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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
Is this the first time the democrats have ever won anything? It feels weird.
Trump gets credit from his base for holding out. And he knew that the credit would be proportional to the square of number of days the shutdown lasted. However there was also a "cosmological constant" involved (which I know you know about since you are a disciple of Tegmark) that Trump had to take into account that starts small, about 2% of the other force, in the opposite direction. But Trump realized that this opposite force was proportional to the CUBE of the number of days as workers started to attend food banks.
So from day one Trump knew that the shutdown's maximum effectiveness in making his was base happy was simply the solution to the equation 2x -(3x squared)/50 =0 . He decided to go a couple extra days just in case.