October 19, 2023

“[Russell] Brand is not a threat to the elites,” says The Independent, a magazine owned since 2010 by Alexander Lebedev, Russian oligarch and former KGB agent.

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The irony in “Independent” was too fun to pass up there — almost as funny as Saudi businessman Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel, who has close ties to the Saudi royal family, buying a 30% stake in it, too.  But this is beside the point.  Regarding Russell Brand, a “non-threat to the elites,” the article goes to on state,

Brand said the allegations “make me question is there another agenda at play?” He goes on to say, “I’m aware that you guys have been saying in the comments for a while ‘watch out Russell they’re coming for you’, ‘you’re getting too close to the truth’.”

Which begs the question — what truth? 

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Just before the investigation was published on 16 September, Brand’s most recent videos were on the Covid vaccine, Big Pharma, the war in Ukraine, the JFK assassination, an interview with “Hitler was OK until he tried to globalise” Candace Owens, and one about Bill Gates doing something with fruit. 

Aside from the fact that he left out Brand’s exposés on BlackRock — the company that owns the top shares in 80% of the whole stock market, rewards “well behaved” top-level government employees with lucrative jobs, and is deeply embedded in the Biden administration — aside from this, I say, what we saw The Independent list so flippantly above is the biggest medical scandal in the history of the whole world, the decades-long poisoning and looting of sick Americans, possibly the biggest embezzlement scheme in the history of Western aid, a coup d’état that robbed Americans of democracy, an interview with the woman who turned millions of black men Republican, and an attempt by Bill Gates to monkey with our food supply.  In other words, these are subjects deeply affecting all of us, skewering corruption and conspiracy at almost all the upper levels of our society.

This brings us to ask the obvious question: aren’t these things historically left-wing issues?

The Independent, a magazine described by Media Bias Fact Check as “center-left,” argues otherwise.

Fortunately for multimillionaire Brand, numerous other multimillionaires — and at least one billionaire — have leapt to his defence. Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump Jr, Steven Crowder — the list seems to grow by the day. In fact, if Brand has many more ultra-wealthy people and oligarchs defending him there won’t be much of an establishment left to threaten. And one might think, with friends like those, who needs the deep state as an enemy? 

In other words, to “leftists” such as The Independent, your label doesn’t describe whom or what you’re fighting for; it’s whom you’re fighting alongside.  And it gets even more absurd from there.  In their eyes, the “establishment” is Elon Musk — who’s not only hated by the press, but lost his “richest man” spot fighting for free speech; Tucker Carlson, a man who was just fired from Fox News for not stepping in line with the narrative; Andrew Tate, an Instagram influencer it’s dangerous to praise in the breakroom; Dr. Peterson, whom the Canadian government is forcing to undergo “re-education”; Alex Jones, who was fined a billion dollars to ruin his anti-establishment radio show; Ben Shapiro, a Jewish beta-boy who “owns the liberals” by making snarky comments; and Donald Trump, Jr. and Steven Crowder — two completely random millionaire loudmouths.  Influential?  All yes — but almost all on the receiving end of a beating from the powerful.