WEBVTT 00:00:06.883 --> 00:00:08.955 This episode of It's the End of the World 00:00:08.955 --> 00:00:10.579 as we Know it and I Feel Fine 00:00:10.579 --> 00:00:12.531 was made possible by contributions 00:00:12.531 --> 00:00:14.075 from slaves like you. 00:00:14.075 --> 00:00:15.084 Spank you very much. 00:00:15.614 --> 00:00:18.226 The liberals were outraged by Trump. 00:00:18.226 --> 00:00:19.689 But they expressed their anger 00:00:19.689 --> 00:00:22.873 in cyberspace, so it had no effect. 00:00:22.873 --> 00:00:24.564 Because the algorithms made sure 00:00:24.564 --> 00:00:26.434 they only spoke to people who 00:00:26.434 --> 00:00:29.471 already agreed with them. 00:00:29.471 --> 00:00:32.164 Instead, ironically, their waves of angry 00:00:32.164 --> 00:00:34.066 messages and tweets benefited 00:00:34.066 --> 00:00:35.933 the large corporations who ran 00:00:35.933 --> 00:00:37.831 the social media platforms. 00:00:38.761 --> 00:00:41.787 One online analyst put it simply: 00:00:41.787 --> 00:00:44.386 angry people click. 00:00:44.386 --> 00:00:46.135 It meant that the radical fury, 00:00:46.135 --> 00:00:48.664 that came like waves across the Internet 00:00:48.664 --> 00:00:50.081 no longer had the power 00:00:50.081 --> 00:00:52.157 to change the world. 00:00:52.157 --> 00:00:54.516 Instead, it was becoming a fuel 00:00:54.516 --> 00:00:56.185 that was feeding the new systems 00:00:56.185 --> 00:00:58.013 of power and making them 00:00:58.013 --> 00:00:59.510 ever more powerful. 00:01:06.265 --> 00:01:08.219 Gooooooooooood morning slaves 00:01:08.219 --> 00:01:09.843 and welcome to another sedition of 00:01:09.843 --> 00:01:11.346 it’s the end of the world as we know it 00:01:11.346 --> 00:01:12.646 and I feel fine... 00:01:12.646 --> 00:01:14.384 the show where we wash down tacos 00:01:14.384 --> 00:01:15.732 with liberal tears. 00:01:15.732 --> 00:01:17.516 I'm hungry... let's get a taco. 00:01:17.516 --> 00:01:21.627 Donald Trump will be the 45th president 00:01:21.627 --> 00:01:25.202 of the United States, winning the most 00:01:25.202 --> 00:01:30.566 unreal, surreal election we have ever seen. 00:01:30.566 --> 00:01:32.633 This candidacy starting on 00:01:32.633 --> 00:01:35.811 an escalator run one year ago. 00:01:35.811 --> 00:01:36.996 I am your host the Stimulator, 00:01:36.996 --> 00:01:38.454 and after being held hostage for 00:01:38.454 --> 00:01:40.199 a year and a fucking half to 00:01:40.199 --> 00:01:42.272 the tortuous political freakshow 00:01:42.272 --> 00:01:43.759 that is the US election... 00:01:43.759 --> 00:01:44.908 It was horrible. 00:01:44.908 --> 00:01:46.650 on [Wednesday] November 9th 00:01:46.650 --> 00:01:48.079 peeps around the world watched 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:49.828 in stunned horror as pundits and 00:01:49.828 --> 00:01:51.331 news anchors announced that 00:01:51.331 --> 00:01:53.325 a fascist fucking reality TV star 00:01:53.325 --> 00:01:55.429 had been selected for the most powerful 00:01:55.429 --> 00:01:57.995 mothafuckin position on earth. 00:01:57.995 --> 00:01:59.698 This can't be happening man, 00:01:59.698 --> 00:02:00.600 this isn't happening! 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:02.305 While world leaders like Vladimir Putin, 00:02:02.305 --> 00:02:04.215 Kim Jong-Un, and the Philippines’ 00:02:04.215 --> 00:02:06.967 psychopathic jefe, Rodrigo Duterte, 00:02:06.967 --> 00:02:08.844 are fucking stoked to have an unstable, 00:02:08.844 --> 00:02:10.879 feckless megalomaniac with no political 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:12.992 or military experience in the White House… 00:02:12.992 --> 00:02:15.104 politicians in Europe, on the other hand, 00:02:15.104 --> 00:02:17.393 are freaking the fuck out 00:02:17.643 --> 00:02:20.834 We've actually elected an Internet troll as our president. 00:02:20.834 --> 00:02:23.228 This sentiment was summed up by France’s Ambassador 00:02:23.228 --> 00:02:25.584 to the United Snakes, Gerard Araud, 00:02:25.584 --> 00:02:28.066 who with the notable flair for the dramatic 00:02:28.066 --> 00:02:30.659 that the French are known for, claimed that 00:02:30.659 --> 00:02:32.249 Trump’s election signalled the end 00:02:32.249 --> 00:02:34.927 of the neoliberal era, and that, quote, 00:02:34.927 --> 00:02:36.941 “the world is collapsing before our eyes.” 00:02:41.289 --> 00:02:44.389 US Border Protection. How can I help you? 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.631 And while the not-so-controlled demolition 00:02:51.631 --> 00:02:53.791 of the global political and economic order 00:02:53.791 --> 00:02:55.829 sounds like it’d be fucking great news…. 00:02:55.829 --> 00:02:58.555 it’s far-right nationalist parties who are the ones 00:02:58.555 --> 00:03:00.379 doing the celebrating. 00:03:00.379 --> 00:03:01.324 Fuck Trump! 00:03:01.324 --> 00:03:02.828 Fuck Donald Trump! 00:03:02.828 --> 00:03:04.740 Meanwhile in the United Snakes, 00:03:04.740 --> 00:03:07.374 shit started popping off almost immediately. 00:03:07.374 --> 00:03:08.804 As votes were still being tallied, 00:03:08.804 --> 00:03:11.161 peeps in Portland, Eugene and Oakland took to the streets 00:03:11.161 --> 00:03:12.663 to vent their rage. 00:03:12.663 --> 00:03:14.169 This was followed the next morning, 00:03:14.169 --> 00:03:17.343 by mass high-school walkouts in California, Colorado, 00:03:17.343 --> 00:03:18.518 New York and DC, 00:03:18.518 --> 00:03:21.521 and despite desperate appeals for peeps to unite around Trump 00:03:21.521 --> 00:03:23.870 coming from the man-your-mama-calls-Obama, 00:03:23.870 --> 00:03:26.835 by Wednesday evening a wave of spontaneous protests 00:03:26.835 --> 00:03:29.892 had broken out in cities all across the mothafucking country. 00:03:29.892 --> 00:03:32.087 These rowdy protests continued to swell and deepen 00:03:32.087 --> 00:03:33.505 over the next following nights, 00:03:33.505 --> 00:03:35.382 with tactics honed through the past two years 00:03:35.382 --> 00:03:37.780 of anti-police demos being put into effect. 00:03:37.780 --> 00:03:39.853 Highways were blocked, barricades went up, 00:03:39.853 --> 00:03:42.291 and rebellious youth threw down with the pigs. 00:03:42.291 --> 00:03:46.258 I watched a white riot in Portland Oregon on television the other night. 00:03:46.258 --> 00:03:48.782 News said they did a million dollars worth of damage. 00:03:48.782 --> 00:03:51.006 Every Black person was watching it like “amateurs!” 00:03:51.006 --> 00:03:53.782 And to be sure, Trump and his supporters have given peeps 00:03:53.782 --> 00:03:55.775 plenty of reasons to throw down. 00:03:55.775 --> 00:03:57.323 In the days following his election, 00:03:57.323 --> 00:03:59.024 Black and brown peeps, women, 00:03:59.024 --> 00:04:01.501 and anyone perceived as being Muslim have been 00:04:01.501 --> 00:04:03.288 hounded and attacked on the streets, 00:04:03.288 --> 00:04:05.148 and in classrooms across the United Snakes, 00:04:05.148 --> 00:04:07.314 in an open and hideously proud display of racism 00:04:07.314 --> 00:04:11.131 even worse than the “Brexit times five” that Trump promised. 00:04:11.131 --> 00:04:12.843 And while most peeps are focused on 00:04:12.843 --> 00:04:15.323 the odious fucking personality of Trump himself, 00:04:15.323 --> 00:04:17.512 the implications of his presidency, 00:04:17.512 --> 00:04:20.611 and who he’s likely to elevate into positions of power, 00:04:20.611 --> 00:04:22.720 makes shit even fucking worse. 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:24.721 I'm animated. I'm alive. 00:04:24.721 --> 00:04:28.417 My heart's big. It's got hot blood going through it fast! 00:04:28.417 --> 00:04:30.084 Because let’s be real. 00:04:30.084 --> 00:04:32.966 Trump’s a fucking dipshit who doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing. 00:04:32.966 --> 00:04:36.337 They're remaking Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford! 00:04:36.337 --> 00:04:37.438 You can't do that! 00:04:37.438 --> 00:04:42.522 And now they're making Ghostbusters with only women... what's going on?! 00:04:42.522 --> 00:04:45.777 But he’s surrounded by some seriously fucking dangerous pieces of shit. 00:04:45.777 --> 00:04:48.175 And with the Republicans consolidating control of 00:04:48.175 --> 00:04:51.347 both the House and the Senate, these dangerous turd-tokers 00:04:51.347 --> 00:04:54.224 are going to have a shit-ton of leeway when it comes to 00:04:54.224 --> 00:04:57.230 implementing their hyper-repressive, corporatist agenda. 00:04:57.230 --> 00:05:01.064 From his Vice President, Mike Pence, a hawkish, homophobic, born-again Christian, 00:05:01.064 --> 00:05:05.049 Koch brothers frontman, climate change denier, and darling of the Tea Party, 00:05:05.049 --> 00:05:07.450 who will be the real power behind the throne…. 00:05:07.450 --> 00:05:09.190 to Rudolph “9/11” Giuliani, 00:05:09.190 --> 00:05:11.517 who sits poised to be the next Attorney General… 00:05:11.517 --> 00:05:14.889 a man who as mayor of New York was instrumental in introducing 00:05:14.889 --> 00:05:17.213 “Stop and Frisk” and Broken Window policing, 00:05:17.213 --> 00:05:19.706 and who has repeatedly gone on the record calling 00:05:19.706 --> 00:05:21.498 Black Lives Matter protestors racist. 00:05:21.498 --> 00:05:24.653 Why do we have to say that Black Lives Matter? 00:05:24.653 --> 00:05:27.695 Now I admit, that is not the best slogan... 00:05:27.695 --> 00:05:31.073 but McDonalds already took “you deserve a break today.” 00:05:31.683 --> 00:05:35.505 White nationalists, vigilante militias and neo-nazi groups 00:05:35.505 --> 00:05:38.952 will now feel even more emboldened to use paramilitary violence 00:05:38.952 --> 00:05:41.104 against their racial and political opponents, 00:05:41.104 --> 00:05:43.097 immigrants will be rounded up and deported 00:05:43.097 --> 00:05:45.444 at even higher rates than before, 00:05:45.444 --> 00:05:48.092 and the pigs will be given a free hand to shoot and repress 00:05:48.092 --> 00:05:50.274 whoever the fuck they want without having to worry about 00:05:50.274 --> 00:05:54.025 having their feelings hurt by being gently chided by the President. 00:05:54.025 --> 00:05:55.731 In other words, shit’s about to go from 00:05:55.731 --> 00:05:58.455 really bad to even mothafuckin worse. 00:05:58.455 --> 00:06:01.463 The thin veneer of liberal respectability that hid 00:06:01.463 --> 00:06:05.115 the brutality of the Obama administration will be ripped off, 00:06:05.115 --> 00:06:08.014 once again revealing, in all its hideous clarity, 00:06:08.014 --> 00:06:10.005 the unrestrained white supremacist, 00:06:10.005 --> 00:06:12.282 heteropatriarchal, colonial violence 00:06:12.282 --> 00:06:14.948 that lies at the heart of American society. 00:06:14.948 --> 00:06:17.844 So, the question to the mothafuckin resistance is…. 00:06:17.844 --> 00:06:19.837 what the fuck are we gonna do about it? 00:07:12.175 --> 00:07:15.587 In the wake of Trump's election, liberals and so-called “progressives” 00:07:15.587 --> 00:07:17.172 have been freaking the fuck out. 00:07:17.172 --> 00:07:18.836 What do you mean he won?! 00:07:18.836 --> 00:07:22.288 Oh my god... we're gonna die! 00:07:22.288 --> 00:07:24.321 Why didn't Hillary try harder dude!? 00:07:24.321 --> 00:07:26.971 Why would she fuck up with the emails, man? 00:07:26.971 --> 00:07:29.607 She deserves to be the first female president.. 00:07:29.607 --> 00:07:31.597 and that's what makes me so sad. 00:07:31.597 --> 00:07:35.141 There's got to be a pony in this crap pile. 00:07:35.141 --> 00:07:37.830 As the cold realization of his imminent victory 00:07:37.830 --> 00:07:39.855 started to sink in on election night... 00:07:39.855 --> 00:07:42.009 I'm gonna grab a Xanax from the bedroom. 00:07:42.009 --> 00:07:43.395 OK, will you grab me six? 00:07:43.395 --> 00:07:44.776 Yeah, I'm just gonna bring the whole bottle. 00:07:44.776 --> 00:07:46.971 many of these peeps started scrambling for the escape pods. 00:07:48.041 --> 00:07:50.705 I've gotta get out of here! I've gotta get out of here! 00:07:50.705 --> 00:07:52.581 In their unbridled haste to run away from 00:07:52.581 --> 00:07:54.897 the looming fight on their doorstep, 00:07:54.897 --> 00:07:59.226 tens of thousands of Americans flooded the website of Immigration Klanada... 00:07:59.226 --> 00:08:01.566 so many that they fucking crashed its servers. 00:08:01.566 --> 00:08:04.464 Opposing Donald Trump doesn't really make you a political refugee. 00:08:04.464 --> 00:08:06.399 It makes you a Twitter user! 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:07.617 The day after the election, 00:08:07.617 --> 00:08:11.520 a crowd at Cornell university gathered together for a so-called “cry-in”, 00:08:11.520 --> 00:08:13.795 while volunteers handed out play-dough, tissues, 00:08:13.795 --> 00:08:16.556 colouring books and hot chocolate to a mass of people 00:08:16.556 --> 00:08:20.945 who were so stunned by the shattering of their social-media induced blinders, 00:08:20.945 --> 00:08:23.174 that they literally fucking regressed into childhood. 00:08:25.171 --> 00:08:27.895 Now... I can completely understand that millions of peeps 00:08:27.895 --> 00:08:29.972 are feeling scared, nervous and upset. 00:08:29.972 --> 00:08:31.839 Buuuuuuuuuuuut if I can be real with y'all, 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.077 this shit is some of the most pathetic 00:08:34.077 --> 00:08:37.581 and spectacularly self-indulgent acts of collective fucking cowardice 00:08:37.581 --> 00:08:39.156 I've seen in my fucking life. 00:08:39.156 --> 00:08:42.287 Let's sincerely hope that this is a temporary phenomenon 00:08:42.287 --> 00:08:44.605 and that these peeps can get their shit together 00:08:44.605 --> 00:08:47.973 and start to deal with the challenging and urgent tasks at hand. 00:08:47.973 --> 00:08:50.415 Get it all together and put it in a back pack. 00:08:50.415 --> 00:08:52.730 All your shit... so it's together. 00:08:52.730 --> 00:08:55.048 Because despite what people might wanna believe, 00:08:55.048 --> 00:08:57.887 this isn't a nightmare... it's real fucking life. 00:08:57.887 --> 00:09:00.449 This is us... this our country. It's real. 00:09:03.898 --> 00:09:06.829 Those Democrats who weren't attempting to flee the fucking coop, 00:09:06.829 --> 00:09:09.841 or reduced to a quivering display of public sobbing 00:09:09.841 --> 00:09:12.933 were busy angrily pointing fingers at whoever didn't line up 00:09:12.933 --> 00:09:16.276 behind their own corrupt, millionaire war criminal candidate of choice. 00:09:16.276 --> 00:09:18.390 I think you're the cause of all this. 00:09:19.510 --> 00:09:21.141 I think you're evil. 00:09:21.141 --> 00:09:22.441 EVIL! 00:09:22.991 --> 00:09:25.526 From the poor, non-college educated Trump voters 00:09:25.526 --> 00:09:29.343 that they look down on as irredeemable and irrelevant white trash... 00:09:29.343 --> 00:09:31.129 I just think you're dumb, okay? 00:09:31.129 --> 00:09:32.827 I think you're fucking dumb! 00:09:32.827 --> 00:09:34.139 to so-called Bernie bros, 00:09:34.139 --> 00:09:36.488 Why couldn't I have attracted young female fans?! 00:09:36.488 --> 00:09:38.807 to peeps who voted for third-party candidates, 00:09:38.807 --> 00:09:41.902 or those who, given the choice between two horrible options, 00:09:41.902 --> 00:09:43.325 decided not to vote at all. 00:09:43.325 --> 00:09:44.819 Anyone they could cast their blame at, 00:09:44.819 --> 00:09:48.324 in order to not have to take a long hard look in the fucking mirror. 00:09:48.324 --> 00:09:49.987 Fuck me? Fuck you! 00:09:49.987 --> 00:09:51.734 Because at the end of the fucking day, 00:09:51.734 --> 00:09:54.941 the liberal defenders of the status quo bare much of the blame 00:09:54.941 --> 00:09:57.588 for the state of affairs that created the movement 00:09:57.588 --> 00:10:00.919 that catapulted Trump and his corporatist cabal into power. 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.510 From the DNC's Machiavellian media manipulation 00:10:03.510 --> 00:10:06.405 in support of Trump during the Republican primaries, 00:10:06.405 --> 00:10:08.513 to their inevitable shafting of Bernie Sanders 00:10:08.513 --> 00:10:12.095 and the resulting disillusionment of his base of idealistic young voters 00:10:12.095 --> 00:10:13.480 You're being ridiculous! 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.998 the extreme arrogance of Hillary Clinton, her supporters, 00:10:15.998 --> 00:10:18.395 and the well-oiled machine of the Democratic Party 00:10:18.395 --> 00:10:21.773 came back to fucking bite them, and all of us, in the ass. 00:10:21.773 --> 00:10:23.198 Got bit in the ass today son. 00:10:23.198 --> 00:10:25.675 I told you. I told you. 00:10:25.675 --> 00:10:26.816 You ain't tell me shit! 00:10:26.816 --> 00:10:30.111 It should come as no surprise that many of the smug, condescending liberals 00:10:30.111 --> 00:10:32.349 who are always telling anarchists and other radicals 00:10:32.349 --> 00:10:35.672 that using violence against Nazis makes us as bad as them, 00:10:35.672 --> 00:10:38.441 are now taking Hillary's lead in tearfully accepting that 00:10:38.441 --> 00:10:41.894 there's nothing to do now but line up behind Trump and wait 4 years 00:10:41.894 --> 00:10:45.057 until peeps are given another kick at the electoral can, 00:10:45.057 --> 00:10:47.170 because that's how democracy works. 00:10:47.170 --> 00:10:50.633 Well, fuck you.... and fuck your bullshit democracy! 00:10:50.633 --> 00:10:52.084 From the Ferguson uprising, 00:10:52.084 --> 00:10:54.940 to the courageous and ongoing land defenders at Standing Rock, 00:10:54.940 --> 00:10:57.542 and every riot, blockade and protest in between, 00:10:57.542 --> 00:11:00.430 the mothafuckin resistance has been fighting against the state 00:11:00.430 --> 00:11:02.986 and its oppressive security apparatus under Obama, 00:11:02.986 --> 00:11:06.564 and this resistance must now continue and intensify under 00:11:06.564 --> 00:11:07.425 President Trump. 00:11:07.425 --> 00:11:09.490 As white liberals are crying and soul-searching 00:11:09.490 --> 00:11:11.766 about how this could possibly happen to them, 00:11:11.766 --> 00:11:14.616 racialized peeps are being hunted and harassed in the streets 00:11:14.616 --> 00:11:18.274 by emboldened racists drunk on their fascist champion’s victory. 00:11:18.274 --> 00:11:21.438 The time is long past due for people to start getting serious about 00:11:21.438 --> 00:11:24.333 how to defend our communities from the onslaught of repression. 00:11:24.333 --> 00:11:26.406 Because it’s coming…whether we’re ready or not. 00:11:26.406 --> 00:11:29.048 We're in some real pretty shit now man! 00:11:29.048 --> 00:11:30.065 Are you finished?! 00:11:30.065 --> 00:11:31.890 So….. On that cheery note, 00:11:31.890 --> 00:11:35.621 and in order to make a little more sense of just what the fuck’s going down, 00:11:35.621 --> 00:11:37.298 and what peeps can do about it… 00:11:37.298 --> 00:11:39.372 I recently caught up with Conor and Beth, 00:11:39.372 --> 00:11:41.369 two members of Redneck Revolt. 00:11:41.369 --> 00:11:43.185 Hey y’all, how the fuck are you? 00:11:43.185 --> 00:11:44.331 Really, just about as good 00:11:44.331 --> 00:11:45.421 as we were last week. 00:11:45.421 --> 00:11:46.756 About as good as it can be 00:11:46.756 --> 00:11:47.988 in the end times, right? 00:11:47.988 --> 00:11:49.490 In the immediate aftermath 00:11:49.490 --> 00:11:50.837 of the recent election, 00:11:50.837 --> 00:11:52.385 we've heard a lot of talk about how 00:11:52.385 --> 00:11:54.048 the United Snakes has become 00:11:54.048 --> 00:11:55.841 a deeply divided nation. 00:11:55.841 --> 00:11:56.971 Is this something new... 00:11:56.971 --> 00:11:58.849 or has this always been the case, 00:11:58.849 --> 00:12:00.358 and people just didn't notice? 00:12:00.358 --> 00:12:02.304 Well, I think it's obvious that 00:12:02.304 --> 00:12:03.605 the country's always been divided 00:12:03.605 --> 00:12:05.746 into the rich and everyone else. 00:12:05.746 --> 00:12:07.952 Our part in that discussion is 00:12:07.952 --> 00:12:09.779 to draw attention to the historical divide 00:12:09.779 --> 00:12:11.203 between workers of colour 00:12:11.203 --> 00:12:12.748 and the white working class. 00:12:12.748 --> 00:12:14.290 A majority of white working folks 00:12:14.290 --> 00:12:16.083 have been recuperated into being 00:12:16.083 --> 00:12:17.989 foot soldiers for landlords, bosses, 00:12:17.989 --> 00:12:19.731 the state, thinking that that would buy 00:12:19.731 --> 00:12:21.495 them access into white supremacy 00:12:21.495 --> 00:12:23.139 as a system that benefits them, 00:12:23.139 --> 00:12:26.371 when in reality a lot of white workers 00:12:26.371 --> 00:12:27.746 and their family end up being poor 00:12:27.746 --> 00:12:30.021 because they have aided the enemy, 00:12:30.021 --> 00:12:31.517 the rich, in keeping power. 00:12:31.517 --> 00:12:33.108 The working class has been divided 00:12:33.108 --> 00:12:35.750 by turning their justifiable class rage 00:12:35.750 --> 00:12:37.832 against migrants and workers of colour, 00:12:37.832 --> 00:12:39.433 instead of the rich. 00:12:39.433 --> 00:12:42.631 I also think that American capitalism is 00:12:42.631 --> 00:12:43.650 so deeply embedded in 00:12:43.650 --> 00:12:45.110 the bootstraps mentality 00:12:45.110 --> 00:12:47.470 that it's almost like a religion. 00:12:47.470 --> 00:12:49.055 Not only has that mindset kept 00:12:49.055 --> 00:12:50.274 white working-class folks from 00:12:50.274 --> 00:12:51.615 blaming the state for their struggle, 00:12:51.615 --> 00:12:53.365 but it has been really effective at 00:12:53.365 --> 00:12:55.305 creating an aspirational identification 00:12:55.305 --> 00:12:57.016 with the middle class and to some extent 00:12:57.016 --> 00:12:58.560 even the upper class, 00:12:58.560 --> 00:13:00.877 and it's much easier to divide 00:13:00.877 --> 00:13:02.626 an oppressed working class from 00:13:02.626 --> 00:13:03.758 solidarity with their neighbours when 00:13:03.758 --> 00:13:05.475 you create this culture that looks down 00:13:05.475 --> 00:13:07.143 on their struggle and really 00:13:07.143 --> 00:13:08.239 makes them believe they can 00:13:08.239 --> 00:13:09.821 do better if they just work harder. 00:13:09.821 --> 00:13:11.608 There's also been a lot of finger-pointing 00:13:11.608 --> 00:13:12.745 going on lately, 00:13:12.745 --> 00:13:14.374 with many leftists, liberals and so-called 00:13:14.374 --> 00:13:16.656 “progressives” pinning much of the blame 00:13:16.656 --> 00:13:18.692 for how the election went down 00:13:18.692 --> 00:13:20.481 on the supposedly backward nature 00:13:20.481 --> 00:13:23.327 of uneducated white working-class voters. 00:13:23.327 --> 00:13:24.748 Why do you think these peeps were 00:13:24.748 --> 00:13:26.130 so shocked by the scale of support 00:13:26.130 --> 00:13:27.632 for Trump, and what does that say 00:13:27.632 --> 00:13:29.413 about the current state of the left? 00:13:29.413 --> 00:13:31.332 So, obviously the white working class 00:13:31.332 --> 00:13:32.432 isn't backwards. 00:13:32.432 --> 00:13:34.539 The major issue is that they've been 00:13:34.539 --> 00:13:36.541 completely abandoned to the right 00:13:36.541 --> 00:13:38.531 and the right has been able to 00:13:38.531 --> 00:13:40.236 recuperate them by offering easy answers 00:13:40.236 --> 00:13:41.942 to very complex problems and speaking 00:13:41.942 --> 00:13:43.849 directly to the conditions that most 00:13:43.849 --> 00:13:46.490 working-class folks are facing every day. 00:13:46.490 --> 00:13:48.077 And the left has failed to do that. 00:13:48.077 --> 00:13:50.223 It's also been a huge problem where 00:13:50.223 --> 00:13:51.937 the people of power in the left - 00:13:51.937 --> 00:13:53.770 like the politicians, but also the leaders 00:13:53.770 --> 00:13:54.908 of a lot of social movements – 00:13:54.908 --> 00:13:56.735 come from the affluent classes 00:13:56.735 --> 00:13:57.742 of white folks. 00:13:57.742 --> 00:13:59.617 And so they don't have anything in common 00:13:59.617 --> 00:14:00.844 with the white working class. 00:14:00.844 --> 00:14:04.410 They treat the white working class as 00:14:04.410 --> 00:14:06.533 though they are this separate population 00:14:06.533 --> 00:14:08.523 that they need to study and understand 00:14:08.523 --> 00:14:10.395 and speak to in a different language 00:14:10.395 --> 00:14:13.400 rather than actually trying to meet them 00:14:13.400 --> 00:14:14.741 on the ground where they're at. 00:14:14.741 --> 00:14:17.006 And so why would they be so surprised 00:14:17.006 --> 00:14:17.989 that they completely alienated 00:14:17.989 --> 00:14:19.246 that demographic? 00:14:19.246 --> 00:14:20.961 The problem with liberals across the board 00:14:20.961 --> 00:14:23.156 is that they weigh too heavily on 00:14:23.156 --> 00:14:25.352 this idea that they were the party or 00:14:25.352 --> 00:14:28.071 the group that wasn't doing any evil... 00:14:28.071 --> 00:14:29.696 but at some point folks are gonna demand 00:14:29.696 --> 00:14:31.357 receipts for all the alleged good 00:14:31.357 --> 00:14:32.145 they were doing. 00:14:32.145 --> 00:14:33.577 And there just isn't much to show for it. 00:14:33.577 --> 00:14:34.986 The Trump campaign served as 00:14:34.986 --> 00:14:37.019 a clarion call for a loose coalition of 00:14:37.019 --> 00:14:39.701 neo-nazis and other white reactionaries, 00:14:39.701 --> 00:14:41.367 many of whom have coalesced under 00:14:41.367 --> 00:14:44.409 the umbrella of the so-called alt-right. 00:14:44.409 --> 00:14:45.586 What do you make of this movement 00:14:45.586 --> 00:14:47.091 and how do you expect things to play out 00:14:47.091 --> 00:14:49.129 now that their candidate has been elected? 00:14:49.129 --> 00:14:51.083 Well, I fully expect there's gonna be 00:14:51.083 --> 00:14:53.037 resistance to Trump, just like there was 00:14:53.037 --> 00:14:55.479 to Obama and the Tea Party movement. 00:14:55.479 --> 00:14:58.643 I think if the resistance is successful 00:14:58.643 --> 00:15:00.765 even in a minor way, which it very well 00:15:00.765 --> 00:15:02.519 could be, there's a good chance that 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.870 these folks on the alt-right will mobilize 00:15:04.870 --> 00:15:08.080 to defend everything that they hoped 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:09.095 could have happened under 00:15:09.095 --> 00:15:10.298 a Trump presidency. 00:15:10.298 --> 00:15:12.390 Following his win, we've heard talk of 00:15:12.390 --> 00:15:13.897 Trump adding far-right economic 00:15:13.897 --> 00:15:15.569 conservatives to his Cabinet 00:15:15.569 --> 00:15:16.872 and transition team. 00:15:16.872 --> 00:15:19.804 So this makes it clear that as time 00:15:19.804 --> 00:15:21.632 progresses and Trump's policies have 00:15:21.632 --> 00:15:23.577 a chance to play out, that they're gonna 00:15:23.577 --> 00:15:25.014 negatively impact working and 00:15:25.014 --> 00:15:26.556 poor people's lives. 00:15:26.556 --> 00:15:29.079 Obviously we've known this, but this is 00:15:29.079 --> 00:15:30.944 gonna cause fissures to open up 00:15:30.944 --> 00:15:32.286 among his supporters. 00:15:32.286 --> 00:15:34.075 And our network intends to be active 00:15:34.075 --> 00:15:36.227 in exploiting these splits and to be ready 00:15:36.227 --> 00:15:37.996 to work with newly disillusioned people 00:15:37.996 --> 00:15:40.254 who found hope in Trump's campaign 00:15:40.254 --> 00:15:41.114 at one time. 00:15:41.114 --> 00:15:42.971 How the fuck did a billionaire real estate 00:15:42.971 --> 00:15:45.002 tycoon like the Donald manage to pull off 00:15:45.002 --> 00:15:45.916 playing the role of 00:15:45.916 --> 00:15:47.355 the anti-establishment candidate? 00:15:47.355 --> 00:15:49.539 Because the institutional left, and 00:15:49.539 --> 00:15:51.174 especially our social justice movements 00:15:51.174 --> 00:15:53.693 have really entrenched this idea of, 00:15:53.693 --> 00:15:55.558 like, “everything you're doing is wrong, 00:15:55.558 --> 00:15:57.551 and how could you not already know that?”, 00:15:57.551 --> 00:15:59.177 I think folks are just genuinely relieved 00:15:59.177 --> 00:16:01.371 to have somebody that they saw as 00:16:01.371 --> 00:16:03.768 a potential leader who didn't approach 00:16:03.768 --> 00:16:05.831 things that way, or talk to them that way. 00:16:05.831 --> 00:16:08.233 He also came out really strongly against 00:16:08.233 --> 00:16:10.468 neoliberal capitalist models like NAFTA. 00:16:10.468 --> 00:16:12.618 And folks recognize that they are feeling 00:16:12.618 --> 00:16:14.854 the daily effects of those jobs, y'know, 00:16:14.854 --> 00:16:16.811 being outsourced. 00:16:16.811 --> 00:16:18.520 And so having somebody speak directly to 00:16:18.520 --> 00:16:20.829 those realities and talking sort of 00:16:20.829 --> 00:16:22.460 like them goes a long way. 00:16:22.460 --> 00:16:23.924 The other thing, though, is that 00:16:23.924 --> 00:16:26.073 there's just a general mentality around 00:16:26.073 --> 00:16:27.826 wanting change. 00:16:27.826 --> 00:16:29.684 Y'know the people on the left are just as 00:16:29.684 --> 00:16:31.402 easily fooled and recuperated into 00:16:31.402 --> 00:16:32.933 a “change” candidate. 00:16:32.933 --> 00:16:34.139 We watched them do the same thing 00:16:34.139 --> 00:16:34.894 with Obama. 00:16:34.894 --> 00:16:36.029 We watched them do the same thing 00:16:36.029 --> 00:16:38.585 with Bernie... and so this tendency 00:16:38.585 --> 00:16:40.829 to look at everything that folks on the right 00:16:40.829 --> 00:16:42.818 do as not recognizable within 00:16:42.818 --> 00:16:44.607 our own structures is part of what's 00:16:44.607 --> 00:16:46.203 making that conversation so difficult. 00:16:46.203 --> 00:16:47.531 Over the past several years 00:16:47.531 --> 00:16:48.670 the United Snakes has witnessed 00:16:48.670 --> 00:16:50.379 a dramatic rise in reactionary 00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:52.253 white paramilitary violence. 00:16:52.253 --> 00:16:54.165 Can you speak to the role that this type 00:16:54.165 --> 00:16:55.662 of violence plays in terms of 00:16:55.662 --> 00:16:57.415 maintaining white supremacy and 00:16:57.415 --> 00:16:59.562 reinforcing the domination of the state 00:16:59.562 --> 00:17:00.514 and capitalism? 00:17:00.514 --> 00:17:02.292 Historically when populations of folks 00:17:02.292 --> 00:17:05.306 have lost a lot of access to resources, 00:17:05.306 --> 00:17:07.787 y'know, call it privilege, whatever... 00:17:07.787 --> 00:17:10.381 there has been this shift to blame. 00:17:10.381 --> 00:17:11.979 In this case we're talking about 00:17:11.979 --> 00:17:13.398 the loss of jobs, homes, 00:17:13.398 --> 00:17:15.299 y'know, opportunities for advancement, 00:17:15.299 --> 00:17:17.987 long-term security, food... y'know... 00:17:17.987 --> 00:17:20.430 these are all really vital things 00:17:20.430 --> 00:17:23.236 that have been slowly slipping away and 00:17:23.236 --> 00:17:24.697 people are looking for somebody to blame. 00:17:24.697 --> 00:17:28.600 And since very few of the elements on 00:17:28.600 --> 00:17:29.931 our side of the barricade are 00:17:29.931 --> 00:17:31.601 actively trying to organize folks 00:17:31.601 --> 00:17:32.815 to target their actual enemies, 00:17:32.815 --> 00:17:34.612 and the right wing is heavily focused 00:17:34.612 --> 00:17:36.728 on that, they continue to play 00:17:36.728 --> 00:17:38.437 the foot soldiers of white supremacy 00:17:38.437 --> 00:17:39.784 and divide the working class. 00:17:39.784 --> 00:17:41.402 They keep the struggle and the violence 00:17:41.402 --> 00:17:42.903 contained within the working class, 00:17:42.903 --> 00:17:45.055 which again re-institutes the power 00:17:45.055 --> 00:17:46.922 of the state overall. 00:17:46.922 --> 00:17:49.845 It benefits the neoliberals as well. 00:17:49.845 --> 00:17:51.547 We also need to take a really hard look 00:17:51.547 --> 00:17:53.178 at the way that the institutional left 00:17:53.178 --> 00:17:55.090 has, again, driven the conversation about 00:17:55.090 --> 00:17:58.015 the resistance of folks of colour and all 00:17:58.015 --> 00:17:59.599 the uprisings that we've seen over 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:00.857 the last several years, 00:18:00.857 --> 00:18:02.689 into these very useless, academic 00:18:02.689 --> 00:18:04.197 hand-wringing conversations about 00:18:04.197 --> 00:18:05.661 white guilt and privilege. 00:18:05.661 --> 00:18:07.128 White folks recognizing that they have 00:18:07.128 --> 00:18:08.877 a stake in the fight against 00:18:08.877 --> 00:18:10.096 white supremacy itself is 00:18:10.096 --> 00:18:11.312 incredibly important. 00:18:11.312 --> 00:18:12.778 As well as addressing the obligation 00:18:12.778 --> 00:18:14.729 that we have to use our access to 00:18:14.729 --> 00:18:16.397 white spaces and our complicity in 00:18:16.397 --> 00:18:17.984 white supremacy to actively work 00:18:17.984 --> 00:18:18.999 against it. 00:18:18.999 --> 00:18:20.180 But we are much more effective 00:18:20.180 --> 00:18:21.397 working against it when 00:18:21.397 --> 00:18:22.372 we're not being hampered by 00:18:22.372 --> 00:18:24.492 white guilt and liberal ally politics. 00:18:24.492 --> 00:18:26.112 What strategies should revolutionaries 00:18:26.112 --> 00:18:27.771 in the United Snakes be undertaking 00:18:27.771 --> 00:18:29.488 to address this recent surge in 00:18:29.488 --> 00:18:31.113 racially-motivated attacks? 00:18:31.113 --> 00:18:32.863 White anti-racists and revolutionaries 00:18:32.863 --> 00:18:34.729 need to be digging in for a long fight 00:18:34.729 --> 00:18:37.237 for the hearts and souls of 00:18:37.237 --> 00:18:38.708 our neighbours, family members, 00:18:38.708 --> 00:18:40.374 friends and community members. 00:18:40.374 --> 00:18:42.162 We need to be taking over and making 00:18:42.162 --> 00:18:44.072 space for anti-racist education 00:18:44.072 --> 00:18:45.931 from a working-class perspective in 00:18:45.931 --> 00:18:47.519 the cultural spaces already dominated 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:48.828 by the white working class. 00:18:48.828 --> 00:18:50.819 Anywhere people use as spaces of 00:18:50.819 --> 00:18:53.503 convergence: gun shows, concerts, 00:18:53.503 --> 00:18:55.250 swap meets, bowling alleys, 00:18:55.250 --> 00:18:56.874 BBQs, baseball games... 00:18:56.874 --> 00:18:58.213 places where our families and 00:18:58.213 --> 00:18:59.556 friends frequent. 00:18:59.556 --> 00:19:00.694 We need to be actually organizing in 00:19:00.694 --> 00:19:02.233 our communities against white supremacy 00:19:02.233 --> 00:19:03.297 and capitalism. 00:19:03.297 --> 00:19:04.393 At the same time we gotta be able to 00:19:04.393 --> 00:19:05.981 defend our neighbourhoods, communities, 00:19:05.981 --> 00:19:07.232 and collaborate with others to build 00:19:07.232 --> 00:19:08.950 strong movements of resistance. 00:19:08.950 --> 00:19:10.373 We advocate for coalitions of 00:19:10.373 --> 00:19:11.797 community defence initiatives that 00:19:11.797 --> 00:19:13.876 work to build armed and unarmed defence 00:19:13.876 --> 00:19:15.340 of marginalized communities, 00:19:15.340 --> 00:19:17.165 including white working-class communities, 00:19:17.165 --> 00:19:18.379 from reactionary attacks 00:19:18.379 --> 00:19:20.585 at both the street and systemic levels. 00:19:20.585 --> 00:19:22.170 As long as our enemies are heavily armed, 00:19:22.170 --> 00:19:23.429 we need to be knowledgeable of how to 00:19:23.429 --> 00:19:25.250 fight that threat without resorting to 00:19:25.250 --> 00:19:26.639 oppressive state power. 00:19:26.639 --> 00:19:28.714 We also have to insert ourselves directly 00:19:28.714 --> 00:19:30.014 into the areas where militant 00:19:30.014 --> 00:19:32.123 reactionaries radicalize and recruit. 00:19:32.123 --> 00:19:33.658 We have to meet people where they're at, 00:19:33.658 --> 00:19:35.657 y'know? Otherwise we're always going to 00:19:35.657 --> 00:19:36.990 have a steady flow of people ready 00:19:36.990 --> 00:19:38.688 to plan these attacks. 00:19:38.688 --> 00:19:40.939 This is our dual strategy that we offer 00:19:40.939 --> 00:19:42.120 at Redneck Revolt. 00:19:42.120 --> 00:19:44.314 Organize and prepare to defend. 00:19:44.314 --> 00:19:46.020 Can you tell us a bit about your group, 00:19:46.020 --> 00:19:47.925 Redneck Revolt and your affiliate project, 00:19:47.925 --> 00:19:49.754 the John Brown Gun Club? 00:19:49.754 --> 00:19:51.865 So Redneck Revolt is a national umbrella 00:19:51.865 --> 00:19:53.859 which attempts to offer resources, 00:19:53.859 --> 00:19:56.177 direction and organization to individuals 00:19:56.177 --> 00:19:57.841 and branches across the country. 00:19:57.841 --> 00:19:59.426 And we're encouraging individuals 00:19:59.426 --> 00:20:01.137 interested in forming a branch to 00:20:01.137 --> 00:20:03.210 contact us, find out if a branch 00:20:03.210 --> 00:20:04.304 has already been formed, 00:20:04.304 --> 00:20:06.904 or find out how to form one of their own. 00:20:06.904 --> 00:20:09.262 Branches will engage in activities ranging 00:20:09.262 --> 00:20:11.253 from outreach with historical, political, 00:20:11.253 --> 00:20:12.834 economic and social analysis, 00:20:12.834 --> 00:20:14.460 networking with other groups of 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:15.961 marginalized folks, leftists, and 00:20:15.961 --> 00:20:18.119 anti-capitalists and anti-racists, 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.790 to basic firearm acquaintance and safety, 00:20:20.790 --> 00:20:22.947 community defence, legal assistance 00:20:22.947 --> 00:20:23.727 and more. 00:20:23.727 --> 00:20:25.269 A number of chapters have already formed 00:20:25.269 --> 00:20:27.180 and interest is growing by the day. 00:20:27.180 --> 00:20:28.479 We've gotten... especially since 00:20:28.479 --> 00:20:30.267 the election, we've just gotten dozens 00:20:30.267 --> 00:20:31.654 of emails and messages on our 00:20:31.654 --> 00:20:32.795 facebook page about, y'know, 00:20:32.795 --> 00:20:34.338 “do you have a chapter here”... 00:20:34.338 --> 00:20:36.369 “I wanna start a chapter here”. 00:20:36.369 --> 00:20:37.702 Several chapters have chosen to 00:20:37.702 --> 00:20:39.213 stick with the name Redneck Revolt, 00:20:39.213 --> 00:20:41.319 and then, like Phoenix for example 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:42.952 has chosen to call their branch 00:20:42.952 --> 00:20:44.298 the John Brown Gun Club, 00:20:44.298 --> 00:20:46.171 of course in reference to the legacy of 00:20:46.171 --> 00:20:47.835 John Brown, but also referencing a 00:20:47.835 --> 00:20:49.873 similar project undertaken years ago 00:20:49.873 --> 00:20:52.595 right here in Lawrence that became 00:20:52.595 --> 00:20:54.792 the inspiration for Redneck Revolt. 00:20:54.792 --> 00:20:55.724 Thanks y'all. 00:20:55.724 --> 00:20:57.549 And that about does it for this sedition 00:20:57.549 --> 00:20:59.257 of it's the end of the world as we know it 00:20:59.257 --> 00:21:00.316 and I feel fine. 00:21:00.316 --> 00:21:01.740 In case you didn't know, peeps 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:03.487 are planning a massive mobilization 00:21:03.487 --> 00:21:06.491 to unwelcome Donald Trump on January 20th 00:21:06.491 --> 00:21:07.630 in Washington DC. 00:21:07.630 --> 00:21:09.244 To get the deets, visit: 00:21:11.652 --> 00:21:13.874 Next month will mark the 10th anniversary 00:21:13.874 --> 00:21:15.101 of this fucking show. 00:21:15.101 --> 00:21:16.635 Can you believe that shit? 00:21:16.635 --> 00:21:18.391 We have a very special show planned 00:21:18.391 --> 00:21:20.626 and due to drop on December 12th. 00:21:20.626 --> 00:21:22.091 So mark your fucking calendars! 00:21:22.091 --> 00:21:24.575 Call you peeps and get your popcorn ready. 00:21:24.575 --> 00:21:27.134 As always, this show is independently 00:21:27.134 --> 00:21:29.403 funded and that has allowed us to run our 00:21:29.403 --> 00:21:31.519 mouth against Bush, Obama and now 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:33.396 this orange-faced anomaly. 00:21:33.396 --> 00:21:35.509 This month, the following wage slaves 00:21:35.509 --> 00:21:37.987 dropped some Trump dollars in our tip jar. 00:21:37.987 --> 00:21:40.211 So, many mothafuckin thanks to: 00:21:40.211 --> 00:21:42.533 Olivia, Clara, Sawyer, Kaley, Jason, 00:21:42.533 --> 00:21:44.533 Ranko, Jacob, Masiege, Brian, 00:21:44.533 --> 00:21:46.933 Daniel, Matthew, Anthony, Jennifer, 00:21:46.933 --> 00:21:48.878 Francois, Shannon, Stephen, Jonathan, 00:21:48.878 --> 00:21:50.911 Max, Margaret, Martin, Derek, Megsha, 00:21:50.911 --> 00:21:53.106 Sam, Jania, Gregory, Luigi, John, 00:21:53.106 --> 00:21:55.179 Matt, Maya, Liam, Jorge, Luise, 00:21:55.179 --> 00:21:57.242 Louis, Sebastian, Yifan, Renzo, 00:21:57.242 --> 00:21:59.038 Christopher, Lara, Tom, Scott, Jeremy, 00:21:59.038 --> 00:22:01.508 Jonathon, Jacob, Gavin, Wolfgang, Ryan, 00:22:01.508 --> 00:22:03.551 Benjamin, Kate, Justina, Veronica, 00:22:03.551 --> 00:22:06.353 Jonie, Kirk, Zav, Marisol, Joseph, 00:22:06.353 --> 00:22:08.675 Sawyer, Phillip, Stephen, Coby, Sebastian, 00:22:08.675 --> 00:22:10.988 Juliano, Brett, Volkov, Carlos, Phillip, 00:22:10.988 --> 00:22:13.349 Corey, Gabrial, Michael, Bear, Flynn, 00:22:13.349 --> 00:22:15.413 Glencora, Pear, Laura, Andrew, Alex, 00:22:15.413 --> 00:22:17.702 Karen, Jaime, Andrew, Jann, Jane, 00:22:17.702 --> 00:22:20.420 Kyle, Erodor, Steve, Blake, Jim, 00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:22.699 Carley, Peter, Jay, Jaws, Raul, 00:22:22.699 --> 00:22:25.342 Namivida, Roger, Thomas, Bretton, 00:22:25.342 --> 00:22:27.007 Deda, Hanson, Nicholas, Alberto, 00:22:27.007 --> 00:22:29.043 Robin and Anton. 00:22:29.043 --> 00:22:30.060 Mujara Fritas! 00:22:30.060 --> 00:22:32.298 This month I'd like to welcome the newest 00:22:32.298 --> 00:22:35.102 members of the taconspiracy: Enabler, Kyle 00:22:35.102 --> 00:22:37.256 Anonymous, Kate, Ryan and Sawyer. 00:22:37.256 --> 00:22:38.232 Panucho! 00:22:38.232 --> 00:22:40.384 With that said... we've been here before, 00:22:40.384 --> 00:22:41.762 so don't panic. 00:22:41.762 --> 00:22:43.786 Get organized and disrupt G20!