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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.

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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!

Call you peeps and get your popcorn ready.

As always, this show is independently

funded and that has allowed us to run our

mouth against Bush, Obama and now

this orange-faced anomaly.

This month, the following wage slaves

dropped some Trump dollars in our tip jar.

So, many mothafuckin thanks to:

Olivia, Clara, Sawyer, Kaley, Jason,

Ranko, Jacob, Masiege, Brian,

Daniel, Matthew, Anthony, Jennifer,

Francois, Shannon, Stephen, Jonathan,

Max, Margaret, Martin, Derek, Megsha,

Sam, Jania, Gregory, Luigi, John,

Matt, Maya, Liam, Jorge, Luise,

Louis, Sebastian, Yifan, Renzo,

Christopher, Lara, Tom, Scott, Jeremy,

Jonathon, Jacob, Gavin, Wolfgang, Ryan,

Benjamin, Kate, Justina, Veronica,

Jonie, Kirk, Zav, Marisol, Joseph,

Sawyer, Phillip, Stephen, Coby, Sebastian,

Juliano, Brett, Volkov, Carlos, Phillip,

Corey, Gabrial, Michael, Bear, Flynn,

Glencora, Pear, Laura, Andrew, Alex,

Karen, Jaime, Andrew, Jann, Jane,

Kyle, Erodor, Steve, Blake, Jim,

Carley, Peter, Jay, Jaws, Raul,

Namivida, Roger, Thomas, Bretton,

Deda, Hanson, Nicholas, Alberto,

Robin and Anton.

Mujara Fritas!

This month I'd like to welcome the newest

members of the taconspiracy: Enabler, Kyle

Anonymous, Kate, Ryan and Sawyer.

Panucho!

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

so don't panic.

Get organized and disrupt G20!