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#kushdesai

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Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@vij" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vij</span></a></span> </p><p>&gt;&gt; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KushDesai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KushDesai</span></a> is an Ivy grad :D</p><p>He does not know that triple integrals and differential equations with sigma notation are the weapons of mass destruction when intimidating the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> base for their approval 🤡</p>
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p>This is incredible. The White House sent out the Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai to protest that the equation for tariffs on a country was definitely *not* just calculated as just (trade_deficit / imports) but instead calculated as [insert greek letter arithmetic that looks complicated].</p><p>What <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/KushDesai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KushDesai</span></a> did not realize is that the values chosen for the greek letters in the equation he cited in the paper he cited it from make the formula reduce to… </p><p>trade_deficit / imports</p><p>"It's essentially <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CriticalTradeTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalTradeTheory</span></a>. Any trade imbalance between two countries is de facto evidence of systemic unfair trade practices."</p><p><a href="https://x.com/KushDesai47/status/1907617412142317680" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/KushDesai47/status/19076</span><span class="invisible">17412142317680</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/eupol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eupol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asia</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PRC</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a></p>
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