When God’s “anointed” political savior of millions of white blue-collar workers and hundreds of thousands of white evangelicals says that two and two are five, there are no reasons why his diehard supporters should doubt or question about his brand of political math—when real statistics in politics are often concealed or concocted to boost the politician’s odds of winning an election or reelection.
For decades, it’s about “lies, damn lies, and statistics”; today, in an age of Trumpism, the new mantra for dishonesty is “lies, damn lies, and Trump’s lies.”
by MathPlus December 26, 2020
When properly handling or wearing a face mask is far from obvious, because a disturbing number of mask wearers are quasi-clueless how to properly protect themselves against the coronaviruses and their variants.
Like common sense that isn’t common after all, the general population needs to be continually exposed to the art of masking through health awareness campaigns to avoid preventable corona infections or deaths.
by MathPlus November 01, 2021
When conspiracists or Trumpists-turned-QAnonists attributed the origin of the coronavirus not to a lab in Wuhan but to the extraterrestrials that apparently wanted to harm the earthlings, or to prove to them that they are inferior to other galactic beings.
President Trump, who blamed China for infecting the US with Covid-19, refused to expose the conspiracy promoted by some of his supporters for linking Covid-👽 to the high number of infection cases and deaths plaguing the country.
by MathPlus September 26, 2020
Short for “Pi Parrot.” Someone who takes part in a memory competition that requires them to recite as many digits of the decimal number π as possible, when the local winner stands a chance of getting their name into their country’s Book of Records, or the global winner into the Guinness Book of Records.
Guesstimate the total number of amateur and professional pirrots worldwide, who spend thousands of hours every year training for the pithon or pi competition.
by MathPlus October 18, 2021
A cryptarithm à la Trump. An illegal or immoral word sum in which each of the letters stands for one of the digits 0–9, with different letters standing for different digits.
Solve the following trumptarithms.
(i) BAD + BAD = GOOD
(ii) WRONG + WRONG = RIGHT
(iii) LIAR + UNFIT = TRUMP
Hints: (i) 3 solutions (ii) 21 solutions (iii) 22 solutions
(i) BAD + BAD = GOOD
(ii) WRONG + WRONG = RIGHT
(iii) LIAR + UNFIT = TRUMP
Hints: (i) 3 solutions (ii) 21 solutions (iii) 22 solutions
by MathPlus March 04, 2021
When you remember God’s repeated Goodness and Favor in your life—be it in delivering you from a difficult situation, healing you of a sickness or disease, or delivering you from your enemies—this is fuel for your faith that He will do it again.
The red seas He parted for you, or those times when He closed the jaws of the lions in the den, you know this is a history of God’s Love for you—when you see that His faithfulness to protect you and your family never ceases.
by MathPlus October 03, 2018
When a husband and his wife filed for divorce, or an unmarried couple decided to split, because both parties opted to get different vaccines or booster shots.
John who got Pfizer and his wife who got Moderna can’t wait until death to part ways—they told the judge that they can’t stand each other due to vaccine incompatibility.
by MathPlus February 19, 2022