Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain Will Not Work
Aired: 2016-03-01
Duration: 05:13


=== Why Satirizing Trump Fails (05:12) ===

[00:00:00]  I don't normally do this many videos, but I really do think this is important because I really think people have to understand that John Oliver isn't just a comedian.
[00:00:08]  He is also a political activist.
[00:00:11]  Everything he does is political.
[00:00:13]  Sometimes they genuinely are political people, and John Oliver is one of these people, right?
[00:00:19]  He has a very popular show.
[00:00:20]  A lot of left-wing people watch it.
[00:00:22]  I watch it.
[00:00:22]  I like it.
[00:00:24]  However, I mean, you don't do a 20-minute demolition job like that on someone if you don't have a political message.
[00:00:32]  That's a ridiculous thing to think, right?
[00:00:34]  They must have spent just hundreds of man hours between the teams of people it would have taken to pull all of this information together.
[00:00:44]  I know this because that's what I do.
[00:00:46]  I spend all this time finding this information about things to present a comprehensive case.
[00:00:51]  And I'm in awe of the job they did there.
[00:00:54]  That must have been so much work.
[00:00:56]  Finding these really tiny and obscure details, incredible job, right?
[00:01:01]  But then they build up this amazing case.
[00:01:04]  It's just, look, people don't care that Donald Trump's full of shit.
[00:01:08]  It doesn't matter to them.
[00:01:09]  So what are we going to do?
[00:01:11]  We're going to try and make fun of his name.
[00:01:13]  I mean, people, as if there's anything calling him Donald Trump is going to do to his name.
[00:01:20]  Like someone on Twitter said, this is like when conservatives call Barack Obama Hussein.
[00:01:25]  You know, it doesn't matter.
[00:01:27]  You know, it's not something that's going to affect Donald Trump in any way, shape or form.
[00:01:33]  He thrives on being called names.
[00:01:35]  That's what the Republicans have done to him from day one.
[00:01:38]  Everyone, everyone on earth calls him a racist, apart from the people who are tired of being called racists.
[00:01:44]  Because they have genuine pressing needs.
[00:01:47]  Even if they're people you don't like and you don't respect, you have successfully shut their voice out of the public dialogue and this is them reinserting it.
[00:01:58]  This is what you get.
[00:01:59]  You get Donald Trump and he, and it turns out there are a lot more of these people than you thought there were going to be.
[00:02:04]  There are a lot more.
[00:02:06]  So many people feel disenfranchised.
[00:02:08]  They want a change to the status quo.
[00:02:09]  And now you're getting it.
[00:02:11]  And suddenly it's like, oh God, what are we going to do?
[00:02:13]  We're going to make fun of it.
[00:02:15]  No, read this.
[00:02:18]  This will tell you what's going on.
[00:02:20]  Right?
[00:02:21]  Donald Trump is not the establishment.
[00:02:23]  You cannot use satire on him because he is already a joke.
[00:02:27]  It's Donald fucking Trump.
[00:02:30]  For the love of God, he is a human caricature.
[00:02:33]  What are you going to take the piss out of?
[00:02:35]  That doesn't already exist a thousand times over.
[00:02:40]  He is just not something you can try to satirize.
[00:02:45]  So stop it.
[00:02:46]  You've tried to address, you pointed out, John, that, like, he is already ridiculous.
[00:02:55]  He is already at the point where people don't care what is said about him anymore.
[00:03:02]  It doesn't matter.
[00:03:02]  It didn't affect him that, you know, the KKK are out, even though they're not, you know, it just, like, it doesn't matter to people.
[00:03:10]  These are not things that matter.
[00:03:11]  These are all ancillary to the main problem, which is the establishment.
[00:03:15]  It doesn't work for them, and they want to fight it.
[00:03:20]  Seriously, and to think that, like, a video that 17 million people on Facebook, 2 million people on YouTube, and God knows how many millions of people on fucking TV have seen this, and it's this amazing demolition job, and it's, oh, it's just a joke.
[00:03:36]  That hashtag and viral hashtag campaign.
[00:03:38]  Fucking mugs, hats, t-shirts, whatever.
[00:03:41]  A Google Chrome extension.
[00:03:44]  You know, oh, it's just a joke.
[00:03:45]  No, it's not just a joke.
[00:03:46]  This is political activism.
[00:03:48]  You have to learn to recognize it for what it is.
[00:03:51]  It's not just a joke.
[00:03:53]  And this amazing argument and this amazing platform have been completely wasted by John Oliver's absolute inability to see how to defeat Donald Trump.
[00:04:04]  And I don't even know if it is possible to defeat Donald Trump.
[00:04:07]  That's the thing.
[00:04:08]  I genuinely don't know if that's the case.
[00:04:10]  there would have to be some serious fucking soul-searching from the establishment for for Donald Trump to become the unappealing candidate now it's I don't I mean this is this is the the seed you've sown among so many so many different people and And, you know, I don't know what to say.
[00:04:32]  I don't know what to say or do.
[00:04:33]  I'm not the fucking expert here.
[00:04:34]  But my God, I'm really disappointed to see major establishment, left-wing establishment figures like you, in fact, John Oliver, really drop the ball on this.
[00:04:43]  This is not the solution to the Donald Trump problem.
[00:04:47]  And honestly, Hillary Clinton is not any kind of solution for the left either.
[00:04:50]  Just she just should quit, frankly.
[00:04:55]  Everyone on the left should vote for Bernie Sanders and then hope people who are undecided vote for him as well.
[00:05:00]  That's because Donald Trump looks like a crazy potential dictator.
[00:05:03]  That's what we in the left should be concentrating on trying to make happen.
[00:05:07]  But instead, you're like, oh, let's call Donald Trump names.
[00:05:10]  No, that's that's retarded.
[00:05:12]  It's retarded.