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Feb. 4, 2025 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	Hello there, you awakening wonders.
	Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	I'm actually very glad that you're here because we've got so much to talk to you about.
	Whether you're watching us on X where we are live or YouTube or our home rumble, we've got to discuss USAID and numerous aspects of USAID.
	How USAID has been used to influence military policy, how it's been used to influence media and how, in a sense, USAID is the sort of soft aspect of deep state power.
	We'll be talking about that at length.
	We'll be talking about the Ukraine war.
	I'm going to really be doing my best to care about tariffs I'm going to really try to.
	It's just the word.
	I can't make myself care about the imposition of tariffs.
	I can't see tariffs as some sort of...
	Phallus firing masculinity into international economic policy.
	But I'm going to try and see it that way because that seems like a sensible image system to vivify what I struggle with, you know, international trade.
	I mean, look at me.
	Does this scream international trade to you?
	And then my mate Dave did just say, you look like you've been released from a money prison.
	Which, you know, I get it.
	I get it.
	So, right, we're going to look at all of that.
	And we'll be with you for about a half hour here.
	We've got some brilliant promotional partners I'm obviously going to be telling you about.
	But first of all, let's look at how we've been unburdened by what might have been.
	That's Don Jr., Rumble content creator.
	And also, he's Donald Trump's son.
	That's the other way you might know him.
	This page is unburdened by what has been.
	If that's legitimately how they've been doing stuff...
	You've got to share in their amusement.
	In my crazy country, the United Kingdom, it still remains a prison planet captured by deep state activists.
	Would you believe that even the BBC receives money from USAID? Let me know in the comments and chat if you were aware of that, of how...
	Look, I read a lot of content that talks about the new power of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and that being an expression and the emergence of new elites.
	But...
	What I'm fascinated by, and tell me if you agree with this, is that we are seeing the ongoing exposure of the sinew and cartilage of deep state power.
	And this USAID story, particularly how Mike Benz explains it, is a brilliant demonstration of the aspect of Trump and MAGA that surely anyone would back.
	Anti-globalism, anti-deep state power.
	We'll be getting into that.
	Here's what's going on in my country.
	Angela Rayner signs off on council tax rises.
	That's just evidence of hypocrisy and deception.
	We covered that story to some degree last week.
	We've got a video of that up.
	You can have a look at that if you want to.
	If you want to see it, here's Labour MPs promising not to raise tax.
	I'm not going to jump into that because also it's been the DNC convention.
	And in a way, when you see the DNC, you feel like they've not understood what's just happened.
	There's still an attempt to cling on to ideas that plainly don't impact or affect people.
	And they are literally, while we're being unburdened of what might have been, hold on a minute, someone's saying it's USAID, not aid.
	Please stop calling it that.
	What you want to call it, this is de-ranch life.
	Ranch Life in the Rumble chat saying, call it USAID. Oh, well, because you think if you say aid, it's a trick to...
	Well, like Band-Aid!
	Everyone loves...
	They've tricked us into calling it USAID. Like, it does make you feel like it's a little bit of a charity.
	Yeah, a lot of people are very angry about that.
	Don't call it USAID. Even that's political now.
	Like how a mask became political during COVID. You're not wearing a mask because of microscopic aerosol viruses.
	You're wearing it because, well, this is what I believe in.
	So even the way you say USAID is politicised, that's astonishing.
	We've got incredible stories of how USAID was in...
	It was involved in the 2014 coup in Ukraine, how it's still relevant within the context of the Ukraine war, how it's infiltrated internationally into countries like our sweet country via the BBC. It's pretty bloody fascinating.
	As a matter of fact, let's have a look at what's going on at the DNC. It's their first DNC since a massive and humiliating electoral defeat, not just for their movement, but for globalism more generally.
	and they're responding to that, of course, through the medium of dance.
	Let's go with it.
	I like losing elections.
	Good.
	I didn't want to run America.
	Is that the point of it?
	Like it's a sort of a kind of conga of indifference.
	Good.
	We weren't even trying to win that election.
	You lost the election.
	I know you did.
	That's a really interesting way to behave.
	Let's have a look at what else they're up to there.
	Before getting into USAID and tariffs, we're just going to dick about looking at what's going on in the DNC for a minute, just sort of as a palate cleanse.
	And we'll begin with the opening statements.
	Each candidate will have 30 seconds and we'll start with Dr. Quintessa Hathaway.
	Good evening, everyone.
	It is my desire to be the next DNC chair.
	And I just want to give you all a little bit of something that's been on my heart here.
	That atmosphere is terrible.
	She sounds depressed.
	It's been on my heart here over the last couple of days.
	You fight on, you fight on, you fight on.
	That's an unexpected pivot.
	That was an unexpected pivot.
	Because it started off very dour.
	Very dour.
	And then suddenly, song.
	I see.
	What the DNC and the Democratic Party movement's attempting to do, it looks to me, tell me if you agree with this in the comments, is to sort of maintain the idea of a spirit of goodwill and good intention through things like literal song and dance, when in fact they became so separated from the interests of those they claimed to represent that their entire party and movement became theatre, i.e.
	the DNC is so captured by Corporate, globalist, commercial interest.
	And it's only a bulwark against that impression.
	It's only inoculation against damnation has been to pretend overtly that it really cares about minority cultural issues.
	But now...
	All they've got left is literal song and dance.
	That can't be true.
	Fight on, you fight on When your government is doing you wrong You fight on, oh, you fight on Thank you, Dr. Hathaway.
	Okay, Dr. Hathaway.
	Also, though, things weren't going very well when you were actually in power for the last four years.
	It was a diabolical catastrophe of government, particularly in terms of the interests of people who don't have access to the levers of power, which ironically seems to be the matter highlighted through that peculiar performance.
	Let's have a look at DNC officials explaining how to elect...
	How to elect leaders on the basis of gender.
	Now, in a way, it's like they've not learned anything from the last four years.
	Let's see if they even believe themselves in what they claim to believe in.
	The rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.
	With the results of the previous four elections, Our elected officers are currently two male and two female.
	In order to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.
	So again, this is what we have to do for this vice chair race.
	We have to elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.
	Well, it sounds confusing.
	I don't think you even understand it.
	Isn't there just some way we can be kind and loving to all and treat people with respect and grace?
	The respect and grace that's due to all of us as God's creator.
	No!
	That's made up!
	That's superstitious!
	What's this thing you're doing with this mosaic of language, this peculiar jabberwocky poem of extraordinary terms?
	Absolutely baffling.
	If you're watching us on X, thanks for joining us today.
	If you're watching us on YouTube, thanks.
	We're involved in such bizarre legal conversations with them.
	And if you're watching us on Rumble, thank you.
	Thank you for joining us on our home.
	Let's see what's going on.
	Marco Rubio is holding a press conference for some reason.
	Who can ever understand the mind of Marco Rubio?
	Let's have a look at this press conference now.
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	The partnership between the U.S. and Costa Rica is strong.
	And under your leadership and the leadership of the President Trump, we will make it even more content.
	Nice.
	Yeah, okay.
	It's in Spanish.
	I mean, I'm trying my best, but I simply don't speak that language.
	It's one of the many languages.
	I simply do not speak.
	Let's have a little peek at what they're up to over at the Democratic Party convention.
	They've got a lovely, handsome lad rising to prominence.
	Are you ready to go on the offense?
	Are you ready to go on the offense?
	I don't feel good when I watch that, do you?
	It feels hollow.
	It's shallow, it's empty and vacuous.
	Let me know in the comments in chat how you feel about that.
	Nice one.
	You might be watching this over on Locals.
	If you do, you're going to get a bunch of great content coming down the pipe.
	Did we stick up Eddie Gallagher and me firing guns at a gun range?
	Oh, have a look at that.
	That's available on Locals and also Rumble Premium.
	If you're not a member of Rumble Premium yet, become a member of Rumble Premium.
	It's like $9.99 a month.
	You get a month for free and you get additional content from me, but also Crowder, Bongino, Glenn.
	And I mentioned someone else.
	Yeah, Don Jew, you'll get additional content and stuff like that if you support me on Rumble Premium.
	Essentially, you get access to all of our content and an ad-free experience on Rumble, which surely has to be better, even though, ironically, it's an advert that you just endured there for me to promote it.
	Okay, now, ultimately, the vacuity of the Democratic Party...
	Is this.
	They were completely controlled by corporate and commercial interests and the maintenance of a deep state class.
	That's one aspect of it.
	They were exemplified by figures like Nancy Pelosi who talked continually about compassion and for the children while it seemed somehow was simultaneously benefiting from potential knowledge gleaned from the various committees she sits on with regard to technology and the rise of her husband's stocks and shares.
	Those very same companies.
	In short, they became so vapid, so hollowed out, so plainly governed by lobbyists and a donor class that they've become politically irrelevant.
	Here, they continue to double down on the idea that when it comes to oligarchal financial power, the trillionaire and the billionaire, we're supposed to believe in a dualistic system.
	There are good trillionaires and bad trillionaires.
	Our trillionaires are fantastic.
	There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats who share our values and we will take their money, but we're not taking money from those bad billionaires.
	Those bad billionaires, in a sense, while that's simplistic, reductive and ridiculous, it shows you something important.
	Who ultimately has the moral authority to say, these billionaires are good, these billionaires are bad, this class of people, this set of policies are good or bad?
	If you don't believe in an absolute universal truth, any claim you make to right or wrong is either arbitrary or subjective.
	The DNC lost their moral compass.
	They abandoned it in some...
	Giddy storm of hedonism and minority issues and empty, phatic rhetoric.
	And now they are, I suppose, confused by the desertion and by their, I would say, what do I want to say, implosion into total irrelevance.
	Indeed...
	Part of that same story is the emergence of information about how the deep state functions and what the cartilage is between the deep state and commercial and international enterprises.
	And I believe the USAID story, I don't call it USAID, do you?
	USAID story demonstrates the connections between NGOs, charities and apparently philanthropic endeavours and the interests of the powerful.
	Before we get into that...
	Yeah, I do believe it's connected to Diddy List, SensitiveHearts25 on the locals chat.
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	Is Bobby going to get confirmed?
	Is Tulsi going to get confirmed?
	Is Cash going to get confirmed?
	Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that on X and what does it tell us if they don't get confirmed?
	Will JD use some last minute vote?
	Have you, like me, seen Bobby Kennedy as the exemplifier of the potential for real change out of this administration?
	As people scattered and panicked declare that now Trump and Musk are, excuse me, Teal and Musk are in ascendancy.
	That what you have now is a new elite class.
	We, the optimistic, the hopeful, believe that if Bobby Kennedy becomes the head of the HHS, this is such a sort of radical proposition.
	Someone that was so peripheral.
	Even with that surname, Bobby Kennedy was a pariah just a couple of years ago because of his outspoken views on vaccines.
	If Bobby Kennedy enters the upper echelons of government, one of the most significant and powerful positions in the most significant and most powerful nation on earth, then America is going to change, isn't it?
	Corporations are going to have to radically review the way they influence government policy.
	If America becomes awakened to good nutrition, good exercise, good spiritual values, recognition that government itself...
	It's limited in what it can offer you.
	It's just a bunch of bureaucrats managing stuff.
	It's nice to have charismatic ones in the office, I suppose.
	But ultimately, it's just the manoeuvring and management of resources.
	It's not your relationship with God.
	Bobby Kennedy, he operates on that level.
	He operates on that level, I tell you.
	So let me know how significant you believe this confirmation to be.
	As I understand it, he's been approved.
	That's a sort of a subsidiary vote that means he can proceed, but he's not yet being confirmed.
	Let me know what you think about it, and let me know who you think are most significant.
	We altered the trajectory of America.
	Is it Elon Musk?
	Is it Tulsi Gabbard?
	Is it Vivek Ramaswamy or is it RFK? Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that, you beauties, you mad, giddy beauties.
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	I'm just letting you know in case it sounds like you're talking about me and Britain and stuff like that.
	Let's get into this USAID story.
	See, look at that.
	I'm a quick learner, right?
	We call it that now.
	Let's get into this USAID story.
	Everyone's talking about USAID. What is USAID? It's ultimately, I suppose, a foreign aid proposition where American taxpayer dollars are used around the world to help or aid people.
	But is it as simple as that?
	Is this yet another one of the stories that points to the fact that when it comes to the media relationship with globalist products, there's this great ability to make the agenda of the globalists seem somehow philanthropic?
	Is USAID simply a way to rob and control the American taxpayer and to fund peculiar globalist pursuits that are of dubious moral nature?
	Certainly, Mike Benz believes that's the case.
	He's been speaking to numerous people, including Joe Rogan, about that.
	So let's look at USAID, its reach and its influence.
	Is control over media?
	Is control over your tax dollars?
	And is it one of the observable mechanisms of deep state power?
	And was Trump just elected on a significant mandate to address, attack, and to some degree ameliorate that type of deep state power?
	Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat as we get into this story.
	Certainly, Joy Reid may have told more truth than she intended to when she said that a kind of coup is taking place when it comes to the attack on USAID.
	Let's have a look at that.
	But we begin tonight.
	With a full-on crisis in our democracy.
	As federal workers are literally locked out of their offices while operatives working for a private citizen.
	It's a crisis!
	A crisis!
	What is it?
	A government official is locked out of his office.
	That's not crisis!
	Things like that happen to me all the time.
	That's just like you've lost your keys, you've dropped them, you're locked out of your office.
	That's, hmm, is there a window open?
	That's a minor inconvenience.
	But what that minor inconvenience is evidence of is that they mean business and it seems that they're planning to govern in the way that they campaign.
	Whether you agree with them or not, you have to recognise that...
	A continuum between the will of the people and the actions of the governing is precisely what we think we mean when we say electoral democracy.
	So, he said he was going to sack a bunch of deep state a pair of cheeks.
	He's sacking a bunch of them.
	Surely, that's a good thing.
	Let me know in the comments if you agree.
	A private citizen essentially take over our government.
	Their tactics include turning off our federal websites, deleting government-funded research that you, the taxpayer, paid for.
	This is brilliant.
	I would see that as a massive misjudging of the temperament of the nation.
	Who are the people that go, hey, you turned off a government website!
	We hate the government!
	Everyone hates the government!
	How dare you?
	How dare you turn off a government website?
	And then, like, the talk of research.
	How many of us are kind of giddily drunk on our awareness that...
	Taxpayer dollars are not spent on things that meaningfully benefit your life and advance your spiritual condition.
	Whether that's something as mundane.
	As the pothole problem or as significant as billions of dollars of aid being sent to a foreign war when we think that some of the military hardware likely gets sold on elsewhere.
	In short, even at the most local level, do your governments have your best interests at heart?
	Are they improving your schools, the health of your children?
	Are they curtailing and controlling the excesses of rampant corporate forces who want you to eat sugary, red-dyed filth and pump Have yourself full of pharmaceuticals that probably make you worse?
	Joy!
	Taxpayer paid for to impose speech codes, bullying news organizations by demanding interview transcripts, implementing an FBI purge, locking federal workers out of their computers, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves, without congressional or any other authorization, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves, without congressional or any other authorization, full access to the personal data of tens
	But we've all just spent the last 10 years learning the degree to which government agencies spy on the citizens of their countries and share information.
	Edward Snowden!
	Julian Assange!
	We now know that our government does exactly that.
	We now know that centralist neoliberal governments, precisely like the one we just evaded and avoided, in particular would have used various means, primarily crisis, to implement unprecedented citizen management.
	They want social credit score.
	They want you vaccinated.
	They want the information that you have access to controlled.
	We know all of this.
	Surely Joy knows it too.
	Including social security recipients, FBI agents and officials, military and government contractors, and every single employee of the federal government.
	All of that data in private hands that you did not authorize, even if you voted for Donald Trump.
	This as Trump installs unqualified minions at the heads of every federal agency, knowing that they wouldn't stop this even if they knew how.
	Now at least we know that the left's not going to do something that I thought it might do.
	This.
	A kind of radical mea culpa.
	Our whole movement's fallen apart because we got captured by commercial interests and got sort of alloyed to deep statism and systems of control.
	We're going to change.
	We're going to change.
	We're going to represent ordinary working people.
	We're going to be better.
	We're going to learn.
	We're going to oppose corporate globalist power.
	We're going to get rid of ridiculous leaders with fancy fine haircuts and...
	Outrageous personal lives.
	Just a few references to, I don't know, Trudeau, Macron, Keir Starmer, that class of leader.
	We're going to lose them, and we're going to get back in touch with what matters, the values of our people, the nature of our land, our purpose here on Earth.
	They're not doing that, are they?
	They're just going to go, well, these guys that you've put in charge, they're actually locking people out of their offices.
	And my website doesn't work anymore.
	And that's pretty appalling.
	Threatening multiple trade wars or vowing to launch a new age of American imperialism by colonizing the indigenous people of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
	All while congressional Democrats issue strongly worded letters, plus holding a press conference today.
	And congressional Republicans sit back and let the federal government they work for collapse all around them.
	While they occasionally beg Trump for tariff mercy for their states.
	If this were happening in any other country right now, I promise you, I'd be on the air calling it a coup.
	Amazing!
	So, USAID, by the reckoning of Joy Reid and MSNBC et al., is a kind of exemplifier of global values that we should aspire to.
	Oddly, bizarrely, a claim that what it is is altruism in motion.
	America has a manifest destiny and America's purpose is to save the world and to pay for the salvation of the world through government.
	Through government.
	The American government should accrue your wealth and then go around the world helping people.
	Now, that seems unlikely and sounds untrue.
	What government would you ever trust with such an endeavour except for the most holy government conceivable, a council of saints?
	So if USAID were what Joy Reid were claiming, it would still be a peculiar claim because you would be granting an extraordinary spiritual power to governments that don't generally behave in a spiritual way.
	They act in sort of mechanical, administrative, bureaucratic and controlling ways, don't they?
	Would you agree with that?
	Let me know in the comments in chat.
	But that's not what USAID is.
	It's a coup machine.
	It's a spying machine.
	It's a subterfuge machine.
	Here's Mike Benz, the expert in deep state matters, the man who knows the anatomy of the blob better than most, on Joe Rogan, explaining USAID to Joe Rogan.
	Let's get this in foundationally so we've heard Mike Benz describe it because, you know me, I can get abstract.
	...department, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.
	Now, USAID... Don't call it USAID, Mike, because it's actually USAID. Yeah, I hate to tell you, Mike, that actually you've fallen into their trap there.
	You've fallen into their trap because you've made it sound like, do they know it's Christmas or heal the world?
	Yeah, it's not heal the world.
	This is not Michael Jackson and Diana Ross and everyone saying, heal the world, make it a better place.
	This is not that.
	This is funding crazy wars abroad.
	This is surveillance.
	This is the behemoth.
	So, Mike, you fell into a bit of a trap there.
	I'm down for democracy.
	Now, USAID is, you know, a very notorious, it's sort of a switch player.
	There's no aid in USAID, by the way.
	Your brain is being tricked when you see the phrase USAID. That's why I won't call it that.
	I never do.
	I call it USAID. Helps me get over that trap.
	USAID. It's not an aid organization.
	The aid in USAID stands for U.S. Agency for International Development.
	It is developing internationally, around the world, all of the institutions that the State Department needs to use.
	So, when they...
	I actually call it USAID because it Fs you and kills you if you mess around with it.
	So, when they are capacity-building activist groups in a foreign country, that's because the State Department wants those activists there.
	Now, USAID, for the first time in its history, it was created in the early 1960s by JFK, 1961. It was created because you had all of this intelligence...
	Statecraft and military support and logistical aid that was tripping over itself, basically.
	The military would be funding, you know, would be running aid to certain groups in the region.
	The State Department would be running aid to certain groups in the region.
	The Intelligence Committee would...
	And there was no sort of central coordinator of those capacity-building operations.
	USAID, by the way, is a $50 billion budget.
	The entirety of the Intelligence Committee is only $72 billion.
	So it is more than the CIA and more than the State Department.
	Wow.
	And USAID is effectively a switch player to assist the Pentagon on the national security front, to assist the State Department on the national interest front, or to assist the intelligence community on a sort of clandestine operations front.
	Wow, it sounds like a pretty dark and expensive little operation by Benz's brilliant reckoning.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene posted that USAID is, to some degree, funding mRNA, or gain-of-function technology, excuse me.
	So here she says, in response to this post here, CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was a whistleblower.
	So, USAID, EcoHealth Alliance, and the CIA were all involved in funding and creating COVID-19 in the Wuhan lab.
	No.
	Which led to a killing of millions of people, forced COVID vaccines that also killed and injured millions of people, and the worst abuse of government overreach in our lifetimes.
	And they made American people pay for it.
	If true, crimes against humanity.
	Nice little caveat and disclaimer at the end.
	And of course, could you sort of...
	I started to want to say it in Marjorie Taylor Greene's voice.
	So, USAID... I mean, it should be shut down, no?
	A lot of people are claiming that there's a recklessness to Trump and Doge in the dismantling of state apparatus and that it will augur a new and crazed chaos.
	But so many people...
	It distrusts government so deeply that the destruction of government and these institutions is something that we crave.
	And maybe that's just a progression of what we felt about Trump 2016. Well, not me, actually.
	I didn't see this in those terms then.
	But what people felt at that point, it was a kind of inchoate rage.
	We hate the government!
	I love this dude that's just in the primary is going to diss and cuss Jeb Bush and then against H. Clinton, just going to bam bam you'd be in jail.
	I want to hear that.
	Now that it's evolved and it's in its second term and indeed is alloyed to legitimate anti-corporate figures like RFK, what we're beginning to see...
	Yeah, state dismantling.
	People want to see that.
	That's not like, how precious state!
	Like when Joy Reid tried to evoke that idea, USAID, this is like a coup.
	Well, maybe inadvertently she said something truer than she intended to.
	Or, perhaps as a title, is Joy Reid like a stopped clock accidentally right twice a day when she claims that...
	Getting rid of USAID is a kind of coup.
	Yeah, it's a coup.
	It's a coup against deep state interests.
	And the only way you can do that is from within government.
	So when the left claims that this is terrible and wring the hands, no one trusts government with that kind of power, that kind of money, and that kind of moral duty because they don't trust the morality of the individuals that make it up, nor their agenda.
	And if you ask me, they're right.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
	Here's a look at this from my mate Matt Ken.
	The third largest funder of the BBC's charitable arm is USAID. It gives nearly £2 million to train reporters in 35 countries and to teach them how to serve Washington.
	Trump is dismantling the infrastructure of the US empire, particularly its propaganda apparatus.
	Incredible and intriguing and interesting.
	We'll be looking at some other aspects of USAID. We're keeping an eye on other news around confirmations and whatnot.
	But we'll be bringing you some more stories about USAID. And if you want to learn about it, baby, we'll learn about it together.
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	Sean Keane, the Epstein customer list is what I want to see.
	Well, maybe you will.
	Maybe there will be disclosures around that.
	That'd be pretty fascinating, wouldn't it?
	Grand Canyon University, by the way, fantastic organisation, ultimately offering an education that's not centred around selfishness.
	But the values of Christ Jesus.
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	Oh no, Press Secretary Pass.
	Yeah, that's more manageable.
	I could probably get that.
	Yeah, shall we try and get one?
	Shall we?
	Oh no, I'll regret doing it.
	Then we'll have to go to DC. Cold there, weird there.
	Sort of weird energy of evil seeping up from the soil like a tea bag of necromancy.
	Dark forces beneath DC. Luciferian powers pursuing me.
	Dark institutions captured by dark forces.
	But only a simulacrum and counterfeits can they offer, for the evil one does not access true creative power.
	Only...
	God, God self possesses that.
	Okay then, you beautiful people.
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	We're going to cover one more USAID story.
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	Sorry, I spat so much there.
	I'm so sorry.
	I don't know if it read on camera, but I thought I should apologise just because if we were face-to-face now, like if we were together hanging out, I'm like, all right, how are you, fellow human?
	How are you getting on in infinite space?
	What's it like being you?
	What's the feeling?
	Are you okay?
	Are you surviving it?
	And then in the midst of this chat, spit came out.
	I'll definitely mention that.
	How long do you want to know someone before you would let them know they sank on their face?
	I'd do it straight away.
	Like, if someone's got something on their face and I've just met them, like, you know, and they talk to, I'll go, I'll do it like this.
	You've got something on your face, mate.
	You've got a little something on your face.
	That's how we know we can trust each other.
	We're basically just apes, aren't we?
	Basically just apes.
	And guess who we've got coming on Break Bread?
	We've got Wes Huff.
	Do you know who Wesley Huff is?
	I'm excited about him because I see him on Rogan, and everyone that I know in the world of Christianity is saying what's really good about him is he knows the score when it comes to the Greek and the Hebrew, and he can explain to you what I think some people call apologetics.
	He can position Christian...
	Doctrine against current contemporary cultural issues real well.
	It's going to be a good conversation and you can have a look at it.
	Here's a brief bit of a chat I had last week with Nathan Finocchio.
	Grow up!
	With Nathan Finocchio who's a theologian.
	I had this chat about the...
	This is just a sort of a scripture chat that we had last week.
	In a minute I'll be back with more on USAID and in particular what Bobby Kennedy said about USAID and Ukraine.
	I was on a bit of a demythologization quest in my 20s, and there's sort of two camps in Christian theology, particularly in the study of the Old Testament.
	One is explaining the supernatural in sort of a demythologization way, right?
	Did the flood happen?
	No, it was just phenomenological to the narrator.
	You know, his world was flooding, but the actual world didn't flood.
	And this is sort of, these are the modern questions, so that Christians don't feel like idiots when they're conversing with people of science who think that the supernatural is insane.
	Kaiser has pushed back on that, and he's like, no, everything, the talking snake, all of the miracles, I think that that's real.
	And beyond that, we're living in a supernatural world.
	And if you believe in a guy who came back from the dead and he could walk on water and make people's limbs grow back, then what's your problem with the sun standing still?
	I want to talk about that BBC thing a little more.
	Let me see that.
	I can't read that, Isaac.
	I can't read how we're funded.
	The thing that he's referring to, is there some way I could have that?
	Like, ten times that size.
	Would that involve finding that original post and then doing that to it?
	Okay.
	So, alright, let's have a look at this.
	Let's have a look at former FBI director Andrew McCabe on Anderson Cooper talking about the FBI. Get it up for the FBI, the CIA, all of these agencies, aside from Hollywood movies, come to be regarded as the tendrils of evil.
	This is totally unprecedented.
	FBI rank-and-file agents and analysts who make up the vast majority of the field offices, who do the work of investigating these cases, of executing search warrants, of executing arrest warrants, doing...
	Surveillance, electronic surveillance, whatever it might be.
	Those people are never touched by the political winds that blow through every four years, nor should they be.
	As you said, they don't pick their work.
	They're assigned to the work that they do.
	The work they do is lawful.
	It's within FBI policies, and not doing the work is not really an option for them, right?
	They come to the FBI. Most of them come intending to stay for the entirety of their careers, 20 years or more, 20 years on the agent's side, a little.
	Let me know in the comments and chat, is it easy for you to feel sympathy for the FBI? What are the first things you think when you think of the FBI? Alright, Hannibal Lecter.
	But after that, don't you think of, don't they get innocent people to act like criminals?
	Don't they fund some sort of...
	Tin pot organizations, you know, it would be a great idea to blow up this marathon.
	And then these poor dopes go, OK, we'll blow up a marathon.
	And then the FBI go, you're under arrest!
	What's the charge?
	Blowing up a marathon!
	It seems slightly ridiculous, but that's actually it.
	Literal example of one of the things the FBI do do.
	So I don't know if all of us feel like up in arms as if they're shutting down, I don't know, the Red Cross or something that's directly connected to true altruism.
	So what is the function of USAID? You've seen Joy Reid's giddy optimism.
	Jen Psaki claims that Musk is only targeting USAID because he fears investigations into his own corruption.
	That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
	Let's get into it.
	Let's have a look at that first of all.
	And then let's have a look at RFK's submission that USAID had been integrally involved in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
	...onelected best friend Elon Musk.
	His latest target was the United States Agency for International Development, and that agency is the one that not only leads on humanity...
	When you do say the name properly, Agency for International Development, you get a much clearer depiction of what its function is.
	It's to facilitate globalism and corporatism.
	In particular, the way that government agencies and private interests can intersect and benefit one another.
	One speculative example being, of course, George Soros, who is said, and this is Mike Benz's reporting, to gain early access to international policy and therefore be able to benefit.
	For example, if people know, hey, Ukraine's going to get crazily disrupted any day soon, George Soros is apparently able to benefit from that information.
	This is a theory that is put forward by Mike Benz.
	Have a look at that.
	He breaks it down beautifully in the conversation that we had on our show.
	It'll be up on Rumble.
	You'll be able to watch it now.
	So the claim that USA... Once you look at even the name, Agency for International Development, you can start to understand that that's to develop interests, institutions and relationships internationally that are beneficial to globalism.
	The name does give you a better indication than when you call it USAID. That's when you start to just...
	Actually distract yourself.
	And that's something I only learned from the comments today.
	He's on humanitarian assistance around the world, but also works to combat corruption and foreign aid programs.
	It's a big part of what they do.
	I kind of see how that could make Elon Musk a bit uncomfortable.
	So what do you think he did?
	You may already know.
	Well, he removed two of the top leaders of the organization who wouldn't do his bidding over the weekend.
	And then overnight last night...
	Do more bidding over the weekend, otherwise I will see Kyle you into the middle of next week!
	Like, how, like, legacy media use phrases like, do their bidding.
	Like, it's so dumb.
	It's so dumb.
	Last night, employees received an email ordering them not to come into the office today.
	They weren't given a reason or any sort of rationale.
	They were basically just told not to show up.
	Many were even blocked from the system and locked out of their email accounts.
	We're also seeing something similar happening in the Treasury Department.
	In the last few days, Elon Musk and his Doge pals have been granted access to the federal payment system that handles paychecks to federal workers, Social Security checks, tax refunds, and basically incredibly sensitive personal information about anyone who gets those.
	Yeah, but we don't see the government as super trustworthy.
	If I was to express my concern about Elon Musk, it would be, oh, that Neuralink stuff and...
	Colonising Mars.
	I think, does he think that human beings are to be absolved and resolved by technological advance rather than the salvation of God, right?
	So that's how I see it.
	But him going in a government going, these lot are all locked out of their computers.
	I love that!
	That's sort of exactly what I kind of was hoping was going to happen.
	Let me know in the comments in chat whether you feel yourself called to defend bureaucrats and deep state operatives that were previously participating in total control of the citizenry.
	Anyone who gets those payments.
	This takeover is also happening across the Office of Personnel Management.
	Where Musk has gained unprecedented access to federal human resources databases that house sensitive personal information about millions of federal employees.
	And I'm going to talk with the reporter who broke that story today about what else he's learned later in the show.
	Now, I'm going to just be straight with you about all this.
	I mean, in the face of all of this and much more that's happened the last two weeks, there's not always been the type of clear, consistent and united response from leading Democrats that I believe and you probably believe the moment requires.
	Yes, there have been some powerful voices out there in the confirmation hearings.
	Broadly, this is advocacy for the idea that USAID is positive and that it's a disgrace that it's being defunded, right?
	Now, this is a post from Jimmy Dore responding...
	To a clip from Zelensky, because actually, Ukraine are receiving significant funding via USAID. And here's Jimmy Dore responding to Zelensky saying they've only received...
	Half of the $177 billion aid that was allegedly sent from the United States.
	So here's what our man Jimmy Dore has to say on that.
	Ukraine, like Afghanistan, is a money laundering and money funneling operation.
	These wars were never meant to be won.
	They're meant to be ongoing.
	Assange informed us of that years ago.
	If you ever support the Ukraine war effort instead of a sceptical, then congratulations.
	You are a dupe.
	Oh, Jimmy's going for it.
	You're a dupe who's learned nothing in the last 25 years.
	You're going to support another BS war before you know it.
	Okay, so...
	There's some considerable polarity when it comes to views on USAID and my own biases, tendencies, experience and research would suggest to me at least that USAID functions primarily as a kind of form of soft power, cloaking and masking taxpayer expenditure on projects that you would never back if you were told about them explicitly because some of them directly contribute to...
	Citizen management in your own lives, and a lot of it is just sort of squandered, I would say, in this example, on unwinnable wars.
	Here's RFK explaining to Tucker a little while ago, I think it's Jermaine, how, excuse me, explaining to Tucker how USAID used $5 billion in 2014 to begin the Ukraine coup.
	What's interesting about it is money...
	We're superficially informed that this is for aid around the world.
	Even if that were true, you could ask the question, why are we paying for aid around the world?
	We've got enough problems here in America, Maui fire, Hurricane Katrina, floods.
	I mean, it's just like a perpetual and apocalyptic cycle.
	Why are we sending money abroad?
	But it's worse than that.
	These are not philanthropic endeavours.
	They are the masked cartilage of deep state relationship with globalist projects, which require disruption in the form of, i.e., pandemics and wars, in order to legitimize and implement the centralized power that they crave.
	It sort of couldn't be worse.
	Here's RFK giving Tucker an example of how USAID is a participant in projects that are detrimental to you and the planet you live on.
	There are riots, and it's called the Madone Rebellion in Ukraine, which we're not told that we are financing those riots.
	The newspapers never told us, our government never told us.
	USAID, which is the CIA front, put $5 billion into funding those riots.
	Those riots lead to a coup d'etat against the...
	First elected, democratically elected government of the Ukraine.
	It was a government that refused to choose sides and to say, we're going to be on the side of the West.
	So we wanted them out.
	A month before that government has overthrown, Victoria Nuland, who's part of the centerpiece of the neocon ideology and who is now a high-level official in the State Department, has a secret call with the U.S. ambassador.
	Which is tape recorded and is now public, which anybody can go and look up, where she is picking the new cabinet for Ukraine, which is, you know, which is a U.S. Western cabinet.
	So they're picking the new government a month before the old government is overthrown.
	Is that how democracy, is that democracy when Tori Nuland picks your government?
	Well, that's the point, is USAID doesn't really do.
	And the CIA don't do democracy.
	You know, the CIA has overthrown, I think, 83 governments between 1947 and 1997. That's a third of the governments on Earth, and most of them were democracies.
	It doesn't do, it doesn't.
	The time frame that RFK just talked us through, i.e.
	U.S. projects to overthrow foreign governments, that pertains to coups in Central and Latin America Even the milieu that we all exist in now.
	I.e., back then that was a left-wing argument.
	Do you know what the American government does?
	It funds crazy disruption around the world.
	That used to be the left that would make that argument.
	Let me know in the comments in the chat if you remember that.
	Let me give you a clear example.
	Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine.
	That was a book about how America sponsored the overthrow of foreign governments.
	That was generally speaking a left-wing, inverted commas, perspective.
	During the time frame that RFK just described on Tucker, it's become now a right-wing, nationalist, populist issue to say that we cannot trust the government.
	So whether it's Jen Psaki bemoaning the loss of some control of the levers of power, or Joy Reid saying it's a disgrace that people shut out of their offices, this outrageous attempt to humanise USAID, when in fact what it is, is the visible tendrils of deep state power and control, and is an indicator that the method commonly used to mask that power is to tell you, we're trying to help you.
	This is a philanthropic, altruistic organization that we need you to fund.
	How come it's always funded by us?
	How come under investigation it always appears that there's manipulation, coups, lies, maneuvering, Machiavellianism?
	Why can't these stories withstand scrutiny?
	And why is that scrutiny never applied from the left, from the legacy media, from the MSNBCs, from the Sarkis?
	Why do they continue to advocate for big state globalist corruption?
	Why?
	I don't understand why they're singing and dancing at their own conventions when it's so clear that their entire purview is collapsing and imploding.
	There's no one left who believes in this anymore.
	Anyway, that's just what I think.
	Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments.
	And the chat.
	We've looked at USAID from a number of perspectives now.
	One, we've looked at how, in a sense, what it is, is the machinery of the deep state mask.
	Two, we've looked at how many of the projects they pursue are directly, actually adverse to you and your interests.
	And we've looked at the surprising places where...
	Crops up.
	MGT suggesting that it may be connected even to the origins of COVID. Our certainty that it's connected to coups and wars and surveillance and control.
	What an extraordinary organisation.
	Whatever your doubts might be about.
	Trump, Elon, et al.
	Whatever your cynicism might be about this new MAGA populist movement, one thing you can say is their dismantling of bureaucracies is not what you should be concerned about.
	You might be concerned about AI, mRNA technologies.
	You might be concerned about the potential for surveillance.
	But the dismantling of corrupt government, and that's what we're discussing here.
	Corrupt government is nothing to worry about at all.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
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	And Eddie Gallagher was vilified and ultimately imprisoned without trial.
	The thing is, is they weaponized, in my situation, they weaponized the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is the military justice system against me.
	Once the government targets you...
	There is no getting out of that.
	They will go at any lengths to make you look at the way they want to.
	They will create a narrative.
	They have the media on their side.
	A person that can be revered and lionized and celebrated and decorated, I see the amount of medals and ribbons there on you and the cover of your book.
	When it's convenient, you're able to go based on gossip and rumor.
	And that's the bit I recognize.
	Because while it's a million miles away in so many ways, I'm a famous movie star.
	What are you supposed to do?
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	Is there something about that that's morally wrong?
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	I believe everyone should own a firearm if they want to.
	This is America.
	They have the Second Amendment for that reason.
	But I say if you are going to own a firearm, that is going to be one of the biggest responsibilities that you have.
	Because this is meant to do one thing.
	To kill.
	How's that feel?
	Yeah, comfortable.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there I am, firing guns, living life in Florida, baby.
	That's the way to do it.
	Get fully armed, get ready for actual...
	No, I don't know how it's going to go down in this country now, do you?
	I don't know how it's going to go down.
	It's very difficult to diagnose how all of this will unfold with so many fractured and...
	Curiously diverse movements simultaneously springing into life.
	Okay, let's have a look at what's going on with tariffs.
	Tariffs is the new war.
	Under the neoliberals, you had to be scared of drones bombing a wedding with innocent people.
	Now, under MAGA populism, you might get tariffed into the middle of next week.
	Let's look at how tariffs are a significant portion and part of Trump's new administration.
	Here, this is...
	I suppose another aspect of that story...
	Hold on a second.
	Let me see.
	This is putting 10,000 troops on the border.
	Breaking news.
	Mexico's president now says President Trump's tariffs are paused for a month.
	President Trump confirmed the pause, saying Mexico will reinforce the border with 10,000 National Guard troops immediately as part of the negotiations.
	Let's go to ABC's Elizabeth Chelsea on Wall Street, Matt Rivers in Mexico City, and Karen Travers at the White House.
	Matt, how significant is this deal, and what else came out of this conversation?
	Well, this was the off-ramp that I think a lot of people had been hoping for.
	This is why this call was scheduled before this happened.
	And I think both sides will claim this as a win.
	The tariffs now being suspended for one month.
	President Sheinbaum coming out saying that President Trump agreed with her suggestion that she would send 10,000 additional National Guard troops to the northern border.
	The big reason why the Trump administration says that they want these tariffs in place is essentially leverage to force Mexico to do more to stop the flow, the very large flow of fentanyl from here in Mexico to the United States, as well as migration, even though the numbers of migrants that we've been seeing go to the U.S. much lower than we've seen before.
	So President Shane Maugham essentially saying, okay, we'll reinforce the border with 10,000 troops If all of this sounds familiar, it's because it's exactly what happened the last time President Trump threatened tariffs against Mexico.
	He did so against President Lopez Obrador back in 2019. I see tariffs are being used as the primary bulwark and lever against.
	Any issue, for example, order control, migration.
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