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March 16, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Hello folks, I thought I'd give you a quick update.
So I think I'm going to go back to doing This Week in Stupid in the old style.
It's not that I had any problems with it and it didn't seem that the majority of people had problems with that either.
I mean a lot of people actually told me they prefer it.
In fact, more people than not said that they preferred it this way.
But to be honest with you, I feel really lazy doing it because it's actually so much easier.
I just feel like I'm not putting in the work and I don't like feeling like I'm not putting in the work.
So I'm going to be returning to the old format and I think that that's probably something everyone will be alright with at the end of the day.
If you wanted more of these sort of long form videos or more off-the-cuff videos on single topics, you could subscribe to my new channel called The Thinkery.
Now, if you don't know what The Thinkery is, you should look up Aristophanes and you'll probably be able to find out.
As I said, I'll be posting a lot more of these sort of shorter single-issue videos.
And I'll also be moving the Cyberpunk 2020 streams and any inevitable future dorky D ⁇ D streams that I do to that channel as well.
Because they seem really out of place on my live stream channel.
And I never really meant to do them on there anyway.
But on my new media channel, I'd had a copyright strike when I started doing it.
So I couldn't stream on the channel.
But this one I can, so I will do.
And any gaming content that I want to put up, I'll be putting up on there as well.
As well as a selection of amusing clips that I find around the internet.
Things like this.
We agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants.
We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants.
All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace, as recommended by the Commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
I believe that marriage is not just a bond, but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
I have had occasion in my life to defend marriage, to stand up for marriage, to believe in the hard work and challenge of marriage.
So I take Umbrage at anyone who might suggest that those of us who worry about amending the Constitution are less committed to the sanctity of marriage or to the fundamental bedrock principle that it exists between a man and a woman going back into the mists of history.
He reported that as first lady, Hillary led the effort to disparage her husband's woman accusers who were dismissed as bimbo eruptions.
In November, she wrote on her Twitter page, she said, every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.
That's interesting.
How have you ever heard and supported and believed?
She tried to basically derail me.
Because we have finally gotten more police officers on the street.
That was one of the goals that the President had when he pushed the crime bill that was passed in 1994.
He promised 100,000 police.
We're moving in that direction, but we can see it already makes a difference.
Because if we have more police interacting with people, having them on the streets, we can prevent crimes.
We can prevent petty crimes from turning into something worse.
But we also have to have an organized effort against gangs, just as in a previous generation we had an organized effort against the mob.
We need to take these people on.
They are often connected to big drug cartels.
They are not just gangs of kids anymore.
They are often the kinds of kids that are called super predators.
No conscience, no empathy.
We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heal.
The number of tweets and then the retweets and those people piling in, dogpiling as you call it, mean there have been something like 5,000 tweets, pretty much referring to raping you or not raping you.
Yeah, I mean, their level of discourse is that they're saying that they don't want to rape me as if raping is something that they do to someone they liked.
It's a strange, gosh knows where they've got it from.
But yeah, it's about 5,000 people, 5,000 notifications or mentions that I've got.
Yeah, and the ones that are saying I wouldn't rape you, and the others that are saying, this is not an insult, that they're saying they wouldn't rape you.
It's as though you should be grateful somehow for that.
I mean, I don't normally, when I'm walking up and down the street, feel the need to say to people, I'm not going to mug you, I'm not going to hit you because we're normal human beings.
But yeah, it's as if I should be thankful that these people are saying that they're not going to rape me.
You describe them as idiots.
I've looked at the guidelines for what should be what under existing law could be treated as a crime.
And there are a number of credible threats of violence to a person or property, communications targeting an individual which may constitute harassment or stalking.
Communications which may be considered grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or false.
Have you contacted the police?
I haven't on this incident.
I mean, obviously, it all sort of happened yesterday.
It was a bank holiday.
I was actually, whilst these people think that I'm sitting around playing the victim, I was playing games in the garden with my children most of the day.
So I don't let it bother me.
I will speak to the police.
I don't need to contact the police anymore because the police, my local police officers, watch what happens on Twitter and they get in touch with me.
I'm sure they will get in touch with me.
Although, actually, I think that the vast majority of these people who are doing this are in America.
So there's very little West Midlands Police can do about it.
But I certainly will be contacting Twitter about some of the ringleaders of this dogpiling.
I will also, I think that actually I've got to the stage now where I feel that legal action, be it civil or criminal, in some way, is the way to attack these people.
Well, the question is also being asked, a lot of attention has been placed on his candidacy, Donald Trump, in the media.
Now you have reports saying, listen, what about his supporters?
What are we learning about his supporters, the new people truly, that he is, to his point, bringing into the fold?
Gabe Gutierrez, actually, Jacob, one of our reporters, and I don't want to quote the wrong reporter here, was just out of the Trump campaign.
I think we have the sound, and my team will have to tell me where they spoke with some Trump supporters.
Let's play what they said.
They've been Duke and people like that.
They come out of under the rocks all the time around this time.
This year, it got nothing to do with Donald Trump.
We're all Americans.
I think we need to stop with all the racist stuff and the race being.
Like, me and my friend right here, we just met today.
We was talking.
You know, we got to stop with the racist stuff and this and that.
We all Americans, man.
Nobody pay attention to it.
Clearly, let me just be clear here.
Obviously, the majority of Donald Trump supporters are not African American.
I don't know how many African Americans were in that building, but that is one person that we have chosen to cut that down from David.
And that's exactly what I hear.
What Yamish just said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talked to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters.
It's like, oh, yeah, you guys are going crazy.
He's doing, what are you so surprised about?
He's doing exactly what he said he's going to do.
Well, and I think that the dangerous edges here are that he's trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts.
And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think.
And that is our job.
Yeah, if you look.
The Nazis had the brown shirts.
Okay, Obama has proposed, and I keep hearing him talk about it.
He wants to have a nation of, what, 2 million citizen army, armed as well as the army?
Well, he's talking about an army of volunteers.
Did you do volunteer work, right?
They're going to be armed.
I don't think they're going to be armed with weapons.
They're going to be armed as well as the army is.
What I'm saying is that Hitler was a good speaker.
He turned a lot of people on with his eloquent speeches, and so was our current president.
What do you think, in your view, what is fascism here?
What are you trying to tell us with your sign?
Well, if fascism is a form of socialism, I would believe.
I mean, they're all intertwined.
Communism, fascism, socialism.
They all have a little bit of each, they borrow from each other.
Holy shit, if you're getting arrested, this is bullshit!
Why are you here?
You're not here to protect these students from Nazis.
No, you're not.
This is completely fucked up.
And these students had to fucking face them all year long.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
You should be standing up to those Nazis.
You should be protecting these students and hate!
This is hate!
These are fucking assholes!
This is a joke!
You're protecting the Nazis!
It's a fucking joke!
You are a joke!
You're crowned boys!
You're crowned boys!
I need to blur on crime!
You're a fucking brown Ontario, motherfucker!
You're not protecting!
And I'm disgusted!
I'm a protester!
How dare you!
How dare you, fucking assholes!
Protect neo-Nazis!
Fuck you!
These idiots are trying to learn about humanity!
They're trying to learn about human rights and against racism and xenophobia and LGBTQ rights!
And you're letting these fucking neo-Nazis sneer here!
You should kick their ass!
You should!
You should be ashamed of yourself!
You should!
Fuck you!
Fuck that shit!
It's not up to these students to kick the ass of the Deo Nazi!
They don't have to raise their fists!
They were taught to be peaceful!
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
It's called free speech.
No, it's called Communist Faggot.
Are you like the Hipster version of the Neo-Class?
It's Pepe's become kind of a symbol.
Patriarchy.
Dun dun dun.
Lightning.
Listen, I'm Polish, and my entire life I've had to deal with stories of my family not being able to make it here from Poland.
And these people walk on the street with a hammer and sickle on their shirt, and I'm not supposed to be offended, but they can call me Nazi whenever they want.
It's fucking bullshit.
Millions of Poles died, and I deal with people walking with their fucking Jacob Art shirts and their fucking hammer and sickle.
And I'm tired of being called a fucking and don't like these fucking trash.
He should be able to control Washington, New York.
Come here and stand up against these Nazi fucks.
Join me.
Come here.
stand up against these nazi neo clan fucks All I'm saying is, I'm not going to be able to do that.
Yo, Antifa.
You're welcome to come down here and face up against me, huh?
What's Antifa?
Who's Antifa?
What do you know?
No, Trump, no KKK, no fascist fucks like these.
Nah, just dumbass, ignorant communists like that, right?
Look at this guy.
Look at him.
Come on, tell me.
Tell me.
Look at this guy and you tell me.
Go home, Nazi.
Go home, Nazi.
Everybody's a Nazi now.
Go home, Nazi.
This is the biggest rally since November, guys.
Donald J. Trump is now president of the United States.
Oh no!
Oh we should film it!
Oh no!
Hey, people.
Hey.
This is library.
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