https://x.com/snlhostsintro/status/1703186137374916710?s=46
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 17 September 2023 08:46 (eight months ago) link
Replace 'x' with 'twitter' in the URL and it will post here.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 September 2023 09:21 (eight months ago) link
Trial by media can ruin people's lives.This so-called documentary had all the hallmarks of a smear operation against someone with a big following who challenges the neoliberal status quo and the war machine.The same playbook was used against Julian Assange, Jeremy Corbyn et…— Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) September 17, 2023
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 17 September 2023 12:34 (eight months ago) link
Wish I didn't.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 September 2023 12:55 (eight months ago) link
I think in this case, you can actually blame Corbyn!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 17 September 2023 12:59 (eight months ago) link
*retch*
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/russell-brand-gets-standing-ovation-214438421.html
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:07 (eight months ago) link
The kind of people who have followed this guy into his anti-vax rants and fawning Ron DeSantis interviews are unlikely to abandon him over this.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:10 (eight months ago) link
Who do you think are going to his shows in 2023? Fantasists and flat earthers.
― ydkb (gyac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:11 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, ppl have been suggesting that the turn to right wing conspiracy shit was a calculated move from Brand to cultivate an audiencd that would not be affected at all by these kinds of revelations. I don't think he's that smart tbh.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:44 (eight months ago) link
Things are not going too well for DL either
You literally went out of your way to smear people who came forward about Nick Cohen. You are the problem.— Bottle Opener (@BottleOpenerMan) September 17, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
xp i think its all of a piece with how wonderfully exceptional he is and how everything that occurs to him and that he does is brilliant
any pushback against that will drive a person like that to weird fucking places very quickly
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:58 (eight months ago) link
Good to see Dorian getting cooked on Twitter.https://i.postimg.cc/1zp826pQ/IMG-9591.jpg
― ydkb (gyac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 15:02 (eight months ago) link
Think it's much more likely his turn to right wing conspiracy shit is because he makes shitloads of money from it xps
― groovypanda, Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:04 (eight months ago) link
let's just say that deep long-term plan or not he's certainly making use of the army of marks he's built up
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:08 (eight months ago) link
and perhaps more importantly his fellow travellers in the celebrity/journo culture wars axis
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
he may also believe all that bunk which is even worse
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
i don't think the extent to which he believes this stuff is particularly knowable or important, but i think that about a lot of belief. it's functionally useful to think you believe in things that are making you money, but why would he need to think deeply about it as long the money rolls in?
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:14 (eight months ago) link
I think another reason for his shift to social media guru, or whatever the fuck he was doing, was simply that his career in showbusiness was going nowhere. The phone had stopped ringing.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:28 (eight months ago) link
In US terms, he basically played himself in a couple of movies here and was married to Katy Perry and that was about it, as far as I can remember.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:43 (eight months ago) link
Facebook lefties liked sharing his quote memes.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:52 (eight months ago) link
I watched Catherine Called Birdy just a few weeks ago and forgot he has a cameo. At least he wasn't playing Paul Kaye's character I guess :/
― nashwan, Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:55 (eight months ago) link
Of course Russell Brand's followers deny the allegations. He has groomed an audience to deny/disbelieve everything they see and hear, which is very different from healthy skepticism. This knee-jerk denialism is precisely why people with plenty of skeletons in the closet love…— Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) September 18, 2023
Wow. Naomi Wolf sounding reasonable for once.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 September 2023 15:28 (eight months ago) link
lol
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:48 (eight months ago) link
was about to correct you then
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:40 (eight months ago) link
If your naomi be klein,Ye be doing just fine
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:44 (eight months ago) link
If your naomi be wolf Throw yerself in the gulf
― peace, man, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:04 (eight months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/18/russell-brand-shows-postponed-after-allegations-of-sexual-assault
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:26 (eight months ago) link
Let's postpone these gigs until this all gets cleared up
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 September 2023 17:32 (eight months ago) link
London police have received a report of sexual assault tied to recent allegations made against Russell Brand. https://t.co/nDAxrDMd1R— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 18, 2023
Additionally, the promoter behind Brand’s “Bipolarisation” tour decided to postpone the remaining three dates of the run. “We are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows, we don’t like doing it — but we know you’ll understand,” the promoter said in a statement shared with Rolling Stone UK.
― ydkb (gyac), Monday, 18 September 2023 17:34 (eight months ago) link
Oh sorry wrong paste - historical accusation dating back to 2003.
the fine folks on the site previously known as Twitter have informed me that this is a direct result of him going after "big Pharma"...I guess there's a reason nobody ever criticizes them
― frogbs, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:53 (eight months ago) link
Already fed up seeing clips this talentless unfunny cunt on every news programme.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 18 September 2023 18:04 (eight months ago) link
Wasn't that the recent defense of Roisin Murphy as well?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 September 2023 18:04 (eight months ago) link
Big Pharma...and Ukraine, apparently...
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 September 2023 18:32 (eight months ago) link
Things you can't talk about...without raking in a lot of money
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 September 2023 18:43 (eight months ago) link
So I think we can safely put him down as "dud."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:36 (eight months ago) link
He'S inspiring potentially millions of people, highlights social causes corporate media does not, and using his huge platform to spread awareness of inequality and fostering a spirit of disobedience to power.― Raccoon Tanuki, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:59 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Raccoon Tanuki, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:59 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:53 (eight months ago) link
That's the calibre of person he was inspiring EIGHT years ago!
well that's it all sorted then, put Russell Brand and Raccoon Tanuki in a helicopter and drop both the cunts into abyssal ocean
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 18 September 2023 20:04 (eight months ago) link
Throw in Catturd for extra ballast
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 September 2023 20:05 (eight months ago) link
Racoon Tanuki, a sock that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 18 September 2023 20:10 (eight months ago) link
Put Russell Brand and a rabid Racoon into a large sock together
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 September 2023 20:13 (eight months ago) link
This has none of the hallmarks of an MI6 operation. For a start, it actually reached its target https://t.co/mcYSf2EIy0— Tom (@TPGRoberts) September 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 September 2023 21:41 (eight months ago) link
His new book is being paused.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bluebird-to-pause-brand-publishing-as-tavistock-wood-cuts-ties?
Recovery this, recovery that.
"Having published a bestselling autobiography, My Booky Wook, with Hodder & Stoughton in 2007, and a book on politics with Century in 2014, Brand has been publishing titles with Pan Macmillan imprint Bluebird since 2017, beginning with Recovery: Freedom from our Addictions. A new title, Recovery: The Workbook, was scheduled for publication this December."
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 September 2023 22:10 (eight months ago) link
My Fucky Up
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 22:13 (eight months ago) link
like one of those guys that always posts about "mental health" in a perfunctory manner and you know they've spent their entire life fucking up other people's
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 18 September 2023 22:36 (eight months ago) link
it always makes me laugh when these guys are like, "let me tell you the TRUTH about our Government!!!" as if there isn't a single person out there who believes it isn't rife with corruption. Obviously he is, like all conspiracy theorists, absolutely full of shit, but it always amazes me that this is always the de factor starting position for these people and it's portrayed as a radical perspective
otherwise: fuck this guy, and fuck the shitty culture that allowed this to happen yet again and will probably keep enabling these beasts forever more
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 00:43 (eight months ago) link
https://t.co/0222bwcZ3n— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 18, 2023
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 00:53 (eight months ago) link