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Slammer

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19. One googolplex
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 06:48 PM
Oct 2021

Personally, I think the Democrats should lean into that Republican narrative and set the debt limit to one googolplex...of pennies.

Let the Republicans try to describe to the public how much money that is when the public can't grasp the size of the number to start with. And even if they could, it's obvious the Democrats couldn't possibly plan on spending that amount (enough to buy everything in the solar system many times over).

And when the number sounds like Google (which to most folks isn't scary).

And when it's in pennies rather than dollars (which makes it sound a lot smaller).

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