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Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the numbers-don't-lie dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Fred Reed's mathematical analysis of Trump's Wall proves that Trump is insincere, proves that Trump is mathematically incompetent, and earns Fred Reed an honorary nerd card:

https://fredoneverything.org/the-wall-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-not-much-else/

More math!

~childo

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:06AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:06AM (#619061)

    This apparently sarcastic sentence is great:

    I can think of no greater authorities on heavy construction than a pack of ideological yoyos in the White House who have probably never seen a shovel.

    Say, does anybody remember how it was that Trump managed to increase his wealth by a factor of 1000?

    He was in the construction business. He built lots of big expensive things. He bought lots and lots of concrete. He mostly paid for union labor.

    There are lots of photos of Trump at construction sites. You can find them for pretty much every decade of his life. Yes, even as a kid. Trump grew up at construction sites.

    If we had to find an expert for this sort of thing, Trump would be pretty much the person to go to. Particularly regarding the financial aspects of large-scale construction, he is an expert.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:15AM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:15AM (#619063)

    Yea, that was a pretty choice bit of stupid in an article that didn't lack for candidates. And notice how it still got submitted (by an AC, at least nobody was willing to own this turkey) and approved. Trump is a gift that just doesn't stop giving, exposing the enemies of sanity and reason has to be one of the more important ones long term.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @03:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @03:41PM (#619536)

      I love this new you, the person no longer guarding what they say. You just let everyone know how brainwashed you are all the time. I don't much need to respond anymore, people swayed by your walls of garbage are unlikely to listen to "librul proper-ganderz".

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:55AM (#619073)

    Say, does anybody remember how it was that Trump managed to increase his wealth by a factor of 1000?

    Personally I'm guessing that, like all major New York, Vegas and LA municipal construction contractors since WW2, he hired local sub-contractors to do the actual job for a profit on-paper while having mobsters launder money by fronting the real costs off-books.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:53PM (#619140)

    I can think of no greater authorities on heavy construction than a pack of ideological yoyos in the White House who have probably never seen a shovel.

    Say, does anybody remember how it was that Trump managed to increase his wealth by a factor of 1000?

    Well, your cherry-picking of quotes from the article seems to have missed this:

    However, a developer of real estate can reasonably be expected to know something of costing construction.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @01:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @01:39AM (#619817)

    Say, does anybody remember how it was that Trump managed to increase his wealth by a factor of 1000?

    I shouldn't think anyone does, because he didn't.

    Had he simply invested the money he inherited from his father and left it alone, he would be even wealthier than he is now. He is such a shitty businessman that he couldn't make a profit running a casino, which is quite an achievement.