russell brand - C or D?

I think in this case, you can actually blame Corbyn!

*retch*

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/russell-brand-gets-standing-ovation-214438421.html

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.

Who do you think are going to his shows in 2023? Fantasists and flat earthers.

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.

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

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

Good to see Dorian getting cooked on Twitter.
https://i.postimg.cc/1zp826pQ/IMG-9591.jpg

Think it's much more likely his turn to right wing conspiracy shit is because he makes shitloads of money from it xps

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

and perhaps more importantly his fellow travellers in the celebrity/journo culture wars axis

he may also believe all that bunk which is even worse

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?

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.

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.

Facebook lefties liked sharing his quote memes.

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 :/

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.

lol

was about to correct you then

If your naomi be klein,
Ye be doing just fine

If your naomi be klein,
Ye be doing just fine

If your naomi be wolf
Throw yerself in the gulf

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/18/russell-brand-shows-postponed-after-allegations-of-sexual-assault

Let's postpone these gigs until this all gets cleared up

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.

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

Already fed up seeing clips this talentless unfunny cunt on every news programme.

Wasn't that the recent defense of Roisin Murphy as well?

Big Pharma...and Ukraine, apparently...

Things you can't talk about...without raking in a lot of money

So I think we can safely put him down as "dud."

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

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

Throw in Catturd for extra ballast

Racoon Tanuki, a sock that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Put Russell Brand and a rabid Racoon into a large sock together

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

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."

My Fucky Up

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

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

https://t.co/0222bwcZ3n

— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 18, 2023

Wow. Naomi Wolf sounding reasonable for once.

I mean, fr, the Good Naomi is now going to have to put up not only the genuinely confused people, but also a million shitposters deliberately doing it for laffs. It feels like an obligation now.

put up *with*

She doesn't have to let them stay at hers

Having just watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey I'm wondering if Naomi Wolf refers to herself as Evil Naomi.

youtube have suspended payments from Brand's channel because violation of "creator responsibility policy". Apparently he was making a million a year from it, like wtf?

Well he has 6.6 million Youtube subscribers, despite having Rumble as his main platform apparently