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Not Making Headlines: China Fired Missiles Over Guam on Election Day — And It Wasn't the First Time They Fired Missiles at America's Most Strategic Position in the Pacific in the Last Month | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Guest post by Courtland Sykes Since September 2024, China has launched multiple intermediate-range ballistic missiles over America’s most strategic position in the Pacific – Guam.

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[RobGMN Premium Member]

The point is, you aren't smart. You Google every answer. You don't know shit. Here is something I know though, Google isn't always right.

$105 is more than $50. FACT.

You've tried that claim before, but it makes no sense regarding what I know, and what I remember.

You're not able to even Google a response to challenges of your claims, because you don't even know what to Google, and you often forget your OWN posts. I don't.
I'm STILL waiting for you to prove bones have no nerves in them. If it were true, you could simply Google for the answer/proof. But you wouldn't even know where to start if it WAS true.

Fast-forward a thousand posts, and I ask you to justify your claims that a manufacturer can reduce costs by 66%+, yet somehow sell their item for the same price, as if no one is going to know about the cost reduction.
Your example assumes a single business operating in a vacuum, with no competition, and no one knowing what they are doing.

That's not even CLOSE to the real world, and it's exactly why you will never find an example of it to back up your own example.
FFS a gas station can't even lower it's price to grab some customers, before it's almost instantly known by the competition across town and copied. And you think when Billy's Widgets starts getting their materials at 66% less, that Janet's Widgets isn't going to know about it, get the same price, then undercut Billy's selling price by 15%? And maybe even deliver a BETTER product?
Or that Mark won't see the potential to jump in to the business and undercut them both, while still making his GPM?
You should have learned competition-driven pricing in high school.

Do you think it's pure coincidence that all of these retailers have the EXACT same price?

You need to experience reality a bit more. Or go to school.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

You've tried that claim before, but it makes no sense regarding what I know, and what I remember.

You're not able to even Google a response to challenges of your claims, because you don't even know what to Google, and you often forget your OWN posts. I don't.
I'm STILL waiting for you to prove bones have no nerves in them. If it were true, you could simply Google for the answer/proof. But you wouldn't even know where to start if it WAS true.

Fast-forward a thousand posts, and I ask you to justify your claims that a manufacturer can reduce costs by 66%+, yet somehow sell their item for the same price, as if no one is going to know about the cost reduction.
Your example assumes a single business operating in a vacuum, with no competition, and no one knowing what they are doing.

That's not even CLOSE to the real world, and it's exactly why you will never find an example of it to back up your own example.
FFS a gas station can't even lower it's price to grab some customers, before it's almost instantly known by the competition across town and copied. And you think when Billy's Widgets starts getting their materials at 66% less, that Janet's Widgets isn't going to know about it, get the same price, then undercut Billy's selling price? And maybe even deliver a BETTER product?
You should have learned competition-driven pricing in high school.

Do you think it's pure coincidence that all of these retailers have the EXACT same price?
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You need to experience reality a bit more. Or go to school.

Cry a little more Rob. Nobody said it was real world. I even told you it's a made up thing and you STILL argued. You are stupid. You have NO self control. Spend your time a little more wisely and Google how to cope with TDS you jack ***.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

Rob always posts screen shots instead of links

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Cry a little more Rob. Nobody said it was real world. I even told you it's a made up thing and you STILL argued. You are stupid. You have NO self control. Spend your time a little more wisely and Google how to cope with TDS you jack ***.

So you use a ridiculous and impossible made-up example of economics to show how Trump is going to succeed at making our lives better?
Yet you say that real pricing is bullshit, income increases have no relevance in a discussion of inflation, that we should pay the same nominal price for goods today that we paid a decade ago.

If you're just going to make shit up, why not just say Trump is going to wave a magic wand and we will suddenly be living in a utopia?

Trump Derangement Syndrome is saying anything you possibly can do to defend him and support him, even flat-out lying (maybe believing the lies, even), in spite of the myriad evidence that shows he is simply garbage.

Spend my time wisely? I'm not the one who was delivering pizzas at 47 y.o. for beer money, living under my brother's roof, thinking I could live off of a small "injury" settlement from the government, and crying the second gas prices went up a few cents.
My days average 18 hours long, and this is my "smoke break" time, or my "football game" or "hockey game" time.
I'll guarantee I do more and earn more in the first 5 hours of my day than you do in your first 8.

Maybe spend YOUR time more wisely, and be productive enough that a few cents doesn't crush you.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

I'll guarantee I do more and earn more in the first 5 hours of my day

Been my experience anyone needing to make that claim is a lazy fck

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Been my experience anyone needing to make that claim is a lazy fck

Nope. I'm not the one crying that I can't afford gas, and that Biden kept me from getting a better job (while simultaneously saying 42 million min-wage workers should just "get a better job").
That was Thx.

Here's your Gasbuddy link: https://www.gasbuddy.com/home?search=kentucky&fuel=1&method=all&maxAge=0
I post screenshots so Thx can't say "you're making it up" as he is wont to do.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

Nope. I'm not the one crying that I can't afford gas, and that Biden kept me from getting a better job (while simultaneously saying 42 million min-wage workers should just "get a better job").
That was Thx.

Funny it's always because of someone else that you say stupid sh!t...

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Funny it's always because of someone else that you say stupid sh!t...

Can you clarify? What is the "stupid shit" you speak of?
Thx is the one posting business fantasy as a way to show Trump will do a great job of lowering prices at the cost of jobs and reduced wages, then gives an example where prices don't drop after COGS does...

Maybe YOU can help him explain how that plan will work out.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

Can you clarify? What is the "stupid shit" you speak of?

Yeah yeah...you just wanna go 20 pages arguing you don't say dumb sh!t...

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I'll guarantee I do more and earn more in the first 5 hours of my day than you do in your first 8.

I posted 4 sentences. This *** hurt lil girl just has to throw a fit. I wake up at 5am, leave the house at 5:30am, drive for an hour to work, work for 9 hours+, drive home for 1 hour and 45 min in traffic, get home and eat dinner, shower and go to bed at 10pm. Rinse and repeat. I am not sitting at a computer making up fraud charges to go after innocent Trump supporters to insure I have a job. I am driving, loading, lifting, unloading, delivering all day. You aren't man enough to work in my world. You would be crying like a ***** about how sore you are in the first hour. You can't guarantee you are even a man let alone that you do more in the first 5 hours of your job secretary man.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Yeah yeah...you just wanna go 20 pages arguing you don't say dumb sh!t...

Would be a lot less if people just had the ability to back up their claims, instead of sidestepping, tapdancing, obfuscating, backpedaling, misdirecting, etc.

I posted 4 sentences. This *** hurt lil girl just has to throw a fit. I wake up at 5am, leave the house at 5:30am, drive for an hour to work, work for 9 hours+, drive home for 1 hour and 45 min in traffic, get home and eat dinner, shower and go to bed at 10pm. Rinse and repeat. I am not sitting at a computer making up fraud charges to go after innocent Trump supporters to insure I have a job. I am driving, loading, lifting, unloading, delivering all day. You aren't man enough to work in my world. You would be crying like a ***** about how sore you are in the first hour. You can't guarantee you are even a man let alone that you do more in the first 5 hours of your job secretary man.

I am more than man enough and I worked in that world. But I'm smart enough to have gone to school so I didn't have to stay in that world and destroy my body.
Part of why I know that $50 is more than $45, and I can afford gas for my vehicles.

If you're commuting 3 hours to work for 9 hours but can't afford gas, you should consider a cost-benefits analysis of working closer to home.

 

[Old_Slapper]

You do know that people were unable to pay rent because of COVID-caused layoffs, business closures, and the like. Yes?
And that Biden's efforts to prevent evictions were in order to help prevent a rapid and extreme downward spiral of society. Kind of like when they freeze the stock markets to prevent collapse?
And that the SCOTUS squashed the moratorium almost as soon as it was in play?
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I do know that Trump was right about shutting down the country, due to COVID, would ruin the economy and destroy people. I also know Biden gave money to the people who, in turn, spent it on worthless stuff. He should have given it to the landlords. And finally, I do know that the dems are so power hungry that they have no remorse about takin everything away from people and lie to the public on why they did it, knowing that their followers will soak it up and believe it. You are a prime example of that.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

Would be a lot less if people just had the ability to back up their claims, instead of sidestepping, tapdancing, obfuscating, backpedaling, misdirecting, etc.

Reminds of pot and kettle thing right there