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Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand in the midst of the spectacle that is the DNC.
Remember, we'll be doing our live watch-along.
When I say we, I mean me and Neil Oliver will be watching along live as Kamala does her speech.
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So this is how it's shaping up.
I'm interested now in performance and theatrics.
What is on offer?
When it comes to the election in November, are we going to see Bobby Kennedy joining forces with Trump?
Let me know if you think that's likely, just a Y or an N. Let me know if you think that's going to happen.
I've got a feeling that it may happen.
Do you know why?
Because the whole election cycle has been so mad, disruptive, chaotic, and crazy.
Like, how long ago was it that Trump got shot?
A hundred years?
When was it that Biden did that debate?
A million years ago?
Do you know what I mean?
It's just the whole thing, that time is moving past in great Glassy as of data now.
It's almost impossible to imagine that time these days is moving at the same rate as it might have done when once we roamed as arboreal ape-like things, yet touched with divinity.
Surely the Nazarene knew a different clock than we.
Can time itself even be regarded objectively?
Such questions as these we'll surely answer over the next hour.
But also I'm going to look at the DNC and how that, even in like a few minutes, you'll hear them say stuff like, you know, I'm a pretty regular person.
I just grew up in Chicago.
Then all of a sudden they'll say, you know, billionaires are bad and we have to get billionaires out of politics, which seems like a pretty good idea.
Then they'll say, like, you have a billionaire come out and sort of boast.
I mean, the whole thing.
It's astonishing and doesn't really even make sense.
They're still obviously obsessed with Trump.
The biggest campaign tool they have is anti-Trump.
Some people are saying that the audio needs to be sorted out and some people are saying that the video is slow.
You got that in the gallery, guys.
Nice, thank you.
Donald Trump!
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They care about Donald Trump a great deal.
A lot of you are saying that it's likely that Bobby Kennedy will be We'll be looking at that.
We'll be looking at Trump's interview with Theo Von.
hardline Trump supporters? Well, they'll be okay because I suppose the sense will be that
he's being absorbed. Or what about hardline Bobby Kennedy supporters who might feel adversarial
towards Trump? All of this conversation is happening as a result of Nicole Shanahan.
He's running, mate, going on a few shows and talking about it. We'll be looking at that.
We'll be looking at Trump's interview with Theo von. We'll be looking at Peter Thiel
and his appearance on Joe Rogan.
All of that will be after the first 15 minutes where we'll just be chatting about stuff that went on at the DNC.
The DNC is the place to be.
Matt Walsh is there.
Who's our friend?
Jimmy Dore is there.
We've thought about going.
We're just gonna satisfy ourselves with a little watch along.
I don't know what it'll be like there.
Let's have a little look at This moment where Barack Obama shows that he's still got it is some oratory flair and some good humor, although what you have to recognize is a lot of the time when Trump is being condemned, he's being condemned from the perspective often of his vulgarity, don't you think?
People think he's vulgar, he's said very vulgar things, and people sort of seem to think that he's an inappropriate figure.
Yet still, the absence of real policy.
No, yet still, we covered this yesterday.
The manifesto is still the sort of Joe Biden manifesto, and you could say that, well, you know, Kamala Harris is just replacing Joe Biden.
But in itself, it is a vague and obfuscatory affair that is deliberately designed to prevent you from grasping what the meaning is at the core of all this and that is
because there's nothing there but you gotta know that the democrat party must still be bereaved
by the loss of a charismatic front man like this one. Here's a 78 year old billionaire
who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine
years ago. It has been a constant stream of grapes and... It's a tacit condemnation and
explicit in fact that Trump is a billionaire solipsist narcissist complaining about only his personal
ailments and using the political forum to vent that dissatisfaction.
Yet though, We know that the extraordinary quality that Trump has, perhaps beyond anything else, is an odd popular appeal.
Ordinary Americans.
Cheesecake factory, mall-wandering Americans.
Agricultural Americans.
Half of all Americans like Donald Trump.
So the charge that he's a kind of solipsist seems Odd, don't it?
That's an odd charge.
And then the idea that he is a sort of a member of an elite class.
Well, that's where it gets ridiculous because the Democratic Party is the vehicle of elitism.
Not only in its financial structures, but also that it kind of creates stars.
Barack Obama, I think, is the apotheosis of the politician as star.
Phenomena.
Well-groomed, brilliant communicator, slick, great performer, but now, of course, an extremely wealthy individual.
No one should seek to gain the appeal and affection of ordinary people by claiming that Donald Trump, say, or anybody else, ought be condemned on the basis of their wealth.
If, like Netflix entrepreneur Barack Obama, you are proper caked up, as we say in the UK.
Unless it's illegal now.
Is slang illegal yet?
Grievances.
That's actually been getting worse now that he's afraid of losing the Commonwealth.
There's the childish nicknames.
The nicknames are pretty good.
People like the nicknames.
The crazy conspiracy theories.
A lot of us like the conspiracy theories.
This weird obsession with crowd sizes.
That's a good joke but the sort of condemnation of crowds and aesthetics
that is a sort of a bilateral attack isn't it?
It just goes on and on and on.
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The other day I heard someone compare Trump to the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside
your window every minute of every day.
Now, from a neighbor, that's exhausting.
From a president, it's just dangerous.
Everything is so strategically scrutinized and every word uttered, I suggest, has been think-tanked to within an inch.
The ongoing use of the word dangerous must be deliberate.
Indeed, the challenge that I most have when watching political discourse is The feeling that I am being lied to, being duped, the event is staged.
Now, of course, Obama is there and that whole DNC is a literal exercise in preaching to the converted.
But you'll note over the course of our analysis that it's become more and more like an entertainment commodity with ideas ripped straight off from MTV.
And I should know, I've been there.
Like politicians appearing in the crowd to give speeches.
Now, so if Obama says stuff like he's dangerous, that's deliberate.
If Bernie Sanders is allowed to come on the stage and say, billionaires from both parties shouldn't be donating anymore, we have to get money out of politics, which by the way, is exactly the sort of idea that could change the system, it probably wouldn't be enough.
Surely at this point we recognize that it's the institutions and systems themselves that are In urgent need of a considerable and radical reckoning, a reckoning that they would not withstand.
If 9-11 were given the scrutiny and analysis that it warranted, we would emerge with interesting conclusions.
If the pandemic period was scrutinised and analysed, just there's a few off the top of my head, natural immunity, efficacy of lockdowns, vulnerability of children versus the elderly, what conclusions would you emerge with?
profits of pharmaceutical companies, the censorship of the government, the collaboration between
social media companies and the state, the censoring and smearing of vocal opponents.
You would emerge with the inescapable conclusion that the institutions that you fund and support
are entirely corrupted and that the only sensible thing would be to walk away from them, to
invest in parallel economies, likely through cryptocurrency, to resist at all costs centralized
digital currencies.
To demand independent media.
To demand localised democracy.
If you can aggregate information for commercial purposes through Uber Taxis or Airbnb, surely you can aggregate and communicate for political purposes.
Using technology.
These explorations won't take place as long as the project remains legitimized centralization.
And in order to do that, you have to make people afraid.
And in order to do that, you have to tell people that Barack, that Donald Trump is dangerous.
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You need to reboot and relaunch.
I'm going to play in a clip for us now.
This is amazing.
This is Gavin Newsom Doing essentially something that once you would have only seen at MTV VMA award ceremonies.
A from the crowd piece.
How much effort, analysis, scrutiny and care has gone into the selection of the crowd around him?
Like, he's ensconced by the elderly, presumably to make it look like we're not literally MTV.
We've not surrounded ourselves with bikini models.
And believe me, they have cast very well.
There's a couple of older ladies and then Nancy Pelosi herself staring baffled and oddly vacant into an imaginary future.
A future that I hope remains imaginary.
Have a look at this.
My name is Governor Gavin Newsom.
From the great state of Nancy Pelosi.
We come from a state like our nation of dreamers, of doers, of entrepreneurs, of innovators, that prides itself on being on the leading and cutting edge of new ideas.
California is the most diverse state in the world's most diverse democracy.
And we pride ourselves.
We pride ourselves on our ability to live together and advance together and prosper together across every conceivable and imaginable difference.
But the thing we pride ourselves most on is that we believe the future happens in California first
And Democrats I've had the privilege for over 20 years To see that future taking shape
With a star in Alameda courtroom by the name of Kamala Harris
I I saw that star fighting for criminal justice, racial justice, economic justice, social justice.
I saw that star get even brighter as Attorney General of California, as a United States Senator, and as Vice President of the United States of America.
Kamala Harris has always done the right thing.
A champion for voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, the rights for women and girls.
So Democrats and Independents, it's time for us to do the right thing.
And that is to elect Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States of America.
California, we proudly cast our 482 votes for the next president, Pablo Harris.
There you go, pretty unexamined enthusiasm right there.
Extraordinary when politics and entertainment fuse to that degree.
It's ridiculous even to expect authenticity.
But as the legacy media continues to carry water at the DNC, For that aspect of the establishment, we're seeing more and more fascinating appearances and performances from Donald Trump.
Donald Trump now has been on Theo Von's podcast, which is not something I ever imagined I'd see and it's given us some incredible moments.
Let's have a look though.
A rather sensitive part of the conversation where Theo von talked about his own struggles with addiction and Donald Trump talked about the curious fact that he's never used alcohol or drugs of any kind.
Let's have a look at that.
Yeah, yeah.
I noticed at the events you don't drink and you don't drink or smoke, right?
I don't drink or smoke.
You never have?
No, I never have.
I had a great brother who taught me a lesson.
Don't drink.
Don't drink.
And he said don't smoke.
He smoked and he drank and he was a great guy.
He was a handsome, very handsome guy.
Is he older?
He was older.
Quite a bit older, yeah.
And, uh, he would, uh, he had a problem with alcohol and smoke a lot.
But, you know, I tell people no drugs, no drinking, no cigarettes.
Yeah.
I tell that to my kids all the time.
I'd say no drugs, no drinking, no smoking.
And, um, it was tough.
He had, well, he'd always tell me, he'd say never.
So he was, uh, you know, really, Old enough that you would look up to somebody, and I'd look up to him anyway.
Did you admire him?
Yeah, I admired him a lot.
So much about him.
He had so much going.
He had the look.
What was his name?
Unbelievable personality.
Like an incredible personality.
What was his name, Donald?
His name was Fred.
Fred Trump.
And he had a problem with alcohol.
He got addicted to it because it's, and you know they say alcohol is tougher than drugs to get off of.
I've, I don't know if you've ever heard that.
Yeah, I'm in recovery actually.
I've been in, I've been in recovery so like most of the last 10 years.
From alcohol?
From drugs and alcohol.
So which, which is worse?
For me, drugs is the problem, but if I have a drink then I, it's tougher for me to prevent myself from getting.
It sets off a chain.
Yeah.
But is, which is harder to quit?
I've heard alcohol is harder to quit Then drugs, if that makes sense.
I don't know.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I can only imagine because it's probably more readily available.
More readily?
Well, and it's social and you're sitting and everyone's drinking and all.
Yeah, right.
You go to a dinner and everybody's eating like, you know, Xanaxes or something, you know, for appetizers.
Usually people are having like a mint, you know, a mint julep or something a little fancier.
Negroni, I just learned about.
Right.
But yeah.
So you have a problem with that then?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
It's been in my family.
My family, it's like, Yeah.
Can you stay away from it?
Yeah, I've done a good job.
So how long have you been off?
I go to recovery meetings.
I've been off most recently a little over two years.
Do you ever go back on?
Yeah, I've had stints where I go back on.
And you don't control it?
It goes downhill pretty quick.
No kidding.
So you think it's going to be easy?
You think you're controlling it.
And then you're, damn, yeah, you're doing the go-kart and racing with hookers and stuff.
It gets bad.
The only way you can do it is not to do it, right?
Right.
So then in the end, you're like, I have to not do it.
Did you see, like, with your brother, did you, could you see it or anything?
Oh, yeah.
Man.
I was amazed because he had so much going and everything going.
I think he probably, it happened in, College at a fraternity maybe or I don't know somewhere along the line it happened and all of a sudden, you know This is not unique.
This is a very common story, unfortunately, but and then the family would see it and start to notice it and It didn't get better it didn't get better I was amazed, you know, he lived For so long in bad conditions, you know and in terms of I was amazed that his body could hold out it held out and It had bad moments And but his body was unbelievably strong that it could withstand this.
Yeah, it's a body that's so resilient.
Yeah.
Do you remember the last time that you saw him or spent with him?
I do.
And I'm sorry to ask about it.
Yeah, I know.
Well, you know.
The reason it's good talking about it is it might help other people.
If it helps one other person, it's worth the conversation, frankly.
We talk about that stuff a lot on our podcast.
Yeah, a lot of our audience struggles or has struggled with alcoholism, addiction, intimacy disorders, all types of stuff, you know?
So it's like a, it's pretty kind of normal conversation, but... You know, the interesting thing is, and I tell people, so I never had a cigarette, and I've never had a glass of alcohol.
And my brother was incredible.
He would tell me, because he knew he had a problem, and he'd say, don't ever drink, don't ever smoke.
He'd always add smoking, because he did smoke a lot, which is, you know, not very healthy.
But he'd say, don't ever drink, don't ever drink.
He'd tell me every time I said, don't ever drink, because he knew he had this addiction.
And I never had a glass of alcohol.
Never ever did I have a glass of alcohol.
Because of him.
And I would say that if I did drink, I could, you know, conceivably be the type of personality that would have, like you, that would have a problem.
But I never had.
And the only thing I say to people is, too late for the people that you're talking about.
But if you don't drink, you don't miss it.
I mean, I don't even think about alcohol.
Right, it's not a part of your world.
I don't think about cigarettes.
I don't think about any of that.
If you don't take drugs or if you don't have alcohol, It's real easy not to drink it.
I had a friend who went to the Wharton School of Finance with me.
He was a very smart guy.
Where is it?
Wharton School?
That's in Philadelphia.
That's at Penn.
Oh, yeah.
Rocky.
Right.
And it's a great, great school.
Great business school.
And, uh, it's part of the University of Pennsylvania, the business school.
Oh, it's nice down there.
Yeah.
My friend's brother went there some.
Well, then he was smart because it's a great school.
But this, this person that I met, he hated the taste of scotch.
Hated it.
Couldn't stand it.
But he insisted on having it because he wanted, he felt it was important to be able to drink.
I said, no, just don't drink.
He said, you know, to be successful in business, you have to sort of interact and you have to drink.
And I said, don't do it.
Anyway, he became an unbelievable alcoholic.
Uncontrollable alcoholic.
Oh, I thought you meant like one of the best.
And he died.
Yeah, and he died.
He was a, you know, he, but he hated the taste of scotch.
And he still did it.
And then he couldn't live without it.
Wow.
Literally.
Well, I think I noticed a lot of like in the recovery rooms and stuff, it's a lot of people that have, they're missing something inside of them.
And so they could be, they take on like, you know, they want to try and fill it up with something else.
Um, yeah.
Do you remember the last time that you spent with your brother?
I do, and he'd have periods where he'd get sick, very sick, and we thought we'd lose him or we lost him.
Then he'd get better.
And that happened five or six times.
I mean, we thought you lost him, and then he got better.
And it was amazing.
I mean, he was, you know, certainly very strong in that sense.
And I just tell people it's it's so tragic.
Don't drink.
Just don't drink.
Yeah.
And you're not going to have a problem.
Like even you, if you didn't drink, you would never.
But you probably maybe wouldn't be successful like you.
I suppose, is a new side of Donald Trump a softer, more open Donald Trump?
But is that, too, a response to focus groups and scrutiny and analysis?
Can we trust that anything is authentic?
Because what many people mostly enjoy about Donald Trump, he's kind of unbridled quality.
Someone that will just call it how it is.
Say the unthinkable.
Think the unsayable and ultimately say them things publicly and plainly.
I reckon that what we're experiencing, I suppose, as we move closer and closer to the election is a refinement of messaging.
For Donald Trump, I suppose, it's curious because he's so masterful Impulsiveness and a kind of expression of what feel like pretty reflexive quips to see him pivot is interesting I reckon it's likely that we'll see changes when it comes to the inclusion of Bobby Kennedy
Because the slick and synthetic DNC machine has fired itself up into something quite spectacular.
If you're still persevering with the stream, thank you so much for staying with us and we really appreciate your patience and tolerance.
Let's have a look at what else has been going on at that extraordinary event.
For example, I've enjoyed the moment where Bernie Sanders points out that billionaires of both sides of the aisle have to be quiet and controlled and curtailed
and we have to get money out of politics.
At the very top of that to-do list is the need to get big money out of our political process.
Crowd cheers.
Billionaires in both parties should not be able to buy elections, including primary elections.
Peace.
Right, so that's a pretty clear message that billionaires are bad, Donald Trump was bad, Barack Obama says, coming down that golden escalator, and you almost want to believe, you almost want to believe, don't you, that the Democratic National Convention is a party where you're seeing people from a variety of backgrounds coming together, surely in order to represent the interests of ordinary people, but then just after you've seen this condemnation of billionaires, who should they bring out but J.B.
Pritzker A billionaire to boast about being a better billionaire than the billionaire they've just bashed.
Donald Trump thinks that we should trust him on the economy.
Because he claims to be very rich.
But take it from an actual billionaire.
It's also a raucous roar of approval for billionaires.
So what are billionaires?
Are billionaires bad or are billionaires good?
Are there good billionaires and bad billionaires?
Or is being a billionaire a complex thing because it's ultimately being a human being?
Is it true what Solzhenitsyn said that the line through Between Good and Evil runs through the heart of every single billionaire other than through nations, religions, or creeds?
Is it hard to reduce everything to a simple and effective message?
Is it ridiculous to turn politics into some vast, ever-growing, unifying, centralized, totalitarian entity and sell it to us as entertainment?
Is it preposterous, really, even, that The wife of a former president would participate in an event like this.
I mean, do you have the wives of people in other professions participate in their work?
That's a Bill Burr joke, right?
You know, what we have to remember is that this has gotten so close to be in little more than synthesis,
little more than distraction, whether it's the Southern extraction of Joe Biden
turning into a celebration of Joe Biden, the elevation of Kamala Harris,
who to little more than a month ago was regarded kind of as a joke,
particularly when it comes to matters of public oratory into a dignified and semi-sanctified individual.
Aren't we witnessing the lack of any core, the lack of any center, the lack of any meaning,
all that we have is spectacle?
Let's have a look at a few moments from Michelle Obama's speech.
Again, I would say a very accomplished public performer.
And wasn't it fascinating actually to see Donald Trump being so sort of sweet?
I mean, after all this condemnation, 147 mentions of Trump at the DNC, look at this.
Is this a different type of Donald Trump that we're experiencing?
What's happening in this bizarro world?
We're also keeping an eye on new comments from Donald Trump, who is out on the campaign trail today.
That is where we find CNN's Kristen Holmes at this hour.
Kristen, you spoke to Donald Trump directly earlier.
What did he tell you?
Well, Kellyanne, I asked him about the DNC and particularly former President Barack Obama's speech tonight.
I cited the fact that in 2020, Obama said that Trump never grew into the role as president.
And then I asked him for essentially a pre-battle of the speech.
This is what he said, almost a complete turnaround of what we have heard him say about former President Obama before.
I like him.
I think he's a nice gentleman, but he was very, very weak on trade.
If you take a look at what happened to our country trade-wise, it was a disaster.
Take a look at Japan, take a look at China, take a look at what happened with some of these countries, what they did.
But I happen to like him.
I respect him and I respect his wife.
Caitlin, I respect him and I respect him.
I expect to respect his wife.
Obviously very different.
Rather sweet, as a matter of fact.
And is it?
These are some of the questions that present themselves.
Is it that Donald Trump has always been sort of a kind of a sweet person, albeit one with a great facility when it comes to coming up with nicknames and off-the-cuff rebuttals?
Or is it that we're seeing Strategic changes throughout the protagonists of this campaign, with Barack Obama calling Trump dangerous, with Michelle Obama saying that billionaires will be extracted from culture, or that you should be cynical about billionaires at least, her mama used to say, she says in her speech, and then Jeff Pritzker, emerging from the midst of nowhere at all, saying like that billionaires are great, almost drumming his fingers on his tum.
I am a billionaire and it takes one to know one!
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Here's Michelle Obama talking about wealth and the significance of wealth and I suppose therefore inequality and the distribution of power.
And your question again, is the entire convention simply a performance Simply an attempt to create a robust enough seeming synthesis that you'll forget that this party is entirely controlled by powerful corporate and globalist interests.
That the election is almost a pageant To ensure that power continues performing as it has been up until this point.
And isn't it, again, odd to note that with all of this clamouring and yearning for government, that the people you're watching talking are already in government right now!
And all of these pledges and all of these promises could be immediately fulfilled if there was any kind of will to fulfill them.
You see, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived out that striving sense of hope every single day of her life.
She believed that all children, all people, have value.
That anyone can succeed if given the opportunity.
She and my father didn't aspire to be wealthy.
In fact, they were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.
They understood that it wasn't enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning.
So, my mother volunteered at the local school.
Whoa!
Well, it seems that the reason that we're experiencing these challenges in this stream right now on Rumble and on YouTube is because we are personally, literally, under DDoS attack.
This is an extraordinary moment for us.
I'm Almost honored, in a way, to be under DDoS attack.
You'd think I'd had enough of attacks with the way things have been recently, but we will continue to stream, and of course this content will be available in an unexpurgated state on Rumble On Demand.
So if you're watching this on YouTube, we're gonna leave right now in an attempt to create better conditions for our ongoing stream.
We'll be talking a bit about Trump on Theo Von, we'll be talking a bit about Peter Thiel on Rogan, but mostly I'm interested in the news that Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump Might form an alliance to oppose what seems on the basis of the DNC to be an unassailable assault on systems of power.
Let's have a look first of all at Theo Von.
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Teaching Donald Trump... It's not teaching Donald Trump how to take cocaine, but talking about taking cocaine.
I mean it's gonna be surely one of... I mean...
Until I thought about it, I didn't know that I wanted to see Theo Von teaching Donald Trump how to take a... I mean, I hope that there's actually a demo.
No, I would just do cocaine.
That was really... Yeah.
That's down and dirty, right?
Yeah.
But you don't anymore?
No, I don't do it anymore, man.
And I'm not doing it.
Is it too much?
Too much to handle?
Some of the stuff started to get a real rattle in it, too.
I don't know where we were even getting it from in this country, but...
Yeah, it started to make me feel like I was a mechanic or something.
So the thing you go back to then is alcohol, for the most part.
Right.
It's quite good, isn't it?
Because Donald Trump... Like, he didn't have the... Like, to go, what?
You thought he was a mechanic?
Like, if I was having a conversation with Theo Vaughn, and I haven't had one, but I know I will, because I'm really into Theo Vaughn.
Like, and he went...
I thought I was a mechanic or something!
I go, what do you mean by that?
What do you mean you thought you were a mechanic?
I'd really explore that.
But I suppose the nature of this conversation is not that Donald Trump is going to investigate exactly what Fio von means when he's talking about his experiences on coke.
Yeah, but what I want probably is cocaine, but I know that if I have a drink, then it'll give me, it'll like, be like, okay, well, I had a drink, then I can do this.
Is cocaine a stronger, uh... Oh, yeah.
Up?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Trump looks like he's genuinely considering his options at this point.
So you're way up with cocaine more than anything else you can think of.
Cocaine will turn you into a damn owl, homie.
You know what I'm saying?
You'll be...
What about meth, though?
What about meth?
What about some psilocybin and some meth?
You'll be out on your own porch, you know?
You'll be your own street lamp, you're frickin'... And is that a good feeling?
Well, it's a miserable feeling.
Is it miserable to be an owl?
Yeah, I don't want to be an owl on my own show.
This is a good conversation.
I mean, for all of the high production of the DNC, Gavin Newsom in the crowd as if
he's Carlson Daly, and all of the spectacle and the illumined signs and the trotted
out forefathers of yesteryear.
For me, I like my propaganda to sound like a lad from the South chatting to a billionaire
about how cocaine turned him into an owl on his own porch.
You do it anyway, just like the guy you were saying with the scotch.
Thank you.
Like, you'd watch something like the NCS, this is what power's supposed to be.
Can't you see the grandeur?
You'd overlook the hypocrisy of one minute being told billionaires are bad and that money should be taken out of politics, which of course it should.
Then a billionaire being trotted out on the stage to tell you that he's a better billionaire than Trump.
The whole thing's so ridiculous.
And of course, I'm aware that the appearances of Hulk Hogan at the RNC are so sort of ghoulish,
peculiar, extraordinary, and people say, oh, God, the vulgarity, the terrible vulgarity.
But what does it all amount to, really?
Just hues of ridiculousness, various inflections of mad propaganda.
This may be the future, just listening to just intimate tête-à-tête where Theo von
Plainly explains that cocaine made him into a nocturnal bird of prey.
Let's have a look at a bit where I think they get into the economy.
And what I like is, in a way, You know, people are cynical about anecdotal evidence, aren't they?
Well, that's just anecdotal evidence, people will say.
You know, I knew someone, they took the vaccine, they had a heart attack.
That's anecdotal evidence.
This is a good use of anecdotal evidence of the Trump administration generating financial success.
Great time.
We had the greatest economy in history when I was president.
Oh yeah.
My cousin got a boat.
Yeah, we had the best job numbers.
African-American.
My cousin got a boat.
Things was fine.
Amazing.
I cannot wait to meet him.
I've got to tell you.
I'm actually mean.
Theo Von.
Elsewhere we saw the astonishing appearance of Peter Thiel on Joe Rogan.
Peter Thiel is a kind of somewhat more elusive and clandestine tech billionaire rumored to be an investor in the very platform that we stream on Rumble so it's pretty astonishing to see him appear on Joe Rogan and exciting to hear him discuss Jeffrey Epstein because Jeffrey Epstein one senses still is a kind of Gordian knot of Information about the powerful that if that is ever severed or untangled what will spill out from it will be some pretty Interesting names.
Let's have a look at Peter Thiel and Joe Rogan ...that are deeply embedded in this system of people knowing things about people and using those at their advantage.
I mean, that's an age-old strategy in politics.
That was J. Edgar Hoover's entire modus operandi.
My riff on it was always that it was a little bit different from the J. Edgar Hoover thing.
And the question was always whether the people doing it knew they were getting compromised.
And so it's the vibe.
It's not.
That you somehow got compromised.
It was more, you were joining this secret club.
Right.
You got to be made, you're a made man in the mafia.
And you get to do crazy things.
No, no, no, no.
It's only if we have Kompromat on you, do you get ahead.
Right.
It's like, you know, it's like, I don't know, it's one of these, uh, the closet of the Vatican.
The claim is 80% of the cardinals in the Catholic Church are gay.
Not sure if that's true, but directionally, it's probably correct.
And the basic thesis is, you don't get promoted to a cardinal.
If you're straight because we need to have and so we need to you need to be compromised and then you're under control But you also get ahead completely makes sense completely makes sense in the way to do that with especially all these Politicians who are essentially like bad actors a lot of them They're just people that want power and people that want control a lot of them And you know those kind of guys they want to party you know I mean that has been you've got two types of leaders that are presidents you got pussyhounds and warmongers Nice!
Nice!
Pussyhounds and warmongers!
And even more than the individuals involved in the Game of Power is the game itself, which requires compromised individuals in order to continue to operate.
Those of us that took a keen pre-internet interest in conspiracy theories... Oh, when I was a boy, I'd read I had to read my conspiracy theories in a paperback.
I used to go down the library and read David Eichel, Alex Jones.
Beautiful it was.
Conspiracy theories used to have to be passed around.
I used to have leaflets about things like the Illuminati and reptilians.
So imagine my surprise when I was accused of being a member of these kind of organisations.
When I was a 16 year old kid dropping acid in Essex, we talked about how You know, Mossad and MK Ultras and the various ways that powerful people could be controlled, whether it's Cardinals, according to Peter Thiel, or The Powerful, according to Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book.
That's why it's interesting to see a member of the new elite, Peter Thiel, a successful tech billionaire and investor in numerous platforms, including the one that I stream on, Express such an understanding of things that used to be regarded as either esoteric or absolutely ridiculous.
But now, these days, with the emergence of the Jeffrey Epstein case and the aspects of it which seem pretty indefatigable, I mean, have we seen the list yet, baby?
Isn't it extraordinary how many people have been on those islands, that have been around that stuff?
The story continues to garner interest and the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, how he died, it's just so odd that someone just dies in a prison cell.
So, excuse me, such a convenient suicide.
So many convenient suicides these days.
We all understand, don't we, intuitively how power functions it, power functions, and it's becoming more and more commonly understood.
Another example of the kind of information that's conversationally available because of the phenomenon, I'd still call it that, of Joe Rogan.
But that's just what I think.
Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
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We are under cyber attack right now.
This is a period where information is a valuable commodity and even the apparent frivolity of our conversational interactions is subject to scrutiny, censorship and now we know for sure cyber attack Why is that?
Because power is coalescing around some extraordinary forces and the control of information remains important, perhaps second only to the control of currencies.
And we're seeing more and more how the miracles, or at least advances, of crypto are being curtailed, corralled and controlled now by centralizing forces.
And the same is necessary when it comes to the dissemination of information.
You can't have people communicating without having to pass through institutions.
You can't have people spending money that can't be tracked, shut down, punished or controlled if you say a word out of line, if you step out of line, if you express freedom for a matter of moments.
That's why today's main story is the interesting possibility that there could be an alliance formed between Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump.
Certainly he's running mate, Nicole Shanahan, is talking about it publicly and has done so in a number of forums.
Now the more ardent among you will say that Trump is an asset and is owned by
centralized globalist power and others yet still will say that Kennedy is an
asset but what I would say in defense of that is Trump who whatever you say about
Donald Trump the establishment does not want that guy in power.
Whatever you say about Bobby Kennedy, he has been pretty open and vocal when it comes to his condemnation, say, of Big Pharma.
You lot let me know in the comments and chat what you think about the failings and fallibility of those two political individuals, but I will tell you this, the tyranny that you must fear most of all is the kind of technological feudalism that is being augured right now, and glance if you Will, if you dare, at the spectacle of the DNC, where greatest hits are being played, where hypocrisy is being relayed, where billionaires are being condemned, then trotted out and celebrated, all in a matter of moments.
Do you think the only way to derail this train is with a Bobby Kennedy-Trump alliance?
Well, all of a sudden, it's part of the conversation.
Many of us thought that Trump would name Bobby Kennedy as his VP, but we all know in that million-year-ago moment of the attempted assassination, things got a little hyperbolic and hubristic around the RNC, and I think that many of them thought, it's a done deal, you can appoint any VP you want.
But it seems in the Kamala moment, with the mainstream media fully on side once again, We have a potential battle on our hands.
So, is it possible that Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump could join forces?
And is that exactly what we need?
Particularly when currency is under attack, when free speech is under attack, even our humble streaming show is literally under cyber attack.
If you watch the streams live, you'll see those attacks happening live.
So let's have a look at I did not put in tens of millions of dollars to be a spoiler candidate.
that Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump might yet join forces.
I did not put in tens of millions of dollars to be a spoiler candidate.
I put in tens of million dollars to win, to fix this country, to do the right thing.
I will say that Clear Choice, this pack, this DNC-aligned pack that was created specifically
to take us out, has spent millions of dollars to take us out.
They have unfortunately turned us into a spoiler.
And we don't want to be a spoiler.
We wanted to win.
We wanted a fair shot.
The DNC made that impossible for us.
They have banned us, shadow banned us, kept us off stages, manipulated polls, used lawfare against us, sued us in every possible state.
They've even planted insiders into our campaign to disrupt it and to create actual legal issues for us.
I mean, the extent by which the sabotage They've unleashed upon us.
It's mind-blowing.
I mean, we're still learning new ways that they have sabotaged us.
I really wanted a fair shot at this election, and I believed in the America that I, a little girl, pledged an allegiance to.
And that is not where we are today.
And it's not because of the Republican Party taking us out.
It is exclusively because of the Democratic Party taking us out.
And I am so disappointed I ever helped them.
I am so disappointed that I helped Chuck Schumer in that Georgia runoff secure a majority.
It's probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
It's really devastating.
So to answer your question, we are not spoilers.
That was never our motivation.
We really wanted a fair shot.
I think had we had a fair shot, we would have won.
I still would love to see in the last 80 days of this election some miracle play out where we get a chance to debate.
I don't think they're going to let us.
You know, given this, I think we are taking a very serious look at making sure... Isn't it odd to consider that the Democratic Party, that still consider themselves to be the goodies, if you have any experience of dealing with them, are palpably and demonstrably the baddies?
It's hard to believe when you look at the spectacle of the DNC and the joyfulness and the Great presentation and the sort of MTV moments of Gavin Newsom amongst the crowd.
That this is actually what the machine looks like now.
This is what tyranny looks like now.
As Nicole says there, it isn't the Republican Party that get involved.
And I know from my own spats and attacks from media, dating right back to the first time I ever said some, God, maybe it's 10, 15 years ago now, there's no point voting, both of the parties are controlled by the same corporate interests, ordinary people who are starting to realise that.
It was always the media of the left that were more condemnatory, more controlling, more vituperative and damning.
They surely are the force for darkness that we have to be most alert to.
And precisely because it becomes in such odd packages.
That's why I think it's important.
Let me know what you guys think.
That we form new alliances, that we're willing to look at people that you might have thought of once as being right-wing if you're a left-wing person or left-wing if you're a right-wing person or religious if you're not religious and in fact be willing to look beyond all of these categories because what we are on the point of now is a new type of totalitarianism where Currency is controlled.
Information is controlled.
The movement of individuals is controlled.
Technology, what a glorious miracle, is among us.
And it is not for no reason that we are yet to see the application of the technology that grants you the likes of Uber or Airbnb.
I mean to say aggregating and intercommunicative apps that could be applied to creating truly decentralized Localised democracy.
So it wouldn't matter if you didn't agree with me because you would run your community according to the electoral processes in your borough or district.
And it wouldn't matter if those people were, wow, let's go as far as we can.
Absolutely progressive, gender fluid, fully, fully Sharia law Muslim.
It wouldn't matter because what we could run is our own communities according to electoral principles.
The budgets could be allocated locally.
Food could be grown as locally.
It wouldn't solve every single problem or be 100% applicable, but it will be more applicable than it currently is, and it could be better applied than it currently is, and it's certainly preferable to Armageddon.
And when Nicole talks about the power of the establishment, of course she names, and to a degree shames, the Democrat Party institutions and powers around it, but this includes, of course, as you know, the media itself.
Here's Colbert, Going out to bat and attack RFK for being removed from the ballot.
So really, who benefits from independent candidates?
We do.
Who benefits from diverse and even sometimes contrary opinion?
Who benefits from opposition in public spaces, healthy discourse, the attacks on these institutions?
We do.
Who wants to control the information?
Well, Control comes from surprising places and sometimes in surprising forms.
Have a look at Stephen Colbert here shutting down and attacking Bobby Kennedy.
Junior here got some bad news yesterday when our New York Supreme Court judge ruled that he is disqualified from the New York ballot over falsifying his residence.
Prosecutors.
You're right.
Prosecutors.
It's so mad to hear the audience cheer like that.
What do you imagine that Bobby Kennedy has ever done to that busting audience there in New York City?
What has he ever done other than tell them that they should be skeptical about medications, that they should investigate the efficacy of strongly recommended and perhaps not efficiently clinically trialed medicines?
What has he ever done?
Except fight as an environmental lawyer.
Now, there are areas where, like any politician, I would have disagreements with Bobby Kennedy, and I bet you would too.
But it's not the individual I'm talking about here.
It's the principle of diverse and independent politics leading to greater democracy, more localization, more decentralization.
Not accruing power wherever possible and shutting out conversation wherever there's an opportunity.
Don't be strange, don't be unusual, don't train a raven.
In fact, let's have a look at Kennedy's rebuttal on 29 there.
with a California dress and a social media video in which Kennedy talks about
training ravens at his Los Angeles home.
Don't be strange, don't be unusual, don't train a raven.
In fact, let's have a look at Kennedy's rebuttal on 29 there.
Let's have a, over the page, let's have a look at Bobby Kennedy
listing the various affiliations that he does have with New York City.
So even with this rather minor issue that's taken as an opportunity to attack Bobby Kennedy, he does have something to say in his own defense.
My driver's license is in New York.
My car is registered in New York.
My law license is in New York.
I pay income taxes in New York more than any other state.
My law office is New York, my only law office.
And I also have a lot of other licenses in New York.
My hunting license is here.
My fishing license, my falconry license, etc.
I vote here.
It's the only place that I vote.
Why Bobby Kennedy's candidacy fascinated me was because with Trump we've seen, since he became a political figure, him being sort of culturally moved from a sort of an They're tolerated, celebrated, enjoyed.
Oh, entrepreneur, billionaire, much like Jeff Pritzker there.
I'm a billionaire and it's okay to like me.
People like Donald Trump.
He was on The Apprentice.
Then when he announced his candidacy, you could argue, well, it's because he said all of these vulgar discriminatory things.
But when it comes down to policy, so many of the policies were there before him.
Some of the policies are continuing after him.
So I don't think it's that.
I think that Donald Trump is a berserker, a bull in the china shop that they can't quite control.
I pray that those of you that are MAGA and love Trump are right, that he is the voice that ordinary Americans require, and that we will see a Donald Trump that's willing to bring people together.
I reckon that's a hell of a lot more likely if he were to have an alliance with Bobby Kennedy.
I think that that would be a lot better for American democracy,
and I think in all likelihood what you would start to see is the Democratic Party establishment quaking,
because at the moment they've managed to bleach away the memory of a very peculiar assassination attempt on Donald
Trump.
You even see now people that would never talk about this being a conspiracy if it had happened to a candidate on the
left.
It was a staged event!
Look at that photograph!
It's almost too perfect!
What the Democratic Party National Convention shows you is that there's nothing there there.
There are no principles, there are no values, there is no manifesto, there is no policy.
Why?
Because that party's been captured by globalist corporate power and the Best thing they can offer you is vote for us.
We're not Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's such a hound, a heel, a bastard and a monster.
He's a demon.
But I'm beginning to think that the Luciferian demonic light has taken on a different complexion altogether.
That it's to be found there in the apparent inclusivity and radius of the Democratic Practical at that Freudian party convention where everything is jolly and everything is shiny and Joe Biden's getting a pat on the back and a gold watch when he had his throat cut like Brutus just a couple of months before by colleagues that claim to support him.
What I'm telling you is that A Kennedy-Trump alliance could be an interesting evolution that it could disrupt in ways that are difficult to predict and will certainly be entertaining to watch even if it doesn't fully deliver on the kind of decentralization and empowerment of the individual that I believe is necessary to save the world and indeed to save our souls.
That's just what I think.
Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
Although it might be hard because we are under D-D-O-S attack.
Cyber attack from every direction.
Man, it's great to be wanted.
There's only one thing worse than being talked about and that's not being talked about as Oscar Wilde said.
What happened to that guy?
But, oh.
Hey, listen.
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Ah, and remember, we'll be live streaming for the Kamala speech with Neil Oliver, the Coast Guy on X, a much maligned man north of the border who's recently had some content pulled down, specifically his interview with Whitney Webb.
So we'll be talking about that and we'll be watching along with Kamala Harris's I guess what is it?
Sort of like anointing speech?
A keynote speech?
Well, I mean, to me it just seems like very well-produced propaganda.
Let's watch it together.
See you tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
