Russell Brand - In Plain Sight

[Newbornbairn]

He's an attention whore. He'd shave his arse, paint himself pink and change his name to Fred the Flamingo if it got him another hundred followers. 

 

He'll be loving all this - getting more views than he's had for years and everyone's talking about his favourite subject - him. 

[Cheese]

Brand is on the left.

Not that it has anything to do with the allegations or guilt.

[Miguel Sanchez]

3 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Russell Brand had not retired from the mainstream media. He appeared in several major studio films last year, including Death On The Nile and Minions: Rise of Gru. He was, until last week, represented by a premier talent agency, Tavistock Wood. His books were published by MacMillan Publishing, one of the top publishers in the UK. His legal representatives are Thomson Heath & Associates, specialist defamation lawyers whose website states that they work for “senior political figures, advising FTSE companies and their executives, royal families, governments and celebrities.” Fight the power! The costs of having these guys is massive btw, probably hundreds of thousands of pounds at a minimum.

Up until pretty recently these people were in his corner. One of the accusers, the woman who said he sexually assaulted her when she was 16, wrote to Tavistock Wood and received a letter back from Thomson Heath threatening her with legal consequences. That was in 2020. He also personally threatened one of his accusers with legal action, by her account.

Regarding him suddenly becoming a threat to the establishment or mainstream media, he wrote books about revolution, advocated not voting, went on anti-capitalist protests and gave evidence to Parliamentary committees about drug policy all well before he started posting videos about vaccines etc.

Also, some people might have forgotten, but the Sachsgate story was absolutely massive - main story for weeks, BBC executives resigned, highest paid presenters resigned, questions in Parliament and condemnation from the Prime Minister. Large swathes of the British press (Daily Mail etc) were out for his blood then. If these allegations were so easy to conjure up, why didn’t they come out then?

The investigation by the Despatches team and the Sunday Times began in 2019, before Brand really leaned into his YouTube channel for content. There are also stories and rumours that these things were investigated previously and were shut down legally (The comments of his former management agency are interesting in this regard). These stories didn’t suddenly appear at the same time, it takes years to investigate, to fact check, to corroborate and to get the claims legally checked. If anyone has any evidence that the media conspired to do this now to hobble Brands YouTube channel or that the accusers are lying they are keeping it to themselves. 

hAVe You EVEn wATChed the viDEoS

[Darren]

11 hours ago, StellarHibee said:

If it was so easy, politicians would be suing the press left, right and centre on a regular basis. But they don't. Because it's the press. They're too big to be taken to task when they lie or slander people these days, that's why nothing is done about it the vast majority of the time. 

What politicians do you think would have a case against the press, on the basis of lies and slander, over the last few years? You must have lots of examples.

[welshbairn]

12 minutes ago, Ziggy Sobotka said:

Brand is on the left.

Not that it has anything to do with the allegations or guilt.

The American Right's pet commie.

[coprolite]

I often wondered what sort of moron would be fooled by eloquence and vocabulary into thinking that someone was intelligent or truthful.

[BFTD]

17 minutes ago, Darren said:

What politicians do you think would have a case against the press, on the basis of lies and slander, over the last few years? You must have lots of examples.

You'll struggle to get an answer here. We're still waiting for more than Assange on the list of people who the Deep State have fitted up with rape allegations because they were about to blow the lid off the whole establishment.

Apparently there's loads of them. It always happens.

[Newbornbairn]

19 minutes ago, BTFD said:

You'll struggle to get an answer here. We're still waiting for more than Assange on the list of people who the Deep State have fitted up with rape allegations because they were about to blow the lid off the whole establishment.

Apparently there's loads of them. It always happens.

You never hear about them because anyone who's a threat to the New World Order, Deep State, Bilderburgers gets quietly disappeared in a way that nobody notices.  Like Epstein.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

14 hours ago, StellarHibee said:

The fact that you think Russell Brand is "right wing" is proof that you've never really watched any of his content. Same as any of the other posters on here who are quick to rubbish content that they've never actually watched before.

To be fair @EH75 wasn’t so much saying that Brand was a right wing grifter as suggesting that he was using a similar playbook. it was the “grifter” part that was more pertinent 

 

 

[Cheese]

3 hours ago, welshbairn said:

The American Right's pet commie.

I mean, anyone to the left of Reagan will be a commie to some of these people.

He's probably more of a left libertarian than a communist.

[19QOS19]

19 hours ago, StellarHibee said:

  

Then why was nothing made of it at the time? Why is it that in these kinds of situations, a multitude of women just so happen to simultaneously come forward at precisely the same time decades later?

 

19 hours ago, StellarHibee said:

The man had celebrity status and a whole lot of money behind him. 

 

You've literally answered your own questions later in the very same post. 

[BFTD]

11 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:

You've literally answered your own questions later in the very same post. 

This has been a very confused and irrational head's gone.

We've all had people we've liked or respected that have turned out to be nogoodniks; knee-jerk defence rarely works out to be the best option.

[HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows]

20 hours ago, StellarHibee said:

  

Then why was nothing made of it at the time? Why is it that in these kinds of situations, a multitude of women just so happen to simultaneously come forward at precisely the same time decades later? I'm not saying Brand was a good person in the past. The guy had a multitude of problems, particularly with drug and alcohol use. So I can certainly believe that he was involved in risky behaviour scenarios. But that doesn't automatically equate to rape. The man had celebrity status and a whole lot of money behind him. Hardly a stretch that women would get involved with him sexually due to the money and status, then perhaps have regrets about it later. Which again, doesn't automatically equate to rape or sexual assault.

I hope to f**k there are no females close to you in your life you utter fucking wrong un.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

1 hour ago, Ziggy Sobotka said:

 

He's probably more of a left libertarian than a communist.

He believes in seizing the means of reproduction 

it’s a crucial difference 

[BFTD]

5 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

He believes in seizing the means of reproduction 

it’s a crucial difference 

[Hedgecutter]

6 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:

He's an attention whore. He'd shave his arse, paint himself pink and change his name to Fred the Flamingo if it got him another hundred followers. 

 

He'll be loving all this - getting more views than he's had for years and everyone's talking about his favourite subject - him. 

That said, much of it will be about how 'great' he is.  If more folk than not perceive him in a deeply negative context, that'll cut deep.

Edited September 24, 2023 by Hedgecutter
can't prooof read

[Granny Danger]

1 hour ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

He believes in seizing the means of reproduction 

it’s a crucial difference 

Top Marx.

[Thane of Cawdor]

2 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Top Marx.

Kapital.

[throbber]

so many dangerous posts here 

[topcat(The most tip top)]

15 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Top Marx.

Edited September 25, 2023 by topcat(The most tip top)