Trump Math

[Kishkumen]

I am starting a thread here and calling it "Trump Math." Trump Math refers to the stupid calculations people make that lead them to choose Trump over everything else and expect others to do the same. This idea comes from listening to people explain why they voted for Trump. Almost always, I think to myself, "Gee, I understand why this person is upset, but it seems to me that they did not calculate the obvious downsides before making this decision."

I invite you to come up with examples of Trump Math. Things like:

Calculating the price of eggs as much more important that Constitutional government.

Or even more difficult and uncomfortable things like:

Denying Harris your vote because of genocide in Gaza and leaving it to Trump to do better.

My theory is that Trump has proven how bad people are at prioritizing and analyzing cost versus benefit. Every day I see new examples of stupid in front of me. And the worst thing about it is that this stupid is causing real, deadly harm every day.

[Hound of Heaven]

In life, there is always resistance.

What is the alternative to Trump math? Could it be considered progressive math?

It seems evident, particularly after hearing Trump's speech, that if individuals applying Trump's reasoning entered a room filled with humans possessing XX chromosomes and counted 20 individuals, they would conclude that those 20 individuals are females based on scientific understanding. However, if progressive math serves as the counterpoint to Trump math, and an individual entered the same room and applied progressive math to ascertain the number of females present, knowing they are all XX humans, progressive math would not yield a scientific answer. Are you attempting to establish this scenario in your thread?

[canpakes]

… progressive math?
… if progressive math …
… progressive math …

[Kishkumen]

In life, there is always resistance.

What is the alternative to Trump math? Could it be considered progressive math?

It seems evident, particularly after hearing Trump's speech, that if individuals applying Trump's reasoning entered a room filled with humans possessing XX chromosomes and counted 20 individuals, they would conclude that those 20 individuals are females based on scientific understanding. However, if progressive math serves as the counterpoint to Trump math, and an individual entered the same room and applied progressive math to ascertain the number of females present, knowing they are all XX humans, progressive math would not yield a scientific answer. Are you attempting to establish this scenario in your thread?

Here's a further illustration of Trump Math.

Hound of Heaven says:

Because I am worried that some people believe they are something I don't believe they are, I will support an ignorant, vicious crook who treats his office like a monarchy.

I say:

Hound of Heaven math is bad math (and is also Trump Math).

When the cure is worse than the disease, you are bad at calculating cost versus benefit.

[Doctor Steuss]

In life, there is always resistance.

What is the alternative to Trump math? Could it be considered progressive math?

It seems evident, particularly after hearing Trump's speech, that if individuals applying Trump's reasoning entered a room filled with humans possessing XX chromosomes and counted 20 individuals, they would conclude that those 20 individuals are females based on scientific understanding. However, if progressive math serves as the counterpoint to Trump math, and an individual entered the same room and applied progressive math to ascertain the number of females present, knowing they are all XX humans, progressive math would not yield a scientific answer. Are you attempting to establish this scenario in your thread?

Using the above example, I think progressive math (or perhaps, De la Chapelle math) would likely tell you that as you increase the number of individuals with 46,XX karyotype, you will also increase the likelihood of someone with 46,XX karyotype that exhibits a complete male phenotype.

Then a black lives matter hashtag, and a bunch of insider trading and corporate subsidies.

[canpakes]

Here's a further illustration of Trump Math.

Hound of Heaven says:

Because I am worried that some people believe they are something I don't believe they are, I will support an ignorant, vicious crook who treats his office like a monarchy.

This works.

[Gunnar]

Here's a further illustration of Trump Math.

Hound of Heaven says:

Because I am worried that some people believe they are something I don't believe they are, I will support an ignorant, vicious crook who treats his office like a monarchy.

I say:

Hound of Heaven math is bad math (and is also Trump Math).

When the cure is worse than the disease, you are bad at calculating cost versus benefit.

Great post! It couldn't have been better said, in my humble opinion!

[Some Schmo]

"Trump Math" is an oxymoron (incidentally, concerning an obnoxious moron).

Mathematics is largely about proofs and truth. We know Trump isn't. It's like the phrase "fake reality."

It sounds like Trump Math is all his bogus claims that are easily disproven. Does this site have the disk space for an infinite thread like that?

[Gunnar]

"Trump Math" is an oxymoron (incidentally, concerning an obnoxious moron).

Mathematics is largely about proofs and truth. We know Trump isn't. It's like the phrase "fake reality."

It sounds like Trump Math is all his bogus claims that are easily disproven. Do this site have the disk space for an infinite thread like that?

Unfortunately, it is always much easier and takes much less time to fabricate an outright, unsupported lie than to gather and present the evidence needed to refute it. Trump knows this all too well and deliberately takes maximum advantage of that. One can fabricate literally hundreds or more of unsupported lies in the time it takes to effectively refute any one of them. Consequently, Trump sees virtually no benefit to sticking to demonstrable truth, especially when it is not in his favor, and sometimes even when it is. Some of his supporters (like J.D. Vance, for example) have even openly defended lying if it helps them and hurts their opponents.

[Hound of Heaven]

According to Trump math, if there are two individuals present in a room, it simply indicates that there are two individuals present.

In progressive math, when you observe two individuals in a room, you might conclude there are indeed two people present. However, if one of those individuals identifies as two-spirit, then the count increases to three. Furthermore, if both individuals are two-spirit, the total rises to four people in the room. Unless the progressives incorporate three spirit persons into the binary, there remains the possibility of having five or six individuals present in the room.