Drinks and again a careful book selection and invite people in and have a love of regulars. Some of them write books. Sometimes we get to celebrate them after they are launched into the world and tonight we are incredibly excited to welcome dale beran here how an army accidentally named donald trump into office. This week while it feels especially special to welcome him to speak about the topic in the city of baltimore in the base that we often like to say is yes weve got caught and food and books there are transactional elements but what we are here to do is build communities and celebrate culture and a place that is incredibly important, and im speaking to a roomful of people who love baltimore, and i think the assertion is the only answer like this week where maybe a certain culture and reduction of nuance truths have come to the floor and i think possibly we will get to discuss that tonight. A cartoonist and a professor at Morgan State University will lead us. We are proud to know he wrote at least a portion of the book here he aided and abetted by the restarts to know his drink order by heart. He is more than a Loyal Customer of good taste. He has a counterculture that can no longer be written off or pushed aside some of us might feel a certain culture. His piece on media fortune to the rise of trump ties the toxic slime of the discourse to the far right and the metaphor for the world beyond safire to a rise of the president donald trump. He expanded that and the culture that is incredibly unserious those who are fortune users and if that doesnt make sense to you its because yo is because t human being. [laughter] you go to the right places online that hes here to tell us about it to bring light to the dark topic but a serious topic often posed in an unserious way something we need to grapple with and the effect it has on our culture to talk with one another in a future in which i think thank you. Also that is a great introduction. More than even i have to say. But trump inspired manifestations of, yes it is nice when there is a bit too deeply insult them and then to present it i guess that is convenient timing. I can tell you a little bit about this book. The show space of the great Arts Community are being intimidated. The book is essentially about a set of horrible online spaces. Something awful is one and then it gets there and these are Message Boards where people had congregated for ten, 15, 20 years and have only gotten more and more unhappy to the extent where now they are there and they are angry and murderous through two of the last shooting was the last in california and also the one in new zealand, those were shootings that came off of one of these websites and they also come at the same population and a lot of them had become fascist so theyve become so deeply disenchanted with their existence that they have decided that they want to destroy civilization. While i also started researching it i was an internet cartoonist. My last gig was making cartoons for the cartoon network. I started writing about this in 2016 because the they were intimidating local baltimore artist and attempting to close down show spaces across the u. S. Because this was at the end of 2016 right after he got elected so they felt very emboldened. So i found myself around christmas at a Christmas Party trying to explain to a friend of mine who these people were because she organized the list of all of th the event that woud go on each week in the gallery opening at the musical shows and they were intimidating her like they are nerds come idiots. And i was trying to explain this history of where they had come from coming into trap probably a coincidence that i remembered them, they used to meet when they first came around in 2003 committee did meet one place in the world which was baltimores convention. So, i remembered them back then and im like this is so strange after 15, 20 years, how do we get the new fascist sort of counterculture out of the board so i wrote that into a piece in the gothic 300 people would read it but now i was cursed to write about the subgroup. It was like after he took the assignment that was like drink all this plays in and tell us how it tastes and it tasted terrible. So, i spent the next three years researching them, seeking out people who spend ten, 15 years on the side sort of like all of the sub community to figure out what is going on and everyone around me was sort of hoping to create the book where very cheerful about humanity in the sense that it might be irrelevant by the time the book comes out but unfortunately for everyone and i guess with the book is not really for me. I would like to read the introduction that starts very short, and then my editor said you need to tell people more about your self, and i said no. But eventually convinced me, so now the introduction is probably for the better for the introduction is about the experience first encountering this group in 2005 or 2006. Since most of the group are my friends and because of the subject matter of the format of the questions can be like what the hell. I will even accept like why. Anything like that is also fine. [laughter] okay. That is what people do. When the book is imposed here. On warm summer days 13 years ago i found myself in the air and the Convention Center attending a gathering. Fans of japanese media mainly. I didnt particularly like anna mae and i felt i was a little too old for the event. I had attended a few times when i was in high school in the late 90. Back then it had been held in a set of Hotel Conference room in the obscure animation, taped off japanese tv but in recent years the crowds have grown big enough to require the largest venue and the event evolved into an elaborate festival or otherwise isolated suburban kids came to bond over their favorite tv shows. The convention was held next to the citys famous inner harbor through a Shopping Mall with a tall ship oversight of chain restaurants and the meeting hall, like the mall, was brutal and modern native hard angles, truncated geometric shapes which they employed as a sciencefiction backdrop for the photo shoots. I was there with an Old High School friend. We both graduated college and wanted to be professional artists. I was particularly interested in becoming a writer though they had no idea how to do it so we started making a short online comments about ourselves called in a sunburned but the damage irreversible end t and to our se most people were reading it and to hand out flyers to promote it. Besides the comic it hadnt been all that great every year. My father had died of a heart attack and i spent the previous months winding up the affairs of his finances and psychiatry practice when the dust settled there wasnt an inheritance among my siblings more of a series of minor text problems. I had shut myself up in the abstract realm of the books and so the transition out of childhood into an adult realm i didnt quite understand in the bureaucratic forms it was painful. It mingled with the absence of my father who had been a source in my life and contradictory intellectual. For this reason fro im enterina cool safe bubble where the adolescents attempted to commune on the other side of the stream filled unsettling to me though i couldnt put my finger on why. At a certain point wandering the halls lined with wooden ships trucks in bottles handintropin t flyers for my comic to the teams things started to get weird. Not for me then i hardly knew whether he was in the band but for all of us now years later i had become an independent witness to the turning point in history. I saw more of the same, kids in costumes at the front of one room there was a 15yearold boy with golden locks in a baseball cap with a Powerpoint Presentation that was a mixture of website statistics and jokes blocking various types of cartoon pornography. These included many images of the boy himself depicted as a girl wearing white panties and the increasingly silly photoshop drawings slid by the crowd shouted words of encouragement gearing up for the Techno Dance Party that would follow. Despite all this, the boys seemed ill at ease. It was a little too well as if to disguise his eyes and a friend of the table did the talking. In october of 2003 come aboard and in neeboredand in need of pd programmed him on a whim to trade pictures with his friend but soon discovered thousands and eventually millions of other people wanted to use it. It seems ridiculous to say the site was important that even more ridiculously as important as already documented in the history books. David wrote that the nazi worshiping, quote, began with, quote, people talking online to japanese animate. Few of the books offered an explanation for how this could have possibly happened. How we got from this to the animate monkeys of 2016 and onward and how this resulted in internet weirdos marching as the landscape of the nowhere land was imported into the Convention Center, a place of smooth, clean model ships and tumbling geometric shapes felt like a kids rec room. They were not trying to make a mark on the world. They were trying to escape from it by the discarded scrap however looking back like a crazy premonition as the microphone was passed from rubber dinosaur by the sea witch to ask the curlyheaded leader questions, the team kept debating and joking about things and in the mid20s era was they broke out and saturated every inch of the world and even stranger still from 2016 onward, they became central concepts that possessed political commentators almost overnight they invaded the domain of the leaders and redefined the contest between them. Now they are russian trolls come and all through the ethernet. Back then, i was surprised to find i knew what these terms meant. Before i have encountered this, the site constantly popped up. The data that shows where people come from when they visit. When they began it wasnt all that different from other online Message Boards. There was a place to post content and talk to people on the internet. At the time, it imported a few innovations from japanese signs which accounted for some of its popularity. It was easy to post images and following the japanese custom it didnt require the user to sign up for an account. This explains why a balloon so rapidly and why almost as it appeared people began gathering to celebrate it each year. By 2010 they were one of the most popular websites ever. To borrow the phrase of what happened, not just the election but the politics, culture, counterculture as it was heaped into the garbage i was 2016 and onward in its old ideas and norms burned awa turned away int on the future. The garbage fire as we now understand it, eternal. To put a fine point on it, how did a pornographic website transform from a postcultural garbage heap into the postcultural garbage heap among those which our age stood. That is the story of this book. Strangely, when i began to write it, it many of the disaster is had not yet occurred. The manifestation of the contract monkeys in charlottesville in defense of their cause and the 2,017th street battles all lay in the future. The mythical realm of fake news wasnt yet ascended and they didnt run articles reported on the posts. The New York Times doesnt get putting out calls on the tip line for plots on the descriptor for elections. Though, to be fair, the already adopted this as a symbol during the campaign and Richard Spencer, the infamous neonazi justin of election. This wasnt the first entree into politics. Many conspiracy theories turned in to political causes in 2014 and pizza gate in 2015 and just a few years prior to that, they responded with International Far west collective known as anonymous which had played a rolhave played arole in occupied the era of spring. As the Trump Presidency progress, my friends delighted in forwarding me the increasingly bizarre stories on the pages of the major publications as if to say how is that going to fit since these were so preposterous. The joke was of course they wouldnt fit into my scheme or any others. They were by definition, totally random, designed to attack the reason itself and its ability to make sense of the world. Strangers would gasp when i explained to the subjec the subk was very timely, they would reply. Another thought would then occur to them. How come it must be so difficult, they would add. Every week it changes. What they meant by this was that media reports, fake news, latenight tv all tangled with a heap of social media with the fonts of confusion for they were saying to me of course is how can you even understand the fonts of confusion is to change the way that a reality and the f politics and entertainment came to reflect one another in a hall of mirrors one that seems to have terminated in the manifestation of the ones unimaginable entity of the reality tv. New language has been invented. We are in the political leader of eco chambers of the messages bounced in and out of social a l media through the tv personalities who were once publications and vice versa. Closeups, contemporary events appear like that which manifests when you find a video camera back of the monitor displaying what it is filming meaning you the message itself gets lost in the internet replication. We cannot tell the system was wired up in the first place to provide clarity by widening the frame. The key to understanding what happened would be in deep detailed how it was wrapped up with the base and why all this occurred as a part of a larger narrative that counterculture. It was ultimately so influential on the mainstream culture because it was the center of the counterculture and stranger still the site became the place where the counterculture split into the left and right camps in 2017. The first section of the book traces the history of the counterculture. It describes how all from the 60s and onward suffered a similar fate that got eaten up by the screen. As the late 60s counterculture struggled with the burden of infinite choice and post war plan he manufacturers were struggling with this same problem. If all of the basic needs of human beings were meant coming ameant for meto the factories wl running, how would they get people to buy their products. The solution they came up with was to manufacture the need as the american capitalism said as practical necessities as they enjoy counterculture was employed as the advertisers most powerful will. What followed from the 70s to 90s was a game of predator and prey in which the countercultures would emerge to combat the forces of the materialism and marketing only to be swallowed whole by the Marketing Campaigns that endorsed this transcendence and rebellion. By the 80s, counterculture affidavit to fee of feet of counterculture was used to the next seasons counterculture and antiglamour punks etc. As a result, counterculture is hoping to resist in the 90s employ a nihilism is a survival strategy. They became adults nothing about having no value system leaving the house of their mind, moguls and desires empty so there was nothing to steal. And thats complemented the politics of the history and the collapse of the soviet union and the neoconservative political philosopher defined at the pervading political idea in the period. Perhaps the left utopian projects of others would never emerge and we had already reached the end of the historical progress. In other words, americans found capitalism would endure no radical reconfiguring needed. This seemed to be the natural tournaments of the culture but by the late 90s, the advent of the web produced more in the void. They became ironically half ironically or genuinely by this point it hardly mattered younger generations were migrating out of real life and into the screen. Still contemptuous, they now celebrated escapism, but even as they embraced this lifestyle, something even want your happened. They squeezed so hard a look at. They look at. The 90s contest to outpace by diving into the nihilism degenerated into the race to the bottom. To see who could be more screwed up and grotesque. The second part of the book details how they won. It became the place where people achieved new lows. They have flowed one way from church is subject. Computers reversed the process allowing the new generations to vomit up the colorful garbage shoved down since they were born and telling them who and how to be with the advent of the web over this part of the people advertising in video games manufacturers have sold to solve them who began to rise as a style of digitized. And then they could be refashioned snippets by snippet into a culture of jokes the number one psychic garbage dump into which people discarded their misery and creativity into a pile of old art, cartoons, video games, movies, tv shows, comic books and toys and as it turned out every one he did what they had created. Everyone needed a means to fill a sense of agency over the nonsense gushing not only for fiction but, quote on quote, nonfiction as well. In 2008, they saw the creation drift off into the world a sincere political move absurdly the ultra nihilist and apathetic culture of the post90s in deference went through a black hole and emerged on the other side is a genuine Political Force for a brief few years between 20 of eight and 2011, they no longer believed they were trapped behind their screens. They felt it could affect great change during this period anonymous anticorporate power structure which went on to play the key role in the protests and revolutions however, by 2012, the movement had collapsed and its members arrested by the fbi. The last part of the book details how in the wake of the collapse that was outright with the disillusion of the newfound agency, the user base and counterculture seemed to the previously undreamt of lows and a new generation of young people somehow even more amorous and the screen world within the last floodein the lastflooded onto te users found their prospects in life diminishing after the 2008 crash scores of young people young men in particular were treated from work in the world and never returned. It was in this environment that formed the new groups coalesced around the research and lifestyle celebrated on the chance like its 2005 except the new version was even sadder than the last. It is populated by the group of individuals said so far apart from society and so lacking identity that they began to obsess over it. The buy the material fruits of the modern economics grader and a superfluous wife was nothing but a power struggle because they were constantly losing it and if they fashion their own context out of absurd power fantasies. By 2014, many of the others had converted to this ideology and in 2015 they teamed up with steve bannon to back the candidacy of donald trump promised he would make them winds swinsso much that they wok of winning. The counterculture that remained on the left orbiting around another popular image sharing website tumbler. Com. On tumbler it was the means and fantasies that created a counterculture to match the countercultural self definition seamlessly mingled with fantasy products and entertainment as the two political factions emerged, they precipitated partly by design but mostly by accident to the catastrophic clash that snowballed into them the brawls and finally the violence of charlottesville. The result was in the rise to power something broke in the culture and politics in general. It appeared as though we were finally lost for good a clear pattern was emerging. Covering politics and the debate within the liberal capitalism had slightly more capitalism began throwing itself into the battle that was a century or two old between the socialism and fascism such as american capitalism isnt working and the author of the end of history and the last man for instance from this big idea is that american capitalism might last forever suggested perhaps socialism should come back because at this juncture it seems to me certain things are turning out to be true. I started to read and document the site and this was partly because i needed something to write about but it was also because they attracted people like me, idle young men in the first ten years of my adult life were not all that different from the second and i spent most of f its unemployed or unemployable. Quitting jobs but somehow faithless sitting at home on the internet and now i have almost nothing outside of my school debt. Its hard to tell how much of it was riveting your life by becoming an artist. But i think i was lucky year than most. I had the benefit of an education as i struggled i suspected there was a mass of people out there who knew with fatalistic certainty that there was no way out. Others my age and younger were behind cash registers and into cubicles and saw even less on the horizon, not just economically but for lack of a better word spiritually on whatever hope was made. Instead to prefer its builtin collapse how else does one interpret these assets owning less than nothing compounding and replicating somehow into even more blessed mess is it any surprise they were even more convinced why wasnt i among them in costume locking myself in the fantasy of a team or even sadder in the cubicle as a young adult and later why wasnt i on the street drawing blood why did i choose to stalk nerds and watch them from a great distance it took me years to realize this, but the reason my fathers affairs were such a mess when he died partly the reason he died was totalitarianism when my father was in his early 20s, he escaped from behind the iron curtain camping gear in the back seat. When he reached the freedom without having to fire it, his first act as a westerner was to dismantle the gun and throw the pieces into a lake. He always ended the tale that way probably concluding they are probably still there at the bottom of the lake. He never told me who helped him cross the border. He had a companion next to him and i never learned that was either. In my childhood imagination, the pieces of the gun seemed to embody this mystery, with my father said about them, that they were still there, inaccessible at the bottom of an unnamed lake designated with the unfathomable and after he died and was reduced to nothing but a memory strangely enough it is one of the memories he became involved as i knew him but i used to imagine him in the story 22yearsold hiding underneath sleeping bags next to a companion with a luger up against his chest. I knew how he felt because he expressed the same throughout the rest of his life, anger and resentment. He remained furious that he had been placed in this position he might have been forced to use the nazi gun to shoot his way to freedom. He almost had to employ the tactics of idiots and bullies and even men who escaped. That is what the pieces at the bottom of the lake meant to him that he wasnt forced to use the gun, he could abandon it for a life in the United States except those pieces do dont quite abandon him, they were still dissolving in the story, never dissolved. He did tell me how he got the gun. It started when thousands of soldiers surrounded his village in what was then czechoslovakia from 17 years earlier in 1945 when he was 5yearsold. They wind their tanks u kinks od told the town to evacuate. The next morning came int and te town was still there and so were the tanks only the man had disappeared instead of leveling the village, they shed the burden of the ordinance, hundreds of tons of it and walked away with nothing but their coats and hats hoping to surrender before the soviets called them. He never forgot how ridiculous it seemed, how the ideas could compel before dissolving in the blink of an eye, how in an instant it ended and appeared to him than as he always insisted it was, it showed covering an ocean of human stupidity to describe the order of the United States, the dream that could go away in an instant. It could happen here, americans dont know. It seems unthinkable that it could happen anywhere. He kept passports up to date and stored canned food and bought guns to replace the ones roasting in the lake, those buried with emergency camping gear. I wasnt supposed to tell these stories. The nazis, the communists, despise, they had all died they werbutthey were not dead, only sleeping. The fractions with come again and angry to take revenge for old grievances. When he returned in the early 90s after the fall of the iron curtain, they thought they were seeing a ghost when a person damaged it generally meant it made them disappear. He laughed when he said this and for a while i really thought it was a joke the way he talked about it melting away an and eue going mad in a lighthearted sort of way as a grandfather said was a part of the National Style just before hitler rose to power the author wrote a Science Fiction novel in which its absentminded and destroyed. That took the years to realize thethat i had received a childs version. When i was younger we lived in a middleclass life and my father daughtepejoratives of life in te suburbs, the barnes and noble, he divided how they consciously crafted a meaningless empty experience totally bereft of culture the same cultural that was imported into the halls of this. Culture after all had been the Sticking Point europe have almost choked and died on a id was from the big play to walmart to super fresh, more american to him than the skyscraper. Furniture, computers, exercise equipment, sporting goods, cars, vcrs, entertainment centers, although if the consumer nonsense of the previous decades. Inch by inch i was slowly learning what was happening. He was suffering and dying from the myth of the clean break. The gun resting at the bottom of the week as we coasted towards the end of history postcommunism and fascism towards the products of america forever, the socalled end of history and i an other words, a garage. When he died at the house was sold to the brand. I was in the process of throwing it all away the nazis would return one day even in america. It was more composed of young men my age in the 30s and 40s on the fringes of a societsocietythey hated the ear. He would have laughed so hard. History repeats itself first as a tragedy than as a farce he wrote. But whats next there is no word for the farce of a farce. Here you are, tim trying to picp pieces. The stories of entrenched utopia dystopia, reality tv to reality. America to trump. [applause] i will now take questions on any subject from the audience. It doesnt matter. Physics, biology [inaudible] the short answer is no. If only they would Pay Attention to me its like they like so many other people better. Now and again i get some crazy emails i love and ive gotten some people writing me and so forth but for the moment as i have gone along ive gotten more ridiculous and less scary. He wanted to fight me and it was funny. I laughed. He called my laughter fake. To me it is a not too big of an issue right now. It might be a much bigger issue but right now, i dipped my toes into this and i have yet to die. Thats a good question. There was a lot of dropping out of the top end. One writer put it when the far Left Movement collapsed and there was a quote on quote of moral vacuum or that was her described itself this time. So its sort of men my age you cant do that after 20 years you have to you cant live in a vacuum for so long so the far right thinking was like a desperate attempt to fix their situation. There is a distinction to try to downplay the seriousness of the media platforms have been granted. Spinning that is a good point that there is a distinction. I agree with the reporting and another who also covered the conclusion is that its real theyve been to these places but the effect was minimal or at least it does not explain trump in and of itself. That is the best way that i can make sense of it so i agree with his take of a. Though there is some connection and in my book i describe the connection they sort of accidentally ran into programs by the u. S. Government or the contract was in the particulars and other large contractors that were doing similar things in the u. S. And abroad generally in the u. S. To the chamber of commerce in 2011 that is what they discovered. Some of those sort of started with anonymous and is still covering the stories of when they broke and i spoke to them for the book they said ive been covering this for years and they have names for it and for years they were trying to figure out how to make one Facebook User 20 and shoot information into the social media that way. So they get mixed up with it and then of course they own Cambridge Analytic so the company is recruiting in 2016 he is also working with cambridge to do a similar work on the russian troll forms so those are the strange connections in the stories. [inaudible] ive probably felt with it very poorly. To get these where the story there is a lot of other talented people that cover this and they complain about it as they are reading the site i dont want to look at this ever again. Some of it is ridiculous and some of it is like having a sense of humor about i it is the subject matter of both are terrifying in a way that trump is inherently like a canadian ridiculous. Do you have a sense of the next variation for the prediction of what will happen next the state of the movement may be even longer so theres been a migration. People were not sure what was going to happen after charlottesville. The underlining forces in the economic and spiritual crisis of this group of people is still existing so the idea that they just were back online and thereve been good stories how there were other like a chat application so they are congregating the online spaces and reforming but they are scared to go outside. So i was surprised they spoke three weeks ago in dc and thats when i went to see them and covered the story full of crazy people. 200 or 300 people there at the e people that were dedicated. They were not frightened of me. Everyone was frightened of being humiliated they surrounded himself with a bodyguard of a proud and it felt like he was a little fearful of the bad media because they were so embarrassing and such a disaster for them so it isnt going to go away unless the underlining forces they had a first job of giving meaningful education and meaningful jobs, some hope in their life and genuine need that it generates false needs like i will play videogames algo play r tv or mma. This is stuff that replaces real genuine needs of the society doesnt provide. So it could have been if the left does well it could dissolve i think. Half of those supporters now a portion of them support the libertarian socialist who wants to give them a thousand dollars and they are like 19 so always changing their minds like they got sucked into this ideology and i guess a thousand dollars is better than fascism. It could change but right now if the underlining causes going to remain online and manifest again in some way. [inaudible] [inaudible] that is a great question with some internet philosophers that are popular ideas online and i do think that its a real pipeline that does exist and the sources i talked to that fell into this. You cant really understand the world with politics but they dont read much so thats how they are doing an and they get easily convinced. The far right philosophy that are deeply adhering and are marginalized and dont have a good sense of identity not only that you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps and have this value that conservatism gives you they like that rigid set of values so the philosophy appeals to them but i think the underlining forces or the situation in society and so when you name the figures where they are convinced they make money off of their clicks and they say this is what you should do with your wife you should believe and this is why you should be proud of the results. Then mike jordan peters, the philosophy doesnt make a lot of sense and its like a bad social darwinism, but the appeal and why they have millions of followers is why they have this disenfranchised set of rules to make their lives better and that is what he sells like 12 for life and so that is the explanation for where they come from. Into the sort o this sort of fof the movement has been very close up to [inaudible] thats a good question. Its a little more mixed than that. I think that they are even smarter as one of those philosophers that hang out withh Richard Spencer and the groups debate because they love asian culture and it comes out of all of this consuming all of these products. I also found a few of my sources were africanamerican men. One was a libertarian socialist and one was a communist, but they were in this world hanging out for years and they were sort of sympathetic to a lot of those movements. They were young men on the old right, so its true that for the most part its strange that there is but thi disconnect whee they like the culture and it moves into pride but for me the explanation is like the idea that there was a crisis, a sort of spiritual self crisis if you are spending ten or 15 years watching and playing video games you cant do that forever coming to canto cant live in that for and that is where the hyper conservatism comes in to go to someone online like i need a new value system to get me out of this where there is nothing to grab onto and its almost like a clean break where they describe it that way. Im going to keep hanging out in my moms basement watching anna mae and live my entire life that way. What ibut im going to stick td those sort of debates. The crisis of that then creates the racism and fascist ideology. Speech of theres another phenomenon in Drug Overdose deaths [inaudible] thats a great question. Im doing writing on this now because the way the movement has evolved as we see it manifest after charlottesville and theres a sort of argument for the most part it comes first in the shooting comes second. Its a despair in a way that i write about in the book extensively they are full of suicide for years they encouraged suicide and sort of had fun. That was like 2004, 2005. They were going out and having a massacre all of the action films it is a male fantasy of power so they are like thats cool so they would sort of joke about the idea of going crazy, but they would also worship suicide. And then i write in depth at his jokes at first, but then around 2011, 2012 people from themselves online and lifestream suicide and it sort of picks up and starts rolling and then people go out and all of the jokes then become this reality the last three or four months he posted and referenced from 2004, 2005 like the whole tradition im going to lifestream the entire thing just like this guy did in 2011. To think im going to kill myself and do this and thats what people started doing in 2009. They were thrilled for the most part like this is what we want, this is the celebration of that nihilism. Succumb it became its own despairing culture the idea of inequality is the record high and those that are only reached in the 1930s there are more people who feel like their lives are hopeless and make sense that they would be as statistic would be comorbid m i guess is the tem to correlate with this other group. [inaudible] in an instant someone write me a check. I am going to cover the crisis at the border which is of course about area 51 like the other half of all of that anxiety for this concentration camps so im going to do the other one. I guess i should stop. The answer is yes im ready to cover any and all alien stories if there is a producer listening. Please, any time. [applause] a lot of this started when president obama got elected and for many people the concept of a president in the oval office for many was offensive but they didnt act on any of it. They may have done it on social media. President obama wasnt born in america and th then of all the others. Hes putting out white supremacist nazi activities, running for president , and then trump comes in and all the things hes done. I think it sends a signal to people the president cannot say this stuff i can also ad also he emboldened them and thats why they felt comfortable coming to charlottesville if they can say it publicly so can i. They used to do this at night. They dont think they have to wear hoods anymore. This was their big Comingout Party that they were hurt badly in charlottesville. The subtitle of the book socialism sucks as to economists drink their way through the world. How did you come upon the idea to drink across the world a tech from an airplane. We can drink there, they have good from and then we need to write that our