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Youre awake by the way. Youre not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also, youre not dead and you havent gone to hell. This is your life now. This is our election now. This is us. This is our country. Rachel Maddows reaction to Trump becoming President

When Barack Obama was elected, conservatives didnt cry like the liberals you see in this HILARIOUS VIDEO. We didnt need therapy. We didnt start wailing that he was Hitler or demand safe spaces. Instead, we said, That sucks. This guy is going to be terrible for the country. By the way, we were right. He was. But still, we got up and we went to work. Then when the time came, we went to Tea Parties. We obeyed the law at those Tea Parties. We paid for our permits. We were polite to the police. We cleaned up behind ourselves. Then we organized and we took control of the House and the Senate along with the majority of state legislatures and governorships. Thats how its supposed to work.

What we didnt do was put on masks and riot in D.C. because we didnt like the candidate who was elected. What we didnt do was tear up Berkeley because we were upset that a pro-Trump gay guy was invited to give a speech. We didnt smash any windows at Starbucks. We didnt squirt pepper spray in peoples faces because they wore hats we didnt like. If we had done that, Townhall and Right Wing News wouldnt have written columns talking up the riots like the UC Berkeley student paper did. The rationale was that having people say things students dont like on their campus is the same as committing violence against them and therefore, their violent outbursts represented self-defense against fascismor something. Its a little hard to follow the reasoning of crazy people sometimes, but as Phil Massey said, They're trying to fight imagined fascism with actual fascism.

This gets even trickier to figure out since former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich said on TV that he heard rumors that the violent protesters were actually Breitbart plants: "Theres rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a kind of group that was organized and ready to create the kind of tumult and danger you saw that forced the police to cancel the event. So Donald Trump, when he says Berkeley doesnt respect free speech rights, thats a complete distortion of the truth. ...I saw these people. They all looked very almost paramilitary. They were not from the campus. I dont want to say factually, but Ive heard there was some relationship here between these people and the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News.

You think thats crazy? Just yesterday, liberal protesters blocked a schoolhouse door to keep Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from being able to go in. Setting aside the fact that the last time Democrats blocked people from entering schoolhouse doors in the sixties was not exactly a proud moment for them, its amazing to see a DNC official siding with thugs blocking the Education Secretary from entering a building.

As you can imagine, if the responsible people in the Democratic Party are behaving like loons, the left-wing celebrities who are not the most stable people to begin with, are really off the rails. We could do a whole article just on the celebrity comments since Trump was elected, but heres a little smattering of their comments that should give you a good handle on the level of crazy.

Letting trump take office means burying democracy. Letting him take it without the popular vote means burying it alive. -- Joss Whedon

"So Ive been shopping around for a new religion to see me through the next four years. Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created. I guess they figured that by the time the planet was a smoky wasteland, theyd be nice and comfy in heaven, so wotthehell. Anyhow, Im looking around for other options." -- Garrison Keillor

"Im angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But I know that this wont change anything." -- Madonna

I FULLY SUPPORT IMPOSING MARTIAL LAW DELAYING THE INAUGURATION UNTIL TRUMP IS 'CLEARED' OF ALL CHARGES," -- Rosie O'Donnell

"WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE" -- Sarah Silverman

Oh, well, that all sounds like a perfectly sane reaction to your candidate losing an election, doesnt it? Oh wait, it doesnt at all. These people sound like they belong in a mental institution.

Speaking of which, officials in Seattle are cutting ties with Wells Fargo because that company is helping to finance the Trump-supported Dakota Pipeline. Using that same thinking, couldnt conservatives stop dealing with Wells Fargo because it was helping to finance the city of Seattle? Along similar lines, liberals are boycotting companies like Neiman Marcus because they carry merchandise put out by Trumps daughter Ivanka. Is this the new standard in America? Targeting the children of our political enemies? It has even bled down to living arrangements. Apparently, in D.C. liberals have taken to adding the equivalent of No Trump Supporters Need Apply to ads looking for roommates. Worse yet, there has been at least one case where a woman divorced her husband of 22 years because he voted for Trump. That sounds perfectly sane, doesnt it? Of course, we also cant forget the infamous liberal sucker punch to the face of white nationalist Richard Spencer. That was followed by liberals declaring that it was good that Spencer was punched because hes a Nazi and, oh, by the way, everyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi. Somehow, it never seems to occur to them that its just as moral or immoral to punch him for his political views as it is to punch, lets say, Elizabeth Warren or Chuck Schumer.

Even if you dont love Trump, he does at least seem to be a few cuts above crazy people screaming about coups while they smash windows and assault random passers-by in Make America Great hats. The Left has descended so far that when you see Death to America trending on Twitter or Facebook, you have to check to see whether it's in Iran or Berkeley. If fascism, violence, hatred, crying and crazy are all liberals have to offer, they should prepare themselves for eight years of Trump.

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Nineteen years ago a small group of nonviolent, pro-democracy protesters,Otpor, decided to play a public prank on Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Theprotesters took an oil barrel, taped a picture of Milosevic to it and set it up in the middle of Belgrades largest shopping district. Next to it they placed a baseball bat. They then moved away to a spot where they could anonymously watch what happened next.

As Otpor co-founder Srdja Popovicrecounted, Before long, dozens of shoppers lined the street, each waiting for a chance totake a swingat Milosevic the man so many despised, but whom most were too afraid to criticize.

After 30 minutes the police arrived, but they were at a loss for how to stop the mockery of the dictator. The culprits were nowhere to be seen and those wielding the bat were just innocent shoppers. So thepolice decided to arrest the barrel. Popovic explained that the image of the two policemen dragging the barrel to their police car went viral: Milosevic and his cronies became the laughing stock of the nation, and Otpor became a household name. A small group of students grew to 70,000. Milosevics days were numbered.

Fast-forward to the present where in the United States we have recently inaugurated the Donald Trump administration in whatisostensibly a democracy butthat increasingly feelslike an authoritarian regime. As was the case in Serbia under Milosevic, we are able to watch the role that comedy can play in unsettling a despot. InSerbia asmall group oflaughtivistssought to use humor to bring down a dictator; in America we already have a full-blown satire rebellion.

Last week comedian Melissa McCarthy impersonated Trumps press secretary Sean Spiceron SaturdayNight Live. It was one of the most potent impersonations yet of the Trump regime. The clip went viral and was seen by more than 20million viewers in less than one week.

Even better, though, the impersonation has apparently rattled the White House. Politicoreported, Trumps uncharacteristic Twitter silence over the weekend about the SaturdayNight Live sketch was seen internally as a sign of how uncomfortable it made the White House feel. Itfurther reported that Trump is especially unhappy that a woman impersonated Spicer. Wordis that Spicer may be at riskof losing his job.

That same week Jon Stewart appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for the first time since the inauguration. In amock Trump impersonation, Stewartclaimedthat in only 11 days and after 20executive orders we were all fatigued: The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public. After revealing that one of Trumps forthcoming executive orders was to make bullshit the official language of the United States, Stewart ended on a somber note.

We have never faced this before: purposeful, vindictive chaos, but perhaps therein lies the saving grace of my, Donald J. Trumps, presidency, Stewartsaid. No one action will be adequate.All actions will be necessary, and if we do not allowDonald Trumpto exhaust our fight and somehow come through this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally partially intact, then I, Donald J. Trump, will have demonstrated the greatness of America just not the way I thought I was gonna.

Stewart is right, of course. There is no one action that will be the magic pill that puts the Trump administration behind us. But one thing is clear: Satirical mockery, political comedy and laughtivism are some of the most powerful weapons in our anti-Trump arsenal.

Trumps weak flank when it comes toridicule was already well apparent before Election Day. Alec Baldwins extraordinary impersonations ofTrump on SNL have led the thin-skinned narcissist todesperately tweet in response. Each time that Baldwin has mocked him, Trump has replied and looked even more foolish as a result.

Michael Moore keyed in early to the power of satire forbringing down Trump. During a pre-inauguration protest in front of Trump Tower, he called onpeople to remember that facts dont matter to Trump but mockery does.Moore called out to the crowd: Whats he affected by? Hes affected by comedy! He has the thinnest skin, the thinnest skin of any bully Ive ever met. In all his anti-Trump rallies, Moore has urged the crowdto form an army of comedy to go after Trump and help bring him down.

The potential power of satireis not limited to simply getting under Trumps skin. As I wrote with co-author Remy Maisel in Is Satire Saving Our Nation?, satire always emerges in moments of crisis and Americans have a long, robust history of using satire to productive political ends in our nation.

While satire is not likely to persuade Trump supporters to change their view of him, it is worth remembering thatTina Feys impersonation of Sarah Palin is credited with destroying her election run. So satire can affect public opinion and change history.

Where satire is its most powerful is in the ways it helps rally resistance and create a community of those who are in on the joke. As authoritarian regimes seek to divide and demoralize society, shared jokes breathe life and force to collective resistance. This, for instance, was what Colbert and Stewart did whenin 2010 they helda pre-midterm election rallyon the National Mall.

Satire, through its dependence on irony, where the satirist says one thing and means another, is a key weapon in the fight against stupidity, faulty logic and BS.When Stewart signed off as hostof The Daily Show, he reminded viewers that his comedy had tried to expose bullshit mountain.

In fact, much of the excellent anti-Trump satire available involvespreciselyusing irony, sarcasm and snark to expose thelies, alt-facts and hubristic smokescreens that Trump and his minions throw at us daily.A mainstay of political satire, from John Olivers expos of Trumps true last name,Drumpf,to Samantha Bees recurringsegment People Are Saying, is to champion logic and critical thinking.

Satire can form a central part of collective resistance. It was a key part of thepussyhat projectthat helped addfun irony to the activism of the Womens March. Lizz Winstead, one of the original creators of The Daily Show, is a co-founder ofLady Parts Justice, which uses comedy to help fight for womens reproductive rights. The organizations goal is to blow this shit up in a smart and funny way . . . . to get folks to sit up, take action and reverse this erosion of rights.

Similarly, the satirical activism of groups like theYes Menhas helped public protests gain attention and advance political causes. These groups offer models for public stunts, campaignsand marchesthat blend the fun of pranks with the punch of protest.

Because satire is fun, it can play a major role in helping combat aculture of fear. The Trump team doesnt only try to frighten its supporters; it also consistently threatens any opposition. Against that sort of bullying, satirists likeLee Camp,Bill MaherandJimmy Doreoffer viewers fearless opposition. One key feature of their political comedy is that they refuse to submit to prevailing narratives, which means that they go after Trump but dont give liberals a pass either.

Maher has always refused to succumb to aparty line and was even fired after 9/11 for saying things others dared not to.BothCampandDoreconsistently attack the capitalist oligarchy. Their comedy helps model the sort of righteous anger that true political resistance needs.

Satire also can play a major role in creating community and developing a common critical vocabulary that can be used to speak truth to power. SNLhas been at the forefront of this sort of comedy in the Trump era, repeatedly offering viewers skits that have gone viral.

In addition to Baldwin and McCarthy making guest appearances, members ofthe regular castof SNL (especially Kate McKinnon and Beck Bennett) haveoffered fun, entertaining, yet hard-hitting skits.Saturdays show is set to have Alec Baldwin as host and is sure to ruffle Trumps feathers while helping millions across the nation and the world laugh at his expense. Despite Trumps whining that the show sucks,its rating have popped more than20percentsince last year and are at theirhighest level in 20years.

In a similar vein, bothSeth MeyersandTrevor Noahhave sharpened their satirical teeth going after Trump and hiskakistocracy. Working their dimply smiles and boyish charm, both comedians have used their charisma to pack a different kind of satire punch.

In another example, Comedy Central has recently launched a new online satirical show, the Mideast Minute hosted byPardis Parker, which pokes fun at U.S. propaganda news. And we cant forget the good work in the fake news ofThe Onionand accomplished by The New YorkersAndy Borowitz.

The reality is that the satire rebellion is using a range of tactics and the examples are too numerous to list which is exactly the kind of strategy the anti-Trump resistance needs.

Serbian satirical protestor Popovicexplainedthat while humor has often been a part of protest, it is playing a bigger role in 21st-century struggle and thats because it works: Humor breaks fear and builds confidence. . . .The best acts of laughtivism force their targets into lose-lose scenarios, undermining the credibility of a regime no matter how they respond. These acts move beyond mere pranks; they help corrode the very mortar that keeps most dictators in place: Fear.

Thats why we need to follow the lesson of Serbia under Milosevic. History teaches us that for satire to really be powerful, we all have to be in on the joke.

The satire resistance cannot be limited to professionals. It depends on all of us.

At the New York protest in January, Mooreremindedpeople that they, too, can play a role in the satire rebellion: Everybody here has a sense of humor. Use it! Use it! Participate in the ridicule and the satire for the emperor who has no clothes.

And thats one of the strongest signs that satire is a key part of the anti-Trump campaign. Every day an average citizen is mocking Trump and his team. There is even a Twitter parody account forTrumps bathrobe.

On Twitter, on Facebook, via Instagram and on the White House lawn, the assaults are constant. Satire has literally become the political idiom of resistance.

So whether you share clips from Baldwins appearance on SNL tonight or create your own meme, you are making a difference. Each joke shows Trump that he is the butt of itandlets uscontrol the story and create a broader community.

Our laughter isnt just making us stronger; its reminding us that fighting for our nation can be fun.

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Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump - Salon

Donald Trump with aide Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of the far-right website Breitbart. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

A rightwing network of British bloggers and social media activists has emerged as an increasingly influential voice for white nationalists and for those who oppose multiculturalism. The network is also credited with helping propel Donald Trump to the presidency, a new report has claimed.

In its annual audit of the far right, Hope not Hate, the UKs largest anti-racism and anti-extremism movement, said that although conventional far right groups such as the English Defence League continue to fracture, new forces have surfaced that can reach a vast international audience and bolster support for the alt-right, which is defined as the far right with a fringe white nationalist element that opposes multiculturalism and defends western values.

Analysis of the global far right network during 2016 a year that witnessed Brexit and a marked populist resurgence throughout Europe and the US identified 28 far right groups active in the UK but also named a cohort of Britons that it said were instrumental in propagating alt-right views and masterminding attacks on liberal democracy.

It was a year where a new far right threat became more evident, one that played out largely on social media and to an international audience, the report states. It is a threat that has been at the heart of the global fake news phenomenon and one that can engage and mobilise far greater numbers of people across Europe and north America.

An example of these activities is provided by London-based Paul Watson, described as editor, staff writer for the conspiracy website InfoWars whose most popular article on Friday morning was headlined: Trump destroys leftist judges. Watson, who has 483,000 Twitter followers and 764,872 subscribers on YouTube, is named as a central disseminator of the conspiracy theory concerning Hillary Clinton having debilitating health issues in the runup to the US election, including the Is Hillary Dying? hoax.

During a series of unashamedly conspiratorial videos that were viewed millions of times, Watson, originally from Sheffield, suggested Clinton might have had syphilis, brain damage and Parkinsons disease as well as alleging she was a drug abuser. Watsons conspiracy theories were also taken up by Fox News, the right-leaning US broadcaster.

Another Briton said to have had an influential intervention in the US elections is 52-year-old Jim Dowson, a Scottish Calvinist who founded the far right, anti-Muslim party Britain First. Dowson, from a hub in Hungary, set up a network of US-focused websites and Facebook groups with the intention of promoting Trump and denigrating his rival during the US election.

Dowsons websites include Patriot News Agency whose postings have been viewed and shared tens of thousands of times in the US and whose articles on Friday include a critique of a new Netflix series which it accused of stoking anti-white racism. An investigation by the New York Times in December claimed that although a sizeable volume of US election fake news emanated from central and Eastern Europe, Dowsons operation was the only obviously politically inspired intervention.

Among the increasingly internationalised far right movement, Dowson is considered adept at building an online fanbase, managing to attract 1.4 million Facebook followers to Britain First. Dowson himself has described his strategy as spreading devastating anti-Clinton, pro-Trump memes and sound bites into sections of the population too disillusioned with politics to have taken any notice of conventional campaigning.

According to Hope not Hates report, Dowson spent much of 2016 building an international network of far right parties, militia groups and religious extremists. His anti-immigrant group Knights Templar International opened a branch in Budapest, Hungary, where former BNP leader Nick Griffin was witnessed as a frequent visitor along with known far right faces from Sweden and the US.

Hope not hate expects Dowsons influence to grow this year as he fosters relationships with Russia and far-right agitators in Europe and the US. A recent Dowson alliance involves Aleksandr Dugin, a facist with alleged links to the Kremlin and who is understood to be helping Dowson construct a new office in the Serb capital Belgrade that will promote far right news sites entirely in Cyrillic script.

Nick Lowles, chief executive of Hope Not Hate, said: The fact that a young man sitting in a small flat in south London can create headlines in the US or a British extremist can use the Hungarian capital as a base to influence politics in central, eastern and southern Europe makes monitoring and countering these groups very difficult.

Another Briton named as a highly effective voice for the far right, even though he has attempted to distance himself from the movement, is Milo Yiannopoulos, technology editor of Breitbart News, the US website which claimed to have 45 million unique readers in the weeks up to and during the aftermath of Trumps election.

The former executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, is now Trumps chief strategist, a man promoted to the National Security Council and who Time magazine referred to last week as possibly the second most powerful man in the world. In a speech to a conference at the Vatican in 2014, Bannon made it a political objective to undermine liberal democracy in Western Europe through the advancement of nationalist movements.

Yiannopoulos, banned from Twitter in July for inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others, reportedly recently signed a 200,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster. The 33-year-old from Kent, recently defended by Trump as a symbol of free speech after demonstrators violently protested against his planned speech at the University of California, Berkeley, has more than 525,000 fans on YouTube.

Other key British figures include vlogger Colin Robertson, who produces white supremacist YouTube videos from his parents home in West Lothian, Scotland. Despite such humble surroundings, Robertson was invited to speak at the notorious far right rally in Washington DC last November that was organised by nationalist thinktank the National Policy Institute (NPI), and where crowds chanted Hail Trump and made Nazi salutes.

The 34-year-old also spoke at an inaugural meeting last year of the rightwing Seattle Forum, a branch of a UK network which, according to Hope not Hate, is expanding rapidly. The London Forum held five meetings last year, the latest in September, with speakers including Holocaust denier David Irving and US far right writer F Roger Devlin who contributes to the white nationalist journal Occidental Quarterly. Other Britons who addressed the NPI event in Washington included Matthew Tait, a former British National Party organiser who organised a series of alt-right socials in Holborn, London, at the end of last year.

Another development was the governments decision to proscribe the neo-nazi group National Action as a terrorist organisation. Supporters of the group celebrated the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox who was killed last June by rightwing extremist Thomas Mair, 53. The authorities are understood to have intelligence that some of its senior activists were trying to encourage younger recruits to conduct acts of terrorism and were required to place antisemitic stickers on Jewish buildings and neighbourhoods as part of their initiation.

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National political figure Tim Wise came to ESUto present the university'sfirst Social Justice & Equity Lecture.

Wise, anantiracist activist and educator, has made a name for himself over the last 25 years by publishing seven books and lecturing across the continent. Wise took time to talk to KVOE about his lecture, which focused on the rapid change in political and cultural climate after Donald Trump became president.

Wise believes that addressing an underlying white resentment of electing the country's first black president, which was critical to the rise of Trump, will also bekey the attempts of any left-leaning political organizations in responding. Wise spoke specifically to the growing energized base of liberal grassroots activists that have been coming out in numbers to protest Donald Trump's presidency and his policies.

Wise pondered the question of the public education system and what needs to be in mind with the coming reforms.

Understanding the original purpose of the United States higher education system is critical in addressing the question of reform, Wise believes. Wise said education is not the great equalizer at current, it rather is structured to help elites stay powerful while keeping the working poor from climbing the ladder. This system is not new, Wise notes.

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