Super Bowl goes MAGA: Cheers, Boos & Media Hysteria – SF535
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
And free we are indeed, and awakened we surely are.
We've got so much to talk to you about today.
The culture wars have taken on a new inflection as Trump becomes the first president to attend a Super Bowl.
Why aren't presidents attending Super Bowls?
Did you not know that?
Did you not know that that's the most important sporting event?
Like, in my country, the FA Cup or something, like, the Queen's there.
Oh, no, she died.
Oh, no.
Oh no, the Queen is dead.
The world is changing so quickly.
We've got so much to discuss.
Whether you're watching us on X right now or YouTube, eventually you will make your way to Rumble, even if you're in Brazil, because the world is changing so fast.
Because the Trump effect is beyond national, it's global, it is seeping into sports and to culture and obviously into areas of bureaucracy.
Later on in the show, we'll be talking more about USAID. We won't call it...
USAID. It's not a charity and it never was.
It was a propaganda arm of the government and that is being exposed now.
And while the Dems may go into meltdown, what's he doing?
What's Trump doing?
He's doing exactly what he was voted in to do.
Maybe, let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with this, you could say with something like, what's going on?
In Gaza, and that proposal to take over a region of the world like it's a construction project is somewhat bizarre and peculiar.
We can talk about that at length and in depth if you want to, because ultimately you decide what we talk about.
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Let's get right into what we're doing immediately and without delay.
Well, there are a few things that we wanted to look at, like stills, or is page...
Where's page one?
I don't seem to...
Ah, yeah, this is...
Here it is.
Here it is.
Now, look, you know me.
I'm an old lefty, right?
I was in Hollywood making movies.
I was a person that once went to Cuba to do a bubblegum commercial.
Can you imagine that?
Going to Cuba.
To do a bubblegum commercial while reading Naomi Klein's book, No Logo, which was about the corporatisation of the world and how commercial entities were taking over every aspect of life, that they had ultimately kowtowed, bowed and castrated government to their whim and will.
So I'm a person that was very open to a variety of political purviews.
But since coming to Christ, I see things more clearly.
Unless you are in alignment with...
Spiritual principles.
Unless you are trying to conform your own self to the highest possible ideal, you are nothing more than a vassal for Satan's power, is what I have to say to you now.
But one of the things we've all gotten a little tired of, I suppose, is empty, hollow...
Fallow, shallow, worthless gestures.
Do you remember how irritating it was to have to use a paper straw?
Well, those days are gone.
Now, what I want to say is this.
I believe in regarding, respecting, revering as the stewards of the earth, love and protect the earth.
But haven't you for a long time thought, it's absolute.
I mean, I don't like to curse no more.
It's...
But I'm gonna...
It's bullshit, this!
I'm putting all...
I'm putting all of this...
I'm doing my recycling.
I know for a fact it's all gonna end up in the same place.
I know this is an empty gesture.
We're not gonna have plastic straws no more because it could get inside a dolphin's blowhole and that dolphin could be trying to use its...
Now look, I love dolphins.
And I love their blowholes.
But I was starting to think there were other objectives at play other than the reverence and respect for the planet.
You know, if you see the planet just as a utility, just as a resource, it's the wrong perspective.
Anyway, well, Trump's saying plastic straws are back.
We're going...
Back to plastic straws.
Plastic straws now.
Is there any image that sums up Trump more than a plastic straw and a bottle of Diet Coke?
Let me know in the comments and chat.
We're going to be talking about the MAGA Bowl in a minute.
Apparently it was a pretty boring game.
I'm English.
I didn't watch it.
But I know that it was essentially, on some level people thought that it was...
They're not called the Kaiser Chiefs, are they?
They're called the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles.
But really, it was Trump versus Taylor Swift.
And really, that's...
Objects that belong to the culture of the left versus objects that belong to the culture of the right.
And even that goes deeper because that's corporate globalism, Taylor Swift, and nationalist populism, Trump.
And even that goes deeper, and I'll do my best to explain it as well as I can, but one of the things that we have to focus on before we get into any of that is ending propaganda wherever we face and confront it.
And I'm telling you, baby, Putin's bots are at it.
Again, what are they up to, these bots?
Oh, Putin's bots are trying once again to make people vote in the interests of their nation rather than voting like they're part of a global corporation.
A Kremlin-backed campaign is trying to influence voters ahead of the elections in Germany, according to a report obtained by Politico.
Well, guess who owns Politico?
Do Politico get any money from USAID? They used to, honey.
They used to.
Not anymore.
Dean SNJ in the Rumble chat.
Trump is not right-wing.
Trump's not right-wing.
Fair enough, mate.
Fair enough.
Whatever you believe.
I actually don't mind what you say.
Quick comment on Mike Benz's reaction to Chris Pavlovsky's post.
Rumble's a US company now fully operational in Brazil.
I give credit to real Donald Trump for winning in November.
Brazil's move to rescind the censorship order on Rumble is proof that...
I can't see what it says now because it's not included, but I reckon Pavlovsky, the CEO here at Rumble, goes on to say something like American politics is having an influence around the world.
Here's Mike Benz.
Now, Mike Benz...
It's probably one of the people I'd like to see in government.
Let me know in the comments and chat if you'd agree with that.
Like, the way that, you know, should Bobby Kennedy be confirmed, and we pray that he will be, you're going to see Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makkari heading up vital organisations and agencies within the American healthcare system that had previously been occupied by the very sorts of people that Pfizer would go on to employ.
I'm talking about, like, Scott Gottlieb, who is head of the FDA, then, in a radical departure, went to work for Pfizer.
Almost as if those two organisations are essentially one bloody entity.
Anyway, Mike Benz, I believe, should get a job somewhere in US politics.
Let me know in the comments in chat if you agree with that.
2S after USAID goes down, Brazil finally ends its month-long censorship ban on Rumble.
Hmm, it's almost like everything I said about Brazil's censorship apparatus is being juiced by USAID cash and killing their USAID funding and network partnerships would lessen their grip.
So what was USAID? Really about?
Was it about helping people around the world?
The brass neck.
The balls of steel of these people that continually claim to be helping you while taxing you.
Because otherwise you wouldn't pay your taxes, right?
So you have to continually be convinced.
We're just going to help you.
When you say help, you mean tax.
We do mean tax.
Our help is going to look a lot like tax.
Our help is going to look a lot like control.
Nice racket you guys had running for a little while there.
Nice little racket.
And it don't only affect your country.
Of course it affects mine.
My country, the United Kingdom, run now by a centrist globalist movement called the Labour Party that was initially set up in order to support, bind together and empower ordinary working people after the incredible, unconscionable sacrifices they made during the Second World War, now supports globalism overtly and explicitly, with their leader Keir Starmer saying he would pick Davos over Westminster any day.
Of the week, with him reportedly having meetings with the CIA, of which the USAID is essentially a cutout, funded ultimately by the CIA. And we're going to be showing you through some brilliant reporting, direct and explicit contacts between the USAID program and the CIA. And Keir Starmer, of course, now Prime Minister of one of the great countries, the United Kingdom, formally met with the CIA. Many people suspect...
In order to ensure the ongoing incarceration of Julian Assange, which blessedly has now ended.
A man held in jail without trial in my country, essentially for the crime of journalism.
What an extraordinary story that was.
But what are they up to in the UK now?
They're backing down from the Online Safety Act.
We've got to protect you.
When you say protect, do you mean tax?
Yeah, we mean tax and we mean control your free speech.
That's what the Online Safety Act was.
Now, you'll struggle to meet people that have been more directly and obviously impacted by the relationships by the UK government and aspects of the media than me.
And I'll go into that in explicit detail one fine day.
But it's interesting to see that the Trump effect includes globalist bureaucrats around the world backing down from their attempts to control, pretending they're here to help you.
We're going to help you.
How are you going to help us?
By controlling our free speech, by taxing us, by pretending that you've got some ecological imperative or incentive, and then closing down our freedom, or somehow making us engage in bizarre rituals of purchase.
You know, you can have these type of straws, not these type of straws, because we're pretending it's directly affecting something.
Ah, you godless psychopaths.
You lunatics.
You satanists.
The game, it seems, is...
Pretty close to being up for you lot, but, you know, let's not be complacent.
So, yeah, the Labour have backed down from the Online Safety Act after Trump's team threatened tariffs.
Oh, the all-powerful and almighty tariffs still powerfully in effect.
We're going to be with you for another hour.
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Whether you have Trump in power or Obama in power, you're still going to need God, baby!
You're still going to need God on your deathbed because Obama one day will die.
Trump will one day die.
You will one day die.
And when that day comes, you are going to need some kind of connection to the limitless light that's available to you.
And even before your death, you will suffer because suffering is inevitable down here because it is, you'd have to say, dominated by the evil one.
We've got so much more to discuss, but let's get into our first real story, the MAGA Bowl.
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It's not really my gig.
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a minute, I'm talking about 1pm CT with Paul Kingsnorth, one of the great Christian intellectuals who during the pandemic period really helped me understand what was happening, that it was kind of a materialist, individualist coup.
He's one of those people that came to Christ via an intellectual route.
If you want to join me for that conversation, it's on at 2pm ET, 7pm GMT.
If you're a Rumble Premium member or a Locals member like Michael L. Ross, then you will be able to join us for it and I reckon you should.
Michael L. Ross asked in that Locals chat, What about doing Community 2025 in Florida?
What a great idea.
Community for Christ in Florida.
Let me know if you'd be interested in attending a two-day live event in Florida where we invite brilliant speakers and intellectual innovators to talk about wellness from a Christian perspective and to awaken together.
A kind of Christianity that's robust enough for the present day.
Not that Christianity needs any help from you or I. Jesus Christ is all-powerful, but it's an ongoing conversation and I'd like to have it with you.
Let me know if you'd be interested in the comments and chat.
Come into Florida to glorify him.
To glorify him.
Jude Syke posted a brilliant little meme there a minute ago talking about how Chuck Schumer is complaining about the government dismantling unelected officials.
Have a look at Jude Syke's post over there on Locals and Lukey Baby.
Maybe post that somewhere else if you can find it and check it.
MAGABOWL! We all care about secular festivals, whether we know we do or not.
Isn't the Super Bowl the most impressive and powerful global sporting event?
Some people might say it's the FIFA World Cup Final because it brings together nations from across the world.
But your nation is, as yet, the most powerful nation on Earth and the Super Bowl the most important and significant event.
So, was the Super Bowl yesterday or last week or however you want to term this thing, you could be watching this at any time in the future.
For all I know, you're in a capsule floating through limitless space right now looking at a destroyed planet and saying, why didn't they listen?
The message was so clear.
But let's assume that you're watching this right now in the relative present.
Was yesterday the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Kansas City Chiefs.
Or was it Donald Trump?
Versus Taylor Swift.
And what are those living synecdoches about, really?
Ultimately, you could contest that Taylor Swift began as a Christian artist and was captured by the culture.
And while she was not so overtly sexualized as some pop figures have been, she is no doubt a colonial object of the imperialist state.
Donald Trump represents a billion things to a billion different people.
But ultimately, you could contest that he is a kind of national...
I'm not making a moral evaluation of Donald Trump.
Who am I to make a moral evaluation of anyone or anything?
What you can say is that at that festival of the Super Bowl, while events on the field may not have been that fascinating, as I understand it was a relatively drab game, as a cultural artifact, it was important.
Not just because of the halftime show, not just because of the commercials that Elon acquired, but...
Who gets booed and who gets cheered?
Who is winning the culture war and who will ultimately prevail?
Who does America belong to?
Who does light and love belong to?
Ultimately, let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
Let's get into this story together.
Apparently, Trump got cheered.
Swift got cheered.
Is this the new America that we were promised?
Let's get into it, baby.
Now, nationalism, the establishment of the state...
I'm not even talking about your fantastic country, the United States of America, and it's peculiar.
And fascinating history.
It's breakaway from the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Why did you leave us?
We could have used those taxes!
We could have used them!
King George was doing his very best!
The idea of nations even beyond America is that there's a certain sovereign territory that agrees to a certain set of rules whose population are subject to its rules, its laws and its taxes.
The culture war is about...
Whose rules and laws are we obeying and abiding by?
For a minute, we had this surgent neoliberalism, which seemed to be telling us that America kind of belonged to this secularist, globalist...
Corporatize?
Let's pretend we care about the vulnerable, but we ain't doing much about it, really.
Because look what happened in 2008, and who do you think was most impacted by events in 2008 under Barack Obama, when he was the most powerful man in the world, when the financial industry collapsed?
Who do you think was most negatively impacted by that collapse?
Was it billionaires and elites or was it real ordinary Americans crushed by it?
It's obviously the latter.
So any claims that the neoliberal left make, and I'm talking about the cultural left, people that are on The View, sort of wringing their hankies and wringing their hands and dabbing their tears, they claim that they represent the America of the vulnerable, right?
That's what they're saying.
Oh no, the genocide, the blankets with smallpox.
Oh no, slavery.
Slavery was terrible.
Smallpox blankets are bad.
What's even worse than that is claiming to care about those issues simply to supplement and further empower the kind of institutional corporatized interests that Barack Obama and the neoliberal left plainly represent.
If you don't believe me, just look at their shows on Netflix.
Look at the ideas that they're conveying.
Let me know in the comments in chat what you feel about that.
If you're going to have a nation...
You're probably going to end up with a nationalist president or leader at some point, otherwise nationalism itself starts to unweave and unravel, doesn't it?
We've got a nation, right?
It's the United States of America.
Or do you want America to be co-opted by globalist, corporatized interests that impact everything from free speech to agriculture to the food that you eat?
Or do you want America and Americans to control America?
Well, looking at the results of the last election, the people have spoken.
They have spoken loud and clear.
And it seems that they support Donald J. Trump.
The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift.
They're booed out of the stadium.
MAGA is very unforgiving.
Very unforgiving.
Very unforgiving.
Beautiful people, but they won't forgive you.
They won't forgive you.
Unforgiving is not a good quality, actually.
We should be very, very forgiving.
It's one of the key...
...
But the problem is that the legacy media and the whole democratic cultural movement has become so hypocritical that someone like Bobby Kennedy, who if you looked at it from some bizarre prismic lens set around the mid-90s, Bobby Kennedy is to the inverted commas left of figures like Barack Bobby Kennedy is to the inverted commas left of figures like Barack Obama and maybe even someone like And who does he govern alongside now?
Interesting.
Why Taylor Swift getting booed at the Super Bowl was even more chilling than you think.
It was chilling, but it's even more chilling.
It's misogyny.
It's racism.
It's all of the words that we use to try and cling on to power for global corporations.
It's not that chilling.
I've been in stadiums before.
People in crowds don't behave how you want them to unless you propagandize every aspect of public life.
Now, Kendrick Lamar's halftime show was apparently full of political messaging, and I suppose it's probably in alignment with hip-hop in general.
I'm a fan of hip-hop.
I love hip-hop music.
I love the way it emerged organically and naturally out of ghettoized communities and empowered people to use new forms of poetry.
I love hip-hop.
It's a great American modern art form that I reckon ranks alongside jazz and stand-up comedy as kind of representing our cultural and political moment beyond sides in some phony culture war.
So let's see why Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance was so controversial.
And let's see what Ana Navarro believes about it.
Ana Navarro is one of the people off The View, I figure.
And she says that Kendrick Lamar's halftime show is going to lead to Trump banning black people performing.
I mean, I don't know how many of the players on the average NFL side are people of color, but I don't reckon that Trump does.
Is or has ever been the type of mad old-school slave plantation racist that cultural commentators like to claim he is.
For example, up until the point that he got involved in politics, Trump was pretty much a hip-hop hero, wasn't he?
He was always cropping up in people's lyrics and bars the whole time, using him in a rhyme because he was an exemplifier of self-made, sort of, you know, personal grandiosity, let's be honest, the kind of tycoon intro...
Entrepreneur symbol of American will, right?
So you can't just suddenly turn him into a representative of racism, because I don't think Donald Trump actually operates within those parameters.
I don't think he's a person who goes around being racist.
I just don't think that's how he operates.
But let me know what you think in the comments in chat, and let's see what they're saying over on The View, baby.
What about you, Emma?
Okay, well, you know I don't do sports, you know I don't do football, so I wasn't watching the game.
But listen.
I think today Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning black people from halftime.
Because, you remember last week we were talking about...
Stop trying to make everything worse all the time.
Let's look for ways to reconcile not only Americans with different political views, but the people of the world.
This is it.
This is your actual real life right now that you're living, where you're going to have children, where you're going to...
God forbid, lose children, where your heart's going to get broken, where the people you love and care about are going to die.
We have to align ourselves with higher principles.
We cannot live in the giddy-ing soup of tittle-tattle and condemnation and judgment.
That is the realm of Lucifer.
That is the counterfeit realm.
That is the counterfeit realm of superficiality and surface, i.e., literally, racism is about skin-deep, cutaneous matters.
Get beneath the skin, into the skeletal, into the...
into the marrow deep love, glory and light available to you and to me.
Embrace it now.
Neil deGrasse Tyson of course went viral with his slightly reductive and I would say I'm going to go ahead and say stupid post saying the Super Bowl athlete.
Curious that talented athletes frequently credit God when they win, but we rarely see them blame God when they lose.
Yeah, why is that?
Why would that be?
Now, The Onion did a brilliant article about that maybe 20 years ago now when they had a bunch of fictional basketball athletes going, you know, like a basketball star says God really let him down when he missed that shot.
So The Onion have already satirized that notion and that tendency.
The principle of gratitude is one of the ways that we align ourselves We are limited.
The potential for knowledge is without.
Neil deGrasse Tyson should know that because he's a science educator, isn't he?
And astrologist.
Astrology, astronomy.
Astronomer.
He's into the constellations of the stars, the limitless mysteries of the cosmos, an inheritor of the mantle of the great Carl Sagan, who, bringing mystery to millions through the explication and analysis of the cosmos, brings to light real love and beauty of the impossible grandeur of...
That simply cannot have come about as a result of chaos.
Athletes saying, I thank God, means that they are accrediting God with their dedication, their devotion, their loving family, the obstacles they've overcome and surmounted.
Blaming God would be petulant, individualistic and ridiculous.
We live in a culture that sanctifies the role of the victim.
Even that, by the way, is a Christian idea.
Who is the ultimate victim that took on the sins of the world?
Bore them!
So all the arguments that happen within the culture are using ideas and motifs borrowed from, robbed from, from Christian grammar.
Anyway, and Neil deGrasse Tyson here advocates, as one might expect, for a kind of secularist, materialist worldview.
If nothing is sacred, if nothing is holy, why don't we spend all our time just pursuing pleasure and personal glory?
I would say...
Athletes acknowledging God in their own apparent greatness is exactly what we want.
Or brave people from the military saying that God protected them even when they've suffered terrible injury.
I'm thinking about Sam Brown, potential future senator of Las Vegas, if it is God's will that he is confirmed.
He, after losing his brother to suicide, after being terribly burned in an explosion, devotes himself to God.
Precisely because when bad things happen, that is God tuning us.
Helping us to reach the high notes in his concerto of magical mystery and glory.
We don't want to be down here in the bum-dums notes.
We don't want to be down here in the mundial, in the crap.
We thank and we praise God that God may use us as his vessel.
And if the Super Bowl crowd are to be believed, they are starting to align again with virtues like the kingdom and the idea of the king.
Although I would say Donald Trump is very much an earthly king, and I'm sure he wouldn't make any claims beyond that.
And they are rejecting the idea of Taylor Swift, who when they wanted to use her to win a presidential election, trot her out at some sort of conference.
Or use her endorsement to back up...
Dodd candidates like Biden and Kamala, who belong to the corporatised version of the left.
They were happy to use her then, where they're not happy to hear the mandate reversed and rejected.
The people have spoken, and the people have spoken on behalf of Donald Trump.
But that's just what I think.
Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and chat, what you believe is so much more important than what I believe.
We're all down here on our knees together, bowing before the king.
The pose I would suggest, and I thank God for that.
We've got a fantastic show!
Oh, I've spoken so much, I've run out of actual oxygen.
Hold on, let me drink a bit.
Once in a while, I've got to...
I'm not endorsing this, by the way, although...
What a drink.
What a drink!
It was the most watched Super Bowl in history.
Is that what they're saying, huh?
Is that what they're saying?
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My man, Paul Kingsnorth.
He's a brilliant, brilliant...
He's not a theologian.
I wouldn't call him that.
I would say that he's...
Well, let's have a look at him right now.
I'm just going to show you that, dude.
Dude, my son.
Man.
He's that.
He's that.
He lives inside of that.
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He was the great chat that we had with Wes Huff, who you probably saw on Rogan if you've heard of him.
Here's a little excerpt of that now, talking about the time when, let's have a look at the gods of hedonism and sex don't exist.
Ooh, that's good.
Let's have a look at that.
When we look at the culture and we say, No, your gods of hedonism and sex and freedom, they don't exist.
They're paganizations, they're bastardizations of what is true and good and beautiful, and you're ultimately hurting yourself when you do them.
We are atheists.
Like the early Christians were atheists.
And when we won't participate in...
You know, the celebration of all sorts of things from, you know, media to LGBTQ issues to abortion.
These things were deemed antisocial, whether that's, you know, socially or politically or, you know, filling the gap.
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We've got another story about USAID now.
You're going to love it, right?
We're talking through the bit where Trump calls out Politico journalists to their faces over USAID funding.
That's going to be really good.
Aaron Maté, who's a deep, deeply left-wing commentator and journalist, reacting to the Washington Post headlines about independent media in Russia.
We've also got Dems.
This is brilliant.
You're going to love this.
Dems on CNN justifying USAID spending $20 million on Iraqi Sesame Street.
And then if we have time for it, we'll show you Rogan and Brett Weinstein reacting to some of the bizarre ones.
Also, most bizarre USAID payments.
Let me know in the chat if you want to see me over the course of the next hour talking about Tulsi Gabbard or if you want to see a bit of stuff on Doge or gender and children, Trump signing an order to protect women's sports or Gaza.
So put Gaza, gender, Tulsi.
Or do you want to see about UK farmers?
Whatever word in the chat.
I'm going to be watching the Rumble chat.
I'm going to be watching the locals chat.
We'll try and look over at X, what you're saying there, but you've got to recognise, man, we do this thing for Rumble.
Okay, we're going to start off with USAID. Can you tell me how to get global propaganda out?
Yes, we can.
Use USAID. And then you can get $20 million of US taxpayer money to fund Iraqi Sesame Street.
Is that what you need?
In the middle of the Maui fires, or the California fires, or Katrina, or the various disasters we did upon America.
Oh no!
The storms have come!
Won't someone please?
Please, get me an Iraqi version of Mr. Snuffleupagus!
Let's have a look at how USAID has been funding propaganda around the world.
For a while now, you might have been thinking, how on earth are these neoliberal propagandist tools of the state being funded?
Who's reading New York Times?
Who's reading Politico?
Well, the fact is, no one's reading them, and they're being subsidized by you, the people who hate them and who they hate.
Normal Americans are dumb, stupid, racist, rapist, misogynists.
Can we have some of your tax dollars, please?
It don't come cheap, condemning people.
Also, kids in Iraq really need to see Bert Nerney, but like Muslim versions that are...
Oh, wait a minute.
That's going to be complicated.
Let's have a look.
First of all...
At your man Trump calling out political journalists, politico-journalists, excuse me, to their faces.
This is the kind of confrontational Donald Trump that I think catharsised a lot of our anger at the government.
One of the things they don't get when the government's being torn apart from within is that most of us hate the government and we've...
Good reason.
Mind you, maybe you could make the arguments when it comes to them social justice warriors that were pulling down statues and all that kind of stuff.
In a way, they were trying to express a similar rage at secularized power operating within spiritual dominions.
Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that talking point.
Let's have a look at Donald Trump calling out political journalists, co-journalists.
Come on, say it correctly.
I mean, I'm funding it.
By paying my taxes, I might as well say it, right?
Whether you like Politico or not, you're funding it.
Whether you like the BBC or not, you're funding it.
BBC gets not only taxpayer money from the UK, or the licence fee, which amounts to a tax.
It's kind of tax.
It's not voluntary, is it?
Is it voluntary?
No.
It's a tax then, isn't it?
It's a tax, right?
Not only that, they're getting USAID money.
They're getting your money from America or the BBC. What do they do with that?
They pretend they care about you while making you dumber, while controlling you.
License fees should be scrapped.
USAID should be scrapped.
These systems of propagandization should be scrapped.
We should decide for ourselves where to get our information.
But who's going to protect you from Putin's butt-butts?
Who's going to protect you from Putin's butt-butts?
I'm going to use my own discernment granted to me by a limitless cosmic force that don't need to be brokered or negotiated by you.
You corrupt scum.
Let's enjoy Trump taking on some Politico journalists.
Do you see what happened yesterday where they found hundreds of millions of dollars of money was fraudulently given to newspapers and, I guess, Politico.
I don't know.
They're here.
Good.
I hope you're enjoying your breakfast.
No, they gave money to all this out of U.S. USAID, right?
USAID. It came out.
Hundreds of just tremendous amounts of money had nothing to do with anything.
This is a terrible thing that was experienced, but we're catching them left and right.
We're catching them.
We're catching them to a point where they don't know what the heck is going on.
They can't believe they're getting caught.
And I have great respect for the people that are doing it.
Elon Musk is helping us on it.
And he's pretty good.
He's pretty good.
He's pretty good at it, but the numbers are astounding.
They're astounding.
Even Doug was shaken up by what he heard.
Let's have a look at journalist Aaron Marte, who could hardly be called a stooge of the right.
On some headlines from the legacy media, in this case, Washington Post.
Independent media in Russia.
Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.
Independent media in Russia and Ukraine have been critical of their governments and provide alternative reporting, but much of it relied on US grants.
We're calling it grants.
It's actually state funding for Russian and Ukrainian media that is probably antithetical to their sovereign and democratically, inverted commas, elected governments.
You could maybe argue that Putin is.
Let's go back to that.
A dictator.
Put that post back.
Thank you.
So Aaron Matto says, Washington Post headline, independent media in Russia, Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.
The headline should be US state funded media in Russia and Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.
Because what was happening is the pretense that that information And that USAID as an entity was for you, for your benefit.
But actually, was it for your benefit or was it...
Hmm.
Supportive of the interests of the powerful.
They lost their mandate because they had no principles of any value or worth.
I'm talking about the entire Democrat party-oriented left.
It's not just in your country.
It's in my country, too.
They're phonies.
They're fakes.
They're liars.
They're taking your money, claiming they're using it to protect you, when in fact they're using it to control you.
That's why the pandemic era was so revelatory, because it was the biggest sting.
They ever tried.
Oh no!
You're in so much danger.
Mmm.
So much danger.
Yeah.
And of course it just emerged from nature.
Emerged from nature.
Mmm.
And we've got a vaccine that's really, really effective.
Mmm.
And isn't bad for you.
Mmm.
Doesn't cause vaccine injury.
Mmm.
And then we can discuss it freely and come up with scientific conclusions about whether it's effective and you can report openly on whether or not it's had an mmm.
We all saw how big tech behaved.
We all saw how the legacy...
We know now that they are liars.
And now it is unfurling and unfolding before our eyes.
We are being revealed truths that were deeply concealed and sometimes so preposterous as to seem fictional.
Literally, $20 million of taxpayer money was spent on bringing Sesame Street to Iraqi children.
Well, we have to bring Sesame Street to Iraqi children.
Otherwise...
Look, come on, guys.
Stop lying to us.
Here is a CNN pundit who, likely himself or herself, is the recipient of USAID funding, claiming that we need, more than anything, Iraqi Sesame Street.
Won't somebody please?
Like, sometimes I wake up in the dinner night.
Oh, no.
Who's propagandizing Iraqi children?
Is funding Sesame Street a judicious use of soft power?
Well, Michael, the way you put it is the way I hope folks considering your poll today will think about it.
This isn't just funding a kid's show for children, millions of children, in countries like Iraq.
Will you tell me how to get, how to get Iraqi children to believe in our globalist ideals?
Iraq.
It's a show that helps teach values, helps teach public health.
Values!
Values is not an objective thing once you don't believe in God.
You could have values that are like, well, I want to have sex with as many people as possible.
You could have values like, I only want to eat sugary food.
Unless there's a divine principle, there are no values.
And these globalist corporatists...
Believe only in control.
And of course they can't come out and say we want to control you because it's better for us to be able to control you.
So they have to say we're controlling you because we're going to help you.
You don't know the difference between good information and bad information, do you?
Can we help you?
You don't know the difference between good food and bad food and good gods and bad gods.
Why don't you let us do your thinking for you?
Why don't you get in your house?
Why don't we insert a chip under your skin?
Why don't you take this medication?
Why don't you shut up?
Why don't you read what we want you to read?
Why don't you watch Iraqi...
Sesame Street.
Well, maybe because I'm awake.
Teach public health helps prevent kids from dying from dysentery and disease and helps.
If your best method for stopping children from dying from dysentery is Big Bird.
Then you are in a lot of trouble, son, because I bet Big Bird will probably give him avian flu.
Oh no, we've got an avian flu outbreak in Iraq.
It was caused by Big Bird.
Everyone get inside your houses and pay us more taxes.
And helps push values like collaboration, peacefulness, cooperation in a society where the alternative is ISIS, extremism, and terrorism.
Okay, what caused ISIS? Let's spend 10 seconds or so thinking about that.
America and American foreign policy caused ISIS by getting involved in wars that were none of America's business, for which many, many brave American men and women lost their lives.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children lost their lives, and it was all based on a total lie!
And the people that told you that lie, that amplified that lie, are wanting you to listen to them again right now!
Wow!
Will you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
They want you all living on Sesame Street because they think you're dumb kids.
Your point, it's pennies on the dollar.
The U.S. Department of Defense has an annual budget.
Just a small amount of money we can propagandize children in Iraq.
I don't mind or care what Iraqi children are thinking.
If you love Iraqi children so much, how about stop bombing them?
Stop getting involved in their country's politics?
Back off!
Of about $850 billion.
USAID was spending about $30 billion.
It is a small proportion of our total federal spending, and as Joe Nye would often say, it's not just software.
That would work great if FEMA hadn't been such an unmitigated disaster for the last, well, for the entirety of the Biden administration.
If we hadn't seen American suffering, American schools in decline, American roads full of potholes.
Sort that out!
Then maybe we'll start thinking about children's entertainment in the Middle East.
It's not just soft power, it's smart power.
Let me leave you with one other...
Ugh, you filthy propagandists.
I think everything's a catchphrase, don't they?
What if we say it's not soft power, it's smart power, like a smartphone?
Everyone loves a smartphone, which we ironically also use to propagandize everybody with messages that are detrimental to their quality of life.
Yeah, smart power.
People like smart things, right?
No, people like dumb stuff, man.
Dumb stuff like this filthy propaganda that we're paying for ourselves.
With one other quote, Michael, if I could, Jim Mattis, who is a four-star Marine Corps general and Trump's Secretary of Defense in his first term, in a hearing back then said, if you slash development and aid spending, then I'm going to need more bullets for our troops.
I am a four-star general.
And I know that wars are only won by Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, and Bert and Ernie.
Missiles, yes, they can do a certain amount.
But eventually, you need Sesame Street.
And why stop there?
Why not revive Degrassi Jr. High?
How about a whole fleet of shows?
Why not bring...
Boss cat!
And Scooby-Doo.
Two Iraqi children everywhere.
The most sensational top cat!
Trying to get you all close friends!
It's gone out of hand.
When looking at the various crises, wars, and radicalised militia that have emerged from the Middle East, if you think the problem is that there hasn't been sufficient provision of USAID, then you are really wildly and radically missing the point.
of American interventionism in order to service corporate interests and start questioning right now what U.S. taxpayer dollars might be being in Ukraine and where those weapons might be ended up and what the relationship was with USAID when it comes to Ukrainian media.
I am not suggesting, and why would anyone care if I did or didn't, that Putin is, you know, Putin's an imperialist, he's a warmonger, whatever, I wouldn't want to live in Putin's Russia.
More interested in is the misuse of American minds and money in order to support globalist Corporatist agenda.
And USAID was clearly at the very forefront of their propagandist ideology.
They killed God.
They have no values.
They have no principle except control.
They don't believe in you as an individual.
They don't believe in your nation.
And we have the same problem in my country too.
Surely, Lord, we must rise up against them.
Surely we must attune to the highest possible frequencies that grant us individual sovereignty, community control, and the ability to serve one another and love the planet on the basis that all things are sacred.
Not their crazy, profane, disgusting ideology.
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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You know, it reminded me when you were talking about the Grammys there, one of the earliest accusations against Christianity within the first few centuries of its existence was that Christians were antisocial because they would not participate in the customs of the culture, which were inherently religious.
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A lot of ya have said Tulsi.
I've seen a lot of people talking about, like, Gaza and the West Bank.
A lot of people interested in UK farmers.
But, like, I'll tell ya, we're going to do Tulsi first, alright?
Because it's an amazing and fascinating story, actually, because, well, you'll see.
From the brilliant way that Gareth, our producer, has put it together.
Our content producer has put it together.
Let's get into that right now.
Yeah, Rachel Maddow, Adam Schiff, Smears, Tulsi.
Yeah, this is good.
Jeff Sachs, right.
Tulsi Gabbard, feminist icon or Putin puppet?
Tulsi Gabbard, in any sane world, would have become the leader of the Democratic Party, her or Bobby Kennedy, or one of the great political figures that they eschewed and cast out because they couldn't fit them into their corrupt and maddening model.
Tulsi Gabbard, I've met her, I know her, she's...
Full of, like, poise and dignity and gravitas and duty.
I bet if I had a conversation about a bunch of stuff, there'd be loads of things that I would disagree with her on.
I don't know what they would be, but I'll know this.
I wouldn't think she was lying to me because she was a corporate shill or Putin's puppet.
Isn't it amazing to see someone like Rachel Maddow, who in the best possible version of herself, would be an advocate for female empowerment?
Strength among women.
Think of some of the things you've probably seen Rachel Maddow say about Hillary Clinton.
I'm just improvising now, but I bet she said things like, you know, Hillary Clinton and her not being elected is a...
Demonstrates how America is still a misogynistic country that hates women at a very deep level.
I bet she said things like that.
I don't know for a fact, but what I do know she said is, take them vaccines and then the COVID stops with you, right?
We all saw that.
We've all seen Rachel Maddow advocating for things that ultimately are beneficial to the interests of powerful elites.
That's, in a sense, a way that you can diagnose whether or not you can trust someone.
Here's Rachel Maddow now mocking.
Tulsi Gabbard, which seems like a weird position to take.
We're going to start there.
Then we're going to get Jeffrey Sachs' take on Tulsi Gabbard and why the establishment, in particular the military-industrial complex, fear her so deeply.
So let's go on a journey and analyse and try to understand what Tulsi Gabbard represents.
Hopefully she represents the interests of the American people and understands that war is an awful, galling...
Terrible thing that should only ever be seen as a last resort and should be never used as a method and means to extract revenue from American people and to end needlessly American lives or the lives of people around the world.
Let's start off, though, with Rachel Maddow inexplicably and extraordinarily damning and condemning Tulsi Gabbard, who in any sensible world will be seen as a bulwark vanguard figure in any...
Feminist empowerment movement.
Let's start there.
Although I would say that, you know, true greatness goes way, way beyond sex or gender or any of that stuff.
All Republicans in the Senate voted tonight to advance the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence.
It's like saying that I could be a defensive lineman on the Philadelphia Eagles.
Sure.
Well, you could have given it a go.
It couldn't have gone any worse for them, I understand.
No, no, actually, they won and it was an easy victory.
Maybe they could have carried you and accommodated you, Rachel.
I don't know, but certainly that's an extremely derisory and dismissive thing to say about a brilliant political figure and a service person.
Okay, let's have a look at Adam Schiff smearing Gabard as Putin's girl in an attempt to block her D&I. What do you think the American people should know about her as a nominee as we're heading toward that final vote tomorrow?
Well, first, I think it's important, as with all these nominees, to just level set.
Normally, if you're talking about someone who's going to head an agency, let alone, in this case, all the intelligence agencies, you would expect a nominee to have some experience, maybe having worked for an intelligence agency, maybe having led an intelligence agency.
Or even, at a minimum, served on a relevant committee, like the Intelligence Committee in Congress.
Tulsi Gabbard has none of that experience.
Zero, nada, zilcho.
That would normally, in a normal world, be disqualifying.
But she goes far beyond that.
She has echoed Kremlin talking points about the origin of the war against Ukraine.
She's pushed out Russian propaganda about U.S. biolabs in Ukraine.
One of the pretexts that Russia wanted to use for its invasion to the point where RT, Russia Today, this propaganda outfit, is praising her to the degree that advisers close to Putin refer to her as our girl, an interesting diminutive for someone who might be leading U.S. intelligence agencies.
This is someone who met with Bashar al-Assad.
What's a trivial point, Nat?
It kind of...
Someone's idiomatic use of the phrase our girl being used as an example of corruption and affiliation.
Indeed, Russia, as one of the other two global superpowers you would contest, is a vital relationship for America.
It's absolutely necessary that Political figures in positions of power find ways of assuaging the tensions that have been exacerbated and increased under the Biden-stroked Kamala Harris administration.
Just preposterous perspective from Adam Schiff there.
And if you look at Schiff, the old Schiff, look at him all furtive and sort of half-grinning.
Like, do you call that a duper's delight?
Let me know in the comments in chat.
That way someone's sort of like...
She's terrible.
She's a terrible person.
And let's have a look at where that dude gets his donations from.
Assad came back, had, you know, wonderful things to say about how he wanted to get across the impression that he wouldn't engage in terrible things against his own people.
When our own intelligence agencies were saying he has gassed his own people.
So hard to imagine someone more disqualified from running those agencies.
But Republican opposition to all of these controversial, unqualified, disqualified nominees has collapsed.
And maybe collapse is too strong a word because that presupposes there was an infrastructure to stand up to these bad choices to begin with.
But nevertheless, they all seem headed for confirmation, which is just terrible for the country.
Terrible, terrible for the country, terrible for the global corporatist interest that captured your country for a long time.
Let's see how this plays out.
Now, with something as complex as the way that deep state agencies are able to implement and continue their power, even beyond the vicissitudes of elections and shifts.
Let's listen to Jeffrey Sachs, who from the beginning of these kind of conversations online, from the advent of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, has given us alternative perspectives that are historically grounded.
And, for example, demonstrated the involvement of the United States in the 2014 coup in Ukraine.
Here he is explaining exactly why to Tucker Carlson that Tulsi Gabbard's appointment is significant.
She's probably, and I don't want to jinx anything, she's probably the most important appointment of the Trump administration.
It does seem that way.
She is.
Incredibly intelligent, incredibly honest, incredibly committed to U.S. security, and would do a superb job.
So that's why she's being opposed, because the forces that are...
Worse than mediocre, that are right now on top of a $1.5 trillion a year machine, that have been running disastrous wars, that have been bringing us closer and closer to doom, don't want any accountability.
And what Tulsi Gabbard would represent is competence, honesty, forthrightness.
And not having been a party to all these failures.
There you are, Jeffrey Sachs' insights, perhaps a little more revelatory and reliable than Rachel Maddow's dismissiveness and Adam Schiff's smarm.
Tulsi Gabbard is the kind of dignified warrior that you want enrolled, such as the one that she will blessedly, I pray, be confirmed in later this week.
This is the kind of political appointment that were we...
Granted, an independent legacy media or an independent-minded legacy media will be reported on as a radical transformation in American politics.
The idea that a political figure like Donald Trump would form alliances with Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard will be exciting to anyone genuinely interested in the responsible and novel and evolving use of power in the greatest country in the world.
But instead...
She is smeared and condemned in the same way that Bobby Kennedy is, in the same way that Trump is, because their idea is to normalise bureaucratic, globalist, corporatised power in every area of American life, and beyond that, in every nation on earth.
They want a stooge in every role, puppeted and controlled by mysterious, centralised interests that perhaps go beyond even matters of dominion and resource.
But that's just what I think.
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