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Yeah, this really happened. Idiots.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/B_4VYBgTatY


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I could sure use $1.53, even if it is "crumbs."
 
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Why is Williams still on the air?



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I'm surprised he didn't buy $500 million in guns and then destroyed them!
 
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As discussed yesterday in the Bloomberg thread:

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Are they smarter than a fifth grader?

Leftist math:

Thursday on MSNBC's "The Eleventh Hour" with Brian Williams, New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay and the host accepted without question a tweet that (jokingly) said that Michael Bloomberg could have given every American one million dollars with the five hundred million dollars he spent on his short-lived presidential campaign.

"When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear," Williams said.

The tweet read: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over."

"It’s an incredible way of putting it," Williams said.

"It’s an incredible way of putting it," Gay said. "It’s true. It’s disturbing."

In reality, $500 million divided by 327 million Americans is about $1.53 per person.



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Why is Williams still on the air?


He was there counting the money.
 
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We heard:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...480052764#2480052764

The Wall Street Journal, however, is now stating that his campaign actually cost $620M, so that would have been about $1.90 for each of us. Wink

https://www.wsj.com/articles/m...j&mod=&mod=djemITP_h




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I would pay $1.90 to make him go away.


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Leftist math.


Sure goes a long to explain vote counts in Iowa and California. Coming to a presidential election near you.



 
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I could sure use $1.53, even if it is "crumbs."


To be fair, that's probably not bad if you live in Cuba.


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So has MSNBHeeHaw (credit: Larry Elder) and/or Brian Williams and/or Mara Gay had the nut sack to publicly correct their obvious math error? Or are they too chicken to appear like the dumbasses and weak-spined humanoids they really are?



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Wow. You have to admit, it is truly amazing when put into those terms. It’s just that it’s not the same amazing that those idiots are thinking of.


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Well, Biden claimed that half of the USA population was shot to death over the last decade or so.


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So has MSNBHeeHaw (credit: Larry Elder) and/or Brian Williams and/or Mara Gay had the nut sack to publicly correct their obvious math error? Or are they too chicken to appear like the dumbasses and weak-spined humanoids they really are?


As soon as they said it, people started correcting them (and making fun of them) on social media. Someone working on the show got out a calculator and Williams and the NYT guest acknowledged their boo-boo after the next commercial break, joking about how neither of them had been good in math in high school.

They still aren't very good with math or common sense if you ask me.


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Well, Biden claimed that half of the USA population was shot to death over the last decade or so.


... in which case we get $3.80, right?
 
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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
So has MSNBHeeHaw (credit: Larry Elder) and/or Brian Williams and/or Mara Gay had the nut sack to publicly correct their obvious math error? Or are they too chicken to appear like the dumbasses and weak-spined humanoids they really are?


As soon as they said it, people started correcting them (and making fun of them) on social media. Someone working on the show got out a calculator and Williams and the NYT guest acknowledged their boo-boo after the next commercial break, joking about how neither of them had been good in math in high school.

They still aren't very good with math or common sense if you ask me.


It says alot that a calculator was needed. Really $500 million and 327 Million people. The millions are present in both nominator and denominator and cancel themselves out. Anyone with a grade school education should be able to at least estimate the answer at just over one dollar.


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Why is Williams still on the air?


To teach us addiffshuns.
 
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