a robot one?
Why not have one that never even existed?
Why not just have a conceptual leader at this point?
Extraordinarily though, faith among secularists is on the rise.
Some people that would say it's ludicrous to believe that God came to earth in human form, that the creator of the simulation entered the simulation to tell us that all will be well, that there are frequencies of transcendence available to us, that only love is real, that you can have a personal relationship with the creator.
They would describe that as nonsense, as superstition.
And yet the idea that you can continue to believe in Biden is popular over on MSNBC.
And I won't go on a length.
I will just say, though, you noted that there were some moments of startlingly impressive command of the issues.
This is just my opinion.
He is not only strong on foreign policy, he is just fundamentally right on foreign policy in the way that he talks about it.
And again, your mileage may vary.
That is how I feel about the way he talks about our relationship with our allies and our relationship with NATO.
Is it fundamentally right That Donald Trump is the vice president?
Is it fundamentally right that Vladimir Putin is the president of Ukraine?
No, it isn't, is it?
You can hear his command of the issues, particularly in his asides, like mentioning as an offhand way that it was Turkey, really, that needed really to be talked into.
Asides?
Hey, hey, by the way, baby, it was Turkey that really reneged on that particular treaty.
Hey, that guy's actually all right.
Yep.
We can vote for him now.
There's nothing to worry about.
Everything is in order.
Go back to your bed.
What kind of somnambulance are they trying to summons when they invite us to believe that we haven't seen what we've all just plainly witnessed?
Are they trying, in a sense, to provide a conceptual prophylactic to prevent us from realizing that not only have they duped us with their Biden is okay story, but the idea that in fact the Democrat party represents civil liberties and civil rights and cares about ordinary people and is the party of ordinary Americans and that there isn't a global experiment afoot to centralize authority and power wherever possible.
But we must do something, I think, To prevent the ongoing polarisation, because if we keep heading in this direction, the direction of hysteria, then, I don't know, secession becomes inevitable.
Not succession.
We've seen and enjoyed that meme.
I'm talking about the fracture and devolution of the United States, and maybe that is what is required, because can we live forever in this kind of friction and hysteria?
Project 2025 causing ongoing Cassandra-like hyperbole.
And Joy Reid here, I think at home and off duty, really leaning into the panic.
Let's not be trying to play games with these kinds of small things to try to pull us into a direction.
All that matters in this election, and I genuinely mean this, All that matters in this election, the only thing that matters in this election, is keeping Donald Trump and Project 2025 out of power.
But if you want to make statements about, like, let's just focus on a single issue, how about averting war with Russia?
Not increasing tensions between the USA and China.
Ensuring that American infrastructure and national security is addressed.
Restoring some moral fortitude to the nation.
Dampening down, exploring new world, like there's so many single things you could pick.
Why that one?
Why that one?
Keeping that in insane ideology of white Christian nationalism and white
supremacy and white male Christian dominance out of power. That's all that matters. I
genuinely don't care who the Democratic nominee is. And I'm being real. I don't care. If it's Biden, fine.
If it's Kamala Harris, fabulous, right? But it's gonna be one of the two of them. Let's just
not play crazy games. Now. There are rules the way that this process works. It's one of the two
of them. One of those two, you can either have that poor, senile, doddering darling, or that
extraordinary woman who maps out poems in an imaginary sphere that surrounds her.
Either one.
I don't care.
Or you want to parachute somebody else in, and they not him?
If you did parachute someone else in, Joe Biden would look in the other direction as that parachute landed.
They not the orange one?
They not the one who quotes Hitler?
Fine, put them in, I don't care.
Because all that matters, I'm gonna say this to y'all again, all that matters in this upcoming election is that you keep that man and that Project 2025 plan out of power.
What is this Project 2025?
That's all you need to understand.
And to do that, you are going to need to vote against the party that has embraced white Christian nationalism.
I don't think you can have white Christian nationalism.
Firstly, I don't think you can have Christian nationalism because Christianity is about the kingdom of God and developing a personal relationship with Christ.
By its nature, it has to transcend race.
It has to.
It has to be inclusive.
I mean, the idea that Christianity could remain within the sect of even Jews was dealt with within the first 50 years of Christianity.
It is by its nature necessarily absolutely inclusive.
So I suppose if you're saying there's such a thing as white Christian, you can't have those things all together as ideas.
They're opposing ideas.
Even Christian nationalism doesn't work as a concept, let alone reducing it down to a kind of melatonin levels.
There's no room for that.
There's no room for racism.
And maybe, in an awakened and enlightened future, we have to look at what a nation is, really.
The Republican Party is gone.
It has been replaced by Project 2025 and... What is Project 2025?
What is it, though?
...and Trump.
That's all that's left.
That party is gone.
And that means you have to vote against that letter, R, all the way down the ballot.
You have to keep them out of power at the state level.
Okay, then!
You seem like you're doing okay.
It is extraordinary, really.
I, just to be plain, if I could vote at all, I would not vote for a Republican.
I wouldn't vote for anybody.
I would vote for you and me to be free and some new decentralized modalities.
Let's get those things on the ballot.
But before we march into utopia together, or singularly, or however you would choose to, let's have a look at what Project 2025 is.
And to ensure that we're not taking a biased perspective, let's look at the New York Times.
What would they have us think about this?
Project 2025 was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and like-minded conservative groups before Trump entered the 24 race.
The Heritage Foundation is a think tank.
So it's a think tank.
It's like, what should we do to shape the Republican Party?
Including, it says here, personnel and policies.
And it's been around since the Reagan presidency.
Hmm.
The project was intended as a buffet of options for the Trump administration.
That can be unhealthy and you could end up putting, I don't know, shrimp next to chicken.
It could be awful.
It's intended as a buffet of options for the Trump administration, or any subsequent Republican leader.
It is the latest installment of the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership series, which has compiled conservative policy proposals every few years since 1981, but no previous study has been as sweeping in its recommendations or as widely discussed.
Much of the plan's nearly 900 pages detail extreme executive branch overhauls.
Among many recommendations, it lays out plans for criminalizing pornography, disbanding the commerce and education departments, rejecting the idea of abortion as healthcare and shredding climate protections.
So in a way though, it's a bunch of ideas and a bunch of ideals.
Probably comparable to think tanks on the left or on the democrat side of the aisle that would have proposals and areas of policy discussion and plans they would like to implement in the event that they were in office.
I think that what's being, what's startling about this is a new artifact has emerged that can generate hysteria and division when all of us intuitively sense surely at this point that what we require opportunities for unity. We live, don't we now, we can say
with some certainty, in an extraordinary cultural space. For a long time we've been
discussing the silos that have emerged as a result of bespoke media. Legacy media, centralised
media, has lost its grip, is losing its grip on the minds of nations and the mind of
the planet, and we are seeing an attempt to reassert the control that they could take for
granted just 50 years ago.
If you take for example just the figure of Keir Starmer, who's been swept into power
on what at first seems like a significant mandate, within his first week you're able
to attack the nature of the electoral system that delivered him, his personal history,
his claims, his position on Covid, his position within NATO.
Already his declaration that British-made military equipment can be used inside Russia has been denied countenance, contradicted by his own Ministry of Defence.
That's our equivalent of the Pentagon.
Like, there's such a fragility in power.
There's such a fragility in the cultural discourse now, because in a way, globalism and centralized power is a bad idea for almost everybody.
Of course there are benefits to intercommunication, there are benefits to particular institutions and particular bureaucracies, but what immediate international communication affords us is the ability for diffuse and endlessly spreading dendrites of new consensus.
It's possible if you take something that's not at all incendiary, like if you had a particular Football club or sports team that you're into you can spend all day long watching content about West Ham United or the Red Sox I don't know what you guys like and and that's happening everywhere continually you could watch all day you could watch 24-hour reels of Keir Starmer and think he's the greatest guy that ever lived his dad was a tool maker he was a great barrister he did a good job at the CPS he advocated for women's rights or you could spend 24 hours watching him being
Absolutely annihilated.
Why didn't he do anything about Julian Assange?
What were those meetings with the CIA?
Why did he go to the WEF?
Why does he prefer Davos to Westminster?
That's our Parliament or Congress.
Isn't it odd?
Isn't it odd?
But you can't any longer have an objective truth in the cultural sphere because culture is a reflection of human tendencies, human concepts and creations and by its nature must be diverse.
There might be objective mathematical facts, there might be even perhaps broad consensus around aesthetic ideals derived from principles such as symmetry, but it's human nature To live in diverse communities.
Although there may be insularity within that.
I mean, for hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of years we'd have lived in tribes and communities of 100 or 200 people.
The aggregation and accumulation of massive mandates Is beneficial to elites, but it's not beneficial to individuals.
And yet that is what the tendency is now.
All the while the language and discourse is about diversity, we are seeing superficial diversity with homogeneity just beneath the surface.
Because we know what the agenda of NATO is.
We know what the agenda of the WHO is because you can look at their treaties, you can see their plans.
It is to centralise power.
You cannot continue to centralise power any longer.
It needs to decentralise and devolve.
That would benefit a significant number of people.
It wouldn't be perfect, of course it wouldn't.
We're not competing with perfection though.
We are competing with something, an ideology that seems hell-bent.
On Armageddon and the apocalypse.
So something like Project 2025 will ultimately be used by both sides of the political and cultural argument in your country to further ossify division.
That's my prediction and really what it just seems like is a bunch of ideas around quite traditional conservative tropes.
Like, look, take this paragraph by paragraph.
It calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service, as one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.
Okay, so presumably big energy backers of the Republican Party will be interested in pursuing policies in that direction.
I'd like a little bit more discussion around cloud seeding.
And weather manipulation.
I'd like to know more.
Isn't it interesting now that you have one side saying climate change, climate change, and another side saying weather manipulation, weather manipulation.
And none of us are absolutely certain that climate change is not epochal and moving in rhythms that are beyond anthropomorphic or anthropogenic influence.
And none of us are absolutely certain that there aren't nefarious weather experiments taking place, recent events in Dubai, admissions by China.
So, you know, even something like that, like they're going to, you know, they're going to stop all their climate change policies.
Is that extraordinary?
It backs deploying the military to assist in arrest operations along the US-Mexican border.
Didn't Joe Biden recently declare that the border security was an absolute priority?
Portions of the plan were driven by people who were top advisors to Trump during his first term.
Trump wrote in a post on social media on Friday that he knew nothing about Project 2025, but disagreed with parts of it.
Some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.
He did not specify which items he was talking about, but it might be some of the conversation around abortion pills, for example, which, wow, how would they navigate that territory?
Even if you're trying to appease Christians who believe in the sanctity of life, Then what would you do about Big Pharma, who believe in the sanctity of selling all available medications?
Now, you will have already seen, I presume, Ben Shapiro's very impressive performance at the House Judiciary hearing.
I love the bit about GARM and the advertising, and maybe if we get time we'll look at that in a minute.
But I just want to look at his exchange with Eric Swalwell, where they talk about Well they talk about project 2025 and like I bet a lot of you now in the chat Ben Shapiro like already that name divides people like the parting of the red seas is an apposite metaphor and scriptural reference because some of you will be
supporters of Israel's actions, you'll hate the protests on college campuses
around Palestine, some of you will think that Ben Shapiro is a Zionist and that
what's happening in Gaza is a massacre. And look, I suppose in 2024, Project 2024,
because we might not get to Project 2025, we'd have to say, well, are there some
things that Ben Shapiro says that you agree with and others that you disagree with?
Yes, because I think he does a pretty good job here, and I've had conversations with Ben Shapiro, and I disagree with him on a great many things, like I disagree with, God, almost anyone on You know, any number of subjects.
But here, it seems that he's pretty articulate on this, but the conclusion that continually I am drawn towards is, how can you further accrue centralized power when there is no mandate, when there is no consensus?
That even if you take the recent elections in France or the UK, what appears like a mandate does not bear close Inspection.
The coalition in France is made up of groups that disagree with each other on almost bloody everything.
The UK has just voted, given the vast majority of seats in our parliament to a near unprecedented level and it seems on analysis to be a wafer-thin consensus where people on the left despise Keir Starmer, people on the right despise Keir Starmer.
He can't even corral his own Ministry of Defence.
There is no consensus.
Why would there be?
Why would it work, centralizing power to this degree?
Anyway, let's have a look at Ben Shapiro now at the House Judiciary.
Bear in mind that this is something that a pundit on the left, or what passes for the left these days, Joy Reid, is outlining.
Do you know what I really believe?
Those taxonomies are over.
Like, forget left-right, forget Marxism, forget capitalism.
Like the great Native American actor and philosopher, Russell Means, said, you are always It's setting up the dialectic in terms of left and right, but for us they are just different sides of the same coin.
Both presume that our function is primarily economic.
Both look at the earth as a resource.
Both look at our purpose here on earth to be one of sort of individual satisfaction, even if its ultimate goal in the case of communism is some sort of collective utopia.
We require a vision that goes beyond Each side of that particular coin.
Let's have a look, though, at Shapiro with what looks like a pretty sterling performance, I think, at the House Judiciary hearing.
I think, like President Trump, I haven't looked all that deeply at Project 2025, but it seems that Democrats on this committee, sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.
And so, Well, let's just talk about pieces of it, and I guess you can tell me if you support it.
You probably want less bureaucracy, right?
I do.
I want less bureaucracy.
You want more efficiency?
I do.
I want more efficiency.
You want taxpayer money spent wisely?
I do.
Congrats on becoming a Republican.
My parents would be proud.
Mass deportations, it calls for that.
Do you support that part?
I support the deportation of any illegal immigrant who is in the United States who is not of benefit to the generalized American public.
So if they're picking agriculture that puts food on the tables of everyday Americans, they've never committed a crime inside the United States, they didn't come across with documents, should they be deported?
If they have not paid taxes and if their draw on the taxpayer benefits are larger than the contribution they are making to the economy, or if they're involved in criminal activity, they should be deported.
How do we measure that?
The same way that the IRS measures my income every year.
It seems like if the IRS can track down every aspect of every receipt that I've ever submitted, and they can do that with hundreds of millions of other Americans, they can do that for illegal immigrants as well, except for the fact that no one knows how many are in the country thanks to this administration.
So you would be cool with creating a system where they could pay those taxes if they wanted to and then stay and work and put food on our table?
It depends on how long it would take for them to pay the taxes and they would also have to go presumably to the back of the line although I'm not sure why I'm testifying about immigration policy at this point.
It's interesting actually because one of the things that's been exposed by the advent of independent media is that there are people in positions of punditry that appear to be more lucid and intelligent than their political counterparts as this exchange demonstrates.
There's no question that Ben Shapiro is a better debater and a more accomplished intellect and Due to his legal training I suspect a more cogent constructor of on-the-fly arguments than this dude and in a sense the result as well is like you know Eric Swalwell there he's in a position of some political power
All be it limited, because we all know how lobbying works, we all know how donations work, we all know how internal party politics operates.
Thanks to, again, independent media and the popularisation of the kind of critiques that once were the preserve of, in a sense I would say, sort of college and university educated people.
Well, 20-30 years ago, you'd have to have read a little bit of Noam Chomsky to know that Swalwell don't have no real power, or you'd have to have that kind of intuitive working-class loathing of anybody in a position of authority.
But other than that, you wouldn't.
But now because of, you know, whether it's Daily Wire or Young Turks or whatever, and
all of them are at various points, aren't they, in their own evolution towards institutionalization
and setting up various relationships either with funders or sponsors or subscription models.
But the more people are dealing with advertisers, the more compromise appears to have been to
emerge.
And of course, as you'll be aware, part of Shapiro's conversation in this same hearing
talks about Garm and the way that advertising operates.
And what I, excuse me, take from this as a whole is the impossibility of retaining structures
that are not in themselves rigorously, they're not rigorously achieved.
They don't withstand scrutiny.
Like, because look at this argument now.
Ben Shapiro is easily able to go, well, if you can track my attacks through the IRS,
why can't you set up bureaucracies and institutions to handle?
Immigration.
Don't you feel like from every direction the sustainability of this system is quaking and the only way to sustain a system that can't be sustained through its own proficiency is through authority?
Necessarily, isn't it?
You will have to find reasons to become more authoritarian because You might think well I'd rather live in Ben Shapiro world and there'll be some people I suppose that go I'd rather live in Mr. Swalwell world and there'll be other people yet who find various other principalities and ideological domains within which they would rather live and that's possible now and that's achievable it's likely were it not for considerable resistance and I would say the resistance comes primarily in the form of fear escalating fear around war
Health crises, cultural crises, as long as people are kind of bewildered by fear, we don't really have the time to say, do we have to live within these institutions?
They're plainly not working.
How about banning the abortion pill?
That's part of Project 2025.
Do you support that part?
I think that that's a state-by-state issue, on a personal level.
I'm just asking you.
Sure, I'm a fully pro-life person, which means that I'm not in favour of the distribution of the abortion pill.
Banning same-sex marriage, what about that part?
I am in favor of traditional marriage between a man and a woman, and I am perfectly fine with anyone having any sort of voluntary sexual arrangement they seek.
That's a different thing from whether the government should attach benefits to that personal relationship.
But you think it's a sin to have same-sex marriage?
I'm confused.
Are you asking me as a religious Jew what I think about biblically?
I'm just asking, is it a sin to be gay?
Is it a sin to be gay?
I mean, how long do we have here?
Two minutes?
I mean, if the basic idea is that sexual orientation is up for government regulation, I'm not in favor of the government regulating the private consenting sexual activity of adults.
That is a different thing, once again, from whether the government ought to engage in actual benefits for particular sexual arrangements that adults make.
But again, just you to me, is it a sin or not?
From a religious Jewish perspective, orientation is not a sin, but activity is.
That's also the same perspective of most major religions, so far as I'm aware.
He's walked himself into a mental conversation, dear old Eric Swalwell, because now he's got to... Well, he's not just arguing with Ben Shapiro, he's arguing with Judaism, in the same way that if he was with a Christian or a Muslim, he'd have to take on their theology.
And it seems that someone like Ben, Ben Shapiro, Even as a devout Jew, I don't want the government regulating people's private sexual conduct.
So what is the point of this argument?
What's the point in setting up this argument?
It seems that Ben Shapiro had it right in the first few minutes when he said that there's an attempt to use Project 2025 as a defibrillator for disenchanted and disillusioned Democrats who now have realized that their own establishment, their own party, their own ideology is as decrepit as the man who stands as it says.
Okay.
And how about cutting Social Security?
Do you support that part of 2025?
I'm not sure what Project 2025's position on social security is.
I'm in favor of the restructuring of social security along the lines of privatization and lowering and increasing the retirement age because you, as well as every other congressperson, knows social security is going to go bankrupt and yet everyone seems to have an interest in lying about it for the next decade and a half until we have to take austerity measures or radically increase inflation or taxes.
And bans against books about slavery.
Do you support that part?
Why would I possibly be in favor of bans about books about slavery?
That would be absolutely ridiculous.
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Okay, back to the content.
Back to Ben Shapiro doing rather well against an elected government official.
Is the idea that school libraries should be able to make decisions along the lines of what exactly is appropriate for, say, a 7th grader and whether they ought to be treated to cartoons and genderqueer.
That's not quite the same thing.
And just because we found some receipts, you did say, I think homosexual activity is a sin.
Yes, I'm religious to you, that's true.
I'm sure there's a genetic component.
You found me out.
But the view of all religious people I know has always been that sexual behavior is something that is up to you.
And you said, I may have a desire to sleep with many women.
This whole hearing is mental.
Why are they trying to do kind of mad gotchas on Ben Shapiro, who is pretty explicit about his own faith and his own position.
Remember at the beginning of this I talked about, you know, there'll be many people now in the chat like, I hate that dude, his position on Israel.
I think that this hyper-politicization of our culture doesn't benefit any of us.
Now he, Ben Shapiro, often recites Andrew Breitbart's claim that seems increasingly correct actually, that politics is downstream of culture.
But I feel that we've got to become a little more articulate as the consumers and participants in culture If we are to survive, when you get a figure like Jerry Seinfeld, who I reckon is probably an atheist, but he's obviously culturally and racially Jewish, turned into a polarizing figure because of events in the Middle East, and his understandable affinity, historical, cultural, racial and religious, albeit perhaps secularly, although I recognize the paradox there, with Israel, then
It makes me wonder how there could ever be consensus or alliance again.
I've seen in my own country sports pundits become incredibly controversial figures just because the culture itself is seeping A bit like Venom.
You know, like in Venom, the Marvel character, how that kind of insidious black liquid from which he appears to be formed creaks into every crack and prevents, in a sense, any kind of consensus or any kind of good faith argument.
Like, holding up this thing here, like Ben Shapiro sort of essentially just, uh, Reiterating the position of his religious identity as if, you know, he's been caught with his pants down.
Particularly when that's probably one of those rooms where there were people literally kissing each other.
You don't remember?
You've seen that footage?
Like the pretense that authority lies within the institutions of power now, rather than in the culture itself.
But simply because there are numerous independent media outlets that are a bare expression and tribally closer to the people that That these political institutions are meant to represent, in a sense we're experiencing in real time, it's total decimation.
How much longer before it's Ben Shapiro holding these people to account?
Or if, you know, Ben Shapiro is not to your liking, Whatever cultural figure represents your views.
That is indeed my point.
How can we pretend that these central institutions are representative of anything other than a small sect of people that are now becoming increasingly exposed?
Like, the Mick Jagger example is another one.
When you see Mick Jagger, you go, yeah, Justin Trudeau's a great guy.
Boo!
Oh, the world's not like that anymore.
The world doesn't work like that anymore.
And it only did, really, for a relatively brief period, when you look at the whole unfolding drama.
But I do not.
I agree with me.
Yes, that's true.
Congratulations on your, yeah.
I'm sure it's very hard to restrain yourself.
Mr. Chairman, I just want to shift to Alvin Bragg.
He was supposed to be here this week, and he's not coming.
And Hunter Biden was supposed to testify, now he's not testifying.
We were supposed to have votes on articles of impeachment, and we didn't.
And again, we're just wondering, you guys write great press releases, but the payoff seems to never come.
And so I guess we will keep waiting, and we'll do hearings like this.
and finally chairman you know you can you can yell you cannot yell
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before uh... but you can yell theater in a crowded fire and and
you all can continue to do that
uh... all you want and we'll just waste the american people's time.
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Do you remember when Jon Stewart did his first show back on the Daily Show?
He kind of took aim a little bit at Joe Biden.
And then after that, he didn't talk about Joe Biden anymore.
And I thought, oh, well, yeah, Jon Stewart's back.
So now we might have someone with the Political and comedic chops to handle what is obviously an increasingly polarized space where late night talk show hosts won't attack Joe Biden, although of course they are doing that now.
People that were lining up to sell vaccines and now criticizing the establishment.
Now even late night talk show hosts have turned on Biden and Jon Stewart has turned on Biden and I wonder once a culture shifts like this what How much longer can they cling on to power?
Certainly, how long can they cling on to it with any certainty?
You know... Perhaps this chart... Could... If I may... Sorry, the pen caps are made of Kevlar.
Very difficult to...
Perhaps this chart will illustrate and illuminate the point more clearly.
For instance, in 2022, when we saw Biden give a shout-out to Representative Jackie.
Representative Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I didn't think she was gonna be here.
Unfortunately, Jackie was dead.
It's interesting, isn't it?
So what does this reforming mean?
I suppose the culture and the various institutions within it by their nature have to continue to try to preserve their own power.
It's amazing though to see Jon Stewart actually looking at the chronology of the descent of Joe Biden.
But when will it be that the issues that remain contentious are discussed in those places?
Like the escalation of hostility between the United States and NATO countries and Russia.
Like the evident deception that took place in the pandemic period.
Not errors, deception.
When will the establishment turn its attention to the issues that remain significant?
Because those issues continue to be discussed here.
This is the basic assumption that I might make from the changing perspectives on Joe Biden in the cultural media.
They knew then that Joe Biden was senile and decrepit, but participated in the maintenance of the idea of his competence.
Do they similarly understand that escalating hostility between NATO and Russia is unwise?
And if it is wise, who is it beneficial to?
Who benefits from this increasing fear?
I wonder when they will come to address the undue power of organisations like the WHO, or what took place in the years between 2019 and 2022.
And I wonder if when it comes to something like 2025, When we will see a conversation in legacy media spaces that acknowledges and accepts that there are diverse and opposing cultural ideas that can no longer live in this kind of ongoing fraught, febrile, frustrating friction and have to be accepted as different cultural ideas, different political entities and that we can no longer support institutions that want to corral together
Hundreds of millions of people for the benefit of whom precisely while moving closer and closer to apocalyptic wars, restrictive health policies, citizen management of an overbearing and ghouling degree.
Surely now it's time to accept that this is not a superficial subject, that it's not a superficial issue that centers around one individual or one policy or one think tank.
What we're witnessing is Is tectonic plates moving so significantly that what has to happen as a consequence of it are new visions, new ideologies that have at the very center decentralization and devolution.
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