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The number of spineless men falling over themselves to cuck themselves out to radical feminists and score a few brownie points with the female population is truly mind-blowing.
It is a testament to the collective stupidity of modern society that these beta males fail to grasp the full implications of what the Brand conviction, and any similar outcome in a case of this nature, actually means for them.
To those men: Do you really, TRULY, honestly think that it could never be you? Are you actually that simpleminded?
I've seen a lot of these men proudly asserting, "I've never raped anyone, so I never have to worry about being accused of rape."
"It's easy to not be a rapist," they arrogantly attest from their imaginary soapboxes of presumed moral superiority. "Just don't rape people."
These men are either wilfully ignorant of the broader implications, or exist in a state of such delusion that their false certainty blinds them to reality.
The point about this case that the sane portion of society is trying to drive home is exactly the point they are missing.
Brand denies that any of it was non-consensual.
Two decades have passed. There is no physical evidence. There is no DNA. There is no CCTV. There are no first-hand witnesses. There is no digital trail. The only witnesses that exist are people told after the fact, repeating her version of events. There is nothing but her word against his. And hearsay disguised as witness testimony.
He believes there was consent. She says it was rape.
And ironically enough, in the single rape charge Brand was convicted of, the woman did not claim the entire sexual encounter was rape. Just parts of it. This woman is not saying, "He just came in, overpowered me, and raped me." She's saying, "I consented to tonguing his anus and giving him oral, he just did some other things afterwards I decided I didn't agree to."
Again, Brand believes there was consent to all of it.
Brand and his legal team also explicitly argued that several of the other allegations were fabricated, reinvented, or "reimagined."
You need to pay better attention here, men who think you could never be accused like Brand.
Just because YOU believe you have never raped or assaulted a woman, and that every single part of every single sexual encounter you have ever had was consensual, does not mean there isn't a woman in your past who believes differently, or who may one day allege otherwise.
So what happens if a woman one day comes forward, years later, to accuse you of rape for something you barely remember, something you did that you thought she consented to, and it's just her word against yours, and you can't prove otherwise? With all her friends backing her version of events?
Will your response on that day be: "It's easy to not be a rapist, just don't rape people like I did?"
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THE CROWN vs RUSSELL EDWARD BRAND
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Evidence and Witnesses.
The commentary on witnesses and evidence in the Russell Brand case is all over the show. A few things urgently need clearing up.
WITNESSES.
Brand and Complainant 5 were alone together at his home, in his bedroom. Nobody else was in that bedroom the entire time she was there.
So there are no witnesses. Full stop.
And because there can be no witnesses, that is precisely what makes it a he-said / she-said case.
Unlike a true creep and predator, Brand did not have cameras set up secretly recording their rendezvous. Which is actually quite ironic. Recording the encounter is almost something you could guarantee a real predator and sick monster would do. The fact he did not record it, is a strong argument that he treated her with ordinary respect and decency, not as prey.
EVIDENCE
As for what constitutes “evidence”
This is where I see the most confusion in the discourse. And this is why it is imperative to understand the specifics of this case.
People are arguing about forensic evidence and the lack thereof, as though it is somehow important here. Those discussions only expose the commentator as having no clue about this specific matter. I am genuinely bloody gobsmacked at how few people have taken five minutes to learn the basic established facts.
Forensic evidence is not important here because Brand has never denied he had sexual relations with Complainant 5.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW
Russell Brand is serving a nine-year prison term for a rape conviction because he cannot prove he had consent.
So when it comes to the topic of evidence, the ONLY evidence that matters here is PROOF OF CONSENT.
And herein lies the problem that affects everyone: what “proof” will satisfy the law that two adults both consented to sex?
Brand is behind bars tonight because he cannot prove consent. So the question becomes: what constitutes consent in the eyes of the law? What does it look like?
Do we need a written contract agreeing to sex from now on? Do we need to record a video clearly stating we give content?
Or in this case, to be fair — what could Russell have produced in court to satisfy the claim that he did have consent?
The answer is nothing. There is nothing he could have produced to prove he had consent, despite everything that led to Complainant 5 arriving at his home being the normal motions any of us would go through to have consensual sex with a partner.
And that’s the injustice.
The judge gave no indication or direction — as he handed down the sentence putting Brand in prison and praised all the stunning and brave groupies for coming forward 20 years later — as to what in God’s name he would accept as proof of consent.
All other discourse about witnesses and evidence is pointless, and it misses the mark as to the very concerning precedent this sets for everyone else in the realms of the Commonwealth.
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, the #RussellBrand trial for Complainant 5 (C5) did NOT have 'loads' of 2009 evidence. The Prosecution had to rely largely on UNVERIFIABLE present-day testimonies regarding an UNWITNESSED incident 17 years ago.
❌ NO 2009 HIV CLINIC NOTES
The NHS destroyed the actual 2009 clinical notes for the appointment many years ago. Contrary to popular belief, the nurse's statement was written in the present-day and was her UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTION of the appointment 17 years ago. She did not examine C5's alleged injuries and she was not subject to 'hard cross examination' by Brand's KC.
❌ NO 2009 MEDICAL REPORT
C5 DID NOT seek medical attention from a GP or a hospital for her alleged injuries in 2009 so there is no expert medical report of them. Contrary to popular belief, the jury relied on the UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTIONS of her injuries by her lay friends and family in their present-day written statements.
❌ NO 2009 RECORD OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
The Prosecution did not produce 2009 evidence of her social interaction with friends and family (letters, emails, texts, voice mails etc) describing the rape. Contrary to popular belief, the jury relied on the UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTIONS of the discussions that happened 17 years ago by her friends and family in their present-day written statements.
❌ NO 2009 PHONE RECORDS
Neither side had phone records from 2009. Contrary to popular belief, the messages read in court such as 'you treated me like an animal' and Brand apologising were NOT the actual messages but C5's UNVERIFIABLE RECOLLECTIONS of what was messaged 17 years ago.
❌ NO CROSS EXAMINATION BY THE DEFENCE OF ALL WITNESSES
The supporting present-day witness testimonies were not 'all subject to hard cross examination' by Brand's KC. Contrary to popular belief, they were mostly written statements read out in court by the well-spoken and educated Riel Karmy-Jones KC. Not only a Tier One Leading Silk but a former English and Drama graduate who attended Drama Studio London.
❌ NO 2009 POLICE REPORT
C5 DID NOT report the rape to police in 2009 so there is no 2009 police report or investigation. Contrary to popular belief, the police report and the police interview referred to in the trial relate to her 2024/2025 police interviews.
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Judge reproaches defendant for "instructing" his lawyers to cross-examine government witnesses accusing him of crimes, as though there is something malevolent about this. Completely insane: but all you have to do is scream RAPE, and every normal standard goes right out the window
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Brand received 9 months in prison for grabbing a woman’s breasts in a bar, exceeding the 6 month guideline maximum because of the “degree of upset caused”.
If a victim's reaction can push a sentence beyond its category, why categorise offences against objective criteria at all?
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"Do people realise that Russell Brand will be told to pay the alleged victims compensation if there are criminal compensation orders or civil damages following his verdict? These are believed to be in the region of six-figure sums.
Now, we hear two more women have come forward accusing him of rape.
It's interesting that the majority of mainstream media outlets have omitted this information.
So, let’s get this straight. Russell Brand had sex with thousands of women. A jury has just found him guilty of rape without any forensic, physical or video evidence. (Essentially no evidence except her word against his). Civil claims now look extremely likely and could result in hundreds of thousands of pounds granted to the women accusing him.
One woman has already filed a claim for £100,000 following an “alleged sexual assault” in 2008.
The police have said they believe it is certain more victims will come forward. The latest verdict has proven you don’t even need EVIDENCE. You can just SAY it was rape - and you will be granted lifelong anonymity!
This man is the victim of an exceptionally nasty, and transparent, witch-hunt. More importantly, it has exposed the farcical UK justice system and a mainstream media that is determined to destroy someone who was very outspoken about the same establishment that wants to strip us of every freedom we have. I cannot believe the times we are living in.
The people gloating and jeering about Russell Brand, many of whom are hoping he will be raped in prison, sicken me to the core. We are literally in a time of good vs evil, and it is more prominent now than ever. These people care nothing for the fact that there is no forensic evidence, no video evidence, no physical evidence. This is the word of one woman who willingly licked his anus 17 years ago moments after meeting him, who happily had sex with him a week later, who willingly agreed to anal sex, and then claimed rape. These people care nothing for the fact that the path open for civil claims is wide, nor that one woman has already put in a claim for £100,000 for an alleged sexual assault in 2008. These people care nothing for the fact that who he was before is dead and gone; who he is today is a new human; they care nothing for the fact that the dramatic turnaround is due to his potent faith (or perhaps they do, for many of them jeer and despise Christianity). They care nothing for the fact that he leaves his wife and children behind and will not be there to see them grow up. They care nothing for the fact the authorities refused him the right say goodbye to his children after the guilty verdict, which shows cruelty on an unjustifiable level. And they do NOT care for that all-important fact, that Brand has been extremely vocal speaking out against the very same Establishment that has evil plans for this world and for humanity at large, and that the aim is to have complete and subjugation of the human population, including them. They care for none of this because they choose to ignore the many discrepancies in this case, the clear and shocking bias against a man who appears to be judged for his promiscuity and lewd things he said in the past more than anything else, and the timing of which they started going after him - when he started to expose the Establishment. Their hopes that he is raped in prison show the depravity of what they are. They are evil on a level that cannot be described; they believe everything the media tell them, everything the Establishment tell them, and then they cast that evil into the world around them."
Love him or hate, him you really have to question the timing of these allegations shortly after Brand became a political dissident and started telling some very inconvenient truths against the establishment. 👈 🤔
(Shared from: Sarah Antoinette)
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Here's how the system works in the UK right now, and nobody seems bothered by it.
There is no statute of limitations on sexual offense cases. None. An accusation can come 15, 20, 30 years later. By then there is no DNA, no CCTV, no physical evidence of any kind. Russell Brand's case was exactly that. London police said themselves there was no forensic evidence because of how much time had passed. The government's own prosecutors called the evidence limited.
So the case comes down to her word against his, plus friends saying she told them about it back then. Brand denied all of it. A jury picked who they believed, and now he gets ten and a half years.
But it doesn't stop at prison. A criminal conviction is treated as proof in civil court, and lawyers are already lining up to say his accusers could sue his fortune, which is reported at up to 20 million pounds. American lawyers are openly putting a seven figure value on cases like this.
Think about what that does to the incentives. Someone who had any kind of encounter with a man before he was famous can wait until he's rich and well known. Come forward after a documentary tells the whole country he's guilty. Get a conviction without physical evidence. Then go after his money with that conviction in hand.
I'm not saying every accuser is lying. Real victims deserve justice. But a system with no time limit, no requirement for hard evidence, and a payout at the end is a system that invites abuse. There should be a statute of limitations, and accountability should come within a reasonable time, while real evidence still exists.
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Since posting about the Russell Brand trial, most people agreeing with or following me have been women, while most posting abuse have been weak, liberal boomer men.
No one knows women better than women, and many see Brand’s primary accuser for what she is.
Brand’s trial was a travesty of justice.
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Russell Brand is quite literally one of the most insufferable, phony spiritual, guru clowns, conspiracy slop peddlers in our culture. I know this, and I can still say without a shadow of a doubt that his conviction is an absolute mockery of justice.
Remember when we used to believe that all people had the right to a fair trial and that prosecutors needed to have evidence to prove that someone committed a crime? 10 years (!) for a crime that essentially came down to he said/she said back and forth argument in court is shameful. 10 fucking years! A decade. And for everyone out there saying things like, “well he was a piece of shit he probably did something wrong,” are you listening to yourselves ? If you got convicted of murder despite never murdering anyone but maybe behaved like an abhorrent, cruel and petty monster your whole life in other ways, would it then somehow feel just that you’d be going to prison for decades ?
This tabloid spectacle isn’t good for any of us but the reactions that circulate in response to these stories are meaningful because they force everyone to reveal their inner ethics or compass. I don’t long for even the most loathsome and repellant people to do long prison sentences for crimes that can’t be proven one way or another and I always thought that most people living in western democracies felt the same way. That has obviously radically changed over the last couple of decades, now everyone just wants their world view flattered irregardless of the real life consequences of it all. I’m guilty of this myself, but I know I’m not wrong about this.
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Yes she would be, when she didn’t get what she wanted or expected from him.
This is the trouble with some women and particularly younger naive women. They will fuck a man straight away and automatically think that because she’s given him sex that he is obligated to her in some way.
She’s looking for a relationship and thinks sex might secure one, while he was looking for no more than a good time.
And when no relationship evolves from it, they are fking furious, will say that he used her for sex and bad mouth him to anyone that’ll listen.
And when a celebrity is involved, well……..she knows she can stir up a hornets nest
Women know, how women think.
Russell Brand victim was left feeling 'like damaged goods' trib.al/G3NgSfJ
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Rowan Atkinson barely says a word, yet somehow ends up being the funniest person in the room.
The two hosts spend the introduction congratulating Reverend Sebastian on a speech they've practically delivered themselves. Every joke gets explained, every clever point gets revealed, and they even manage to spoil the ending while insisting they wouldn't dream of spoiling it.
What makes this brilliant is the contrast. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are completely comfortable with their own performance, while Rowan Atkinson's silence says everything.
Sometimes the best comedy isn't what someone says. It's what they're forced to sit through.
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Justice for Austin Payne:
A few days ago, Austin Payne, a 15-year-old White boy in Georgia, was hunted, shot, and left to die in an abandoned apartment by four black teen males. He called his mom after being attacked and shot, telling her he was dying. She found his body the next morning after searching all night for him.
Charged with his murder: Jansquincey Donaldson, 15; Omari Marion, 15; Adarious Wallace, 16; Detravion Parker, 22. National media has been completely silent. If four White teens had done this to a Black kid, it would dominate cable news for days. Instead, silence.
They covered the Nolan Wells case wall-to-wall for a drowning. Yet this kid was hunted like an animal and brutally murdered, and because his skin is White, his story will never be told.
Support Austins Family:
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Every day now is filled with phone calls from finders of out-in-the-day hedgehogs. And they are all saying the same thing: "We brought him in, put him in a box and gave him food, he was starving."
They don't realise, but these sweet kind people have just sealed this hedgehog's fate.
Please NEVER feed a daytime wildlife casualty.
I know, it's so hard not to.
When we see a suffering animal we feel a strong, innate impulse to help, and a desire to provide immediate tangible comfort; equating food with survival and care.
Feeding feels like a direct, immediate and nurturing action to alleviate suffering.
Yet it is the most catastrophically harmful thing you could ever do.
Especially hedgehogs out in the day, who will be hypothermic.
It takes a lot of energy to digest food, energy these compromised animals just don't have spare.
Every last bit of their energy is being used to maintain vital bodily functions - to keep the heart beating, to oxygenate the organs.
Forcing energy away from these critical functions for something as non-critical as digesting food will be a death sentence.
It won't be immediate, it may take hours, or a couple of days, but eventually, no matter what the experienced rescue you later take them to tries, the animal is already on the unstoppable journey into shock, organ failure and death.
It's tragic for the casualty and heartbreaking for the rescues.
So please help in the right way.
An out-in-the-day hedgehog needs *contact* warmth, a safe indoor space away from flies, and cover to reduce their stress (please see advice below).
They are not going to die of starvation in the couple of hours between you finding them, and getting them to a rescue.😊
And please remember - any website that gives you DIY information on caring for or feeding injured or orphaned wildlife is, by default, wrong.
The ONLY right action is to get them to a good rescue (never a vet) where their complex needs can be met.
Even if you have seen this vital information before and understand it, feeding wildlife casualties is a powerful compulsion because it directly activates human instincts of empathy and compassion, often overriding the scientific advice against it.
So please remember this warning and spread it as far as you can.
Helping a wildlife casualty get to the expert treatment they need is an incredibly kind, altruistic act of great humanity.
Just remember to provide them with what they need, not what you need.🥰
To all those men jeering #RussellBrand just a little reminder that there is nothing to prevent this happening to YOU in the future.
You don't need to rape a woman for her to accuse you of rape.
She can accuse you decades after she says it happened without time limitation when those offering you an alibi may be dead.
Your accuser can stay anonymous whilst your name will be publicised. No evidence is required other than her testimony and that of her nearest and dearest to send you to jail for a very long time.
Your barrister may soon be unable to cross-examine your accuser in any meaningful way so she 'doesn't feel put on trial'. The accuser may be referred to as 'the victim' long before the trial has finished.
The process can take years. You may lose your job, income and your family willl suffer even if you're eventually found innocent.
And you think it's a joke?!
We have entered dystopian territory.
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🚨 Russell Brand is sitting in a cell tonight over claims from up to 22 years ago.
Look at what actually happened.
He faced 7 charges from six women, dating back as far as 1999.
The jury threw out three of them, including two of the three rape counts.
He denied every single one.
What's left are accounts from 2004 to 2009 that nobody took to police at the time.
How does anyone defend themselves against a night from two decades ago?
Memories fade, witnesses scatter, and texts and records disappear.
It ends up being one person's word against another's, in front of a jury that already knows him as the guy the media spent years tearing apart.
And this started only AFTER Brand left the mainstream, started questioning the establishment, and built a huge independent audience.
Coincidence?
If this can happen to him, it can happen to anyone the system decides it doesn't like.
He deserves a full appeal. 🇺🇸
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🚨Look at the numbers from this midterm and tell me how this makes any sense.
🔴Republicans: Went from 54.2 million in 2022 to 55.6 million in 2026—a modest net increase of 1.4 million votes.
🔵Democrats: Jumped from 51.3 million in 2022 to roughly 70 million in 2026—an astronomical net increase of 19 million votes in a midterm election.
When 19 million more Democrats suddenly show up out of nowhere while Republican turnout remains steady, it defies reality.
When can we stop calling this a "blue tsunami" and start calling it fraud?
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The Crown vs Russell Brand
I've spent the last couple of days thinking through all sides in this matter. And I do have a personal conflict of interest that could be said, sways my opinion - but I have painstakingly tried to assess this as objectively as possible.
Where I think this case is most unfair, is that the accuser gets to stay anonymous.
If a person is going to make allegations that we are to believe, allegations that have the potential to put Brand behind bars for over a decade of his life, then she should be made to face him and front court too - without the vale of anonymity.
Why is she given anonymity? What are the reasons?
So she's not shamed, right? Yet, that's just it - she should feel ashamed for her part in this. She should feel very, bloody ashamed for her own behaviour. And getting to escape all personal responsibility and putting the blame on someone else, means this trial is simply, not fair. It's not weighted equally and it sets a very bad precedent for all other 'He Said/She Said' matters in the past and in the future.