George Monbiot explains Russell Brand's dangerous game with the far-right
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This is a terrible video slating Russel
Do you honestly think the riots are just about pension reform? How old are you? Twelve 😂
For a man who promotes Keir Starmer & his ilk in RW Labour & George, who works for British 'intelligence' the only bullsh*tter's here are the pair of you.
monbot thinks dutch voters are as dumb as he is
Protests?
He's monetized idiocy. Joe Rogan showed him the way.
Holy coping malding sniveling cretin batman :D
Joe Rogan has many students: Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Ben Shapiro to name a few
@@batkomahnoX100truth is they’re actually all surrogat…students for Peter Thiel including Rogan
@@batkomahnoX100 Jordan Peterson is great ngl
@@bretwojarski5842, I hope that was a joke.
I'd like to see him have a conversation with Brand, that would seem to be the best thing to do.
Absolutely 💯! 👍
Two gobshites at it for nothing.
Brand would make mincemeat of him, and with panache, style, and grace.
Dear gods, a far-right weirdo with a punk logo, how have you gotten so lost? Is it from tweaking?
Go to therapy, stop posting, talk to your dad. Brand is having a nervous breakdown.
@@chicklets4ever51 Hahahaa exactly.
I went from hating young Brand, to growing massive respect for him, to losing nearly all that respect. Most disappointing Character arc of recent times.
Why? Because he opposes the corporate class currently staging a totalitarian coup of every democratic freedom our ancestors fought for unlike George who supports and enables it?
You Pfizer leftists are anti working class anti freedom of speech corporate totalitarian frauds and you know it.
I used to respect him so much, but he's lost that now, what a sad journey.
A somewhat autocratic take I must say you lot. What about brand has you loosing respect for him as of late? And why do I care? Is it the click bait thumbnails? I hate that about UA-cam. Brand however has a worthy cause and journalistic integrity.
@@jonwardle8822 Integrity is a subjective perception, as is perception of autoracy in our comments (be careful of Cognitive Dissonance controling your perceptions there...), and I see the opposite of integrity in his overall behaviour, at a rate and extreme that used to be nigh-on absent. If anything he has sold out to a very popular and lucrative grift market, and a near fanatical conservative demographic that is disturbingly mainstreamed and shot through with deceit and self interest at the too, all dressed up as moral concern. I consider these vectors of influemce to be leading towards a lot of very bad outcomes for genuine liberty and the species. I don't entirely think that is what he THINKS he is doing, but just by the weight of observable behaviours and outcomes of his messaging, that is what he appears, to me, currently. .
I dont think everything Brand talks about is wrong either, nor do I think he "is" right wing etc, but what he DOES is amplify those narratives of the Far Right and Tankie Left conspiricy milieue, to the exclusion of rational counter evidence, and I'd put him much more in the "useful idiot for dangerous ideologies and people" camp. He is no longer balanced or as rational as he was in his golden era, but think he has lost his integrity for mere grift.
@@davidcauley9400 I don't really see an answer to OP's question in this response. How *exactly* has he become "no longer balanced or as rational..."?
I'd like to believe you don't discount him merely because you think he's "amplifying (far right) narratives."
It is amazing how most people cannot maintain their ethics in the face of huge amounts of money.
Nah, they are just told 'there is no ethical gain in a capitalist society and it's not your fault you were born in one.' and they eat it up. Any excuse to enrich themselves and wash their hands of blame. pretty simple.
Russel Brand isn't far right though.
@@dominica4799 He is if he's paid enough to be. He'll be anything for that $$$ and he's proven it in the past few years. He did a complete 180 after peter thiel paid him to.
@@theprecipiceofreason What do you think far right means?
@@jonunderscore bait comment.
Never have a hero, they'll always sell out and disappoint you.
Do your best to be as good a citizen as you can be.
Being a good family member comes before being a good citizen. It doesn't matter if you pay your taxes if you're horrible to your parents/siblings/spouse/ children.
@@Oakette I think ideally be good at both👍
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A L L O F M Y H E R O S A R E
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Many of them did not live
long enough to disappoint me .
● Janis Joplin
● Robert Burns (( Scottish ))
● Philip Seymour Hoffman
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My heroes never sold out, and I haven't see Brand sell out either. Monbiot, on the other hand....
Part of being a good citizen is figuring out which public figures and politicians to encourage and support and which to oppose.
I'm not sure that I agree with the sentiment, I'm a British man, a farmer and for the last 6 months I've been living with my Frisian partner in the north of the Netherlands.
It may well be part of a far right propaganda agenda I wouldn't really know, but seeing it first hand I can tell you that Dutch farmers do feel displaced by the upcoming restrictions and they aren't being offered adequate support or enough time to transition. I probably watch more of this channel than Russels but I don't think his coverage was ever misrepresentative,
Whether or not the global story around it is related to some 'Blood and Soil' anti globalist meta narrative I'm not sure, but it is certainly a real issue, it is displacing working families.
You haven't particularly convinced me of anything and this seems a little cheap to me.
Well said. I'm afraid they're a couple of clowns who are probably too stupid to realise that they're pushing the WEF's agenda.
You are absolutely right! I watch Russell Brand daily and his coverage points out exactly what you have said in regards to farmers not being given enough time and support to transition. He often has the great Vandana Shiva on to explain these matters. His reporting on it is very different to how right wing media outlets cover it. It was indeed a cheap shot.
@@NataliaJingles Correct, and then you have to ask why...
Absolutely. Sad to see such a blatant hit piece on this channel. Notice he fails to mention bill gates' exploits in India re farmers. WEF is intimately linked to the UN which has propagated the sustainability agenda. Disingenuous and cherry picked.
Well said
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Example... Which areas will remain in lockdown and when will I be eligible to get my vaccine? As opposed to, who the hell do you think you are and why are you forcing me to have an EUA medical procedure to continue living my normal life?
boogiedahomey ... I've been reading Thomas Pynchon's book, Gravity's Rainbow, in a loop, for years, like a Mobus strip. That's one of my favourite quotes ... 🤗 ...
"There is no 'they'"
Aww man, don’t bring my buddy TP into this.
I'm just asking questions. Don't look at the man behind the curtain.
thanks for that George I knew something was wrong but could not put my finger on it. Thank U
Russell on the Bill Maher show recently was as far from right-wing as I can imagine - he may get stuff wrong sometimes (as has George) but at least he doesn't ignore Assange in the shameful way George and everyone else at the Guardian does..
What a silly comment. Bill Maher is a known Liberal: not a leftist bone in his body. Brand is a dangerous demagogue and anti-vaxxer.
The GaurdYaan ''jourmalists'' set up Assange for the security services
Assange is a stooge though. What sort of 'fugitive' gets put up in a 5 star hotel in central London?
@@nellsun2521and a sexual abuser like brand pos
@@nellsun2521 Assange's story has so many factors and factions, and the things he brought to light have so many people running you can't slice it in any one particular way without making a lie of the situation. Many people like to point at the stuff he and Chelsea Manning exposed and colour it with their own hangups, but this stuff is shockingly bad in so many different ways that it undermines everyone's dignity in upholding any "western" program.
Don't forget, Brand used to get boos from his audience for bringing on David Icke, now his audience eats up Icke shite with two spoons. Icke didn't get more correct, Brand just started believing him more earnestly, and attracting a more and more conspiracy minded crowd of loons.
Sooooo lovely to see an interview where the interviewer doesn't constantly interrupt and speak over the interviewee.
It’s propaganda
Why would he? They read from the same book.
So do your research of the Netherlands ask the real farmers watch Vandiva Shiva ..she tells you about the Indian farmers
@@traceyomalley3797 get a fuckin grip, its a You tube video
Well that's because he is loving the far left interviewee rhetoric with the normal anyone on the right is far right. He loved Brand as a left wing comedian, until Brand came to his senses and realised the left agenda is just as bad as the rights. I have watched Brands channel he takes no sides and slams right wing and left wing policy. This lefty channel cherry picks its stories, ignores lefty disasters aims for anything and anybody they perceive as being right leaning.
Man oh man I’m so disappointed to see how Russel brand has gone down the alt right pipeline, I looked up to him as a kid I thought he really cared about equality, turns out I was wrong.
“Alt right pipeline” 😂😂
This aged well, didn't it?
Hey Joe how about getting Brand and Monbiot to thrash it out together?
That would mean actually reaching out and letting him defend himself.
Not allowed amongst liberals. This is called “platforming the far right” 😂
as if Brand would risk his livelihood being exposed as a fraud
@@dorbid I think he probably had enough $$$$ 😂 ps how’s your Ukraine war going? Have enough of them died for the neo-con maniacs running western foreign policy yet? 😜
Only if there is some coin in it for Brand
Brand is a narcissist, it’s all about “Mr Brand “
And who is this guy? Who cares? Look at the clip, George Monbiot defends the actions of the Dutch government against the farmers of the Netherlands. THAT is horrible.
I love how they so easily lump farmers with the far right. This is very telling.
What? Perhaps watch again? The fascist narrative was that the farmers are the true custodians. That is fact. Nobody is accusing farmers of any particular politics. You have clearly misunderstood.
@@mynewcolour The very first thing he asked GM is about the connection between the far right, the land and farmers - that somehow support for the farmers makes someone far right is preposterous regardless of whether farmers have been used as symbols for fascist narratives
@@rebeccanovick9954 No, he’s asked to talk about *’what Brand has been saying about farmers’* and how that connects to the far right. It is the ‘saying’ (the story/narrative told) that is a framed as a problem.
Nobody here at any point suggests farmers believe or promote the conspiracy theories or are far right.
The dishonesty GM is drawing attention to is that (rather than demystifying the subject and detailing the issues framers and government face) Brand cynically pushes a conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact. That is far right aligned, very dangerous and does nothing for farmers.
@@mynewcolour From Sri Lanka, to India, to Netherlands and Canada - the attack on farmers is a global issue. It is being framed as a 'far right' issue, which is a phrase used ad nauseum in this interview with the intent of character defamation. GM is a smart guy entitled to his opinion but he is wrong about this. Neither myself nor my friends are far right and we are all concerned about what is going on with the farmers and the way it is being reported, or not being reported more like. Industrial nitrates ARE a problem but the answer is not to drive farmers out of business. GM presents the issue as completely one-sided and takes the government line without question. Check out the work of environmental activist Vendava Shiva if you have any interest in going deeper.
@@rebeccanovick9954 Thanks, I’ll read up on them. I don’t recognise the changes in agriculture as conspiracy to attack farmers but I’m not entirely surprised that radical and rapid change is being framed that way, sadly.
It's a bit disingenuous to say Brand doesn't talk about Murdoch. I swear he's always talking about the media.
Its not disingenuous, it's called lying
Never about Murdoch specifically though, because he doesn't want to upset his right wing fanbase
He was sucking up to Tucker Carlson the other day he's a snake and I used to love the guy
Talking about "the media" generally is one of the most classic right wing talking points I've seen. But it's extremely different to directly calling out Murdoch or his influence. You'll never catch them doing that, because, in their eyes, Murdoch is great.
Brand recently appeared with F$cker Carlson on his show!!
I’m absolutely certain Brand would gladly talk with Monbiot in a discussion, no need to talk about him when you can talk TO him, like journalists are supposed to do. Interview your subject
yeah im more then sure that he would do an interview with politicsJOE
Good call dude, I for one would love to see that interview
They did meet a few years ago - they agreed and got on
Not completely convinced by Brand's sincerity these days I wonder if clickbaiting MAGAs & QAnons is more of an income stream for him.
@@stephenclarke2206 it's not the messenger it's the message. Nothing I've seen brand say isnt demonstrably true... So stick your parrot back in its cage.
I'm glad to hear you call this out. I've been following Russell since he was at about 400k followers and I've watched the audience shift from there to here. It's a bit of the tail wagging the dog. He used to just try to say the things the Left wasn't saying as a critical member of the Left. Well we see how that can go once you see the big bucks rolling in. He's lately been trying to balance it by saying things critical of Trump, for example, but the audience pounces on him and tells him he's nuts when he does. Similar thing has started happening with the smaller, still wonderful, Triggernometry channel. Be careful who you woo.
But russle is very intelligent and only follows the facts so if he now finds his audience is on the right,
it just means "the right" are just following the facts also.
The left follows ideology and ignores inconvenient facts.
It has nothing to do with left and right. Russell Brand is interested in the truth. George Monbiot is a liar. It is that simple. When the liars are confronted, they always yell "conspiracy theorist" or "far right" - regardless of whether or not this makes any sense or not. Russell Brand's favourite presidential candidate is RFK, not Donald Trump. Russell Brand is not on the right. He is just opposed to war, lies and fake elections.
thats been my same experience with him, once i saw him heading down that direction my spirit said click off
@@monharris28 I still watch his stuff, but with a much more critical eye/ear.
His audience captured him.
Yes, I am sure buying out farmers will have no impact on the food supply and resultant food prices.
They didn't want to transition and take the bailout (more than value of farm). Way more complex. Anyways prices are increasing because of the inefficiency of animal ag: “If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares”
ourworldindata land-use-diets. "Crises related to extreme weather events, COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have revealed serious problems in global food (inter)dependency. Here we demonstrate that a transition towards the EAT-Lancet’s planetary health diet in the European Union and the United Kingdom alone would almost compensate for all production deficits from Russia and Ukraine while yielding improvements in blue water use (4.1 Gm3 yr−1), greenhouse gas emissions (0.22 GtCO2e yr−1) and carbon sequestration (17.4 GtCO2e)."
nature s43016-022-00634-4. It's basic ecology - eating food next level up the food chain → 90% energy loss where other alternatives available (in a nutshell)
@@spiral-m Most of the land supporting livestock is unsuitable for growing crops. Of course, rewilding is a possibility but where are we going to grow all the extra protein-rich crops that we'd need if we all adopted a plant-based diet?
@@nagualdesign Oxford University took that into account and still came up with that result. It was a huge, exhaustive research project. This basic physical law illustrates the huge inefficiency of having a middleman to produce food higher up the food chain: bbc bitesize guides zs7gw6f revision 3. Here is an illustration of how the myth you are referring to, can come about: youtube S51to3C6vHc?t=484 I recommend watching the whole video as also it pinpoints some subtle propaganda tactics used by animal agriculture interests to brainwash people into believing nonsense. The research discussion just after time stamp was made by a non-vegan channel b.t.w.
I agree wirh everyone saying bring on Brand and lets have a head to head... Cmon Politics Joe do it
They invited him. He wussed out.
@@OKnotOK09 maybe or maybe not? I think it'd be a great idea to have Brand come onto Joe's Show to voice his side and then all 3 of them have another show where Joe can be the inbetween guy 😎
Brand would never debate someone from the left, it'll show him up and hurt his grift.
They can't afford him.
@@alfsmith4936 Meaning Brans is in it for the money and not principles.
The use and abuse of the term 'Far Right' is a tell for cognitive dissonance. I'll bet George would swerve any face to face discussion with Brand, because he knows that Brand raises legitimate questions for which those on George's side cannot wholly refute.
This is just a shameful hatchet job. You don't have to agree with Brand to recognise that.
Monbiot explained why what Brand said regarding the Dutch farmers was bullshit, but you just ignored it.
I agree David. Id love to see Monibot and Brand go head to head. Brand would slam dunk him I think. Ive listened to Monibots views, and while many are sound, some are complete bullocks. Brand at least can give verification for what he says and often reads and shows legit info. Im soo sick of the far right nazi loving hogwash to discredit other views. And Brand is constantly speaking of oligarchs and calling them out. .
it's not an abuse of the term, the people who push the great replacement narrative *are* far right
In what sense is the far-right 'great replacement' conspiracy theory not far right? Monbiot isn't saying Brand's far right, he's saying he promotes stories and issues that the far right are animated by.
The excommunication of Russell Brand by the "left" is now complete now that the Guardian has wheeled out Monbiot for a hit piece on him. How dare Russell Brand point out the ever more authoritarian direction governments have been heading recently!
It's not even about left or right anymore, just the establishment controlling both ends of the political spectrum from anything that might cause an issue for them, whether from left or the right. They wear the colours of left and right themselves and just cycle from one to the other, stick then carrot over and over again, two sides of the same crappy coin.
Monboit is pretty on point about the farmers protest, though. And Brand is leaving a lot of shit out
@@berjanbeen7188 not everyone can cover everything. That's why it's dumb to just put people up on pedestals, or the opposite and dump them in the mud.
On point? Would you accept the forced purchase of your land? Who are we...
I've never heard russell talk about this. He talks to experts on farming like Vandana Shiva all the time. George has no clue about Russell's opinion
As much as i love the quick and simple way this guy debunks meat- and fossil fuel industry-arguments i do feel i need to point out there are some glaring holes in his reasoning.
Now i grew up on a failing permaculture farm, i have seen exactly how hard it is to sustain a family with a pretty sizable bit of land and how hard it is to get your balance just right. That being said, running any kind of small farm without farm animals makes recycling your waste streams and keeping all those nutrients in your soil near impossible. It makes you severely dependent on fertilizers, organic or otherwise, that need to be trucked in.
I live in the netherlands, none of our environment is natural and yet we have found all kinds of intelligent ways to keep what little land we have from flushing away and to sequester organic material (carbon) back into our soil. We have been doing these things to make our soil more suitable for growing food for the better part of a millennium and to great success, only for so-called modern farming methods to undo most of it within 70 years.
I strongly believe that we need to involve about half of our population with farming and that re-introducing small, mixed farms is the way to do it, because people need a sense of ownership to be proud about improving their immediate environment.
I also believe that our understanding of natural ecosystems is way too flawed to assume that we can bring them back in a controlled way, because i have seen our local forest-preservation-departments flounder with all their best intentions.
Please stop making sweeping statements about agriculture, the only way we're ever going to get out of this mess is by making sure that most of us actually get to be a part of that environment during our lives.
"I also believe that our understanding of natural ecosystems is way too flawed to assume that we can bring them back in a controlled way, because i have seen our local forest-preservation-departments flounder with all their best intentions."
So your point is to do nothing. How very convenient...
I agree. Monibot lost me when he said farm animals must go and they hinder the environment. Ignorance of a city slicker who has never run a regenerative system of land use. Factory farming should go for sure, but regen farms in good hands untilise animals constructively in ways that benefit the environment. The man knows nothing about good farming practice. And no, Im not right wing..
Monbiot is just a mini Klaus.
@@megm.c4026 ...he didn't say that at all though, did he? He said that the livestock industry is the greatest contributor to nitrate pollution, which is inarguable, and that the government asked and incentivised them to change their farming practices to reduce nitrate pollution. Not that 'animals had to go.' And I'm sure that these farmers who refuse to regulate nitrate pollution are practicing regenerative farming techniques. This comment section is so hard to deal with because everyone who disagrees with the video doesn't seem to have correctly heard a word, it's just strawman after strawman.
I agree. A balance debate must have the other side to challenge. While left leaning this isn't balanced. Just some pearl clutching from a guardian reporter. No challenge from the interviewer. Nice echo chamber. Its what the right do.
Russel brand does talk about Rupert Murdock, and does repeatedly criticise big media all the time, that part wasn't correct at all
Does he talk about his boss Richard Thiel?
Hey Russell
He talks about CNN where did he criticise fox overtly
@@graceomalley4
_"Does he talk about his boss Richard Thiel?"_
Do you have evidence to support this assertion?
Russell use to criticise Fox and Murdoch weekly on his podcast. Not anymore which is rather telling
The key here is "...after ignoring this problem for much too long..." This has always been the reason governments choose to take drastic action causing financial ruin for lots of people.
@donkerwine corporates cause all financial problems and the government takes the blame for it.
Who’s that pulling at your strings !!!
The poor will always be more concerned with hunger than the environment. I agree, far too long this issue has been clicked down the field
Russell Brand definitely mentions Murdoch. This is sounding like a very clever hatchet job. I don't trust everything RB says but I'm beginning to be suspicious of Monbiot. Let's see George directly debate with Russell (& Vandana Shiva)
Reeks of jealously.
Russell brand never mentions people like Peter thiel and the billionaires funding right wing new media. Who funds rumble? He always gives people like Elon musk the benefit of the doubt. Even when he talks about trump and other far right people he talks about it’s always we have disagreements but he never goes into it. I mean he speaks about the media lies to you then acts friendly to tucker Carlson
it's not clever. it's just dishonest
Making a mountain out of a mole hill,I've watched Brand a few days ago,and he still comes across as more left wing than right.This is bollocks.
I agree, he's being demonised because he's too close to the truth.
Simple and direct! I agree but my comment was much more wordy lol.
The Overton Window has shifted to such an extent that if you're not full Marxist in 5 years it means you're literally Hitler.
If you think that, then your conception of left and right-wing politics is inadequate.
Brand is a striaghtword populist who employs vaguely conpiracist rhetoric.
He pushes rhetorical points which align with a well-established far-right agenda, whether intentionally or not.
He does this on platforms like Rumble which are overrun with far-right rhetoric.
If that looks left-wing to you, you're politically cross-eyed.
If that was the case, why doesn't he talk about Rupert Murdochs influence anymore? (He did a while ago)
The pair of you just get Russell on and talk with him instead of about him, it would be far more productive.
facts!
George did invite Russell to talk about this when he wrote his article but was ignored
He's a predator!!!!
It wouldnt be productive when he pushes their shite back up their as$es.
Wait, how is Russell Brand promoting the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory? I listened to the first 7 minutes of this video, and 5 of them were George Monbiot talking about things Russell Brand has neither said nor alluded to, and playing the adjacency card. Baffling.
Bingo. It’s easy to get libs to nod along to lies if you tell them they’re fighting a racist.
He's just cherry-picking his information, and trying get in saying 'far-right' as many times as possible.
Russell is defending Tucker now, he's a coward. He'll never debate anyone from a left.
lol. i find it hillarious when people who imagine themselves to be of the 'left' discuss the 'great replacement conspiracy theory'. My dear fellows... if you would spend even a moment to study history and reality, the theory is totally bogus... because Great Replacement is a POLICY. It always has been by Western Empires and Elites. You can go ahead and just ask the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia about that one! Replacement policy has been the cornerstone of the policies of control and empire by white elites for centuries now. Anyone paying attention understands this.
Not so baffling when you realise that Monbiot is a gatekeeper and that the Guardian is the recipient of millions from Gates
Post-intellectuals like Brand or Peterson are nails in the coffin of civic discourse.
Everyone has the right to be a bit stupid but George Monbiot is taking advantage.
How so?
Russell has posted a couple of videos in response to mass shootings in the U.S. recently he seems determined to stay on the fence because advocating gun control might alienate his subscribers, it's the social media equivalent of sending his thoughts & prayers.
Utter bollocks. Sometimes you don't have to give a political opinion when you know there's such a divide. It's better to report and be impartial, and have a private, personal opinion, than cause a generic social media meltdown, and have people use one view of yours against you for life.
@@Canthatcrazy The thing is by sitting on the fence he's giving a pass to the NRA & the Alex Jones s of this world so is effectively not being impartial at all. When I've heard him speak about it it sounds like he's waffling
@@stephenclarke2060 your ascribing support for the NRA by Brand is probably as fantastical as anything you have ever dreamt.
fact
@@Canthatcrazy Ah, yes, Russell Brand, the model of restraint in communication.
Russell brand is frequently stating that his opinions may be floored and he's open to criticism. Why dont you just ask him and george to discuss their opinions together on here?
this
Excellent idea!!!!!!!
Brand ain't stupid- he knows what he's doing, courting the Far Right and adopting their taking points while no longer calling out their damaging behaviours
Why would brand expose his grift so it can be picked apart and destroyed?!! That’s how he makes his money! If it was dissected he’d have nothing left.
@@crayzee1372 It seems less a set of 'behaviours' and more a particular worldview, infused with alternative narratives. The way to connect with, and change the minds of, people with different worldviews is _not_ to attack them, but to find a gentler approach that doesn't trip their threat response immediately. This whole 'shaming people for not being anti- enough' thing only really works on people prone to leftwing ideological thinking.
EXCELLENT INTERVIEW, and I SO agree! Once Russell Brand WAS a hero, promoting recovery (based on his personal experience) and there was some humility and that applied to whatever topics he spoke about, or who he interviewed.
But now...the word Hubris comes to mind. That & taking himself far too seriously.
I don't think he even realises he's going down a far right road, but as you say, he's following the money...
I also don't think he's as bright as some (including himself) thinks he is.
As for Rupert Murdoch, as an Australian, I think he is our most shameful export.
Every time you hear the phrase 'far-right' take a shot 🤣
this!
What does far right even mean anymore?
It gets thrown against everybody who dares to question what's going on in politics or who, God forbid, criticizes Bill Gates.
Whose foundation btw is the main source of funding for The Guardian.
@@phoenyxpetersen4551no it really doesn’t
This doesn’t sound as edgy as you think, you wet flannel
I suggest you contact Russell Brand directly and bring this up in person with him. He will sit down and listen, cause I guarantee he will hear about what you've said about him...Talk to the man not behind his back..
Doesn’t Russel constantly promote misinformation about Anthony Fouchi, Bill Gates, Joe Biden et al without ever speaking to them or their representatives?
He'd rather hang out with his new pals Tucker Carlson and Steven Crowder.
Monbiot has written to him and as far as I know received no response.
Speaking about him and uploading the video for anyone to watch is hardly talking about him behind his back lol. Does Russell Brand only ever mention people who are in the room with him at the time when he does his podcast? If not, do you tell him not to talk about people behind their backs? Or are you just a moron?
'A journalist?'
'Well, The Guardian, anyway.'
From Yes, Minister.
About sums him up!
Most one sided outlet there is
@@johnrodgers2018 Maybe, but of course the competition is strong.
@@lauterunvollkommenheit4344 absolutely, you cannot believe anyone
The thing that concerns me most is that Russell Brand is generally considered as an open, liberal minded person who intelligent and down to earth. Someone who people trust will take a balanced and fair view on things. Also he has an ability to say things in an intelligent and credible, sometimes humourous way, and he used that ability to talk about important social issues.
And now, with him seemingly being so hyper focused on certain issues (a lot of which I would consider to be connected to the far right) it's really alarming to think of how he must be influencing his viewers with this insidious change of tone. I've got no doubt that many people will go off and look for more information on the subjects he talks about, where they'll find themselves elbow deep in content made by people who ABSOLUTELY ARE trying to promote extremist right wing views and conspiracies.
As a watcher of Russell brand's channel I would say he covers a broad range of topics and takes up a position of being neither left or right something lacking in today's politics. I am curious though what examples of far right extremism has he promoted? I must of missed these
@@ainzybrfc I agree with you that he always has covered a wide range of topics, and tries to take balanced approach which is neither left or right for the most part.
In fact, I don't think he can be accused of saying anything that you could explicitly categorise as extreme right wing. Nor do I believe that he shares the views of the far right either.
All I would say, is that he is tending , more more of late, to chose discussion topics that are 'associated' with far right views, and therefore if you looked into, read about and listened to discussions on those same topics elsewhere, you would likely find them being promoted by people who are most definitely, overtly, far right or extremist in their views.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a massive fan of Russel Brand. I think he's great, he's incredibly funny and really knowledgeable about so many different subjects.
I just tend to agree with what's being said here, in that he is flirting with the ideas of the far right, and that is a bit of a dangerous game. Oh yea, and also agree that he should maybe give the World Economic forum thing a break, it's becoming an obsession lol.
I still really like the guy. I just honestly hope that he doesn't drift any further in that direction.
What far right thinks has he said and can you define to me what fat right actually is and it’s philosophy based on historical and sociological facts. We can then use this as a bases to define if RB is actually far right in his views .
If you’ve watched his channel and you check his “sources” that he sites a lot of them are from far right “media”
and even more concerning is that some of those things turn out to be true!
Brand's fall was so disappointing. Back when he did Trews, he was engaging and presented serious issues in a relatable way. The fact that he was sometimes learning as he went was also refreshing. I didn't always think he was exactly right, but he was insightful and seemed willing to examine new ideas. It's such a shame that ultimately, he decided that route was too much effort.
I have no idea what you are talking bout, obviously you are a lefty or righty and some things he says are going to rub you up, because you have taken a side, which is what the corporate controllers want to keep you fighting amongst yourselves over who is right and wrong on trivial issues whilst they start wars, feed you drugs you don't need all for their profits whilst you keep bickering.
Have you actually watched Brands show? Thought not. Bill Gates is the Guardians biggest donor they're owned. "He mentioned all that apart from the immigrants "??? That's this fools whole far right premise lol. The "left" is alienating 90% of the population by calling us erroneously far right or nazis, like Brand I've gone from being called a lefty to far right since the vax. We will not tolerate the wrecking of our society by misinformed fools, I suspect that will become very clear to you people this summer.
@@maccipher2564 yes his thumbnails expose him as a far right extremist nazi according to your nonsense. You nitwit, which UA-cam channel doesn't want to get more viewers and subscribers?
So strange. It's like if Sam Seder suddenly pivoted to a right-wing warmonger.
@@estebancomulet it's not strange, Russell is just not left or right, like most of his followers, they know the division of left and right is just a ploy by corporations to control you, and keep you fighting for a party that are both controlled by them, the corporations that plow huge funding into both parties. There is never a third major party as why would the corporations want to buy a third political party?
As a left person, you probably get angry when he says something pro right, and also the right get angry when he says something pro left. You just need to see you are being scammed. Left and right are both right and wrong, and neither is always right or wrong.
Great analysis, how about getting Russel and George on together?
They can't afford him.
And Russell does complain about the power the media, ALL media, has. Very often.
Great Idea, how do we know Russel isn’t playing the far right . I agree with George on a lot of things, but I’m not 100% sure he’s right here. There is a lot of conspiracies being thrown about at the moment. But that is parr for the course , to anybody wanting to throw you off track. One thing I’ve not seen George Focus on is the Proxy war in Europe. And the limited reporting of the riots in France , that go deeper than just about pensions. I know he is big on climate change. And what he said about nitrates, I agree . They along with raw sewage , waste plastic , pesticides and nitric acid , should be our focus. But most of the time it’s just carbon dioxide that is mentioned and that is what plants actually thrive on as against the acidic waste. With regard to the Dutch farmers, how much does he know about their side of the argument. There is after all always two sides and you can not always assume your right on everything, including George.
Brand would eat him up and spit him out.
@@lottielane2486 They are telling lie after lie about Russell. Maybe they have had too many boosters.
Montsanto’s best known product is round up a glyphosphate based herbicide. Later the company became a producer of genetically engineered crops. In2018 it ranked 199th on the Fortune 500 of the largest US corporations by revenue.
Agent Orange is the classic Monsanto product.
messed up GMOs development by tainting due to roundup ready stuff.......
George Monbiot should probably have a conversation with Russell Brand.
why don't you have this chat with Russell Brand himself. ?
Brilliant shout ❤
why doesn't Monbiot visit Julian Assange in jail , that weasel helped put him there
Russell couldn’t monetise his old values, so he changed them.
Unfortunately, I think that's spot on. Such a shame. I love Russel but haven't liked the direction his channel has taken for some time.
He never changed his values, and he was literally in Hollywood I think that pays more than UA-cam and podcast money.
@@kyecypress and you are his perfect Mark
@@rogueceska no apparently you are for the guardian, who helped the Tories win the last election.
@Konami He quite obviously has changed his values if by tacking on at the end something that changes the outcome of the substance.Hell have to address it all at some point.I expect talk of addiction proxies and pseudo-victimhood.
Seems like he was spot on about Russell.
Thank you for your input, judge, jury & executioner...
Grow up
Not in 2014. In 2014 he (Monibot) nominated him for "hero of the year" and idolized him.
No discernment whatsoever.
@@davidrodenborn5905 Wrap it up boys, we got him...
He's certainly rattled some feathers these past 2 years, he should push even harder now.
Facts your multi millionaire hero is falling
"guy make lots of money therefore guy is exploiting you"
if I wasn't looking at this dude, I'd have wagered money this statement came from a dime-a-dozen Flynn Effect-defying zoomer
This man is completely mischaracterising peoples’ concerns regarding the Dutch farmers. He said that Russel Brand hasn’t mentioned asylum seekers, perhaps that’s because that is not the problem: the problem is that the Dutch farmers are the among most efficient and productive workers, they are not allowed to sell their farms privately and so their only option, when the state make their work practically impossible through ridiculous, forced nitrate reductions, is to sell their land to (you guessed it) the state!
Since when is standing up for actual, working people right wing? Isn’t that supposed to be the battle ground if the left? Or maybe we all have to realise that left and right are meaningless terms now and we are left with only moderates and extremists.
Nitrate pollution is destroying the environment and therefore killing us all. These "working" people are working efficiently to destroy the soil, so they need to stop. Being "working" doesn't mean adorable, nor legal, nor correct.
George Monbiot needs to sit down with Russel Brand and have the opportunity to exchange opinions and perspectives.
I'm pretty sure he asked Brand on twitter but it was ignored
It won't make any difference. Like George, I liked Russell, but more recently he's clearly in it for the money and only the money just like his foe, Gates. What pays more you ask? clickbaity, conspiracy-esque style videos, and quite a few lean right wing. Though I do respect his musings against big pharma and big agro.
@@JagJohal He did, twice in fact. Brands response was to call Monbiot, in typical conspiracy theory influencer style "controlled opposition who are out to get me" - not those exact words, but that was the general flavor i.e: someone disagrees with me, therefore they must be getting worried and that proves to you all that I'm right. It is a wonderful tactic people like Brand use because it means you're immune to scandal, immune to being called out by anyone because your audience will automatically take that as confirmation that everything they (Brand in this instance) say is true because someone disagrees with them. It's a wonderful business model and Brand is doing handsomely well on it.
now we should have this guy debate someone instead of him getting to slander someone for 12 minutes and have no other point of view
@@joemitchell69 You guess wrong
@@joemitchell69 Why not put in some effort yourself instead of just guessing and assuming?
Can we have George eat some insects live on Politics Joe. I’d pay to see that.
I grew up loving Russell Brand, I loved him and thought he was so right about everything. He lost me somewhere around 2016 where he didn't lurch right necessarily but he's absolutely fine with being mates with them and scraping copious amounts of wealth from their supporters.
He's in the cabal
There is a saying: "If you've got 10 people sitting at a table with a Nazi you've got 11 Nazis."
Same for me, used to like watching the Trews and went to see him live (the Messiah complex) but he has completely lost me in recent years, such a shame.
Weirdly I used to loathe him , now I pretty much agree with him on everything.
@@johndonson1603 I still loathe him but agree with what he says these days.
Are Matt Taibbi and Glen Greenwald also playing the same dangerous game? I dare you to go Russell's show George. He'd be happy to have you on.
Your channel doesn't have any content - like your head.
Anyone who DARES confront the status quo, the lies, the cover ups, the frightening reality of what is being hidden from us 'plebs' is now, apparently, playing to the Right wing. Yes, it would be very interesting to see Monbiot up against Brand....but like you say would he dare.
Would he now though? George is bottom feeding at this point for attention. He's the one that's blinkered. Just watch some of his own productions. Like a doomsday cult. If nothing else Russel puts things in a way that leaves open hope. George will happily live comfortably himself whilst taking away your heating and ability to move freely. Bottom feeding stuff.
@@johnknight8152 Brand is a grifter.
@@johnknight8152 ...another 'no content' channel bot.
He keeps talking about Russel as very intelligent, bright man. I have never, ever had that impression. He's witty, but he's not ever been able to think critically about anything. He always draws the most illogical and self-serving conclusions, he doesn't speak like an intellectual. I think George gives him far too much credit in this regard.
Can you give us an example of one of these most illogical and self-serving conclusions that are always drawn?
Russel Brand's "Don't vote" idiocy is what gave us Brexit and Trump. His 15 minutes should be over.
So, let me see if I understand this: I shouldn't listen to Russell Brand because he attacks people and institutions that George Monbiot doesn't want him to question, and doesn't attack the people George Monbiot wants him to attack. So Mr. Monbiot is now judging people not upon what they say, but upon what they don't say. That seems to be a dangerous precedent to me; will "not being correct enough" soon be a crime?
I've never heard RB say the Dutch farmers are being replaced by immigrants; I have heard him say something to the effect of "Hey, when there's no more farmers who is going to grow the food you eat?" That seems like a reasonable question to me.
Yes, the "far-right" questions their governments - but I kind of think we should ALWAYS question PEOPLE who control our lives and spend our tax money. In fact, RB frequently attacks the military industrial complex and the "forever war" mentality - things the "far right" supposedly supports.
In basically every video Russell cites news sources, reports, or direct quotes to back up his position. So far Mr. Monbiot has just said "Russel Brand is bad, because I said so." I mean, who are we to believe? George Monbiot or our lying eyes?
Come on people, watch the videos. Then watch other videos of dissenting views. Then think for yourselves and make up your own minds.
Yes Mr Barton....Brand backs up his stuff.....you'd be an idiot to ignore Russell's point George. Tell you what....debate him.......lets see what you're about
Well said.
Bang on
Monbiot was quite clear: the issue in Holland is massive amounts of nitrates spilling off from land used in animal agriculture damaging rivers and protected lands. It's all well documted in court rulings. Some judge isn't involved in a grand conspiracy trying to prevent people from growing food.
Brand is a vegan, so clearly he knows very well that we don't need animal products to be healthy. And on that point, the courts in Holland haven't ever said animal agriculture is the problem. It's intense factory farming that's the problem. Put simply, grazing cows on grass would be fine, smaller pig farms, etc.
@@delacaravanio "Your lies are beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs - I see through you".
Hey Joe how about getting Monbiot and Vandana Shiva together, she'd give a better argument than Brand?
I think Russell Brand would be horrified to hear this. I would like this man to have an interview with RB. I believe RB would say he is anti-establishment, and looking to re-imagine human systems.
Yes. I'd like to hear Brand's response to this.
Russell brand was defending tucker Carlson and Elon musk. Goes to the same events as Donald trump jr. that’s pretty establishment
But it will never happen, the likes of monbiot like to talk to their own audience
Russell Brand can say what he likes; when he claims to be anti-establishment, and then get along with Ed Miliband in a jovial interview, his claims are proven to not be meaningful.
@@CatastrophicalPencil Russell brand is not a journalist? The role of the journalist is to take a politician to task on behalf of the people which never happens. Infact we've got to such a sad point where politicians are allowed their own radio shows on msm like lammy, Rees mogg etc where they can spout their nonsense and push the red button when they get put in a corner.
Absolute bollocks..keep going Russel u have our support..peace and blessings
I like Russell Brand, I think you should go and talk to these farmers. To me it sounds like a sledgehammer is being used to crack the farmers. How would you like to be forced to do something on your land that you aren’t comfortable with. Maybe interview Vandara Shiva? Barb
lots of people are forced to not do things on their land all the time and we think nothing of it...i cant burn a pile of scrap tyres, i cant pour my waste oil down the drain and i cant throw my turds in the neighbours garden. it doesnt seem unreasonable to expect farmers to not trash aspects of the environment
Monbiot once said the reason he never mentions Julian Assange is that he wants to remain 'focused on the things which truly matter'
Yeah, George. Sure.
Julian Assange doesn't matter.
Watch double down news. He’s always talking about Assamge!
@@rinnin As of a year ago he said he wouldn't talk about him. And I've yet to read one single mention of 'Assange' in any Guardian article he's ever written.
He's very happy to write about Russell Brand though: the Guardian masters approve.
@Vayate I would expect nothing less from a supporter of Nazis in the Ukraine. You spanner.
How is that remotely relevant to this? Apart from being completely untrue
George, what are your views on the excess deaths?
@@ELWaller0388 Nah, caused by AGW I would imagine
Heheheheh hello my little COVID truther…what’s the big lie today?
@@ELWaller0388 no ‘chloride soul’(?) it’s almost definitely the disgusting mismanagement of the lockdown - Hancock leaving elderly care entirely exposed, Rishi’s eat out to help out scheme - in America, Jesus that’s a Pandora’s box of poor governance…..
The official Coincidence Theory hasn't yet been passed down from Trusted Source. Stand by.
The last minute of this video is just 10000% truth
Russell brand, an ex addict himself, knows more than anyone how the mechanisms of addiction work. Tech addiction is as much of a problem as any other in this age, and is as damaging as any other type. Brand routinely uses clickbait to draw in viewers; to NOT put away their devices and listen to his embroidered verbal ejaculations (just like that).
Yes, you're absolutely right, and anyone who takes Brand at face value is an idiot. But I think the same is true of Monbiot. The Guardian is one of the most hypocritical news outlets there is, and no-one survives as a columnist there if they're clean.
Something about him has never sat right with me.
I saw a video a few years back, not sure if it's still doing the rounds but, that phase involving Katy Perry? 🤔
And the video showed him behaving way beyond disturbingly around a few kids! 😔😔
@@figeepoet the guy’s a sociopath and a dilettante, I know that much. Nothing would surprise me with him. The most preachy are often the most sketchy.
yep it's also called being a classic neurotic narccistic sociopath or even psycopath.
clickbait is the modern word for newspaper headline.
When you're so FAR OFF you think that Russell Brand is far right then maybe it is time to take a look at yourself.
Except that's not what he said
Well Monbiot is misrepresenting Brand…..so …..
@jasonhampson9579 follow the money baby!He's clever and leaves a virtual crumb trail for the alt right mob to follow and then reams in the money, calculated and disappointing.
That not the accusation. He farms the right with clickbait titles while sitting on the fence.
This is a real eye opener. It just shows that you need alternative voices to balance the argument. Thank you.
Monbiot and The Guardian are the Establishment to a T.
I agree, I hope these two, George and Russell can talk it out a bit
Unless he's done it already Russell would not host George as he would easily call Russells bullshit. That would hurt Russells ego
What i'm thinking about every day. Murdoch is the jenga block
"Should we talk ABOUT Russell Brand?" NOOOO! George should talk TO Russell Brand.
I really like Monbiot and applaud his courage and commitment to speaking out against how we're destroying the planet among other things, but ffs, this is an example of why discourse is silo-ed and shallow. Before the internet monetized these "take down/clap back" type videos, a "public figure" of repute or popularity would just have a word with someone else in private to discuss their differences. Or engage them in a public debate. This just pits a "team Monbiot" vs "team Brand" in an atmosphere designed for clicks and it's utterly childish.
100%
@@helphelpimbeingrepressed9347 This here is no different than Twitter but with a veneer of respectability. On Twitter people literally speak AT others by putting @xxxxxx somewhere. The priority isn't dialogue. It's to "burn" or "destroy" someone in public for likes and retweets. Pathetic.
@@dipthongthathongthongthong9691 Yep I see the manipulation going on, trying to make us distance ourselves from one another. As social animals we monkey see monkey do until we stop to smell the roses & actually think about it.
Well said
Does Russell Brand talk to Anthony Fauci or any of the over people he spreads misinformation about? No he doesn't.
I watch most of Russel Brands video's, I haven't seen the Dutch farmers ones yet. But every other one I've seen is about trying to find the common ground between two seemingly polar opposite views. Which no one else I've seen is doing that. I feel a bit of envy coming from George M, maybe because of Russells popularity.
Apparently, Brand's sexual impropriety was an open secret in media circles, even back when. What were the likes of Owen Jones and George Monbiot thinking associating with this sociopath?
I have never been able to get past the very obvious vibe Brand puts out; that he adores the sound of his own voice, and will say whatever it takes to make people stop in their tracks and listen to him with their mouths hanging open. THAT'S what he lives for - the EFFECT his words have on people in the moment, not to actually change anything in this world for the better. That's why his viewpoints on different things are often inconsistent with each other, and he'll flip them on a dime once he starts to see people aren't stunned by the apparent 'eloquence' and 'radicalness' of his pontifications anymore. The man's little more than a carnival barker.
This is an unfollow worthy video. Brand is great but in now way right wing and there is some mental gymnastics going on here to frame him in a negative way. Total bullsh**
I would have unsubbed, but never subbed in the first place 😅
But yes - they are showing the colour of their panties here 😂
Maybe... But he hangs out with Stephen Crowder and Tucker Carlson nowdays...
Oh dear, it seems one of Brand’s disciples just got triggered! He’s a bell end and he’s gone way down the conspiracy rabbit hole.
George not too well versed what Russell has been saying or the nitrate issues either. Had hoped for better.
His handlers didn't brief him properly
@@thewaronu8842 But your did, right?
@@thewaronu8842 I love that you twerps are literally reacting to stuff *I* was talking about for many years, it's so funny that your scripted answers take notice of the stuff I've been putting out there.
Very cute.
@@frelonvert6064 literally as oppoosed to metaphorically?
On contrary, he is right about Fox shit and Brand is just another brand.
I would love to ask George if you thought about how Russell might have linked the farms fight in India to what is happening in Holland. Were they conflated or should they ever have been conflated.
I have a number of George’s books and agree with many of his comments but he is starting to drift to the dark side of left, an area I have grown to distrust. He has become blinkered by his passion for green issues. What George seems to not see ,or overlook, is many of the solutions to environmentally problems our governments propose and he supports ,are extremely damaging to the poorest in our society. But you will not see any article in the middle class Guardian about this. Nearly a third of the uk now live in fuel poverty as a result of green policies. A demographic the left are supposed to speak for but don’t for fear that any criticism of green policy will label them far right. Far right being A phrase the London Mayer recently used to describe working class Londoners who protested his draconian attack on there freedoms by expanding the ULEZ zone. A policy I am sure George supports. Russell Brand has always championed the plight of the poor and called out inequality in his videos. An inequality that green policy is furthering.
Absolutely spot on
100% correct. The green cult will impoverish us all to achieve their net-zero utopia. How many will die in the process? Less, they will say, than would die if we don't do it. Our lives are a sacrifice they are willing to make.
Monbiot is a posh boy who went to public school and Oxford. He couldn't give a toss about the ghastly oiks. They should know their place, as far as Monbiot is concerned, and do as their betters instruct them.
Could you explain to me how Green Policies have led to fuel poverty?
@@nevadatan7323 another well meaning moron who doesn't know net zero means not only fuel poverty but global starvation. Educate yourself
Brand's key point is that the left and right need to talk more, and have more in common than we know. He is able to reach people who identify as right leaning, and educate them on left views, and sometimes vice versa. That is very valuable. He's walking a thin line and I haven't seen him cross it. He's careful and diplomatic and does so with grace and humour. It's also good Monbiot is saying things Russell's new audience wouldn't accept. He could do it without the ad hominem attack on someone he used to admire.
It's a pointless grift. left and right can sometimes agree on identifying a problem, but won't agree on the causes, and solutions.
He's an Enlightened Centrist.
@@jackjude Is this that buzzword my mummy warned me about twisting the meaning of a legitimate stance when someone isn't balls deep in every single talking point of the Left, so it means they're secretly they're closeted Hitlers?
Reminds me of how the Nazis spoke about the Jews initially. "You can't trust them - they're not one of us, we don't agree on anything, even if they pretend to!"
@@David_Bower its hard to believe its a pure grift, i hate all his spiritual stuff, but i do believe he is sincere in all that stuff, so that makes it hard to believe he is an evangelical new age charlatan. i think we'd all agree without exception, that this culture war red pill/wokeism stuff needs fixed, debunked, so surely that can't be pointless. if you say thats just the way it is......
"Brand's key point is that the left and right need to talk more," Yeah, and that key point "the man" can't tolerate, they either send bullets or shills
In the West ; ''the squeaky wheel gets the grease'' . In the East ''the nail that sticks up , gets hammered down'' The worlds is so fu*ked up , so just do the best you can to survive
I do miss the old Russell.
100% he went from brilliant polemicist and social commentator to Conspiracy theorist nut job .
Great, thanks. I find it interesting how I'd never even heard the names of these extremely powerful oligarchs
Bit confused by this. Monbiot says Russell is not far-right. OK. But he is only interested in issues that the far-right are interested in. Really? Why then has he been consistently championing trans-gender people in the last months.
Because the far right are easy to manupulate and get easy views
Brand is always talking about Rupert Murdoch 🤦♂
Is he explaining how much Murdoch pays him?
@@paulhammond6978 does the guardian explain who funds them?
@@davelocke Subscriptions and ads? Or is that too conspiratorial?
I love how as soon as Russel starts asking difficult questions and doesn’t just believe everything he’s fed by the media, he’s becoming a problem.
Funny thing is Russel Brand hates being associated with the right or with conservatives.
Then why is he promoting DeSantis' on his podcast 😂😂😂😂
He promotes ideas, not ideologies. An idea endorsement does not mean you promote the total platform of the candidate. But that groupthink pressure is tough ;)
@@tmb3131Did you even pay attention to Monbiot's points or are you stuck at the level of Brand-like soundbites?
I've listened to Georgie for years. He characterizes every opponent to green-love whackery as "far right". He's a mouthpiece for the Guardian which is pure propaganda and loathes that Russell has actually made millions from being a political pundit. George has evoked an envy for Russell that's painfully clear.
@@tmb3131 You've got it backasswards, buddy. Brand is a pseudointellectual talking head adapting his message to click stats and thus veering increasingly into nutcase territory. The Guardian and Monbiot may have a clearly leftist position, but it's based on empirical evidence and journalistic standards.
i respect both Monbiot and Brand. Would like to see them sit down together.
Always enjoyed abit of Russell back in the 2000s, the trio of him, Matt Morgan and Noel Gallagher was just gold.
Then when he started the Trews and did that famous Paxman interview, he was really on fire.
But what's happened was inevitable. Russell is just an entertainer at heart. An entertainer with an incredible knack of accumulating money. He decided afew years ago that focusing solely on American politics and culture wars and leaning into conspiracy was the path to immense wealth. A shame about him.
I'm a patron of Matt Morgans podcast and he's often asked about Russell. They haven't spoken in years. Seems Brand has basically cut off everyone from that period of his life. Wouldn't suit his new 'brand'
How much 'immense wealth' can be made off a UA-cam channel??
Rememeber listening to Brand and Morgan years ago too. They made me laugh and Matt mocked Russell. I suspect that Russell would no longer be quite so content to be gently derided.
There's something about him that unsettles me these days... hubris perhaps... I don't know...
I was in Bishopsgate RBS head offices the day that Brand decided to 'invade' RBS HQ to give the CEO a 'piece of his mind'. He got the wrong building and did nothing except prevent people get their lunches..
of course, that was back when he was a raving addict and was a bit of an opinionated idiot
The difference is that, nowadays, he is an ex-addict (apparently)
@@richardhorrocks1460 as the video patiently explains, it's not the UA-cam channel (although if you have 6m subscribers and you pump out a couple of videos a day then yeah, you can make a good living off that, not that he wasn't already wealthy). It's the billionaire-funded subscription service that he's paid a lot to be on that's probably the majority of his current paycheck.
@@kef0205 I think maybe we have different definitions of 'immense wealth'. Elon Musk has 'immense wealth'. Russell Brand is probably just wealthy.
I’m pretty sure this is complete bollocks and is nothing like what brand is saying. Try watching him.
He grifts to the far right, most of his audience is now right wing morons. His titles, his presentation of politics and him hiding his previous political views that would anger his modern audience is clear signs of him being a complete narcissist and a nutcase
During Covid Russell went full right wing conpiracy looney.
@@olddouchebagyeah he didn’t even want lockdowns, what a stooge
'Here's making millions every year'.
And there it is, folks.
They say you should never meet your heroes. Please George Monbiot arrange to meet with Russell Brand. Talk to him and go on his show. I sometimes am skeptical of Russell Brand's content and worry that too much of his information comes from misguided places. He's ultimately very compassionate, I'd say more than most. If you'd at least reach out to him and start a conversation. He'd be in for sure.
Compassionate? You mean when he's not abusing women?
@@thenavajoknow ua-cam.com/video/Eep2oc_FMjs/v-deo.htmlsi=7xdGuR4JpSbCvuqH
Rose McGowan of the #metoo movement has expressed serious concerns with this story.
My honest opinion that this is the people at the top trying to shut up a very dangerous man... to those in power
I used to like George Monbiot but I think he protesteth too much. He's a bit over the top about Russell and I look forward to Russell's response. I think the Dutch could have worked with the farmers, encourage them to manage their cattle and farms in a more regenerative fashion, aided them to change their practices to address the build up of nitrogen. But no, they just want to take their land rather than aid them in making changes.
Wait till the farmers start selling up in the UK and see who buys all the land same playbook different country
Succinctly put Paula. I taste a slight hint of jealousy here wrt Russel Brand. Neil Oliver who is also a traditional lefty is also sync with Russell, this suggest.a trend. A point that Monibot completely misses is political direction of travel. This is not about left vs right, this is about Elitest control and behvioural change over the population. Examples of this are Climate change (CO2), Ukraine (NATO expansion), Libya, Iraq...... . The list goes on....
@@dominicboyle8113 gatekeepers comes to mind does that make me a conspiracy theorist
@@richyhigg3042 It certainly doesn't. It shows you question the narrative and don't accept the message blindly. As a former CO from Intel once quoted "Only the paranoid survive". A healthy dose of skeptism is good for the soul. 🙂
@@dominicboyle8113 my dad always said to me just because your paranoid it doesn’t mean their not watching you 😆
Brand makes no secret of his wealth. Brand is equally scathing of left and right - the reason he's popular is because people are starting to wake up to the fact that those in charge despise them and there is no real difference between left and right political parties. He's also one of the few people with a platform that will admit when he's wrong.
The reason he's popular is cos 90% of his videos are Gates, Trump, Biden, Fauci, repeat. He's outrage porn for righties, clickbait pure and simple.
I recently watched a video of his where he was trashing the SVB situation and financial elites. In the middle of it was a paid ad where he was hocking gold bars as a retirement plan. No joke. Either he's extremely cynical or has the worlds strongest cognitive dissonance.
This isn't about him being "scathing" of the left or right...this is about him engaging in a dangerous game of engaging with far right conspiracy theories. No difference between the parties? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. That silly defeatist (ultimately pro-fascist) argument always makes me laugh.
I've been wondering WTF was going on with Russell Brand in recent years! Glad that's been clarified.
Watch one of his videos for yourself. The latest one on Taiwan is fine.
It's called an awakening. You don't know what the world looks like before you wake up out of amnesia.
It's happening to humanity but the ones that are still sleeping don't know that they are sleeping, and think they are clever and that the others have lost the plot. It's the other way around. The tide is turning.
If you don't know yet, you will soon find out. But good old George monbias is too self-absorbed to think that he could be wrong.
Need to be told what to think ey
@annekegermers821 awakening eh? Doesn't sound like a cult at all. What's this awakening awakening to? Or are you just going to leave it at religious rhetoric? Tell me the spiritual truth so i may awaken from my slumber and join the enlightened.
@@3brenm there is a reality that is different from a three dimensional reality.
Is the Dutch government unable to enforce strict regulations without forcing buyouts of farmers? I haven't seen Russell Brand's take on this, but I think he is correct in his positions on topics that I have listened to. I'll have to do some checking, but I doubt that Mr. Brand is part of the oligarchs who are running things and smoking the public. Making money and being on Rumble while calling out the oligarchs is okay with me.
He leads with what Russel didn't say.
As have you.
What did Russell say?
@@spewter You won't get a reply because he has none to offer. People are no longer encouraged to form their own opinions about people and events in the world; they are issued those opinions by media elites and they lap it up uncritically.
Exactly. Most of the rest of it is also what Russel never did.
01:18 - "When he tells you you're being exploited by multi-millionaires he's not wrong".
profiting from health crises and war VS profiting from journalism, hmm surely there is a spectrum to this self-service Russel is accused of
He's just mentioning the multimillionaires they are in favour of exploiting you.
@@jackroxburgh5939 seriously
This Russell Brand is basically an English Yobo and he is as guilty as sin, same club as Jimmy Savile, Dan Woottoon and others!!!
Russell Brand's hypocrisy makes me I'll!! He's followed by a bunch of sycophants. This is such a refreshing change to hear some common sense.
Brand is doing it right. Much better than pretty much anyone. Far better than Monboit.
Depends if you think a Faustian Bargain is 'doing it right'. If you think selling your soul to psychopaths is 'doing it right' then we can be safe in ignoring anything you say
His narcissism fully kicked in now just on right grift pathway. The red flag is at the start of his videos he states his millions of subs and see it feeding the beast.
Explain how he is a narcissist? Obviously he wants his channel to grow? “For starters, let’s not assume leftwingers are “cynical” for wishing to grow their audiences. That should be the left’s ambition if it is serious about meaningful social and political change” - Jonanthan cook
@@-nolan- he has a weird messiah complex and he just loves attention. And you know what gives attention? Pandering to rightwing lunatics! They will flock to you. Dont have to do any hard work and research. Just play the far right greatest hits
@@-nolan- Who the hell is Jonathan Cook and why would anyone care what he thinks about anything?
@@garrett2439 a Renowned journalist, your ignorance is blissful. Keep listening to your king Monbiot who thinks Corbyn and Assange are the enemy.
He just has differeing views to you. What does that have to do with narcissism?
I am Dutch. And the government takes the farms from the farmers. And they want to build houses where the farms are.
Russell Brand is right and better informed then this. And by the way: it is not a left or right thing.