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Trump Education Secretary Gets Embarrassing Math Lesson in Hearing
https://newrepublic.com/post/196045/trump-education-secretary-mcmahon-math-lesson-hearing
https://newrepublic.com/post/196045/trump-education-secretary-mcmahon-math-lesson-hearing
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12 Comments
CM400@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 1y
Saved you a click: she thought $1.2 billion per year over 10 years totaled more than $1trillion.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 1y
It was also John Kennedy, the Harvard educated Republican senator, that said it. McMahon just didn't object to the egregiously wrong math.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Attending Harvard doesn't mean that you left with an education.
TipRing@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
He was only off by a little less than a trillion dollars.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 1y
Ha. Dumb lady. It’s actually fifty bajillion. Thanks for saving me the click, btw.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y
The word "embarrassing" is interesting here because Republicans are incapable of being embarrassed anymore.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 13 pts · 1y
I'll say it again: they have to deny and deflect, double down because they absolutely can not tolerate self+embarrassment/shame/humiliation, and that's why they cling to the sunk-cost fallacy. If we had fully funded comprehensive health and required criminals (and allowed everyone else) to address these deep, early childhood wounds, free from shaming, a lot of these social problems would be circumvented before becoming problems.
arin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Language is too soft towards these corrupt assoles, it's not an embarrassing lesson it's a lesson fit for a retard at their age
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 1y
I suspect there wasn't an error in math. My Occam's Razer here says that they had a conclusion in mind (i.e. the Education department spent trillions of dollars on a do nothing program), wanted to say it on CSPAN so that they could have the sound byte.
The correction isn't going to be aired on Fox or OAN.
Lydia_K@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
A thousand times this, it's not a mistake, it's 100% intentional, they know exactly what they are doing.
Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
DropThePot@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 1y
Oh shit, she failed to multiply by 10 accurately. I might have been able to forgive them if a 7 was involved, but 10?!?!
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Why make billions when you can make... MILLIONS? MUAhahHahaHahahaaaa! MuAhaAhahHHahahahHah!