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Dec. 20, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Brexit Derangement Syndrome
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Thanks for all coming.
Given how we had to essentially do this under the radar and email people the address that they had to come to so a bunch of violent communists wouldn't come and attack people.
Fuck our Tifa!
Fuck our Tifa!
But this will be the Brexit arrangement.
Brexit Arrangement Syndrome Live Show.
The accursed affliction of the affluent people.
So I'm not actually going to talk about what's currently going on in Brexit.
I'm going to talk about what's happening around it.
Because, I mean, who's happy with Treason Deal?
But the thing is, we've got to say, Brexit's been tough for the privileged.
It's been really tough on them.
I mean, when you're part of the affluent middle-class cultural elite, it's really difficult to actually be a victim.
But thankfully, Brexit came up.
And there is actually something called Brexit anxiety disorder, at least according to two scientists who spoke to Politica.
They say that far from being hyper-rational, observers are concerned with knowing what's economically sensible.
Instead, they've morphed into the remaniacs of Brexit interstate.
They are acting no differently to what psychologists would expect from those suffering from chronic anxiety caused by a loss of control and insecurity.
Two professors say, one from the University of London, one a political psychologist.
They apparently have slipped into polarising in and out groups, seeking solace in the demonization of the other, with whom they blame for the current state of affairs.
That's you guys!
So faced with the political situation of unprecedented certainty, we are told the brain naturally sends warning signals that all is not well.
They're causing heightened negative emotions such as panic and anxiety.
which puts the body on a high status buttons for new threats.
As one lawyer from the city said, it's broken the social contract.
We all paid the taxes which propped them up and now they've gone and fucked us.
So fuck them.
Fine.
But they're screwed.
That's the kind of inconsistency that they're talking about.
They've fucked us, we'll be fine.
And another gathering, senior figures laugh and joke about the stupidity of the country voting to leave.
Brexit was like a cancerous tumour which had to be surgically removed from the EU.
One prominent official said, in Westminster's bars and restaurants, MPs often talk of the catastrophe, the humiliation that the nightmare inflicted upon them.
I have no response to this.
So why did you do it, Mr. Deer?
Why did you do it?
And the answer is, well, we all know.
And the Huffington Post is quite readily going to tell you, it's because you're racist.
You're all racist.
And I know you don't think you're a racist, because, according to the man who wrote this, nobody knows.
No individual believes himself to be racist, just as no society thinks it's racist.
It's all dog whistles from here on out, apparently.
Until Britain and Europe come to terms with the fact that racism is a fundamental and not incidental aspect of their societies, as America is only now beginning to realize, the hatred of the other will continue, as well as its nefarious results.
And whether they take place on election day or on the streets, well, I think we may as well check that, because we can actually see if Britain is a racist country or not.
For example, are the Brits okay to the next door races?
Yes.
Are the French okay to listen to this?
What's the world of blue?
France!
But the thing is, they could be lying, you know, I mean, but this is the British attitude towards finance.
Are we welcoming of families?
Yes.
And the French have obviously been lying on this one.
But the thing is, that's the point.
You obviously can lie on these polls, so we ended up doing implicit bias tests.
And once again, the French are massively racist, but good job, Britain, and Portugal.
But the point is, we can actually be sure that Britain is not a racist country.
Which is why it's weird that it's okay to be racist in Britain.
Now, this is a guy who writes for the Guardian.
I would have said that it's not okay to be racist, but that would be me impressing him with my whiteness.
So we're going to take it from him that it is okay to be a racist.
Which is kind of convenient for the Guardian.
Given how much their content revolves around persuading you that this is the most racist country in the world, if we aren't racist, what do the Guardian even have to talk about?
Apparently, directly after Brexit, there was a 57% increase in hate crimes.
Now, that sounds bad until you realise that that's double figures.
33 whole reports in 72 hours.
It's a catastrophe.
The country will never be the same.
So how do people actually vote for Brexit?
Actually, I think it's my marketing over this.
So they actually vote for Brexit because of the three musketeers here.
On your, I suppose it'd be left, no, on your right sorry, we have Alexander Macron, the Fuhrer of France.
In the middle, we have Jean-Claude Juncker, the drunken uncle in charge of the EU.
And on the right side on the left, we have Angela Merkel, Macron's new evil brawl.
I'm also joking.
That'll be warning.
I know how this looks, right?
But you have to understand, on the continent, it's not unusual for a man to date two grandmothers.
So, according to Lord Axe-Protts's polling after the Brexit vote, Brexiteers actually voted for, in order, sovereignty, immigration control, and because of the lack of influence within the European Union.
Perfectly fine reasons.
Brown people were not actually the reason anyone voted for Brexit.
Even for foreigners, actually.
I think there's a number rather than the place.
Anyway, why do Romania's vote to stay?
Risks look too great regarding the economy and jobs, the status quo, it can be the best of both worlds, and the feeling that they would be isolated, which I found really interesting, because it's not like we're going to build war.
We already have a moat.
So, how did the Remainers make it?
Not well.
In fact, the mass middle-class protests have been a prime hotbed cringe.
You can see by the lady here invoting.
You've got a lot of signs like this: pants for Brexit, which maybe makes me think that they're dealing with real issues that they're really upset by.
You can tell by all the smiles, the ironic signage: I'm British, I'm on the march, things must be bad.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, ironic signs are what people have put up when they're really upset about things.
Aren't we all migrants?
No.
One of my favorite things was actually going to the anti-Brexit protests.
Because they don't ask silly questions, don't they?
We've got some mixed messages.
Chapter, we go to Europe, which is all well and good.
And then, where's old Dunkirk's spirit?
I was under the impression we were leaving the continent in a hurry because of the German table.
The point being, Brexit is the Dunkirk spirit.
That's what we're looking at with people voting for the European.
weirdly we've got some pro-norman propaganda People in the North, like 80%, have had the Normans invaded.
Make Carol quite good.
I love when they think that that's when people first arrived in Britain, isn't that?
What the Great Fire of London?
No, the Norman invasion.
This was one of my favourites.
You can't ignore us, we're the 48%.
Actually, at least we can ignore people.
But again, don't look, they're not big on democracy.
They think that voting is part of tyranny.
The majority vote that it's always that Brexit is racist, a majority vote that destroys minority rights and freedoms.
That's not democracy, it's the road to tyranny.
So, speaking of tyranny, what exactly are we escaping?
Well, we're escaping an economic project.
Just an economic project that's designed to prevent war in Europe, which is why it has a single market, single currency, borders, a flag, and a legal system, a foreign policy, and an army.
Oh, wait, no, no, no.
DE doesn't have an army, doesn't have an army.
I was told by the Guardian who doesn't have an army.
So, we know that there are no secret plans for an army.
Because the Guardian seems to fancy, which is something we're going to go on quite a few times this presentation.
Also, by Blisker, it's the myth of the Iranian.
It's not like Europe's leaders have been calling for an army since 2015.
Sorry, John Cold Yunker.
He's just the president of the Commission, Mortino, but it's what the Guardian know better.
Okay, so the EPP just happened to be the largest party in the European Union.
In fact, there are a party of parties across Europe that they're calling for an EU army as well.
And in fact, the leader says, we're going to move towards an EU army much faster than people believe, says their president.
And that was in October as well.
And, of course, Mervin's French boyfriend has preemptively surrendered to the Germans, and I'm going to go on to the next one.
So, that's probably my favourite joke, isn't it?
He's serious about this relationship.
He reiterated that again last month.
That was from 2017, the previous month.
And again, this year he said that he's committed, he's going to buy her a ring soon.
Thankfully, the Mrs. Surrey said yes.
And Juncker is thrilled about it, of course.
And I noticed that the Independent kind of throws some shame on him with this.
It's like, oh well, Jean-Claude Juncker tries to claim credit for the idea.
Well, it was his idea.
I mean, he has been saying this for years.
Why not just become a major sovereign power?
I mean, you're going to be none of that kind of thing.
If you want to become an empire, which Guy Vinhofstadt called for in 2016, and the French finance minister reiterated this month, why are they using the term empire?
I mean, does that come with positive connotations?
Let's talk about the day after Brexit.
Fucking power statements.
Obviously, both Brexit will be yes.
Within two weeks, there will be no Mars bars on the entire island.
By the third week.
Think of the Scottish.
By the third week, we will no longer have a great British salary.
And you're never going to eat a full English breakfast again.
In fact, one one thing is going to be going on.
And don't even think about trying to stockpile people.
Stockpiling won't work.
Stockpiling food isn't the same starvation.
You can tell, because the food industry isn't even taking the idea of stockpiling after Brexit.
Seriously.
Obviously, by the third week, all agriculture in Britain will cease.
The crops will rot on the fields.
And we will all be despairing of women and gnashing our teeth.
Of course, if you're in the middle class, you're going to be more concerned about the fact that your driving licence isn't going to be valid in the EU.
And we're probably going to have to take roaming charges again.
Most of these other products, you're getting hot.
Think of the children!
Think of the children!
I'm guessing this is a middle-class cat lady problem, but I'm really not.
Fabulous problem.
But the worst bit is that the EU isn't even going to tell us about the asteroids that are going to blast us off the face in the past.
Thought about Spiteful!
So.
Well, the terrible face that are going to befall this country, surely the cancellation of Love Island is going to be the most painful.
And I'm just going to say, good enough, but Jess Phillips, that was her point.
So how will we manage?
As you can see, the NHS will be right.
Immigrants, of course, will be fleeing the country because of the roaming bands of racist Brexiteers who are presumably going to hunt down the foreigners as a source of protein or something.
Which is going to be surprisingly good for low-end workers, actually.
Job prospects are actually looking up.
Not that it's going to matter, because we're going to be saddled with the deal so bad that even Jeremy Corbyn is opposed to it.
And naturally, Emperor Balpentine has declared that he is not a good deal.
Of course, the Guardian still thinks that all options remain on the table, because the Guardian live in some kind of parallel universe where they just make the shit up that they can't.
Anyway, Lerlin King, the ex-governor of the Bank of England, thinks that we should just take the 39 billion and do it well.
and he said it's back in 2016 He doesn't write to Guardian, so don't take him too seriously.
He said this back in 2015, which is pretty impressive, because it looks like it's what we're going to get.
And according to the head of the World Trade Organization, it's a good idea, because apparently Brexit's not really going to cause any problems.
But again, Paul Petino, the Guardian Eastern, no more.
I want to make it up.
They think that's a reckless fantasy.
They think the entire World Trade Organisation lies is a reckless fantasy.
It just can't happen.
And so I think that we should leave with a statement by Tony Adams, the ex-Prime Minister of Australia.
This is his opinion on what Britain can do, because in his opinion, Britain's going to be just fine.
I mean, he's saying that it's a country that's not part of the EU, trades on World Trade Organisation standards, and it happens to be a first world country.
I'm going to read a bit of text, and this isn't my work on this, this is his.
But I think it's something that's been completely overlooked in the mainstream political dialogue, because there's been some kind of bunker mentality at Westminster.
They just think if we don't get a deal, the entire country blows up.
I don't think they're right.
And I think that Tony Alex doesn't want to say.
He says, free from EU rules, Britain will automatically revert to the world trade using the rules of Revolt World Trade Organisation.
It works pretty well for Australia.
So why on earth would it not work just as well for the world's fifth largest economy?
Let's in World Trade Brexit, let Britain set its own rules.
It can say right now that it will not impose any tariff or quota on any European products and recognise all EU product standards, which is what we don't know.
That means no border controls for goods coming from Europe to Britain, and you don't need to negotiate this, just do it.
If Europe does what's in its own best interest, it will say they're able to maintain an entire free trade and neutral recognition of standards wear across Europe.
Next, the UK should declare that Europeans already living in the East should have the right to remain permanently and of course become British citizens if they wish.
This should be a unilateral offer again.
You don't need a deal.
You don't need Barbie Admission.
If Europe does what's best for itself, it will likewise allow Britons to stay where they are.
And you know, he's just saying, look, just ignore.
Just ignore the Europeans and do what you think is the right thing to do.
Third, there should be continued to be free movement of people from Europe to Britain, but with few conditions.
Only work, not welfare, and with a foreign workers' tax on the employer to make sure anyone coming in would not be displacing British workers.
I'm not saying I'm very bad, Chris.
Fourth, no divorce bill whatsoever should be paid to Brussels.
The UK government would assume the EU's property and liability to Britain, the EU would assume Britain's share of Eastern Europe.
And if Britain was getting its fair share, these would bounce out.
And if Britain wasn't getting its fair share, it's the EU which we pay Britain.
And finally, there's no need on Britain to park for a hard border with Ireland.
Britain should be imposing tariffs on European guilds, so there's no money to complain.
Britain has exactly the same product standards as Ireland, so let's not pretend that we need borders or any checks for problems that don't exist.
Some changes may be needed, but technology allows for smart borders.
There was never any need for a cold war-style checklist.
Charlie, our citizens, of course, have a right to live and work in the UK in agreements, in an agreement that long predates EU membership.
So what he's saying is, the only shackles that are imposed upon us are the ones that we impose upon ourselves.
We have everything that we need to go forward.
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