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It's the End of the World

as we Know it and I Feel Fine

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You're trying to run my life here!

Wallace, Wallace, Wallace...

You are paying me to make you a new life!

Politics! And in order for me to do that,

I gotta be in charge of all the elements

that go into it.

It's the only way I work.

That means, framing the overall strategy

as well as deciding all the specifics.

The look of the campaign

the look of the billboards.

Bumper stickers

what colors they're going to be?

It means the polling, it means the ads,

radio, TV, newspapers.

It means coordinating every piece

of information out of this office

to make sure it fits

with what our polling tells us

the people out there

are worrying about.

Or what they're feeling good about!

Goooooooooood morning slaves,

and welcome to another sedition of

It's the End of the World as we Know
it

and I Feel Fine

the show where the only peeps

“feelin' the Bern”

are the motherfuckin pigs.

I'm Bernie Sanders

and I approve this message.

I am your host the Stimulator,

and despite what your racist uncle says,

I know he's crazy,

but Donald Trump sure makes a lot of sense

about those immigrants.

being a so-called "illegal immigrant"

isn't all it’s cracked up to be.

While the right-wing media often depicts

undocumented migrants as lazy free-loaders

in the real fucking world, they make up

some of the hardest working,

and most ruthlessly exploited

members of society.

Many have risked their fucking lives

to cross heavily militarized,

yet entirely make-believe fucking borders,

all in an attempt to escape horrific wars,

or just provide a slightly more secure

and dignified life for their families

and loved ones back home.

And even if they manage

to cross the border,

land a job that pays

less than minimum wage,

and stay two steps ahead of

the immigration officials

looking to deport their ass...

We're here today because

we're going to take you into custody

and put you into deportation proceedings.

These people still have to deal

with being yelled at, spat on,

and violently attacked

by racist fucking dipshits,

who are too fucking ignorant to realize

it’s their own government,

and their rich corporate backers

that are ultimately to blame

for the fact that they’re broke,

scared and confused.

First the money started goin'...

and now everyone's gettin laid off work!

They took our joooobs!

For months now,

a toxic fucking brew of Islamophobia,

and generalized anti-immigrant sentiment

has been boiling over in Europe

and in the United Snakes.

They're bringing drugs...

they're bringing crime...

they're rapists.

Last summer there was

a brief moment of collective reflection

and human fucking decency in the west,

as millions of people were genuinely moved

upon seeing the heart-wrenching photos

of 3 year old Alan Kurdi's drowned body,

washed up on a Turkish beach.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut

it seems like that moment has passed.

Mass shootings in Paris

and San Bernadino California,

combined with state mismanagement

of the refugee crisis and

mutual distrust between European
nations

have helped create a self-perpetuating

cycle of human misery,

and reactionary racist violence.

Refugees are not animals.

We are people... we are Muslim.

We want to go to the UK...

... not live in Calais Jungle.

Just outside the French port city Calais

a sprawling makeshift refugee camp

known as the Jungle,

has become one of the flashpoints

for this growing unrest.

The camp, largely populated by migrants

from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan,

Sudan and Eritrea,

has now swelled to around 6,000 peeps,

with similar camps popping up

along France's northern coast.

Many of these residents have endured

months of traveling

through numerous European cities,

in hopes of reaching the UK.

Now, with their long awaited

destination finally in view,

they find themselves blocked

by French riot cops.

The UK's prim and proper PM,

David Cameron, for his part,

has made it clear that

his government will do everything

it can to keep migrants

from reaching Britain.

We need to protect our borders

by working hand in glove

with our neighbours, the French.

"Yo Stim…

isn't that the guy who once

skull-fucked a dead pig?"

Indeed he is, Agitator.

Indeed he is.

That's exactly the point...

to make love to a pig.

The French government's solution

to this clusterfuck has been

to announce the construction of

temporary housing for 1,500 people

made out of re-purposed

shipping containers

and the eviction and destruction

of the current camp.

Migrants seeking to access

these glorified garbage bins,

will first need to submit

to biometric testing and fingerprinting,

and many are wary to go live

in something that they say

looks and feels like a prison.

The razing of the Jungle

has been proceeding apace for weeks now,

and has produced a barren security zone

ringed with mounds of dirt

and razor wire fencing,

that looks like something out of a

dystopian science fiction movie.

On January 23rd

residents of the Calais Jungle

were joined by hundreds of anarchists

and other shit-disturbers from Britain

and other surrounding countries

who heeded the call to support residents

resisting the eviction.

A demonstration of 2000 peeps

quickly escalated into a riot,

and around 1000 migrants and supporters

rushed the nearby port,

and occupied a ferry,

aptly named “the spirit of Britain”.

During the fracas, a statue of

France's venerated war criminal

Charles De Gaulle

was vandalized, causing an uproar

in the right-wing UK and French press.

SAY IT LOUD... SAY IT CLEAR

REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE!

Meanwhile,

on the other side of the Channel

in the English port city of Dover,

violent street clashes broke out

on January 30th

when British anti-fascists

attacked an anti-immigrant demo

organized by a the resurgent fascist group

National Front.

These ugly scenes,

reminiscent of the social turbulence

of the 1920s and 1930s,

are going to become

much more common occurrence

in the coming months and years.

And if we're going to avoid a recap

of what happened last time around,

the motherfuckin' resistance

is gonna have to up our game.

As the media-fueled spectacle

of election season heats up

in the United Snakes

many anarchist

and anti-authoritarian comrades

are experiencing a serious case

of deja-fucking-vu.

We're gonna start with that upset...

that took place in Iowa.

Donald Trump losing to Ted Cruz

in this year's caucuses.

With presumptives showing...

Hillary Clinton in a deadlock

with Bernie Sanders.

Once again, we find ourselves engaging

in the same stupid fucking debates

with liberals,

so-called “progressives”

and other fair-weather radicals

about the pitfalls of electoral politics

all while being talked down to

as though we're just naive

contrarian ideologues,

who don't know what the fuck

we're talking about.

What you're describing is anarchy.

Are you an anarchist?

If I can be real with y'all…

this is seriously fucking annoying

to keep having to do

despite being repeatedly proven right.

Time and time again

once politicians get into office,

they inevitably reveal themselves

to be the capitalist meat-puppets

they truly are.

When the money's coming your way

you don't ask any questions.

Buuuuuuuut

rather than learn their fucking lesson,

the cheerleaders of

revolution by the ballot box

always manage to find

a new leftist rockstar to root for,

I love being a part of this.

This is what it's all about...

the political revolution.

It's a trap!

And the whole fucking cycle begins again.

But that Bernie Sanders

was able to tie Clinton...

So…

despite the fact that it pains me to do so

I'm gonna have to break it down for y'all

one more time.

Anarchists are against the state,

and elections are intentionally designed

by the powers that be

to channel peeps' anger

into reinforcing state power.

What makes representative democracy

such an efficient system of social control

is the fact that it’s highly dynamic

meaning that it allows the state

to constantly reinvent itself

Fuck Ronald Reagan!

in order to adjust to changes

in the political environment.

Under capitalism,

this is generally a euphemism

for class war

and other associated tensions,

such as nationalism,

anti-colonial resistance,

religious and ethnic sectarianism,

and struggles against patriarchy,

heterosexism

and white fucking supremacy.

Basically

representative democracy works

like a complex system of pressure valves.

When shit is popping off

calling an election is often the easiest,

and most effective way

of chilling peeps the fuck out.

Often, those in power

will just roll out a shiny new puppet,

or pick a leader from the social movements

who can be counted on to do their dirt.

This new puppet can then claim that

if elected, they will use political power

to fight on behalf of

the peeps in the street.

I will introduce legislation

that will make every public college

and public university

tuition free.

There is something so familiar about this

This moves struggles out of the real world

and into the realm of electoral politics,

which can then be more easily managed

by corporate and state media outlets,

PR firms,

and greasy fucking campaign managers.

"But, aside from the campaign themes

I want to address

some of my long-term plans!"

"Yes, I'm sure they're great...

but they're not important.

See, my job is to get you in.

Once you're there,

you do whatever your conscience

tells you to do."

Elections give peeps the illusion

of control over the direction of society

Because I'm voting for pizza too!

It's unanimous!

When in fact

the whole fucking system is rigged.

The B-52 bomber has a piece of it

made in every single state

to make sure that if you ever tried

to phase that project out

you will get howls from among

the most liberal members of congress.

No matter who wins an election

the real winner is the state.

And individual states exist within

the incredibly powerful

and all-consuming matrix

of globalized capitalism.

The United Snakes is the world leader

in running this con…

which shouldn't be a surprise,

since they fucking invented it.

Despite American politicians

constantly preaching democracy abroad

state institutions like the CIA,

the NSA, and the US fucking military

are always ready to intervene

anywhere in the world

to make sure that said democracy

doesn't threaten the interests

of the multinational corporations

who fund their campaigns.

Gangsta-capitalists

use their political pets to launch wars

trade embargoes, assassinations,

and coup d'etats abroad

and yet peeps still cling to the belief

that these same evil fucks

would ever allow their control

over the state apparatus that they use

to maintain their domination,

to be challenged

by something as random as a vote?

Who's fucking naive now?

Anyway…

to get a bit more perspective

on why peeps keep falling for this shit,

I recently caught up with scott crow,

an American anarchist from Austin, Texas,

and author of

Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams.

Hey scot, how the fuck are ya?

Man, I'm actually really good.

The 2016 election is starting to heat up.

So… are you voting for Bernie, or Hillary?

I'm actually voting for us - the people.

Because electoral politics is just a bunch

of pomp and circumstance.

It always has been....

and I've been within the system

and outside of the system

for many decades.

And it really is just a pageantry

that distracts us from the real work

and the real problems and real solutions

that we might come up with

in the United States

for at least two years

before an election happens.

Up here in Klanada, electoral politics

are a serious fucking problem

for radical movements,

but elections themselves

only last a few weeks.

In the United Snakes,

y'all spend motherfuckin years

on picking a new president.

What's up with that?

Well, because it's just spectacle, right?

It's like watching reality TV.

The Kardashians... it's the Clintons,

it's the Bushes...

It's like these dynasty things.

It's all spectacle, right?

And I think we actually try to take it

seriously,

just like people take seriously

the Bachelor TV show,

or that stupid show that Trump was on.

And I think that it gives us a distraction

from really dealing with the things...

the fact that we have drones

that are killing children and families

all around the world,

the fact that immigrants are being

denied access... that... you know,

that are fleeing war-torn countries,

the fact that schools are crumbling

in this country.

Because it's a spectacle,

and everybody wants to be a part of it.

It's like sports teams, where everybody

gets to vote on something.

So their team can win:

blue team, red team...

But there's a lot of it for those who

hold power, right?

The culture makers,

the media... the politicos.

Lots of peeps

have been following the elections

because of Donald Trump.

Are you worried about what

a Trump presidency would look like?

And why do you think it is that

he's been doing so well in the polls?

Well I think that Trump is doing so well

because he has hit a nerve.

You know, racism, misogyny..

all of these things run undercurrents

in the United States, all the time.

But what he's done, is

he's just pieced the veil.

I think having a Black president

for 8 years, even if he is totally

part of the establishment,

to many white men in this country,

Trump and Obama represent

two polar opposites to them

even if they are more on the same page

than they realize in some ways.

I think that he's just really

struck a nerve with a lot of people.

There's a lot of discontent,

and just like in Germany in the 20s

and 30s, when fascism was rising,

he is tapping into something...

this anger and resentment

of failures of electoral systems,

failures of cultural systems

and political and economic systems

of many people

- not just in the United States

but around the world.

But he's tapping it

in this reactionary way

instead of a way of, like,

"how can we solve these problems together"

because he wants to be a dictator.

After Syriza pissed in the face

of leftists worldwide,

siding with the so-called Troika

over the clear demands of peeps in Greece,

you'd think that those calling for an

an electoral solution

to neoliberal capitalism

would have learned their fucking lesson.

Yet lots of these same people

have just moved on to supporting

Syriza-like parties

such as Podemos in Spain, and candidates

like Jeremy Corbyn in the UK

and Bernie Sanders in the US.

What the fuck?

I don't fault people for that.

The truth is, it's familiar.

It's what we're all raised in.

It's what we are known.

It's like, indoctrination to a degree.

And I don't even like to use that word,

because I think it's more cultural.

It's in there.

And familiarity is the place we jump from.

When we start talking about ideas

of anarchy and collective liberation,

these are abstracts to many people

because they don't even know what it is.

We have to realize our own powers

as individuals first,

then our regional power

- our collective power

like in our neighbourhood,

and our communities

... and then begin to build from that.

But electoral politics is easy to fall in.

In the past, you have talked about

how radicals need to

focus on building dual power.

What exactly do you mean by that?

I mean an anarchist interpretation

of dual power - which is that we resist

on one hand.

We resist exploitation on one hand,

which is what we do in radical,

anarchist, and leftist communities a lot.

But at the same time, we must build

our own power, from below.

My individual power...

our collective power...

our organizational power....

and recognize that we have it.

We have to do these both at the same time.

So, to me it's irrelevant who get elected

or if there's policing, or police systems

and things like that...

except in the way

that we want to resist them.

At the same time, we need to open spaces

and like the Zapatistas say,

we need to open the crack in history

to ask "what is it that we can do

to build our power from below?"

And I think dual power is a framework

to think about that.

And so, any action that we would engage in

should not be taken, unless it has

this framework of resisting and building

and creating at the same time.

Thanks scot, and that about does it

for this sedition of It's the End of

the World as we Know it and I Feel Fine.

To hear my entire interview with scot crow

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I also wanna give a quick shout-out to

a good friend and comrade of the show.

An antifa troublemaker who's set

to be released from the clink

any fuckin day now.

Welcome back Kimbo...

No Pasaran mothafucka.

With that said, this show is made entirely

from small donations from slaves like you.

This month, the following workers shared

the fruits of the labour with me,

to keep shitting on elections.

So, merci beaucoup to Jonathan, Etienne,

Max, Martin, John, Chris, Jennifer,

Gregory, Sarah, Primadasi, Scott,

Joseph, Mason, Chris, Andrew, Ricky,

Tavish, Alexandria, Yvan, Sebastien,

Treto, Dylan, Jeremy, Thomas, Renzo,

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Phillip, Joseph, Marisol, Lauren,

and Andrew.

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I also would like to welcome the newest

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Jack Squat and Sebastien.

Guajalotes!

And finally, a quote from American

anarchist Emma Goldman:

If voting changed anything....

they'd make it illegal.

See you next time suckers!