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The country that elected him twice is also not well.
by CamperBob2 9mo ago
The country that elected him twice is also not well.
- jqpabc123 9mo agoThe basic problem is failure to educate.
- estimator7292 9mo agoIt's not a problem, it's a strategy
- jqpabc123 9mo agoIf so then it is a bad one that we all will pay for.
- lysace 9mo agoSeems like the US is doing okay on the OECD PISA benchmark though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...
- jqpabc123 9mo agoIn mathematics, the U.S. ranks 28th out of 37 OECD countries. In science, the U.S. ranks 12th.
- lysace 9mo agoYes, hence "okay". Excerpts from the 2022 PISA math scores: #1: Singapore: 575 #10: Netherlands: 493 #20: Finland: 484 #22: Sweden: 482 OECD average: 472 #30: Italy: 471 #32: Norway: 468 #34: US: 465 ... #81: Cambodia: 336 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment#PISA_2022_ranking_summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...)
- CamperBob2 9mo agoNo. If 2016-2020 wasn't enough "education" to warn people not to re-elect Trump, it's absurd to continue to believe that's the problem. You can fix ignorance with education, but you can't fix stupidity or malice.
- b0rtb0rt 9mo agoeducated to vote for the candidate that you like better?
- jqpabc123 9mo agoEducated enough to recognize blatant and proven lies when they hear them. For example, the oft repeated lie that foreign countries would pay his illegal tariffs. Educated enough to know that calls from this adminstration to "punish" the NY Fed for pointing out this lie would be in direct violation of the 1st Amendment. https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-is-paying-for-the-2025-u-s-tariffs/?ftag=MSFd61514f https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-is...