July 24, 2025 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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| Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brandon trying to bring real journalism to the American people. | |
| Hello there you Awakening Wonders. | |
| Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. | |
| Thank you Tim Cast for the raid. | |
| Thank you Mug Club for the raid. | |
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| We're talking about a variety of subjects today. | |
| We're talking about Colbert has been cancelled. | |
| We're talking about riots all the way across the UK and people being flung in prison in the United Kingdom simply for protesting. | |
| What's going on in my country? | |
| Let me know in the comments and chat if you are from there. | |
| This is a time for us to awaken urgently and immediately. | |
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| Now then, NATO's got a lot of work to do. | |
| NATO must be ready for two-front conflict with Russia and China. | |
| It's going to be tricky, but at least that guy's a Nazi, so he's going to be committed, it looks like. | |
| Before we get into the Russell Brand unpacked story, the United States is still in spasms of despair and confusion over the Epstein files and the failure to release them. | |
| Here's Rokana talking about Mike Johnson shutting down Congress early. | |
| Look at how democracies work these days, whether it's in my country, the UK or the United States of America, whether it's under Trump or Kamala. | |
| Doesn't it seem strange that we can't access, that we can't get the disclosure and transparency that some will believe is your democratic, American, and British right? | |
| So Thomas Massey is saying tonight that if the House closes up for the summer without this vote, it's just going to get worse in September. | |
| What is the state of play in this breaking news situation right now, tonight, on your discharge petition? | |
| Well, more and more Republicans are joining the call for a discharge petition, but the Speaker is not willing to have a vote. | |
| You know, let's just speak plainly, because we use all these complex words, discharge petition. | |
| Sometimes I think Congress is sort of a priesthood, which uses obscure and arcane language to confuse the American people. | |
| Here's the bottom line. | |
| There's a majority of the Congress that has the votes to release the Epstein files. | |
| We have a majority of the votes. | |
| And the problem is that we're not having a vote. | |
| And that's the dirty secret in Washington. | |
| It's not how you vote. | |
| It's that most of these things never come up for a vote. | |
| And all a discharge petition is saying... | |
| And I say that as a person who recognized the election of Trump was a necessity in order to stop America collapsing into a level of globalist imperialism, the likes of which the world has not yet seen, except in the United Kingdom, which I'll be talking about a little later. | |
| Here's Thomas Massey on his investigation into the Epstein farm. | |
| I was wondering, with the paralysis in the Rules Committee, it seems like they're not going to be meeting again today because of the Epstein amendments. | |
| Have you chatted with anybody about that discourse? | |
| Well, it wouldn't really matter. | |
| Their Epstein bill resolution is non-binding, so it's kind of fake. | |
| The resolution that I have co-sponsored with Rokana would actually bring up legislation that would be binding for the president. | |
| Is your understanding that that will ripen the day after lawmakers get back from the August recess? | |
| Yeah, unfortunately, we have six days and we needed seven days for the discharge petition to ripen before we could bring this up before the August recess. | |
| So we'll have to bring it up after the August recess. | |
| But the good news is the Speaker has no interest in keeping us here one extra day. | |
| Let's have a look at Trump posting on Thomas Massey moments after this. | |
| Thomas Massey, the worst Republican congressman, and almost a guaranteed no vote on each and every time. | |
| Embarrassment to Kentucky. | |
| Lazy, slow moving, totally disingenuous, a real loser. | |
| Never has anything positive to add. | |
| Looking for someone good to run against this guy, someone I can endorse and vigorously campaign for. | |
| Massey responded. | |
| I introduced the only binding congressional legislation to release the Epstein files and already have 20 sponsors. | |
| In return, the attacks on me intensified. | |
| As you can guess, I'm not backing down. | |
| I'm fighting, but I need your support to stay in the ring. | |
| Well, there you go. | |
| So there are certainly ongoing conversations about the nature of democracy, the nature of the deep state, the ability of powerful interest to conceal information that might change the way that people feel about American democracy, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. | |
| Perhaps if we found our identity in Christ rather than other fallible human beings just like us, we would have a closer connection to reality and we'll be better nourished and better served in so doing. | |
| Now, we've got a lot to talk about in this show. | |
| Colbert's show has been cancelled in a way. | |
| But isn't that precisely what was warranted after his extraordinary displays in advocating for the interests of the state, whether that was vaccines or shutting down conversations about the power of the deep state and of spy agencies? | |
| It's an extraordinary story in lots of ways. | |
| We'll get into that in just a moment. | |
| Before that, though, the UK is about to break down into total despair. | |
| Everybody knows it. | |
| And if you're an American and you want to know what could happen if you don't ensure the principles of democracy in your republic are regarded, you need look no further than the UK. | |
| Here's Russell Brand unpacked on migration. | |
| The migration crisis in the UK is on the very precipice of absolute meltdown and conflagration. | |
| In Essex, the county that I am from, the New Jersey of the UK, riots are already commencing as a result of a sexual assault incident in a hostel for asylum seekers. | |
| Many people in the UK feel that there is a disproportionate amount of abuse, violence and rape being generated by migrants. | |
| Indeed, Tommy Robinson's resurgence is somewhat based upon people's acceptance that there is a statistical anomaly when it comes to Pakistani rape gangs and some confusion about why an inquiry was not undertaken earlier. | |
| So is this issue about to come to a head? | |
| And whether you're on the left or the right, surely we're all agreed that rape is a bad, bad thing, and whatever we have to do to annihilate this scourge from our culture, we will do together. | |
| Let's get into this story. | |
| I'm from Essex, and I know what the people of Essex are about because, well, I am them. | |
| And I will tell you now that if things are kicking off in Essex, things is going to get lairy fast. | |
| Let's have a look at this story in detail. | |
| Yep, that's where I grew up. | |
| It keeps kicking off. | |
| And the anger is all too familiar. | |
| It started in Epping after a 38-year-old Ethiopian man was charged with sexual assault. | |
| The alleged victim was a local teenage girl. | |
| In court, it was confirmed that he had recently arrived on a small boat. | |
| Since then, violence has continued around the Bell Hotel, which has been home to asylum seekers for several years. | |
| Asylum seeker is an interesting piece of language. | |
| There's no question that there are many people from around the world seeking asylum. | |
| There's no question that the UK has a history that means that there's some responsibility for the disruption caused by colonialism, imperialism, corporatism, the exploitation of various nations. | |
| Who's paying that price though? | |
| When they put asylum seekers in hotels, are they in Kensington? | |
| Are they in Oxfordshire? | |
| Are they in the quaint towns and cities where most members of parliament dwell? | |
| No, they put the asylum seekers near working class people, almost as if they benefit from ongoing social unrest. | |
| When I have my conversation with Tommy Robinson next week, the one thing that I might focus on is the possibility working people of all races and nationalities find ways to live together harmoniously. | |
| And if there is an electoral mandate to control, limit or even end asylum as a result of the will of the British people, then that should be observed. | |
| But until then, and with people that live here already, there has to be some harmony and peace. | |
| But asylum seekers also is perhaps not the appropriate term for someone that's committing sexual offences, raping or assaulting young girls. | |
| There's another term for that, one with which I'm all too familiar as a result of allegations levelled against me. | |
| Thank the Lord I have the opportunity to attend trial so those things can be addressed. | |
| You can see why the British people are so infuriated and angered that these disgusting crimes are taking place in their land, in their country, that their ancestors built, that their taxes pay for, while their opinions and their voices are shut down and not heard. | |
| I knew about it and I can agree with what they're doing, totally can agree with it and I would have come along but what stopped me coming along was I was frightened case it turned nasty you know and it did the police are demanding it stops how on earth would you allow it to happen feelings are running high the violence left eight police officers injured we will always facilitate | |
| peaceful protest you'll notice that the accents of the police officers and the accents of the protesters are the same they're the same people from the same community being turned against one another by a manipulative authoritarian government that claims that mass migration is a result of compassion care and duty rather than exploitation disruption and part of a global agenda to cause despair across indigenous native populations compassion and | |
| harmony care duty love service these are the most significant and important christian principles or willingness to sacrifice yourself up until the point of death do you imagine let me know in the comments and chat that your government in the uk are running in accordance with those principles or do you feel that what they're trying to create is despondency disruption and despair we'll also always make sure that the voice of our community is heard what we will not tolerate is those random acts of violence that we saw last night there's no question that in hostile hot | |
| climates random acts of violence do occur and there's no question that once a kind of mob mentality descends or ascends whatever you want to call it that there is an increase in irrational and ridiculous violence at the moment the uk feels like a leaderless land lost and directionless without a nucleus without clear direction without love or compassion or guidance falling apart in a conflagration how heartbreaking it is to know that this beautiful country these beautiful people right | |
| where i am from are in this discomfort and this despair because of bad government there's a bad policies bad ideas that seem to reach beyond ineptitude and right into cruelty arrests have already been made the warning is clear if you do this you can expect the police at your door you can expect the police at your door anyway they're coming to your door for what you're posting on the internet they'll find a reason to arrest you if you're outspoken if you're confident if you're strong if you've got beliefs in god if | |
| you've got belief in anything other than total submission and compliance for the state rather than submission to a higher power a higher authority something that might light you up and liven you right up if you've got anything other than that they'll find a way of shutting you down believe this flashpoint has some of the hallmarks of the rioting that spread through towns and cities last summer years of anger over immigration whipped up online hundreds of people were jailed for their part in those riots but | |
| this deep-seated frustration didn't disappear despite repeated government promises to address the small boats in the channel they continue to cross 398 people arrived yesterday on the french side near calais migrants have clashed with police managing this movement of people is an ongoing battle and the way it's filtered into communities across | |
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| How dare you? | |
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| Keep it going, Russell. | |
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| That is from Benito Mussolini. | |
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| You've only got to be a person who speaks with a slightly different accent or a slightly different colour and you're sitting on a bench in the middle of town in one of the greens and you're immediately branded as being an asylum seeker from the Bell. | |
| The government wants to close asylum seeker hotels but that will take years. | |
| They described the asylum system they inherited as broken. | |
| Remember that? | |
| Trope? | |
| You blame the previous administration or the previous government. | |
| How quickly were they able to herd us into our homes? | |
| How quickly were they able to distribute a vaccine with potentially negative side effects, maybe even mortality? | |
| How slow they are to conduct a thorough inquiry? | |
| How quickly they can vote themselves into pay rises? | |
| How quickly they can find the money for war? | |
| Oh, when it comes to reflecting and respecting the will of the people, it takes years. | |
| It always takes years to do what we want. | |
| It always takes seconds to do what they want. | |
| Like time herself moves more elegantly and gracefully when bent to their perpetual and centralized will. | |
| Well, how else are we to oppose this level of corruption, except en masse, together and on the streets? | |
| Let me know what you think in the comments in the chat. | |
| That ain't good, man. | |
| That's police fans plowing down protesters. | |
| Now, whether they are pro-Palestine or anti-migration, you should have a consistent perspective on the police. | |
| If we believe in free speech, yeah, then whether people are pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, they should have the right to protest. | |
| Whether they're pro-migration or anti-migration, they should have the right to protest. | |
| But what's becoming clear is that people are being brought out of their homes and onto the street because democracy has failed. | |
| Politics has failed. | |
| The media has failed. | |
| I have enough personal experience, both as a person that's from Essex, as a person that's been a drug addict, as a person that's been arrested many times, who knows now from inside and out how the establishment operates, whether that's the BBC that I've worked for, the Channel 4 that I have worked for, all of these various newspapers that have turned against me. | |
| I know the corruption of these systems. | |
| I know their intention. | |
| I know who they serve and what they consider worthwhile, who they consider to be disposable, killable, expendable. | |
| It's you. | |
| They hate ordinary English people. | |
| They hate the working class people of Essex. | |
| Whether you're white or brown or Christian or atheist, they want you divided. | |
| They want you at each other's throats. | |
| What they don't want necessarily is mass civil disobedience that's targeted specifically towards the government and the media. | |
| Never trust the media. | |
| Don't spend your money on their crap. | |
| Oppose them. | |
| Of course, we know that many of these media organisations have offices throughout London. | |
| The Guardian newspaper, Times newspaper, News International. | |
| Whether they're lying to you about migration, whether they're lying to you about rape gangs, whether they're lying to you about Millie Dower, these liars maintain their power because of our acquiescence, because of our lack of organisation, because of our unwillingness to sacrifice. | |
| But one thing the BBC and I agree on right now is that this will be a summer of riots. | |
| And the BBC, they've done such a wonderful job of masking the malfeasance of many, many sex offenders and paedophiles. | |
| Note the people they like to target and spuriously accuse of sex crimes versus the people whose peculiar crimes they seem to have participated in and masked. | |
| What an extraordinary collision. | |
| What an extraordinary contradiction. | |
| What a peculiar paradox. | |
| This seems to be the time where institutions have failed. | |
| And when institutions fail, the people have a duty to respond. | |
| Fixing it is one way of calming fractured communities. | |
| This is a British media outlet. | |
| Keir Starmer fears repeat of summer riots after violent clashes outside Epping Asylum Hotel. | |
| And here are the BBC reporting on the potential for a summer of rioting. | |
| But interestingly, I was talking to one parliamentary veteran. | |
| They are really, really worried. | |
| They said to me, we are going to have a summer of riots. | |
| You can just feel it, they said. | |
| It is a tinderbox. | |
| That was the word used by Neil Hudson, the Conservative MP for Epping Forest on this programme. | |
| She loves the idea of a summer of riots. | |
| A summer of riots, eh? | |
| I don't know, she might be a nice person. | |
| But in some of my recent interactions with police, these subjects came up as well. | |
| The UK is divided, is in despair, is in serious trouble. | |
| A summer of riots is highly likely. | |
| Of course, no one welcomes a situation in which the police could be hurt or wounded or members of the public could be hurt or wounded. | |
| But everyone's being hurt and wounded in the UK right now because of Increased surveillance, draconian measures everywhere, controls, the end of free speech, a level of exploitation and advocacy for war, even civil war being talked about that is unacceptable in the United Kingdom. | |
| Britain needs massive revision. | |
| Maybe it needs a lot more than reform. | |
| On Friday, and what this person said to me is that there's no doubt that no doubt the bad elements are driving the violence and the disturbance. | |
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| But they are feeding off concerns in the community. | |
| And listen to what this veteran MP said to me. | |
| They're talking about how they're seeing a change in their constituency. | |
| Good, ordinary people feeling their town is changing around them. | |
| Oh, yeah, they must all have entered into a total delusion collectively together rather than there being a coordinated effort by government and media to induce despair and mass control. | |
| A pandemic that legitimised authoritarianism and profiteering and the collapse of small and business and agricultural industry in total despair and decline as a result of edicts derived from an EU that we no longer belong to. | |
| What are we going to do to get our country back? | |
| They go to church, they have a house and then they're caught on either side with what we call HMOs, houses in multiple occupancy and they say that there are migrants there and these people feel that they are losing control. | |
| That is a mainstream politician. | |
| You never heard that sort of language before, but that is reflecting, they would say, the concerns on the ground in their constituents. | |
| I don't know if you believe in God, I believe in God and I've surrendered to Jesus and I pray for peace in the UK, but there can only be peace if there is justice. | |
| There can only be peace if there is transparency. | |
| There can only be transparency and peace if there is authenticity and integrity. | |
| And you don't have any of those things in that country right now. | |
| I'm aware I live in another country and you're not fools. | |
| You know what's going on with me at the moment. | |
| You know what I'm going through. | |
| And if you've got any sense, you understand why that's happening. | |
| And you will understand there is an integral and deliberate and deep connection between what's being talked about here and what I've been talking about and dealing with for some time now. | |
| And if you can't see that connection yet, you will see that connection soon, I assure you of that. | |
| My prayer is a prayer for peace, that we will pray for our leaders. | |
| We'll pray that they see sense. | |
| We'll pray for integrity in government and authenticity. | |
| But if that's not what we get in the UK, then I believe that it's the duty and obligation of the British people to stand up for what they believe in. | |
| And we must not allow our focus to fall on the most vulnerable members of society, whether those are abused victims of sexual offences and rape, or whether they're people seeking asylum. | |
| Even if they've committed sexual offences and rape, they warrant and deserve a form of justice. | |
| Justice can be pretty brutal. | |
| I would say this, this is a time of radical transformation across the world and in the UK in particular. | |
| If there is not real institutional change within government and within media, I think that a summer of riots is inevitable. | |
| This is some reporting from the Telegraph newspaper. | |
| Tony Blair considered a secret plan to make immigration more popular when he was Prime Minister just weeks before opening Britain's borders to thousands of Eastern Europeans newly released files reveal. | |
| Hmm. | |
| So Tony Blair, that arch globalist, has his hand in this also. | |
| Labour ministers came up with a marketing strategy to overcome what they described as disproportionate concerns about the issue to communicate the big picture to the public instead. | |
| The plan which aimed to steer public opinion towards a more sensible conversation on immigration included details of Home Office commissioned research which found that many Britons believed borders were open and overrun. | |
| In a handwritten note, Blair described research he'd been reading on immigration as pretty grim but utterly believable. | |
| The Prime Minister was sent a 15-page strategy document by Lord Blunkett in 04, who was Home Secretary then, who shared it in strict confidence and warned, you will see this research, and that the references to it in the paper could be explosive in the wrong hands. | |
| The paper told, having a sensible conversation about migration, claimed that the government had made real progress in reducing the impact of stories about asylum seekers so they were no longer automatic front-page tabloid material every time. | |
| However, it then detailed the public research that confirms that immigration is an issue of real concern and noted there were no obvious signs of a breakthrough. | |
| However, the paper came weeks before Blair opened Britain's borders to thousands of Eastern European migrants, Czech Republic, Estonia, and a long list. | |
| The decision by the government to allow a media unrestricted access to migrants from those countries was widely seen as having contributed to a major increase in immigration in the years that followed with net EU migration surging to more than 200,000 a year. | |
| Let's have a look at Blair on the subject of immigration way back in 04. | |
| They accept and welcome migrants who play by the rules, but they will not accept abuse or absurdity. | |
| And indeed, why should they? | |
| So I think now is the time to make the argument for controlled migration simultaneous with tackling the abuses we can identify. | |
| And then longer term put in place a system that gives us the best guarantee of future integrity in our migration policy. | |
| That is why we have begun a top-to-bottom analysis of the immigration system, how it operates, how it can be improved, how it can agree migration where it is in our country's interests and prevent it where it isn't. | |
| One thing I should say to you is already clear. | |
| The overwhelming majority migrate in and indeed often out of Britain fairly and in accordance with the rules. | |
| But there are areas of abuse and we can and should deal with them. | |
| So we are putting in place a strategy globally, nationally and locally to ensure that migration works for Britain today and in the future. | |
| We will neither be fortress Britain nor will we be an open house. | |
| Tony Blair was one of the great political players of the end of the last century and the beginning of this one. | |
| I consider him to be the arch globalist. | |
| He is one of the pioneers of the new world order that is being rapidly brought about even now. | |
| If there's anyone in the world that understands the power of digital ID, the power of globalism, the WF, the WHO, using bureaucracy to strangle freedom, all the while pretending that the hands around your throat are there to keep your neck warm, it's Tony Blair. | |
| Summing up the views of the public, the strategy document said, people feel they do not have permission to freely express their fears. | |
| It added, in a world of rapid change and uncertainty, people are fearful and look for explanations and scapegoats while claiming a disproportionate amount of fear and uncertainty was channeled towards migration. | |
| The challenge is finding new ways to package and communicate these issues. | |
| Do you know what I'd like? | |
| I'd like to be able to, if I see a person that's Muslim or a migrant or whatever, that we can make eye contact and it's all cool. | |
| That's what I would like. | |
| And I think a way to do that is by having open conversations around migration. | |
| They've suppressed that conversation for a long, long while in the United Kingdom. | |
| They won't have clear conversations and they clearly have an agenda. | |
| Look at the way that Tony Blair is even speaking there while being transparent way back in 04. | |
| And I say transparent almost in inverted commerce. | |
| How do we make people accept what we want them to do? | |
| Seems to be the message. | |
| Well, this is what you do in a democracy. | |
| You don't make people accept what you want. | |
| You listen to what they want and then you do it. | |
| And if that can't be done at scale in great nations of 60 million, 70 million, 300 million people, what you do is you break down government at the level of the council, the borough, the community, the town, the family, and the individual. | |
| And that is one thing that they simply can't yield to because they have an agenda, an uninterruptible agenda, to centralise power. | |
| We know that the issue of migration is being used to divide people, disrupt people, disrupt towns. | |
| Is it the main player and the biggest problem people face? | |
| Maybe not, compared to the power of big food, big pharma, the military-industrial complex. | |
| But it is a component of globalism that simply has to be addressed. | |
| The paper detailed a table showing plans to advertise the advantages of migration and a PR campaign to demonstrate that migrants made a positive contribution to society. | |
| In an annex on the findings of polling and focus group research, the paper revealed that participants were overwhelmingly of the view that the UK does not have an effective immigration policy. | |
| Immigration has been an issue that's divided the UK for a long, long time. | |
| Me personally, I believe in compassion and love and open-heartedness. | |
| But if you're going to have a nation, you're going to have borders. | |
| If you're going to have a democracy, you're going to have to listen to everyone's views. | |
| And if you're going to have a summer of riots, you have to recognise that your government is way out of touch with the people that it's supposed to govern. | |
| And this is hardly surprising after the pandemic, after the riots around the death of the Southport free little girls, after endless deception and lies, after these peculiar injunctions that Kiostama appears to have in place, after people get shut down and arrested for free speech issues, after mass surveillance gets introduced, facial recognition technology, advocacy for central currencies, vaccinations, poor inquiries, rape gang inquiry much too late and only as a result of the bravery of Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk. | |
| How in that environment are we going to bring about harmony, peace, love, the values upon which the United Kingdom was founded and built? | |
| Certainly not while pursuing the legacy of Tony Blair under the institution of Keir Starmer. | |
| These people are globalists. | |
| They are not affiliated with any nation, if you ask me. | |
| You could have Tony Blair run Canada. | |
| You could have Keir Starmer run Australia. | |
| We've all seen this type of politician and they're getting worse aren't they? | |
| At least for a minute they were kind of attractive, just in Trudeau, nice socks on, bit of black face, lovely haircut. | |
| They're not even trying anymore. | |
| They've become more tedious. | |
| And then they're surprised when in Romania and Hungary and Turkey and the United States of America and France, right-wing politicians appear to be on the rise. | |
| Nationalism simply means patriotism. | |
| Patriotism means tribalism. | |
| Tribalism could mean family and an affinity with a land that you are from. | |
| If you had countries that understood themselves, understood their identity, welcoming a reasonable number of legal migrants in seems like a sensible thing to do. | |
| But in the despair of the UK, where people are being prepared for war with Russia in order, it seems, to finance civil war and further civil restrictions, you don't have a country with a strong enough identity or sense of itself to start implementing these kind of ridiculous restrictions. | |
| But that's just what I think. | |
| Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat? | |
| Now then, you may be aware that in the UK, even the elderly are being arrested for holding up signs. | |
| Audrey White, a woman who gave it straight to Keir Starmer, who's protesting in her case on behalf of Palestine, has been arrested. | |
| But anyone can get arrested for anything in the UK. | |
| Let me know if you think that could ever happen here in the United States. | |
| Let me know if it's happening in Australia, Canada, because the world seems to be being asphyxiated by a fist of near-total control. | |
| Let's have a look at Russell Brand unpacked on the story of mass arrests and the foreclosure of free speech and protests in the UK. | |
| Hello there, you Awakening Winders. | |
| Thanks for joining me for Unpacked with Russell Brand. | |
| A 74-year-old woman, Audrey White, who had previously confronted Keir Starmer, has been arrested for protesting. | |
| There's Keir Starmer at a Coldplay concert recently. | |
| I believe these lads are Ukrainian models. | |
| I don't know what the person who made that meme was thinking about. | |
| Let me know if you find a way of getting around the injunction and let me know what you think about that in the comments and the chat. | |
| The simple fact is that while Keir Starmer on some levels might be the most banal person ever to have lived, sometimes I think that, he's also ushering in an era of authoritarianism that is baffling and is now finding extraordinary expression in the arrests of people protesting for Palestine-Israel related matters. | |
| Facial recognition technology is being deployed by the police and migration rights are expected across the UK all this summer. | |
| But this story about a 74-year-old woman being arrested, a woman who had campaigned for women's rights in the workplace, had advocated for anti-harassment laws, who seems like a brilliant woman when you see her some time ago by sort of delicious irony confronting Kiostarma himself in a cafe, has now been arrested, I think, for holding up a sign. | |
| In the UK, this could get you in a lot of trouble. | |
| This. | |
| Simply this. | |
| Now, of course, it depends what it says on that sign. | |
| But what we can see is what began as arresting people for things they've said online has evolved into arresting people for hold up sign. | |
| Communication in any forum could become illegal. | |
| That's what happens when you mess with free speech. | |
| Let's get into this story of 74-year-old Audrey White, who seems like, by all reckoning, the exact kind of woman you want to build communities and nations around, has been jailed. | |
| Dozens of people have been arrested around the UK at protests in support of prescribed group Palestine action. | |
| The Metropolitan Police said 55 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act at the demonstration in Parliament Square and eight were arrested at another demo nearby. | |
| Those detained are alleged to have been displaying placards in favour of the group, which was designated as a prescribed terrorist organisation earlier this month. | |
| There were also arrests in Bristol, Truro and Manchester. | |
| In Britain, pick a cause that people are getting arrested for. | |
| People are protesting in Eppin, near where I'm from, because of migration-related issues. | |
| People are getting arrested in London because of Palestine-related issues. | |
| And people are getting arrested everywhere for free speech. | |
| This story is from The Telegraph, a legacy media outlet in the UK. | |
| A 74-year-old woman has said she was left shaken and frightened after being arrested at a pro-Palestine rally under terrorism laws in what she called an attempt to restrict freedom of speech. | |
| Audrey White from Liverpool was among one of the hundreds of people detained across the UK at the weekend on suspicion of supporting the recently prescribed group Palestine action. | |
| White had been holding out a sign before she was surrounded by officers in Liverpool city centre on Sunday. | |
| Videos show four police officers detaining the veteran campaigner on the ground to chance of shame on you and let her go. | |
| The officers then drag white across the pavement before handcuffing her as she lies prone on the ground. | |
| If the laws of your nation afford you the ability to arrest a 74 year old woman for protesting, it's not the 74 year old woman that's in the wrong. | |
| It's the nation that's in the wrong. | |
| I'm struggling to think outside of Hansel and Gretel how an old lady could even warrant arrest at all. | |
| I mean what does she have? | |
| A gingerbread house? | |
| What was she? | |
| A medieval lady paedophile? | |
| No, she's a campaigner. | |
| She's an outspoken woman from Liverpool. | |
| And what we need are more outspoken working class people coming to the forefront and taking back their nation by, well, the great Malcolm X would have said, by any means necessary, but hopefully by peaceful means. | |
| Here is footage of Audrey White being arrested. | |
| If you're disturbed by the prospect of watching an older lady being arrested, then that's normal if you're into it. | |
| Check this out. | |
| Now what I find irresistibly poetic about this is that Audrey White is one of those people, you know, when a politician is confronted by a normal member of the public and it goes viral and it's fantastic and you think, yes, this is what we've been crying out for. | |
| We've been crying out for one of us to rise up and confront the powerful. | |
| And sometimes it's just a brief moment where you get the release of seeing someone, you think, yes, these are the kind of people we should be backing. | |
| These are the kind of people that need to speak up. | |
| Well, here is a moment where a year or so ago, this very woman, Audrey White, confronted Keir Starmer in a CAF where he'd gone to to look all working class and connected to the people. | |
| I'm not saying Keir Starmer's not from a working class background. | |
| He evidently is. | |
| But whatever values he learned there are long gone and long forgotten to be replaced by the globalist imperialist creed that I believe is a greater threat to world security, world peace and spiritual evolution than all of the horrors that we were told about under the liar liberal democrat regime that taught us all to fear Trump so deeply. | |
| Let's have a look at Audrey White confronting Kierstarma and feel the sweet release but bear in mind the footage of her a matter of months later being flung to the floor by the police force in Britain. | |
| What a coincidence. | |
| I just say that I don't know how you've got the books to come to this city after you have been interviewed and doing columns for the Sun newspaper. | |
| The Sun newspaper, part of News International, part of the Trusted News Initiative, are part of the mass media that make us hate ourselves and hate one another. | |
| What she's referring to there, Audrey, is the time the Sun newspaper, after a bunch of Liverpool supporters died as a result of inefficiency from the police force in Sheffield, blamed the Liverpool fans themselves. | |
| There are a number of other slurs. | |
| Kirsteimer promised he would never talk to the Sun newspaper who disparaged and dishonoured those dead 97 people. | |
| This city has been wounded by the media. | |
| The sun in this city are hurt for this city. | |
| And I certainly won't be giving any interviews to the sun during the course of this campaign. | |
| And then took a column in the sun newspaper. | |
| Why? | |
| Because he'll do whatever's necessary to cozy up to the powerful and to ensure control. | |
| They'll always tell you it's for your benefit. | |
| It never is. | |
| After the way we as the city were abused and after the way we as a city, the Hillsborough victims were abused by our papers and you've come here. | |
| Secondly, you lied to us about uniting the party. | |
| I'm still a Labour Party member. | |
| Oh no, this trip to the working class cafe is not gone as well as it could get me Pellegrino, dare me! | |
| I need some more Pellegrino! | |
| And you've expelled and witch-hunted in the most vicious way I've ever seen in my lifetime. | |
| And I've been a member of the Labour Party for a long, long time. | |
| You have absolutely said you had 10 pledges, you were going to carry on the Colby legacy. | |
| And ever since you've done nothing but distance yourself from the ideas which tens of thousands of people joined the Labour Party to support. | |
| Note how Keir Stum and the security check in with one another to see if they can usher the woman away without it looking bad. | |
| Notice that then, a matter of 18 months ago, people fought twice before arresting an old lady and flinging her on the floor. | |
| Ah, progress. | |
| And our health service is going right down the plant. | |
| And you have a big responsibility, the working class people of this country. | |
| Excuse me. | |
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| Excuse me, but you're just don't be getting physical. | |
| I'm not touching you. | |
| Can you move back then, please? | |
| Can you move back, please? | |
| No, can you move back? | |
| See how he said I'm not touching you? | |
| But he actually is physically touching her. | |
| That is Britain. | |
| That is the UK. | |
| That's what authoritarianism looks like. | |
| Of course, they will nominate high-profile people to vilify. | |
| It's easy to hate on Andrew Tate, all strong and robust, and mixed race, and saying clumsy stuff. | |
| It's easy to hate on Tommy Robinson with his working class virility. | |
| It's easy to hate. | |
| But when you see them hating on a 74-year-old lifelong campaigner and advocate for women's rights, makes you wonder if they'll take down anybody who's got a voice. | |
| Anybody who dares to oppose them. | |
| Let me know what you think in the comments and chat. | |
| Here's the Guardian newspaper, a liberal legacy media outlet. | |
| Let's see what they say. | |
| I'm very sore, very shaken, very emotional, and very frightened. | |
| White, that's that lady, told the Guardian. | |
| It's been a criminal offense to be a member of or show support for Palestine action since 5th of July after protest group was prescribed under the Terrorism Act despite opposition from UN experts and civil liberties groups. | |
| She said it was the first time she'd been arrested in more than half a century of campaigning against conflicts. | |
| It's designed to stop human rights and stop protest and stop free speech, she said. | |
| There's two things to be afraid of in this country and one is that we lose everything we're proud of, the ability to speak out, and the other is we would ever be involved in a genocide. | |
| Whether you agree with Audrey White or not on the subject of Palestine, surely you have to agree with the principles she's espousing. | |
| And until we're willing to advocate for the right for our enemies to oppose us, as many people oppose me personally, actually, then we don't have principles. | |
| We have expedience and utility. | |
| Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat. | |
| White, who is secretary of the Merseyside Pensioners Association and cares for her husband who has cancer, said a police officer had told her she was allowed to attend medical appointments, but she could be arrested if she visited a shop afterwards. | |
| She's on house arrest now. | |
| But remember, it's not so long ago that we were all under house arrest. | |
| Remember that? | |
| That was also for your well-being and health. | |
| White said she was in pain and feels terrible after having been dragged into a police van. | |
| I'm just sore all over, I'm swollen, she said. | |
| The former shop worker is banned as part of her bail from attending another pro-Palestine march. | |
| The Labour Party's National Executive Committee expelled her after she confronted Keir Starmer, as you saw. | |
| So there you go. | |
| I myself am standing trial in the UK. | |
| I am very grateful to have the opportunity to speak truthfully and to embrace justice. | |
| And I am also grateful for the opportunity to talk about how the police are being directed in the UK, the rise of authoritarianism in the UK, the mass discontent in the UK and the breakdown of civil society and the contract between the governed and the governing in the UK. | |
| This is a time where the UK needs peaceful revolution urgently. | |
| But this is just what I think. | |
| Let me know what you think in the comments and chat. | |
| How can you ensure that you win an election in the United Kingdom? | |
| By allowing people that don't know very much to vote? | |
| Let's have a look at the manipulation of the electorate in the UK. | |
| Joe Biden let dead people Joe Biden needed dead people to vote for him. | |
| Makes sense. | |
| It's going to be, you're going to appeal to people that identify with you. | |
| And let's face it, Joe Biden was very nearly dead. | |
| In the UK, people aged 16 and 17 are being invited to vote. | |
| Let's have a look in Russell Brand Unpacked. | |
| In the UK, you can drink at 18, have sex at 16, smoke at 16, and now maybe vote at 16. | |
| Now, is this an improvement in democracy? | |
| Or is this an attempt at gerrymandering by Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, which is our version of a neoliberal, Democrat-style, left-leaning, centralised, authoritarian, globalist, imperialist party where the rhetoric is all about caring and the rights of women and girls and how do we protect the minorities? | |
| But the governing is all about surveillance, getting rid of trial by jury, arresting people for protest, throwing 74-year-old women in jail. | |
| So what is it, Kierstama? | |
| Is it justice, freedom and democracy? | |
| Or is it maximal control? | |
| Let me know what you think in the comments and chat. | |
| Here's a news report from the legacy media, obviously and admittedly, on the proposed change in the UK to allow 16-year-olds to vote. | |
| A boost for democracy or a ploy to capitalise on the youth vote? | |
| Well, surely a boost for democracy. | |
| The very fact that we have to use Al Jazeera footage, which is obviously a Middle Eastern, I'm assuming, media company in order to get objective reporting on British news is telling. | |
| Now, perhaps it's possible that 16-year-olds are well-informed enough to vote. | |
| Who cares, really? | |
| It doesn't matter who's voting and for what they're voting. | |
| Ultimately, the same interests and institutions will remain in power. | |
| But what is significant, I believe, is that Kierstama is aware that in a short period of time, he's completely lost the good faith and will of even the people that were willing to vote for him. | |
| And he needs to create swathes of new voters. | |
| How can a person have collapsed a mandate so quickly and so notably, even though it was only 30% of the electorate that voted for Kierstama in the first place? | |
| And even though it was in a post-pandemic era where most people were so beleaguered and incensed by the incumbent right-wing party that held celebrations, maskless and without social distancing, throughout the entire duration of the COVID period. | |
| And the election was essentially a referendum on how well the pandemic had been handled. | |
| What's required now, because of the various riots, the murders, the migration crisis, the rumours, the injunctions, is to allow 16-year-olds to vote. | |
| Indeed, the electorate has to be fundamentally altered in order for Keir Starmer to desperately cling to the power that he's using to further enrich the state. | |
| In your country, people talk frequently about allowing migrants to vote, Allowing dead people to vote. | |
| Well, we're not quite as corrupt as Biden's Democrat Party, but we will let children vote. | |
| The Labour government announced it would deliver on a manifesto pledge to give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds, and for some, it was a welcome move. | |
| I'm really happy about it because I've always been kind of frustrated just watching politics and not being able to do anything. | |
| You can't do anything, you absolutely can't do anything because the institutions of power and the media that report on the institutions of power are geared absolutely towards the castration of the population, and the media ensure near total bewilderment or distraction at best. | |
| How is it we have found ourselves in this environment? | |
| How do we find our way out of it? | |
| Certainly it's not by allowing 16-year-olds or 17-year-olds or five-year-olds to vote. | |
| It is by ensuring that the people of the United Kingdom or the United States of America have maximum access to truth, maximum access to the levers of power. | |
| For example, if the people of the UK decide that they want less migration, have a referendum on the subject of migration, set before them some options on the amount of migration that they would consider acceptable. | |
| And if people say, hey, we want net zero or we want to reduce, then that's democracy. | |
| Now, if you don't want that, then you'll have to admit that what you believe in is forms of autocracy that support your perspective. | |
| When we recently saw Mehdi Hussein talking to that dear, sweet young man who was somewhat misinformed on democracy, albeit an ardent Trump supporter, we all found it risable and laughable that someone would advocate for autocracy as long as that autocracy was governing in their favor. | |
| The truth of the matter is, is that's not a tendency that's unique to the right. | |
| Indeed, the neoliberal left have simply become more adept at masking that tendency and hiding it behind care and concern. | |
| We care about minorities. | |
| We care about the vulnerable. | |
| We care about you. | |
| We care about your health. | |
| Now give us absolute power. | |
| 16 to 18 is quite like a maturity jump, but like, I think a lot of people, even from a very young age, have very strong opinions. | |
| The strength of the opinion is not the metric, it's the integrity of the understanding. | |
| I indeed will be up for letting two-year-olds vote, three-year-olds vote. | |
| Let cats, dogs, felon and mouses vote. | |
| Let everybody vote. | |
| But why don't we have a system where your vote actually means something? | |
| How about letting 16-year-olds vote? | |
| But decentralize power maximally. | |
| Decouple power from donations, from lobbying, from manipulation, from corruption, and from deep state power. | |
| In fact, this story, like so many others, is to some degree a distraction from the issues that really matter. | |
| In the United Kingdom, we went from a Conservative Party, right-wing Republican, to a Labour Party, left-wing Democrat. | |
| And what changed really? | |
| Well, things got worse. | |
| They got more authoritarian. | |
| Poverty increased in general. | |
| Dissatisfaction increased in general. | |
| The usual tendencies continued. | |
| We can't do anything about that because of the previous government. | |
| That's the previous government's fault. | |
| And the political phenomena that I've seen everywhere I've gone in the world and whenever I've spoken to politicians, things aren't as bad as what you think they are. | |
| Actually, in the old days, people used to live in a bucket of shit on a penny a day. | |
| Things are fantastic now. | |
| Haven't you got a PlayStation? | |
| They think their opinion should be heard. | |
| Others seem unconvinced. | |
| We see a lot of people who sort of fall down like those pipelines into alt-right or whatever and are very easily convinced and persuaded and I do think that's a risk. | |
| For the Prime Minister, it is a logical step designed to boost voter turnout. | |
| They're old enough to go out to work. | |
| They're old enough to pay taxes. | |
| So to pay in. | |
| I wondered if he was going to say old enough to have sex because of course it's the age for consent in the United Kingdom as well. | |
| And Kirstama, for reasons of his own, I'm sure, didn't list that. | |
| And I think if you pay in, you should have the opportunity to say what you want your money spent on, which way the government should go. | |
| If you're old enough to pay in, you're old enough to pay out. | |
| If there's grass on the lawn, I'll say play cricket. | |
| The traditional thinking in the UK is that younger people would be more likely to vote for Labour. | |
| But since the election last year, public support for the party has been ebbing away, and younger people are now finding themselves more attracted to other parties such as the Greens and Nigel Farage's Reform UK. | |
| Despite Labour's large majority, after a year in power, it's now plummeted in popularity. | |
| Hot on the heels of this discontent, the rise of populist politics, with Reform UK leading in the opinion polls. | |
| All of these ardent advocates for democracy oppose democracy when it's not in their favour. | |
| All of these ardent advocates for free speech oppose free speech when it's not in their favour. | |
| What they advocate for is centralising authority that they can use to legitimise the sustenance of the system and the enhancement of their own power base. | |
| If it's a somewhat quotidian ordinary story that you can receive in ordinary media like this one, oh no, look, they're decreasing the voting age, or more nefarious, malfeasant, ugly stories that ultimately reveal, as I suppose the Epstein file story does, that real power is beyond the hues of party livery and is contained in elite institutions absolutely inaccessible to you. | |
| Indeed, these power structures created the systems within which you live and they ensure that these systems have loopholes and get outs and features. | |
| They ensure that no matter what you do and who you vote for, they will benefit. | |
| The most notable feature, the one that I would like you to pay most attention to, and certainly the one that I watch for, is crisis for you is opportunity for them. | |
| That when there is a pandemic that decimates businesses across the UK, there is an enormous wealth transfer. | |
| Pay attention to where that wealth transfer goes and who benefits from it, and you will learn a great deal. | |
| You'll notice that the most powerful institutions and interests in the world do not think in terms of nation. | |
| As far as I can tell, they might not even think in terms of race or creed or religion. | |
| And yet, sometimes I get an inkling that it goes beyond even financial and corporate interest to something sort of far darker, but as the great Whitney Webb always says, that's more difficult to corroborate. | |
| What you can certainly corroborate is that between the unelected organizations, whether that's UNEU, NATO, WHO, WEF, all those kind of names that you've become familiar with, and NGOs often funded by rich, powerful people whose names might feature on another list, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, there's extraordinary power held there. | |
| And then deep within the establishment itself is a permanent class of political influencers that are able to sustain their grip on the levers of power regardless of who you vote for. | |
| That is what is important. | |
| That is what has to be addressed. | |
| That is what could be addressed now that the world has changed as a result of technology. | |
| And while Andrew Breitbart may say that politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from technology. | |
| Who controls technology controls everything. | |
| And now we have some control to technology, which is why categories like misinformation, disinformation, malinformation have been created. | |
| That is why people are talking about hate speech and various ways that free speech can be shut down. | |
| That's why in crises, the first thing people want to be able to do is track you, manipulate you and influence you. | |
| That's why they want control of your finances. | |
| That's why they'll find ways of introducing centralized currencies that they can shut down and control. | |
| These are the kind of ideas that we need to mutually investigate together to ensure that this centralized authoritarian tyranny does not get a stranglehold on the political corpus. | |
| Its appeal to younger men poses a real threat to labour, especially in working class areas. | |
| Working class people, especially men, seem to like Tommy Robertson and Andrew Tate and other non-sanctioned influences. | |
| Why are they not bowing down before Keostama and embracing him? | |
| Why are they not aspiring, these young working-class men, to be more like the toolmaker's son himself, Keir Stama? | |
| Yeah, they're absolutely, utterly disillusioned. | |
| And it doesn't matter the novel ways that you find to vilify ordinary young working class men. | |
| The simple truth is they're right to be disillusioned. | |
| They're right to be outraged and disgusted. | |
| They're right to be apathetic, despondent, lost, because that is the atmosphere of the United Kingdom. | |
| That is what's been created by those that govern. | |
| Is it deliberate? | |
| It's difficult to tell. | |
| But certainly the apathy, despondency, despair, or even outrage of the British population is warranted. | |
| That's what I think. | |
| Let me know what you think in the comments and chat. | |
| But that's not the only risk. | |
| That should be regarded as a risk, by the way, the rise of the alt-right or far-right or whatever you call it. | |
| If in a democracy people vote for right-wing candidates, you get yourself a right-wing government quick-smart or you admit that you're not into democracy. | |
| Or, for example, if you get a government and say, hey, we care much more about Israel's actions in Gaza and we want to ensure that we no longer give military aid or we give a whole bunch of financial aid, then if a democracy votes for that, guess what you do? | |
| You do that, or you stop calling it a democracy. | |
| Among younger people, the government's approach to the war on Gaza has also cost its support, with the UK Green Party looking set to benefit as a left-wing alternative. | |
| But the challenge remains getting younger people to vote. | |
| Turnout among younger voters has always been comparatively low. | |
| For mainstream parties with declining support, they will have to work harder and smarter to earn their vote. | |
| Well, working smart and hard are hardly the defining attributes of the political class. | |
| If they had to work more manipulatively and in a more occultist manner with more pedophilia, I'd feel more confident. | |
| Those are just jokes. | |
| Okay, let's get into this. | |
| This is a piece of report from The Telegraph, a British newspaper. | |
| If in doubt, Gerrymander, that's the logic underlying Labour's announcement today that the voting age will be lowered to 16 at the next election. | |
| Having reached within a year depths of unpopularity and incompetence that it took the Conservatives 14 years to plumb, Keir Starmer has now accepted that his only hope of getting re-elected relies on trying to rig the electorate in his favour. | |
| That's why Smash the Glass marked votes at 16. | |
| There is something uniquely moronic about calls to lower the voting age. | |
| It is a policy that only interests desperate Labour strategists and A-level politics teachers. | |
| The arguments for and against it are well rehearsed. | |
| Proponents will argue that it's expanding. | |
| Democracy opponents will point out that the long list of responsibilities politicians deem 16-year-olds too irresponsible to be trusted with from driving cars to getting a tattoo. | |
| Many 16-year-olds don't want the vote. | |
| With a Merlin strategy poll suggesting that only around half of 16 to 17-year-olds back their enfranchisement in the elections for the so-called Scottish and Welsh parliaments, the turnout of the young consistently trails that of older voters, not to mention that for the young, just as for the government, there are much more pressing issues. | |
| Yeah, like potential conscription, facial recognition technology, the advance towards mandating medicines of digital ID, deception, media deception, total control, authoritarianism, despair, despondency, a total lack of moral courage, migration issues, joblessness, despair and globalism. | |
| And, you know, that was off the top of my head. | |
| Labour has long promised to reduce the voting age to 16 across the UK, bringing Westminster in line with Scotland and Wales. | |
| But the time of the announcement is a surprise. | |
| If the government rushes through the changes, they could become law in 2027, allowing 16-year-olds to vote in the 2028 council elections, as well as the general election in 2029. | |
| Completing the change quickly also offers them the possibility of being able to vote if Keir Starmer called an early general election. | |
| Downing Street denied the move with an attempt to keep Labour in power. | |
| Of course it's a move to keep them in power. | |
| There is no other principle at work. | |
| Whether it's super injunctions to keep stories out of the papers, increasing surveillance. | |
| If you for a second entertain the idea when watching Audrey White dragged off by the police simply for protesting a cause that she believes in, that that is to help the British people, you are insane in the old membrane. | |
| You know that power's first function is to sustain and maintain itself. | |
| It can only do that really by maintaining you and I in a state of malnourished despair. | |
| And in the UK, that's the one thing they're doing rather well. | |
| The government was elected on a specific manifesto commitment to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in all elections and that's what we're doing. | |
| But might this decision backfire on Starma? | |
| There's a strong chance it could. | |
| The same poll mentioned earlier also found that while a third of teenagers would vote Labour, 20% would choose reform. | |
| The Prime Minister and his team have publicly identified reform as the biggest threat to their re-election with number 10 age strategising about how to counter Farage, whose party won control of 10 councils at the local election. | |
| The next election is four years away. | |
| The government will only become even more unpopular. | |
| Nigel Farage's TikTok mastery will only grow. | |
| The last time a Labour government lowered the voting age in 69, it found itself swept aside at the next general election. | |
| On current polling, it would be no surprise if history repeated itself. | |
| In the meantime, one hopes Starmer's newfound ardour for youthful responsibility will encourage his government to relax a few other joyless restrictions on a generation already hampered by COVID adult education, screen addiction, and an inescapable anxiety that their lives will be far worse than their parents. | |
| But never mind the comparison to their parents, what about the objective reality of life in Britain right now, where conscription, civil war, strife, rioting, despair, malnutrition, ugliness, division, cultural clash, collision and collapse are what defines a nation that was once robust and creative and the only thing people have to look forward to is another oasis reunion in 20 years. | |
| The only thing Britain has is a past. | |
| If it's ever to have a future again, it's going to have to make concrete, realistic changes to its democracy. | |
| It's going to have to empower people meaningfully, not just the young, but the old. | |
| And to do that, you're going to need men and women of integrity. | |
| And those men and women of integrity are more likely to be found in jail for free speech, like, for example, Audrey White, than they are in parliament. | |
| You know that, and I know that. | |
| So it ain't just what I think, it's what we all know. | |
| Let me know what you think, though, in the comments and chat. | |
| But more important than that, if you can, please stay free. | |
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