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This episode of It's the End of the World

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as we Know it and I Feel Fine

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was made possible by contributions

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from slaves like you.

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Spank you very much.

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The liberals were outraged by Trump.

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But they expressed their anger

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in cyberspace, so it had no effect.

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Because the algorithms made sure

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they only spoke to people who

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already agreed with them.

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Instead, ironically, their waves of angry

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messages and tweets benefited

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the large corporations who ran

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the social media platforms.

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One online analyst put it simply:

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angry people click.

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It meant that the radical fury,

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that came like waves across the Internet

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no longer had the power

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to change the world.

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Instead, it was becoming a fuel

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that was feeding the new systems

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of power and making them

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ever more powerful.

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Gooooooooooood morning slaves

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and welcome to another sedition of[br]

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it’s the end of the world as we know it

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and I feel fine...

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the show where we wash down tacos

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with liberal tears.

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I'm hungry... let's get a taco.

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Donald Trump will be the 45th president

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of the United States, winning the most

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unreal, surreal election we have ever seen.

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This candidacy starting on

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an escalator run one year ago.

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I am your host the Stimulator,

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and after being held hostage for

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a year and a fucking half to

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the tortuous political freakshow

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that is the US election...

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It was horrible.

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on [Wednesday] November 9th

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peeps around the world watched

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in stunned horror as pundits and

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news anchors announced that

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a fascist fucking reality TV star

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had been selected for the most powerful

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mothafuckin position on earth.

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This can't be happening man,

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this isn't happening!

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While world leaders like Vladimir Putin,

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Kim Jong-Un, and the Philippines’

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psychopathic jefe, Rodrigo Duterte,

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are fucking stoked to have an unstable,

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feckless megalomaniac with no political

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or military experience in the White House…

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politicians in Europe, on the other hand,

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are freaking the fuck out

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We've actually elected an Internet troll as our president.

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This sentiment was summed up by France’s Ambassador

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to the United Snakes, Gerard Araud,

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who with the notable flair for the dramatic

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that the French are known for, claimed that

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Trump’s election signalled the end

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of the neoliberal era, and that, quote,

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“the world is collapsing before our eyes.”

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US Border Protection. How can I help you?

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And while the not-so-controlled demolition

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of the global political and economic order

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sounds like it’d be fucking great news….

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it’s far-right nationalist parties who are the ones

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doing the celebrating.

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Fuck Trump!

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Fuck Donald Trump!

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Meanwhile in the United Snakes,

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shit started popping off almost immediately.

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As votes were still being tallied,

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peeps in Portland, Eugene and Oakland took to the streets

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to vent their rage.

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This was followed the next morning,

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by mass high-school walkouts in California, Colorado,

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New York and DC,

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and despite desperate appeals for peeps to unite around Trump

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coming from the man-your-mama-calls-Obama,

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by Wednesday evening a wave of spontaneous protests

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had broken out in cities all across the mothafucking country.

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These rowdy protests continued to swell and deepen

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over the next following nights,

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with tactics honed through the past two years

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of anti-police demos being put into effect.

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Highways were blocked, barricades went up,

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and rebellious youth threw down with the pigs.

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I watched a white riot in Portland Oregon on television the other night.

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News said they did a million dollars worth of damage.

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Every Black person was watching it like “amateurs!”

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And to be sure, Trump and his supporters have given peeps

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plenty of reasons to throw down.

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In the days following his election,

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Black and brown peeps, women,

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and anyone perceived as being Muslim have been

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hounded and attacked on the streets,

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and in classrooms across the United Snakes,

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in an open and hideously proud display of racism

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even worse than the “Brexit times five” that Trump promised.

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And while most peeps are focused on

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the odious fucking personality of Trump himself,

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the implications of his presidency,

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and who he’s likely to elevate into positions of power,

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makes shit even fucking worse.

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I'm animated. I'm alive.

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My heart's big. It's got hot blood going through it fast!

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Because let’s be real.

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Trump’s a fucking dipshit who doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing.

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They're remaking Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford!

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You can't do that!

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And now they're making Ghostbusters with only women... what's going on?!

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But he’s surrounded by some seriously fucking dangerous pieces of shit.

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And with the Republicans consolidating control of

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both the House and the Senate, these dangerous turd-tokers

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are going to have a shit-ton of leeway when it comes to

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implementing their hyper-repressive, corporatist agenda.

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From his Vice President, Mike Pence, a hawkish, homophobic, born-again Christian,

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Koch brothers frontman, climate change denier, and darling of the Tea Party,

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who will be the real power behind the throne….

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to Rudolph “9/11” Giuliani,

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who sits poised to be the next Attorney General…

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a man who as mayor of New York was instrumental in introducing

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“Stop and Frisk” and Broken Window policing,

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and who has repeatedly gone on the record calling

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Black Lives Matter protestors racist.

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Why do we have to say that Black Lives Matter?

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Now I admit, that is not the best slogan...

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but McDonalds already took “you deserve a break today.”

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White nationalists, vigilante militias and neo-nazi groups

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will now feel even more emboldened to use paramilitary violence

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against their racial and political opponents,

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immigrants will be rounded up and deported

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at even higher rates than before,

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and the pigs will be given a free hand to shoot and repress

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whoever the fuck they want without having to worry about

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having their feelings hurt by being [br]gently chided by the President.

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In other words, shit’s about to go from

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really bad to even mothafuckin worse.

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The thin veneer of liberal respectability that hid

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the brutality of the Obama administration will be ripped off,

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once again revealing, in all its hideous clarity,

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the unrestrained white supremacist,

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heteropatriarchal, colonial violence

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that lies at the heart of American society.

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So, the question to the mothafuckin resistance is….

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what the fuck are we gonna do about it?

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In the wake of Trump's election, liberals and so-called “progressives”

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have been freaking the fuck out.

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What do you mean he won?!

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Oh my god... we're gonna die!

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Why didn't Hillary try harder dude!?

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Why would she fuck up with the emails, man?

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She deserves to be the first female president..

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and that's what makes me so sad.

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There's got to be a pony in this crap pile.

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As the cold realization of his imminent victory

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started to sink in on election night...

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I'm gonna grab a Xanax from the bedroom.

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OK, will you grab me six?

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Yeah, I'm just gonna bring the whole bottle.

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many of these peeps started scrambling for the escape pods.

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I've gotta get out of here! I've gotta get out of here!

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In their unbridled haste to run away from

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the looming fight on their doorstep,

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tens of thousands of Americans [br]flooded the website of Immigration Klanada...

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so many that they fucking crashed its servers.

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Opposing Donald Trump doesn't really make you a political refugee.

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It makes you a Twitter user!

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The day after the election,

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a crowd at Cornell university gathered [br]together for a so-called “cry-in”,

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while volunteers handed out play-dough, tissues,

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colouring books and hot chocolate to a mass of people

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who were so stunned by the shattering [br]of their social-media induced blinders,

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that they literally fucking regressed into childhood.

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Now... I can completely understand that millions of peeps

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are feeling scared, nervous and upset.

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Buuuuuuuuuuuut if I can be real with y'all,

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this shit is some of the most pathetic

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and spectacularly self-indulgent acts [br]of collective fucking cowardice

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I've seen in my fucking life.

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Let's sincerely hope that this is a temporary phenomenon

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and that these peeps can get their shit together

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and start to deal with the challenging [br]and urgent tasks at hand.

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Get it all together and put it in a back pack.

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All your shit... so it's together.

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Because despite what people might wanna believe,

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this isn't a nightmare... it's real fucking life.

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This is us... this our country. It's real.

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Those Democrats who weren't attempting to [br]flee the fucking coop,

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or reduced to a quivering display of public sobbing

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were busy angrily pointing fingers at whoever didn't line up

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behind their own corrupt, millionaire [br]war criminal candidate of choice.

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I think you're the cause of all this.

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I think you're evil.

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EVIL!

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From the poor, non-college educated Trump voters

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that they look down on as irredeemable [br]and irrelevant white trash...

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I just think you're dumb, okay?

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I think you're fucking dumb!

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to so-called Bernie bros,

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Why couldn't I have attracted young female fans?!

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to peeps who voted for third-party candidates,

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or those who, given the choice between[br]two horrible options,

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decided not to vote at all.

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Anyone they could cast their blame at,

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in order to not have to take a [br]long hard look in the fucking mirror.

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Fuck me? Fuck you!

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Because at the end of the fucking day,

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the liberal defenders of the status quo [br]bare much of the blame

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for the state of affairs that created the movement

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that catapulted Trump and his corporatist cabal into power.

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[br]From the DNC's Machiavellian media manipulation

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in support of Trump during the Republican primaries,

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to their inevitable shafting of Bernie Sanders

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and the resulting disillusionment of [br]his base of idealistic young voters

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You're being ridiculous!

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the extreme arrogance of Hillary Clinton, her supporters,

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and the well-oiled machine of the Democratic Party

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came back to fucking bite them, and all of us, in the ass.

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Got bit in the ass today son.

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I told you. I told you.

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You ain't tell me shit!

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It should come as no surprise that many of [br]the smug, condescending liberals

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who are always telling anarchists and other radicals

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that using violence against Nazis [br]makes us as bad as them,

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are now taking Hillary's lead in tearfully accepting that

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there's nothing to do now but line up [br]behind Trump and wait 4 years

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until peeps are given another kick at the electoral can,

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because that's how democracy works.

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Well, fuck you.... and fuck your bullshit democracy!

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From the Ferguson uprising,

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to the courageous and ongoing [br]land defenders at Standing Rock,

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and every riot, blockade and protest in between,

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the mothafuckin resistance has been fighting against the state

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and its oppressive security apparatus under Obama,

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and this resistance must now continue and intensify under

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President Trump.

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As white liberals are crying and soul-searching

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about how this could possibly happen to them,

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racialized peeps are being hunted and harassed in the streets

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by emboldened racists drunk on their fascist champion’s victory.

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The time is long past due for people [br]to start getting serious about

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how to defend our communities [br]from the onslaught of repression.

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Because it’s coming…whether we’re ready or not.

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We're in some real pretty shit now man!

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Are you finished?!

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So….. On that cheery note,

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and in order to make a little more sense [br]of just what the fuck’s going down,

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and what peeps can do about it…

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I recently caught up with Conor and Beth,

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two members of Redneck Revolt.

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Hey y’all, how the fuck are you?

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Really, just about as good

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as we were last week.[br]

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About as good as it can be

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in the end times, right?

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In the immediate aftermath

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of the recent election,

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we've heard a lot of talk about how

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the United Snakes has become

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a deeply divided nation.

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Is this something new...

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or has this always been the case,

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and people just didn't notice?

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Well, I think it's obvious that

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the country's always been divided

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into the rich and everyone else.

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Our part in that discussion is

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to draw attention to the historical divide

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between workers of colour

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and the white working class.

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A majority of white working folks

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have been recuperated into being

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foot soldiers for landlords, bosses,

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the state, thinking that that would buy

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them access into white supremacy

0:12:21.495,0:12:23.139
as a system that benefits them,

0:12:23.139,0:12:26.371
when in reality a lot of white workers

0:12:26.371,0:12:27.746
and their family end up being poor

0:12:27.746,0:12:30.021
because they have aided the enemy,

0:12:30.021,0:12:31.517
the rich, in keeping power.

0:12:31.517,0:12:33.108
The working class has been divided

0:12:33.108,0:12:35.750
by turning their justifiable class rage

0:12:35.750,0:12:37.832
against migrants and workers of colour,

0:12:37.832,0:12:39.433
instead of the rich.

0:12:39.433,0:12:42.631
I also think that American capitalism is

0:12:42.631,0:12:43.650
so deeply embedded in

0:12:43.650,0:12:45.110
the bootstraps mentality

0:12:45.110,0:12:47.470
that it's almost like a religion.

0:12:47.470,0:12:49.055
Not only has that mindset kept

0:12:49.055,0:12:50.274
white working-class folks from

0:12:50.274,0:12:51.615
blaming the state for their struggle,

0:12:51.615,0:12:53.365
but it has been really effective at

0:12:53.365,0:12:55.305
creating an aspirational identification

0:12:55.305,0:12:57.016
with the middle class and to some extent

0:12:57.016,0:12:58.560
even the upper class,

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and it's much easier to divide

0:13:00.877,0:13:02.626
an oppressed working class from

0:13:02.626,0:13:03.758
solidarity with their neighbours when

0:13:03.758,0:13:05.475
you create this culture that looks down

0:13:05.475,0:13:07.143
on their struggle and really

0:13:07.143,0:13:08.239
makes them believe they can

0:13:08.239,0:13:09.821
do better if they just work harder.

0:13:09.821,0:13:11.608
There's also been a lot of finger-pointing

0:13:11.608,0:13:12.745
going on lately,

0:13:12.745,0:13:14.374
with many leftists, liberals and so-called

0:13:14.374,0:13:16.656
“progressives” pinning much of the blame

0:13:16.656,0:13:18.692
for how the election went down

0:13:18.692,0:13:20.481
on the supposedly backward nature

0:13:20.481,0:13:23.327
of uneducated white working-class voters.

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Why do you think these peeps were

0:13:24.748,0:13:26.130
so shocked by the scale of support

0:13:26.130,0:13:27.632
for Trump, and what does that say

0:13:27.632,0:13:29.413
about the current state of the left?

0:13:29.413,0:13:31.332
So, obviously the white working class

0:13:31.332,0:13:32.432
isn't backwards.

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The major issue is that they've been

0:13:34.539,0:13:36.541
completely abandoned to the right

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and the right has been able to

0:13:38.531,0:13:40.236
recuperate them by offering easy answers

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to very complex problems and speaking

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directly to the conditions that most

0:13:43.849,0:13:46.490
working-class folks are facing every day.

0:13:46.490,0:13:48.077
And the left has failed to do that.

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It's also been a huge problem where

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the people of power in the left -

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like the politicians, but also the leaders

0:13:53.770,0:13:54.908
of a lot of social movements –

0:13:54.908,0:13:56.735
come from the affluent classes

0:13:56.735,0:13:57.742
of white folks.

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And so they don't have anything in common

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with the white working class.

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They treat the white working class as

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though they are this separate population

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that they need to study and understand

0:14:08.523,0:14:10.395
and speak to in a different language

0:14:10.395,0:14:13.400
rather than actually trying to meet them

0:14:13.400,0:14:14.741
on the ground where they're at.

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And so why would they be so surprised

0:14:17.006,0:14:17.989
that they completely alienated

0:14:17.989,0:14:19.246
that demographic?

0:14:19.246,0:14:20.961
The problem with liberals across the board

0:14:20.961,0:14:23.156
is that they weigh too heavily on

0:14:23.156,0:14:25.352
this idea that they were the party or

0:14:25.352,0:14:28.071
the group that wasn't doing any evil...

0:14:28.071,0:14:29.696
but at some point folks are gonna demand

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receipts for all the alleged good

0:14:31.357,0:14:32.145
they were doing.

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And there just isn't much to show for it.

0:14:33.577,0:14:34.986
The Trump campaign served as

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a clarion call for a loose coalition of

0:14:37.019,0:14:39.701
neo-nazis and other white reactionaries,

0:14:39.701,0:14:41.367
many of whom have coalesced under

0:14:41.367,0:14:44.409
the umbrella of the so-called alt-right.

0:14:44.409,0:14:45.586
What do you make of this movement

0:14:45.586,0:14:47.091
and how do you expect things to play out

0:14:47.091,0:14:49.129
now that their candidate has been elected?

0:14:49.129,0:14:51.083
Well, I fully expect there's gonna be

0:14:51.083,0:14:53.037
resistance to Trump, just like there was

0:14:53.037,0:14:55.479
to Obama and the Tea Party movement.

0:14:55.479,0:14:58.643
I think if the resistance is successful

0:14:58.643,0:15:00.765
even in a minor way, which it very well

0:15:00.765,0:15:02.519
could be, there's a good chance that

0:15:02.519,0:15:04.870
these folks on the alt-right will mobilize

0:15:04.870,0:15:08.080
to defend everything that they hoped

0:15:08.080,0:15:09.095
could have happened under

0:15:09.095,0:15:10.298
a Trump presidency.

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Following his win, we've heard talk of

0:15:12.390,0:15:13.897
Trump adding far-right economic

0:15:13.897,0:15:15.569
conservatives to his Cabinet

0:15:15.569,0:15:16.872
and transition team.

0:15:16.872,0:15:19.804
So this makes it clear that as time

0:15:19.804,0:15:21.632
progresses and Trump's policies have

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a chance to play out, that they're gonna

0:15:23.577,0:15:25.014
negatively impact working and

0:15:25.014,0:15:26.556
poor people's lives.

0:15:26.556,0:15:29.079
Obviously we've known this, but this is

0:15:29.079,0:15:30.944
gonna cause fissures to open up

0:15:30.944,0:15:32.286
among his supporters.

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And our network intends to be active

0:15:34.075,0:15:36.227
in exploiting these splits and to be ready

0:15:36.227,0:15:37.996
to work with newly disillusioned people

0:15:37.996,0:15:40.254
who found hope in Trump's campaign

0:15:40.254,0:15:41.114
at one time.

0:15:41.114,0:15:42.971
How the fuck did a billionaire real estate

0:15:42.971,0:15:45.002
tycoon like the Donald manage to pull off

0:15:45.002,0:15:45.916
playing the role of

0:15:45.916,0:15:47.355
the anti-establishment candidate?

0:15:47.355,0:15:49.539
Because the institutional left, and

0:15:49.539,0:15:51.174
especially our social justice movements

0:15:51.174,0:15:53.693
have really entrenched this idea of,

0:15:53.693,0:15:55.558
like, “everything you're doing is wrong,

0:15:55.558,0:15:57.551
and how could you not already know that?”,

0:15:57.551,0:15:59.177
I think folks are just genuinely relieved

0:15:59.177,0:16:01.371
to have somebody that they saw as

0:16:01.371,0:16:03.768
a potential leader who didn't approach

0:16:03.768,0:16:05.831
things that way, or talk to them that way.

0:16:05.831,0:16:08.233
He also came out really strongly against

0:16:08.233,0:16:10.468
neoliberal capitalist models like NAFTA.

0:16:10.468,0:16:12.618
And folks recognize that they are feeling

0:16:12.618,0:16:14.854
the daily effects of those jobs, y'know,

0:16:14.854,0:16:16.811
being outsourced.

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And so having somebody speak directly to

0:16:18.520,0:16:20.829
those realities and talking sort of

0:16:20.829,0:16:22.460
like them goes a long way.

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The other thing, though, is that

0:16:23.924,0:16:26.073
there's just a general mentality around

0:16:26.073,0:16:27.826
wanting change.

0:16:27.826,0:16:29.684
Y'know the people on the left are just as

0:16:29.684,0:16:31.402
easily fooled and recuperated into

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a “change” candidate.

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We watched them do the same thing

0:16:34.139,0:16:34.894
with Obama.

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We watched them do the same thing

0:16:36.029,0:16:38.585
with Bernie... and so this tendency

0:16:38.585,0:16:40.829
to look at everything that folks on the right

0:16:40.829,0:16:42.818
do as not recognizable within

0:16:42.818,0:16:44.607
our own structures is part of what's

0:16:44.607,0:16:46.203
making that conversation so difficult.

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Over the past several years

0:16:47.531,0:16:48.670
the United Snakes has witnessed

0:16:48.670,0:16:50.379
a dramatic rise in reactionary

0:16:50.379,0:16:52.253
white paramilitary violence.

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Can you speak to the role that this type

0:16:54.165,0:16:55.662
of violence plays in terms of

0:16:55.662,0:16:57.415
maintaining white supremacy and

0:16:57.415,0:16:59.562
reinforcing the domination of the state

0:16:59.562,0:17:00.514
and capitalism?

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Historically when populations of folks

0:17:02.292,0:17:05.306
have lost a lot of access to resources,

0:17:05.306,0:17:07.787
y'know, call it privilege, whatever...

0:17:07.787,0:17:10.381
there has been this shift to blame.

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In this case we're talking about

0:17:11.979,0:17:13.398
the loss of jobs, homes,

0:17:13.398,0:17:15.299
y'know, opportunities for advancement,

0:17:15.299,0:17:17.987
long-term security, food... y'know...

0:17:17.987,0:17:20.430
these are all really vital things

0:17:20.430,0:17:23.236
that have been slowly slipping away and

0:17:23.236,0:17:24.697
people are looking for somebody to blame.

0:17:24.697,0:17:28.600
And since very few of the elements on

0:17:28.600,0:17:29.931
our side of the barricade are

0:17:29.931,0:17:31.601
actively trying to organize folks

0:17:31.601,0:17:32.815
to target their actual enemies,

0:17:32.815,0:17:34.612
and the right wing is heavily focused

0:17:34.612,0:17:36.728
on that, they continue to play

0:17:36.728,0:17:38.437
the foot soldiers of white supremacy

0:17:38.437,0:17:39.784
and divide the working class.

0:17:39.784,0:17:41.402
They keep the struggle and the violence

0:17:41.402,0:17:42.903
contained within the working class,

0:17:42.903,0:17:45.055
which again re-institutes the power

0:17:45.055,0:17:46.922
of the state overall.

0:17:46.922,0:17:49.845
It benefits the neoliberals as well.

0:17:49.845,0:17:51.547
We also need to take a really hard look

0:17:51.547,0:17:53.178
at the way that the institutional left

0:17:53.178,0:17:55.090
has, again, driven the conversation about

0:17:55.090,0:17:58.015
the resistance of folks of colour and all

0:17:58.015,0:17:59.599
the uprisings that we've seen over

0:17:59.599,0:18:00.857
the last several years,

0:18:00.857,0:18:02.689
into these very useless, academic

0:18:02.689,0:18:04.197
hand-wringing conversations about

0:18:04.197,0:18:05.661
white guilt and privilege.

0:18:05.661,0:18:07.128
White folks recognizing that they have

0:18:07.128,0:18:08.877
a stake in the fight against

0:18:08.877,0:18:10.096
white supremacy itself is

0:18:10.096,0:18:11.312
incredibly important.

0:18:11.312,0:18:12.778
As well as addressing the obligation

0:18:12.778,0:18:14.729
that we have to use our access to

0:18:14.729,0:18:16.397
white spaces and our complicity in

0:18:16.397,0:18:17.984
white supremacy to actively work

0:18:17.984,0:18:18.999
against it.

0:18:18.999,0:18:20.180
But we are much more effective

0:18:20.180,0:18:21.397
working against it when

0:18:21.397,0:18:22.372
we're not being hampered by

0:18:22.372,0:18:24.492
white guilt and liberal ally politics.

0:18:24.492,0:18:26.112
What strategies should revolutionaries

0:18:26.112,0:18:27.771
in the United Snakes be undertaking

0:18:27.771,0:18:29.488
to address this recent surge in

0:18:29.488,0:18:31.113
racially-motivated attacks?

0:18:31.113,0:18:32.863
White anti-racists and revolutionaries

0:18:32.863,0:18:34.729
need to be digging in for a long fight

0:18:34.729,0:18:37.237
for the hearts and souls of

0:18:37.237,0:18:38.708
our neighbours, family members,

0:18:38.708,0:18:40.374
friends and community members.

0:18:40.374,0:18:42.162
We need to be taking over and making

0:18:42.162,0:18:44.072
space for anti-racist education

0:18:44.072,0:18:45.931
from a working-class perspective in

0:18:45.931,0:18:47.519
the cultural spaces already dominated

0:18:47.519,0:18:48.828
by the white working class.

0:18:48.828,0:18:50.819
Anywhere people use as spaces of

0:18:50.819,0:18:53.503
convergence: gun shows, concerts,

0:18:53.503,0:18:55.250
swap meets, bowling alleys,

0:18:55.250,0:18:56.874
BBQs, baseball games...

0:18:56.874,0:18:58.213
places where our families and

0:18:58.213,0:18:59.556
friends frequent.

0:18:59.556,0:19:00.694
We need to be actually organizing in

0:19:00.694,0:19:02.233
our communities against white supremacy

0:19:02.233,0:19:03.297
and capitalism.

0:19:03.297,0:19:04.393
At the same time we gotta be able to

0:19:04.393,0:19:05.981
defend our neighbourhoods, communities,

0:19:05.981,0:19:07.232
and collaborate with others to build

0:19:07.232,0:19:08.950
strong movements of resistance.

0:19:08.950,0:19:10.373
We advocate for coalitions of

0:19:10.373,0:19:11.797
community defence initiatives that

0:19:11.797,0:19:13.876
work to build armed and unarmed defence

0:19:13.876,0:19:15.340
of marginalized communities,

0:19:15.340,0:19:17.165
including white working-class communities,

0:19:17.165,0:19:18.379
from reactionary attacks

0:19:18.379,0:19:20.585
at both the street and systemic levels.

0:19:20.585,0:19:22.170
As long as our enemies are heavily armed,

0:19:22.170,0:19:23.429
we need to be knowledgeable of how to

0:19:23.429,0:19:25.250
fight that threat without resorting to

0:19:25.250,0:19:26.639
oppressive state power.

0:19:26.639,0:19:28.714
We also have to insert ourselves directly

0:19:28.714,0:19:30.014
into the areas where militant

0:19:30.014,0:19:32.123
reactionaries radicalize and recruit.

0:19:32.123,0:19:33.658
We have to meet people where they're at,

0:19:33.658,0:19:35.657
y'know? Otherwise we're always going to

0:19:35.657,0:19:36.990
have a steady flow of people ready

0:19:36.990,0:19:38.688
to plan these attacks.

0:19:38.688,0:19:40.939
This is our dual strategy that we offer

0:19:40.939,0:19:42.120
at Redneck Revolt.

0:19:42.120,0:19:44.314
Organize and prepare to defend.

0:19:44.314,0:19:46.020
Can you tell us a bit about your group,

0:19:46.020,0:19:47.925
Redneck Revolt and your affiliate project,

0:19:47.925,0:19:49.754
the John Brown Gun Club?

0:19:49.754,0:19:51.865
So Redneck Revolt is a national umbrella

0:19:51.865,0:19:53.859
which attempts to offer resources,

0:19:53.859,0:19:56.177
direction and organization to individuals

0:19:56.177,0:19:57.841
and branches across the country.

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And we're encouraging individuals

0:19:59.426,0:20:01.137
interested in forming a branch to

0:20:01.137,0:20:03.210
contact us, find out if a branch

0:20:03.210,0:20:04.304
has already been formed,

0:20:04.304,0:20:06.904
or find out how to form one of their own.

0:20:06.904,0:20:09.262
Branches will engage in activities ranging

0:20:09.262,0:20:11.253
from outreach with historical, political,

0:20:11.253,0:20:12.834
economic and social analysis,

0:20:12.834,0:20:14.460
networking with other groups of

0:20:14.460,0:20:15.961
marginalized folks, leftists, and

0:20:15.961,0:20:18.119
anti-capitalists and anti-racists,

0:20:18.119,0:20:20.790
to basic firearm acquaintance and safety,

0:20:20.790,0:20:22.947
community defence, legal assistance

0:20:22.947,0:20:23.727
and more.

0:20:23.727,0:20:25.269
A number of chapters have already formed

0:20:25.269,0:20:27.180
and interest is growing by the day.

0:20:27.180,0:20:28.479
We've gotten... especially since

0:20:28.479,0:20:30.267
the election, we've just gotten dozens

0:20:30.267,0:20:31.654
of emails and messages on our

0:20:31.654,0:20:32.795
facebook page about, y'know,

0:20:32.795,0:20:34.338
“do you have a chapter here”...

0:20:34.338,0:20:36.369
“I wanna start a chapter here”.

0:20:36.369,0:20:37.702
Several chapters have chosen to

0:20:37.702,0:20:39.213
stick with the name Redneck Revolt,

0:20:39.213,0:20:41.319
and then, like Phoenix for example

0:20:41.319,0:20:42.952
has chosen to call their branch

0:20:42.952,0:20:44.298
the John Brown Gun Club,

0:20:44.298,0:20:46.171
of course in reference to the legacy of

0:20:46.171,0:20:47.835
John Brown, but also referencing a

0:20:47.835,0:20:49.873
similar project undertaken years ago

0:20:49.873,0:20:52.595
right here in Lawrence that became

0:20:52.595,0:20:54.792
the inspiration for Redneck Revolt.

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Thanks y'all.

0:20:55.724,0:20:57.549
And that about does it for this sedition

0:20:57.549,0:20:59.257
of it's the end of the world as we know it

0:20:59.257,0:21:00.316
and I feel fine.

0:21:00.316,0:21:01.740
In case you didn't know, peeps

0:21:01.740,0:21:03.487
are planning a massive mobilization

0:21:03.487,0:21:06.491
to unwelcome Donald Trump on January 20th

0:21:06.491,0:21:07.630
in Washington DC.

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To get the deets, visit:

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Next month will mark the 10th anniversary

0:21:13.874,0:21:15.101
of this fucking show.

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Can you believe that shit?

0:21:16.635,0:21:18.391
We have a very special show planned

0:21:18.391,0:21:20.626
and due to drop on December 12th.

0:21:20.626,0:21:22.091
So mark your fucking calendars!

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Call you peeps and get your popcorn ready.

0:21:24.575,0:21:27.134
As always, this show is independently

0:21:27.134,0:21:29.403
funded and that has allowed us to run our

0:21:29.403,0:21:31.519
mouth against Bush, Obama and now

0:21:31.519,0:21:33.396
this orange-faced anomaly.

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This month, the following wage slaves

0:21:35.509,0:21:37.987
dropped some Trump dollars in our tip jar.

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So, many mothafuckin thanks to:

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Olivia, Clara, Sawyer, Kaley, Jason,

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Ranko, Jacob, Masiege, Brian,

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Daniel, Matthew, Anthony, Jennifer,

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Francois, Shannon, Stephen, Jonathan,

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Max, Margaret, Martin, Derek, Megsha,

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Sam, Jania, Gregory, Luigi, John,

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Matt, Maya, Liam, Jorge, Luise,

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Louis, Sebastian, Yifan, Renzo,

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Christopher, Lara, Tom, Scott, Jeremy,

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Jonathon, Jacob, Gavin, Wolfgang, Ryan,

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Benjamin, Kate, Justina, Veronica,

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Jonie, Kirk, Zav, Marisol, Joseph,

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Sawyer, Phillip, Stephen, Coby, Sebastian,

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Juliano, Brett, Volkov, Carlos, Phillip,

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Corey, Gabrial, Michael, Bear, Flynn,

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Glencora, Pear, Laura, Andrew, Alex,

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Karen, Jaime, Andrew, Jann, Jane,

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Kyle, Erodor, Steve, Blake, Jim,

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Carley, Peter, Jay, Jaws, Raul,

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Namivida, Roger, Thomas, Bretton,

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Deda, Hanson, Nicholas, Alberto,

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Robin and Anton.

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Mujara Fritas!

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This month I'd like to welcome the newest

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members of the taconspiracy: Enabler, Kyle

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Anonymous, Kate, Ryan and Sawyer.

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Panucho!

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With that said... we've been here before,

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so don't panic.

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Get organized and disrupt G20!