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Trump's Second Term

They daren't say a word against him.

Lambert: He didn’t shoot himself in the foot.

Mockler: What do you call liberation day? What do you call the Iran war? What do you call the fact that he could have just been steady handed and had a better economy?

Lambert: We don’t have to get into a whole economic discussion.

Mockler: Who pays the tariffs?

Lambert: I understand tariffs better than you.

Mockler: Who pays them?

Lambert: It depends. China paid a lot of those tariffs.

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W.D.Clinger said:
I'm pretty good with numbers, so I was able to do that calculation in my head.

Until I got to the part I highlighted. 2202 is divisible by 3, sure (which is easy to see because the digits add to 6, which is a multiple of 3—that's one of the simplest tricks you learn when you're first learning how to do arithmetic in your head), but is it divisible by 9? Easy enough to find out, all in your head: divide by 3 (obtaining 734), then divide by 3 again. But 734 isn't divisible by 3 (see previous spoiler), so the correct answer is 734/3.

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For those who'd like to see how easy it is to do that calculation in your head, here's how it goes:
  1. Start with 99.
  2. Multiply it by 9. Okay, that's the same as 100 times 9 minus 9, which is 891.
  3. Divide it by 3. Yikes. Step 2 was unnecessary, because multiplying by 9 and then dividing by 3 is the same as multiplying by 3. Might as well just multiply 99 by 3. That's the same as 100 times 3, minus 3, which is 297.
  4. Add 4293. Okay, that's the same as adding 7 to 4293, obtaining 4300, and then adding the rest of 297 (290), so you get 4300 plus 290, which is 4590.
  5. Divide by 2. Not hard at all, because 4590 is 10 short of 4600. Dividing 4600 by 2 yields 2300. Dividing the 10 by 2 is 5, so you subtract that from the 2300, obtaining 2295.
  6. Subtract 93. Easy: 2295 minus 93 is 2202.
  7. Divide by 9. That's the same as dividing by 3, twice. 2202 is obviously divisible by 3, but is it divisible by 9? Dividing 2202 by 3 is the same as dividing 2100 by 3 and then adding the result of dividing 102 by 3, so the result is 700 plus 34, which is to say 734. 734 is obviously not divisible by 3 (because its digits don't add to a multiple of 3), so the final answer is 734/3.


I very much doubt whether @Ziggurat could do that calculation in his head, so he's probably quite impressed by Trump's ability to do it.


I suspect, however, that @Ziggurat could tell something's wrong with the part I highlighted, if only he were willing to think about it long and hard.
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The easy way to find out if a number is divisible by 9 is to add up the digits. If the sum is a multiple of 9 so is the original number. 6 is not divisible by 9 so neither is 2202.

I learned the above before I learned the trick also works for 3.

By the way, if you start with a multiple of 9, it is easy to see that step 6 is the first step where you get a number not divisible by 9.
 
Andy_Ross said:
They daren't say a word against him.

Lambert: He didn’t shoot himself in the foot.

Mockler: What do you call liberation day? What do you call the Iran war? What do you call the fact that he could have just been steady handed and had a better economy?

Lambert: We don’t have to get into a whole economic discussion.

Mockler: Who pays the tariffs?

Lambert: I understand tariffs better than you.

Mockler: Who pays them?

Lambert: It depends. China paid a lot of those tariffs.

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Oh FFS...
 
Real America's Voice (RAV)
@RealAmVoice
BREAKING: NORTH CAROLINA TO BE THE “FURNITURE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”

“We're going to bring all the furniture back to North Carolina...It'll be as robust as it was 25-30 years ago.” - @POTUS

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Andy_Ross said:
Trump: "They give me fake polls…They did a poll on the war with Iran and they said only 32% of the people like it. Well, I don't like it and I don't like war at all…But they said 32% of the people are against Donald Trump…The polls are fake."

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Reality <------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Donald Trump
 
So apparently there was a shooting near the Washington Monument. The WH went into lockdown as a matter of course. The Secret Service even said the incident had nothing to do with the Presidency.

So naturally, the Arcons are decrying "daily leftist assassination attempts on Trump" and that the Democratic party must be declared a terrorist organization and outlawed. Measured response, as usual.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump: "They give me fake polls…They did a poll on the war with Iran and they said only 32% of the people like it. Well, I don't like it and I don't like war at all…But they said 32% of the people are against Donald Trump…The polls are fake."

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Might be interesting to see the poll question.

"Do you like war?" seems slightly unlikely to have been what they asked.
 
kookbreaker said:
So apparently there was a shooting near the Washington Monument. The WH went into lockdown as a matter of course. The Secret Service even said the incident had nothing to do with the Presidency.

So naturally, the Arcons are decrying "daily leftist assassination attempts on Trump" and that the Democratic party must be declared a terrorist organization and outlawed. Measured response, as usual.
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If only the Washington Monument was in a ballroom.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Real America's Voice (RAV)
@RealAmVoice
BREAKING: NORTH CAROLINA TO BE THE “FURNITURE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”

“We're going to bring all the furniture back to North Carolina...It'll be as robust as it was 25-30 years ago.” - @POTUS

video in link
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The president demands election results be thrown out so Republicans win more seats

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
We cannot allow there to be an Election that is conducted unconstitutionally simply for the "convenience" of State Legislatures. If they have to vote twice, so be it. We should demand that State Legislatures do what the Supreme Court says must be done. That is more important than administrative convenience. The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 20 House Seats in the upcoming Midterms! President

DONALD J. TRUMP
 
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