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cksmithy

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38. I am so sorry to have totally shamed you,
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 03:53 PM
Apr 6

it was not my intent. To me math is a puzzle which if you know the rules and formulas you can solve. I have always loved math, well in 8th grade and high school algebra loved it, not so much in geometry (crappy teacher, who was also a football coach for another high school), I couldn't handle trigonometry and had to transfer to home ec. But when I went to college to get my teaching credential, I had the best teachers, who broke everything down, and explained it completely. At college I took advance algebra, stats math, weird math that taught you how ranked choice vote works, probability, and how those in charge decide where to build roads to get people across town the fastest way (there is a formula for that, I believe it was even involved in the streets of Paris hundreds of years ago). That was the hardest math class. Anyway, I read that tsf is claiming he came up with the formula for these tariffs. He is sooo dumb and could be destroying our country. He obviously never took an economics or advanced math class.

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News orgs are spreading blatantly clear propaganda. Nt BootinUp Apr 3 #1
If they even bother to do that. Ray Bruns Apr 3 #11
What do we expect? The administration is in possession of... dchill Apr 3 #2
This is what they did. This is the third post I've seen from different sources underpants Apr 3 #3
Comedians should have a field day with those numbers unc70 Apr 3 #4
How utterly extraordinary indeed. Disaffected Apr 3 #5
Now would Trump's Deputy White House Secretary lie to you? surfered Apr 3 #6
The formula used by trump is very stupid LetMyPeopleVote Apr 3 #7
Thanks for posting those. I tried but kept setting off a virus alert each time. nt allegorical oracle Apr 3 #33
They are in fact that dumb Johnny2X2X Apr 3 #8
I wish it was being driven by a blind monkey. Ray Bruns Apr 3 #12
Somebody's now got the title for their book about Trump's second term: Extraordinary Nonsense tanyev Apr 3 #9
Sorry but IMO too gentle. efhmc Apr 3 #28
Good that some journalists have verified and called out the lies IronLionZion Apr 3 #10
Other countries will... lame54 Apr 3 #18
People are soon going to find out the world doesn't revolve around the USA IronLionZion Apr 3 #22
We have Billionaire tax breaks to pay for. Come on, get with the program ... aggiesal Apr 3 #19
The people in charge of this country are terminally stupid. Ray Bruns Apr 3 #13
They make perfect sense... lame54 Apr 3 #14
Pulled directly out of his sphincter. spanone Apr 3 #15
I think everyone is coming to that same conclusion ... aggiesal Apr 3 #16
That's been confirmed by the US trade rep Arazi Apr 3 #17
It's the stupidity of it all crud Apr 3 #20
This Was Not Nefarious ProfessorGAC Apr 3 #21
His MAGAsty is clueless, for sure, and the rest are willfully ignorant William Seger Apr 3 #34
I am so glad a journalist cksmithy Apr 3 #23
OMG. You've totally shamed me. Know I personally sent at least three allegorical oracle Apr 4 #37
I am so sorry to have totally shamed you, cksmithy Apr 6 #38
Folks, these are the guys that sat in the back two rows of the classroom, giggling and throwing spit balls ashredux Apr 3 #24
It came from Trump; of course, it's extraordinary nonsense! ShazzieB Apr 3 #25
Lying and Liars... sprinkleeninow Apr 3 #26
Imaginary tariffs used to calculate real ones. patphil Apr 3 #27
I am believing the journalist because any sophisticated computation formula is beyond the brains of any of this admin. Jit423 Apr 3 #29
They put a Tariff on Diego Garcia and an uninhabited island in Antarctica haele Apr 3 #30
Trump's Tariff Formula Slammed As 'Fake' And 'Incredibly Stupid' By Experts LetMyPeopleVote Apr 3 #31
They didn't count the services other countries get from the US. haele Apr 3 #32
TLDR version ThoughtCriminal Apr 3 #35
MaddowBlogThe Trump White House keeps trying (and failing) to make mathematical formulas work LetMyPeopleVote Apr 4 #36
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