If you’ve heard anything at all lately about Russell Brand, or about his platform of refuge on Rumble, and you heard it from the usual suspects, then you are naturally drowning in a sewage of innuendo, conjecture, and lies.
Russell Brand has not been convicted of a crime.
Nor has he even been charged with one. Nor arrested. Nor indicted.
The most intrepid of researchers has not been able to uncover evidence that any alleged victim has so much as filed a police report about him.
And yet, for reasons obscure to the naked eye, Russell Brand has already been severely and unjustly punished. His YouTube channel, with five million plus subscribers, has been completely demonetized, and that’s only the biggest piece of the pain that has been inflicted on him.
Naturally, he decamped for Rumble, and now the same well-funded forces that smeared him in the first place are wanting you to believe that Rumble is swarming with white supremacists, father-stabbers, mother-rapers.
It’s not. There are right-wingers. There are radical criticizers of the American Way. There are people who transcend all the bullshit labels, like Brand himself, and like Glenn Greenwald, who tonight provided an antidote to rumor and slander and libel here:
Using Russell Brand as Pretext, UK Govt & US Media Launch Multi-Pronged War on Rumble
Savor it like you used to savor your civil liberties, in the good old days.
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The prof lady loves to chatter while she works. Eventually, inevitably, she set me off today.
I told her that pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into a losing bet in Ukraine was an excuse for corruption at the highest levels. I told her it was dumb. And I explained to her that, according to polls, the only fragment of the American population that still supports limitless funding for Biden’s proxy war, by a 74-26% margin, were self-described ‘liberal democrats’, the same liberal democrats who once led the opposition to wars in Korea, and Vietnam, and Iraq.
She, being very much the model of a liberal Democrat herself, spake back to me in righteousness:
“Well what would you do? Just let Russia run them over?”
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Well what if China invaded Mongolia? What would the Bolivians do?
The Bolivians would do fuck-all, because that would be none of their damn business, and none of their concern in any way, and Bolivians are rational people who act in their own rational self-interest.
Would that the poor benighted Americans could say half as much.
Would that the fragment of people still clinging to the idea that Biden, and Chuck Schumer, and Lindsay Graham are in any way the good guys in this melodrama wake the fuck up and get those billions and billions passed out to Flint and Lahaina and the Ohio rust belt instead of a gang of corrupt Nazis on the other side of the world.
Maybe it’s still a little harder to test your military-industrial war products out on poor black people, on your own turf, than it is to stick it to the Rooskies like it’s 1953.
At least … so far.
Give them time.
Good old American ingenuity will find a way, and they will let the ersatz freedom ring and ring in your ears until they start to bleed.
Democracy. So beautiful.