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Martin Laubscher retweeted
How Russell Brand treated his own poor dog 👇
Is this an example of the "charisma" and "charm" his bootlickers keep telling everyone about?
I truly pity the sheeple mindset that people, perhaps subconsciously, fall into, where they develop a sort of awe and devout admiration for someone, to the point that they become angry and defensive if you so much as point out a single flaw in the character of the person they so deeply admire.
Perhaps what has happened to Brand now is karma for how he treated the poor animal on top of the crimes he committed later in life.
"I would perch at the top of the stairs and lure her to come up - 'Topsy! Topsy! Topsy!'
Then, when she would slink nervously upward... I would suddenly become Mr. Hyde. 'Oh dear, Topsy,' I would declaim... 'you know perfectly well you're not allowed upstairs' before cruelly kicking her back down to the bottom again"
WHY I DONT CARE ABOUT RUSSELL BRAND
in his 2007 autobiography 'My Booky Wook', about his childhood dog Topsy that was always allowed to sleep on his bed . The bond must have been close.
When his mum's boyfriend Colin moved in, Topsy was banned from upstairs where she used to sleep with him. He says in the book:
"When we first got Topsy, she would be allowed to sleep in the bed with me. But when Colin came, an absurd edict was introduced whereby she was no longer allowed upstairs. I evidently had a lot of anger and hate in me about this because I would perch at the top of the stairs and lure her to come up - 'Topsy! Topsy! Topsy!'
Then, when she would slink nervously upward... I would suddenly become Mr. Hyde. 'Oh dear, Topsy,' I would declaim... 'you know perfectly well you're not allowed upstairs' before cruelly kicking her back down to the bottom again, where I would rejoin her and give her a sympathetic cuddle, regretfully muttering, 'Oh Christ! Were you kicked down the stairs? This is terrible.'"
He even wrote: "My friend Matt Morgan says Topsy must've thought she lived in a house with twins - an evil one who lived on the landing, and a good one who dwelt downstairs."
That is the sign of a very weird brain in my view.
I would never treat an animal badly for any reason especially because something bad was happening to me.
Martin Laubscher retweeted
Regardless of what you think about Russell Brand's conviction, the reality is that he's a man whose only real skill was delivering long winded, vacuous word salads that many people, and I'm sorry, especially women, mistook for genuine intellectual prowess.
Martin Laubscher retweeted
He’s not the Messiah…
My long read on a now seven year investigation into Russell Brand. Please share!
thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
Martin Laubscher retweeted
Our reckoning over Russell Brand is due. It is right that we ask ourselves how we could have ignored, even praised, such a conspicuous sleazebag. But we shouldn’t delude ourselves about what a bad guy “looks like”. The truly disturbing thing is that Brand, like Savile, was an unusual example of someone who bore his badness as a sort of double-bluff. The plethora of old gods tumbling out of favour over the 2020s represents the whole spectrum from grandfatherly to grotesque — proof of how easily some men slip under the wrong’un radar.
Read more from @poppy_sowerby: buff.ly/vQ0aPFx
Martin Laubscher retweeted
How did anyone ever admire this pretentious anti-democracy sex pest? This was 2013, before almost all the praise from people who should have known better.
This is the type of person you want in your public office. A man who will definitely be able to keep his composure when dealing with powerful and intimidating people. He can take the heat! By jove, look at how well he dealt with this tweet situation. Pure class, I tell you.
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Martin Laubscher retweeted
Lee Chang-dong's masterful drama #PossibleLove is now on Netflix, along with many of his other films, including his rarely seen 2022 short #Heartbeat.
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Martin Laubscher retweeted
Predators know they can’t attack every woman. They need strategic allies who will do exactly what they want and create doubt around the women they have attacked. It benefits them to be perfect gentlemen to some women.
Martin Laubscher retweeted
I remember thinking at the time that if he was this fake about his supposed devotion to the Bible, what else
could we believe?
Martin Laubscher retweeted
“Why is this person allowed to make programmes on @bbc” @ClarkeMicah asked, very sensibly, years ago - when the BBC delighted in Brand’s crudeness & vulgarity, enabling & promoting Brand & revelling in shocking their audience with his increasingly decadent antics. Only when Brand changed political sides did anyone in authority notice Brand’s depravity. Instead of discouraging him & telling him to stop behaving revoltingly, until then they gave him fame & egged him on.
Brilliantly written perspective piece on the pantomime predator from Britain.
Me on him and the noughties from 2023 unherd.com/2023/09/the-nough…
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Martin Laubscher retweeted
I don't want to shame any particular woman here, but publicly announcing that the #RussellBrand conviction must be wrong because you went home with him and he didn't rape you makes about as much sense as saying 'well, I left 25 Cromwell Street alive, so Fred West's innocent.'
Martin Laubscher retweeted
Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault. I'm shocked because I was certain he would get away with his crimes.
The fact that Brand is a rapist was an open secret on the British comedy circuit. A friend of mine knows one of his victims.
One of the things I learned over the last few years is how many people in the entertainment industry are good, decent people and how many are compromised by their own desire for power, money and clicks.
Francis and I shared what we knew about Brand with people who were thinking of working with him and many of them immediately recognised we were telling the truth and stopped any association with him. Others, not so much.
This is even more true of his former employers like Channel 4 and the BBC. I am not saying everyone at those organisations knew but many people definitely did and they not only didn't say anything, some of them actively protected him.
I hope the verdict today brings closure and peace to his victims and serves as a reminder to powerful people who abuse their position to take advantage of others that they won't get away with it forever.
Martin Laubscher retweeted
BREAKING: Russell Brand found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
