British comic and social commentator Russell Brand sat down with Tucker Carlson in his first interview since he was the victim of a mass cancellation campaign over allegations of sexual misconduct from his past.
On the latest episode of “Tucker on X,” the 70th since the former Fox News host took his show to the social media platform, Brand discussed the rise of Western authoritarianism, the censorship of independent voices, and the complicity of the corrupt mainstream media.
Ep. 70 Governments colluded to shut down and destroy Russell Brand. This is his first interview since that happened. Watch it when you get a minute. It’s one of the most brilliant explanations of the modern world you’ll ever hear. pic.twitter.com/bCZDTYfZAZ
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 30, 2024
“Governments colluded to shut down and destroy Russell Brand. This is his first interview since that happened. Watch it when you get a minute. It’s one of the most brilliant explanations of the modern world you’ll ever hear,” Carlson said in his intro to the interview.
Brand put himself on the radar of the authoritarians when he began to speak out against COVID and may have crossed the red line with his criticism of the NATO proxy war on Russia in Ukraine before what was clearly a coordinated takedown and nearly total de-platforming over the sexual assault allegations that he insists that he is innocent of.
“What’s become apparent in recent years is what the nature of our relationship with government is, that they are there to rule and control and dominate. And whilst they may now do it with an esthetic of care and with the language of inclusivity, I believe the threat of authoritarianism is far, far greater from those that use the language of liberalism than these emergent, somewhat nationalistic, oriented populist movements present,” he said.
“Because they are leveraging that power now. They’re interested in censorship. They’re militarizing the police force, they’re introducing protest laws, they’re introducing censorship laws,” Brand added. “Through their actions, we can observe them through their fruits. Can we know them? We can see what they do. And if you try to dissent, if you try to oppose even what I consider to be a relatively marginal scale, then the consequences are severe and immediate and robust and terrifying.”
“Dissenting voices are being aggressively crushed by almost any means necessary. The media organizations are collaborating in a way that is unprecedented in order to shut down dissenting voices. And it appears to me that this is part of something, I don’t know that we’ve seen anything like this before,” Brand stated.
He explained that the fascism of the 21st century won’t resemble the move overt forms of the past.
“So what I suppose I’m sensing, is that totalitarianism now will not bear the inflections or esthetics of the 20th century militarism. Guys in medals with mustaches thumping their fists on a desk will be calmly told by gentlemen with beautifully furred hair or elegantly speaking, ladies, that just for our safety and just for our convenience, we will be returning to our homes. And anyone that has an audience, or a base or an ability to communicate with people to disrupt those types of narratives, will be identified and destroyed,” he told Carlson.
Brand said that the COVID narrative is one example of the corruption of the media, “That clearly was a lab leak. It looks like it was a bioweapon. It’s being concealed. The people that we entrusted with our response to that pandemic are likely explicitly linked to the leak…these kind of stories are never told,” he said.
“There are no legacy media organizations that worked in conjunction with one another to attack me, evidently, and by their own reckoning, over a series of years, they are not conducting investigations into Epstein Island. They’re not conducting. Investigations into the nature of the pandemic, how it was funded, where the money went, where it came from, the efficacy of lockdowns. Where are these investigations?” Brand asked.
“It terrifies me to contemplate, Tucker, that people like Alex Jones and in our country, David Icke, who aside from some views that are impossible to corroborate around quite a cultist. And sure, we call them marginal ideas, difficult to corroborate ideas when it comes to the subject of globalization and the increasing authoritarianization of our planet, appear to have been ahead of the curve,” Brand said, tipping his hat to the Infowars founder who has also been interviewed by Tucker.
“You can see them 20, 30 years ago saying the empowerment of NATO, the empowerment of world banks and the W.H.O., like they say, is extraordinary. And it seems to me that the disempowerment of ordinary people, the condemnation, this demoralization of the public to create people that just are weary and broken and if not enslaved, then so dependent it amounts to a form of slavery cannot be inadvertent,” he said.
“You are either going to oppose what’s happening when it comes to globalization and centralized authoritarianism, or you are going to be crushed by individually and collectively,” Brand concluded.
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