this is a terrible idea.

if it actually succeeded, it would remove the gst from a small number of items that few people pay and replace it with inflation on everything. instead of paying 13% on non-essential services that most poor people rarely purchase, we'll see a return to high inflation that affects everything. the reason is that corporations will increase prices to adjust to the tax on profits.

as a poor person, about the last thing in the world that i'm concerned about is a tax on luxury goods like cable tv or cell phones. these are items purchased by wealthy people, not by poor people. the policy reflects the fact that the ndp's voting base is actually the upper middle class.

surely jagmeet singh is aware that there are no taxes on grocery store food. i have no idea what he's talking about when he claims there's gst on grocery store food; that's absolutely false.

frankly, i think the idea of taxing luxury items like cell phones to pay for services is a good idea and i would vote in favour of it, not against it. this the kind of basic "progressive taxation" policy you expect the ndp to support, not oppose. this is in truth an extremely right-wing proposal. what side of the spectrum is the ndp coming down on?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-writes-premiers-gst-cut-1.7388318

i think taylor swift is intending to create music for very young girls and that these middle aged or older women at her shows are really not her target demographic, even if they are largely responsible for her obscene wealth.

listen, i'm just too old to listen to taylor swift. i remember britney spears, but i thought i was too old for that, even. i did like the spice girls, but i didn't tell anybody.

in fact, i had a bunch of madonna records in the 80s and 90s and that would be my actual age group, which makes me two or three generations removed from taylor swift, in terms of little girl or tweenage girl pop.

i would argue that watching a middle aged woman dance to and sing taylor swift songs at a baseball stadium like she's an eight year-old is sort of sad and pathetic and something that really belongs in the bathrooms and closets of the world rather than in giant stadiums for exorbitant prices, but i also have no real concept of what tiktok even is, which just exacerbates the generation gap.

so, i'm sorry, but i'm too old for taylor swift, and i'm not interested in having a midlife crisis or on holding on to being a tween into my 50s or on pretending i am.

i grew up in the 80s. i didn't watch or care about wrestling myself (i very correctly realized it was idiotically stupid), but i had to sit on the bus with little boys that did and it was actually somewhat traumatizing for some of them to learn the truth, as it unfolded.

you know wrestling is fake, right?

no! no!

they're all actors. paid. it's bullshit.

no! it's real!

i think a lot of americans are in truth like those little boys on the bus, and at some point they'll have to face the truth of it. it's been obvious since reagan, at the least. i can't comment on anything before that at this level, as i can't understand this by reading about it. trump has just utterly dropped the bullshit.

you know the elections are fake right?

no! no! they're real!

trump's tendency to pick actors, personalities and news hosts for cabinet rather than politicians or executives may perhaps suggest that he's setting up his administration like an entertainment event.

are the elections in the united states any less fake than wrestling? fake news? fake president?

on some level, what these people actually do is just read lines anyways. is being a fox news host substantively different than being the secretary of defence? shockingly, it might not be.

the open question left to answer in my view is whether trump is setting up a reality tv show to be orchestrated from the oval office, and this is all being coordinated as a form of entertainment, or if these actors and news hosts were chosen precisely because they're trustworthy agents of the deep state that will read what they're told without any push back.

it's been clear for quite a while that the real reason biden got pushed out is because he thought he knew better than the generals and he wouldn't listen. the system is designed to give the president authority, but the president is also a civilian leader, and any president that isn't retarded should know to defer; biden was clearly on an ego trip and he may have started world war three in the process. the comparisons to lbj are longstanding, but he seems to have been removed for the same reasons that kennedy was, although they did it the gentle way this time. he was unstable and not somebody that the pentagon could leave with his finger on the button.

the corollary of that is that empty suits repeating talking points is actually exactly what the pentagon wants and exactly what the pentagon has wanted for years. they don't want these civilians walking in and thinking they know better; and, clearly, almost no president has ever been qualified, and especially can't be now due to the shifts in technology since the 18th century. the last president that was qualified to be commander in chief was eisenhower.

we'll have to see how this unfolds; it's not currently clear. are these employees of the trump reality show, or were they picked because they wouldn't talk back?

yeah, he would.

it's almost kind of like that time that putin wasn't president for a few years because smiley face dmitri was, but then he was president again after.

we're not so different.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mlp5p4lvko

this is reasonable, and i would support it, but how is this enforced?

the un won't enforce it, it's proven it. the french won't enforce it.

the only way to enforce it is for israel to occupy the region south of the litani and will hezbollah agree to that?

what israel appear to be trying to do is actually push hezbollah north of the awaali river, which is north of not just the ancient hebrew-canaanite city of tyre but also the ancient hebrew-canaanite city of sidon. it's not clear if they intend to occupy up to the litani and demand demilitarization between the litani and awaali or actually push all the way to the awaali, but how can you blame them for pushing beyond the previous un resolution when the previous un resolution was not enforced?

should they ask for another un resolution that won't be enforced?

whether what they do is supportable in the end will depend on the precise actions but i actually have a hard time criticizing israel for annexing any region that is historically considered to be phoenecia because while the arguments are obtuse and arcane and awkward, they're also basically correct. the phoenecians were basically jews, which is why the romans treated the jews so poorly, which has set off centuries of persecution.

i just wish they'd try to assimilate the palestinians back into israel rather than try to get rid of them. they're closer to the ancient hebrews than anybody else.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanon-hezbollah-agree-us-proposal-ceasefire-with-israel-lebanese-official-says-2024-11-18/

i had and have a strong case on appeal, but this awful bitch decided to show up and "manage" my case, and she's actually horribly mismanaging it by producing emotional responses to filings she doesn't like, etc. this woman seems to suffer from a mental imbalance of some sort, but i have no ability to get rid of her.

i'm going to need to appeal on procedural grounds in an attempt to throw her off the case.

but it's clear enough that i'm not getting through this bitch to an actual court date and that's putting the situation in jeopardy.

to be clear: i haven't had anything heard in court yet. a number of motions have been rescheduled. i think i'd win a hearing. but, this justice is behaving improperly in attacking me out of spite because she doesn't like my filings, on an emotional or ideological level, and is basically engineering a situation that i can't win, forcing me to try to get around her.

if i can't get around her, i don't have another solution; i'm going to have to pack up and get this stuff out of here into storage and sleep in a hotel for a while.

the liberal government insists on attacking india for cracking down on terrorism, but has no qualms signing a trade agreement with indonesia without mentioning a thing about the fact that it's one of the worst human rights abusers on the planet.

why?

because indonesa is an example of ongoing islamic colonialism, and india is still recovering from the effects that islamic imperialism had on it.

the only thing that's surprising about it is how heavy-handed the hypocrisy is and how blatant the policy of preference towards islamism as a valid socio-political ideology is. 

this is something that canadians have every right to be concerned about. this is a valid issue.

trump's cabinet picks are actually exemplifying the split personality nature of the two-headed monster, from my perspective. 

yes, these are people that i could find a lot of ways to disagree with about a lot of things, particularly their support for government interference in a number of basic civil rights issues. 

however, these are also not particularly bad picks, in simple pragmatic terms, and i may find myself in general agreement with them on the exact files they're being asked to take on.

tulsi gabbard, for example, is somebody that i could definitely get in a lot of arguments with about a lot of things, but i know she has no patience for muslim extremism (due in no small part to the fact that she's an independent female), and i actually think the united states needs to reorient itself on this particular issue, as it has fallen too far into cultural relativism. i actually think she's a pretty good choice for the office she's being asked to take over.

likewise, while i would be mortified to see mike huckabee appointed as attorney general, i have been clear enough that i think we need to move on from the palestine question and leave the palestinians behind. they deserve basic civil rights as full citizens of israel, including some kind of compensation for the eminent domain seizures of their land. getting to that point means getting over the sovereignty question as a 20th century issue that's no longer relevant.

both of these picks demonstrate the basic fact that the democratic party is stuck in the past and needs to be dragged out of it, kicking and screaming.

conversely, matt gaetz seems to be an astonishingly poor pick that might not get approved by a republican senate. i don't think rfk jr has the slightest chance of getting confirmed. further, is elon musk going to put his investments in a blind trust, or what? is he going to step down from tesla, twitter and space x? did he think this through at all? does he even know what a conflict of interest is?

what i've been saying for years now is that i disagree equally with the republican and democratic parties, i just disagree with them in different ways. i disagree with about 80% of what both of the parties want, and i have about 20% support for either of them, and there's no intersection in the policies i support from the two parties. this makes sense by noting that i'm a libertarian socialist, and that the democrats in truth have only a small policy base that would appear to a liberal while the republicans have only a small policy base that would appeal to a libertarian.

as far as i'm concerned, the democrats and republicans are both conservative parties and two sides of the same coin.

but, faced with the real world in front of us today right now, gabbard and rubio are likely better foreign policy choices than anthony blinken or jake sullivan, and i may actually like more of what gets done under this new direction than the existing one. i have never heard of pete hegseth before and cannot produce an educated comment about him, i'll have to wait and see. my initial analysis would be that he might not get confirmed.

i would ask rubio to tone it down on cuba. i will probably disagree with him on that.

but we actually need a good round of bombing in key regions right now (yemen, especially) to take out some problems that the biden administration refused to address and i hope these guys actually go out and do it.

kamala harris convincingly lost the election.

making her president for a day would be an act of contempt for the wishes of the voting public and the most undemocratic thing i could possibly think of.

which is exactly why the democrats will probably actually do it.

my 80s and 90s cassettes all sound absolutely terrible. it's a deficit of the technology, which is now past it's expiry date.

i may be a little late, but i'm consequently now officially declaring the era of the cassette to be permanently over.

your cassettes, if you still have any, are now officially garbage and should be thrown away.

i'm listening to old cassettes. this is a scan of my insert for bush' sixteen stone.

i've always known this was rare, but i wonder how rare nowadays.

this is a canadian release manufactured before the x was inserted. no x on the spine either.

oddly, there is an x on the cassette itself, which is the intc-9000 version with the extra acoustic tracks and not this 92531 sleeve version, which is identical to the us release.

the cassette was purchased on import in a corporate music store in very early 1995, in the brief period between when bush hit it huge in the united states and they more slowly got into rotation on muchmusic. there was a time lag in bush getting placed into rotation in canada. my interest in bush before they were beamed from tvs everywhere was that i had a subscription to guitar world, and they had a tab for everything zen, which wasn't a hit here. so i bought this in that brief period of time when these weren't actually being massively produced yet and the copyright issue hadn't yet clicked in.

i don't know how many of these there actually are.

it's something to take note of as a i sort through this disparate media collection.

while trump may actually be stricter on netanyahu than biden, it won't be because he's pro-arab or pro-muslim, it will be for his own considerations. israel is an asset if it's kept in line, but it's a liability when it's not.

trump's iran policy will also be stricter and it needs to be stricter but it's not because he's pro-israel it's because iran has demonstrated itself as a dangerous actor in need of regime change.

anybody that voted for donald trump expecting him to be pro-arab or pro-muslim should be laughed at for being stupid, but my perception is that this is a figment of the arab lobby's imagination and that while you may find some isolated anecdotes you couldn't isolate a statistically defined sample.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769

somebody that is concerned about rights issues in the west bank should be arguing that palestinians need civil rights inside of the israeli state, not holding to the 20th century delusion that the west bank is ever going to be a sovereign state.

this is a false narrative that is out of touch with reality and created by people that haven't kept up with events for the last 30 years.

it's already done.

the west bank is already annexed.

writing it down on paper and declaring it law is a meaningless and overdue formality, but actually doing it would be helpful so we can move on and leave the issue behind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/politics/israel-trump-administration.html

besides oil and oil derivatives, which together make up something like 40% of our export gdp to the united states, our biggest exports to the united states are marijuana and hockey players.

and they tax our lumber. illegally. and won't stop.

canada used to have a top 5 global economy. today, we keep going to these g7 meetings, but we barely qualify for the g20 and we're probably going to fall out of it in the next 5-10 years.

canada has become an attractive destination for foreign capital and wealthy foreigners, like a mediterranean resort city-state, but we are the largest country in the world, geographically, and our actual real economy has completely collapsed. we're on the brink of becoming a failed state.

we're going to have to walk into these trade negotiations with a reduced sense of pride and a newfound respect for the facts, which are not in our favour.

the elder trudeau warned us that nafta would hollow the country out, and standing here 40 years later, it's clear he was right. we have no industry of any sort, except raw exports. even our cultural industry, which did well into the mid 00s, has entirely disappeared.

economically speaking, we've retreated back to becoming a colony of europe and the united states, while we're increasingly being colonized by the middle east.

canada is actually going to have to come to terms with the fact that mexico is an actual trading partner with the united states and has a two-way flow of goods, while canada's trade relationship with the united states has been little more than food-for-oil since the 1980s, when we signed the canada-us free trade deal.

that makes mexico a partner of the united states and canada more akin to a colony.

thankfully, trump seems to know better than to put rfk jr or elon musk in actual government roles, although i do think it would be helpful to let rfk jr make an ass of himself.

first they came for your dogs...

if you have a runt, don't let it out late at night. kristi's coming for it with the uncool dog police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary-trump.html

i really think the world should be criticizing the arab countries for abandoning gaza, not attacking israel for walking into this existential crisis where it's come face to face with the need to feed it's enemies, and is having difficulty with it.

he's clueless.

the americans have more trade with mexico than with canada. the mexicans are a more valuable trading partner.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ontario-ford-cusma-agreement-1.7380890

the ontario liberals are taking a hard shift to the right that is going to render them irrelevant.

i would strongly oppose a cut to the heating oil tax, as it acts as a disincentive on use. if people are complaining that it's expensive, they should find a different way to heat their home.

the ontario liberal party is increasingly emerging as a bc liberal party, and i don't know what the point is. just merge with the conservatives, then.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ontario-liberal-leader-bonnie-crombie-will-pledge-tax-cut-on-home-heating-fuels/article_f7707202-a05f-11ef-a683-c7ae529eeda8.html

in fact, israel is the only country in the world that does provide aid to gaza.

think about that.

that's not sustainable.

the egyptians and saudis ought to be making a deal to airlift people out.

was turnout suppressed in wayne county?

marginally, and it bucks the trend, but 2-3% either way is a rounding error.

if you do the basic math,

1) the democrats received 60,589 less votes

2) turnout was down by 13,899 votes

3) if every single one of those people that didn't vote were democrats, there are still 60589-13899 = 46690 votes to account for.

4) the republicans received 24,225 more votes - in wayne county. strictly.

5) if every single one of those were biden voters in 2020, that leaves 46690-24225 = 22465 voters that are unaccounted for and i suppose must have voted for jill stein.

if we do some naive math that is probably loosely right using that number of 60589 less votes in wayne county (detroit), it follows that:

1) 24,225 moved from biden to trump

2) 22,465 moved to stein (or another third party candidate)

3) 13,899 refrained from voting

almost twice as many voters switched from biden to trump than stayed home; depressed turnout would be the least of detroit's worries.

and they should not delude or confuse themselves as it will breed complacency and that is a problem in detroit. they need to face the facts: even in detroit, they lost votes to trump, explicitly.

this is naive math because it could instead be that:

1) trump got 24,225 brand new voters to get off the couch to vote for him, in detroit, explicitly.

2) all of the 60,589 voters that voted for biden but didn't vote for harris abstained or voted for stein.

stein's vote total went up by about 30,000, which is more than 23,000, so there is some evidence that some of trumps's increase in votes was due to new voters (around 7,000-8,000), but also that most of it wasn't. the green party has long argued that it registers new voters, especially young and first time voters, so it's also naive (and no doubt wrong) to assume that all of those 30,000 voters were biden voters. the libertarian party vote went down by the same amount that rfk went up, and it's naive to connect that together, but it washes it out, nonetheless.

there's lots of ways to put this together, certainly, but none of it supports the idea that harris lost because turnout was low; rather, it supports the idea that trump won because he increased turnout in his favour.

does he call donald "boss"?

i'm imagining he ought to.

he's technically slovenian, but he looks like something right out of an italian mob film, with the sunken eyes and the fitted suits and the apparent fact that he's 7 feet tall.

barron trump constantly looks like a low level hitman when he shows up on stage with trump.

"which one of these guys am i taking out, boss?"

don't listen to the liberal media when it tells you harris lost due to low turnout.

https://www.mlive.com/politics/2024/11/michigan-sets-voter-turnout-record-but-turnout-declined-in-every-democratic-county.html

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/06/wisconsin-vote-totals-2024-election-record-president-trump-harris/76098668007/

in pennsylvania, total turnout seems to have been marginally up, not down, but it was roughly flat. total votes increased by around 50,000. it would probably technically be record turnout, given that turnout in 2020 was high everywhere, but i can't find an article stating as much.

trump won by getting non-voters off the couch and he did that by creating an inspiring message of hope and change that resonated in key demographic groups.

i don't want them to give up their customs. i don't care what they eat or how they mumble at the wall.

what i want is for them to respect my customs, and the growing problem as they increase in numbers is that they increasingly don't respect my customs, and that they're increasingly aggressive about it when they don't.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/one-quarter-of-canadians-say-immigrants-should-give-up-customs-poll

this argument is not supported by the data.

trump won by getting non-voters out not just in high numbers but in record numbers. trump did not suppress turnout or win by breeding apathy. there was in fact record turnout.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americans-didnt-embrace-trump-they-rejected-biden-harris.html

i was born in 1981, but i don't identify as a millennial and admit that i frankly don't understand millennials very well.

i'm the last gen xer.

i nonetheless think the point i'm making about charli xcx is correct: this isn't music that adults of any generation would listen to, this is music for little kids. people in their 20s hanging on to this may be likely to have developmental disorders.

i would also classify taylor swift as being "music for children", but she seems to have retained an unusual amount of the audience that liked her as children into adulthood, which i actually don't understand well. i've heard a fair amount of taylor swift, and it definitely strikes me as something that hyper-targets the preteen market. i don't know if it's that a lot of millennials are hanging on to their childhood longer than they should or if it's more of a cultural thing, or even if it's that people are taking their kids to the shows, but you'd think that at least half of the people going to these shows ought to have outgrown her years ago.

i actually get the impression that taylor swift has even outgrown herself.

beyonce may be better targeted at people old enough to vote, but probably just barely.

i haven't seen statistics, but i would assume that charli xcx is geared towards about 12-15 year olds and people in their 20s would largely prefer music that is more mature than that.

when i was in my 20s, i would have considered that kind of music immature and anybody my age that still listened to it to be immature.

there's some information coming out that it actually cost harris a lot of money to get on stage with all of these celebrities everywhere, and that her research wasn't very focused on relevant demographic groups.

if they can get stallone to run, they should call the campaign rocky VII.

yes.

rocky, now an old man, comes out of retirement yet again under popular pressure because he's the only candidate that can win pennsylvania for the democrats. 

they should film it as a reality media mockumentary and make it heavily centered in philadelphia and heavily integrated with actual voters in real life.

that's how you beat a reality tv star, with more reality media. and, stallone is actually an underrated director, he could do this and do it well.

my father was about 25% or less italian, although he never told me until i was much older, and i eventually discovered the uncomfortable reality that i'm related to the gotti clan via a dna test. i was able to determine that his y-dna (direct paternal, male over male lineage) is austrian celt. the gottis were actually germans that moved south into italy; the name gotti appears to basically be the same word as 'goth', which is a generic medieval italian slur for germanic person that ultimately stems from a swedish group that migrated into northern italy from ukraine as they fled attila the hun.

i actually really, seriously appear to be relatively closely related to the gottis.

my father's mother was adopted because her parents were killed when they were "accidentally" hit by a train. one of my aunts did the research, and it seems like they were both tied to the tracks. people don't accidentally get tied to the railroad tracks, at least not outside of bugs bunny cartoons. it would seem like it was a mob hit.

that is legitimately all i know - my father's mother's parents were killed in an obvious mob hit in ottawa, canada and she was raised by a french family in ottawa's franco-ontarian community.

i don't really want to know much else.

but he knew he was part italian, and he made me watch all of the movies when i was a kid: all of the de niro, all of the pacino, all of the stallone. i'm actually about twenty years too young to remember this stuff otherwise, but it was seen as some kind of educational process.

i have actually long suspected that he knew more about the mob connection than he ever told me or ever told anyone else. he didn't want me to know, and i don't want to know.

i mean, there's an assumption that trump won't run for a third term.

that convention has been broken before.

i'm not predicting it, exactly, but i'd be ready for it.

trump also has a long-running feud with stallone, apparently.

you see where i'm going with this.

i'm just trying to help you win, s'all.

or, they could run anthony hopkins, and have him threaten to eat trump for breakfast when he wins.

(alas, no. hopkins was not born in the united states.)

de niro is old enough to run for president, at least.

that was fifty years ago.

it's not that de niro was type cast.

it was just a really good film.

you kids should sit down with it if you haven't seen it.

i think de niro would be an outstanding president. as a non-american, my primary concern is always foreign policy.

i could imagine de niro confronting putin.

eh. you lookin' at latvia? huh?

c'mere bitch.

you lookin' at finland?

huh?

don't you let me fucking catch you looking at poland.

people are having a hard time understanding how people could vote for donald trump on the basis of "the economy" by analyzing issues, and they're missing the point.

what does "the economy" even mean, exactly? it's a vague, undefined term.

the actual reason that such a large number of americans tell you that the right, not just trump, is good for "the economy" is that they've been bombarded with advertising telling them as much for their entire lives. what these exit polls are measuring is advertising reach rather than any kind of deconstructible economic logic.

i want to step in on the statistics that democrats are pushing, though.

gdp is worthless to an average person, and i'll cite joseph stiglitz on that point. the premise that increases in gdp and increases in growth benefit the average worker is the definition of trickle down economics. gdp per capita is better, but it's skewed by the inequality gap. measuring wages vs inflation actually obscures the inequality problem due to the way that real wages are measured as an average.

"The average personal income in the United States is about $54,000. But that number is significantly bumped up by the small number of people who make significantly more. The median personal income, on the other hand, is just under $36,000. This means that more than half of people in the US make less than $36,000, a significant drop from the $54,000 average. This difference is even more pronounced when you look at wealth. The median net worth of US households is $121,700, yet the average net worth is a whopping $748,800."

https://patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives/statistics-matter-why-averages-arent-useful-when-talking-about-the-american-economy/

the harrisites are trying to argue that people were misled by fox news, but it's actually the democratic party statistics that are off base with reality. i am barely old enough to remember stiglitz having this exact argument with the clintonites during gore v bush. people didn't get it and it's because the statistics they were using sucked. worse, democratic voters have been trained to believe what they see on msnbc with as much faith as republican voters have in fox. there's no critical analysis; they just absorb it and repeat it, which is by design.

we all think we're better than the other guys. most of us are actually exactly the same.

if you inflate average wages using wonky averages then it looks like real wages increased faster than inflation, but tell that to the mother of three working at walmart that's had her mortgage doubled by an interest rate hike and seen the price of groceries go up 500%. that statistic is meaningless to that person.

that is not a "perception", that is a fact and it is a fact that the stats being thrown around do not and cannot capture at all.

i think i can convince most people of the basic truth of this, that the standard economic stats used are for investors and not workers and have no relevance to real people (even these so-called real wages, which are skewed by high income earners and would by the definition of what is being measured be skewed the most during periods of inflation, as high income earners would tend to benefit from inflation, as they get the profits from the higher profits, either directly through ownership or via investments like shares). stiglitz really is a really good source on this.

i was able to find an article at brookings that examines this issue, for popular consumption:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/has-pay-kept-up-with-inflation/

using this far more real statistic,

median real wages adjusted for inflation to 2023 dollars in q1 2021: $1136

median real wages adjusted for inflation to 2023 dollars in q4 2023: $1130

that is a decrease of $6 from biden's inauguration until the end of 2023, and then you need to factor in interest rates.

so, that's the actual empirical reality: the statistics you see on msnbc are propaganda, just like the stats you see on fox news. if you ask some more honest people, they'll present a different picture to you.

if we can agree that the cost of living right now is difficult, and that "the economy" is not working for normal people, how then do we get to the logical conclusion that trump is the better option?

the answer is that you don't, it's just advertising. maybe the advertising doesn't work as well when people aren't struggling, but it's just advertising. most people don't know how to write policies to better their material conditions and would not have an informed opinion if given a direct vote.

what they know is:

1. right now, this objectively and empirically sucks.

2. the tv says republicans are better for the economy.

3. therefore, vote republican.

you are making a mistake if you are trying to probe deeper into the thought process than this.

worse is that this record turnout data suggests that trump won because he's a tv star and there isn't anything more to it than that. republicans have figured this out: trump, arnie, reagan himself. celebrities get people off the couch, and trump got the zombies out to vote in record numbers.

the actual smart analysis is that the democrats should run an actor, like de niro or clooney. according to tarantino, clooney is washed up, so why not let him run for office himself? he'd probably win in a landslide.

they could also convert the process of picking your vp choice into a reality show like the bachelor. that would get people voting for sure.

the united nations is claiming that israel is responsible for feeding gazans, and this is a position that has no logic to it.

claims that israel is starving gaza have, to this point, been without evidentiary basis. to the contrary, israel has taken the unusual step of feeding it's enemies. dismantling the aid agency may, for the first time, actually result in the outcome of gazans dying of hunger, but there is no legal basis to pin their starvation on israel's dismantling of the agency.

i don't support the starvation of gazans, but i need to call on other countries to fill the gap. it was always unreasonable to expect israel to feed it's enemies, and it is abundantly clear at this point that somebody else needs to step in, or they actually are going to starve, and it will be everybody except israel's legal fault due to their failure to respond.

how do you end the war in ukraine?

there was a referendum in each of the states that seceded from ukraine. ukraine should be expected to accept the democratic will of the people in these regions and pull out of them and the united states should tell them that.

yes, there are questions about the referenda, but they also appear to be reflective of the will of the people in these provinces, or oblasts.

this would be a shift in us policy, but it's actually not one that requires a lot of mental gymnastics, and the previous administration's policy should, quite frankly, be viciously criticized for what it was, which is undemocratic.

this is indeed shocking and frightening and baffling.

i can't open the main site:

https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/

the best way to demonstrate you've lost an argument is to censor your opponents.

https://www.opindia.com/2024/11/canada-bans-diaspora-media-outlet-australia-today-mea-says-it-highlights-canadas-hypocrisy/

a very seamless choice that is outside of government and could fill in would be dalton mcguinty, although he may be too old now. i would like to see that direction applied nationally.

the liberals need to hold a leadership race. the sooner the better.

any backroom-appointed candidate will lose and probably badly. frankly, it's a job few people should want right now.

christy clark should run, but for the conservatives. i'd never vote for her.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/who-should-lead-the-liberals-none-of-the-above-poll-finds-1.7103700

nafta wasn't the kind of election issue in 2024 that it was in 2016. that's an almost ten year difference.

i wouldn't expect trump to care much about canada over the next four years at all, and my advice would be that the canadian government should stand back and wait. if you don't draw attention to yourself and don't pick fights that trump probably doesn't want, he might not even notice we're here at all.

they can't find la nina.

did they call for it? i'd suggest two attempts to call for la nina:

1) to the tune of 'la bamba'. la nina will like that. lala lala lala niiinnya. if la nina is around at all, it will respond.

2) using ernie's call and response, ala that time he went fishing with bert. heeeere lanina lanina lanina lanina lanina lanina. if la nina is around, it'll jump right out of the southern oscillation and into the research science boat, immediately.

at the end of the day, though, if la nina cannot be found, perhaps it doesn't want to be found.

my serious question is this: given the obvious reality of climate change and the observable effect of record increases in ocean temperatures, why were they looking for la nina at all?

la nina will return, but you'll have to recalculate her.

in the mean time, we will probably have several decades of schrodinger's la nina.

it's not entirely clear why the liberal media thinks trump is pro-netanyahu or even pro-israel other than that it is the liberal media.

trump is the isolationist. biden/harris were the global policeman.

i don't think trump is going to be really pushing to escalate at all and may succeed in restraining and better focusing netanyahu where biden failed.

the one upside of trump winning is that american foreign policy will hopefully take a return to sanity after the insane war mongering of the biden years, although biden left such a mess that it could take most of the next 4 years to fix it. the liberal media has really lost the plot and needs to reconnect with the facts in front of them.

to be clear: historically, candidates like trump tend to accidentally win because nobody really bothers to vote.

on face value, at least, trump is the opposite; he's winning by convincing those that don't vote to go vote.

that's hard to analyze, other than to rely on the last two elections, which is what i did, but i thought the black vote would actually overpower in detroit and that was my one miscalculation.

like, i even got the weakly democratic leaning states dead on - new mexico, minnesota, new hampshire, virginia. i missed new jersey.

was i wrong about michigan?

i was right about everything else.

the weird thing about michigan is that turnout went up again. i'm not aware of a large movement of people into michigan, recently; generally, the trend is leaving. that would suggest that trump dramatically succeeded in mobilizing non-voters.

i penciled michigan as leaning blue because while the data was a little sketchy i decided black turnout for harris would be decisive. what i didn't see coming was startlingly high turnout in rural michigan and i wonder how much voted against harris rather than for trump. rural michigan is as racist or more racist than anywhere in the country.

or maybe they stuffed the ballots. i dunno.

one day, a candidate will get 133.7% of the vote.

for now, whatever the truth, trump got that vote out almost impossibly well and it is the singular state i missed.

joe biden thinks he has immunity if he shoots trump, though.

trump isn't president again just yet.

i hope we're not subjected to too much barking from vice president fido.

joe biden won arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin.

kamala harris lost every one of those states.

joe biden won the senate. kamala harris took down capable incumbents with her.

kamala harris was the first out in the primaries because democrats - not independents. democrats. - didn't like her.

harris vote total: 68 million votes

biden vote total: 81 million votes

without factoring in population growth, harris lost 13 million votes. that's a lot.

harris is a loser.

i would expect that the donald will spend most of the next four years playing golf.

but the real question is how big this guy's cock is.

google's ai is neither able to correctly define modus ponens nor to correctly define denying the antecedent.

it's not set to take over the world quite yet.

there's an old southern saying i learned from george w. bush.

"fool me once, shame on me. fool me twice, shame on....you me...fool fool me....won't get fooled again!"

it was pretty obvious to me that the polls were wrong in exactly the same way they were wrong the last two times, which is why i managed to nail it when nobody else did.

the democrats appear at this stage to have avoided a complete catastrophe, but these numbers are exceedingly concerning to democrats and broadcast the plausibility of imminent disaster:

illinois + 8.

jersey + 5.

new jersey was as close as nevada. 

the republicans have a better chance of winning illinois than the democrats do of flipping florida back.

this is going to look like a comfortable and convincing but narrow trump win. look closer and it's the narrow, narrow aversion of complete collapse.

it was immediately clear that harris was the worst possible candidate. the outcome was immediately predictable.

that's why we have primaries, and history should condemn biden for not stepping down in time to allow for one.

what next?

the youth vote is a total flip and while i don't want to oversimplify i've been pointing out for years that the covid restrictions were political suicide for the democrats. the young people today were told they weren't allowed to go outside and play because some stupid, worthless old people might die, as though they were supposed to give a fuck, and it was entirely blamed on the democrats, who are now the uncool party, and will be the uncool party for the foreseeable future.

the democrats have also become too black. it was one thing when this guy with a white mother was introducing the rolling stones at the convention, but harris didn't even try to appeal to white voters. americans may broadly be in favour of post-racialism and racial integration, but white americans don't want minority rule by african americans, which is how the democrats projected themselves.

there's no nice way to put this. this is a truly disastrous outcome and it's not as bad as it could have been or as bad as it will be next time. the democrats need to completely rebuild.

yeah.

this is how you rile your base up the day before the vote.

i don't know what harris is thinking.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/04/vance-garbage-criticism-harris-trash/76053720007/

the last batch of polls are unquestionably in trump's favour, including clarifying that minnesota is in fact up for grabs.

the headlines suggest otherwise. is the news biased in favour of harris?

it is. but it would say that anyways because the news is no longer objective, they are trying to get you engaged to sell you a story. they want a close election. it's exciting. it sells.

i don't expect that the outcome tomorrow is going to be very close at all, in terms of electoral vote tallies, even if some subset of the states is close. trump should win by a comfortable to substantive margin and the outcome is going to clarify why biden was a fundamentally strong candidate and harris is a fundamentally weak candidate.

elon musk is worth 50 billion dollars and can't hold a girlfriend.

....and, then elon musk demonstrated to the world at the last minute that donald trump is in truth the ringleader of a pack of sophomoric, immature little boys trying to take over student council and not a collection of frightening fascists that want to take over the military.

macho guys are gross. don't get me wrong.

these guys aren't macho, they're immature dorks.

it's the dork patrol.

they have a saying in computer science: garbage in, garbage out.

i'm not sure how you can listen to what that guy said and be upset about what biden said. it's clearly a difference in scale.

nonetheless, this is a song i wrote in early 2000, during the republican primaries, before bush got elected. note the middle section.

*shrug*.

i'm not producing hyperbole.

now is the time to eliminate the iranian leadership, before it does something catastrophic.

it is broadcasting it is about to launch a dangerous strike.

the iranian regime is not rational and cannot be treated as though it is rational.

i haven't spent much time outside recently, but this is noteworthy:

that forecast is for the first week of nov, 2024.

in recent years, we have seen the temperatures in november feature unusually warm bursts of air that quickly subside. i remember one year where we had two 27 degree days followed by vicious wind storms. the wind reasserted the fact that this is canada and it's november. so, we'd have this tug-of-war where it was trying to stay hot late into the year, but which was ultimately won by cold air plunging in from the arctic, as a result of the polar vortex breaking up due to a deficit of sunlight.

everything else aside, our weather is ultimately controlled by the sun and the yearly parade of longer and shorter days, governed by the tilt of the earth's axis, overpowers all. that will remain true for the foreseeable future, until or if this constant blizzard at the north pole ever subsides and the polar winter becomes a long summer festival. that will be a helluva party. by then, we should be able to grow new livers in test tubes and replace them on demand.

this forecast is different - constant late summer weather (by canadian standards) lingering on into mid or late november, and with no real end in sight. not fluctuations. not snaps. 15+ degree weather every single day up to or past november 15th, and unambiguously late summer or early fall weather pushing into december.

that is no longer unusual weather. that is now a change in the climate.

a few things to watch on tuesday.

1) black candidates underperform in wisconsin. it's not because they're all racist, exactly, although some percentage of them are. however, it's an open question whether people think kamala harris is actually black or not. barack obama told everybody he was half-white every ten minutes for a reason.

2) black turnout in michigan.

3) i think minnesota is going to be close.

4) pennsylvania is leaning republican, which is weird but consistent with the idea that some subset of amish or something don't want to vote for women. if harris loses pennsylvania, she's screwed. this has only been a swing state twice in recent memory, and it's been with female candidates both times. the demographic driving this isn't clear. it's more specific than white & rural, there's something else in there, and it might very well be amish. let's figure this out.

5) north carolina and georgia were supposed to be closer. black turnout is going to be a problem because they're not allowed to vote if they try. but keep an eye on that.

so, it's really going to come down to black voters in these states, and that is questionably undemocratic, but it's how it was setup. harris might have done more to reach out to white people - like standing on stage with a white musician or two - but she didn't. she ran as the black woman, which is doubly odd because it's not clear that people think she's black at all. yet, it's how it's going to be.

what trudeau doesn't understand, and will probably never understand, because he's actually a brutal racist, is that his longing for a culture and an identity is a consequence of the fact that white people had our culture and identity stolen from us by christianity, in the most brutal process of colonization in the history of the world. white people don't even deny this; we don't even contemplate it. we don't understand it. when we overthrew chistianity in the 17th and 18th centuries, we did understand it, but we had no latent or background culture to retreat to, and have been left without an identity ever since. some people, like myself, embrace building a new cultural identity on the concepts of reason, which was the framework developed out of the french revolution in response to the realization that the abolition of christianity would create this cultural void. others, like trudeau, lack the historical understanding and frankly the emotional maturity to come to terms with the fact that their identity was stolen from them, and try to fill that void by co-opting the cultural identities of others.

trudeau's framework only makes sense to him because he has no culture because his culture was stolen from him in the process of colonization by christianity.

this framework does not make sense to anybody that actually has a culture, and was not colonized or stripped of their identity and forced to start from scratch when the colonial process terminated, was overthrown and was reversed.

his father was far more intelligent than he was and understood the role of reason in reconstructing white cultural identity, but trudeau will always be beyond reason, and this process is lost on him. he will forever be lost in the purgatory of a colonized person that has had their identity stripped, and will never understand that those not in that condition will consider him a fool for trying to normalize his condition and attempting to apply it to others.

dossanjh was a smart guy. he's right.

https://nationalpost.com/_preview/news/wcm/1943398d-5795-463c-a97e-b4a23d66d8d2/?xur=strange&client_id=a8d5b917-dcb3-4cde-b475-e414d90065be

in fact, if you follow trump's body language, it's relatively clear that he thinks melania is too old and he wants somebody younger, which i suspect is the reason he appears so frequently with lara trump.

if joe biden wants a valuable legacy in history, and to be remembered as somebody that did something that helped the world, he should order the elimination of khamenei before he steps down.

i will reiterate that mr. asshole khamenei clearly needs to be assassinated, and that this is long overdue.

i'm startled to learn that the coast unit in windsor thinks i'm a drug addict.

a quick look through this blog will demonstrate that i have no tolerance or patience for drug addicts and think the idea that they deserve compassion or empathy to be disgusting.

these coast units are a disaster. they keep shooting people. they can't gather basic information. the whole concept needs to be abolished.

i'm going to have to declare war on the windsor coast by foia-ing them and going after their officers via oiprd reports, one by one. this is unacceptable. this can't exist.

the united nations utterly failed to keep hezbollah north of the litani and the french should be removed from the mission, going forwards, due to their abject failure to keep the peace. while it is welcome news to hear hezbollah volunteering to retreat, and i hope they actually do so, the question of enforcement remains an open question, and somebody needs to be able to set up there to keep the parties apart that is not the french.

i would hope the israelis are reasonable about the situation.

but enforcement is a key question and promises on paper by hezbollah are not good enough.

it is good news, and i hope it develops.

To reach its goal, the government would need to be building at least 100,000 homes a year. The statement projects the highest number of starts to be 95,300 in 2027, which is a decrease of 500 from the 2024 budget. 

but, given that the birth and death rate roughly cancel each other out in canada (domestic population growth is roughly 50,000 per year), population growth over these years is going to be due almost solely to immigration and should be in the 400,000/yr range. almost all of that will end up in ontario.

why is the government setting targets of 100,000 houses per year (that it cannot meet) when it knows immigration will be over 300,000/year for the next ten years?

targets in the short run should be closer to 500,000 per year than 100,000 per year.

in response, the government wants to send you $200, but only if you paid taxes last year.

do we want to be a third world country? this is a policy framework that has no outcome besides the imminent ghettoization of our cities. when the number of people greatly exceeds the structural framework to house them (by hundreds of thousands of people, or millions of people, if you follow the numbers in the projections), the only possible outcome is widespread slums, as people struggle to exist on the streets.

are they expecting people to die of covid? of opiate overdoses? of starvation? of exposure to the cold?

how do these numbers zero out?

i'd like to get out of here, if i only could, but i'm trapped here. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fall-economic-statement-ontario-2024-ford-bethlenfalvy-1.7367635

yeah. the media wants us to hate india for some reason, as though i care about indian separatists.

india is an ally.

i'm more concerned about the chinese, who are actually our enemies, and i consider this sudden two minutes of hate directed at india to be an extremely foreboding red flag as to the level of infiltration by the chinese into the liberal and conservatives parties.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cse-cyber-threats-china-1.7367719

i mean, i hope harris is at least enjoying her joyful happy 15 minutes of fame, because her political career, which should have been permanently over after her disastrous 2020 run but which got a lifeline she didn't deserve by a person with very bad judgement, will actually be permanently over in about a week.

i mean, she gets to go on stage with beyonce and stuff. wow. fun times.

hope she's taking pictures.

is she trying to win an election or is she trying to mediate through a divorce proceeding?

this is why she's on track for a startling loss that would have seemed impossible six months ago: she's trying to take some kind of high road, instead of trying to win.

https://apnews.com/article/harris-biden-trump-election-garbage-supporters-3d2ea66e3027ddc4bc2b30c13bf7b554

this article claims somebody hacked the s-300s.

likely.

but, it's not immediately clear who, and it might not be who you think.

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/f-35-vs-s-400-predecessor-after/

these systems should be able to take an israeli jet or two down, but russia never shoots on israel - not in syria and now not in iran.

this suggests some level of communcation.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-strike-on-iran-took-out-radar-sets-to-guide-ballistic-missiles-report/

kamala harris would make an absolutely terrible president.

if you listen to election strategists, they will almost all tell you that calling your opponents garbage is a better strategy than pretending you represent everybody (when you obviously don't and can't). i don't think many of the people in the audience at msg last week are very excited about the premise of kamala harris representing them. in response, they might call her a stupid cunt.

the example is sort of cartoonish, but it actually demonstrates the problem with kamala harris' strategy, which she doesn't appear to understand is the core of the reason she's losing. you don't win elections with happy happy, joy joy. you have to savage your enemies.

biden's approach may have been a little garbled, but that's biden. that's always been biden.

how many elections has biden won as a senator, vp and/or president?

how many elections has kamala harris won? i actually believe the answer to this second question is one. she has a long track record of failure when running for office, and there's a reason for it.

you expect a person like kamala harris to blame everybody else except herself, including the person that got out of her way, and shouldn't have. democrats should interpret that as a failure of character and very briskly move on.

the liberals bizarrely actually think this is a beneficial narrative for them.

it could be a gigantic gift to the ndp if the election actually gets framed this way. singh is hapless and hopeless, but this might be the narrative required for them to win their first election in canada, as soft left voters abandon the liberals in droves over their refusal to fund oas fairly in the midst of record inflation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bloc-bring-down-government-1.7366655

this is going to be a final prediction.

the chances of the democrats winning are very slim.

the chances of a comfortable republican win are much higher.

in the end, this is more of a vote against kamala harris than a vote in favour of donald trump, where it matters.

i hope the democrats learn their lesson about candidates that are like kamala harris.

i haven't been able to go to detroit since early 2020 due to the pandemic and now my housing situation, but i used to hang out in hamtramck a lot (it became the artist district in detroit because it was cheap), and it was very noticeable that the small city (neighbourhood, really) had ethnic conflict bubbling up in it.

you could see this coming.

i think i posted about it, even.

in canada, cities are designed to prevent this kind of thing from happening. if left to become an isis enclave, the city is going to turn into a ghetto. the idea that a muslim majority council was a good thing was always stupid on it's face. would these people be happy about a majority conservative christian council? it's equivalent, in character. hopefully, a little burst of reality will help clarify why the fake left's politics around islam are so delusional and produce such a double standard; the ideology is incoherent because it's rooted in this concept of race that has no basis in empirical reality instead of identifiable religious and political ideology. the state needs to step in and try to create a larger level of diversity in the city by moving non-muslims in to water the population down.

are these residents of hamtramck expected to vote for the democrats? based on what logic? they're indiscernible from any other right wing christian. this is the base of the republican party. they are obvious republican voters, and it's an obvious republican demographic and voting block.

and, if you think something similar won't happen in your neigbourhood of toronto if it ends up majority muslim, you should think again. of course it will.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned

everybody is so cynical nowadays. this must be a ploy to win, right?

the problem with running a parachuted-in candidate like harris is is that nobody actually knows where she stands on anything. she's clarified pretty clearly that she opposes restrictions on abortion. that's about it right now.

i don't think this is cynical and i don't think it's pragmatic. i think this is actually harris making an attempt to define herself as a moderate conservative, which is what she has always been, and attempting to honestly broadcast how she would actually govern.

as an aside, i'm really annoyed by the british press' insistence on the important of the muslim vote in michigan. there's no empirical basis to this and attempting to cater to muslim voters in a small region in suburban detroit is going to alienate the much larger and much more important black vote. distant british journalists clearly don't understand that the blacks and the muslims actually don't get along very well, and trying to cater to one has the tendency of pissing off the other. the democrats need to focus on winning black voters in detroit and on winning white liberals outside of detroit. appeasing conservative muslims that want to side with hamas cannot and should not be their secondary or tertiary concern if they want to actually win.

michigan does not have the most muslims in the united states:

further, it's worth pointing out that there's around 120,000 jews in michigan, as well.

it's certainly unusual that there are twice as many muslims as jews, and there would be few places in north america where that is true, but these are not numbers that are going to swing elections. in the long run, jews are generally liberals and muslims are generally conservatives. it makes no sense to focus on muslims at the explicit expense of jews. there are more than 250,000 arabs, but roughly half of them are christians that will assimilate as white within a generation or two. while it will be a smaller percentage than arab christians, an unknown but substantive (30%? 40%?) number of arab muslims in michigan will inevitably convert to christianity or atheism and assimilate as well.

this idea that michigan will be swung by the muslims is a narrative pushed by wealthy arab financiers that has little bearing in reality and that needs to be debunked as specious.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/kamala-harris-moderates

i can also scribble myself in to a 2024 political compass.

is this accurate?

no. 

in recent years, i tend to argue that i agree with about 25% of the democratic party's platform and about 25% of the republican party's platform, and disagree with 75% of both of their respective platforms. i consequently oppose them equally and agree with them equally, but there's almost no overlap.

it is correct in pointing out that i'm a socialist and align much further to the left than the democrats, but the way these ideas are presented in today's spectrum is often confused. i actually wouldn't vote for the socialist party because i think they're too right-wing and too authoritarian. stalinism has re-emerged in critical theory and needs to be carefully resisted.

it has exaggerated my support for democrats and exaggerated my disinterest in republicans.

but these are the results and i want to post them as disclosure for transparency.

i am a heterosexual female.

i'm not gay. i've never been gay. i'm not a gay ally. i've never had any gay friends and i don't want any gay friends. i don't want anything to do with gay people at all and i'm not interested in gay culture. if some gross ass pirate tried to fuck me, i'd beat the shit out of him for it and call him a faggot while i was breaking his worthless faggot face in for being a disgusting faggot.

i think gay people are completely disgusting.

do you understand?

this is an example of the kind of complete retardedness that i'm dealing with.

i have a large pile of cardboard boxes in front of the heater. it's a clear fire hazard. it didn't matter when the heat was off during the summer, and it's been a warm fall. as of friday, the heat remained off and i was putting off doing something about it until i could determine if i was going to be here or not.

the disgusting faggot freaks cut a hole in the floor to break in here to drug me with testosterone as a part of their sick faggot fantasies. i am not gay. i am not a gay ally. i think homosexuality is a mental illness. i don't think it's worth persecuting because it isn't harmful (except in situations like this, where the correct thing to do is put the faggots in jail), but i have no interest in tolerating faggots in my personal life. i have never had a gay friend and i don't want to have gay friends; i don't respect gay people, and i don't respect the choice that gay people make to be gay. yes, being gay is a choice. nobody is born gay. i need the boxes there to keep the fucking faggots out and to stop them from drugging me. i'm not interested in their gross, perverted fantasies. at all.

if you're trans, go be trans, i can tolerate that, but don't be a faggot. it's disgusting. polite society should have no real expectation to tolerate the fags in any real, meaningful sense.

after the adjournment until december 11th, i realized i would have to do something about this. the heat will need to come on in november.

so, i sent them an email asking them to avoid turning the heat on until i could address the issue. 

ten minutes later, the heat turns on. i have sent emails, i have yelled, and the heat remains on.

i am not going to remove the pile of cardboard until i am able to fix the issue in a way that prevents them from being able to enter the space, so we're living in a tinderbox of their own creation, which i have told them to turn off. they won't, and it's clear they won't.

why are they doing this?

it's not cold in here. my thermostat says 30 degrees. the place is insulated, there's computers on, the stove runs down here fairly fequently. 

they turned the heat on because i asked them not to and because they want to show me who the boss is.

that's the mentality of an eight year old child but i will never get anything more mature than that out of these abjectly retarded and utterly immature fucking faggot freaks. freud's description of homosexuality was as a symptom of arrested development and a low level of maturity, and his analysis of homosexualty is the only thing he actually got right. they want to control and dominate, like the overgrown children they are, which is what all gay people are - overgrown children that cannot mature into normal heterosexual adults due to some trauma that occurred in their childhood or due to some level of mental retardation brought on by some myriad of factors. gay people are essentially retards. that's what freud said, and it's the correct analysis.

i'm not interested in fighting with them or playing their childish games with them.

so, they can burn the fucking place down, then, and i'll just call them retards for doing it when it goes to court. i don't have time for this. i'm not interested.

it's looking very, very bad for the democrats.

north carolina is red. pennsylvania is very much leaning red. 

the actual swing states right now are probably nevada, wisconsin, michigan, minnesota, new hampshire, virginia, new mexico and i think the data strongly suggests trump will win at least half of them.

but, it doesn't matter. az, ga, nc, pa is game over. if trump holds those four states, the rest don't matter.

this term "forever war" is particularly stupid and facile and has this incredible level of ignorance baked into it.

ending the "forever war" suggests that perpetual war is something that is novel or unusual and that a state of normalcy is a state of peace. well, go hang out with some monkeys and tell me if you think that's still true.

war is like diamonds - it is forever. war is normal; it is a regular state of existence. peace is a hallmark disney cartoon fantasy phony reality that has never existed in history. even in the presence of dominant empires that succeed in slaughtering their closest competitors for a while, which are the periods of history that most closely resemble peace, war always exists on the edges. eliminating the "forever war" would require something like evolving into a different species, or perhaps global communism as a basic pre-requisite. yes, there will forever be war. you silly kids will have to grow up a little and deal with that.

oddly, this term is being associated with a left. what? it is the most basic, blatant expression of the burkean conservative perspective of hierarchical harmony, where everything is in it's right place, that i could imagine hearing articulated. you couldn't better encapsulate conservative philosophy than with the phrase "end the forever war", and liberals and socialists are supposed to make fun of the conservatives for believing in such silly fantasies, rather than interpreting reality through experiment and evidence. marx, particularly, wrote a theory about conflict. socialism is about perpetual war. that's what it is.

so, this is not a left, it's a right.

so, yes, we will have war forever, and we will have war forever until we have communism. you'll never end war without getting rid of capitalism, at the least. these kids aren't even trying to write a theory, here.

i don't think randomly sending everybody $200 as a "rebate" is a very responsible use of public funds. it brings to mind goofy economic ideas like social credit.

we're talking about roughly 3.5 billion dollars, which could be spent on hiring nurses or building subsidized housing. we're overseeing a historic failure in this government to deliver basic services, and the premier is talking about mailing out checks in order to starve the beast.

at the least, if you're going to mail out checks, apply some kind of progressive gradation on it so that the money goes to the people that need it. don't just send everybody $200; targeted government subsidies don't increase inflation, generally speaking, but just handing out $200 checks to everybody is an exceedingly inflationary measure.

fwiw, i would also oppose cutting taxes for middle class families. the government should be spending this money on services, not giving it back to taxpayers.

ultimately, if the government can't figure out how to spend an extra $3.5 billion dollars in the middle of an overpopulation crisis, we quite clearly need to get a new government. there's no deficit of obvious things to do with this cash. we need an infrastructure bill in ontario and we need a government that will write it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-government-rebate-cheques-election-1.7354672

biden's statement on what we call "residential schools" in canada suggests that the democrats realize they're likely going to lose new mexico, which is more evidence that the bottom is about to fall out.

bibi,

i know you're being precise and hitting military targets in iran and i love that you're doing that.

but can you blow up that fucking crane they use to hang people with for me?

thanks,

jessica

i'm not there yet. there remain hurdles to navigate.

however, i'm on the brink of outsmarting everybody, including the cops who are clearly out to get me.

i'm reminded of the meme that the no-talent guitarist used to repeat every time i walked out of a situation unscathed, largely because i was just trying to avoid getting into stupid conflicts that i didn't give a fuck about. 

this was the way he'd pick up the phone, and i watched him do this i don't know how many times.

"yeah, j outsmarted everyone. again."

i need the cash. really. buy my discographies.

i'm currently in an extremely difficult situation and i need some cash.

the more i yell at these disgusting people to go away, the more they harass me. they are pathetic losers; bottom-feeding trolls.

if you want to help me out, now is a good time to download some full discographies:

1) inri: 51 releases for $758. this is the synth pop and electro-grunge focused project i did when i was a teenager in the 90s. there is one pending inri project, inri086. 1994-1999.

https://jnrj.bandcamp.com/

2) deny everything: 21 releases for $355. this is the project for the post-inri experiments as i was trying to refocus and chart future paths, 1999-2000, and is about the 2000 american election. this project is completed. 1999-2000.

https://deny-everything.bandcamp.com/

3) j's adventures in guitarland: this is about the classical guitar lessons i took from 1999-2001. project on possibly indefinite hiatus. i won't come back to this until everything else is done first. i need a 21+ fret midi classical guitar with a pickup. if i can get into subsidized housing, i can do this; it may otherwise be a serious challenge to ever finish this. currently, 3 releases for $55, and no serious plans for more until i get to the very end of the process. 1999-2001.

https://adventuresinguitarland.bandcamp.com/

4) jjjjjjjjj: serious music project started in 2001 and worked on sporadically from 2001-2007 as unrealized scored music and then put on hold until 2014, then worked on intensely from 2014-2018. this project comprises symphonic works, official (instrumental) lps, academic projects and works of a more serious nature (more broadly), mostly written as scored pieces for large orchestras and performed by midi sequencers and software synthesizers (with frequent overdubbed live guitars and basses and sometimes with live keyboards and live drums and rarely with live flutes, mandolins or other instruments outside of the usual contemporary rock/jazz instrumentation). currently, 42 releases for $857. this is a continuing project that will continue growing and, in the end, will occupy the largest space in my discography, over the largest time frame, since 2001, although these releases are dated to their re-release cycle, beginning in 2013. 2001-2040.

https://jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.bandcamp.com/

5) the cynicide collaboration: was supposed to be a live performance "rock band" style project put together by a high school acquaintance named jon, but he abandoned working on it before anything got done. i wrote one song for this project, with demoes dated to 2001 that was finished as a solo composition in 2014 in a style that was adjunct to that intended by jon. i have guitar demos of songs written and performed by jon that were intended to be cynicide collaboration songs, but i don't own the performances or the songs and should not release or complete them (and they're not that good, unless you like early 00s nu-metal). i would have, in the end, completely redone these songs as i was recording them (and, yes, i would have done all of the work), but i didn't do that then and i shouldn't do it now. this project is almost certainly permanently closed and completed, but i will state again that there are demos that i'm restraining myself from finishing on jon's behalf. as far as i know, jon is still alive, but his life will likely be much shorter than mine. initially summer of 2001, then completed in summer of 2014, both as short stints for a few months each. 2001.

6) rabit is wolf: successor project to the cynicide collaboration, made up of just me and the proposed singer. some demoes were recorded in 2001-2002 that were shelved and not finished until 2014-2015, when i finished them as a solo project (and removed sean's vocals in the process) and transferred the compositions to jjjjjjjjj. this project is completed and there will be no further recordings. 2001-2003.

7) fuel true anarchy in the americas: noise + politics, formed in 2001 after 9/11. a demo was released in 2004 and remastered and expanded for a 2021 re-release. i do not currently have plans to reopen this, but it is semi-permanently closed. 2001-2004.

8) the trivial group: this project developed out of the various ideas worked on from 2000-2002, contains aspects of all of them and is the only conceptually unified successor project to inri. unlike the other post-inri projects, it even includes vocals as a central part of the compositions, for the first time since 1999. the trivial group released a series of singles over 2002-2004, culminating in a gigantic 2xlp dated to mid 2005. i decided in 2005 to put the trivial group down and pivot to different ideas, conceptually, but as of 2025 it is still in post-production and it's release sequence is still being finalized. i still have work to do in finishing this project, but i don't intend to write further for it as the next series of tracks reformulated themselves for release in the proverbs project. 2002-2005. 

9) throatmotor: i played live bass for a band called throatmotor for about a year, from 2004-2005. the same acquaintance jon had joined the band as a guitarist and brought me in to play bass for him. throatmotor combined blink 182 or sum 41 style early 00s pop-punk lyrics and guitars on top of electronic post-production in the gravity kills or god lives underwater genre sphere, with a bit of an aphex twin vibe from the use of an actual minimoog, and was outside of my sphere of interest, as an artist. it was very syrupy, very poppy. i filled in because they needed somebody that could learn the songs fast and do it, and i tried to work with it by acting either more as a cellist (given that the songs had synth bass parts) and introducing harmonic counterpoint (for the slower songs) or as a third guitarist by introducing overlapping riffs (for the faster songs), but the reaction was muted, and i wasn't that interested in what they were actually doing and intending to do and i mutually separated from the band in mid 2005 (and was replaced by jon's girlfriend, at the time, who just followed the root notes, which is all they expected from me or wanted me to do). i did produce one short demo for throatmotor dated to early 2005 that has some of the characteristics of it (aphex-y synths, some wobbly time signatures, cut up drums, unison crescendos) and that i will complete under that moniker, but it was not well received and reflects the fact that we weren't on the same page, musically. a few bass parts were recorded, but i don't know what they did with them. i didn't record the parts myself and i don't remember the parts i wrote anymore. beyond completing this track, i wouldn't be further interested in throatmotor. 2004-2005.

10) akousmatikoi: 2002-2007.

11) cycles per second: 2004-2007.

12) tetris: 2003-2040.

13) pi: 2003-2040.

14) proverbs: 2007-200.

15) everything (at the new jessica amber murray site): 1994-2040.

i'm currently updating my text discography because it might be a while before i get back to it:

https://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/p/jessica-murray-one-stop-discography.html

this is the late 2003 and early 2004 sequence, between when i got back from bc and when i moved to sandy hill with red indicated "not done" and green indicating "complete":

this is the csis records update sequence:

so, incomplete release up to mid 2004 are restricted to inri075, inri077, inri078, inri086, inri087, inri092 & inri093. the rest are done.