When ministers reluctantly have to kiss their voters’ asses or pretend to listen to them to get re-elected, while reminding them that if they tick the wrong party, their constituency or surrounding won’t get upgraded, or would be given the least priority.
Singapore election is generally a low-key affair, because most Opposition members of choice can’t run—they’re disqualified because of some fine, were previously jailed for illegal public gatherings, or are now bankrupt due to lawsuits filed by some ministers.
by MathPlus January 03, 2019
Get the Singapore Electionmug. When the digits of the decimal number π can be used to divine the ups and downs of a politician’s career—apparently a numerological activity by nontenured mathematicians who moonlight for politicians who have faith in the spiritual or occultic power of numbers.
That President Trump’s re-election or rejection by the electorate could be determined by political pi proves that the intersection between pi and politics is not zero.
by MathPlus April 16, 2020
Get the Political Pimug. When the individual right to liberty and freedom as part of human rights gives people the choice to decide whether or not to wear a face mask, especially if the authorities have made mask wearing mandatory for everyone in public places—in practice, they could be fined or jailed (or even caned in some extreme cases) for refusing to don a mask.
In a number of red states, millions of hardcore Trumpublicans have used personal, religious, or political freedom as their weapon of mask destruction—they’re not going to bow down to “mask oppression” even if a jail imprisonment awaits them for their repeated social disobedience.
by MathPlus July 15, 2021
Get the Weapon of Mask Destructionmug. The politically correct version of “Truth or Falsehood” among morally corrupt lawmakers, who are more afraid of man than God, or who are afraid of losing rather than doing their job; or among white blue-collar “evangelicals” or conspiracists who see the Liar-in-Chief or Pharisee-in-Chief as the “anointed” one to save them from the devil’s schemes.
In the “Truth or Trump” battle of conscience over the effort to investigate the January 6 Capitol insurrection, the score was: Trump 175 Truth 35—there were five times as many GOP members who voted to exonerate the Insurrectionist-in-Chief as those who voted to charge him.
by MathPlus May 20, 2021
Get the Truth or Trumpmug. When a math educator is thrilled to discover that some his fellow mathematical brethren are also gay—what a relief for him to stop feeling like an odd in a sea of evens.
Since Dave experienced his gay moment in mathematics last summer, he's been invited by his fellow mathematicians to speak at their clandestinely held "Gay Topology" conference.
by MathPlus March 28, 2017
Get the Gay Moment in Mathematicsmug. Being brainwashed or radicalized by ex-president Donald J. Trump, who has continued to spew out election lies and to promote conspiracies or pseudoscientific theories, which sound music to the itchy ears of ultra-MAGA patriots.
Guesstimate how many magatrinated folks would vote for their “political savior” in 2024 or 2028, assuming that he has not been put behind bars by then, or has since been pardoned by a morally corrupt president for his manifold crimes.
by MathPlus September 05, 2022
Get the Magatrinatedmug. A little juicy formula that exposes the covert relationship between the sides in a right triangle—no other elementary mathematical result has excited so many people from all walks of life to try proving it from different angles.
Just as without Christ, there’s no Christianity, without the Pythagorean theorem, there’s no Trigonometry.
by MathPlus December 31, 2018
Get the Pythagorean Theoremmug.