P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low

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  1. Both begging Americans to pay for their private jets is something else they have in common other than being shit for a human being.

  2. Send money to demon, demon gets more money, ???, you’re richer!

  3. Yeah, there are good 77 million idiots who actively believe this, but there is also an even larger number of idiots who thought voting in this last election wasn’t worth the effort, and a smaller number of idiots who thought they should vote for Jill Stein to save Gaza or some bullshit. So yeah, one a minute is a very low number.

  4. Anyone who buys into these morons deserve to be pinched for every penny they got.

  5. “it’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they’ve been fooled” – Mark Twain

  6. Pedro: Vote for me and all of your wildest dreams will come true.

  7. Maybe he was right. But suckers aren’t born in all countries at the same rate.

  8. Between population growth and recent innovations in propaganda technique, I’m pretty sure we’re up to a full sucker a second!

  9. The answer is actually 7.

    Assuming we’re only talking about the US, there are roughly 3.7 million people born every year. There are 525,600 seconds in a normal year, so that works out to 7.04 suckers per minute.

    However, PT Barnum died in 1891. The furthest back birth statistics I could find are from 1909, with 2,718,000, which gives you 5.17 suckers per minute.

    This is assuming that we all suck. If we take a more conservative estimate of the suck ratio, let’s say 25-50%, then we get 1.76-3.52 suckers per minute in present day America.

  10. The Problem Kamala had was that she Argued with a stupid person and as Mark Twain said Never Argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

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