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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 07:38 AM Aug 2016

TRUMP BLAMES BAD POLL NUMBERS ON EXISTENCE OF NUMERICAL SYSTEM

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump lashed out at a new target on Monday, blaming his bad poll numbers on the existence of the numerical system.

In sometimes rambling remarks at an outdoor rally in Ohio, the Republican Presidential nominee called the numerical system “rigged” and unleashed a torrent of abuse on numbers themselves, calling them “disgusting” and “the lowest form of life.”

“It’s why I won’t release my taxes,” he said. “They’re full of goddam numbers.”

While Republican candidates in the past have attempted to exploit their supporters’ distrust of math, Trump is believed to be the first nominee to call into question the numerical system itself.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blames-bad-poll-numbers-on-existence-of-numerical-system

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Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
9. I wish DU had "Like" buttons.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:05 PM
Aug 2016

Or even better, a few buttons. Maybe:

This is brilliant

This is hilarious

This is BS

I would definitely click the first two for your reply!
 

anoNY42

(670 posts)
13. I wish I could take credit
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 05:55 AM
Aug 2016

but instead I have to give credit to whatever math teacher it was back in the day who explained the history of numbers to me.

riversedge

(70,243 posts)
4. “He should be talking about Hillary Clinton, and instead he’s going off on integers,” one insider sa
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 08:47 AM
Aug 2016

Borowitz is a


................“He should be talking about Hillary Clinton, and instead he’s going off on integers,” one insider said............

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
6. OK, my first reaction was to laugh.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:01 PM
Aug 2016

But, honestly, as the RW has so thoroughly rejected the very idea of objective facts and the scientific method, can their outright rejection of mathematics be far behind?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Mine too, but they rejected mathematics -- the implacable enemy
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:04 PM
Aug 2016

of fundamentalist religion and political lies -- long, long ago. Too long ago, might as well laugh.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. If numbers only had a twitter account,
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:06 PM
Aug 2016

Trump would hit them so hard, again and again and again, that their heads would spin.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
12. Any organization can be The Onion today. There's so much material available for satire.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:17 PM
Aug 2016

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