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Merfy Mac's avatar

I wonder if the US establishment felt it needed to act fast as Brand has been openly advocating for RFK Jr, ramping up his overt backing to the point of planning a pull-up challenge as a big publicity and fund raising event...

Brand is a dilletante compared to Assange but the DC liberal establishment won't see him as an insignificant force when it comes to votes and election campaigns.

Just a thought.

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Christine's avatar

Who else has 6 million followers and appeals to both youth and women? Come on? Give me some names? Of course he is the best person in the 5 Eyes nations to take out currently . His past and his academic credibility are of no consequence. He IS clever, and 6 million people like what he is saying. What matters now is his potential future, not his past. He is far more intelligent that most of you realise, even if he is not that well educated, and he is poised to make a serious nuisance of himself if he ever decides to do so.

There a few others lining up behind him, but they are not in his league. Neil Oliver is preaching revolution at the moment, and he also has a good following - but only in the hundreds of thousands, not in the millions. And he is far too well educated to appeal to the youth or to Americans. And maybe Lawrence Fox? He is very clever, but also far too well educated and arrogant to boot. So he will never be that charismatic leader that Russell Brand can be. His followers LOVE him for his imperfections, not despite them.

Nop. Russell Brand it is. Cut him out and you cut loose 6 million people who need a new figurehead to lead them, and who are very unlikely to be able to find a replacement for him. And whatever some of us might like to think, the human race is rudderless without leaders.

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