Saved you a click: she thought $1.2 billion per year over 10 years totaled more than $1trillion.
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It was also John Kennedy, the Harvard educated Republican senator, that said it. McMahon just didn't object to the egregiously wrong math.
Attending Harvard doesn't mean that you left with an education.
He was only off by a little less than a trillion dollars.
Ha. Dumb lady. It’s actually fifty bajillion. Thanks for saving me the click, btw.
The word "embarrassing" is interesting here because Republicans are incapable of being embarrassed anymore.
I'll say it again: they have to deny and deflect, double down because they absolutely can not tolerate self+embarrassment/shame/humiliation, and that's why they cling to the sunk-cost fallacy. If we had fully funded comprehensive health and required criminals (and allowed everyone else) to address these deep, early childhood wounds, free from shaming, a lot of these social problems would be circumvented before becoming problems.
Language is too soft towards these corrupt assoles, it's not an embarrassing lesson it's a lesson fit for a retard at their age
I suspect there wasn't an error in math. My Occam's Razer here says that they had a conclusion in mind (i.e. the Education department spent trillions of dollars on a do nothing program), wanted to say it on CSPAN so that they could have the sound byte.
The correction isn't going to be aired on Fox or OAN.
A thousand times this, it's not a mistake, it's 100% intentional, they know exactly what they are doing.
For those who are not WWE fans, I would still recommend going back to the late 1990s and early 2000s and watch Linda McMahon's on-screen role in the company at the time. By all accounts, what she was like on-screen is what she was like off-screen: A completely wooden personality devoid of charisma, looking, sounding, and acting like a badly written AI reading off cue cards. Even when she was CEO of the company, her only actual duties were to just do whatever Vince told her to do while he used her as an example of how "progressive" he is for having a woman as CEO. By all accounts from interviews given by former wrestlers and employees, Vince called all the shots and made the decisions. All she ever did was sign her name.
Hmmm....she was put in a position she does not have the intelligence or qualifications for, for the sole purpose of blindly following the orders of a megalomaniac who was calling the shots backstage. Sound familiar?
She has about as much charisma as a department store mannequin, and about as much intelligence. It's always been this way.
Oh shit, she failed to multiply by 10 accurately. I might have been able to forgive them if a 7 was involved, but 10?!?!
Why make billions when you can make... MILLIONS? MUAhahHahaHahahaaaa! MuAhaAhahHHahahahHah!