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“Hey, I paid more.” – a whole lot of people

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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The New York Times has published Donald Trump’s (r) taxes.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

This evening:

Jason Kander @JasonKander
To summarize the NYT story: Trump got a bunch of $ from his daddy. He lost it all, but then he got paid hundreds of millions to play a billionaire on TV. He tried to use that $ to become a real billionaire, but he lost it all again.

Now he’s starting over, but we’re his daddy.
4:51 PM · Sep 27, 2020

Some of the comments:

I mean, he did promise to run the country the way he ran his businesses. Promises kept.

Amazing line from the article is that lenders may have to face foreclosing on a sitting president. Wow

Republican voters will applaud his ability to avoid taxes. This should be significant to all voters… But it won’t be.

His base admires that he got around paying taxes, it’s a feature, not a bug.

But his base couldn’t try it if they wanted to

And once he loses, the creditors are coming after him because he can’t get money from “daddy”.

It takes a certain skill to lose so much money AND keep convincing ppl to loan you money. Pretty pleased I don’t have said skill.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Wait, wait! You’re telling us it was all a lie?

Yep and I paid more taxes under him than any president

There you go.

#IPaidMoreTaxesThanTrump

Dumber than a cinder block…

10 Saturday Nov 2018

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…and twice as dense.

That’s you, too, if you buy into it.

Yesterday, via Twitter:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption – Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!
2:33 PM – 9 Nov 2018

One of the responses:

Signatures not matching does not equal corruption or fraud. Everyone’s signature varies somewhat, and if one signature is on paper and the other is on a device, there can be a lot of variance, especially if the person doesn’t sign on devices often.

Read the sequence. This is all about counting the votes that have been cast in this election. For those of you who have difficulty with reading comprehension and facts (The Faux News Channel, for instance), read this slowly and out loud, that might help you understand it.

1. When voter turnout is higher than expected it takes longer to count the votes because of the volume of ballots which have to be processed.

2. States which have voting by mail have a very high volume. It takes a longer time to count and certify those results due to the very high volume.

3. News media does not count the votes, local election authorities do.

4. Media usually reports on the votes that have been counted, as long as their attention holds. They rarely report on the certified results.

5. Election races are “called” by the media when they believe that the outcome will not be changed by the ballots remaining which have yet to be counted. This is not a certified election result. It’s a bauble for people with short attention spans.

6. Elections are certified by election authorities when all of the votes have been counted.

7. Sometimes, when elections are really close, the media will not “call” the election until it has been certified. Sometimes media makes a mistake and “calls” the election anyway because math is hard for some people.

8. If, at any point, the number of ballots which have not been counted is greater than the reported margin between two candidates, then any media “call” of the race is worthless. That’s how math works.

Thus endeth the lesson.