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We are in Atlantic City and we've got an incredible show for you today because the world continues to be bizarre.
You'll be aware, of course, of the vice presidential debates last night of Iranian strikes on Israel.
Israel. All of this will be discussing as well as the revelations around P Diddy and
further perpetrators. All of this will be discussed over the next hour. Thanks for joining
us live. Sorry we couldn't make the stream for the VP debate work last night. We had
some technical challenges that we were simply unable to surmount.
I'm so sorry.
I'm not perfect.
Maybe in the next life, perfect.
Perfection will be the aspiration, but for now, we will have to be content to be fallible in his holy name.
Right, let's have a look at how the debate went.
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We should just leave up the bit that's the answer to the questions.
Don't leave up the whole thing, because it's a crazy little asset.
Who knows what sort of crazy stuff I'm saying.
Kind of thing that journalists and the predatory world of operators for globalism would love, because at this point, surely, we have to return, not return, in fact, discover a type of political discourse that we can rely upon.
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Is it possible for me to just lean that somewhere?
Because that's very distracting for me.
Thank you very much, yeah. Like, remember, minimum motion.
If there was no motion at all over there, that would be perfect.
If there's some, it's okay.
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We're doing this out of a new studio now.
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We've got all sorts of stuff to contend with.
I'm going to go to our first asset now.
This is the debate being summed up in a couple of expressions, according to...
There you go.
Hey listen, I'm also going to be talking about the hurricanes and the hurricane aid and the comparison that some people are making to funds drawn from taxpayers that go to support war and the lack of funds drawn to support crises in America.
This is something that of course I suppose became popularly discussed in During Hurricane Katrina and its immediate aftermath and was then more recently discussed with the Maui fires and is now being talked about as a result of the hurricanes across the south of your country.
We're talking about that as well. Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.
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Okay, let's have a look at the...
Let's have a look. Well, first of all, let's have a look at the presidential debate.
Some people might say this is a return to the kind of pre-Trump politics, a kind of relatively congenial, convivial discourse, i.e.
not interesting enough at all.
Where are the fireworks?
Where's the wrestling? Where's the condemnation and conflagration?
Sure, there are a few blunders.
Tim Waltz unable to tell you exactly when and where he is and when he's in China and when he's not in Tiananmen Square.
But, you know, compared to people, like, think of the Trump 2015 primaries where people are getting called dogs and, like, there's weird slang flying about.
Or think about Clinton Trump.
Man, think about it, because you'd be in jail.
Like, you know, maybe this is the end of politics as entertainment, because J.D. Vance is an experienced debater, and Tim Waltz, he's, I guess, a regular guy.
Let me know if you agree with that. I know, like, if you exist in siloed spaces, you'll read amplified ideas.
Generally speaking, I think people regard J.D. Vance's performance as pretty...
Professional and convincing and regard him as the winner.
In fact, here's CNN saying that J.D. Vance lost the debate.
If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to be with you for 15 minutes there on YouTube.
But then you're going to have to click the link in the description and join us on Rumble where we can speak freely.
Let's have a look at CNN apparently conceding last night's vice presidential debate.
I think there was a clear lack of preparation and execution here on Walz's part.
I think actually it's the opposite.
I think he had too much preparation.
Maybe. He had so many lines that he was clearly trying to say that he didn't listen.
And when J.D. Vance said one of the many, many things he really hit Kamala Harris on, not Tim Walz, but Kamala Harris, he didn't respond because he clearly had things in his mind.
I think the lack of interviews that he has done...
With national media, with local media, it showed.
He needed more reps. Yeah, no, I agree.
I mean, J.D. Vance is much more experienced at this, at public speaking, at defending himself, at pivoting.
Yeah, I suppose that's how that role goes, huh?
Like, there are some people that are good at that format.
J.D. Vance knows how to conduct a public debate.
I think I saw Van Jones saying that he, almost with a bit of pre-bunking, saying, J.D. Vance would be good at this.
I debated people like him at Harvard.
Coach Waltz is sort of an attempt to sort of make Tim Waltz seem sort of affable.
And I bet he is affable. I mean, ultimately, these seem like a couple of...
Decent, well-intentioned human beings.
Maybe what's striking about it are a few things that come to my mind.
One, J.D. Vance isn't weird.
J.D. Vance is like a normal guy from a moderate background who being condemned as weird incessantly and unendingly shows that propaganda has taken hold of political discourse.
He's like a pretty regular human being.
Two, maybe we're returning to a type of politics that's a little bit more normal, ordinary.
I don't think we are, are we?
Because we've got 34 days, haven't we, to the election in your company.
And we've got escalating tensions in the Middle East.
We've got further funds being pumped into Ukraine for an unwinnable war when Russia are already making videos about...
If anyone's weird, yeah, that's a weird expression from Tim Walz.
And those little, those kicks are pretty weird, aren't they?
Those little kicks he's done.
Did you see that thing where people, like that meme of Chris Farley, you know, like that people are comparing him to?
Hey, someone have a little look at this chat.
Maybe the Rumble chat doesn't seem like it's moving.
So is there someone I can hand that to?
Cheers, guys. There you go, mate.
There you go. Thanks very much.
And they split more 50-50, that would be good as well.
All right, so let's have a look at the first sort of bit of meaningful content, if such a word is possible.
This is Tim Walts being asked about why he lied about being in Tiananmen Square.
The answer to this is actually quite, it's quite laborious.
Let's have a look. Governor Walz.
You said you were in Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989.
But Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting that you actually didn't travel to Asia until August of that year.
Can you explain that discrepancy?
Yeah, well, and to the folks out there who didn't get at the top...
It's a really long story.
Like, I mean, are you able to speed on a little bit for about a minute?
Because he sort of talks about, like, he goes back through his whole life.
Have you noticed, like, in politics now, people are obsessed with telling you about their childhood?
I think both sides do it.
There's nothing Donald Trump doesn't do that much, does he?
He doesn't often tell you, this was my childhood.
Kamala Harris always telling you about her childhood.
Our Prime Minister in our country, Keir Starmer, like...
There's a lot of rumours flying around about that guy, but one thing that's irrefutable is that his father was a toolmaker.
People, I suppose because they recognise that we see them as weird aliens, odd extraterrestrial transplanted beings, they're continually banging on about how normal they are, and there's a lot of that goes on here.
Man, are you able to speed it forward about a minute?
Yeah, that's a literal request, baby.
Speed it on a minute. Or should I just press play and it'll be about a minute deeper?
Because, like, it talks about his childhood for about an hour.
I've tried to do the best I can, but I've not been perfect.
And I'm a knucklehead at times.
But it's always been about that.
Those same people elected me to Congress.
I was watching, and I was trying to actually understand what he was saying.
Like, what are you saying? Why are you talking about being a knucklehead?
And I suppose he's just sort of saying, I have a vague affability within the confines of this generalized affability.
I did lie and say I was at Tannerman Square during the massacre, which is a weird thing.
That's not a normal thing to do.
Like, we all saw that.
I was actually that guy in front of the tank with the shopping bags.
I'm him. Most bipartisan people working on things like farm bills that we got done, working on veterans benefits.
And then the people of Minnesota were able to elect me to governor twice.
So look, my commitment has been from the beginning to make sure that I'm there for the people, to make sure that I get this right.
I will say more than anything.
Many times I will talk a lot.
I will get caught up in the rhetoric.
He's doing it now. He's getting caught up in the rhetoric right now.
Rhetoric. But being there, the impact it made, the difference it made in my life, I learned a lot about China.
I hear the critiques of this.
I would make the case that Donald Trump should have come on one of those trips with us.
I guarantee you he wouldn't be...
You might as well say he did.
You weren't on the trip anyway.
The whole trip's been made... Well, the trip's not been made up, but it's been conflated with a significant historical event.
Why don't you say Donald Trump was there?
Why don't you say Larry Bird was there?
Why don't you say the Harlem Globetrotters were there?
Why don't you say that there was like Mickey Mouse was there and there's a golf tournament?
I mean once you're lying, you might as well say anything.
I guarantee you he wouldn't be praising Xi Jinping about COVID and I guarantee you he wouldn't start a trade war
that he ends up losing.
So this is about trying to understand the world.
It's about trying to do the best you can for your community and then it's putting yourself out there and letting your...
It's about trying your best to help your community.
It's not. It's about you setting you into Tiananmen Square.
Madly. Out of nowhere.
Let's have a look at it. This is J.D. Vance now saying that the real threat to democracy is Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party's war on the First Amendment.
Now this is again I suppose one of the issues that I hope Americans can unify around.
Along with ending war, health and free speech, it seems that there could be a consensus as essentially anti-centralised power, anti-corruption.
Let me know if you agree with that in the rumble chat.
Let me know if you agree with that on locals.
Let's see how this argument is made.
One of the things I'm very cognizant of is the perception that the MAGA movement of 2016 was, of course, explicitly nationalist, saying America first is a nationalist position.
But a nationalist position cannot become, should not be, a racist position.
It could be...
Inclusive, accepting of America's heritage and history.
The idea that inclusivity necessarily means open borders and necessarily means colonialism, imperialism and interventionism is not confluent.
What I believe is, if there is a majority of people that want net migration, Have a referendum on it and impose it if that's what people want.
But that would have to be coupled, surely, in any ethical society with the withdrawal of military intervention and economic exploitation of the countries that continually generate refugees or migrants or whatever you want to call them.
You don't benefit from exploitative political practices taking place in Haiti or Venezuela.
Elites benefit from that.
Both in terms of the migration crisis that it causes and the economic opportunities that it affords.
Let's have a look at J.D. Vance saying that the real threat to democracy is Kamala Harris' war on the First Amendment.
Because if we can't speak freely, we're not going to be able to have the kind of conversations that are necessary at a time of fissure and confrontation.
What we need now are healing conversations.
Do you? Let me know in the chat.
Have any faith that such a thing is possible in such an incentive?
Would you again seek to challenge this year's election results even if every governor certifies the results?
I'll give you two minutes. Well, Nora, first of all, I think that we're focused on the future.
We need to figure out how to solve the inflation crisis caused by Kamala Harris's policies, make housing affordable, make groceries affordable, and that's what we're focused on.
But I want to answer your question because...
Yeah, that's good debate, Ian, because what he's saying there is, I don't know about you, but I'm guessing that your concerns are primarily your own life, and I don't think that makes you necessarily selfish, but it's probably more relevant that fuel and food and warmth are Are expensive rather than abstract ideas about foreign wars.
It's very difficult, I think, for us to hold a global perspective continually in our minds.
I find it difficult to think about, like, to envisage what's going on in the Middle East.
And it just becomes, doesn't it, a stream of Babylonian imagery, like missiles and dead children and rubble and awfulness.
And then you have to...
Tally that with domestic issues, infrastructural failure, poverty, decline, and reflect on what the relationships might be between those two things.
If America first, France first, UK first movements are about anything, is the sense that governments are somehow being controlled by someone else.
Globalism, if it's anything at all, is the idea that there are centralised and unelected powers that have more influence than you or I have over the directions of our government and the direction of our taxes.
Who among us doesn't care more about our children and their school and their health than whether or not there are escalating ideological wars across the planet?
I'm sure some people would gainsay my perspective there But the majority, I feel, are ultimately concerned about our own lives.
Were we designed or even evolved to live in a continual abstract, a reign of perpetual information that's difficult to discern, ever landing on us, exploding in our minds, making us feel yet more impotent with every passing moment?
Another thing I will say with our man, J.D. Vance, is he returns to important points.
That's good skills in the debate now.
Because you did ask it.
Look, what President Trump has said is that there were problems in 2020, and my own belief is that we should fight about those issues, debate those issues peacefully in the public square, and that's all I've said, and that's all...
Peacefully in the public square, not violently in Tiananmen Square, Tim.
I was there, you know! I'm the guy with the shopping bags!
It seems pretty clear that JD Vance is a much more adept and competent debater able to direct the conversation to issues that I imagine many Americans care about.
We can't get deluged and lost in the politics of personality.
There are too many things to consider.
On one hand, yes, the likelihood of Armageddon on several fronts, but also we are dealing with issues A domestic economic situation where many people feel unable to feed, clothe and care for their families and a broad, disparate sense that America and the UK and France and the world is in moral decline.
And it don't matter how many people are trotted out to say, well, actually, things are better than they've ever been and people are being pulled out of poverty all the time.
If there's a sort of a pervasive sense of despair, frustration, hatred and conflict, those kind of statistics don't help people.
But that's just what I think. Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
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That's all that Donald Trump has said.
Remember, he said that on January the 6th, the protesters ought to protest peacefully.
And on January the 20th, what happened?
Joe Biden became the president, Donald Trump left the White House, and now, of course, unfortunately, we have all of the negative policies that have come from the Harris-Biden administration.
I believe that we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country, but unfortunately, it's not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about.
Nice meme in the locals chat there, Luke.
Weak men prefer the predictable harbor of a tyrant to the raging seas of liberty.
Very good community post and a very good ex-post there.
And Tim Walz want to talk about, it is the threat of censorship.
It's Americans casting aside lifelong friendships because of disagreements over politics.
That post is from jbeb99.
Thanks for that post. Very good.
Yeah, like what JD Vance is also returning it to, like a skilled orator always will, is what the experience of being in America is like.
Do you feel a bit sort of tired of it, the argument and the complexity and the decay, people losing faith in one another because of political conversations?
Pretty good point to make. It's big technology companies silencing their...
I don't think he seems like a weird guy.
That's why I'll say he's not like, oh, this guy's weird.
He's like, actually, like a senator.
And I would say, yeah, it looks like the kind of people you imagine to be president.
If anyone's weird, it's like Coach Waltz there.
He's a bit kind of...
It's like someone emerging out of a cauldron, sort of all sort of bubbling with Elfian glee.
Silencing their fellow citizens, and it's Kamala Harris saying that rather than debate and persuade her fellow Americans, she'd like to censor people who engage in misinformation.
I think that is a much bigger threat to democracy than anything that we've seen in this country in the last four years, in the last 40 years.
Now I'm really proud, especially given that I was raised by two lifelong blue-collar Democrats, to have the endorsement of Bobby Kennedy Jr.
and Tulsi Gabbard. Lifelong leaders in the Democratic Coalition, of course.
An important point there, again, of course, people talking about their childhood, I suppose because people got to personalise themselves.
I met JD Vance a couple of times.
He's a good guy. He's a nice guy, man.
And what I would say is that the significance of Tulsi and Bobby joining on the optics level is going to be Difficult for the, I would say, Institutional Democratic Party, particularly with policies like shutting down free speech, to gain, say, contradict and control.
But the legacy media won't report on that.
The subject of free speech, though, is the issue we should be focusing on.
Even I, like you, get caught up in the personalities.
I mean, I'm quite close to saying that J.D. Vance has got nice eyes.
It's one of the things I've got nice eyes, isn't he?
But the important issue, actually, is free speech.
All the while, the likes of John Kerry are telling us that they have to censor us for our benefit, and the idea of censorship is being normalised by globalist elites.
We have to be very alert to the fact that the information that's being controlled is not information that's harmful to us, but information that might empower us, as it just said.
In the Awaken Wonder Locals chat, weak men prefer the predictable harbour of a tyrant to the raging seas of liberty, and where would you experience those Raging seas of liberty more vividly than when on the choppy waters of, say, X on Rumble, we support and advocate for free speech.
Here's a post on X from the CEO of Rumble, Chris Pawlowski.
Anyone trying to subvert the US Constitution is someone I'll never trust.
It's outright wrong and it really shines a light on what the powers that that be want to do with...
Artificial intelligence. They're saying it out loud.
Listen to them. Nice work, Manny, with the pip there, baby.
He reposted the speech that we commented on earlier this week coming from that friend of individual freedom and liberty everywhere, Bill Gates.
So when J.D. Vance, in the presidential debate, occasionally tags the idea of his childhood, mainly, I suppose, to draw attention to the fact that his background is the background of a Democrat, that Tulsi Gabbard Is a Democrat.
Bobby Kennedy is a Democrat.
The free speech is the position of a Democrat.
It's a democratic right.
And what I believe we're offering to this movement is consolidation and certainty around the inalienable and definitive issues of free speech.
End war. Health of individuals.
End globalism.
Empower communities. This issue of free speech is, it seems, emanating from powerful global tyrants like Bill Gates.
Which political party do you think are more likely to rein in the excesses of globalists like Gates?
Let me know in the chat, you lot.
Let's have a look at what Chris Pawlowski, Rumble CEO, posted about Bill Gates, because even though the VP debate was...
Which generally, one might argue, a return to pre-Trump politics, i.e.
two reasonable guys talking about policy.
Free speech is an issue that's come in the post-Trump era.
Indeed, populism, whether it's from the left or right, is so feared by the establishment they are looking for ways to control it that far exceed the usual boundaries of democracy.
And the new sovereigns and new tyrants that we have to watch for are the likes of, in my opinion, Bill Gates.
Here's the speech Chris Pavlovsky was referring to.
You should have free speech, but if you're inciting violence, if you're causing people not to take vaccines, you know, where are those boundaries that even the US... Should, you know, have rules.
And then if you have rules, you know, what is it?
Is there some AI that encodes those rules because you have billions of activity and, you know, if you catch it a day later, the harm is done.
You've got to get in there.
Catch that free speech before the damage is done.
Maybe we should shut up now.
Rumble is a free speech platform.
X is more permissive than most platforms.
Meta is owned. Alphabet is owned.
YouTube are owned.
these are ultimately part of the kind of legacy media conglomerates that we oppose.
That's not to say that everyone that works in legacy media is bad or that you don't hear
stuff on there all the time that you kind of agree with.
There is still partisanship, there are still conversations to be had along traditional
lines, but what I suppose independent media demonstrates is there is an opportunity now
for networks of power and communication that obliterate the old centralised models.
you want is something that's actually beyond federalism I would ask.
Real freedom. When you listen to Bobby Kennedy talk about a subject like agriculture and food and the power of big food to intoxicate food with addicting poisons, even with the humble Cheerio.
Cereal. Imagine something being called Cheerio, being poisonous and addicting to your children.
You realise that we have a macro issue to contend with.
You have to recognise how far away you are from a culture where communities would grow and rear their own food.
Transport it only when necessary.
Be independent wherever possible.
Control our own information.
Control our own communities.
You don't need top-down government and you certainly don't need your free speech control.
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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They'll direct you always towards the legacy media and the propaganda you find there.
Stay free, baby. Now, there's been further revelations on the Sean Coombs case.
A lot of people in the comments say, don't call him Diddy no more.
But remember, at this point, there are allegations, even though there are allegations that are extraordinarily troubling and likely The Epstein case appear to point to a wider web of corruption and, by my reckoning at least, the dreadful decadence that devours and consumes the institutions of Hollywood and power.
What did we learn from the Epstein case?
Not as much as we could have learned.
What are we to learn from this Diddy situation?
It starts to look increasingly, at least this is what I read a lot in the comments, that this is not about isolated individuals.
This is about a personal Pervasive and potentially Luciferian culture of, if not just hedonism, exploitation and abuse at the level of a culture.
Of course the culture wants to identify and condemn individuals.
It was this individual.
It was that individual. But why did Epstein disappear in such extraordinary circumstances?
You know, killing himself under circumstances where killing yourself would appear to be a pretty tricky endeavour.
Well, it seems like he had connections to incredibly powerful people.
And if those incredibly powerful people are compromised, you can no longer make the claim.
There's just a few bad apples out there in Hollywood.
There's just a few bad apples there in government.
There's just a few bad apples over there on Epstein Island flying around on that plane.
What the Diddy Revelations will likely explain Explode is the idea that this is about individuals.
This is about a culture.
This is about institutionalised corruption.
This is about an ideology of exploitation.
Not just a couple of people that are chasing skirt.
No, this is mass exploitation, mass abuse, and it's apparently connected to...
To a lot of individuals.
You know I lived in Hollywood.
I worked in Hollywood.
You know I used to be a drug addict.
You know that I used to be, before the awakening, a person that was very much interested in epicureanism, that's the pursuit of pleasure, hedonism.
As an individual in the world, not as part of some shady cabal going around the world, shipping people to islands.
I was, like, meeting, chatting people up and stuff.
This is some weird, sex, drug, occultist stuff.
As I say with Diddy at the moment, these are just allegations.
You always have to be careful, because actually...
The lack of proper justice and lack of proper inquiry and the lack of due process is a problem because who among us trusts the judiciary?
Who among us trusts these institutions anymore?
Let me know in the comments in the chat.
But apparently there are big revelations coming.
Let's have a look at what he...
This is, I think, one of the prosecutors of the case letting us know that.
But the names that we're going to name, assuming that our investigators confirm and corroborate what we've been told, are names that will shock you.
These are individual cases.
There are indeed other perpetrators involved.
They will be revealed when that particular individual case is ready to be filed.
They already know who they are.
And I'm talking here about not just the cowardly but complicit bystanders.
That is, those people that we know watched this behavior occur and did nothing.
And I'm talking about the people that participated, encouraged it, egged it on.
They know who they are. In a way, this reminds me of the coronavirus pandemic.
If you inquire into what happened in the coronavirus pandemic, you will discover that the level of corruption, both pharmaceutical, government, economic, media and legal, is so pervasive, invasive, is tendril so wide that the reckoning and inquiry in itself will Lead you to this conclusion.
You can't trust Big Pharma.
You can't trust the government.
You can't trust the media.
You can't trust the judiciary.
It seems that the Diddy case has the potential to go in that direction.
Not just, oh, Diddy, he was off-key.
It's going to be much more like, oh, wow, of course!
The whole industry is run on exploitation.
That's what's been hidden in plain sight.
Pervasive total corruption.
And if you were to investigate, just start, pick a celebrity.
Pick a celebrity. That's what it's starting to look like.
And investigate them.
Look into the depths of their relationships with Diddy.
You know, listen, I've worked with Diddy on a whole movie.
I went to Vegas with Diddy in bed by 11 o'clock.
Nothing happened. But...
Man, what was going on in that mansion seems pretty extraordinary and seems to indicate that there's significant shady stuff that's going to come out.
And I reckon we'll know a lot more about Hollywood, a lot more about power, a lot more about the interface between media and government if it's investigated correctly.
But how likely is that?
But that's just what I think. Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat right now.
Okay, this I suppose is, you know, I'm in Atlanta right now and this part of the country has been significantly affected by Hurricane Helena.
This seems all the more apposite as we're heading towards an election and the US government is still, I'm going to say, funneling Billions of dollars of weaponry into Ukraine for a war that cannot be won.
You can't win wars against Russia.
You can say that on day one.
You can say that on day five.
You can say that on day ten.
You can say that in the Second World War.
You can say it in the Napoleonic Wars.
You can say it in any war.
Russia, don't lose wars.
Because Russia are Russia.
They've always been Russia.
Well, not always. I mean, I suppose the dinosaurs weren't Russian.
But generally speaking, Russia...
Know how to have a row.
So before engaging Russia in a war, make sure you've got a plan, a desired outcome.
What does peace look like?
And if there is a treaty and an opportunity for one, like there was between Zelensky and Putin, which our former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, presumably at the beh...
Hest of deep state and globalist American-centered interest disrupted, then, well, now you know why a further $175 billion in aid has been sent to Ukraine right when Americans are being told to donate to the North Carolina flood aid.
How do you feel about that?
That your tax dollars are going to Ukraine while your countrymen and women are And people are suffering during a crisis.
If government isn't there to protect us in crisis, what is government there for?
I'll tell you. It's there to engage in perpetual war to keep you terrified and distracted and keep you controlled.
And that's exactly what it's doing.
Let me know if you agree, though, in the comments and chat, and let's have a look at...
This appeal by Joe Biden for yet more of your money, this time to help people who are suffering as a result of Hurricane Helena.
We have rivers that are still rising.
The danger is still occurring for a lot of people.
And by the way, as FEMA can tell you, they have pre-positioned an awful lot of material, an awful lot of material throughout that area, from the Bend all the way up into Tennessee.
And so the idea that we weren't prepared, the question is, no one knew exactly how devastating it would be.
We knew it would be significant, and we've got a lot already in place, but there's more.
But here's the point. I'm going to be asking the American people to continue to help fund the needs of these people.
It's not going to be one hit and it's over.
It's going to take a hell of a long time.
It's going to cost a hell of a lot of money.
But this is the United States of America.
We've got to do it. It's really odd that the function of Joe Biden has now become to issue quivering sound bites from behind a mahogany desk or attest that more funding is required at a UN speech in order to keep the machinery of war going.
He's just disappeared. You don't see Joe Biden unless he's trotted out to ask for more money.
He is nominally, explicitly and actually, the President of the United States.
Why is he not running this campaign?
Because we were all exposed to his ineptitude to a degree that the masquerade had to end, that it had to be acknowledged and admitted that he wasn't capable of being in office.
Yet he's in office right now.
And the fact is, in the last four years, Kamala Harris has been in government.
So all this talk of turning the page is nefarious and absolutely ridiculous.
The page she's turning has her name on it.
The page she's turning to has her name as its headline.
The position that we ought to be adopting is deep cynicism when it comes to all-government rhetoric, particularly when it appears increasingly clear that the ulterior aim is to continue to fund war.
The ulterior aim is to continue to control communication between ordinary people, denying us transparency while granting them maximum What is this corruption?
What is this madness we're forced to endure?
Who among us really would want to continue to fund an unwinnable war when peace was available two years ago?
Who among us believes that the victims of the Maui fire Or the people suffering as a result of Hurricane Helena are not more worthy of your investiture than this unwinnable war.
That's not to say that I'm not sympathetic towards Ukrainian people.
Of course I am. They shouldn't be in that war.
We should bring about a peace treaty as quickly as possible.
And if we had a government and systems of government that didn't require as an economic necessity the perpetuation of war, then I believe that peace would be achieved.
But that's just... Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat right now.
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Last night, there were more attacks on Israel.
This time... It is assumed Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah missiles, of course, follows the assassination and are regarded as retaliatory strikes for the killing of the Hezbollah leader in Lebanon last week.
I think it was last week. It will move so quickly now.
Now, it's difficult to imagine a positive outcome in this escalating situation, and I was talking to Colonel Douglas MacGregor last week.
In fact, that'll probably be up on locals relatively soon.
We'll get to you with a schedule on that as promptly as we can.
And he, and he's obviously a military expert, regards that conflict, the Middle Eastern conflict, as more likely to lead to global apocalypse and to strikes on American soil than the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Let's have a look at what Glenn Greenwald said on the subject.
The situation in the Middle East is as dangerous as it's been in a long time and the US President has no functional brain and the Vice President is focused solely on ascending to power.
We are thus again faced with the question, who is making decisions for the US government?
So, in this incredibly sensitive time, when what you need is diplomacy and expertise, sensitivity and political brilliance, what you have is a president deemed by his own party to be unfit for purpose, and a vice president focused entirely on campaigning, avoiding interviews as she goes.
Who has got the rudder of the ship right now?
Who is in control of your country?
Who is going to handle the complex brinkmanship in matters as serious as potential Armageddon?
Let's have a look right now at some regular footage of those strikes last night in this difficult, impossible to understand conflict.
Iran has just launched a retaliatory missile attack targeting Israel.
A US senior administration official telling ABC News now that Iran is expected to fire 240 to 250 missiles at four targets in Israel.
This includes the Mossad headquarters, Israel's spy agency, three Israeli air bases, We are told it'll take about 15 minutes to actually reach their targets.
The U.S. and Israeli military with their defenses at the ready at this moment, including Israel's Iron Dome.
Israel has ordered residents now in Jerusalem to shelter in place.
The White House had signaled a potential strike was imminent.
It follows a rapid escalation of violence in the Middle East, something we've been covering for weeks now, including an Israeli airstrike killing Hezbollah's leader in Beirut, Iran launching a direct attack on Israel in April, but few of its missiles and rockets actually reached their intended targets.
Many were shot down by the U.S. coalitions in the region.
This comes as the Israeli military now says its troops were conducting limited ground raids in southern Lebanon.
Remember we were continually told that were Trump ever to get back in office we'd be in danger of lurching towards Armageddon.
What does this look like to you now?
With the President AWOL even in his own mind, Kamala Harris lost in what appears to me to be empty rhetoric campaigning on behalf of globalist interests that benefit from war.
Who, right now, is focused on bringing peace to the Middle East, ending this volatile,
incessant, painful and agonising conflict?
Who is engaged in the necessary diplomacy in Russia and Ukraine?
They talk to us like we're children, but themselves behave demonically.
It's extraordinary to watch.
This is a video from Kamala Harris a little while ago.
Either the Trump administration is angling for another disastrous war in the Middle East,
or they've spent two years sabre-rattling against Iran with no strategy and endgame.
The President is making America weaker and less safe.
Well, if that's true, what are we experiencing now, and who's handling it?
Similarly, What was once regarded as a policy position is starting to look like mad, empty rhetoric, although it did look like that at the time of it, too.
What's the message to Iran?
Don't. As President Biden said, just don't.
Exactly. It's one word.
Pretty straightforward. One word, don't.
Another word, joy.
Another concept, empty rhetoric.
Another idea, globalism, insidious and veiled behind folky colloquial language and conversation about being middle class.
Authoritarianism on the rise.
Censorship. Surveillance.
Everywhere. Globalism.
End to democracy. How?
Vilification of the opponent.
Present the opponent as a demon.
That way everyone's good by comparison.
Don't focus on the issues.
The escalating war. Don't focus even on your own lives, your inability to afford groceries.
Don't. One word.
Just don't. Joy.
Another word. Focus on that.
Don't start reflecting on the decay of your own spirit even.
Don't. Focus instead on joy.
Focus on the bureaucratization and banalization of your entire life and entire culture.
Don't. Joy. Sort of like a Coca-Cola commercial, but without the...
Aftershock of a sugary drink to enjoy.
Here's Colonel Douglas McGregor.
If you're in Awake and Wonder, his interview will be up there soon, as well as the questions and answers that we provide you with.
I hope you're enjoying it in there.
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Okay, let's have a look at what Colonel Douglas MacGregor had to say on the matter of escalation of the likelihood that these attacks might indeed reach the shores of your nation.
Given that Israel's decision to invade Lebanon marks the beginning of a regional war, Americans should remember the United States has no mutual defence treaty with Israel.
America's support for Israel's defence has always been unilaterally defined by successive presidents without the ratification of a formal treaty.
This approach parallels Roosevelt's unilateral alliance with the British Empire and the Soviet Union prior to We're good to go.
On Americans' own soil, as well as our bases throughout the world.
What do you guys think about that?
What do you think about that analysis?
Do you think the escalating attacks in the region, as well as being beneficial for the military-industrial complex, as well as taking lives from Israelis and, of course, the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, do you think that this is ultimately a conflict that will play out In your country, the United States of America, what is your prayer for peace for the people of Israel?
What is your prayer for peace for the people of Palestine?
And tell me how you envisage this war being contained when indeed it has all the ingredients of a potential global one.
Seems to me that this is a time where we should be extremely circumspect and cautious and reflective rather than jingoistic and bombastic because Armageddon is not something to take lightly.
Even significant issues such as the health of your nation and the economy of your nation pale in comparison to the potential that the world itself could be teetering on the brink of conflagration that could almost amount to total collapse.
But that's just what I think. Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments.
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literally made in stars Assange is speaking freely
A man who sacrificed so much that we might speak freely is now speaking freely himself.
Let's not forget that collectively Julian Assange spent nearly ten years incarcerated in one form or another.
Five years of that under the harshest conditions imaginable in Belmarsh.
Without trial. Now he's being released.
And he's talking about the assassination attempt that the CIA orchestrated.
He's talking about Mike Pompeo.
He's talking about deep state power.
Indeed, Julian Assange has always drawn our attention to the ulterior motives that run American foreign policy and ultimately the systems of power that dominate the world.
He also has drawn our attention to atrocities and war crimes and he has also facilitated the release of information that makes us better able to assess the nature of our government.
In the truest sense of the word, Julian Assange is a hero.
And of course, like anyone who opposes great power, he was attacked.
Allegations that I presume to be untrue were made against him.
He was attacked in a variety of ways.
He was imprisoned in an embassy, although he actually was sort of taking sanctuary there.
I went and visited him in that embassy.
It was a crazy time.
Julian Assange is now free, presumably under some conditions, and he is speaking out about what...
He believes to have been the conditions that led to his, surely illegal, incarceration, as well as the plot to kidnap and assassinate him by Mike Pompeo, who at that time was the head of the CIA. Let's enjoy the spectacle, the first video I've seen of Julian Assange free.
I mean, I saw a couple of shots of him on an aeroplane, but here's Julian Assange doing what he does best, telling the truth.
I want to be totally clear.
I am not free today because the system worked.
I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.
I pled guilty to seeking information from a source.
I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source.
And I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was.
I did not plead guilty to anything else.
President Trump had been elected.
He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats.
Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA director.
And William Barr, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General.
By March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the CIA's infiltration of French political parties, its spying on French and German leaders, its spying on the European Central Bank, European economics ministries, and its standing orders to spy on French industry as a whole.
It revealed the CIA's vast production of malware and viruses, its subversion of supply chains, It's a version of antivirus software, cars, smart TVs and iPhones.
CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution.
It is now...
Mike Pompeo's not coming over very well in this video, is he?
He's coming across as perhaps a draconian instrument of an even more fierce and insidious power.
Mike Pompeo is a person who has caused Tucker Carlson to reflect unfavourably on the CIA. Isn't it curious as well that we were told that when Donald Trump said that the CIA was an organisation in radical need of reform, Well, isn't it interesting that when Donald Trump spoke about releasing the JFK murder files, that it was publicly stated that you can't attack those agencies and think that you're going to get away with it.
How powerful are these organisations?
What is the nature of their power?
And if their power transcends and bypasses electoral politics, what's the point in having these elections?
Do the truly powerful remain in power regardless of which side wins?
Let me know in the comments what you think about that.
Is the nature of globalism a kind of magnetic pull between deep state bureaucratic power and global corporate commercial power and how those two sets of permanent interests are either side of the observable flux of Of domestic politics.
Deep state power remains.
Global corporatism remains.
Donations continue.
And the sort of transient figures passing through Congress, they come, they go, they pass, they expire, but real power remains.
Certainly Julian Assange is a hero because he commented on the nature of that power.
He exposed some of its worst successes.
And now, three...
Barely a matter of months.
He's informing us how the very problems that led to his incarceration are continuing and have been exacerbated and how we should be very wary of the state, of the media, of surveillance and censorship, of smearing, of bringing people down, of controlling opponents.
And figures like Mike Pompeo appear to be The visible aspect of a very serious and threatening power.
Here's Tucker Carlson talking about the time that he himself was threatened by Mike Pompeo.
They're still classifying documents.
61 years later, both Trump and Joe Biden have, in violation of my read of federal law, kept those documents secret.
There's no living person connected to the Kennedy assassination.
It was a couple generations ago.
There's no one person whose secrets are being protected.
It's an institution, or maybe countries.
There may have been countries involved, too.
I mean, I don't know the answer, but there's clearly something worth protecting.
And I know that when I... I spoke to someone who'd seen the documents, okay?
Two years ago, and I got one fact out of him, which is, yes, the CIA was involved.
And by CIA, CIA is a huge organization, but James Jesus Angleton, the head of the operations directorate, had knowledge of this, which I think is...
I also wonder why people hate Tucker Carlson when you see stuff like that.
Isn't he like plainly unpacking the true nature of deep state power?
Sure, he's like a conservative person and he wears conservative clothes and has a conservative haircut.
But he's plainly interested in real freedom and also plainly not interested in curtailing the freedom of people that have different social views.
And indeed, even when he comments on that stuff, I think it's...
But the way that those ideas are used to legitimise authority and censorship, we're going to have to really grow up, I think, and create some new alliances.
And the thing that excites me about Bobby Kennedy and Toti Gabbard joining the MAGA movement is the possibility to have something genuinely anti-establishment.
Perhaps the perceived excesses of Donald Trump could be reined in by a figure as...
Evidently and plainly dignified as Tulsi Gabbard.
Perhaps the pharmaceutical industry and the agencies that are supposed to regulate both big pharma and American health more widely ought now be rightly terrified, as well as deep state agencies, that someone like Bobby Kennedy could be 35 days away from government.
Because I sat with him and he explained to me, and I'm I was talking to him in an audience with Tulsi Gabbard as well.
Exactly how, job by job, he would break down the bureaucracies that afford Big Pharma the ability to exploit the American population, that he would attack the big food industry that keeps y'all sick and eating filthy and addicting foods.
When I was listening to him, I thought... No wonder the media are attacking this guy on a daily basis, trying to destroy his reputation, trying to make him look like some kind of crackpot, trying to bring him down with all manner of insidious plots.
This is a powerful, well-intentioned man.
He's exactly the kind of person you want in government.
I'll say the same thing about...
Tulsi Gabbard as well.
Look, you know me. I want sort of real radical change right down to the level where we run our own communities and grow our own food and try to bring about the kingdom of the Lord on earth individually and collectively respecting the freedom of one another.
But you're not going to get that.
I'm telling you now, and I'll be astonished if anyone thinks otherwise, with the Harris-Waltz Tick it!
But that's just what I think. Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
Is this an opportunity for us to unify, to approach politics differently?
Is it possible that 2016 Donald Trump is not 2024 Donald Trump?
How could he be with figures like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK on the crew?
And when you watch someone like J.D. Vance last night in that debate, doesn't he seem just like an old-school senator, charismatic, well-informed, well-intentioned, well-versed, well-educated, self-made?
What do you want from people these days?
I don't know. Me?
I want your individual freedom.
Me, I believe in your free speech and I believe in your right to be healthy and free and certainly not to die in an apocalypse.
I believe in your right to become who you are under God and even if you don't believe in God.
But that's just what I think. Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
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Now, we've got a little bit of time to look at something that's really...
I'm sort of looking forward to.
CNN... CNN have found that Democrat children are more extremist than Republican children.
Firstly, the idea that you could have Democrat children or Republican children seems ridiculous, because they're just children.
They shouldn't care about these arbitrary divisions and bizarre tags.
Nevertheless, I understand that this is quite funny, so let's have a little look at it together.
The study found that Republican-leaning kids were more open to visiting a Democrat-supporting household.
The Democrat-leaning kids were about five times more likely to say they would not want to go to a pro-Trump house.
Would they be okay with you going over to somebody's house who was really supportive of President Trump?
No. No? And why not?
Because they know that he's not like black people, so they will not be happy to see me.
Would your family let you go over to somebody's house who's really supportive of Donald Trump?
No. No, they wouldn't?
No. And why not?
Because, like, my mom and dad don't like Donald Trump at all.
Not a single bit.
Would you be okay going over to somebody's house whose family really likes Kamala Harris?
I think it'd be funny. It's just about the personality of the people.
Donald Trump, he did bad things.
He's like Hitler.
He only wanted to be president so that he can just control everybody.
Trump is supporting January 6th now.
I remember that January 6th was a bunch of Republicans believing Trump.
I feel like they thought Trump was a god.
People got arrested.
I think one officer died.
I mean, I suppose what is quite positive is it's CNN, who are generally supportive of Kamala Harris, that are making this piece.
I'm a parent, I've got three young children, and when I talk to them about politics because they ask, I mean, half hour to explain to a child what Hitler is.
It's, like, really complicated to go through that.
And when I did go through it, my daughter went, he could have killed She immediately made it about herself.
I thought, that's my girl.
That's what I like to see.
Yes, that's right.
You know, I think there's a kind of responsibility to try to restore to children a level of ease and sanguinity, a level of peace and comfort in the world, not to heighten their fear and hysteria.
It's in a way kind of troubling video.
One officer died after?
Afterwards? That was a big day.
The study found that these Democrat-leaning kids were about nine times more likely to express negative emotions about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning kids were about Kamala Harris.
Ashela said in our chat, like Elon observed, kids don't know anything about George Washington apart from the fact that he was a slave owner.
We are failing in teaching kids critical thinking skills.
Good comment and a fair comment, I would say.
Like, in our country, a comparable...
not founding father but sort of iconic patriarch is Winston Churchill who's commonly spoken of now as a warmonger and a villain and I don't know you could say that that's some kind of necessary redress for their iconography that preceded that in the prior century but is there a point where beyond politics we look at the qualities of heroism There is an archetype, you know. The archetype is people that are willing to sacrifice themselves for others.
They are generally people that are driven by purpose and are driven by the common good.
In fact, literally, the archetype is the hero leaves the place that they are from.
They go into a dangerous environment.
Responding to the call. How many times in your life have you refused the call?
We need you to do this thing.
Know you're kind of supposed to do it.
Something in your belly tells you you're supposed to do it.
And you go, I'm not doing that.
I'm too frightened. Maybe when you're a little older, after, maybe after the sand people have killed your relatives.
I mean, the sand people in Star Wars have not become racist.
That maybe the second time you will hear the call and know that ultimately there is a confrontation that has to take place.
If you destroy the concept of the hero, like, if you, like, oh, Martin Luther King had sex with his secretary, Malcolm X maybe worked as a rent boy before he went to jail, Gandhi did weird stuff where he slept in a bed with his nieces.
If you, like... Extract Mother Teresa's stance on abortion or contraception forgoes her life of perpetual sacrifice.
What do you do with that?
What's left? How do you look into yourself and find magnificence and glory within yourself?
And that glory, ultimately, when dedicated to a higher cause, is the only fuel that any of us have.
But that's just why I think, why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
Hey, if you're not on Awaken Wonder yet, you should consider becoming one.
You could, as dear Mikey's mother, Mary asked us, have the opportunity to renew your mind.
These are just some of the things we do over on Locals.
Hello. The Book of Romans says to renew our minds.
Chapter 12, it says to...
Not be conformed to the world, but to renew our minds.
That's just a paraphrase, but how do you renew your mind in this world of so much information that's coming at you, so many opinions and volumes of bits and bobs of this and that?
How do you keep your mind stayed on Him?
Yeah, well, I have to continually return to Christ.
Now, if you're in Awaken Wonder, that content is up there all the time.
We respond to your questions, we do Bible readings, we do meditation, we do them every week, but not for long, because we are making some significant changes with a new project for our Awaken Wonder community that I know you're going to love.
Also, our Oracle series has launched.
Do we have a link or anything for that from yesterday?
We have to make sure we get that tomorrow.
Luke, if you've got the information from the Oracle series...
Firstly, Gail, can you check is Luke watching?
Is he? He's just knocking on the door.
He's out there, isn't he? Luke, are you watching?
Hey, Luke, are you watching?
Can someone grab Luke?
Thank you. Luke, can you post the Oracle's information in the chat?
We're doing this Oracle series where we get like panels of experts together.
It's absolutely fantastic.
In the Rumble chat and in the Awaken Wonder chat, we'll post it right now and probably post it in some of the Hero video chats as well.
You'll love this thing.
The first episode is me talking to brilliant and maverick experts like Robert Malone about the pandemic period, errors and mistakes that were made for the very first time.
It certainly changed my perspective on the pandemic.
I think you'll love it. But we've got even more exciting projects coming soon, and I'll tell you more about that
tomorrow.
I want to welcome some of our new Awaken Wonders, like LisaBakes14, Just Seek Jesus, Drummergirl77, Trickjames33, and Bolan1JD.
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