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When President Donald J. Trump fails to secure a second term in the 2020 presidential election, as voters reject him for his bigotry, dishonesty, racism, supremacism, and his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.
At Trump 2Ø2Ø rallies, out of desperation, Donald Trump is concocting all kinds of eleventh-hour conspiracies and falsehoods about Covid-19 to exonerate himself from the abnormally high infection and death rates in the US.
by MathPlus October 30, 2020
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In Seoul, it’s not uncommon due to Covid-👻 to spot posters with the caption “Don’t end up a real ghost!” outside nightclubs.
by MathPlus November 1, 2020
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At $1 per MathMask™, or at $10 a dozen, these “smart masks” are expected to be popular gift items among both pro- and anti-Trump evangelicals this Christmas.
by MathPlus November 3, 2020
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Environmental groups have criticized those “Pi in the Sky” vanity flights, which would release millions of tons of carbon dioxide in polluting the environment.
by MathPlus November 4, 2020
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With so many topics to cover and so little time to master the concepts, teachers and parents have come to terms that the only way for students to minimize failure and to maximize success is to reluctantly embrace made-in-Singapore math.
by MathPlus November 4, 2020
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Sufferers of piophobia argue that they’d be exempted from school math, because they’re allergic to all things numerical or symbolic.
by MathPlus November 4, 2020
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Don was such a bigly loser for failing to answer more than half of the SAT math questions that his parents have frivolously filed three lawsuits against the teacher, the principal, and the school for math fraud.
by MathPlus November 5, 2020
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