This is a very striking example of Trump's strange mental state. He seems at times to be paying no attention to what the German Chancellor (who leads a large and rich European country vital to the future of NATO) is saying, and instead talks about his 'wonderful numbers' and the price of eggs.
That 'price of eggs' business needs to be underlined. It is simply nonsensical to say that the price of eggs has fallen by 400%. Here is how it works.
Suppose eggs cost $10 a box.
100% of $10 is $10.
50% of $10 is $5.
So if the price of eggs halves - i.e. goes down to $5 - the price has fallen by 50%. Nice if it happened, and makes perfect sense in math terms.
If the price of eggs goes down by 100% (which is $10, remember) it would have fallen from $10 to ZERO, $0. If that happened (unlikely), eggs would be given away free in supermarkets.
Now, if 100% of $10 is $10, 400% of $10 is $40. So if the price of eggs falls 400%, it will go down from:
$10 to $10 - $40 = - $30, that is, minus $30.
That's a negative price. It means that the customer isn't paying anything - they are actually being paid $30 to take the eggs away.
Thanks, that's the way I should have worded it.
Obviously, the way I looked at it is that the difference price from, say, $10 to -$30 is $40, is 400% of the original price. Thus, as you said, the customer would be paid 3 times, not 4 times the original price of the eggs to take them away. I will correct my math in the original post.
CONCLUSION:
Anybody who boasts of the price of eggs falling 400% is either deeply ignorant, or mentally confused. What is your favoured option for the President of the world's richest and most powerful country?
Probably deeply ignorant but it could easily be both. Or, it could be that Trump just assumed that his sycophantic followers were too ignorant to understand correct math.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
Foreign countries respect strength and not weakness, it is just the way it is.
If this is true; between Putin mocking Trump to his "face" on the phone, foreign leaders uproariously laughing at him, parades mocking him, major foreign newspapers (including state-owned outlets) ridiculing him, and international surveys showing the US is no longer universally respected... then foreign countries must think Trump is the weakest little man baby on planet earth.
The only people who like to pretend that he's strong outside of the MAGA loyalists that have passed the sunk cost threshold, are the dictators who feign it because the only thing that surpasses his abject incompetence is his ego.
Your ancestors abandoned your country to become immigrants elsewhere because they felt that such a move was essential for the survival of their family. It’s odd that you cannot imagine that this still happens for that reason today.
Not as immigrants, but as conquerors,the same as yours. If you feel guilty about that, you're welcome to give your portion back to the Indians, whose ancestors also gained their land by conquest. But what you're not going to do is give away my paycheck and property. It's kind of funny that these supposedly hard working illegal immigrants have the time and money to protest.
And when the Confederates saw Jackson standing fearless like a stonewall, the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Your ancestors abandoned your country to become immigrants elsewhere because they felt that such a move was essential for the survival of their family. It’s odd that you cannot imagine that this still happens for that reason today.
Not as immigrants, but as conquerors.
Your family defeated all of the natives by themselves?
Or had some Government help?
It's kind of funny that these supposedly hard working illegal immigrants have the time and money to protest.
I guess that we can say the same thing about MAGA boat parades and J6 insurrectionists.
...This is a very striking example of Trump's strange mental state. He seems at times to be paying no attention to what the German Chancellor (who leads a large and rich European country vital to the future of NATO) is saying, and instead talks about his 'wonderful numbers' and the price of eggs.
That 'price of eggs' business needs to be underlined. It is simply nonsensical to say that the price of eggs has fallen by 400%. Here is how it works.
Suppose eggs cost $10 a box.
100% of $10 is $10.
50% of $10 is $5.
So if the price of eggs halves - i.e. goes down to $5 - the price has fallen by 50%. Nice if it happened, and makes perfect sense in math terms.
If the price of eggs goes down by 100% (which is $10, remember) it would have fallen from $10 to ZERO, $0. If that happened (unlikely), eggs would be given away free in supermarkets.
Now, if 100% of $10 is $10, 400% of $10 is $40. So if the price of eggs falls 400%, it will go down from:
$10 to $10 - $40 = - $30, that is, minus $30.
That's a negative price. It means that the customer isn't paying anything - they are actually being paid $30 to take the eggs away.
CONCLUSION:
Anybody who boasts of the price of eggs falling 400% is either deeply ignorant, or mentally confused. What is your favoured option for the President of the world's richest and most powerful country?
I heard that video, and was pulled up short by that example. How can the pres of the US be THAT STUPID??????
Even worse, though, was his utter disregard for what the Chancellor was talking about. That was so embarrassing to watch. He has no ability to converse with another human being, and he just wants to brag about nonsense. He speaks at a completely uneducated, unintelligent, and unintelligible level. This is the guy that Markk thinks is so great. Wow.
I guess that we can say the same thing about MAGA boat parades and J6 insurrectionists.
Not until they receive the same harsh punishments J6 "insurrectionists" received.
And when the Confederates saw Jackson standing fearless like a stonewall, the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
When you enter a country without permission of the owners, you're not an immigrant. You're an invader. If the invader defeats the owner, then the invader becomes the owner. You own a portion of the US. If you feel like you shouldn't or that others need it more than you, then you have a right to give it to them. But if you want to give my property away because you've unilaterally decided it should belong to someone else, don't be surprised if I declare war upon you to protect my property.
And when the Confederates saw Jackson standing fearless like a stonewall, the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Lol...No, it just showed how you think and were being condescending given the thread. You are gentle compared to other folks here Morley, and whether you believe it or not I respect you. If I got offended over things said about me here I would not have been posting here for what....20 years?
Lol, Schmo calls me cuss words I have never even heard before, and I have been in construction for about 50 years.
Markk, since my reply is a bit off topic for this thread, I've kicked it over to the art thread.
The art thread is about art. I won't address anything but art there, whether critical or appreciation. It's that simple. This is a free forum and you can discuss anything you like, where ever you like, and I support that.
