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Years into this nonsense and you still can't figure out that raw numbers are entirely irrelevant. Again, to illustrate how flawed your "math" is, a higher number of people have died in car crashes every single year since seat belts became mandatory. Every year, more people dead. Using the same head-up-the-ass thinking, you would have to conclude that seat belts don't save lives. You have the goddamn internet. You don't have to fumble around wondering how to calculate the effectiveness of an intervention. Yet still you persist.

It's not rational. Not remotely. As populations approach 100% participation OF COURSE any negative outcome will be primarily among those who have engaged in any mitigating activity. Has been explained at least 50 times now, but saying that x% of deaths were among the vaccinated is wholly irrelevant. To measure the efficacy of an intervention you must compare the outcomes of those with intervention and those without on an incident basis. If you want to know if vaccines are effective, you compare the outcomes of those who contracted COVID while vaccinated to those who contracted COVID without being vaccinated. It's not hard to understand, and the difference in outcomes is stark. The unvaccinated were many times more likely to be hospitalized and many times more likely to die. This is true in every study, in every population. If there is a god guiding Trump, it's clearly one who is very bad at economics.

Whoever she is, looks like she and Trump seem to have the same sense of "humor."

That is a really fascinating victimhood spin on economic colonialism.

Yes, as an exact replica of WCM's vaccine criticism, it is indeed a very thin argument and does not reflect rational thought. Good job catching on. Maybe satire is your mode of learning?

Conservatives fought tooth and nail to the bitter end against ending: Segregated housing Segregated schools Segregated public facilities Jim Crow Laws Redlining Racial Purity Laws (Anti-Miscegenation Laws) Women's Suffrage Gender-Based Employment Discrimination Criminalization of Homosexuality Discrimination in Marriage (Same-Sex Marriage Ban) LGBTQ+ Employment Discrimination: Transgender Rights Decades later you dumb-fark conservatives are pretending that, "Liberals are the ones trying to divide people, hyuk." News flash, it's just you and your brethren who feel "divided." Whenever some marginalized out group who has been exclude from the power structure makes an inch of progress you feel the erosion of your unearned privilege. You feel that it's you versus them. That feeling of division is yours alone. Everyone else just wants a level playing field.

The vaccines definitely helped--and tremendously so. Your math tutor, not so much. 99% of Canadians who died in car accidents last year were in cars with airbags. Guess in your world airbags don't help.

North Korea is doing great!

You mean the bill that Kennedy sent to Congress and LBJ whipped through? Meanwhile, Strom Thurmond and the hardcore racist Dixiecrats had to find a new, more comfortable home in the Republican party. Which brings us to today, with white supremacists dining with the President and Harriet Tubman being scrubbed from the underground railroad site.

You are one delusional old biatch. I guess whatever fantasies help you get through the twilight years. And that SCOTUS ruling is another embarrassment--unsigned by the majority cowards--but it's still not as sweeping as you imagine. In fact, it implicitly confirms that these deportations are subject to judicial review, even if the cases must be filed individually in Texas.

Ah, so a hard pass from you on evidence to support your claims. As predicted, just parroting random crap you watched on YouTube.

Citation from any reputable source? No? So you're just repeating playground rumors like the kiddies? Sad regression for an old impotent barnacle.

Yep, boring Joe Biden who oversaw the best pandemic recovery in the G7 and handed trump back a robust economy. Boring, sleepy Joe, who shaped policy like a rational adult instead of destroying global markets with toddler tantrums and 2AM toilet tweets. You can bet those aging MAGA faithful who were in retirement and looking to retire are not going to be happy about extending or rebooting their careers through a likely recession. But hey, they can all go pick fruit once Trump has destroyed the agricultural labor pool. Other jobs will be hard to keep and hard to get.

The word is "drivel" you halfwit. And yes, the dismantling of democracy. The intended disempowerment of the judicial branch to a state where laws can no longer protect the people from the whims of a dictator. In a nation of laws, you appeal an unfavorable decision. In a budding dictatorship, you attack the judge personally, you call the judge biased, you call the judge corrupt, you attack the judge's authority to adjudicate the matter, you attack the judicial branches authority to adjudicate the matter and ultimately you refuse to abide by decisions no matter what level of court has rendered the decision. The fall of a nation of laws in a few easy steps. And that's what you're blindly cheering on, without knowing anything whatsoever about any of the judges in question. You cheer it just because your master said it.

@gatomontes99 I don't blame or judge you for ignorance (everyone has gaps in knowledge) but I certainly do blame you for for combining ignorance with being a smug, arrogant douche. And now also for being a gutless weasel. Since you don't have the integrity to admit that you were mistaken, rude and arrogant while being ass backward--I'll do your Google University homework for you. For the folks playing along at home: This is you "Diamonds have a very low price elasticity. Increased prices result in severe drops in demand because a diamond is not necessary." This is reality CFI The lower the price elasticity of demand, the less responsive the quantity demanded is given a change in price. When the price elasticity of demand is less than one, the good is considered to show inelastic demand. When the quantity demanded does not respond to a change in price, it is said that demand is perfectly inelastic. If an inelastic good has its price increased, it will lead to increased revenues because each unit will be sold at a higher price. This is reality - Investopedia "Usually, unique goods, such as diamonds, are inelastic because they have few if any substitutes."

Sure, we all know that despite his age, Biden was a top tier drone pilot. 🙄

There's no "unmasking" you weirdo. He's just a regular judge trying to administer the law. This is the executive trying to eliminate any check on his power by attacking the co-equal judicial branch. To end the rule of law and replace it with rule by executive fiat. Trump has done this consistently with the judiciary--and the media, for that matter. Every judge that inconveniences him is smeared and attacked and threatened to discourage the next one. The "dismantling" you're cheering about is the dismantling of democracy.

As predicted, you are not up to the challenge. Slink away!

I have a degree in economics, dummy. That's why it takes about a half second to recognize that you have no farking clue what you're taking about. This is you: "Diamonds have a very low price elasticity. Increased prices result in severe drops in demand because a diamond is not necessary." You literally have the definition of price elasticity backward. You googled it, but you didn't understand it. And even a basic course someone would have taught you about the Veblen effect, where paradoxically price increases to luxury goods can even increase demand. Diamonds are a classic example of an inelastic luxury. You Google some nonsense and then pop into this forum strutting around telling people to take a course while you are farking drowning while everyone watches. A Dunning Krueger case study right before our eyes. Tell you what. Why don't you re-enroll in Google University and go search up 1. The definition of price elasticity, and 2. The price elasticity of diamonds. Then come back here and post them in the thread. I expect we'll all see again that you're not man enough to own your mistakes, but will instead tuck your tail between your legs and slink off.

Why is China about to become the world's #1 economy? Because Trump is actively destroying the current #1.

Tell us without telling us? You just did! Lol A. You have it backward. Low price elasticity (as you described Diamonds) means that demand is not very responsive to changes in price. B. Diamonds and eggs are both famously inelastic. Again, meaning that demand stays relatively consistent even as prices increase--but obviously for very different reasons. You should probably request a refund from Google University. Meanwhile, cost, price and price elasticity are all different things. Don't conflate them. If costs go up, prices will go up not necessarily linearly, but with big tariffs on consumer goods it's both obvious and significant. The degree to which demand is affected or not affected by changes in price is the elasticity. -- Low elasticity doesn't mean the prices haven't gone up, it just means people are still paying the higher price. And high elasticity doesn't mean that prices don't go up, it just means potential consumers fall out of the market more quickly. High elasticity and falling demand can restrain cost-driven price increases by shifting pressure to margins instead of price, but even that flexibility is limited to the size of the margins. If the seller has to raise the price of blenders to remain profitable in the face of increased costs, the consumer can indeed choose not to pay the higher price. Demand goes down, creating downward pressure on price, but only within margins. Sellers can't sustainably sell below cost. The consumer who can't bear or chooses not to bear the increased prices and falls out of the market is also worse off, being denied the utility of the blender. Even though they didn't pay the higher price in dollars they indeed "pay the price" for artificial cost increases.

You certainly do buy a lot of bullshit. Raising the cost to import goods may or may not make the cost to consumers go up? Jeebus. That was a huge mystery.

Because if something challenging happens while a president is in office, he gets a Mulligan! Trump plays president with a very high handicap, you know, because he's not prepared for a tough hole. Only easy holes. He loves easy holes. When you're a celebrity you can do whatever you want.

It's not that the policies are demonstrably better, as supported by evidence. It's just that they've been getting lucky, consistently, for the last 45 years.🙄 They will shut out this information immediately. No room for it in their religion.

What's happening to people like @gatomontes99 right now is rather sad. Campaign: Trump's policies as described and their effects described sound great! In office: Trump's policies weren't as described and the the effects are the opposite of what was promised, still great! Because they have no grounding in reality. It's simple cultish devotion. Like the notion of papal infallibility, no matter what kind of mess is being made or the harm being done, if Trump did it, it's right. Hail Melania, full of grace. Don't look at the news, don't listen to all those economists (heretics!) and whatever you do, don't look at your 401K. Just have faith. He moves in mysterious ways.