This episode of It's the End of the World as we Know it and I Feel Fine was made possible by contributions from slaves like you. Spank you very much. The liberals were outraged by Trump. But they expressed their anger in cyberspace, so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead, ironically, their waves of angry messages and tweets benefited the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. One online analyst put it simply: angry people click. It meant that the radical fury, that came like waves across the Internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead, it was becoming a fuel that was feeding the new systems of power and making them ever more powerful. Gooooooooooood 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 we wash down tacos with liberal tears. I'm hungry... let's get a taco. Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, winning the most unreal, surreal election we have ever seen. This candidacy starting on an escalator run one year ago. I am your host the Stimulator, and after being held hostage for a year and a fucking half to the tortuous political freakshow that is the US election... It was horrible. on [Wednesday] November 9th peeps around the world watched in stunned horror as pundits and news anchors announced that a fascist fucking reality TV star had been selected for the most powerful mothafuckin position on earth. This can't be happening man, this isn't happening! While world leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, and the Philippines’ psychopathic jefe, Rodrigo Duterte, are fucking stoked to have an unstable, feckless megalomaniac with no political or military experience in the White House… politicians in Europe, on the other hand, are freaking the fuck out We've actually elected an Internet troll as our president. This sentiment was summed up by France’s Ambassador to the United Snakes, Gerard Araud, who with the notable flair for the dramatic that the French are known for, claimed that Trump’s election signalled the end of the neoliberal era, and that, quote, “the world is collapsing before our eyes.” US Border Protection. How can I help you? And while the not-so-controlled demolition of the global political and economic order sounds like it’d be fucking great news…. it’s far-right nationalist parties who are the ones doing the celebrating. Fuck Trump! Fuck Donald Trump! Meanwhile in the United Snakes, shit started popping off almost immediately. As votes were still being tallied, peeps in Portland, Eugene and Oakland took to the streets to vent their rage. This was followed the next morning, by mass high-school walkouts in California, Colorado, New York and DC, and despite desperate appeals for peeps to unite around Trump coming from the man-your-mama-calls-Obama, by Wednesday evening a wave of spontaneous protests had broken out in cities all across the mothafucking country. These rowdy protests continued to swell and deepen over the next following nights, with tactics honed through the past two years of anti-police demos being put into effect. Highways were blocked, barricades went up, and rebellious youth threw down with the pigs. I watched a white riot in Portland Oregon on television the other night. News said they did a million dollars worth of damage. Every Black person was watching it like “amateurs!” And to be sure, Trump and his supporters have given peeps plenty of reasons to throw down. In the days following his election, Black and brown peeps, women, and anyone perceived as being Muslim have been hounded and attacked on the streets, and in classrooms across the United Snakes, in an open and hideously proud display of racism even worse than the “Brexit times five” that Trump promised. And while most peeps are focused on the odious fucking personality of Trump himself, the implications of his presidency, and who he’s likely to elevate into positions of power, makes shit even fucking worse. I'm animated. I'm alive. My heart's big. It's got hot blood going through it fast! Because let’s be real. Trump’s a fucking dipshit who doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing. They're remaking Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford! You can't do that! And now they're making Ghostbusters with only women... what's going on?! But he’s surrounded by some seriously fucking dangerous pieces of shit. And with the Republicans consolidating control of both the House and the Senate, these dangerous turd-tokers are going to have a shit-ton of leeway when it comes to implementing their hyper-repressive, corporatist agenda. From his Vice President, Mike Pence, a hawkish, homophobic, born-again Christian, Koch brothers frontman, climate change denier, and darling of the Tea Party, who will be the real power behind the throne…. to Rudolph “9/11” Giuliani, who sits poised to be the next Attorney General… a man who as mayor of New York was instrumental in introducing “Stop and Frisk” and Broken Window policing, and who has repeatedly gone on the record calling Black Lives Matter protestors racist. Why do we have to say that Black Lives Matter? Now I admit, that is not the best slogan... but McDonalds already took “you deserve a break today.” White nationalists, vigilante militias and neo-nazi groups will now feel even more emboldened to use paramilitary violence against their racial and political opponents, immigrants will be rounded up and deported at even higher rates than before, and the pigs will be given a free hand to shoot and repress whoever the fuck they want without having to worry about having their feelings hurt by being gently chided by the President. In other words, shit’s about to go from really bad to even mothafuckin worse. The thin veneer of liberal respectability that hid the brutality of the Obama administration will be ripped off, once again revealing, in all its hideous clarity, the unrestrained white supremacist, heteropatriarchal, colonial violence that lies at the heart of American society. So, the question to the mothafuckin resistance is…. what the fuck are we gonna do about it? In the wake of Trump's election, liberals and so-called “progressives” have been freaking the fuck out. What do you mean he won?! Oh my god... we're gonna die! Why didn't Hillary try harder dude!? Why would she fuck up with the emails, man? She deserves to be the first female president.. and that's what makes me so sad. There's got to be a pony in this crap pile. As the cold realization of his imminent victory started to sink in on election night... I'm gonna grab a Xanax from the bedroom. OK, will you grab me six? Yeah, I'm just gonna bring the whole bottle. many of these peeps started scrambling for the escape pods. I've gotta get out of here! I've gotta get out of here! In their unbridled haste to run away from the looming fight on their doorstep, tens of thousands of Americans flooded the website of Immigration Klanada... so many that they fucking crashed its servers. Opposing Donald Trump doesn't really make you a political refugee. It makes you a Twitter user! The day after the election, a crowd at Cornell university gathered together for a so-called “cry-in”, while volunteers handed out play-dough, tissues, colouring books and hot chocolate to a mass of people who were so stunned by the shattering of their social-media induced blinders, that they literally fucking regressed into childhood. Now... I can completely understand that millions of peeps are feeling scared, nervous and upset. Buuuuuuuuuuuut if I can be real with y'all, this shit is some of the most pathetic and spectacularly self-indulgent acts of collective fucking cowardice I've seen in my fucking life. Let's sincerely hope that this is a temporary phenomenon and that these peeps can get their shit together and start to deal with the challenging and urgent tasks at hand. Get it all together and put it in a back pack. All your shit... so it's together. Because despite what people might wanna believe, this isn't a nightmare... it's real fucking life. This is us... this our country. It's real. Those Democrats who weren't attempting to flee the fucking coop, or reduced to a quivering display of public sobbing were busy angrily pointing fingers at whoever didn't line up behind their own corrupt, millionaire war criminal candidate of choice. I think you're the cause of all this. I think you're evil. EVIL! From the poor, non-college educated Trump voters that they look down on as irredeemable and irrelevant white trash... I just think you're dumb, okay? I think you're fucking dumb! to so-called Bernie bros, Why couldn't I have attracted young female fans?! to peeps who voted for third-party candidates, or those who, given the choice between two horrible options, decided not to vote at all. Anyone they could cast their blame at, in order to not have to take a long hard look in the fucking mirror. Fuck me? Fuck you! Because at the end of the fucking day, the liberal defenders of the status quo bare much of the blame for the state of affairs that created the movement that catapulted Trump and his corporatist cabal into power. From the DNC's Machiavellian media manipulation in support of Trump during the Republican primaries, to their inevitable shafting of Bernie Sanders and the resulting disillusionment of his base of idealistic young voters You're being ridiculous! the extreme arrogance of Hillary Clinton, her supporters, and the well-oiled machine of the Democratic Party came back to fucking bite them, and all of us, in the ass. Got bit in the ass today son. I told you. I told you. You ain't tell me shit! It should come as no surprise that many of the smug, condescending liberals who are always telling anarchists and other radicals that using violence against Nazis makes us as bad as them, are now taking Hillary's lead in tearfully accepting that there's nothing to do now but line up behind Trump and wait 4 years until peeps are given another kick at the electoral can, because that's how democracy works. Well, fuck you.... and fuck your bullshit democracy! From the Ferguson uprising, to the courageous and ongoing land defenders at Standing Rock, and every riot, blockade and protest in between, the mothafuckin resistance has been fighting against the state and its oppressive security apparatus under Obama, and this resistance must now continue and intensify under President Trump. As white liberals are crying and soul-searching about how this could possibly happen to them, racialized peeps are being hunted and harassed in the streets by emboldened racists drunk on their fascist champion’s victory. The time is long past due for people to start getting serious about how to defend our communities from the onslaught of repression. Because it’s coming…whether we’re ready or not. We're in some real pretty shit now man! Are you finished?! So….. On that cheery note, and in order to make a little more sense of just what the fuck’s going down, and what peeps can do about it… I recently caught up with Conor and Beth, two members of Redneck Revolt. Hey y’all, how the fuck are you? Really, just about as good as we were last week. About as good as it can be in the end times, right? In the immediate aftermath of the recent election, we've heard a lot of talk about how the United Snakes has become a deeply divided nation. Is this something new... or has this always been the case, and people just didn't notice? Well, I think it's obvious that the country's always been divided into the rich and everyone else. Our part in that discussion is to draw attention to the historical divide between workers of colour and the white working class. A majority of white working folks have been recuperated into being foot soldiers for landlords, bosses, the state, thinking that that would buy them access into white supremacy as a system that benefits them, when in reality a lot of white workers and their family end up being poor because they have aided the enemy, the rich, in keeping power. The working class has been divided by turning their justifiable class rage against migrants and workers of colour, instead of the rich. I also think that American capitalism is so deeply embedded in the bootstraps mentality that it's almost like a religion. Not only has that mindset kept white working-class folks from blaming the state for their struggle, but it has been really effective at creating an aspirational identification with the middle class and to some extent even the upper class, and it's much easier to divide an oppressed working class from solidarity with their neighbours when you create this culture that looks down on their struggle and really makes them believe they can do better if they just work harder. There's also been a lot of finger-pointing going on lately, with many leftists, liberals and so-called “progressives” pinning much of the blame for how the election went down on the supposedly backward nature of uneducated white working-class voters. Why do you think these peeps were so shocked by the scale of support for Trump, and what does that say about the current state of the left? So, obviously the white working class isn't backwards. The major issue is that they've been completely abandoned to the right and the right has been able to recuperate them by offering easy answers to very complex problems and speaking directly to the conditions that most working-class folks are facing every day. And the left has failed to do that. It's also been a huge problem where the people of power in the left - like the politicians, but also the leaders of a lot of social movements – come from the affluent classes of white folks. And so they don't have anything in common with the white working class. They treat the white working class as though they are this separate population that they need to study and understand and speak to in a different language rather than actually trying to meet them on the ground where they're at. And so why would they be so surprised that they completely alienated that demographic? The problem with liberals across the board is that they weigh too heavily on this idea that they were the party or the group that wasn't doing any evil... but at some point folks are gonna demand receipts for all the alleged good they were doing. And there just isn't much to show for it. The Trump campaign served as a clarion call for a loose coalition of neo-nazis and other white reactionaries, many of whom have coalesced under the umbrella of the so-called alt-right. What do you make of this movement and how do you expect things to play out now that their candidate has been elected? Well, I fully expect there's gonna be resistance to Trump, just like there was to Obama and the Tea Party movement. I think if the resistance is successful even in a minor way, which it very well could be, there's a good chance that these folks on the alt-right will mobilize to defend everything that they hoped could have happened under a Trump presidency. Following his win, we've heard talk of Trump adding far-right economic conservatives to his Cabinet and transition team. So this makes it clear that as time progresses and Trump's policies have a chance to play out, that they're gonna negatively impact working and poor people's lives. Obviously we've known this, but this is gonna cause fissures to open up among his supporters. And our network intends to be active in exploiting these splits and to be ready to work with newly disillusioned people who found hope in Trump's campaign at one time. How the fuck did a billionaire real estate tycoon like the Donald manage to pull off playing the role of the anti-establishment candidate? Because the institutional left, and especially our social justice movements have really entrenched this idea of, like, “everything you're doing is wrong, and how could you not already know that?”, I think folks are just genuinely relieved to have somebody that they saw as a potential leader who didn't approach things that way, or talk to them that way. He also came out really strongly against neoliberal capitalist models like NAFTA. And folks recognize that they are feeling the daily effects of those jobs, y'know, being outsourced. And so having somebody speak directly to those realities and talking sort of like them goes a long way. The other thing, though, is that there's just a general mentality around wanting change. Y'know the people on the left are just as easily fooled and recuperated into a “change” candidate. We watched them do the same thing with Obama. We watched them do the same thing with Bernie... and so this tendency to look at everything that folks on the right do as not recognizable within our own structures is part of what's making that conversation so difficult. Over the past several years the United Snakes has witnessed a dramatic rise in reactionary white paramilitary violence. Can you speak to the role that this type of violence plays in terms of maintaining white supremacy and reinforcing the domination of the state and capitalism? Historically when populations of folks have lost a lot of access to resources, y'know, call it privilege, whatever... there has been this shift to blame. In this case we're talking about the loss of jobs, homes, y'know, opportunities for advancement, long-term security, food... y'know... these are all really vital things that have been slowly slipping away and people are looking for somebody to blame. And since very few of the elements on our side of the barricade are actively trying to organize folks to target their actual enemies, and the right wing is heavily focused on that, they continue to play the foot soldiers of white supremacy and divide the working class. They keep the struggle and the violence contained within the working class, which again re-institutes the power of the state overall. It benefits the neoliberals as well. We also need to take a really hard look at the way that the institutional left has, again, driven the conversation about the resistance of folks of colour and all the uprisings that we've seen over the last several years, into these very useless, academic hand-wringing conversations about white guilt and privilege. White folks recognizing that they have a stake in the fight against white supremacy itself is incredibly important. As well as addressing the obligation that we have to use our access to white spaces and our complicity in white supremacy to actively work against it. But we are much more effective working against it when we're not being hampered by white guilt and liberal ally politics. What strategies should revolutionaries in the United Snakes be undertaking to address this recent surge in racially-motivated attacks? White anti-racists and revolutionaries need to be digging in for a long fight for the hearts and souls of our neighbours, family members, friends and community members. We need to be taking over and making space for anti-racist education from a working-class perspective in the cultural spaces already dominated by the white working class. Anywhere people use as spaces of convergence: gun shows, concerts, swap meets, bowling alleys, BBQs, baseball games... places where our families and friends frequent. We need to be actually organizing in our communities against white supremacy and capitalism. At the same time we gotta be able to defend our neighbourhoods, communities, and collaborate with others to build strong movements of resistance. We advocate for coalitions of community defence initiatives that work to build armed and unarmed defence of marginalized communities, including white working-class communities, from reactionary attacks at both the street and systemic levels. As long as our enemies are heavily armed, we need to be knowledgeable of how to fight that threat without resorting to oppressive state power. We also have to insert ourselves directly into the areas where militant reactionaries radicalize and recruit. We have to meet people where they're at, y'know? Otherwise we're always going to have a steady flow of people ready to plan these attacks. This is our dual strategy that we offer at Redneck Revolt. Organize and prepare to defend. Can you tell us a bit about your group, Redneck Revolt and your affiliate project, the John Brown Gun Club? So Redneck Revolt is a national umbrella which attempts to offer resources, direction and organization to individuals and branches across the country. And we're encouraging individuals interested in forming a branch to contact us, find out if a branch has already been formed, or find out how to form one of their own. Branches will engage in activities ranging from outreach with historical, political, economic and social analysis, networking with other groups of marginalized folks, leftists, and anti-capitalists and anti-racists, to basic firearm acquaintance and safety, community defence, legal assistance and more. A number of chapters have already formed and interest is growing by the day. We've gotten... especially since the election, we've just gotten dozens of emails and messages on our facebook page about, y'know, “do you have a chapter here”... “I wanna start a chapter here”. Several chapters have chosen to stick with the name Redneck Revolt, and then, like Phoenix for example has chosen to call their branch the John Brown Gun Club, of course in reference to the legacy of John Brown, but also referencing a similar project undertaken years ago right here in Lawrence that became the inspiration for Redneck Revolt. Thanks y'all. And that about does it for this sedition of it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. In case you didn't know, peeps are planning a massive mobilization to unwelcome Donald Trump on January 20th in Washington DC. To get the deets, visit: Next month will mark the 10th anniversary of this fucking show. Can you believe that shit? We have a very special show planned and due to drop on December 12th. So mark your fucking calendars! 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With that said... we've been here before, so don't panic. Get organized and disrupt G20!