When Politicians Try To Do Math

Finally, someone who understands imaginary numbers! While one politician shows the equation i² = -1 without context (probably copied from a campaign advisor's cheat sheet), and another demands "source?" (as if math needs a Fox News citation), the third actually provides the mathematical proof.

For those who slept through complex analysis: imaginary numbers aren't some liberal conspiracy—they're the foundation of quantum mechanics, electrical engineering, and that app that tells you how depressed your houseplants are. The proof shown is legitimately correct, treating ℝ² as a vector space and showing that yes, there exists an element i where i² = -1.

Next week: politicians trying to explain Schrödinger's cat. Spoiler alert: they'll claim the cat is simultaneously alive, dead, and voting in swing states.