j reacts to the possibility that trump is being blackmailed over his tax returns

some of the conservatives that won't get behind trump are pushing his tax return situation, which is potentially a more serious scandal than hillary's emails. anonymous?

but, listen: i actually think that some people somewhere may have something on him. i know that sounds conspiratorial. and i have absolutely no evidence; it's just a hunch. but the reality is that this is actually how politics works, right. it's not just about buying influence. i mean, what's to stop trump from lying his way in to power and just not doing anything he said? i mean, this process works both ways, right. all we've ever seen is the obama-style politician that says they're going to do great things, then doesn't. this is likely what trump will end up as, too (if you think his proposals are "great things"). but there's really not any reason why the process couldn't work in reverse. there's been persistent mumbling for decades that reagan tried to reverse himself, and got shot as a result. and, the motives behind jfk's death remain unclear.

so, yes, there's influence buying. it's necessary, but not sufficient. you've also got these shady motherfuckers that sneak around in the shadows and find ways to make sure that the candidates can't get out of their control by blackmailing them into compliance.

i suspect - i have no evidence - that trump's expected compliance with the status quo will have everything to do with what are in his taxes. oops.

so, how this plays out is interesting to me. you could have both candidates facing charges. and, that might be exactly what the bastards actually want.

22-05-2016: baby labour & blessed at phog in windsor (and primary rants)

show footage:
baby labour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzOmLQGDptI
blessed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTt0ZeuSAZw

review:
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2016/05/22.html

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

season 7 (cropped)

season 7

j reacts to trump's attempts to re-define himself as the establishment candidate

yeah. you got it at the end. it's exceedingly cynical, and while i don't dispute the claim that trump is making the same errors as the people he just beat (which is kind of daft), if you look at it from this vulgar marxist/gramscian perspective then it makes a lot of sense.

it all turns on the following question: does the media cover elections, or does the media decide elections? if you take the latter perspective, and you're donald trump right now, you have to realize that the number one problem you have in front of you is that you're not the establishment candidate. so, you don't have establishment money on your side. so you don't have establishment media on your side. so, you're basically fucked, because that's what decides elections. the way you see the outcome from this perspective is obvious: clinton, msnbc and cnn gang up on him to beat him into the ground, while fox continues to spurn out punchlines for late night tv (and trump no doubt doesn't help himself, either).

it seems to contradict the narrative: he won because he's the anti-establishment. but, that was the primary. and i don't think it's true, anyways: he didn't control the outside, he controlled the center. so, the proper way to adjust is actually to go after the center in the general - which means becoming the establishment. and, i would claim that he already committed to this tactic several weeks ago.

so, you can argue that it's going to mean he's throwing away the sanders vote. really. like that was ever serious. i've argued it's his only real tactic, but it's based on the idea that he just doesn't have any space to operate on hillary's right. it's too narrow a spectrum. of course, if he can somehow knock her off the pedestal and out of being the establishment candidate then he gains the spoils - he gets the media. so, he wins. how, exactly, he thinks he's going to manage this while carrying through with his other ideas is hard to parse, of course. but what it exposes is the tactical impossibility that he really faces.

....meaning that it might seem like he's throwing away his advantage on the surface, but what he's really doing is cutting his losses and going all in. risky, but high reward - and not dumb. he just doesn't have good options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdeUL2a2ZPw

onion headline.

j reacts to trump's use of an undefined ternary or quaternary? logic system

"She talked about guns in classrooms. I don't want to have guns in classrooms. Although in some cases, teachers should have guns in classrooms, frankly. You look at some of our schools. Unbelievable what is going on. But I'm not advocating guns in classrooms. But remember, in some cases, trained teachers should be able to have guns in classrooms."

i don't know what logic system trump uses. what's the status of de morgan's laws? are we going to get a paper, here, or what?

maybe we can try and use an artificial intelligence on the d-wave system to decode it?

da fuck, really.

and, you doubted that funding for nasa would be useful. ye of little faith.

https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/dash/physics/quail/