Democratic Math: Squaring the Circle

Algebra was never my thing, but I did manage to pass the class.
Lately I started thinking about the "math" of Democratic shills. It goes something like this:

1 vote for Jill Stein = 1 vote for Donald Trump

Not voting = 1 vote for Donald Trump

OK. Given these two known variables (X = Z, Y = Z), it would also be true that:

1 vote for Hillary = 1 vote for Donald Trump

Simple enough.
However, what does 1 vote for Donald Trump = ??

That had me stumped until today. Now we know:

1 vote for Donald Trump = treason

“He is inviting an aggressive country that we are really worried about to invade us,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) said on MSNBC. "This is — this is ridiculous, and, frankly, it borders on treasonous...
Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.) closely echoed McCaskill’s concerns during his own interview with MSNBC on Wednesday.
“Well, that borders on treason. Never before have I heard of or seen a candidate not just for president, but for anything, invite a foreign spy agency to hack America’s computers. It’s one thing to be unfit for command, but today he’s proved he’s dangerously unfit for command."
Former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta earlier Wednesday questioned Trump’s loyalty to the U.S. following the billionaire’s comments.
“I just think that’s beyond the pale,” he said to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. "I think that kind of statement reflects that he is truly not qualified to be president of the United States.”...
And House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) said Trump’s comments raise serious concerns about his patriotism.
“To call on a foreign adversary to commit an illegal act of cybercrime and espionage in order to undermine a political rival is not only un-American, it undermines our national security,” he said in a statement.

It's interesting how quickly Democrats have pulled our words like "treason" and "un-American" and encouraged the assassination of Americans.
Oh wait. We still aren't talking about the last one in public.

Anyway, no politician would ever joke about Russia having Hillary's emails.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) spoke at the Western Conservative Conference Saturday in Colorado. Cotton joked (sort of) with the conservative crowd, “It has gotten so bad, the FBI is on the verge of asking Vladimir Putin for his copies of Hillary’s emails.”

Ha ha.
The question is, where do you go after treason? We've got another hundred days to find out.

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sojourns's picture

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

she realized they wanted her to add letters.

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To this day, I have no clue how I even passed algebra and trig, let alone received a B and an A. All I've come up with is that I must have channeled some deceased math afficionado on test days.

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orlbucfan's picture

Badly taught Geometry? Nightmare city. Rec'd!!

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

1 vote for Hillary Clinton = 1 vote for Dick Cheney in a pantsuit.

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WindDancer13's picture

Have you noticed that no matter where you move, her eyes follow you?

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

I have to get to bed. If I have nightmares after seeing this picture of female Freddy Krueger, I'm suing your ass...

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So far, I love this morning!

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detroitmechworks's picture

If 1 JS = 1 T
And 1 GJ = 1 T
and 0 = 1 T
then logically, one Trump is = Zero

Therefore Trump is irrelevant and can be completely ignored as a Non factor.

However, we KNOW that 1 H = 1 TPP + 5 W + 2 BO

Since the Values of TPP, W, and BO are always negative,
Voting for Hillary is Mathematically WORSE than Voting for Trump.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Late Again's picture

Better candidates through mathematics.

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"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain

Shahryar's picture

if it is then the answer to the question is a vote for Trump is two votes for Trump. Boy, that was easy!

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a vote for Trump is two votes for Trump

Until today.
Now 1 vote for Trump = 2 Treasons

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earthling1's picture

one damned Bernie vote and the whole thing goes into quantum. Becoming an (gulp) endless loop.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

I think this is so cool I wish peace with China. Chinese satellite is one giant step for the quantum internet
It sounds like they are solving the "Scotty beam me up" transporter issues, distance etc..

The team will also attempt to ‘teleport’ quantum states, using an entangled pair of photons alongside information transmitted by more conventional means to reconstruct the quantum state of a photon in a new location. [...]

Researchers have also proposed a quantum experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that would simultaneously -entangle the states of two separate properties of a photon — a technique known as hyperentanglement — to make teleportation more reliable and efficient.[...]

but then oops just what the world needs:

Eventually, quantum teleportation in space could even allow researchers to combine photons from satellites to make a distributed telescope with an effective aperture the size of Earth — and enormous resolution. “You could not just see planets,” says Kwiat, “but in principle read licence plates on Jupiter’s moons.

yeah because there are so many cars on Jupiter’s moons.lol What a great article though! More Star Trek coming true.

Peace

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

orlbucfan's picture

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

earthling1's picture

we are catching up. We have already entangled the two parties together here. It's only a matter of time until we can transport them both to Jupiter.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Panetta flustered

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was interrupted by chants of “no more war” during his prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday.

The chants started raining down from sections of delegates from Oregon and Washington, both states won by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during the Democratic presidential primary.

Eventually, other delegates drowned them out with chants of “USA.”

But the jeers took the sting out of Panetta’s jab at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, landing just as he was about to criticize Trump for saying he hoped Russia was in possession of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private emails.

Panetta appeared flustered as he stood on stage waiting for the chants to end.

As Panetta continued to speak, the lights were dimmed over the sections of Sanders supporters, an apparent effort to silence them.

But the protesters were undeterred and lit up cell phone flashlights in protest.

The chants undercut a portion of the convention dedicated to promoting Clinton's national security bona fides.

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detroitmechworks's picture

From my hometown, therefore I get to say that.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

WaveyDavey's picture

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The people, united, will never be defeated.

detroitmechworks's picture

Monterey, CA and Carmel, CA are everything that's wrong with the Democrats.

All their labor lives in the Ghetto 10 miles away, 2/3rds of the houses are empty because nobody can afford to live there except the 1%, and yet they love to talk about how they help people LOUDLY and Publicly, but then arrest and transport the homeless to other areas.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

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detroitmechworks's picture

Actually, to be honest, they're ALL lousy tippers.
Except the one time that I was expected to take a breakfast to a guy who was obviously having an affair. Was tipped 50 bucks that time, and obviously was expected to never say anything about it.

And I didn't for almost 20 years.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

and friends and I took numerous trips throughout the state. So much to see and do. We stayed at a motel in Carmel that today would probably be a B & B. The room had its own fireplace!! And the town was charming. Now, virtually everywhere in CA is prohibitively expensive. 'Tis sad.

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Obvious is "There's 50 bucks in this for you if you promise to keep your mouth shut."

When people want servers they don't know to keep a secret like that, they don't just expect the server to connect the dots.

I think you got the $50 because he was in a good mood.

Good for you for being discreet though. Who knows what damage you may have done otherwise. Yes, he was the one having the affair and the affair was the problem, but that's on him.

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Shahryar's picture

that USA chant is the bottom rung of jingoism. The Hillary people hate us so much that if we're against war then they're for it....without stopping to think about what they're saying.

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lotlizard's picture

and being an iconic war president whom everyone is depending on to save the world by (stirring music, sound of roaring engines, voice of solemn male narrator) waging war on every front, on land, on sea, and in the air.

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WaveyDavey's picture

winning the logical approach would be to start trying to convince Trump supporters that Clinton is a better choice.

People like me are not voting for Trump. We are voting against Clinton and Trump. We are voting against the 1% who will say what we want to hear but have no incentive to actually follow through.

I watched Bullworth again last night. It's like the script was written this week.

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The people, united, will never be defeated.

The PTB and MSM learned from Occupy - if you blackout the news, the protests will peter out.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

k9disc's picture

I'm will not vote for Trump, therefore I'm voting for Hillary.

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

will invade us? Like Russian drones, each carrying one Rus troop is going to land in Kansas and theyll conquer outwards from there? Or an army will March into Poland?
When any idiot can figure exactly why it was that Stalin didn't March his 40x-as-great-as-Putin's army into a shattered western Europe against the US where the voters were sick of war.

Common sense tells you the Establishment-Hillary complex is going to just pile on more and more 'outrages' to justify a shooting war as soon as she can do it.

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

If North Korea could conquer America, what could Putin do?

It's veeerrrryyy scary!

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dervish's picture

The Nicaraguan Army and Cuban paratroopers, with Soviet advisors!
What was the population of Nicaragua in the eighties? 5 million or so? Cuba had ten tops.

Right-wingers will buy anything, but anymore it looks like Democrats are just as bad.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Zinman's picture

Voting for Jill Stein, leader of the Green Party, is a symbolic act of protest against both Hillary and Donald.

I will vote for Jill to support her, and to build the strength of the Green Party.

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Be a Friend of the Earth, cherish it and protect it.

Big Al's picture

unconstitutional wars and country destabilizations while spreading propaganda Orwell would shake his head at about our make believe enemies. Aggressive country my ass, the most "aggressive" country on the planet is the one we live in and the Democratic Warmonger party is now the most aggressive political party on the planet. Fucking assholes.
I'm telling you man, we've got to fight this propaganda regarding Russia and China every time its played. It has to be called out as the bullshit it is.
Trump, amazingly, is acting like the sane one. I can't stand the guy but shit, the democratic party is off the charts now.

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Steven D's picture

And I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express, but if I read this right,

if any vote for anyone who is not Hillary or Trump is a vote for Trump,

and a vote for Trump = a vote for TREASON,

then ergo, a vote for ANYONE BUT HILLARY is a vote for TREASON.

I guess that makes all of us who won't vote for her TRAITORS.

Viva le revolucion!

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

Zinman's picture

We have two tyrants in waiting at the heads of their respective parties, but why should I care? The Earth is on its last order of spins with humans in charge, and with our time left here in the frame of nuclear threatened eons, the Earth will inevitably once again cleanse our dear green planet of our human infestation, just as it did after the domination of the dinosaurs.

Otherwise, things are great!

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dervish's picture

How very East German of them!

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

then Trump can't lose

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dervish's picture

then are 2 votes for Trump actually 4 votes for Trump?

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

lotlizard's picture

the golden goblet turns into two golden goblets, etc., until the whole chamber is filled.

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featheredsprite's picture

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Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.

featheredsprite's picture

about Putin and the missing emails. He probably knows that everyone but US citizens already know what was in them.

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Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.

CalvinV's picture

was that Russia claimed they got hold of those emails by a counter-intelligence action against Guccifer when he tried to hack into a secured Russian computer.
So far, nobody had claimed that Russia had hacked into Hillary Clinton's email server directly so, as known claims/facts go, all the talks today from the Democrats are completely off the mark. Russia has every right to counter against people who tried to hack into their computers.
Since those are the emails we are talking about as I copied this from a Salon article just for verification:
"if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
Those were the 30,000 emails the Hillary deleted and physically shredded her hard drive before giving the rest of the emails to the State Department under FOIA. Nobody is encouraging Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's email server now. These are the emails which have been "missing" from her email servers years ago and potentially copies by Guccifer and then Russia.

Saying that this encourages Russia to hack US politician emails is not factually wrong, it's the equivalent of supporting breaking the US laws by putting top secret emails in private unsecured servers and encouraging people committing criminal acts (in case those 30,000 deleted emails did contain proof of criminal acts) to become POTUS.

The Dem party is seriously sick.

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It's actually pretty funny. What amazes me though is that they don't see how counter-productive these memes are. The Right is laughing at them, the Left is laughing at them. Are memes like this supposed to convince people to vote for Hillary?

I am fully prepared for a Trump presidency, I see it as almost inevitable if they continue on stupid themes like this.

1 vote for Hillary = 1 vote for Hillary
1 vote for Stein = 1 vote for Trump
Not voting = 1 vote for Trump

If not voting = 1 vote for Trump, doesn't
1 vote for Trump then = 2 votes for Trump?

I'm confused.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

dervish's picture

It's from Wikileaks' latest release, 29 voicemails from the DNC. This is #29.
voice mail

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

this is the level of technology deployed at the highest levels of government and it is shit, your tax dollars at work. After 20 years shouldn't it be better? WTF have users been paying upgrades for all these years? Windows security is a joke (ibid) but monopoly is as monopoly does, Bill and Melinda tax deductible foundations included! FTS

Voice Mail Preview:

Hello this is DNC doing by allowing Sanders to put cornel west on the platform committee please call credit obama and neither rights president any cities of republican blackface why just the DNC I will L such trash to be on the platform committee I don't understand and you guys are losing me II am getting this set up with the democratic party because I'm so tired at this special just campaign of Tina democrats is lay baggage okay Bernie you can do anyone do whatever you want okay cable duty we will look promising you know what he's saying he's telling check that he is going if you may not even support hillary's. So -- I don't know if I don't understand and I don't know why you guys don't have some.

Courage to say no.

Edit: Searching the db on Susan Hartman appears like she's random caller from anywhere, not DNC. ~shrug~
Search results (5)
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/16310

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dervish's picture

but the half dozen or so I did listen to were all random stuff. I think Wikileaks did this just to show the DNC what they have, to make them sweat a bit before the next big data dump.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Vote for Jill = +2.5
Vote for Trump = -1.5
Vote for Hillary = -1

Jill = -(Trump + Hillary)

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Beware the bullshit factories.

I truly enjoy the sentiment here, but I can't just let the math go...

1 vote for Jill Stein = 1 vote for Donald Trump

Not voting = 1 vote for Donald Trump

OK. Given these two known variables (X = Z, Y = Z), it would also be true that:

1 vote for Hillary = 1 vote for Donald Trump

If X = Z and Y = Z, then X = Y.

X = 1 vote for Jill Stein
Y = Not voting
Z = 1 vote for Donald Trump
Q = 1 vote for Hillary

So the X = Y here would be:
1 vote for Jill Stein = Not voting

Sorry to quibble over math. Otherwise, I wholeheartedly agree!

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