We need a total and complete shutdown of Mathematicians entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.

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Trump with no tan and no hair

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Comprador-Bourgeoisie. Noun. A section of an indigenous ruling class allied with foreign investors, multi-national corporations, bankers, and military interests.

See also: Turnbull, Malcolm.

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/dump-software-patents-allow-geoblocking-bypass-productivity-commission-418789

Just like the Tea Party. What looked to be an insurgency of outsiders in fact turned out to be a construction of insiders. The radicals behind the populist agenda of the Trump wagon are just the usual bunch of privileged assholes angling for a place at the table.

Partisans of the alt-right are often described as “shock troops” of the Trump phenomenon, in the same way that Trump voters are understood to be outsiders invading the Republican Party. But my suspicion is that these descriptions get them wrong, by imagining that they are a new group of people rather than the same old group during their off hours, trying out a different form of play.

… Just before the New Hampshire primary, with Trump far ahead in the polls, establishment Republicans in the Granite State kept insisting to reporters that they could not name a single Trump voter. But when the exit polls came out, the Trump voters turned out to have come from the social center, not from the fringe. Trump’s support was not isolated in any subgroup of Republicans—it spanned them all. The income of Trump voters turned out to be essentially indistinguishable from those who supported Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton. Trump rallies, in light of these demographic details, no longer look so much like the invasion of a foreign army. They look more like the Republican base, moved by conventional grievances, trying out a different way of expressing them.

Via Daniel Stoddart​​​

http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-real

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“What came through, beyond oddities that might befall a candidate on a bad day, was an unnerving simulacrum of a candidate-person.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ted-cruz-will-die-so-that-you-may-live-20160504?page=6

Word salad. Yummy Yummy.

TRUMP: No, he was asking me a theoretical, or just a question in theory, and I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. And that was done, he said, you know, I guess it was theoretically, but he was asking a rhetorical question, and I gave an answer. And by the way, people thought from an academic standpoint, and, asked rhetorically, people said that answer was an unbelievable academic answer! But of course not, and I said that afterwards.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/04/trump_defends_abortion_gaffe_with_academic_word_salad.html

Right…

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