Control Slipping: Germany's Vote, Ukraine, Apple, and Joy Reid – SF543
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Russell Brand
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Germany's election results expose a crumbling establishment as voters abandon mainstream parties, while in Ukraine, the West escalates its commitment—Starmer signs a 100-year pledge, the EU boosts arms production, and talk of UK conscription emerges. Meanwhile, Trump's negotiations signal a shifting global order. At home, Apple caves to UK government demands, stripping key privacy features, while EU leaders openly push censorship as a "vaccine" against free speech. And in media, MSNBC drops Joy Reid after years of pushing establishment narratives. As the cracks widen, who's really in control?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, you awakening wonders. Thanks for joining me today. It's Monday for stay free with Russell Brand. It's an extraordinary week with some extraordinary stories to discuss. Trump, meeting Macron, the escalating Ukraine conflict. But first, Dan Bongino is deputy director of the FBI. How do you feel about that? |
| 0:21.9 | I mean, obviously, great on one level, |
| 0:23.5 | but on the level, that means Dan Borgnino |
| 0:25.1 | won't be on Rumble no more, doesn't it? |
| 0:27.0 | Because you can't be on Rumble |
| 0:29.2 | if you're a deputy director of the FBI. |
| 0:32.1 | I feel sort of both sad on one hand |
| 0:35.2 | because I feel like Dan Bonino |
| 0:36.6 | is such a significant part of Rumble, but then I think, hold on one hand, because I feel like Dan Bongino is such a significant part of Rumble, |
| 0:38.0 | but then I think, hold on a minute, does this mean I'll get some opportunity I wouldn't have |
| 0:41.5 | otherwise got, either on Rumble or in the American government? |
| 0:45.3 | Do you have a tendency to make even global news, do you distill it down to how it will affect |
| 0:51.6 | you directly? |
| 0:52.6 | There's a war. |
| 0:53.5 | How's that going to affect me? |
| 0:54.8 | War. I could die in that war. Hey, that's going to affect me directly. You might be watching us on |
| 1:00.0 | X right now. You might be watching us on YouTube. But ultimately, please find your way over to |
| 1:05.1 | Rumble where we can speak freely. That's what we've all due respect to everything that's going on |
| 1:10.3 | at X over there, |
| 1:11.6 | which is a free speech platform I acknowledge. But this is our free speech platform Rumble who have |
| 1:17.5 | boldly supported me personally. And now their finest and brightest are being plucked out |
| 1:23.2 | to run government departments. It's extraordinary, isn't it? Isn't it extraordinary? Doesn't it strike you? |
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