“Here’s To Standing Up For Freedom!” A Russell Brand Appreciation Post

Russell Brand has long been one of my favorite celebrities, and not just because he sings Can’t Fight This Feeling to Alec Baldwin in what is probably my guiltiest of pleasure movies (I KNOW IT’S TRASH LEAVE ME ALONE IN MY 80’S GLAM DUMPSTER). He has consistently been an advocate for respect, kindness, and the open exchange of ideas, and that’s remarkable enough among us common folk, let alone Hollywood celebrities.

A longtime advocate for the underdog and critic of the elites keeping said underdogs, well, under, Brand has recently found himself under fire for championing the wrong underdog and criticizing the wrong elites. His YouTube channel has been accused of “[stoking] anger and fear” and “conspiracy-mongering,” to hear Slate tell it— which tells me that he’s just pointing out all the shady sh*t our government has been doing since March 2020 (which is like, .000000000003% of the shady sh*t it’s ever done, but hey, his videos are usually only 10-20 minutes).

Here’s some samples of the “conspiracy-peddling” of which Brand is guilty:

What he said👉🏽 Russell Brand pic.twitter.com/PYOtk3LtR2

— Feisty☀️Floridian (@The_Real_Feisty) January 28, 2022

Russell Brand is awesome and has a great podcast https://t.co/XJXrx3hjWh

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 28, 2022

Yup, that makes sense. If Slate hates it, it must be doing something right.

So, as promised, this post is to appreciate Russell Brand:

YAAAAAYYYYY RUSSELL!!! Consider yourself appreciated!!!!

There’s nothing conspiratorial about pointing out the shady, questionable, and/or straight up corrupt goings-on of our government, its officials, and the corporations that have them in their pockets. In fact, if conspiracy theories by definition stretch reality, then anyone still insisting that:

• Fauci is honest
• The COVID-19 virus definitely occurred naturally
• There was no effort to silence dissenting opinions to the ‘Rona narrative

is the conspiracy theorist.

The more voices willing to say so, the better.

YAY RUSSELL