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May 14, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (14⧸05⧸2017)
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Hello everyone, welcome to This Week in Stupid for the 14th of May 2017.
This week we will be talking about the bad week El Presidente himself has been having.
You don't have to look hard to find Jeremy Corbyn supporters complaining about media bias against Jeremy Corbyn.
And the thing is, I don't think that media bias is the right term for this.
I think the problem is that Jeremy and his supporters keep simply putting their foot in their mouths repeatedly and they just can't stop.
Take for example when a cameraman's foot was run over by a car carrying Jeremy Corbyn.
All it was was that a cameraman's foot was accidentally run over by the car that Jeremy Corbyn was in.
Not that he was driving it, he was just in the car.
This means absolutely nothing.
Except to Jeremy Corbyn's supporters who claim that the BBC cameraman deliberately got himself run over in an attempt to discredit Jeremy Corbyn.
Yes, that makes total sense.
It's not that there was an accident that resulted in the cameraman having to go to hospital, he thought, I will simply injure myself as a way of discrediting Corbyn, instead of what everyone else does, which is simply letting him speak.
Because that's all you need to do to discredit Jeremy Corbyn.
We in the radical end, the left of the unions and the Labour Party, have got to be realistic that NATO is a major problem and a major difficulty and we have to campaign against NATO's power, its influence and its global reach because it is a danger to world peace and a danger to world security.
But campaigning against NATO is by far the most ridiculous thing Jeremy Corbyn has done.
This week it emerged that Jeremy Corbyn was arrested at a protest in favour of an IRA terrorist who murdered five people in the 1980s.
Corbyn also said that Britain has not fought a just war since 1945.
For some reason Corbyn decided to omit some key British military campaigns, such as the Suez Crisis in 1956, or the troubles in Northern Ireland, or the Falklands War, where Argentina invaded British territory against the will of the British citizens there.
Or, more recently, the international campaign against ISIS.
Yeah, that's not a just war or anything, is it, Jeremy?
But I tell you what, my favourite one was when he praised Fidel Castro after his death as a champion of social justice.
This really got my fucking goat.
He said, from building a world-class health and education system, you must be fucking joking, to Cuba's record of international solidarity abroad, you mean meddling in the affairs of other countries, even though they're an impoverished third world nation.
But carry on, Corbyn.
Castro's achievements were many.
For all his flaws, Castro's support for Angola played a crucial role in bringing an end to apartheid South Africa, and he will be remembered as both an internationalist and a champion of social justice.
Do you want to know something interesting?
This week, I received an email from a subscriber of mine from Cuba.
In fact, I received two, and I've put them together, and I'm just going to read them verbatim, so you can get an impression of what Cuba is like from someone who lives there.
Some of what I'm about to say may be poorly worded since English isn't my first language, but I'll give it a try.
I come from Cuba, which is supposed to be the best example of communism out there, and I must say, most of the Western world's leftist communist media are a bunch of lunatics who have no idea what they're wishing for.
From an early age, we are indoctrinated with the belief that we are the only country in the world with free education, but this is a lie.
Cuban communism culture revolves around Jose Marti, who believed that children should work from an early age, and our president interpreted his ideals literally.
So we are forced, literally forced, to work in fields for two years since we're 16 until we're 18.
They put us in pre-university camps that are nothing short of prisons, with barbed fence walls so that none of us may escape from the hell they put us through.
We work in the fields from 7.30am till 12pm, picking up crops which usually go towards government-run food stores or to feed the army.
Now, going back to my earlier point about school being free, what we are made to do day in, day out completely denies our schools are free bullshit.
You are forced to go to these schools.
If you refuse, an army truck will come and pick you up, then they'd beat you senseless for just avoiding the slave work we're meant to go through.
Teachers in Cuba are also allowed to use physical force to set disobedient students straight, which they do with ease because most students are forced to work in the field are malnourished.
Malnourished because all you get for your hard work at lunch is yellow beans filled with bugs and weak old stone hard bread.
Showers are another thing, always in the worst condition you can imagine since they were public and nobody ever paid attention to them.
All you got was a bucket of water to clean yourself up.
The toilets were in even worse condition, with shit rolling around everywhere but the roof.
He asked me not to use his last name and I'm not going to use his name at all because apparently the Cuban government is silly strict about anti-patriotism.
I'd be more than happy if you shared this story.
I mean there's many more that I'm willing to share with you.
There are so many terrible things that happen to the people of Cuba in the name of communism that go unheard because most of the Cubans that live outside of there simply want to move on with their lives and only worry about feeding their families.
If any government official finds out that you're talking smack about Cuba, they can and will exile you, which is something I personally wouldn't want because of my family that resides there.
Now this leads me to think about the fact that people can be blind and indoctrinated out of political ideas.
My mother was subject to even worse treatment than us when she was younger.
She was so malnutritioned she only weighed between 20 and 30 kilograms at the age of 16 and one of her teachers was no less than our uncle who is mad about patriotism and communism.
He didn't care that she was blood.
She still forced and beat if she didn't pick up the selected amount of crops that she was supposed to pick or if she slacked in the cleaning of the showers and toilets which was no easy task and a completely impossible one for people with weak stomachs.
It gets me thinking about how Muslim radicals must feel, the ones that are raised to hate Western societies as children, and they follow their thoughts not as politics or an ideology, but as a religion.
Terrifying, isn't it?
The Cuban people would kill and die for their communism.
Imagine if it was in the name of God, with an afterlife promise.
They'd be going into greater lengths to achieve victory.
I myself thought of Fidel Castro as a saint when I left Cuba, but oh how wrong I was.
Which also reminds me of the things that he has done to his people, and nobody has ever even bothered to speak about them.
The Castros have Cuba in their grasp, for when they launched the revolution they came across clueless farm workers whose lands might have belonged to them at one point, but they signed a law or treaty if you can call it that, called Le de Reforma Agraria.
This basically gave control of all of their lands to Fidel Castro, who claimed them in the name of the revolution.
As most farm workers at the time that didn't know how to read or write, they simply signed laws and paperwork that Fidel Castro gave them in exchange for literacy.
If that isn't the devil's work, I don't know what is.
Cuba also claimed to be the only illiteracy-free country of the South Americas by the 1980s.
However, this is not true either.
My great-grandfather, who's still alive along with my great-grandmother, remain illiterate to this day and they're 92 and 94 years of age.
My great-grandfather was smart enough to see through Fidel's ploy to attempt to gain his land by the offer of literacy in exchange for his land.
So thankfully he has some of the land to call his own, unlike almost every other farm worker Cuba has.
Now, I can't attest to the validity of this statement.
I don't know if this is true or not.
However, it does line up with other things I have read about Cuba.
But I do know that the average wage of a Cuban person is $25 a month and that Castro died with $900 million worth of assets, Corbyn.
He's not a champion of social justice.
He is a fucking tyrant.
Ibs.
I find it the most bizarre thing in the world that you would advocate a course of action that would lead us down the same path.
We know where that road goes.
And it's not just Jeremy Corbyn.
The Labour Party itself is full of Marxists.
Take the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, who said this.
I'm honest with Pete.
I'm a Marxist.
This is a classic crisis of the economy, a pressed capitalist crisis.
I've been waiting for this for a generation.
Well, that seems fairly cut and dry to me.
In a candid conversation in a closed room with like-minded people, John McDonnell says, I'm a Marxist.
But for some reason, he won't say that in public.
He won't stand by his words.
Tell me one thing.
Do you think that the country as a whole has moved to the left?
I mean, you make no bones about saying you're a Marxist.
Your reaction to the capitalist crisis.
I'm a Marxist.
I'm honest with people.
Is that what the country as the world wants about?
I'm a socialist.
I'm a Marxist for the words you use.
I'm a socialist.
Are you a Marxist?
No, I'm a socialist.
Why don't you say I'm a Marxist?
Because actually, I was trying to, I was demonstrating a prediction of the capitalist crisis at the time, anyway.
I'm honest with people who said I'm a Marxist.
I was saying I was predicting what Marx would say in terms of the economic crisis that was coming.
You said I'm a Marxist.
I was predicting.
I was capitalist.
How about help refresh your memory there, John?
I'm honest with Pete.
I'm a Marxist.
You said you were honest with people and that you were a Marxist, John.
Why won't you say it in public?
So a very, very clear, simple question.
Are you a Marxist?
No.
I believe there's a lot to learn from.
No or a yes.
I couldn't work.
No, well, I tell you, I believe there's a lot to learn from reading Capital.
Yes, of course it is.
And that's been recommended, not just by me, but many others, mainstream economists as well.
But I also believe in the long tradition of the Labour Party, which involves people like GDH Cole, Torney and others.
You put that all together and you have, I think, a direction for our economy based upon sound principles of fairness.
Why do you keep saying no?
I'm honest with Pete.
I'm a Marxist.
Are you a Marxist?
No, Pete, I'm a Marxist.
Are you a Marxist?
No, Pete, I'm a Marxist.
Are you a Marxist?
No, Pete, I'm a Marxist.
The thing is, John, I'm pretty sure that you are just flat out lying to people at this point.
For example, for some reason, you take advice from communists.
I meet with a group of economists who give me advice on the systems, etc., who are modern economists.
And I find it really exciting.
So I'll just give people a name.
It's worth reading him up.
It's a guy called Joe Stiglitz.
And when there is a communist rally in London that attracted socialists from all across the spectrum, including big fans of Stalin, you went down there to give a speech that ended with you saying this.
So we need your support these coming weeks.
This is our opportunity, brothers and sisters.
Some of us have worked for this for all our lives.
So the message is this, yes, CARPADM.
Seize the moment.
This is our chance.
Take it, brothers and sisters!
Solidarity!
John, if it's not bad enough that you are a Marxist and this translates into a political ideology that you call socialism, and God knows what kind of brand of socialism it is, it's actually almost as bad that you are lying about this.
Because that means you are not only in favor of an ideology that is responsible for the death and suffering of millions and millions and millions of people, you are also trying to deceive us to make us think you're fucking not.
This is unacceptably duplicitous, John.
If you believe in this claptrap that has been shown time and time and time again to not fucking work, at least tell the truth.
Don't sit there and give me another line of bullshit about being appalled by the protesters who flew communist and Syria flags.
That's appalling.
I'm a trade unionist.
I believe like we did on May Day that you get out in the streets and you celebrate the value of the workers themselves.
When I saw those flags afterwards, I was absolutely furious.
Oh, you just didn't know.
Oh, you'd gone there, you'd given a whole speech.
I mean, the flag's only right fucking behind you, John.
You just didn't know.
You didn't see him.
I didn't know there were communists at this communist rally.
Fuck off!
Stop fucking lying!
But don't worry, John, you don't need to keep it secret.
I mean, after all, Jeremy Corbyn is a big fan of Karl Marx as well.
Corbyn has described Karl Marx as a great economist as he leapt to the defense of John McDonnell.
No, he wasn't a great economist.
In fact, I think that Marx might actually be in the running for one of the world's worst economists, which is why the social systems that come out of his philosophy all fucking fail.
I mean, there are so many aspects, but the thing that really gets to me, the thing that I just cannot get over, and I cannot understand that there are any people who are at adherence to this, is the idea of the labor theory of value, which is core to Marxist economics.
It's bullshit.
The whole thing is bullshit.
It's totalitarian.
It results in repressive, impoverished regimes with a minority of people, the party, in control of the entire country who end up super fucking wealthy.
Every goddamn time.
For fuck's sake.
This is not something we need to emulate.
It's not going to work.
Stop this fucking dream.
But you know what, John?
At least you got a straight answer from Jeremy.
At least you got him to commit to something.
Jeremy Corbyn will not answer a straight fucking question for anyone else.
Just ask him about anything.
What about the defense of the nation?
Something that, I mean, it should just be a cut and dried issue.
Is Britain going to be struck by nuclear weapons?
Do we retaliate?
The obvious answer is yes.
The obvious fucking answer, it's a no-brainer.
You just say, well, of course, if we're being attacked by nukes, we have to retaliate.
That's the point of the fucking nuclear deterrent in its entirety.
There is literally nothing else that needs to be said.
So why won't Corbyn say it?
If you win the election and you walk through the doors of Downing Street, almost the first thing that happens is that you're tapped on the shoulder by a senior civil servant who takes you off to a room to write four letters to the captains of Britain's nuclear submarines, telling them, instructing them what to do if this country's attacked in a nuclear strike.
So what will you be telling them?
What I'll be saying is that I want us to achieve a nuclear-free world.
What I want us to do is adhere to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and take part in negotiations surrounding that.
And this goes in the letters of command.
No, no.
Crucially, immediately promote the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula as a way of de-escalating nuclear tensions around the world.
Because at that point, you have to say something to the commanders.
You have to say, fire or don't fire.
And you can't, you know, you can't dodge it.
You have to give them in those letters a strict instruction.
A strict instruction to follow orders when given.
So you don't tell them to fire or not to fire.
They don't know what to do.
Listen, the issue has to be we want a secure and peaceful world.
We achieve that by promoting peace, by also promoting security.
And security comes from that process.
But as Prime Minister, you have very, very fast decisions to take on all of this.
Can I ask you directly, are there any circumstances in which you would authorise a nuclear strike?
Any circumstances?
Look, I've made clear my views on nuclear weapons.
I've made clear that there would be no first use of it.
I've made clear that any use of nuclear weapons is disaster for the whole world.
I think we should look at the process by which we achieve peace and security.
Because actually, nuclear weapons are not the solutions, the world's security issues.
They're the disaster of the world's security issues, if ever used.
Just answer the question.
But that's the point, isn't it?
You say, it has to be this way.
But it won't always be your way.
Do you understand?
It won't always be your fucking way.
You have to be able to adapt to a changing situation.
And the hypothetical being presented is that this is already happening.
And your answer is, well, we'll just give them the order to follow orders when they're given.
You're a fucking idiot.
But it's not like you don't have a long history of refusing to answer inconvenient questions that you'd rather not answer because it's just simply easier for you to ignore them.
Just because everyone and their dog who isn't a part of your cult of personality is saying, look, Corbyn, you are really what is wrong with the Labour Party.
You should probably go.
Doesn't mean you should listen to them.
No, no, no.
What you should do is just fucking ignore them.
And don't worry about answering any questions about Brexit.
When you are directly asked seven times to say that would you definitely take Britain out of the European Union if you were elected Prime Minister, there's no reason to answer that question.
Hell, don't even bother asking questions about Brexit.
That's just another one of those issues that you can just say, fuck it.
This will go away if I just simply fucking ignore it.
But I suppose we should be thankful that at least at some point in time, someone managed to pin you down enough to say, look, we're not at least going to be advocating for a second referendum.
And what will El Presidente do if there is a landslide Tory victory in the next general election?
Oh, he'll tell everyone to go and fucking suck it.
He won't quit, even if he loses.
He says, I was elected the leader of this party and I'll stay the leader of this party.
That's the sprit.
That's the spirit, Mr. President.
You tell those goddamn capitalists what the problem is.
That's the spirit, Jeremy.
Castro would be proud.
Is it any wonder that 100 moderate Labour MPs are planning to form a breakaway group if Jeremy Corbyn stays on after a Tory landslide, which appears to be the inevitable conclusion of this general election?
Labour faces a historic split after the election with as many as 100 of the party's MPs set to walk out and form their own breakaway group in an attempt to force out Jeremy Corbyn.
Moderate Labour candidates are already in talks with potential donors about the new progressives group forming in Parliament if Corbyn stays on as leader after a Tory landslide.
You know, they would be sensible to just simply do that now.
Just leave.
Start a new party and then, when labour has been crushed, bring in all of the refugees from Corbyn's regime.
People who aren't part of his cult of personality and actually understand how politics in this country works.
But don't worry, Jeremy, you'll always have the support of the Communist Party, who have decided not to field any candidates in competition with you.
But for some reason, the Socialist Party are actually in opposition to you.
So I guess it's not all peace and love and happiness in the Marxist utopia.
By the way, the interesting thing is they're not supporting Corbyn because he's not socialist enough if you can Adam and Eve it.
He's actually one of those socialists who thinks that a government should exist, or at least he doesn't publicly say that he wants to abolish the government.
So finally, let's have a look at the leaked manifesto of the Labour Party.
First up, he's committed to achieving a nuclear-free world and is extremely cautious about using Britain's nuclear deterrent.
Yes, we know.
You won't do anything if we are being attacked.
Next is Labour ruling out a no-deal Brexit, which is interesting because that means that if all we can get is a shit deal, and if the attitude from the Eurocrats since the Brexit election is anything to go by, that is undoubtedly their intention, we're just going to fucking suck it, is what you say, Jeremy.
And also, you're going to refuse to set a migration target because you don't do shit.
Migration is just something you can't possibly talk about.
Despite it being economically and culturally bad for the working class, you just can't bring yourself to say no.
Because the bourgeois socialists who make up your voter base would pitch a fucking fit and call you a racist, wouldn't they?
The party will also create a Ministry of Labour to hand more power to the trade unions.
Right, okay.
So what you are saying is you want another Thatcher.
You want the trade unions to have a stranglehold over the country, create a situation where, well, are we going to go back to three-day working weeks?
Are we going to go back to not giving a shit?
The electricity going out, the rubbish being piled up in the streets?
Who knows where this ends, Jeremy?
Oh, wait, we do.
Because we've already been down this road.
And of course, it wouldn't be socialism if we didn't also hate the rich.
Income tax hikes for those earning more than £80,000 a year.
Well, I mean, I wouldn't necessarily class them as rich myself, but I mean, they're certainly doing fine.
But I have to ask you, Jeremy, why £80,000?
Why not £100,000?
Why not £200,000?
Why not a million pounds?
Why not £50,000?
People earning £50,000 are still doing pretty well, aren't they, Jeremy?
They could probably afford to pay more tax.
Why £80,000?
I guess it's just a coincidence that you, Jeremy, have been an MP since 1983, and the annual salary for an MP is £75,000.
So you wouldn't be in the tax bracket that would get the income tax hike.
What a coincidence.
It's not £70,000.
It's not £60,000.
It's not £50,000.
It's £80,000.
Just above what you earn.
What a fucking surprise.
I can't say that this is entirely about your own self-interest.
It's just a coincidence that you wouldn't be affected by your tax hikes.
I say make it 60,000.
I say anyone on 60,000 above, massive income tax hikes, Jeremy.
Because this is an article about the manifesto, because I don't actually have a copy of the manifesto yet, I'm going to take this one with a pinch of salt.
They say, fines for businesses that pay their staff high wages.
That I think that needs a bit more explanation and context, because that would be lunacy.
And a business levy on profits.
God, you really are going to make Stalin look like a fucking anarchist, aren't you, Jeremy?
I'm sure that'll be really helpful for the entrepreneurs.
I mean, just lump them into the same category as the multinational conglomerates.
What's the difference?
And of course, this is all going to be paid for with a huge program of tax increases and £250 billion of borrowing over the next 10 years.
Well, that's just great.
That's just brilliant, Jeremy.
That's just something we can do.
I mean, we're only 1.5 trillion and the rest in debt.
What difference does it make?
They're just numbers, Jeremy.
Just have another 250 billion of borrowing.
It doesn't matter.
Fuck the deficit.
Fuck the debt.
Fuck the fact that this country will eventually become like Greece.
It'll become insolvent.
Our credit rating will go down.
Fuck it.
It doesn't matter, Jeremy.
It just doesn't matter.
Just like your poll numbers don't matter, Jeremy.
Now, it is true that Labour have gone up by 2% in the last week, which is surprisingly good for Labour, actually.
But these voters have been slowed off from the minor lesser parties like the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.
These voters are probably voting Labour in opposition to the Conservatives.
But look at your approval rating as a leader.
You are considered to be the worst political leader in the country.
Jeremy, you are incapable of speaking to people on issues that they are actually concerned about.
are capable only of speaking in vagaries about your pet ideological agendas.
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