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Trump invents "new math" to defend his ridiculous lies

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  Trump's approval rating plummets in latest polling "Two ways of calculating": Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices Ah, yes. Two ways of calculating! One the one hand we have mathematics, the unshakeable field of study that has been around for millennia — including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and beyond — upon which empirical science is based, and on the other hand we have...whatever the hell Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump are prattling on about. Why trust that which is demonstrably true and easily proven with the calculator on your phone when you can listen to a guy who cut the penis off a dead raccoon and his dementia-addled boss talk about alternative math that "people understand better?" "Either way, it doesn't make any difference," Donald declared, which is exactly what a privileged nincompoop who's never once been held accountable for being wrong about anything in his life would say. Take Act...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 355. 4/23/26

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  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more Today in Politics, Bulletin 355. 4/23/26 Ron Filipkowski Apr 23 ∙ Preview …  Sleepy Don  fell asleep again during a press event today about prescription drug prices, dozing off multiple times as his sycophants  RFK Jr, Dr. Oz, Lutnick, Vance  and others droned on and on about how wonderful he is. … RFK Jr was bragging about his testimony before Congress “One of the Democrats was ridiculing President Trump for his math, and she was saying it's in mathematically impossible to have any drug drop by 600% cost. And I said, well, if the drug was $100 and it raised the price of $600. That would be a 600% rise. If it drops from 600 to 100, that's a 600% savings. Trump: That’s right.” … Trump was asked about the war dragging on: “We’ve been doing it for 5 and a half weeks. Reporter: But sir, it’s been 8 weeks, you said it would be over in 4-6 weeks. Trump: I took a break and I gave them a break.” … Q - “How long...