When you're busy playing golf dishonestly and undoing 249 years of a nation's progress, there's no time available to keep up with new disciplines.
Mathematics was developed by civilizations starting in the 6th century BC -- by foreigners no less! And it was advanced by newfangled builders of the pyramids of Egypt.
He responded to TBR's revelations with his new "acrimonious-nym", MANA: Make America Non-Quantifiable Again. Let's get back to the 7th century BC!"
Also, let's not forget that one of those civilizations that had advanced mathematical skills were the Mayans (residents of current day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador - descendants of those foreigners that he despises).
F. Scott Fitzgerald spoke for the whole Republican party when he wrote: " "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
The Great Gatsby is as relevant as ever.. and as beautifully written. There's a famous Clarence Darrow quote after losing the Scopes trial that goes something like, And so we march, trumpets blaring and drums beating, relentlessly into the past.
That this country elected such a no-nothing dolt can be written off as an aberration. That we elected him a second time speaks volumes about 77 million Americans. This is why we really need more immigration, not less.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' " -- Isaac Asimov
Scopes trial. Democracy is a fragile thing, and as Jefferson said, requires an educated electorate. We are in deep trouble but must soldier on, in the hope that reason and human values will ultimately win out over irrationality, tribalism, and gratuitous cruelty.
That "gratuitous cruelty" really hit me - in the end, so many of the actions taken by the Trump Administration exemplify that and make me feel ashamed of our country.
I can’t comment on Asimov generally, but the quote is accurate IMO. I know people who brag about not reading books or reading anything. They are basically saying I don’t care what knowledge is out there or what other people’s opinions are, my views are correct. These are usually right wing voters, if they vote at all.
Amazing this could happen after we elected George W Bush a second time. As Trump would say, “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me two more times, two times two equals five.”
As W himself so eloquently stated, "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
Sort of a John the Baptist leading a camel through the eye of a needle to the promised land beside the still waters where the heavenly hosts gyre and gimble in the wabe.
I used to say that Americans demonstrated their stupidity when they elected G. Bush. But I forgave them because he was a likable enough guy. But after they elected Trump, it was clearer how stupid Americans are. Now with a redo on Trump, the level of stupidity is simply 1500% greater than before!
But we probably will, given the history of the human race. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, and those who never knew any history to begin with are just doomed.
And in my opinion, real across the board education about our Constitutional Government. Vast parts of the electorate have little or no grasp of how things actually work, and what the ramifications are for letting in someone like trumpf.
Good grief; remember "civics * government" classes and having to research and write reports about things like the Commerce department? What a bore but so glad now i have some fundamental understanding of how things are supposed to work. The scary thing now is that most people apparently don't even have a clue there are three CO-EQUAL branches of our government.
They don't teach Civics any more. And the Repugs are trying to stop the teaching of History. It's easier to control ignorant people - ignorant people are more susceptible to fear - so they've cut many useful subjects out of the curriculum, and they'll cut out more if they can. MoRon DeSatan is big on bannig books - so we're back to those days. I hope that I'm not alive to see girls banned from school - that's the direction in which we're going.
THAT is in Project 2025. Get girls out of colleges, because college educated women put off marriage & having very few children. If they care to marry at all! It's like drafting an 18 yo into war - they are young & dumb with no frontal cortex development.
I wasn't joking, Kathleen D. Pierce. Remember that the Middle East used to be the center of all education - whence math and science grew. And now so much of it is educationally backwards, and women are no more than possessions of men. There are people who want America to be the same - and those people are currently in charge of our government and are ignoring the laws intended to protect us. Don't think that it can't happen here.
Your comment made me realize how grateful I am that I was not subject to educational restrictions. I have always been and continue to be, curious, and it seems to me that by keeping women in subjugation it kills curiosity, too. If I had been forced to have children (if my body would have let me have children), they would have been abused just like I was because I repressed the memories of what I endured. I am also grateful that when I finally got married at age 63, I married a man who sees me as an equal, even though both us grew up at a time when women were essentially the possessions of men.
And in Project 2028, all (white) girls have to grow their hair waist length and dye it blond. And Black people will be deported to Africa because their ancestors came to America illegally -- without work permits.
Wait. I thought according to Project 2028, Black people in the US, all of whom are unemployed except for Beyonce, Oprah, and Denzel, would conveniently fill the jobs left by migrant farmworkers after they were all deported.
My high school "counselor" (in the mid 1960's) was the football coach who believed the only reason for girls to go to college was to find a husband, and if the girl wasn't attractive enough, she wasn't "college material". What's so very frustrating is that we had made so much progress since then, and now it feels like we're sliding backwards at breakneck speed.
They didn't have a section on corruption in my civics class: what a research project that would have been! Remember Warren Harding? He couldn't hold a candle to Trump!
Note to readers: both my idiom and having taken a civics class in public school betray my age.
I celebrate age. Every day that I wake up and can function relatively normally is a good day. There are a lot of good older people who make the comments very entertaining, and also informative.
When I started college, my dad gifted me his prized, inlaid and wood slide rule he had been given (around 1940), in a beautiful leather case. I never used it, but have it to this day in my desk drawer. It's really like a piece of art.
I had a civics class in the 9th grade, and I don't remember having to research and write reports. I would have failed the class if we had to do that because nobody ever taught me how to write a report. I do have a vivid memory of failing miserably in 8th grade social studies at writing a term paper. That said, I must have learned something in civics class because I do understand the basic structure of our government.
I had civics in eighth grade, but I don't remember Sister assigning us reports. I'm sure she did, but I don't remember it. I do remember writing endless reports in American Government class in high school.
I appreciate that someone else doesn't remember writing reports in civics class. I'm impressed that you have an American Government class in high school. In California they didn't (that would have been late 1950s and early 1960s).
I don’t remember a civics or government class either. I do remember the American History class I had as a senior; I wrote a research paper on the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
If we did have to write reports, I just don't remember it. Due to extensive abuse at home throughout my childhood, I repressed a huge number of memories, and reports in civic class could have been one of them.
I'm sorry if my question sounded rude. I spent the majority of my childhood in a library for the same reason and all I remember is research and writing reports for school. Strange what that kind of stress can do to memories.
My civics class was taught by a football coach. Turns out he had his mind on other things, including one or more of the high school girls. I was interested in the subject of civics. Turns out the coach was not.
Thank you, Jean Jacoby, for the explanation. I've been wondering how this dishonest, criminal MORON got elected TWICE. Fool people once, shame on him, but fool that many people TWICE???? How???? But, you have explained it. That's the only explanation that makes sense. Dump's re-election is more proof of how backwards and wrong the Nazi plan was. Our only salvation is to welcome more immigrants.
Agree, but it's not that simple, as others have pointed out. We are fast becoming a mirror of 1984, where truth is whatever the state says it is, so education is a malleable concept.
The US is also crippled by its obsession with the myth of rugged individualism, which was never really true, so anybody who is unemployed, hungry, depressed, vulnerable, or can't provide for their family is just a lazy loser who deserves what they get. But when it happens to me, I have to find someone different from me to blame for all my problems.
All the education in the world won't overcome deliberate lies. It will allow the educated to rise above having to deal with the likes of Trump. Anyone who spouts a 1500% reduction must be a fool, right?
I agree to a point - but a lot of immigrants voted for Trump, based on false promises and fear tactics. I kept thinking to myself - "why are you voting for him when he's such a racist???" We do need more immigration, but that is not the reason.
Your point is taken, debbie. I'm in FL where Latinos who have their citizenship voted for the man who would deport newly arriving Latinos - the ones here didn't want to share what they've got (so they told me when I asked). But, now that those same people are forced to carry their American passports in case they get arrested for speaking Spanish, now that small businesses are closing because half their staff has been arrested, now those voters are starting to think that they might have made a mistake.
But, I think that the point being made is that in-breeding does not produce "pure/better" blood - it produces morons. I think that the point is that the human race needs to be mixed in order to survive and thrive. The sort of people who don't want their towns defiled by foreigners are the ones who could use a bit more color and diversity in their breeding. So, I think that the immigrant comment was a joke based on facts, and I agree with it.
The same Latino voters here in MA felt the same way - they came here but didn’t care about others coming later that want the same privilege. I didn’t see the “inbreeding comment, so I wasn’t responding to that.
Trump got elected because the poor, neglected "boys", led by people like Joe Rogan, and their subservient wives/girlfriends/mothers simply would not vote for a woman to be POTUS. They said she wasn't "qualified", i.e., she didn't have the requisite white male genitalia. So, we've now learned -- Next time (if there is a next time) the Democratic candidate must be a straight, white male. PERIOD!
Also, CARLA M LA ROSA, I was told that she was an "angry black woman" who was going to raise up blacks above whites. Yes, there are people who believed that. How about equality - no one race is above the other - we're all equal? But, Michael Flynn said that "God" told him that America is meant to be a "white, Christian country" - and we shouldn't go against what "God" wants. So, no uppity dark females who don't know their place.
Harris would have been a great President. But, I knew that if this country wouldn't elect a whilte woman, they we wouldn't elect a brown one - with a Jewish husband (who would need to take off time from running his space lasers that cause hurricanes). Too many ignorant people to elect a woman in this country.
I agree with you that the Dems must run a younger, athletic, straight, white MAN. If he's attractive, then that helps with the Dems (obviously, Repugs don't care - look at them). The Dems need to stop catering to the intelligent people and reach down to the ignorant people who want to feel smarter than they are. There have gotten to be too many of those, and they all have the right to vote - so let's get our strong, whilte male candidate down to their level and speak to them.
In order to cope, I've developed this little strategy. We are ALL under the clock, right? So, every morning I wake up and think, "One less day for me but more importantly, one less day for DJT." It will be a happy day when they print the world's most awaited obituary. Keep the faith.
If I were a religious man, I'd be praying for a blood clot to travel from his cankles up to his brain, heart or lungs. Before anyone gets bent out of shape for me saying such a thing, remember that christian ministers led their congregations in prayers for the demise of Barack Obama. Fair is fair.
They were not Christians in the true sense of Jesus's teachings. They were bigots and racists. Just saying...so yes, we can look forward to T****'s demise as a bigot, racist, and conman.
With RFK,J. pulling out $545 million on mRNA vaccines research, we won’t make it out alive. The dynamic duo of Tweedle dumb and Tweedle Dumber, Trump and Kennedy, we the people are sitting ducks for the next pandemic coming: bird flu. Here’s the mathematical equation that expresses that…. Stupid X Stupid = Catastrophe!!!
How often I have has that thought! Having her with us now would have been great for the readers, and Molly would have relished all the material that’s being shat out of Washington DC these days.
Right! It's a conspiracy. President Biden, President Obama, President Clinton, and Secretary Clinton combined to engineer Donnie Dementia's innumeracy.
The Big Fat Orange Pig would happily go to Epstein’s Private Sex Island. Just give him a bevy of Vestal virgins (underaged, of course), and he would be the most biggly happy Piggly of all time. Melania is not invited, she will need to stay home and babysit for the youngest of the Pig’s corrupt piglets, the Baron of Morons.
I think he took a class or two at Wharton while enrolled at U Penn. But it is significant how fiercely he and his influential i.e. rich supporters have fought to keep all university transcripts from becoming public.
He brags so much about how he was the greatest at everything in the world, but how hard has he fought to keep his transcripts secret? That tells us all we need to know.
He got in as a “legacy” from his brother and money from his father, but nobody (student or faculty) remembers him being there. By not releasing the transcripts, Wharton is protecting itself legally. But in another sense it is flushing its reputation down the toilet.
Perhaps instead of expecting Wharton to take the initiative (or the subsequent heat), the answer is a class action lawsuit by other Wharton graduates. The status quo is a “taking” of the value of their degree?
Wharton might put up a minimal fight to clarify the record.
A full revelation of his transcript is unlikely, but Wharton might release his last-place class standing and the classes that he did and didn’t take.
Amazingly, all of his transcripts from all of his schools are locked down with NDAs, so we may never know if he went to classes or actually passed any of them. Certainly, he didn't learn anything other than how to lie and bully.
It isn't his lack of math skills as much as the way "thoughts" are issued from his brain, compared by the columnist Kathleen Parker to the way beads are hurled from a Mardi Gras float.
I've always thought that Trump is too insecure ever to admit that he doesn't know something. It turns out that he will admit not knowing something if nobody else knows it either. For example, he said that nobody knows the population of the United States.
I also enjoyed the next artcle where Booby Kennedy says Donny calls him 3 or 4 times a week to ask if America is healthier yet. Must be on his lunch breaks between Big Macs and fries.
I may be a math dunce but I admit it freely and warn everyone not to trust anything I say that involves numbers. I even suck at counting. When letters could be numbers -aka Algebra - there was no more meaning in the universe of numbers for me and I simply started regressing. That’s right-I’ve been getting worse at math since the 7th grade. Why this idiot can’t admit he plays on my mathematically impaired team is insane. I have discovered in my 73 years on the planet that lots of us are math impaired. How dare he pretend not to be one of us???
I totally relate. I couldn’t get beyond 7th grade algebra. My bank mgr. is incredibly patient. She explains my statement to me 2-3 x a month. I’m like, “Oh, I get it.” Heading home it hits me I have no clue about what she said. I’m ok counting 8 pizza slices!
Why in the world would he want to pretend to be normal? After all, he knows more than the generals, doctors, statisticians, etc, When you have a Messiah Complex, you can never admit that you are average or below normal.
I think he uses numbers in his rants both to sound knowledgeable and because they are some of the few words that he still remembers how to say. It's likely that his father included numbers in his talks too, so Agent Orange copies that.... Don't look for any further meaning.
Trump's IQ is 1500% below average.
He gives "dunce" a bad name. There is no bottom to his stupidosity.
He also gives white trash a bad name
He gives white trash a role model.
He's the king of white trash.
He's the king of bankruptcies
HA!
Put anything in addition to his name and you get something terrible.
He's BIGLY stupid.
What do you mean "there is no bottom"? tRump has a massive bottom.
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Hard to miss.
LOL. "Stupidosity"--my new favorite word. Thanks!
How about this one: Ignoranus: when someone is both ignorant AND as asshole
--or assholeramus!
Both excellent suggestions!
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It's a very "truthy" word. 😛
--except his own big bottom! Trump is giving everything in this country a bad name!
Love "stupidosity"!
At least his dunce cap would be pretty with all that gilt....
When you're busy playing golf dishonestly and undoing 249 years of a nation's progress, there's no time available to keep up with new disciplines.
Mathematics was developed by civilizations starting in the 6th century BC -- by foreigners no less! And it was advanced by newfangled builders of the pyramids of Egypt.
He responded to TBR's revelations with his new "acrimonious-nym", MANA: Make America Non-Quantifiable Again. Let's get back to the 7th century BC!"
Advanced mathematics is a Muslim plot to subvert Western Civilization.
And having to use Arabic numerals is traitorous.
As is the metric system
Yes, why would humans fixate on the number 10?
Cause we have 10 fingers to count on.
Those that can do toes are the wizards.
because trumpie believes and says he is a ten.
In his case, because of the old Bo Derek movie.
Yeah, when it's not bigly enough!
You can thank the leaders of the French Revolution for the metric number system.
Just try doing long division in Roman numerals.
e.g XLV/V = IX. So obvious. LOL
And heaven help you if there's a remainder. Non gratias ago tibi
Top of your class, Marge. History, math, Latin, and logic.
No.
Sorry, don't want to....
Alex -- For all these reasons, limiting use of math may be included in future non- proliferation agreements. 😳
or his tax "cuts" for the middle class.
"Algebra" being another word for "torture".
Too late!
Haha, good one!
That is what I always thought.
Also, let's not forget that one of those civilizations that had advanced mathematical skills were the Mayans (residents of current day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador - descendants of those foreigners that he despises).
Good at math but just had a little glitch regarding sacrificing virgins to the volcano.
No, it was the Aztecs' human sacrifice with cutting out the hearts!
The Aztecs would be astounded by Trump. No heart.
forward, into the past!
F. Scott Fitzgerald spoke for the whole Republican party when he wrote: " "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
The Great Gatsby is as relevant as ever.. and as beautifully written. There's a famous Clarence Darrow quote after losing the Scopes trial that goes something like, And so we march, trumpets blaring and drums beating, relentlessly into the past.
sounds so much more poetic when F. Scott says it :)
Ah! Annette! I am so pleased to see you quote Catherwood from Nick Danger. I wish I could see you in your flimsy burnoose.
LOL . . . and with the story about tRump on the White House, I'm reminded of the quote, "he's no fun, he fell right over" . . . wishful thinking.
“Wait! Where am I?” Listens to other side of record; “It’s OK, they’re speaking Chinese!”
ahhh, good times . . . thanks for the memories!
Oh Nick! You're such a tool!
🎶Outcast woman, living a life apart, where did your story begin?”
Somebody's age is showing...(and I have the Nick Danger LP).
lucky duck - I think I left mine at my mom's and it was disposed of, probably not gracefully or respectfully.
We won't even mention that Arabic numerals were brought to Europe by (gasp!!!) illegal immigrant invaders!!
They didn’t become popular until the printing press.
The pyramid builders were many centuries before the
7th century Greeks.
Well, we know they were built by aliens. No way dark skinned Africans could have done that math.
😂😂 by foreigners no less 😂😂😂. Nice !!!
:-) !!
5-dimensional chess is so stressful. Have some pity for our poor beleaguered, very stable genius.....
Trump would want gold-covered pyramids on the Potomac!
Another hilarious comedian. Well put!
I’ve refer to myself as “Cavewoman” since Dump’s inauguration. Who says there’s no turning back when it becomes a necessity just to survive in 2025?
Or ... his IQ is room temp.
His blood pressure shooting out his ears. His thumbs worn down by
Truth Social so-called.
-at least twice that!
No, it's at least twice that!
Perfect!!! 👌
That this country elected such a no-nothing dolt can be written off as an aberration. That we elected him a second time speaks volumes about 77 million Americans. This is why we really need more immigration, not less.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' " -- Isaac Asimov
Scopes trial. Democracy is a fragile thing, and as Jefferson said, requires an educated electorate. We are in deep trouble but must soldier on, in the hope that reason and human values will ultimately win out over irrationality, tribalism, and gratuitous cruelty.
We'd better hurry!
Best comment!!!
That "gratuitous cruelty" really hit me - in the end, so many of the actions taken by the Trump Administration exemplify that and make me feel ashamed of our country.
You said it, Isaac!
So true. People brag that they don’t read, they watch. This is something to be proud of?
Reading my Substack subscriptions every day takes up most of my reading time.
Same here. But that includes the comments.
Like Farenheit 451!
Yes. exactly.
I would ignore anything that Asimov says.
Yes, regardless of writing 2 books a month on 2 different typewriters simultaneously, Asimov was a deeply flawed human being.
I can’t comment on Asimov generally, but the quote is accurate IMO. I know people who brag about not reading books or reading anything. They are basically saying I don’t care what knowledge is out there or what other people’s opinions are, my views are correct. These are usually right wing voters, if they vote at all.
Why?
And you would be that much more ignorant as a result.
Surely you jest!
Don’t call me Shirley…
why?
Amazing this could happen after we elected George W Bush a second time. As Trump would say, “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me two more times, two times two equals five.”
Compared to today's toxic dumpster fire, Dubya feels like Albert Einstein.
--and his paintings like Leonardo da Vinc!
Leonardo da Vinci!
As W himself so eloquently stated, "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
Pure poetry even in Nambia.
Sigh. Forgot about the other dummy. Seems like such a long time ago...
Sort of a John the Baptist leading a camel through the eye of a needle to the promised land beside the still waters where the heavenly hosts gyre and gimble in the wabe.
Fabulous quotable quote, Al!
I was looking to go on with Biblical allusions but thought Carroll might dissuade the virulently anti-sect from gathering their wits.
LOL
Dubya was simply Cheney's and Rumsfeld's useful idiot. Trump is the useful idiot for the billionaire class.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, indeedy...
In Trump's case, again, too late!
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste”
A QMAGAT mind IS a terrible waste
BTW…
🥳 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 🥳
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Please supersize my math salad and hold the numbers.
--and the fiber!
I used to say that Americans demonstrated their stupidity when they elected G. Bush. But I forgave them because he was a likable enough guy. But after they elected Trump, it was clearer how stupid Americans are. Now with a redo on Trump, the level of stupidity is simply 1500% greater than before!
<golf clap> . . . and the Who would say, "we won't get fooled again"
But we probably will, given the history of the human race. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, and those who never knew any history to begin with are just doomed.
🎶Meet the New Boss. 🎶
We also elected Nixon and Reagan twice.
Hmm, there seems to be a pattern here. But what could that be? Perhaps it's called the GOP.
Ah Yes, the Guardians Of Pedophiles.
GOP: Grievances Only Please
It's called effective messaging/lying to the masses.
and Gee, Michael, didn't that go well?
No. It did not.
-not!
Love it! This made me chuckle!
😂😂
And in my opinion, real across the board education about our Constitutional Government. Vast parts of the electorate have little or no grasp of how things actually work, and what the ramifications are for letting in someone like trumpf.
Good grief; remember "civics * government" classes and having to research and write reports about things like the Commerce department? What a bore but so glad now i have some fundamental understanding of how things are supposed to work. The scary thing now is that most people apparently don't even have a clue there are three CO-EQUAL branches of our government.
They don't teach Civics any more. And the Repugs are trying to stop the teaching of History. It's easier to control ignorant people - ignorant people are more susceptible to fear - so they've cut many useful subjects out of the curriculum, and they'll cut out more if they can. MoRon DeSatan is big on bannig books - so we're back to those days. I hope that I'm not alive to see girls banned from school - that's the direction in which we're going.
THAT is in Project 2025. Get girls out of colleges, because college educated women put off marriage & having very few children. If they care to marry at all! It's like drafting an 18 yo into war - they are young & dumb with no frontal cortex development.
I wasn't joking, Kathleen D. Pierce. Remember that the Middle East used to be the center of all education - whence math and science grew. And now so much of it is educationally backwards, and women are no more than possessions of men. There are people who want America to be the same - and those people are currently in charge of our government and are ignoring the laws intended to protect us. Don't think that it can't happen here.
And sadly, "Trad Wives" are the ones most eager to deny other women their freedom of choice.
Your comment made me realize how grateful I am that I was not subject to educational restrictions. I have always been and continue to be, curious, and it seems to me that by keeping women in subjugation it kills curiosity, too. If I had been forced to have children (if my body would have let me have children), they would have been abused just like I was because I repressed the memories of what I endured. I am also grateful that when I finally got married at age 63, I married a man who sees me as an equal, even though both us grew up at a time when women were essentially the possessions of men.
DAMN STRAIGHT Marmo!
And in Project 2028, all (white) girls have to grow their hair waist length and dye it blond. And Black people will be deported to Africa because their ancestors came to America illegally -- without work permits.
Wait. I thought according to Project 2028, Black people in the US, all of whom are unemployed except for Beyonce, Oprah, and Denzel, would conveniently fill the jobs left by migrant farmworkers after they were all deported.
We have a Project 2028 now? Oh mother of god!
My high school "counselor" (in the mid 1960's) was the football coach who believed the only reason for girls to go to college was to find a husband, and if the girl wasn't attractive enough, she wasn't "college material". What's so very frustrating is that we had made so much progress since then, and now it feels like we're sliding backwards at breakneck speed.
They didn't have a section on corruption in my civics class: what a research project that would have been! Remember Warren Harding? He couldn't hold a candle to Trump!
Note to readers: both my idiom and having taken a civics class in public school betray my age.
with age comes wisdom, we've lived this knowledge, rather than Wikipedia-ed it
I celebrate age. Every day that I wake up and can function relatively normally is a good day. There are a lot of good older people who make the comments very entertaining, and also informative.
Let’s hear it for us old farts! 👏
Reading books betrays your age.
Busted! But I haven't used a slide rule since high school.
When I started college, my dad gifted me his prized, inlaid and wood slide rule he had been given (around 1940), in a beautiful leather case. I never used it, but have it to this day in my desk drawer. It's really like a piece of art.
The slide rule was my undoing in Chemistry class. I could never master it even though I was a good math student.
yes, the House, the Senate and the executive branch, according to leading brainiac and culturally astute congressman, Tommy Tuberville.
Edit: Senator. More's the pity.
I had a civics class in the 9th grade, and I don't remember having to research and write reports. I would have failed the class if we had to do that because nobody ever taught me how to write a report. I do have a vivid memory of failing miserably in 8th grade social studies at writing a term paper. That said, I must have learned something in civics class because I do understand the basic structure of our government.
I had civics in eighth grade, but I don't remember Sister assigning us reports. I'm sure she did, but I don't remember it. I do remember writing endless reports in American Government class in high school.
I appreciate that someone else doesn't remember writing reports in civics class. I'm impressed that you have an American Government class in high school. In California they didn't (that would have been late 1950s and early 1960s).
I don’t remember a civics or government class either. I do remember the American History class I had as a senior; I wrote a research paper on the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
Read your comment and can't get over that you didn't have to write a report. Ever? That's ALL we did in that class.
If we did have to write reports, I just don't remember it. Due to extensive abuse at home throughout my childhood, I repressed a huge number of memories, and reports in civic class could have been one of them.
I'm sorry if my question sounded rude. I spent the majority of my childhood in a library for the same reason and all I remember is research and writing reports for school. Strange what that kind of stress can do to memories.
Except for those learning about the US in order to become American citizens! Oh, the irony.
I bet the current occupant of the Oval Office and his "Cabinet" couldn't pass that test.
They couldn't pass a urine test.
The tests of full of "substances", they glow in the dark!
Trump's "cabinet" is a water closet.
--but they're not allowed to use the gold toilet!
I did not really respect Political Science as a field of study in college, I do now ! ! !
Randy Newman taught an advanced class.
Nor, apparently, do the members of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Branches.
My civics class was taught by a football coach. Turns out he had his mind on other things, including one or more of the high school girls. I was interested in the subject of civics. Turns out the coach was not.
The 2nd election of Trump is evidence that our gene pool is circling the drain.
Only the Repugnant Party gene pool.
Absolutely!!!
Thank you, Jean Jacoby, for the explanation. I've been wondering how this dishonest, criminal MORON got elected TWICE. Fool people once, shame on him, but fool that many people TWICE???? How???? But, you have explained it. That's the only explanation that makes sense. Dump's re-election is more proof of how backwards and wrong the Nazi plan was. Our only salvation is to welcome more immigrants.
--and for the populace already here to wake the hell up!
Yes, John Townsend - more people need to wake up.
We've seen how much "woke" scares the MAGAs!
Why we need better education, too, Jean.
Agree, but it's not that simple, as others have pointed out. We are fast becoming a mirror of 1984, where truth is whatever the state says it is, so education is a malleable concept.
The US is also crippled by its obsession with the myth of rugged individualism, which was never really true, so anybody who is unemployed, hungry, depressed, vulnerable, or can't provide for their family is just a lazy loser who deserves what they get. But when it happens to me, I have to find someone different from me to blame for all my problems.
Re the poor: there is also the Calvinist belief that being poor and needy is a moral failure.
Good for you, Mary. Let's hear it for that
Old Time Religion.
Spot on.
All the education in the world won't overcome deliberate lies. It will allow the educated to rise above having to deal with the likes of Trump. Anyone who spouts a 1500% reduction must be a fool, right?
Right!
Cheaters won. The thing is how to prevent it in 26 and onward.
I agree to a point - but a lot of immigrants voted for Trump, based on false promises and fear tactics. I kept thinking to myself - "why are you voting for him when he's such a racist???" We do need more immigration, but that is not the reason.
Your point is taken, debbie. I'm in FL where Latinos who have their citizenship voted for the man who would deport newly arriving Latinos - the ones here didn't want to share what they've got (so they told me when I asked). But, now that those same people are forced to carry their American passports in case they get arrested for speaking Spanish, now that small businesses are closing because half their staff has been arrested, now those voters are starting to think that they might have made a mistake.
But, I think that the point being made is that in-breeding does not produce "pure/better" blood - it produces morons. I think that the point is that the human race needs to be mixed in order to survive and thrive. The sort of people who don't want their towns defiled by foreigners are the ones who could use a bit more color and diversity in their breeding. So, I think that the immigrant comment was a joke based on facts, and I agree with it.
The same Latino voters here in MA felt the same way - they came here but didn’t care about others coming later that want the same privilege. I didn’t see the “inbreeding comment, so I wasn’t responding to that.
Oh so true! Now I know why MAGA wants to get rid of immigrants - it’s not cause they take MAGA jobs…it’s because they’re smarter than the MAGAt’s!
Good point!!💜
Trump got elected because the poor, neglected "boys", led by people like Joe Rogan, and their subservient wives/girlfriends/mothers simply would not vote for a woman to be POTUS. They said she wasn't "qualified", i.e., she didn't have the requisite white male genitalia. So, we've now learned -- Next time (if there is a next time) the Democratic candidate must be a straight, white male. PERIOD!
Also, CARLA M LA ROSA, I was told that she was an "angry black woman" who was going to raise up blacks above whites. Yes, there are people who believed that. How about equality - no one race is above the other - we're all equal? But, Michael Flynn said that "God" told him that America is meant to be a "white, Christian country" - and we shouldn't go against what "God" wants. So, no uppity dark females who don't know their place.
Harris would have been a great President. But, I knew that if this country wouldn't elect a whilte woman, they we wouldn't elect a brown one - with a Jewish husband (who would need to take off time from running his space lasers that cause hurricanes). Too many ignorant people to elect a woman in this country.
I agree with you that the Dems must run a younger, athletic, straight, white MAN. If he's attractive, then that helps with the Dems (obviously, Repugs don't care - look at them). The Dems need to stop catering to the intelligent people and reach down to the ignorant people who want to feel smarter than they are. There have gotten to be too many of those, and they all have the right to vote - so let's get our strong, whilte male candidate down to their level and speak to them.
Know-nothing?*
*Either fits.
Like an Area 51 solution.
I still can't believe we are living this shitshow.
I hope we make it out alive
In order to cope, I've developed this little strategy. We are ALL under the clock, right? So, every morning I wake up and think, "One less day for me but more importantly, one less day for DJT." It will be a happy day when they print the world's most awaited obituary. Keep the faith.
If I were a religious man, I'd be praying for a blood clot to travel from his cankles up to his brain, heart or lungs. Before anyone gets bent out of shape for me saying such a thing, remember that christian ministers led their congregations in prayers for the demise of Barack Obama. Fair is fair.
They were not Christians in the true sense of Jesus's teachings. They were bigots and racists. Just saying...so yes, we can look forward to T****'s demise as a bigot, racist, and conman.
--or pray Trump wakes up from his narcissistic delusions. That the kitchen
staff dumps anti-schizoid meds in his beverages and food!
John, I like your idea, but doubt there are enough drugs in this country to accomplish it.
LOL
I have a countdown clock on my phone to the next election . . . 1188 days as of today
I had a countdown pad for my retirement date posted in my cube for a couple of years, but this one is way more important!
Hear hear!!!
Brilliant!!
With RFK,J. pulling out $545 million on mRNA vaccines research, we won’t make it out alive. The dynamic duo of Tweedle dumb and Tweedle Dumber, Trump and Kennedy, we the people are sitting ducks for the next pandemic coming: bird flu. Here’s the mathematical equation that expresses that…. Stupid X Stupid = Catastrophe!!!
Mother Fucker! (I'm Spicy this morning!) Take out RFK jr & Donnie Dumb Arse FIRST!!!
Today I read that RFK Jr has proposed cutting $500M in on-going vaccine research. No need for the ovens.
--but ovens use fossil fuel which Trump wants all of us to use.
Push Trump into one of those energy windmills!
great idea!
Is there a mathematical equation that describes the pile-on of stupidity?
Trump x 1500%.
I hope I live long enough to see the tide turn. Hurry up mother fuckers, I'm 64.5 yrs old!
Kathleen, dear. you are a mere child!
You can believe it once you accept "alternate facts."
Believe it!
One goes to sleep, has a nightmare, wakes up, and it's a real nightmare!
Patty, me too.
I do miss Molly Ivens. Can you imagine her writings now??
Me too! Thank goodness for Andy carrying on her tradition!
And George Carlin....
Yes!
We can only imagine!
How often I have has that thought! Having her with us now would have been great for the readers, and Molly would have relished all the material that’s being shat out of Washington DC these days.
Carole, Mary, Babydoc: Emphatically agree! There are other great voices, but Molly was—and still is—sui generis.”
Oh, if only Molly were still here and giving Texas hell!
Not having seen this post, I just wrote the exact same thing!!! We NEED her!!!
Loved her!
She must be spinning like a turbine in her tomb!
Molly would skin this kakistocracy alive.
And George Carlin!
I liked your article about Trump’s math skills; it all adds up.
Spot on. I should have read this before posting.
Mark, that sums it up nicely. Ryan
I once heard that there are three kinds of people, those that can add and those that can’t.
Mark - So funny: "......there are three kinds of people, those that can add and those that can't."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Heh! :-)!!
😂😂😂
Trump's bad math is Biden's fault.
Just the kind of stunt Joe would pull. Man, that guy was busy!
Biden didn't do it alone. I'm sure Trump said: "I also blame both Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton."
Right! It's a conspiracy. President Biden, President Obama, President Clinton, and Secretary Clinton combined to engineer Donnie Dementia's innumeracy.
--with their deep state dementia ray-guns!
But .... Monica ....
But her emails
--and Kamala's too!
Oh, Andy. Thank you. You make me smile (or laugh) every day. And, lord, I miss Molly.
Here's some math: how high is the price we are all going to pay before this MAGADUNCE is gone?
Or alternatively, is there someone who we can pay to lure him to and leave him on some nice island somewhere without a boat on it?
or a plane from Qatar
No, a plane TO Qatar.
:-) !!
Yeh. :-) !!
And surrounded by hungry sharks.
In an electric motorboat??
How about an ice flow?
A really, really small one...?
--with a polar bear on it?
No, Epstein is dead. No more island hopping.
:-) !!
--but Epstein is dead!
The only good thing he ever did, from the sound of it.
The Big Fat Orange Pig would happily go to Epstein’s Private Sex Island. Just give him a bevy of Vestal virgins (underaged, of course), and he would be the most biggly happy Piggly of all time. Melania is not invited, she will need to stay home and babysit for the youngest of the Pig’s corrupt piglets, the Baron of Morons.
Melania has no desire to spend time with the "Big Fat Orange Pig". She'd be thrilled to see him go!
Sounds about right to me. :-)
how about epsteins island. he knows that as well as one of his golf courses
He cheats at golf. So how is he going to cheat if he is the only one on the island golf course?
Somehow he will manage? Self-delusion can be without limits.
How about Epstein's?
Well, trumpf would probably feel quite at home there...
We could set up a”go fund me” site. Could probably make a fortune in just a few hours.
I like your entrepreneurial spirit! :-) !!
The device has not yet been invented that measure such a number.
About $12.00 a gallon…😎
Officially, DJT went to Wharton. But did he ever go to class???
But didn't one of his profs say trump was the worst student he ever had?
Yes, and he, or his Dad, made the Whartons swear to never expose his transcrript.
I think he took a class or two at Wharton while enrolled at U Penn. But it is significant how fiercely he and his influential i.e. rich supporters have fought to keep all university transcripts from becoming public.
Actually, he only got as far as Wharton, New Jersey but figured what the hell, just another alt-fact.
I sometimes tell people I went to Yale. And I did -- for a Spring Weekend back in 1965. I don't remember my date's name, though.
Yep, and I went to Harvard once…
I married a Harvard lawyer. Yes, he was worth it.
Worth what?
Sorry about your son Chandler
Uhhhh. . . I think you're probably referring to something -- a TV show? -- I never saw.
and i went to stanford. university of washington. oregon and oregon state. my stepson was being recruited on an athletic scholarship
That's a pretty impressive collection! Which one did he choose?
He brags so much about how he was the greatest at everything in the world, but how hard has he fought to keep his transcripts secret? That tells us all we need to know.
He got in as a “legacy” from his brother and money from his father, but nobody (student or faculty) remembers him being there. By not releasing the transcripts, Wharton is protecting itself legally. But in another sense it is flushing its reputation down the toilet.
Wharton should sue Trump for defamation. It's reputation is sinking like a stone.
Perhaps instead of expecting Wharton to take the initiative (or the subsequent heat), the answer is a class action lawsuit by other Wharton graduates. The status quo is a “taking” of the value of their degree?
Wharton might put up a minimal fight to clarify the record.
A full revelation of his transcript is unlikely, but Wharton might release his last-place class standing and the classes that he did and didn’t take.
Dumpty isn’t merely ignorant, he’s severely Unwell!!!
oh, if only he had jumped from the White House roof!
Trump's cracked even if he never jumps off the White House roof!
Or accidentally pushed…
oh were it to be so!
Amazingly, all of his transcripts from all of his schools are locked down with NDAs, so we may never know if he went to classes or actually passed any of them. Certainly, he didn't learn anything other than how to lie and bully.
i believe he knew how to lie and bully at birth
Do we need to know those details? He lives them daily.
Certainly, Deanna Lehl, it's clear that Dump has no class!
I believe he was in some allied part of it but not the actual 4 year degree part. Anyone have the details?
I believe his schedule was filled with both "TV time" and "executive time"
The would be King has no clothes and I hope more will see the tiny mushroom ( his actual brain).
I don't think I want to see either of his tiny mushrooms. Ick. 🤮😱
Another potential nightmare.
UGH. 😑 🤮. NO THANKS
It isn't his lack of math skills as much as the way "thoughts" are issued from his brain, compared by the columnist Kathleen Parker to the way beads are hurled from a Mardi Gras float.
Rather have the beads......
hehehehe
Well.... what to expect from an elected convicted felon who thinks a 11.000 SQF studio in NYC measures 30.000 SQF.
The poor kid still has a multi-million "I owe you" to settle for this "estimation error".
I've always thought that Trump is too insecure ever to admit that he doesn't know something. It turns out that he will admit not knowing something if nobody else knows it either. For example, he said that nobody knows the population of the United States.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-las-vegas-us-population-who-withdrawal-b2686379.html
I also enjoyed the next artcle where Booby Kennedy says Donny calls him 3 or 4 times a week to ask if America is healthier yet. Must be on his lunch breaks between Big Macs and fries.
--while burping into the phone!
I may be a math dunce but I admit it freely and warn everyone not to trust anything I say that involves numbers. I even suck at counting. When letters could be numbers -aka Algebra - there was no more meaning in the universe of numbers for me and I simply started regressing. That’s right-I’ve been getting worse at math since the 7th grade. Why this idiot can’t admit he plays on my mathematically impaired team is insane. I have discovered in my 73 years on the planet that lots of us are math impaired. How dare he pretend not to be one of us???
I totally relate. I couldn’t get beyond 7th grade algebra. My bank mgr. is incredibly patient. She explains my statement to me 2-3 x a month. I’m like, “Oh, I get it.” Heading home it hits me I have no clue about what she said. I’m ok counting 8 pizza slices!
May all pizzas be cut into 8 slices!
Why in the world would he want to pretend to be normal? After all, he knows more than the generals, doctors, statisticians, etc, When you have a Messiah Complex, you can never admit that you are average or below normal.
if you really have to do math use graph paper to keep the numbers where they should be, it works! told to me by by a builder giving estimates !
Good advice!
I’d still contend you are smarter than him, and better looking too!
Trump's in the dyscalculia closet!
let's hold him to that Ozempic offer
Can we entice him with some Ozempic pills of his own (all those hamberders...)
No, let him hamberders to the end.
Sorry Kate, Texas Republicans would consider that bribery.
Trump's math makes MY head hurt.
I think he uses numbers in his rants both to sound knowledgeable and because they are some of the few words that he still remembers how to say. It's likely that his father included numbers in his talks too, so Agent Orange copies that.... Don't look for any further meaning.
Don't underestimate Trump's math abilities! How many people do you know can draw a Zenn diagram in the shape of a nude woman?
Do you mean a Venn diagram? Invented by Sir John Venn?
(I could not resist! It's the only thing I really understood in algebra.)
How many people do you know want to might be a better question.