Danny Masterson is an actor most people havent thought about for a long time, if at all. By all accounts, his career peaked all the way back in 2006, with the conclusion of the sitcom That 70s Show. But a few years ago, all of a sudden, Mastersons name was everywhere. Thats because in March of 2017 the year the #MeToo movement began in earnest Masterson was accused of sexual assault by three women. In response, without waiting for a trial, Netflix summarily fired Masterson from his role as a series regular on one of their shows. Three years later, in the summer of 2020, Masterson was formally charged with three rapes in Los Angeles, a jurisdiction that believes all women. Prosecutors said one rape occurred in 2001, another in early 2003, and a third in late 2003.

Right off the bat, the timeline raises some obvious questions. For one thing, how is it possible to prove rape beyond a reasonable doubt, 20 years after the fact, in the absence of any physical evidence of violence or drugging? You might think that the accusers must have had airtight stories. But thats not true in this case. In fact, one of the accusers previously told authorities that Masterson had not raped her. She says that she only realized years later that she was raped. She originally thought it was consensual, and then years after the fact changed her mind. All of this explains why, late last year, the jury deadlocked. There was a mistrial. According to the foreman on that jury, they were leaning towards acquittal on every count. He said that they found the stories from the accusers to be inconsistent, contradictory, and implausible.

But then, just a couple of weeks ago, as you might have heard, Masterson was put on trial again. And this time around, the judge changed the rules. The judge allowed testimony that Masterson had drugged his victims, even though there was no physical evidence of that. In the first trial, the prosecution was only allowed to describe the condition of the accusers after they consumed alcoholic beverages that Masterson gave them, describing them as woozy and disoriented. They werent allowed to directly claim that the women were drugged because there was no evidence of that no evidence that their wooziness was the result of anything more than the alcohol they were drinking. In the second trial, that kind of caution was thrown to the wind, and again without any actual evidence Masterson was accused of drugging his alleged victims. That apparently did the trick, and Masterson was convicted after the retrial. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

You dont have to like Danny Masterson, or know who he is, or believe hes innocent, to understand the implications of what happened to him. Danny Mastersons case is proof that, even in 2023, years after the #MeToo hysteria has faded, physical evidence of wrongdoing is not required to convict someone of rape and destroy their life neither is timely reporting, or a consistent story from the alleged victims. All you need is a story. Danny Mastersons case demonstrates that.

For one thing, that means our judicial system isnt exactly functioning the way it should. But you knew that already. What Mastersons case also means, if you think about it from the perspective of the government, is that accusations of rape are trivially easy to use as political weapons. Mastersons own case doesnt appear to be political, but it shows how easy it could be, and has been, to use a rape accusation to achieve a political end. Youd hate to think that false stories about rape could ever be deployed for these kinds of purposes to ruin the lives of influential voices who challenge the people in power but increasingly, thats exactly whats happening.

A few days ago, the influential comedian and commentator Russell Brand uploaded this video, explaining that hes now being accused of sexual assault by multiple media outlets. Watch: This is happening pic.twitter.com/N8zIKLbJN2

Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) September 15, 2023

We dont know exactly who these women are, who are accusing Brand of sexual misconduct. But The Daily Wire reports that these incidents allegedly occurred between 2006 and 2013. So, like the accusations against Masterson, these sexual assaults allegedly occurred at the height of Russell Brands mainstream fame. And yet, strangely enough, without any explanation, these accusations are only coming up now, many years later. The whole lengthy story with all of the allegations is laid out in a Channel 4 documentary and in The Times. You can read the details for yourself if you pay for a subscription to The Times. Thats because they launched a series of allegations against Brand, and then immediately put the accusations behind a paywall.

Its too early to say right now exactly whats really happening, or what really happened all those years ago. We cant prejudge this case, of course. But one thing we can say with certainty is that Russell Brand is a far bigger threat to this nations power brokers now than he was at the height of his fame back when he was married to Katy Perry and starring in Hollywood films and living, as he said, a very promiscuous lifestyle. Anyone who watches Russell Brands videos knows that. But really, Brands turn to unorthodox thinking began roughly a decade ago. It was in 2013 that Brand was ejected from the GQ Awards show for noting, in his acceptance speech, that a sponsor of the show had previously made uniforms for the Nazis.

From that point on, Brand became something of a pariah in the entertainment industry. And in recent years, his views have only become more intolerable to those in power. In particular, Brand has heterodox views on the integrity of U.S. elections. He doesnt toe the line on January 6th. And perhaps most consequentially, hes extraordinarily critical of Big Pharma. He doesnt believe, as the rest of the corporate media does, that you should reflexively trust the pharmaceutical companies, and ingest every drug they give you. And he made his views known. Here he was with Bill Maher for example: Many are now saying that this video clip might be why Russell Brand is being attacked. WATCH pic.twitter.com/vE2n4ciyRf

Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 16, 2023

Thats not something youre supposed to say out loud. And its hard not to notice that people who say things like this out loud tend to get in a lot of trouble. You might remember what happened to James OKeefes Project Veritas. OKeefe exposed a high-ranking Pfizer official admitting, among other things, that his company is conducting secret gain-of-function research on coronaviruses right here in the United States. The Pfizer official then freaked out when he realized he was on camera. What happened next? The Pfizer official wasnt publicly fired. Instead, OKeefe was publicly fired. Funny how that works out.

Is Russell Brand being targeted for the same reasons? Already, his agent and several organizations have cut ties with him. So he appears to be on the same trajectory. To be clear we dont know whether Russell Brand is innocent or guilty, just like we dont know if Danny Masterson is innocent or guilty. But there are obvious reasons to doubt stories that surface several years after the fact, especially when witnesses contradict the narrative. As you just heard, thats what Russell Brand says is happening.

One woman just posted a video claiming that British media reached out to her for a documentary on Brand, but didnt use her story because she said her interactions with Brand were all consensual and positive. Watch: BREAKING: WOMAN PROVIDES EVIDENCE THE MSM CONTACTED HER ABOUT RUSSELL BRAND MSM ATTACK

She mentioned that when she shared a positive account of her encounter with Brand, they failed to include it in their story.

She confirmed that Brand was indeed kind to her and everything pic.twitter.com/Pybya2enl8

Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) September 17, 2023

Well, thats interesting. If you were making a film about sexual assault accusations against a famous person from several years ago, youd think youd want to gather all the relevant evidence and present it. But if you wanted to create a hit piece, youd ignore the witnesses you dont like, and present the ones with the most salacious stories possible. And it appears, based on that video, thats exactly whats happening.

Now, Brands critics will argue that just because the woman in that video says she wasnt raped, that doesnt mean that other women werent raped. A rapist isnt going to abuse every woman he comes across, presumably. But the point is that if you are dredging up accusations from years and years ago, and you have no evidence that anything happened, then all you can do is theorize and make assumptions. The best youll end up with is an educated guess. But its not possible to make an educated guess without being presented the full picture the full story of what sort of person the accused was at the time when he allegedly did the things he was accused of doing. If you are a journalist only presenting part of the picture, and leaving out the parts that dont lead to your preferred conclusion, then you are not a journalist at all. You are an assassin, looking to kill someones reputation.

Weve seen this again and again. The moment someone becomes a threat to the establishment, the accusations of sexual assault materialize from thin air. We see it at the Supreme Court, with Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. We saw it with Trump, too. He was a billionaire celebrity playboy but was never accused of sexual assault until he became a threat to the Left. Even Tucker Carlson was accused of sexual misconduct at the height of his shows success. Those accusations were absurd on their face and never went anywhere. But thats not how these things usually play out.

Whatever you think of Dave Portnoy, the accusations against him follow a similar pattern. Portnoy isnt even particularly political, and I certainly wouldnt call him conservative. But during COVID, he did something youre not supposed to do. He noticed that the governments lockdowns were destroying small businesses and that the feds so-called pandemic relief fund wasnt covering these businesses losses, not even close. So Portnoy, through his company, raised millions of dollars for businesses, as long as they kept employing their workers throughout the lockdowns. That got the attention of the government. A year later, he was accused of can you guess? sexual misconduct:

NBC News didnt verify the accusations, but of course, they were happy to repeat them. Its a familiar story. This is the inevitable result of believe all women. This is the legacy of #MeToo. You can either do what youre told, or the most powerful forces in the country will try to destroy you.

With respect to Russell Brand, were left with two possibilities: one is that Brand is an innocent man being smeared by the mainstream media. I dont know for sure if this is whats happening here or not nobody can know and thats how the game is played. Just by printing the accusation, you have forever tarnished a mans reputation whether its true or not. After all, the most that even his most ardent defenders can say is that hes probably not a rapist. This is what makes the medias willingness to print accusations no matter how credible or incredible they are so sinister. They know that the accusations will devastate a mans life and reputation even if theres no evidence to support them. Even if theyre debunked and refuted.

But theres another possibility here. The other possibility is that the medias claims are true. In that scenario, Brand is a known serial rapist who victimized multiple women for years during the height of his fame. Thats what the media is saying. Its what they want us to believe. But heres the thing: if THATS true it makes the media arguably even worse than if they were inventing these claims out of whole cloth. It means that they left Brand alone they allowed him to continue abusing women, for years and years until he said things they disagreed with. Both of those options are horrific in their own way. And in either case, its clear who the real enemy is.

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