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This an example of why it took such courage for Sasha Stone to leave the hive; they hate us because we’re undereducated and overly successful Deplorables only good for war cannon fodder and to pay taxes, but they actively persecute and stalk those that left their cult because they are an unacceptable example to others that escape can be survived. It’s a Mafia practice.

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We're not undereducated, we are underconditioned.

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I have concluded that they basically hate us because we don't share their hive mind.

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I regard myself as overeducated and underly successful. (And not notably deplorable)

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And I think I received just the right amount of education 😂

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The Empire views 99% of its citizens as a resource to be exploited at most, and as an unavoidable inconvenience at worst.

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I'm quite well educated. Just never been to collage.

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It’s where free thinking goes to die.

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Very true. I was just going to say this is a mob mentality but you did it first. And once the person is down, they will be kicking him/her until the person is cancelled or dead. It is especially easy acting as a group with no individual responsibility for your action. You just join the public outrage.

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I would respectively ask you to reconsider your position after considering the following:-

1- If Sasha receives an income from subscribers to her 'network', then risking that income by abandoning one network and hoping that another network will form and replace that income is a significant risk that requires financial courage.

2- Given the cancel (or is it cancer) culture, any deviation from the narrative norm will not only be financially abandoned but actively pursued with the intent to ruin that person. Again, this compounds both the risk and the courage.

3 - Sasha will risk losing me as a subscriber by speaking her mind regardless of the consequence. That she will morally confront instead of merely comfort her subscribers leads to my trusting her intellectual autonomy. I may disagree strongly with her, but I need to be confronted to be able to think for myself and validate my positions.

4 - I trust her character rather than her conclusions. That makes me more loyal than mere agreement, and trust is the foundation of all economics that are at risk. Our only true currency is our word, that is why financial instruments are called 'promissory notes'

Sasha keeps her promises.

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Now you are embarrassing yourself, MLB.

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That ship sailed quite a while ago.

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This entire thread demonstrates one of the logical fallacies that has crept into western society at a toxic level: black and white thinking. Good or evil, left or right, with us or against us. Its madness.

I remember the days when people agreed on basic things like protecting children, the dignity of human life, the rule of law, preserving freedoms, strong families, good schools, providing opportunities to live safe and healthy lives. We disagreed on how to do it, but we still had the same goals.

Now everyone is pointing to the other guy, saying "He is evil, I am good." This accomplishes nothing. All people have the same capacity for good or evil and I think all of us are being played by a few elites that really do have evil intentions. We need to be humble to our own shortcomings and capacity for malevolence and look for common ground with others rather than assuming the worst. It would be a nice start anyway.

They are playing us against each other and it is working.

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Sep 20, 2023·edited Sep 20, 2023

Well, I have watched people get quite angry when anyone even suggests there is such a thing as truth or objective reality. They definitely don't believe in open discourse. When I accused my college professor in intellectual dishonesty for blatantly promoting one viewpoint over the other in a Masters level CRITICAL THINKING course, she turned bright red and abruptly ended the class!

Your own bias shows. Most politicians are con-men, don't kid yourself. In my observations, many people are fact resistant, so I don't mind people parsing the "news" because I am pretty tired of being told what to think by the Ministry of Truth.

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MLB, I think nearly all the people here don’t “.. hate their (ie the left) guts..” because a) many here are religious and hating another soul is against their religion, b) the hate is primarily directed at actions, practices, policies and not individual souls, c) I don’t recall seeing a single comment expressing hate against the individual. I don’t doubt there is a fair amount of dislike for individuals of the left (just as there is dislike from left to right). I didn’t want to comment more but nor did I want you to feel hated by me or nearly everyone else here. Frustrated often though for sure!😂

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And Dems routinely label major GOP candidates Nazis & fascists -- labels they also apply to GOP voters, or Independent voters who don't vote THEIR way. I am registered Independent, & I can honestly state that I don't hate anybody.

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Every power-game (every human group is a hierarchy) is not only a zero-sum game, but a perfect zero sum game. Ask a white person in South Africa, a Mohammedan or Christian in Israel, or a Uighur in China (or a white in the US, actually). Every player is either dominant or subordinate -- no neutrals; no ties; no 'time-outs'.

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Sep 19, 2023·edited Sep 19, 2023

That simply isn't true. I have friends & relatives on both sides of the political aisle. I enjoy engaging in conversations with folks on both sides here on Substack, where the discussions don't just devolve into "You're a fascist/racist/homophobe/transphobe!"

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What's up with women waiting ten, fifteen, twenty years and then suddenly claiming, "He raped me."?? In my opinion, any claims of sexual misconduct that are not made in, say, the first month after the alleged crime/misdeed, should be ignored.

How is any defense possible years after the "fact"? It becomes pure character assassination. Is the best Brand's opponents can come up with? It's pathetic.

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Yes, pathetic just like the sliming, libel, slander and character assination of so many republican SCOTUS (and other) nominees. Only for Republicans BY slimeball Dems. Lowlifes

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Yes! This!

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I do not agree. People are embarrassed, violated, humiliated, traumatized, etc. The world is such that the world supports men in their abuse and rape of women while attacking women who tell their stories and accuse men of wrong. In Islamic cultures and more, women are blamed for being raped, and are then killed for bringing charges. Women face physical and character assassinations as victims of men's crimes.

In our fallen world, men want to be God. That's the character of the fall. So men create a myth of their theistic perfection and goodness. People prefer to believe the myth than the women harmed by men. It's the world cult of male ego deification. The Bible calls it the 666 beast world system.

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Well said, er, written, Sasha. I think the haters will stop at nothing to control our voices. Sadly, these kinds of tactics squelch the voice of those of us who have healed from past trauma and are just finally getting the courage to speak. The story of my life. Ugh!

I will continue to love Russell. He has done well to heal from his addictions and be transparent—walk his talk.

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Sep 18, 2023·edited Sep 18, 2023

If one were to follow the money, I'm sure there's a leftist group who've been putting this together for a year or two now in order to shut him up, and perhaps warn Bill Mahar that he's straying too far afield as well.

Edit: I just read that Mahar isn't bringing his show back...message received.

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Sep 18, 2023·edited Sep 18, 2023

You are correct sir. The funding goes all the way up....the globalists outsource mob defamation and terror,...no accuser or law firm will go unrewarded, even if the charges or lawsuits are thrown out. It's just like for Trump.. the strategy is a Denial of Voice attack...the goal is to distract and terrorize to get him to shut up. I suspect he wont...and maybe he will grow richer with support and fund counter-operations against the agents of The State. Spectacular counter-operations.

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I believe at least one of the sources indicated that the "investigation" had been going on for a year.

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LOL....I sincerely doubt that anyone will ever shut that man up! God bless him for his political incorrectness.

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"He has done well to heal from his addictions"

Unlike, say, a certain son of a certain sitting POTUS.

We are all flawed beings and we all f(*k up at times. What differentiates us is how we acknowledge our failures and what we learn from them. First and foremost being "well, I guess I wont' do /that/ again!". Then you have those who will instead blamestorm everyone and everything else.

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His book on recovery was ASTOUNDING! And filled with compassion and understanding.

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Love is a bit much doncha think?

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No. Not at all. If there were a stronger word in the English language, I'd use it. When I love someone I read what they write, watch their videos, and yes, support them. Stay FREE!

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You can tell who’s over the target by who’s taking flak.

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That’s a fact... My house burn down by an arsonist, and escaped fr a lengthy prison sentence because of a completely fabricated lie, fr a gal I barely knew. This insanity has to end.

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Hypocrisy is now cool. How did that happen? Remember the “sexual revolution”? Free for all, express yourself, if it feels good, do it, don’t be uptight like a Victorian. President Clinton’s Lewinsky dalliance (and countless others) were evidence of his “love of life”; none of the public’s business, not a black mark at all. “A politician’s private life is just that, private. Look at his record of success”.

But power and money corrode our moral compass and everything else. We’re seeing the consequences of the pursuit of power at all costs. There is no Truth, just narratives.

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If they had no double standards they’d have no standards at all.

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.I will NEVER forget nor forgive what the Democratic Party did to Bret Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. A lifelong family man of decency with an impeccable judicial history in one week was reduced by the Democratic Party and their media sycophants to an alleged gang rapist, sexual predator and alcoholic with anger management issues. All fabricated just to destroy him and subsequently his chances of being confirmed to the Supreme Court. Although he was narrowly confirmed, the Left still boasted about having placed an asterisk beside his name I.e. he’s permanent damaged merchandise. A third world tactic. I knew then we’re not dealing with people of good will toward America, but rather predatory sociopaths who have no problem destroying anyone if it embellishes their inexhaustible lust for power. At this point this behavior characterizes the megalomania of the Left and is par for the course.

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This is what the Left does. They tried doing it with Clarence Thomas, a black man who grew up by his grandparents, dad abandoned him, in a poor Gullah community near Savannah, Georgia. Descendant of enslaved people, Justice Thomas knew ALL about the black community. Rose to become a Supreme Court Justice. What should have been a role model for the black community, Democrats did everything they could to tarnish and destroy the man.

Remember, Democrats still have not stooped low enough to get what they want.

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Justice Thomas is a very nice man; humble & brilliant. He & his wife make road trips here & there during vacation time. No flying to Italy/Paris/Barcelona/ Monaco/etc to hang w/ the elites. They like to meet regular folks like us & see the country up close & personal.

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My favorite Justice on the bench, a real Constitutionlist.

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Mine also! A my life highlight was getting to shake his hand.

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The Kavanaugh thing was what finally put me off of Democrats for good. There's no low too low for them. The way they defended that bullcrap boggled my mind.

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I agree that the Kavanaugh episode was the worst! Women screaming in the middle of the hearing, dressed up like the handmaid‘s tale, etc —it was just over the top ridiculousness, and that stupid woman with her baby voice bleating on about a party where she was apparently almost raped and murdered but none of the people supposedly there could remember it taking place! Unreal. There were so many flaws in her story— I couldn’t believe anyone took it seriously. Then she was revealed to be a liar about her supposed claustrophobia. Her building code permit for an extra room was to rent it out as an office, not to have an extra front door for her supposed claustrophobia. Not to mention the fact that they had a second home with exactly the same single front door and apparently there was no need for an extra door in that house!

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Don't forget all the money she made on GoFMe.

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The cherry on top of the whole nasty cake was when they were like, “Look at him! Look how angry he is, being accused of sexual assault! It’s SCARY, how angry he is. That’s a bad judicial temperament/a sign of the ugliness that lurks inside him/a man of enormous privilege who doesn’t like being challenged.”

As if they would have just smiled, shook their heads, and taken a sip of coffee if someone had accused them of sexual assault!

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Yes precisely. They came out of nowhere with unconfirmable accusations, and Kavanaugh, who is about as decent as they come, was so shocked and horrified that he blasted back - and the Dems used THAT behavior to supposedly demonstrate a deficient temperament for someone expected to be blandly even-tempered when considering matters of justice.

In his career on the SCOTUS bench he will never be confronted with a case so deeply personal and that places him at the center. If he ever were, he would rightly recuse himself.

I well remember Clarence Thomas's treatment during his SCOTUS hearings, which were chaired by none other than Joe Biden. I have never forgiven Biden for that horrific attack on another truly decent man.

In fact, the scandal around Thomas's hearing led the Senate to pass a new rule: ie, that if ANYONE on the Judiciary Committee should hear of a problem regarding the candidate's suitability for the Court, that person MUST inform the rest of the committee in private so that it can be dealt with privately and without a 3 ring circus, well before the formal hearing.

It was Diane Feinstein who was quietly contacted by lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford in July that year, and Feinstein sat on the story until the hearing in September, when it looked like Kavanaugh would be confirmed, Only then did she spring it on the Committee. Feinstein should have been censured by the Senate for that. It was cruel beyond description.

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They took away his agency! So true. Amazing the R’s got him appointed. And Biden rewarded Kamala for her revolting behavior.

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When Jordan Peterson toppled, I knew Russell Brand was next. His extravagant flamboyance and "bad boy" persona play into these accusations. Sadly, no one knows what happens between two people, but if rape is actually actionable, I wonder why the silence until now.

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I do not consider Jordan Peterson " toppled". Embattled certainly, but fighting stronger than ever with a legion of global followers!

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I agree with your assessment. But the situation they have placed him in of fighting for his good name, reputation, and ability to practice I interpret as a public "topple." But I quibble. :)

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Topple to me means defeated or eliminated. I dont want to give them that credit. Attacked and embattled depict it more accurately. Semantics are important! Key to a guy like Jordan.

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I loosely quote Seneca who said "the bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity". We are sure afforded a front row seat to many "brave sights" these days. More to come?

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No Peterson will not go down without a fight.

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I agree and he has Daily Wire behind him.

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And I hope Russell Brand has some fight in him

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"I wonder why the silence until now"

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that Russell Brand's net worth has likely increased substantially since the alleged incident. And nothing guarantees a fat payday for a civil suit like a criminal conviction.

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I think the money angle is secondary. The major issue is Russell's increasing popularity, as he routinely discloses the truth -- & laughs at the tyrants attempting to control us all. They do not like being laughed at.

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Yeah if nothing else scream rape! It's despicable

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Toppling works both ways. Some people have technical expertise in toppling tyrants.

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We are lining up.

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At the very least, the timing of this is highly suspicious.

I don't know who this Karen is in the video, but she is woefully oblivious to the reality that all this hate she's attempting to drum up directed at Russel Brand will only embolden both him and his audience. Exactly the same as it has for Trump and Tucker.

What is obvious above all is the desperation on the Left. They sense that a reckoning is coming.

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The Guardian is so disgusting. They’ll never write an article about Hunter Biden’s misogyny, will they? They don’t give a damn about Biden Senior’s groping of women and girls, either, do they? Both Bidens get deferential treatment, along with other Dems. Look what they did to poor Julian Assange—meaning the left, from Sweden to UK to US. These people are beyond stupid and their bias is obvious. I despise these ghoulish articles seeking to revel in someone else’s destruction. How is this any difference from putting someone in the stocks for public humiliation, whipping, etc ?

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and no one will talk about Biden showering with his teenaged daughter. Imagine if DT did that?

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Exactly!! They will go peering into the dusty corners of the past for clues while ignoring the blatant, present tense actions of their allies. Their dishonesty and hypocrisy have no limits. I don’t know how they sleep at night—how do they live with themselves?

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My first thought while reading this piece was Hunter Biden. Couldn’t that woman’s TikTok video have referenced Hunter perfectly? How many women could come forward now about him (if only he wasn’t a member of the Democrat elite)???

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Yes, he treated women like sex objects and refused to acknowledge his daughter —where’s the media outrage??

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Well, I could name a few who should get that punishment. Fauxci first

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Same thing they did with Matt Gaetz. Smeared him in the court of public opinion and it turned out they had nothing. But the slander has a major impact on the jaded types who the cathedral relies upon to enforce the norms.

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Also to Jim Jordan, trying to claim he knew about a sexual assault in the gym, and they effectively destroyed candidate Roy Moore of Alabama— for dating young girls decades earlier and for being supported by Russia!!

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Wow. Incredible statement. Something that could probably be said of every public figure in Washington or in the media.

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Evidence please. Your reliable partisanship makes this statement suspect.

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If the situation was truly nonconsensual, she should go to the police. Otherwise it is between her and Brand. By this standard Tara Reade should have buried Joe Biden's chances of becoming president, but the media wouldn't touch it. So, yes, this is an attack to "cancel" Brand. They don't care about the women. Brand is inconvenient.

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Tara Reade was very believable to me— she had told her friend and her husband about the assault when it took place and they both confirmed it.

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Which is why the story should have buried Joe Biden if the standards were consistent.

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So true. He also got a pass on hair sniffing and putting his hands on the shoulders of a woman. I think she was a Dem state representative.

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I'm not buying it. Why wait all this time to bring it up? Why are four of the five accusers anonymous? At least that was the situation the last time I looked.

To me, anonymity destroys credibility. If you aren't willing to put your name on it, then keep your mouth shut.

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Well, I’m assuming they remain anonymous for legal and privacy reasons, if this is going to end up in court...

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I picture these people in dark rooms late at night, combing the internet for someone to attack. When they find the next victim, and then have the inevitable apology, they seem to get back to work looking for the next one. It's the apologies! As Bill Mahr said, if people stop apologizing, maybe the harassment will stop?

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Exactly. A speaker I heard a couple of years ago said these Marxists attack a person about something he/said or did (accusation of being racist, rapist, whatever), that attacked person apologizes. Ha, they could care less so they hit him/her again. The attackers aren’t really interested in any apology; if they were they’d acknowledge it, let the person back in good graces. They either attack again (per poor Drew Brees) or simply move to another target. It’s a gotcha game; doesn’t improve relationships or anything else bc that’s not the goal. The goal is keeping everyone off kilter & on guard.

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Apology is the equivalent of surrender. It both acknowledges your guilt as well as tacitly validates their baseless position or value judgement.

Never apologize. No retreat, no surrender.

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If it’s the #metoo or woke mob, absolutely 💯 never ever give them a millimeter...never. Don’t even acknowledge they exist. Because in real life, they don’t. They are nothing, not even worthy of a second of attention

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Wrong. In other words, don't cave in to the mob. They will never stop screeching.

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Seems you know a lot about that.

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The issue is never the issue

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Drew Brees cried and apologized. Lost all respect for him.

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And it still wasn’t enough for the attackers; hope he learned a lesson.

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Equality is created by ethics; Equity is created by envy. While no one should ever be abused, I cannot help but remember that 'Sour Grapes make Good Whine'.

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Great comment!

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This madness is not restricted to the high profile cases. I worked for a very large tech company where one person accused a high level manager of being a misogynist in the company chat room. She encouraged all women to 'come forward' with dirt on this guy. Part of her reasoning was that he's a white Christian, therefore, by association, a misogynist, racist, homophobe and the company must get rid of him and those like him. She openly challenged HR to 'do something'. She encouraged all women to come forward with stories about all white Christian males in order to purge them from the organization. There was no response from HR or the executives in the chat room but this guy was quietly released from the company.

This is a zero sum game. If the left was given all they want they would have nothing remaining but to destroy each other. I am reminded of a New Yorker cartoon - four wolves in sheep hides standing in a circle. 'Now what?' one of them asks.

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I think that is what will happen. Specifically, the Plutocrats will turn on the Leftists, who will realize, too late, that they are the new sheep. And they will turn to us for help. And we will not be able to give them any.

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Nor would I want to give them help.

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I would not go so far as to say "control", and I would say that the degree of influence is in the order you gave. The Demos gave up on "campaign finance reform", which had been an old stand-by, with Bill & Hill in 92. (They saw the situation more as extortion than bribery ...) But "Neo-Marxism" (to simplify a bit) is also a very significant influence. It is worth noting, though not directly related to oligarchs, that 90 of the richest 100 Congressional Districts in America sent Demos to Congress, so that there is a continuum. I have heard that McConnell's goal in life is to increase the power of Big Money in politics, and his conduct has given me no reason to doubt that. Whatever else (in terms of policy) the Never Trumpers stand for I have no idea. They're not exactly waging a "war of ideas" to make that clear. MAGA, as far as I can tell, gets most of its power from lower-half Whites, with only one significant oligarch in sight.

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Horrible that they pushed this guy out of the company. Companies are bowing at the feet of DEI only to be waking up to the fact that they are losing $$$. Yep that ck the boxes hire didn’t know squat about the business.

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We were given new words to use like allyship and bipocs. It's crazy to work at big tech these days

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Whoah that is disturbing!

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Challenging the establishment is ok until your following becomes too big.

They are scared of him. This is obvious.

It is also obvious that someone gave the order to bring him down. Find women from his past and coerce them into speaking now. In this circumstance, hindsight is not 2020. It’s bullshit.

Ben Shapiro said that they made a documentary/dramatization. They hired actresses to play the women’s roles. Does it get any worse than that? The accusers get to be anonymous. Haven’t we learned not to believe all women yet?

I’m sick of so-called feminists telling young women that the way to gain power is through victimhood. How weak. And they buy it because it works. I really can’t think of anything less empowering. Why can’t women be strong enough to say I made a mistake and learn from it.

If the one woman was truly raped, she should’ve come out publicly at the time. She chose not to. I understand why. That’s OK. But somebody’s twisting her arm now and I don’t go for it.

Rewriting history is getting really old.

Russell’s book on addiction and recovery is used at Betty Ford. That ought to tell us something.

He is a very spiritual/religious person, sober for a good amount of time. He has undoubtedly helped thousands of people directly and indirectly.

He’s a multifaceted human being, and going up against the establishment is just one aspect of who he is.

I don’t think this will take him down, but I wonder if he’ll ever be able to be his beautiful, unguarded, authentic, vulnerable, loving self publicly again. I hope so because he’s helping a lot of people in various ways.

To answer your question, Sasha, I am all for redemption and forgiveness.

Is there anyone here that is proud of everything they ever did?

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That’s exactly what it is. Just like the Trump prosecutions magically appeared for full impact during the election. Coordinated and choreographed.

Once we understand that none of this is about justice, accountability, or creating a better society -- but about pure, naked power. Destroying others through the promiscuous use of public shame - Scarlet Letter style. It is war. Pure and simple. As Reese said to Sarah Connor - “Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will NOT STOP, ever, until you are dead”.

This is what awaits us.

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Talk about conspiracy theories! That woman would have you believe that Brand’s very popular, and labor intensive podcasts are the result of his grand plan to convince everyone that the media is corrupt. Well, we don’t really need Brand to convince us of that.

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Just got out of court with the same charges levelled against my person... From a Columbian national that I barely knew. Though the case was dismissed because it was a fukin lie. Still the change remains on my record. If the court would hold those who abuse the Judicial system accountable. Lock up a few of these pretenders... This page of mischief would soon be pulled from their playbook.

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Maybe you should sue for wrongful litigation?

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My house was burned down by an arsonist on memorial day. I suppose, I’ve considered that, but it cost to file charges, which I have none to spare. But should it become viable I have no problem in pursuing that in this Boss Hogg courthouse (which BTW has already seized my home of over 20 yrs and along with 130k fr my IRA, after the State ruled (3yrs after my wife passed), to no longer recognise Common Law.

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I’m so tired... I’ve lost everything but my mutts. The day the arsonist burned my house my gal had a miscarriage and lost her litter of pups... One stuck in her birth canal. The next couple of weeks were a fight for her life. Only thing I had were some old antibiotics. I had to stay with her every night beg her not to leave. Just I know that time will come for us all, just not now. She’s my gal.

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You have my sincere sympathy for your serial misfortune. May fortune come your way and help you find a path forward.

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Doubtful is was so much due to misfortune as my unfiltered attack on upon a monster that appears as my Moby Dick, that it threatens not just myself, but all free ppl of our nation. No matter how it tries to disguise itself, I can smell it... a hydra of many heads, endless in resources, the engine that consumes all our resources and cover provided by the useless corporate entities, who not unlike the administrative state they provide propaganda and cover... Answer to no one as they never make a mistake... They just pass the buck. It will be the end of us all if this monster is not brought to heal.

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You can file on your own without a lawyer. I just heard a conservative lawyer on The Gateway Pundit say that he wants to set up a website showing how people can be their own lawyers bc he knows that conservative lawyers are a minority and lawyers do cost a lot. Just keep in mind there’s a statue of limitation—maybe 5 years—in which to file.

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Lawyer’s name is Paul Davis. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/2-3/

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It still requires filing fees, and with my primary residence seized by the court and my rental which were my only income stream. I’ve got my dog to feed. But ty for the info I will follow up and see if the attorney has any ideas.

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Glad you saved your dog!! Hang in there!!

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Or change change to charge, so the sentence makes actual sense?

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Sasha Stone is spot on yet again; her point in theme is clear and irrefutable. It's so refreshing to me that there are still a few deeply brave journalists that remain in the "Rome of the Potomac" - where the fundamental right of Free Speech was once observed - or even treasured, no less - and made our country different, far better in fact. Where without it, all the rest of our rights quickly collapse and along with it any semblance of a free society; i.e., the pursuit and/or the very meaning of happiness, not to mention opportunity and prosperity. Sasha is right up there with Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, and Naomi Wolf. She is one of the few special ones remaining to observe, and if we don't I deeply fear the consequences. Yet more so, I too fear it's not too late, as the authoritarians have taken firm hold for now. Finally, it's funny how it's all flipped, the D party and ant-Trumper's are now the very definition of authoritarianism and fascism, where right side of the political spectrum once carried that dark mantle - in perception at least - not all that long ago. God Bless Sasha, I just hope she is not silenced too.....

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I find it quite interesting that the media sought these women out and THEN they came forward. Not the other way around

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Super point (that I didn’t know)

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Why now at six million followers?

Why not at say five or four or three or two or one million followers?

Why not at the time of the Kavanaugh moments, Brand was famous then, and the #MeToo was peaking?

As a libertarian whatever is consensual between adults is consensual and whatever is not is not.

It is the latter that is verboten, violence.

Is Brand the rotten rogue being claimed?

What we can be certain of however is that we should not be so naïve to think that it would be conspiratorial gumff to consider that this is a targeted operation to take Brand down.

That is very possible and also very probable.

And whether fair or not, the outcome will be that Brand will be greatly diminished.

That will be the reality, regardless of whether or not it is a deserved one.

Brand’s voice will have been successfully curtailed.

Greenwald was subject to a smear operation, I have intelligent, creative friends who still think he is a paedophile!!!

Glenn Greenwald, one of the most important voices for democracy around!!!

What is important is that voices like those of Greenwald, Shasha herself who is insightfully remarkable, Kim Iversen, Jimmy Dore and others of the same capacity keep going …

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I didn’t know that Greenwald had been smeared too. Yes, he’s an important voice but I feel he could do a lot more to speak out in defense of January 6, for example, and against these indictments of Trump but he mainly focuses on the Ukraine war these days. I didn’t really appreciate that Brand and Greenwald both refuse to endorse Trump—they say, I don’t like him but I know a lot of you do, etc. Greenwald has said he doesn’t vote in order to maintain his objectivity, which it could be argued is a copout and Russell of course can’t vote but still this fence sitting is not appreciated. Otherwise they’re both wonderful but I just wish they’d be more up front. Because we voters have to choose and nobody gets the perfect candidate— it’s always going to be is this person good enough for me to vote for regardless of the inevitable flaws.

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Brand is a self-described libertarian/liberal. His community on Rumble has both avid Trump supporters & those who prefer RFK Jr or Cornel West. He is NOT a conservative, and there is no reason for him to endorse Trump. He has, in fact, arranged to do a pull-up challenge with RFK Jr. with proceeds going toward RFK Jr's campaign. Greenwald is a liberal. I appreciate all truth-tellers, regardless of their political leanings.

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Ok, I agree to a large extent with your points but why, if they are critics of the status quo and have a lot of followers, do they sidestep making an endorsement of anyone who they think can solve the problems we face?? and to me that is not as helpful as it could be if they got off the fence and made an endorsement, a choice, bc in a democracy that’s what “the little people” have—our vote.

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I wouldn't look for Russell Brand to be endorsing Trump anytime soon. He obviously favors RFK Jr. He's a Brit, anyway, so it isn't all that important. Maybe if Weekend @ Biden's winds up being the Dem candidate for sure, he might, but I'd be surprised.

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Let’s see how this will play out . This is a cancel culture attack . There are choreographers behind this attack to be sure . Others like Kavanaugh , Trump , Peterson and even Elon Musk are targets of the Left if they don’t get want . The strategy of the left is the same tool the right can use to counter the cancel poison . Impeaching Biden is long overdue. Take down the left’s Icons . There are many ready to fall . Subvert their own strategy and watch the dust start to settle as the other side realizes the sword has 2 sharp sides not just one that can cut deep.

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We live in an age where David Brock and John Podesta can work full time to attack and discredit the opposition with unlimited funds. The ways in which this can corrupt both Brock and Podesta are astonishing. Ruining lives becomes well paid bloodsport. Partisan activists are rewarded handsomely. When you earn the undying loyalty and respect from one side of the aisle for doing scurrilous and scandalous work it elevates the horrendous. It provides a respectable aura to the foul and awful. And it expands into an industry where the Lincoln Project, the 65 Project, and all manner of partisan PACs can smear, denigrate, and ruin and retain social respect.

And the horrible truth is the only way to fight back is to create your own well funded opposition that surveilles Brock and Podesta and the leaders of the Lincoln Project digging and digging for dirt. It becomes a zero sum game. They destroy one of ours, we take theirs.

Too much money in politics creates debase conduct of the worst order.

We must remove Brock and Podesta et al from the stage. We must find a way to penalize the partisan behavior.

Frankly it's our only hope of survival.

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Wasn’t David Brock a conservative before he crosses to the dark side?

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Yes he was a conservative. But I don't endorse political hit men from either side. We got "Russiagate" from oppo research gone wild.

These men and PACs are a cancer on our body politic.

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What is interesting to me is how they manage to separate who they attack from who they protect. Is Russell Brand more of a degenerate than Hunter Biden? And Tucker, they made a huge mistake including him as part of the Dominion settlement. They gave him his freedom and check out his numbers. These people are dumb and incompetent. The evidence is everywhere we look. We need to stop pointing out the obvious to each other and start to discuss how to stop them.

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This is what I said out loud following a C.K. Louis performance in Portland Oregon .. the show ended with a C.K. as only he can, having led the progressive audience do cheer clapping on one point that built logically upon the last, and the meta joke was that the audience caught itself cheering against abortion .. he had taken us full circle .. which was lesson in seeing through the eyes of your opposition (by being tricked into doing so) and more important it was genuinely funny .. and to an audience outside the bubble .. and made my premonition before #METOO that he would be taken down. Anyone who was famous and young in the 60's on had groupies .. and by #METOO standards that makes every past rock star, except maybe Donnie and Marie Osmond, succeptible to extortion.

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If these women were raped or assaulted by Russell Brand, they have my sympathies. If they’re lying about Russell Brand, he has my sympathies. You know who I KNOW has my sympathies? His wife, who’s heavily pregnant with their third child.

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Anyone who has the balls to face their own demons, & then commit to healing themselves, is somebody I respect.

And then, if they decide to take what they've learned from their pain, and do something meaningful on this planet, that's even more amazing!

Russell Brand is such a person, & for that reason, it looks like he is the new sitting duck for the woke possy.

And sadly, RfkJr, as I write this, is confronted with this same lynch mob.

There's nothing new about a woke possy. We had plenty of righteous wokists in the Wild West, but who could have dreamed that we would see a resurgence of ignorant & blood- thirsty vengefulness in the 21rst century?😳

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I was intrigued by the angry woman in the video. Her theory is bizarre. Brand evolved; he didn't consciously create an entirely new persona just to have a group of supporters around when his naughty deeds were uncovered. He has been very open regarding his many indiscretions, and real victims of sexual assault should go to the police immediately. Waiting 17 years to whine about how one was "groomed," or actually raped doesn't ring true. He was a star of films & TV shows, and could have been toppled way back when, but they all waited until now, when he is challenging the narrative every day. I call BS.

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Funny how people care more about an entertainer who is a self-confessed flawed person and has owned up to his less than stellar past, but embrace and cover for politician deviants like Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.

These allegations are clearly fugazi. And besides: Who cares what Brand did?

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Joe tops Clinton... never thought that possible. Bill seems quiet these days.

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I have always believed that Dominion had evidence that FOX News was an active player in the rigging of the 2020 election and was going to use it in court. Nothing else can come close to justifying the insane amount of money paid to Dominion plus fire the guy making you lots of money. The terms of the settlement are secret but the evidence they hold is still subject to discovery should Dominion end up in court again. Just my beliefe.

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Ummmm ..... hadn’t thought of that. Makes perfect sense. Especially in light of jumping ahead & calling Arizona (I believe) for Biden soooo early.

Watch 2000 Miles if you haven’t already. Just one area of corruption in the election process.

Clean it all up or we’ll never see a sane Republican as president again.

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A side note about how these attacks are highly coordinated by powerful leftists: Roberta Kaplan, the current lawyer for E. Jean Carroll, was also involved in trying to take down Kavanaugh. She represented a former off and on girlfriend of Mark Judge who wanted to talk to the FBI. She is a cofounder of Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund. I really don’t get the whole Carroll -Trump-Bergdorf Goodman situation. It seems completely crazy that she gets $5 million for claiming that Trump sexually assaulted her decades ago and there are no witnesses—how does that happen?

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Corrupt judges & jurors infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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But where was the evidence? Don’t you need that to find someone guilty? I don’t get it. How did it even go to trial with no evidence??

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And in a store, if you will. Too many of these women love the feminist movement & agenda. “I Am Woman” Then they do an about face & tryout the damsel in distress. Manipulative women give themselves a bad name.

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In 1989 my buddy and I snuck up to view the E. German border. There was our counterpart holding a rifle guarding a minefield on HIS side of the fence. No difference here; you want to leave the plantation we make it very painful.

My take: I am a BIG believer in our system that includes innocent until proven guilty(beyond a reasonable doubt). As I said about Al Franken, the voters will choose come election time and that is the way it should be. It is very dangerous for the exact opposite to be happening.

Another blessing the Trump phenomena gives us: transparency to what the Left(and est. republicans) is really up to. Our conservative antennae were out once we heard Obama's 2004 convention speech and we quickly found out he favors communism and it has been a very tough job trying to even talk to democrats about how their party was being hijacked,. I am very grateful for this space... Brand... Taibbi... et al. YOU ALL have the credibility that is needed by others leaning Left.

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I think it is highly dangerous that the Left routinely attacks people instead of propositions. What kind of people get all turned on by that? People who want to have a pretext to harm other people. The witch-hunters ye shall have always with you. It's been a rough few centuries. But now their time has come again. They've heard their master's call.

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Because by silencing those voices, they stifle debate. They don't like debate. They like consensus. We should ALL agree that the planet is about to implode because we keep driving gasoline powered vehicles, that ALL white people are inherently racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic, that Ukraine is the last stand for DEMOCRACY, that COVID was as dangerous as Ebola, that those who refused to mask or get the shot were cruel and selfish, etc.

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They prefer blocking or retaliating to refuting, given that refuting is not in fact something they can successfully do. Either that or making circular arguments like "transphobic": using terms that come from *within the ideology itself* . It is all "contemptible and absurd", to paraphrase Tolkien (a truly brilliant man).

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The only thing Marxists understand is violence against bodies and property and reputations. Brand has money so he can afford a defamation suit, but that's not enough. This Marxist revolution is well funded by the globalist money printers, funding mob defamation attacks, threats, and assaults. They have bought the courts and will reimburse legal fees and pay a few thousand to any slut who has no shame in lying about being raped during his or her groupie whoring days. The way I predict defenders of freedom will stop these lawless tyrants is for very skilled lone wolf avengers to carefully and methodically Follow the Money and Destroy the Perpetrators all the way up the line. The tyrants need to learn there is a price to pay for persecution and terror. A very dear price.

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Perhaps the most identifiable characteristic of ideological capture is 'pre-hate', the 'first strike' mentality. See if your adopted philosophy includes a list of those that you are required to hate in order to be a member of the tribe. We can all spot 'hate speech' and do not let it affect us. That is why we should not ban 'hate speech'; it helps you spot those you want to avoid, and protects you from becoming one of them. But the Woke do not just hate 'hate speech', the Woke hate speech itself. For the Woke, Censorship, the prevention of the perception of reality, is the only way to prevent Sensorship, the enhancement of the perception of reality. Hate is the Speech of the Blind, and there are none so Blind as those who will Not See. Sasha, you have proven time and again that you will never become a 'Not See'

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Prebunk the malinformants. Simple.

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Like you I believe in forgiveness and redemption. I believe in taking full responsibility for one's life. I believe in playing neither victim, nor martyr. I believe in figuring out our deeply felt truths and standing for them. I appreciate Russell's commitment to speaking his and hope he keeps doing so.

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They claimed Kavanaugh was a rapist.

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IOW, how women abdicate agency in order to pursue power.

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Leaving aside the specific person of Russell Brand who I don't even know much about, just in general it is obvious that there is a mentality out there that does not seek reasoned discourse but seeks suppression of any viewpoint but their own, and that those pushing this mentality are getting ever more brazen in their tactics and ever more powerful.

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Spot on, Sasha! Here's my input: When are they going to believe Tara Reade?

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Someone needs to interview her—Tucker?

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Megyn Kelly did a great interview with Tara. It’s still up on YouTube.

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I certainly believe it’s an attempt to silence him. Why come forward with accusations now? There should be a statute of limitations imo

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I am skeptical of all rape claims at this point, if the "victim" never bothered to go to the police. 10 to 17 years later, it's a bit difficult to prove -- or disprove -- much of anything. Apparently some of the "victims" were prompted to speak now because media approached them, and because they didn't like some of Brand's YT videos. For all we know, they were also "compensated" for "sharing their stories."

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This is simply the workings of the establishment media and political class flexing their perceived might to maintain their grip on power. Think of all the useless people being employed whose "job" it is to rake up muck on their political foes. Then create useless political hit ads every election cycle to maintain perceptions. Entire campaigns are essentially psy ops. No wonder they love the CIA. They're just like them. It's all a machine and another industrial complex. I'm sure the Order 66, sorry, 65 Project losers are making a lot of money to further the dregs of humanity.

Why does no candidate question why billions of dollars are spent on campaigns that could be better spent just about anywhere else in society?

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First off, Sasha, remember what they say..."Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you."

As for Russell, the really sad thing is that because "they" have used the Me Too movement time and again to try to "get" those with whom they disagree, they have succeeded in diminishing the impact these sorts of accusations used to have. Without hearing any of the women, without knowing their stories, I find myself immediately suspect that these women are being used to silence a very contrarian, and very legitimate voice in today's world. It may not be fair to the women involved, but we've seen too much of these antics not to suspect that "they" are, once again, up to no good!

It is clear to most by now that there is nothing "they" won't do, no depths to which they won't descend, no lives they won't eagerly ruin in furtherance of their agenda. To these people, the ends justify the means, and there are no means they will not use to achieve their ends!

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JT, I agree that these women may be being used. Without hearing from them directly without their narrative overlords, we cannot give either them or Brand a fair and compassionate hearing. To the Nabobs of the Narrative, The End Justifies Being Mean.

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Gaby's quote is a perfect example of the leftist state of mind: nothing exists without the state allowing it. The state is all powerful, and should be all powerful.

No establishment, old or new, gave Brand his influence. His voice, his words, his message, his hard work did. I know leftist hate that. We all need to understand that the left is working tirelessly to get everyone to accept the futility of individual effort and to therefore rely on the all powerful state.

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These people, and the woman in this video, hate themselves, hate life, hate everyone around them, are filled with hate - and they want to drag every single person and the whole wide world with them into the black hole of their hate.

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Ms Stone, make sure you pay your taxes and don’t be seen harming puppies or kittens of they will get you as well. Best of luck and stay safe.

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Russell Brand is a treasure. He really put himself out on the line--sharing his observations that are blatantly obvious except to those who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. I am optimistic that these tactics over-used in such a short span of time will be too ridiculous and obvious to the general public. I hold hope. In the meantime, here comes the parade of accusers! WHAT A SHOW! Better than Game of Thrones, but sadly altogether similar.

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What is it with the left? If you aren't a racist you're a rapist? McCarthy would be so proud.

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And the real rapists are never actually held to account.

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Correct; example. Those in the Jeffrey/Guislain’s black book. If there were Republicans & conservatives (not always both) on that list the Harpies would be screaming from the rooftops.

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Yes, why now?

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