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Feb 11Edited

The thinness of Trump's skin makes the thinness of a real onionskin look like several Mount Everests. To get under Trump's yocto-thin skin (and perhaps get rid of Musk), I think we should routinely call him 1st Vice President Trump, followed by 2nd Vice President Vance.

Years ago, fraternity students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a unit of linear measurement called a “smoot” <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot> <https://interestingengineering.com/science/smoot-the-most-hilarious-mathematical-unit> <https://web.mit.edu/smoot/> <https://news.mit.edu/2008/smoot-tt0924> <https://alum.mit.edu/slice/mit-recalibrate-smoot> <https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=mit+smoot&atb=v468-5&ia=web>. I suggest we need a new measurement of thinness known as “Trumpskin,” which would be the lower boundary of thinness, thinner than a yoctometer <https://www.nanowerk.com/metric_prefixes_table.php> and akin to absolute zero for temperature (which, coincidentally, is the temperature of whatever soul Trump has managed to hold on to).

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