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Below are some YouTube comments on the Russell Brand scandal as well as my thoughts.

Regardless of what Brand did or didn’t do, at the end of the day, men can behave however they want and still end up with exactly the life they want, with whatever woman they choose.

It’s a bitter pill to swallow.

People often don’t pay attention until it’s too late, or until it suits them. Podcaster Andrew Gold (as well as the Triggernometry guys, who are former UK comedians) states that Russell Brand was “telling us for years what he was doing.” When the Trigg hosts were asked if they would ever have Brand on their podcast, they purportedly vehemently said no and intimated that Brand was a known shady predator in the UK comedy scene. 

I have posted a number of Brand’s podcast interviews over the years on my Daily. While I have never personally liked Brand as a person/persona, or his comedy (I find him overbearing and narcissistic), two things can be true at once: that he is a narcissistic predator/womanizer, as most men in his position are, and that he has become a big figure in the free-speech movement (though I have also suspected, as have others, that he might be controlled opposition, and/or white mailed to do this good work ). His new brand/identity of anti-establishment control is for sure a major pivot from his previous aspirations, which may cause suspicion, but which can also, of course, happen in life—people can wake up and change for the better—but this rarely happens in Hollywood, simply because it’s either not allowed to happen by the powers that be (the powers who made you rich and famous), or because the deep state has too much on people in power to let them genuinely absolve themselves without some form of payment for doing so. This might be Brand’s payment. Nevertheless, I think his online content/program was important, mostly for the people whose alternative voices were given a platform, and because he made a mass audience aware of the very critical issues of our time—regardless of his personal motivation for doing so. I liked some of Brand’s guests and I valued the issues they discussed and defended. Having said that, Brand, though intelligent and extremely articulate, is pretty insufferable (his eyes alone tell us a lot. I always look at someone’s eyes. Windows to the soul, remember?). Is this a controlled media demolition of Brand, as many are saying it is? I don’t know. Sasha Stone argues that this attack on Russell is “simply about control of voice...This is just the beginning of the ways they will attempt to rig the election in their favor, as they did in 2020.” We will have to see. As I said, two different things can be true at once, which is not the same thing as doublespeak. Our world is smoke and mirrors. It takes constant vigilance to know the truth about anything—or anyone. Like Stone, I believe in redemption, but the change and contrition have to be genuine—real. And if misdeeds were in fact crimes of the greatest order, they must be brought to justice. Do we want justice or do we want blood?

It wouldn’t surprise me to know Brand did these things, or that the powerful institutions he worked for (BBC, Channel 4, etc) serviced both his desires and terrible behavior, and also made it a condition of his fame. This is a world that is profoundly sexually perverse and morally corrupt, and people--men--who succeed in it cannot do so by being completely good, or honest—not in Hollywood, politics, or mainstream media. Maybe not even in certain echelons of alternative media. We know this. In Brand’s case, his professional behavior for these companies was also, apparently, deplorable. His reputation is bad. There are many many stories.

This has become our big lesson the past few years.

As one person noted about the Brand documentary:

"The documentary not only shows Brand in a terrible light, but it is damning of the networks he worked for. I hope he's not the only one investigated, but every CEO and other behind the scenes management are also investigated for their part in it. Also, being open about sex addiction and drug addiction doesn't excuse his past actions. And remember, narcissists are always charismatic and thy are expert at manipulating people to sympathize with them."

The other serious problem, as I have written in many of my posts, is, and as someone else echoes here:

“The entertainment industry is coopted by intelligence agencies, mafia, and others to encourage vice. They simply collect data and then later have it to use against celebrities who get out of line. The idea of unfettered license offered to stars is fostered by their handlers.”

We need to take down ALL the systems, networks, and industries, not just individual players. A profoundly corrupt system such as ours cannot produce prominent people of true integrity and merit without huge blowback and consequence. You simply cannot advance in a corrupt system without being or becoming corrupt. I’ve been saying this for 25 years.

Again, what always seems to be left out of the conversation, as Brand’s disturbing exchange with notorious-predator Jimmy Saville demonstrates, is that we are not simply dealing with a few bad apples, or with individual instances of sexual abuse, but sex trafficking rings posing as reputable networks, industries, charities, institutions, political administrations, religious organizations, and educational curriculums. When journalists ask why a mother would allow her then 16 year old daughter to sleep with a 31 year old Brandt; why she would drive her to his house for “dates,” it is for the same reason that parents sell their kids to Hollywood. To famous stars like Michael Jackson. Because we are dealing with the systemic and ritual grooming and pimping of children. Therefore, focusing on one perpetrator at a time via the cancel machine, is a waste of time. As one podcaster rightly put it, “Are these unearthed videos and stories damning to Brand or are they damning to Hollywood?” People like Saville, Epstein, and Weinstein, and on and on, were not working alone and they were not simply servicing themselves. Until we break free of these dark systems, the trauma-loop will continue.

We need full disclosure of the truth, not pieces of truth.

Do we want to be free or do we want to listen to people in power talk to us about freedom?

As Adrienne Elise puts it, do we want to face “the light that shows all?” Which means are we willing to let go of and overthrow the entire dark system that has concealed the Light for so long?

YT comment on Russell Brand

Watch Andrew Gold’s fair and balanced take on Brand below. Gold: “I don’t think it’s’ believe all women,’ but we musn’t slip to, ‘believe all men either…As much as he was anti-mainstream, you can’t really argue that Russell Brand isn’t powerful and elite as well. He’s both of those things.”…And he knew he was about to be outed.”

There is more to say about Brand, but I’ll leave it here for now.