Democrats In MELTDOWN! Kamala’s Concession Speech + Best Leftist UNHINGED Trump Victory RANTS! SF488
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Hello there, you awakening wonders. Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. Over the course of the show, we'll be with you for like 15 minutes on YouTube. And during that 15 minutes, we'll have a quick look at what's going on on X so that we're right up to the second. So we'll be looking at a refreshed...

X page where we can see the latest posts on X and how people are reacting to it. And we're going to be looking at some of the sort of, I suppose, highlights and breakdowns over the last 48 hours and how we can calibrate

the pre-election rhetoric with the post-election reality. What I mean by that in particular, and it's sort of something you will have seen come up a lot on social media, is if people really felt that they were voting for Hitler, well, not that they were voting for Hitler, that Trump supporters were voting for Hitler, then, you know, he's won now, so Hitler's in power. So, I mean, if I really believed that...

Hitler was in power. I feel like I'd be looking at some real estate opportunities outside of the Reich. So is that happening? Is that happening en masse from the former employees of MSNBC? We'll look, of course, at Kamala's concession speech and we'll...

What's the thing that I was really interested in looking at? What is it that sort of generated this state of hysteria? Like loads of you will have seen the memes of people's response to Trump's election, presumed Kamala voters. When you watch them, I kind of wonder...

what are they feeling? If you're in the Awake and Wonder community, like Aligisha and Sensitive Hearts and Mrs. CMS, thanks for being with us and joining us today. If you're in the Rumble chat, like hell of a bad apple and the real mix, welcome. Get involved in this conversation and consider asking, answering this question. What do you think? When people are sort of really breaking down around this, do you think that the legacy media are responsible? Do you think that the legacy media are responsible for generating the idea that,

Trump was a de facto default despotic figure. Let me let me know in the chat all of you. And if you watch this on YouTube, we'll be there for another 10 minutes. But now let's focus on these mystical component, the resurrection process.

of peanut who was cited at the kamala concession speech in new uh you know i think they're calling him peanut the white like he's emerged in a more ethereal mode and those of you that are interested in spirituality i will be streaming break bread live at 1 15 est today so you'll be able to join us for that as well see you uh so stay with us if you are indeed

an awakened wonder um yeah can you shut that door for me thank you very much let's have a look at the uh let's have a look at their resurrection of peanut oh something bro someone getting zero bro it's peanut oh no way he's doing a victory lap on her oh no

That's pretty incredible actually, isn't it? That's like if you believe in synergy, synchronicity, signs and symbols. That's, I mean, I know squirrels, but it's extraordinary that that squirrel captured so much attention and somehow seized the mood.

And then at a vital and opportune moment, a squirrel arrived. Amazing. Welcome. If you've joined us from Bongino's army, say hello in the chat. Welcome all of you on Rumble. If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll have to leave after our 15 minutes because we extreme on Rumble for this simple reason. It's one of the platforms that while we were still in the censorship industrial complex, Gloriana of the culture,

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Now, one of the things that we've noted is the misquoting and decontextualization of stuff that Trump said. You know, like when Trump talked about tariffs and said there'll be a bloodbath if China attempted to set up factories for cars in Mexico to transport them across the border. That bloodbath word was used in a very condemnatory way, as if what Trump was saying is that post the election that we will be sloshing around in the

blood of his enemies. So what does it mean when Kamala says fight? When is the word fight not a call to January 6th style insurrection? When is a billionaire a bad billionaire and when is a billionaire a good billionaire? What are the values and the principles that have just been rejected along with the endorsement of, let's face it, quite a

quite a serious pantheon of celebrities. Let me know in the Rumble chat, who were your favorite celebrities who were ignored during the campaigns of the Democrats? Didn't Taylor Swift, Beyonce, these all endorse Kamala? Does that tell you that something epocally and significantly is shifting? Does this mean it's the end of the era of the celebrity endorsement? We're going to have a look at

Kamala Harris saying fight a bunch of times. Kamala Harris, who, by the way, only won states that do not require voter ID. Surely just a coincidence. Losing somehow 20 million of the votes that Joe Biden had in the last election. It was 81 million, so like 15 million less votes. Don't know where those votes are.

or when or how they were not concocted or conjured up. And after we've come back, we'll have a look at what's going on on X. Let's have a look at Kamala's speech. We saw the warm-up act of Peanut the Squirrel risen again. Let's have a look at the number of times she says, fight, fight, fight, fight. Oh. So let me say, my heart is full today. My heart is full today, full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me.

full of love for our country and full of resolve. The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for. But hear me when I say, hear me when I say, the light of America's promise will always burn bright as long as we never give up

And as long as we keep fighting. Now I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now. I get it. But we must accept the results of this election. Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition.

and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power. A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. That principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny. Such an extraordinary claim, because a true oligarchy is where...

one recognizes that the powers that operate beyond the reach of democratic processes are the powers that are most able to influence the direction of policy. Do you feel like

Under the Biden and Kamala administration, let me know in the chat, you have more influence than, for example, the military industrial complex and the set of organizations within them, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin. Do you feel that you had more influence during the pandemic period than Pfizer's Albert Baller or bureaucrats within the state like Anthony Fauci? So.

Pretending that what we had was a democracy and what the capital is, is sacred. It could become sacred. It could be sacred. The institutions of government could be re-sacralized in a number of ways. One, through true virtue. And that virtue can only be derived from an

A concordance with principles that we all agree are sacred. So if you don't have God or a belief in God and if everything becomes about rationalism and measurement, which of course have their place and Lord alone knows with Elon Musk now in charge of three branches of government, there will be the use of data, I assume, when coming up with policy. But if

The analysis of data and decisions derived from it are not framed and guided within a square of clear principles, principalities of obvious virtue, service, freedom, freedom to and freedom from like died with or died of COVID. There's a there's a distinction there. What we do.

What we've been living within are totalitarian bureaucracies that legitimize their authoritarianism through measures of care. Because we care for you so much, we're going to have to sack these 34,000 key workers. Because we care for you so much, you have to take these medications. Because we care for you so much, we're not going to ensure that they're clinically trialed correctly for transmission. There are so many things to consider and unpack there. And what's been rejected, along with celebrities I would offer you, is that era, that era,

era of managerialism and bureaucratization of those processes and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it at the same time in our nation we owe loyalty not to a president or a party but to the constitution of the united states and loyalty to our do you remember when we saw the uh

The New York Times headline: "Is the Constitution problematic?" Are you aware how much the Bill of Rights is being discussed and the legitimacy of the Bill of Rights? It's pretty extraordinary how this speech obfuscates the last four years of government. "And loyalty to our conscience and to our God."

My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.

That fight to remain enslaved to powerful donor interests and lobbyists, that fight to remain enslaved to bureaucracy, that fight to continue funding wars abroad using American taxpayer dollars. What is this righteousness to which she is referring? The fight, the fight for freedom.

A kind of hysteria has been generated. A kind of, and I suppose as with all polarity, that will require both sides of the discourse to generate the energy for hysteria.

And I was thinking, you know, with those people that were saying that Trump's Hitler and stuff, like that probably won't leave the country now, like you would if you truly believed that Hitler had just taken over. Like, how would you be feeling had Kamala won? And I actually feel like I would be scared because of this. I think I would be scared that they were a kind of insidious creep of bureaucracy and incessant crises would be used to.

to legitimize more and more authority. I would imagine that within four years they would say, "We're banning these types of people from using social media. We're banning these types of hate speech." And even though there might initially be a sort of excitement

about it. Like people say, yeah, that's good because hate speech is bad. We all agree that hate speech is bad. Hating people's bad. We would start to realize, oh no, they're just banning speech. That's contradictory to their agenda or disruptive to their agenda. So I do understand why some people have responded hysterically to the election and mandate. And some people calling it a landslide yet.

of Trump because I think I would be afraid if what we were now entering into is four more years of increasing globalism, bureaucracy, global war, use of crisis to legitimize authoritarianism. I would be afraid. Let me know in the comments and chat how you feel about that. For opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight.

for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.

I want to be very clear about Alex Jones.

I will crawl over broken glass and give him everything I earn. If all he needs is someone to pay the salary, leave it to me. Leave it to me. I'll get a second job to pay whatever salary he wants to be the press secretary. If he's like,

I'm gonna need half a million dollars a year. Leave it to me. Like I said, I will pick up a job and I will raise the money. It'll be totally fine if we get Alex Jones. We are not worthy. We are not worthy. But Trump, please, it would be the greatest troll. And by the way, he is more than equipped for it. He has run a show for decades.

All he does is talk and answer and respond to questions. He is totally equipped for it and they hate him. The deep state hates Alex Jones with a vengeance. X smokes writes, Candace, you should be Trump's press secretary. Look, I would be very good at that job, but come on. She would do a good job, but Alex Jones, that's who you want in the role. It's Alex Jones you want in that position. Let's have a look at J.D. Vance.

talking about America's new foreign policy and I suppose again because we've been in a period of hysteria we can now look at people that are about to form government for the least the next four years talking about what they plan to do. Let's see J.D. Vance talking about America's foreign policy going forward and of course the possibility for deception and lying still exists but let's just actually look at what he's saying and then we can use this, we can archive this, we can see if this is what actually happens.

We have built a foreign policy of hectoring and moralizing and lecturing countries that don't want anything to do with it. The Chinese have a foreign policy of building roads and bridges and feeding poor people. And I think that we should pursue a foreign policy, a diplomacy of respect

and a foreign policy that is not rooted in moralizing. It's rooted in the national interest of this country. Because Ambassador Sullivan is at the lead of moralizing instead of pursuing America's national interest, I object. I reckon some people will go through that and try and find euphemism in it. Do you try to think like the people that would condemn J.D. Vance there? The only thing I can reach for is this.

Countries are a vast enterprise, the state in itself an incredible endeavour, a deep and vast and terrifying behemoth. Perhaps it doesn't matter what personnel you put within these institutions unless there are significant changes, but they will always tend towards totalitarianism, they will always tend towards elitism. So it's a very general and vague critique about sort of big government really and not politics.

reflecting our historic tendency to want to live tribally in groups that are of a manageable size. And I must I recognize this isn't something you can really build policy around. I'm not super naive, but you know, the way we now know that if you eat too much sugar and fat, it will mess you up because you're not evolved to access lots of sugar and fat.

Perhaps there's something to be said when it comes to organizing community. Perhaps we can handle this only at a certain scale. And perhaps technology could be used not to centralize, but to decentralize. That you could use the technology we have now to create Airbnb and Uber and create incredible opportunities for centralization

and then bespoke service, that's what both of those things do, is that a fair assessment, to create localised government, which is dreary and managerial and does come down to when's the garbage going to get collected and how are we going to ensure fairness and logistics and operations and stuff that I frankly don't even like thinking about. That's the only kind of critique I would offer against bloody any government. But when you watch J.D. Vance and think about how he was sort of portrayed as an incredible, desperate weirdo,

and then hear him say really i think we should stop moralizing and focus on america doesn't seem like a ridiculous thing to say what i would say is when you see rachel maddow who did offer a moral position throughout this election and previous elections and indeed it's the role of the anchor on msnbc or not the anchor so it's the pundit on msnbc to offer up moral positions

She has a surprising perspective when it comes to the dissolution of the Five Eyes. Those of you who don't know what the Five Eyes is, the Five Eyes is a set of anglophonic countries, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, America, Australia, that share intelligence with one another on domestic populations to get...

round laws that prevent governments spying on their own populations. One of the things that Edward Snowden revealed and why he's still in exile in Russia. In fact, God, here would be some interesting canary in the cage moments for the new Trump administration. Imagine a proper pardon for Julian Assange. Thank the Lord he's free now. Imagine a pardon for Edward Snowden. Then you would recognize, wow, hold on, things are actually different here. But what we can point out and observe, and indeed my

personal reasons for thinking that America is better off with a MAGA government than a Democratic Party government. One of those reasons is that the Democratic Party have become the representatives of the deep state and global corporatists and the Five Eyes are not the goodies. No, just as it sounds like Five Guys, which I think is a relatively popular and pretty good burger chain, that don't mean it's something we should aspire to or support. The Five Eyes is one of the pillars...

Of globalist surveillance is one of the ways in which you and I aspire on. You know what data scraping is? Everything on your phone, all of your texts, all of your information is being stored for a later date in case one day in the future you need to be unpersoned. If you've got nothing to fear, you've got nothing to hide. Yeah, well, you don't know how the world's going to alter. You might have something to fear in the future. And the five eyes is one of the means and ways that interlocked

global institutions spy on their populations. Australia will give information to America and spy. It's extraordinary and spy on the American population and England on New Zealand. This is all stuff that Snowden revealed. So what does Rachel Maddow mean?

when she laments the loss of the Five Eyes. Same with NATO. All these organizations have been hyped to us as somehow positive, but increasingly we're querying that positivity.

What this election and this result of this election might represent is the end of our acceptance of those endorsements in the same way that the majority of Americans have rejected the endorsement of massive stars and celebrities. Maybe now these sort of star bureaucracies, NATO, Five Eyes, WHO, WEF, maybe they're going to be rejected as well. Let me know in the comments and chat. Let's have a look at Rachel Maddow lamenting the loss of the Five Eyes. If we follow this train of thought,

is that intelligence sharing between America and our traditional allies is likely going to end. The whole Five Eyes thing is likely going to end. If you've got America switching sides in the Ukraine-Russia war to instead support Russia.

or to become neutral, which means would mean in this case to support the aggressor, to support Russia. If you've got ongoing secret communications even out of government between the Republican nominee and the person who funded his campaign and led his ground game, right, both of whom are communicating with the Russian government, you are not going to have American allies who have been relying on us as the pinnacle intelligence agency in the world since World War II.

you are not going to have continued sharing of information with a new administration that has an open line with Vladimir Putin. And if we're at that level, if that's the kind of transformation that's happening in terms of America on the world stage, the idea of there being a part of the US government that is still in Democratic Party hands becomes a very interesting thing in terms of the stability of the world, right?

What do they think about Edward Snowden and Edward Snowden's sacrifices and revelations and Julian Assange? What do they think? Do you know? Like on legacy media channels, do they think that Julian Assange was bad? Because remember at the time there was a moment, this is how it went with Julian Assange. I can remember it. Do you remember? Oh my God, this guy on WikiLeaks, he's a hero. He's revealing information that exposes corruption in particular, murder.

military malfeasance, the murder of civilians by the American military being directed, of course, by branches of government in Iraq. He's revealed that the Democrat Party emails are full of corrupt communications of the Hillary Clinton campaign, for example. He was lauded, loved by

by the Guardian newspaper in my country, by the New York Times in your country, and by all of those sort of premium brands like De Spiegel, Figaro. Every country's got their legacy media brands that are meant to be synonymous with trust, but are now synonymous with corruption. Then what happened is Julian Assange went too far, and he revealed information that was significantly detrimental to the interests of the powerful. And the legacy media bricked it. He was accused of rape.

He was accused of rape. That's what happened. Their rape allegations came out of Sweden, which went away. But by the time those rape allegations had gone away, Julian Assange was like on the run, living in embassies and stuff. Then he was in, I think he was in prison in my country, in Belmarsh prison, a maximum security prison for five years without trial. Now he's been released and he's like, you know, thank God he's been released. But

That's what real journalism costs. It means that people will try to destroy you. That's what it means. So what does the endorsement or even the opinion of MSNBC matter anymore? What is the endorsement of the celebrity cast matter?

mean anymore. These now imploding constellations of falling brands. What do they mean now? What does it mean now? And what does NATO mean now? What are the five eyes mean now? Indeed, this could be significant. And even when you see someone like Candace Owens there talking presumably humorously, presumably humorously about Alex Jones being press secretary, I do think, though, why not?

Why not? You think Jen Psaki wasn't biased? You think Karine Jean-Pierre is not biased? Of course you're biased. You're propagating to the media for the government. So, you know what? Like...

In a way, we've all embedded and consumed and somehow imbibed their damnation of us. Like, oh, I'm not good enough. Oh, I could never run a country. I mean, I don't think anyone should be running whole countries. It's too vast. You need massive subsidiarity. You need to devolve power to the smallest possible units for maximum electoral representation. But I don't think that fundamentally.

Jen Psaki or Carrie Jean-Pierre are qualified for a job that Alex Jones isn't. I recognize he's more of an eccentric character, but maybe what America wants and the world needs is eccentricity now. Or do you think that Joe Scarborough or Rachel Maddow, who do you trust more? Julian Assange, Eric's... Excuse me, don't forget Eric. He's not even in this list. Edward Snowden or Alex Jones, or do you trust...

Or do you trust Rachel Maddow, Karine Jean-Pierre, Jen Psaki? Who is it that gets to decide these brands? I remember we attended the RNC with Rumble. And we said then, when you see Hulk Hogan tearing his top off and going, I love my... It's kind of crazy, particularly if you're familiar with the dynamics of wrestling and wrestling.

The sort of broad commedia dell'arte. Insanity of that stuff. But I know how that moment would have been read by people...

within the democratic institutions and what so that's really crass and vulgar and awful is it but Beyonce or Megan Thee Stallion or You know George Clooney or any one of the stars they endorse Kamala well, that's credible and that's blue chip It's only branding, you know, it's only branding. There's not some sort of essential quality. I

to those stars or celebrities believe me I've been in that world they're not better than you and obviously you don't need me to tell you that you know that already don't you you know that already that's what's happening we've awoken to the fact that we can't trust legacy media that Hollywood's all right for films I like you know Iron Man and all that you know it's a good film but you don't like you know maybe let them sell you coffee but don't let them sell you governments

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The world fairs that Donald Trump says he's going to bring back used to be pretty iconic and defining in your country, didn't they? Didn't like, like, did Eisenhower have one? Were they like fin de ciclo things, like things that you had at the end of centuries? Do you have a few of them? Like you had a few of them that really defined it. My memories as an English person of world fairs are like, you know,

you know like maybe there would have been one of you go there will be flying machines i tell you like i feel like uh uh amelia earhart was inspired at a world fair to fly around and stuff and i know there's an episode of the simpsons where like the sort of like nelson and barton that like rent a car and they go to where a world fair once was and they just end up wearing wigs and that's the thumbnail of it anyway trump's going to bring back world fairs what does it mean that for

for America. Not as easy as that. Is food nicotine? No, there's no nicotine in it. So what do world fairs mean for America? And is that sort of an indication of a kind of a return to, well, making America great again? Let's have a look at what he means by bringing back these world fairs. Three years from now, the United States will celebrate the biggest and most important milestone in our country's history. 250 years of America's

American independence. What a great country. And we have to keep it that way. But that's why as a nation, we should be preparing for a most spectacular birthday party. We want to make it the best of all time. Here is my plan to give America's founding

In 1776, the incredible anniversary it truly deserves. On day one, I will convene a White House task force called Salute to America 250. It will be responsible for coordinating with state and local governments to ensure not just one day of celebration, but an entire year of festivities across the nation, starting on Memorial Day,

2025 and continuing through July 4th, 2026. Second, I will work with all 50 governors, Republican and Democrat alike, to create the Great American State Fair, a unique one-year exhibition featuring pavilions from all 50 states. It'll be something.

The Great American State Fair will showcase the glory of every state in the... Like Epcot Center? Will it be like Epcot Center? Seems alright. It's nice, friendly, soft power. Yeah, I like the sound of that. I like the sound of that. Don't you? I think that would be pretty nice. So far, alright. So far we've seen foreign policy that's like... Hey, we're still on YouTube. We're going to leave YouTube right now. We're going to be talking about Elon, this stuff. Thank you, baby. Let's...

Later, we're going to look at some of the best meltdown reactions to Trump's election.

We're going to be listening to this irony of irony. CNN is saying that Elon Musk will use X as a propaganda organ. Oh, how do you know that? Because that's what we were doing before he took it over. Amazing. It's going to be an amazing show. And remember, if you're not on Awaken Wonder yet, you won't be able to join me for my live stream show with Eric Metaxas. And if you are on Awaken Wonder, you will. Click the link. Get on over to Rumble With Us, baby. Okay, so let's have a look at this. Uh...

This is good. And this is an indication that the legacy media haven't understood some of the changes that have just taken place. Here's Joy Reid saying that Kamala ran a perfect and flawless campaign because of celebrity endorsements. Is this the end of the celebrity endorsement or at least the type of celebrity endorsement that we had predicted?

grown accustomed to. Think of like 10 years ago, would it have been or 15 or whatever, pick a number. Would it have been possible for all of the world's greatest stars to line up on a red carpet of endorsement and be rejected? What does it tell us about changing trust in celebrity and in the landscape of celebrity and the way that power and soft power work?

What does it tell us about the mistrust we have since the Epstein list and the Epstein scandal and the revelations about Diddy and that kind of subterranean alleged network of sex parties that apparently involves big stars and big political figures? Have we lost our faith and trust in celebrities? Now, as someone who's been inside those institutions, as it were, I now recognize that there

They've probably always been propaganda. I mean, you look at them books like Hollywood Babylon and you read that it's always been kind of built on sex and intrigue. And it looks like now in this new communication age, they're having to undergo a sort of a massive rebrand and reframing. It's not that great films don't still come out of Hollywood. Probably this year, there'll be things that get made that you're sort of going to want to watch. But the idea that stars and celebrities now

good for anything other than, you know, sort of make some films or whatever. I'm talking about probably a Ricky Gervais take on celebrity. You know, when you see Ricky hosting the Golden Globes, he's like, get your statue, thank your agent, and you're gone. Like, maybe Ricky Gervais kind of preempted the kind of mistrust that many people were feeling for celebrity, probably because we've grown tired of their endorsements. I recognise I'm from that world a bit, you know, like I've been in movies and I'm a stand-up comedian and all that kind of thing.

But what I'm saying is that there are sets of values transcendent of those values. And if you don't have access to them, then you will find a hard ceiling because celebrity is not God. Government is not God. And now we know that people are not going to treat it like one. Let's have a look at Joy Reid saying that Kamala's campaign was flawless on the basis of racism.

you know, on that basis. And I think it's important to say that, you know, anyone who has experienced or been in the United States for any period of time and experienced this country's history and knows it cannot have believed that it would be easy to elect

a woman president, let alone a woman of color. Let's just be clear. And nothing that was true yesterday about how flawlessly this campaign was run is not true now. I mean, this really was an historic, flawlessly run campaign. She had, Queen Latifah never endorses anyone. She came out and endorsed us. You know,

I mean, she had every... That's pretty amazing. It's a bit like the Chappelle joke, no? Like when we're going live now for 9-11 reactions, we've got Ja Rule on the line. Ja Rule! I'm going to need more than Ja Rule! Like, because we've been now conditioned to living in a perpetual state of crisis, if Trump wins...

He's Hitler. You've got there's a pandemic. Get in your house, take your medicine. Like suddenly Ja Rule or George Clooney or any celebrity, really. I'm not even excluding celebrities. Who cares anymore? Who actually cares about politics?

other than sets of principles and virtues that are derived from something a little more esoteric and a little more valuable than the pursuit of box office or the selling of records or the selling of products. We're going to need a little more now, I feel. And I think it's

I think it's important to say that, you know, you know, not you. Let's have a look a bit. Let's have a look at, you know, again, I think there's a further indication of the misunderstanding of what's happening. See, when you look at legacy media, you can see there's an ongoing misdiagnosis here. Like now, this is the view. Well, so many people are excited when they, did you see how many people posted about, I've got a

Watch the view. The view became appointment viewing, didn't it? For like 24 hours because people were anticipating some strong reactions. Let's have a look at Sonny Hostin saying that uneducated white women and Latino men are too stupid.

So I think maybe she's suggesting they shouldn't be allowed to vote. Well, I want to dig further into the demographics because black women tried to save this country again last night. 92% of black women voted for the vice president. You have Latinas in the 70 percentile voting for the vice president. What we did not have is white women who voted about 52%, right, for Donald Trump. Uneducated white women is my understanding. You have Latino men.

you uneducated white woman you can't carve the world up like that i suppose you can because you can look at data sets but there are other criteria to people you could look at you know like i suppose from a psychoanalytical point of view you could look at whether or not they're sort of aggressive or you could look up sort of whether or not they feel like they've been mistreated or abused or exploited or you could look at what they feel about the institutions of power and government whether they're cynical and skeptical people maybe we don't

carve people up like that no more. I mean wasn't that part of the civil rights movement to get beyond that? I know it's a bit of a hacky argument in a way to suggest that we should try to fulfill the visions of great men like Martin Luther King who said we had to start looking beyond those superficial taxonomies and he of course was a Christian minister so he had available to him a Christian purview i.e. we are part of one human family, we must respect and love people, apartheid and exploitation

anathema and against our nature. The legacy media, of course, in a sense, while claiming to be pursuing his legacy, inverting it by looking at everything in blunt demographic terms, seeking, I believe, to stoke

division in order to facilitate further power of corporatist globalists. And now that that's not worked, they're lamenting and damning people that didn't vote the way they were told to. Voting the way that you're told to is not democratic. That's

I don't know what it is, but it's not democratic. Latino men actually voting more for him. And you have and black men was not the story. We're not the story here because they voted almost 80 percent for the vice president. So why do you think that uneducated white women voted against their reproductive health freedoms? And why do you think Latino men voted in favor of someone that's going to deport says he's going to deport the majority of his community? That's interesting analysis. I think perhaps because

What are like landmark ideas that we can use to track this? The pandemic is helpful because the pandemic shows us how a government is tending towards authoritarianism whenever it gets the opportunity. Its relationship with big business and business doesn't even seem like the correct word anymore. Giant corporate monoliths that stand astride the globe is a great indicator of why people might become disillusioned. I don't think people are voting against other people's sexualities.

sexual freedom or reproductive freedom. I know that the subject of abortion provokes very strong emotions, surely in anybody, because it's a sort of really painful and difficult thing.

I don't think that that's what's defining this election. I feel like people don't trust the government, don't trust the media, don't trust the judiciary and don't trust Hollywood and don't trust entertainment. Here's Stephen Colbert, who, like all late night talk show hosts, trended towards supporting the Democrat Party, who during the pandemic danced along with vaccines, all dressed up and stuff. And

like a vaccine. I mean, it's just such a strange time, really. Saying that the vast majority of Americans don't care about democracy. Let's see if we can pick this apart in real time. Well, it happened again. After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need not to go to jail, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election. The D.P.

It's almost like you rehearsed that. The deep shock and sense of loss is enormous. Another moment from a Colbert audience that's worth remembering is when Stephen Colbert said, we know that CNN gives us unbiased news. And the whole audience laughed. So I wouldn't be surprised if they did rehearse that book. Sense of loss is enormous. Okay, but let's look at the bright side. This way, at least there'll be a peaceful transfer of power. Mike Pence, ali-ali-at.

I wonder, though, about that peaceful transfer of power. And I wonder where the 81 million votes that Biden had actually came from, given that Kamala got 66 million and Obama got 61 million. I might be getting these numbers a little askew, but there was an extraordinary spike for Biden. Like, where are them 15 million votes gone? Olly olly oxen free.

All day yesterday, I was walking around proudly wearing my I voted sticker. Today, I wore my I am questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity sticker. That's the problem. That is the problem. I'm not from your country, obviously. I'm in your country right now and I'm moving around Florida and I'm meeting people that are Trump supporters.

And they are not like sort of gurning, psychopathic, racist lunatics. There are a variety of people that you can't basket of deplorables off. You couldn't do it prior to the election and you certainly can't do it after the election in an attempt to galvanize the now proven histrionic and out of touch.

media leaders of the other demographic that I think have falsely instilled in people a sense of despair and terror when there's already been a Trump government from 2016 to 2020. And if anything, it wasn't that different. I know Donald Trump and Donald Trump supporters say, no, no, no. Manufacturing went up and it was the beautiful economy. I know all that kind of stuff, but I don't know. I have a very optimistic perspective.

appraisal of the possibilities for humankind and particularly for your country, that it could become a country of glorious vision, of spiritual fulfillment, of true power on the world stage, the power to sacrifice and the power to change and the power to bring about peace rather than the power to dominate without consequence. So,

It's really odd to hear Stephen Colbert, who I bet I've spoken to. I've been on that show a bunch of times, who I know is Christian, who I know is a decent man, I reckon. Sort of like make jokes, the basis of which is that half the population or over half, 71 million or however many votes Trump got, are somehow deficient or...

or defunct or defective. Doesn't seem right to me that that would happen. But in a minute, we're going to look at some of the meltdowns from TikTok. And I'm wondering if it's even ethical for me to look at that. And we're going to talk about how what kind of created that state of mind. How do people get themselves in that state? And it's because of this kind of media, isn't it? Let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with that.

Now as a late night host, people often say to me, "Come on, part of you has got to want Trump to win, because he gives you so much material to work with." No. No. No one tells the guy who cleans the bathroom, "Wow, you must love it when someone has explosive diarrhea. There's so much material for you to work with." Now, you understand that? Is that good?

I wish, you wish, so many of us wish this hadn't happened, but that is not for us to decide. This is a democracy. That's democracy with a capital "Duh." And in this democracy the majority has spoken and they said they don't care that much about democracy. And I want to take a moment to congratulate Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on running an amazing... That's really weird, "don't care about democracy."

As Mike Benz explained to me, when they talk about democracy, they don't mean the ability to vote for representatives to carry your interests through systems of government. They mean the systems of government themselves. They mean democracy.

They want the judiciary, the media and the various executive branches of your government to be controlled by a certain ideology. And they don't want that to be infected, impacted or altered. You know, all the while the American taxpayers have been funding the ongoing and hopefully soon resolved war between Ukraine and Russia. It's been presented as a war to protect democracy, even though there are no elections in Ukraine. I know a lot of countries suspend elections when they're

when there's a war on. I know that. But they've also suspended the media. And they've also got really interesting relationships with Black Rock. There's a lot going on there. So...

The information that we're given matters. And it's, I think, very harmful to derisorily dismiss, if such a word is possible, derisorily dismiss 71 million people as not caring about democracy. But I think what they really care about are probably values, principles, families, individual rights and community. And I know that there would be pushback on that. Well, don't they care about the rights of people to get...

abortions and i don't man look it's not a subject i can claim to be an expert in but isn't trump actually saying the state should decide what point you know like so there's no one saying i don't think ban abortions as a centralized edict so even that understandably galvanizing and distressing issue that centers around the sanctity of human life

is being misrepresented, like all of the other issues. ...on running an amazing 107-day campaign. You know, come on. That was extraordinary. Right out of the gate. They hit it right out of the gate.

Yeah, people saying about that sort of Republican democracy. In a sense, I think these two synecdoches are interchangeable and mean the will of the people can be represented through institutions of government, through the ballot box. That's what I mean when I say that.

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Let's see whether or not people really believe that Adolf Hitler has just taken power. Are people now fleeing? Are people setting up opportunities to get the hell out of this place before the various systems of genocide, slaughter and endless war are set up?

Or not. Here's Greenwald posted on that. I feel like none of the people who called Trump the new Hitler are reacting or preparing as if Hitler is soon to be in power. Have all the people that in fact claim they would be sent in Trump's camps, AOC, Maddow, Olbermann, Dua Baird, begun to make preparations to flee? Interesting observation. Interesting question.

Well, certainly there are some extremely strong reactions. Now, I've thought a lot about whether or not to show this because I don't mock people that are vulnerable. But I'd like to pose this question. What is it that is making these people have such a strong reaction? Remember, Trump's been in government. This is I'm going to try and give us a cold sort of appraisal of this situation. Imagine.

If the most ambitious version of what this election represents is a repetition of what happened between 2016 and 2020, what were the worst moments? I'm talking from a liberal mindset. Is it when the Muslim countries couldn't fly into America?

Is that it? It's a genuine question. Let me know in the comments and chat. Was it the building of the wall? It can't be that, can it though? Because Kamala Harris said she was going to build the wall and Biden wanted to build the wall. What is the most egregious thing that Trump did from a liberal perspective, from a liberal perspective between 2016 and 2020? And what is it that solicited this extraordinary reaction? This is what's sort of generally being referred to as the best reaction.

of leftist meltdowns. Let's have a little look. How did we get here? How did we get here? What in the Alice in Wonderland nightmares is going on right now? All I can say is how fucking dare you? That's interesting. That's a Greta Thunberg reaction.

retread, isn't it? That, you know, how dare you? And that how dare you motif, I think a lot of people didn't like that. I admire anyone who's really sort of committed to what they believe in. It's a good attribute, isn't it? To really be committed to what you believe in. But that sort of how dare you mentality, it's just that there's a solipsism and narcissism and a grandiosity in that that I feel is not going to be helpful in creating for any individual and certainly not for a whole culture or society. That's a weird mindset. Dare you?

If you voted for that man, if you voted for anybody other than Kamala and you live in one of the states, that it would be you.

If you vote for anyone like Mark Lander, listen, please, I'll try to be sort of specific and particular. I'm not saying that those people, those individuals should be sort of ridiculed or condemned. I know a lot of you will really get off on it. Like what I'm saying is what is making them feel that way? In the same way that we can be directed to sort of drink Coca-Cola when it's not really very good for you. And I let my children drink it. What...

What kind of conditioning, what kind of coaxing, what kind of propaganda has led people to think that what's about to happen is so significant and so against their interests that it warrants this degree of emotion? You live in one of the states that it was, you know, close or if you didn't vote.

Fuck you.

That's people that's not very... I reckon what you'd find, like, remember, from a compassionate and loving perspective, that many of them people have been exposed to trauma and also now propaganda. So they connect that...

propaganda to their trauma. Like, you know, that they've had tough lives in one way or another. Because everyone's had a tough life because it's tough out here. That's why you probably do need a kind of tough president for these tough times. And certainly what you need are people that are willing to get in there and look at the institutions of government. Certainly you need people that want to end war. I don't know how they've been coaxed into that state. Everyone's saying in the chat, legacy media, legacy media. Maybe you're right. I love you. How the fuck is this?

Right. Some people are saying some of the stuff that Trump said in the Awake and Wonder chat, like the grab him by the P word moment. I suppose so. But, you know, that was not a great thing to have said on tape. But when was that and what was that? And do you think that Donald Trump sort of really like that as a sort of a married man, as a father? Now, certainly me in the past, I might have said pretty dumb things, but...

Does it warrant that kind of hysteria? And how is that going to actually affect you? Like, if you can't handle people saying stuff, it's going to be a tougher world. Fuck, is this still happening? All I've ever known politically is hatred. I'm done. It's not only known hatred politically. This is, I tell you what this is. Everyone is playing out their personal trauma.

or their personal psychosis according to external stimulants. Like me as well, you, I bet all of us are. Like we all have certain things that sort of thrum the strings of our inherited insanity. Like, you know, like you might be a person that gets intimidated by certain behavior, conduct or individuals. You might be someone who's aroused or find certain conduct alluring. So I reckon there's a sort of a baseline approach

of characteristics and then something happens and particularly if you've been really heavily conditioned by media and bam out it comes i'm done i'm done i'm done i'm done with you i'm done with you and your mother and your sister i'm just done with all of this i'm sorry

understand how scared of this man I am. If this guy does end up winning again, all of the people who voted for him will be like happy and they'll just be celebrating. And everyone else, everyone who feels threatened by him is fucking scared. Like we're scared for our lives. We're scared for our friends. How dare you?

That's a religious impulse has been connected to secular and managerial events. In a way, none of us should be hysterical about the outcome of the election. I do reckon had Kamala won, I might have felt, oh, is this going to mean that like censorship is going to get worse and surveillance is going to increase and that there are going to be progressive crises that are used to legitimize further authority, telling us that they are exerting that authority only to protect us? Is this going to mean all of us are going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to be in a position to say, oh, we're going to

ongoing wars around the globe supporting Ukraine to the point of annihilating their population in a war they can't win. Is this going to mean likely conflict with China rather than diplomacy? I really hope that this government within the limits of what is possible for a government are going to govern for global peace

democracy and subsidiarity. That's what I hope. And vulgarity and crassness are things that are evocative. We human beings are affected by stuff like that. But we should be more affected, I think, by deception and hypocrisy. Like just to give you a couple of examples, building that wall off, saying you weren't going to build a wall that

building that wall was so, so terrible. The corruption that took place during the pandemic period that's still not being addressed and might be addressed now that Bobby Kennedy's in a significant position in government. The health crisis is going on across America. The stoking of cultural division that does take two sides to escalate. I think this could be a really good time for your country, honestly. And I think sort of rather than ridiculing and mocking the people in those videos, although it's easy, I suppose there are certain things that could make me

feel that way so lord let us be compassionate you put this man into office for another four years knowing damn well what it means for our country what it means for us as a people to know that there is that much ignorance and that much hate in this country it's so terrifying

It's so terrifying. It's not ignorance and hate. But what's terrifying is that we are all so easily manipulated by media. What's heartening is that legacy media is losing its grip on people. And some of these folks will be debugged now. And I pray that they find a higher power to cling to that can warrant that level of devotion and that level of hysteria. Because I'm a person that can get hysterical. And thankfully, I found a God that can handle my hysteria.

madness can handle my fallen nature and can give me some guidance, some principles, some community, some encouragement. And that's exactly what we'll be talking about with Eric Metaxas on Break Bread with Brand, which is coming up

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The propaganda arm of the government have had the gall to say that Elon Musk will use X as an organ of propaganda. Well, we know thanks to the Twitter files that that's exactly how social media has been used as soon as the government worked out how to use it in that way. So who's a greater threat to free speech? Is it Elon Musk or is it CNN? Let me know in the comments and chat. Let's have a look at that claim being made. I want to ask.

to ask you about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and how a Musk role in a Trump administration would interact with his ownership of that platform.

I would suspect he's going to try to merge Trump social. I've heard from a number of people today with with X and take it public because it's a meme stock now. Trump social already, which is a terrible business. So is X, by the way. X has always been a terrible business and that was preceding Musk. And now it's worse than ever. But it's they could merge them and make it a meme stock and make a lot of money for themselves. That could be interesting and incredibly corrupt.

They could also, he'll use it as a propaganda organ, which is precisely why he bought it. People misunderstood. They kept saying he was losing money. And I think it was very clear it wasn't about money. This was a great investment by Elon Musk in Donald Trump. And that's how he sees it, to make, he spent hundreds of millions to make billions. And he could be our world's first trillionaire. If you're comfortable with a single person who has interests all over the federal government, including $15 billion in contracts,

deciding things and I know it's gone on and on. What the pundit there has described are some principles, right? And the principles, if you listen to them, are...

There should not be concentration of media in one person's portfolio. But think about News International or News Corp, the set of international media interests around Rupert Murdoch. And think of all the journalists that work for Rupert Murdoch and believe they're doing good work, fervently carrying out their work. We're doing good journalism. We're doing good journalism. But essentially, if they say stuff that is detrimental to the interests of Rupert Murdoch,

They're out. Think of the legacy media organizations in the United States of America that are dependent on the advertising money of Big Pharma. What must they be thinking now? And if you're against billionaires having influence in politics, then what is the relationship of Bill Gates with the Democratic Party? And what is the relationship with George Soros with the Democratic Party? So if that is a true principle...

and you are a true supporter of the Democratic Party, what you'd be saying is, I can't be in this party as long as you keep accepting that money. Or you don't have that principle. You don't have that principle. So those were, I think, interesting questions to put forward. But those questions do not have the same validity if you only ask them when it suits you.

If you only ask them when it suits you from January, I guess it's around January 6th. So there's a peaceful transfer of power. We'll be able to look at how the second Trump term looks. And I guess if you were just looking at it rationally, it's going to be a bit like Trump.

The first Trump term between 2016 and 2020. And Trump would say that was negatively impacted by the pandemic. Right. And any reasonable person would say, well, but now it's a Trump government where he's sort of publicly stated the main mistakes in the advisers that he appointed. And this time he plans to give more power to Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk. And we'll see.

We'll be able to experience it. What I don't think it's going to be, and here I'll say it on camera, I don't think we're all going to end up in internment camps for dissent. And I feel that the way that things were going

under and I'm not talking about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden as individual human beings. I'm talking about a set of global institutions that have co-opted democracy, primarily using the language of social democracy. And yet the policy of the neocon policies that we recognize from the sort of Iraq wars. That's why someone like Cheney can become part of that movement. And it kind of doesn't matter. What we would see is a sort of a slide towards Kafkaesque politics.

Huxley-esque Orwellian totalitarianism all the while being told, say thank you. Say thank you for the boot stamping on your face, decimating the divine image that each of us bear as the insignia of all that is in holy. Say thank you for that. Say thank you for that because we are protecting you. But that's just what I think. What do

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And all the fake news that's been going out there. You know, one of the things that we need to do, and it's not to abolish the Department of Education, as a former teacher, believe me, he's talking about doing that. You know, kids in, I brought this up before, I'm going to bring it up again. In Finland, kids in nursery school are learning to discern between fake news and real news. They should be teaching that in this country. Teach children tolerance. Teach them to think critically.

help if we could regulate social media because one of the biggest offenders is DC and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations in social media. It's not going to get any better with Elon Musk now in the administration.

How dangerous is Elon Musk? He's now in charge of three branches of government. Have you seen that meme? Elon Musk, the idiot, spent $44 billion on Twitter and all he got is control over three branches of government. Now you can see why people might have oligarchical concerns about such a...

appointment and let's see how that plays out in real time. But let's also look at what Elon Musk has done for free speech in so much as he certainly deregulated and debugged Twitter of all of its insidious interlocution of government agencies like the FBI and CIA who are deeply embedded, who are paying money. There's a lot going on in there. It's not happening in the same way to the same degree now. That much we can be certain of. Here is Mike Benz, friend of our show and analyst

of deep state corruption on Dan Bongino, Bongino Army, explaining to him how Facebook caved on the government when it came to censorship during the pandemic and how Elon Musk has stood firm in...

in this area. Mike, you are the man on the deep state. Elon was the game changer for free speech, wasn't he? A guy with the assets to finally take on this big state, deep state monolith. Absolutely, he was. The difference between Elon and Zuckerberg is really interesting. It's not just the difference between a double-digit billionaire in Zuckerberg and a triple-digit billionaire in Musk. Zuckerberg had those misgivings about censorship while he was running Facebook. He said in 2019 that he thought censorship had gone too far

on Facebook. But then an operation called Change the Terms was run. Facebook lost $60 billion in market cap in just six weeks. And so Zuckerberg caved and gave the advertisers everything they wanted. When Elon Musk, that same fastball came at him, he gave

double-barrel middle fingers and said, GFY. So I think Zuckerberg feels those sort of libertarian free speech principles, but is not willing to sacrifice the financial and business enterprise that he's developed. Whereas Elon Musk, when he was asked during that pivotal interview with the advertisers, well, what will you do if X goes bankrupt? What if they actually kill the company?

and he says, let them kill the company, the world will watch. He basically set himself up practically on the cross allegorically to say, listen, you can come at me. I may go to jail for this. I may lose Tesla and SpaceX, but I believe in human civilization. I believe in human freedom. His life purpose is essentially to fight for that at this point, and it was the game changer.

Interesting perspective. Now, in Australia, social media is being incredibly restricted. Under-16s won't be allowed on it. And as a parent, you can see why restricting children's access to social media might in some ways be sensible. On the surface, it looks OK. But do you imagine this might be used at some point to legitimise further censorship? Social media is doing harm to our kids and I'm calling time on it.

Do you reckon that really across the world they're going, oh no, we don't want another Trump? Let's stop legitimising mass censorship of social media. First of all by protecting children, then by protecting adults who really are just furry children. Time on it.

I've spoken to thousands of parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles. They like... I spoke to an auntie and uncle earlier today. They're terrified that their children might be on social media. I spoke to one Scrooge McDuck who's terrified the QEDU in Lewy could be influenced into thinking anything other than the opinions that are sanctioned by the state. They, like me, are worried sick about the safety of our kids online.

And I want Australian parents and families to know that the government has your back. Now, government's proposed age is 16. That decision was made in cabinet on Monday.

And that proposal will go to the National Cabinet meeting that I'm convening online, a virtual meeting tomorrow morning. It's virtual. I'm actually doing it.

social media. The irony. Of course children should be protected. That's the job of parents to protect their children. Of course people that are not adults have to be protected. Of course there are certain decisions children cannot make that adults can make. But there aren't decisions that governments should be making for vast populations, particularly if they're making those decisions actually because they are controlled by global cartels rather than the populations that fund

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We've got to get it right. Like other world-leading legislation, we've got to get it right. We've got to get it right when we ban X from the world, actually. Why stop at Australia? We should be banning you from moving around right now. It is got right. We've got to get it right. It is got right. The East Safety Commissioner will issue regulatory guidance setting out what reasonable steps can be taken by platforms, and that will be informed by the Age Assurance Trials.

OK, well, can you trust Australia and do your governments have your best interests in heart? Are they, in fact, the servant of interests that are very difficult to access through the ballot box? We're going to be making some changes, it seems, around here. And we, though, will be back tomorrow for another fantastic live conversation.

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