Trump wants to bring down drug prices by 1000% which is mathematically impossible

What's worse is that MAGA niggers in the comments are trying to defend it in the most mathematically illiterate way possible

Why are Trump niggers this fucking stupid?

https://x.com/avidseries/status/1951634654143885735

>>512075973 (OP)
So I'll get paid 9x what the drug used to cost?

>>512075973 (OP)
Kek

Not just 1000% but even 1500% in some cases. This on top of eggs, where he already lowered the prices 400%. These are great numbers, very big numbers, some people are saying the greatest numbers ever. Once Canada becomes a state you are going to see the price of maple syrup and cedar lumber plummet by 500%, 600%. People are going to save money, bigly. Why are you being such a whiny nitpicky little bitch? Just let it wash over you, and enjoy the vibe.

>>512075973 (OP)
it's his usual retarded stream of consciousness, but is perfectly intelligible to mean reversing the multiplication of previous drug prices by 1000%

>>512075973 (OP)
Make a dimebag a dime again!

>>512078609
resurrect Dimebag? based!

>>512075973 (OP)
These retards all know what he means, and it makes them seem stupid to pretend otherwise as some gay gotcha

>>512075973 (OP)
Wasn't Kamala's policy to also bring down drug prices too? She even got called a commie for it, so what's Trumps plan on lowering prices without being a commie?

wait, the companies are going to be paying me to use drugs? sounds based

>>512075973 (OP)
>not just free drugs, but getting paid to take drugs
most based man on the planet, trump 2028

>>512079425
Yeah that too!

Can come down 100 times even 1000 times or 1500 times even if it's just costs one dollar.
>He said percentage

Why does he want to drug everyone? Is it to stop the noticing?

>>512075973 (OP)
But will poor people be able to molest children with the same leniency as the rich people who raped children with Jeffrey Epstein?

>>512075973 (OP)
He means markup and margin, which can go below 100%. He is not saying you get paid to take drugs. How dumb are democrats?

>>512076150
I have to take a medicine that is 70k every 6 months. I’m going to rich if I get paid a 1000% markup

>>512082814
Nope I want my 1.4 million dollars a year in going to hold him to that

>>512075973 (OP)
reddit spacing is the mark of the russian kike shill

Anything except epstein files

Just like he wanted to cap credit card interest rates, right?

>>512075973 (OP)
Yes it is possible

If something is 500 dollars, one thousand times less would be 50 dollars


>wtf I love big pharma now

leftists literally have no core values

>>512083313
Leave Korea, Sgt Gomez.

Gtfo

Sick people are a burden. Let them pay or die. No free rides.

>>512075973 (OP)
Insulin prices should increase 1000% let the fat fucks die. Antidepressants to, faggots.

This thread is showing the absolutely abyssal levels of burger education
>>512083603
>times
>percentage
That other retard burger even tried to argue about this difference but he is a migger retard trying to use this as an argument for trump.
He, like (you), don't know how math even work.
Just to make it clear for (you) retard, a discount from 500 to 50 is a 90% DISCOUNT, 90% LESS or you pay ONLY 10% OF THE ORIGINAL PRICE. Not 1000% nor 1000 times.
retard miggers...

>>512075973 (OP)
I don’t care about boomer’s diabetes medication price.

>>512075973 (OP)
>a price of a good cannot go down by more than 100%
say you're looking at data that begins with the price of eggs in like 1950, and they're $0.01 per egg
let's say one egg is $1 today (they're not, bear with me)
that's a 9990% increase in price

now, you're probably seeing where i'm going with this.
however, go fuck yourself, because making it to the level of a 8990% increase instead of a 9990% increase is in some sense (though admittedly not a conventional one) a deduction of 1000% in this scenario (though not a 1000% deduction)
>nooooo percentage decreases are capped at 100%!
small brained, no creative spark, no imago dei, sad.

Nuh uh stoopid
Tsla is up 23k percent faggot. He can drop the price by thousands of percents. Why are you sucking pharamaphalics ?

>>512075973 (OP)
If only he were in a position to do something instead of just talk about it

>>512083938

division is the inverse of multiplication

retard pharma shill

leftists have literally no core values

keep sucking pharma dick meme flag faggot

>>512084402
There is no pharma shilling, you just don't understand how math works

>>512084567
yes, I do

you just have TDS and are sucking pharma dick because you have to feign outrage at literally anything Trump says or does

a number can go up over 100%
a number can go down over 100%

retard faggot

>>512084698
Trump socialism good.

>>512075973 (OP)
Fucking leaf, who the fuck gives a shit what you say. Would rather read A.I. shit than your crapulence.

>>512075973 (OP)
Make EVERYTHING pharmaceutical companies sell "schedule 4".

>>512075973 (OP)
>which is mathematically impossible

How to solve
To solve this, convert the percentage increase to a decimal and then multiply it by the original value, finally adding this to the original value.

>reddit spacing retard trying to argue how trumo retard math is actually real math
Fucking kek
You can't divide or subtract below the value of a non abstract number. But fair enough, your monopoly money dollars are abstract in value anyways.
Still, you can't divide or subtract from a reference value over the 100% mark because it uses the reference value for fucking reference to begin with.
You can literally go infinitely without reaching the 100%, you can go all the way to 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% and beyond if you want.
It's like trying to divide by fucking 0 and trying going even beyond
Fucking hell, these retards are going to blackhole their brains by trying to argue how this bullshit is actual math.
Orange nigger could have just said that he would reduce prices by 90% and everybody would have clapped, but 1000 is bigger than 90 so he, like the retard he is, chose the bigger number.
Now everybody with over 5 neurons laughs.

>>512084771
wtf I love big pharma now

leftists have no core values

>>512085026
Biden socialism bad.

>>512084983
>Make EVERYTHING pharmaceutical companies sell "schedule 4".
>>512084983
Do something insane to them.

>>512075973 (OP)
Calm down ramdeep

>>512084698
Ok so let's do something simple. Here's a number, 10. Decrease 10 by 150% without going into the negatives. In this thread I haven't said shit about trump or pharma just that you don't know math

>>512085016
a number can go up over 100%
a number can go down over 100%

you're twisting into pretzels going to bat for big pharma because you have act outraged over literally anything Trump says or does

>>512085136
>Here's a number, 10. Decrease 10 by 150% without going into the negatives.

0.0666666667

retard
leftists have literally no actual values
you are all braindead scum

>>512085152
Hint: They yell and scream like an insane stalker ex-girlfriend.

>>512079641
>so what's Trumps plan on lowering prices without being a commie?

Trump has no core beliefs, other than, "I want some pussy and a cheeseburger." From day to day, he goes from aligning with Milton Friedman, who I'm sure he never heard of, to aligning with Bernie Sanders, as here.

>>512085136
These niggers don't know what abstract numbers are and why negatives don't apply to non abstract numbers.
The same retard is still trying to argue the same shit without understanding how going below 0 for a real number is impossible.
Literally blackholing math to claim the orange nigger is not a retard.

>>512085227
So, I know what you're doing and not only is your decimal placed incorrectly, let's stop back. Using that same method, what is 10 decreased by 100%?

>>512075973 (OP)
>MAGA niggers in the comments are trying to defend it in the most mathematically illiterate way possible
I have to see this XD

>>512085410
You can look in this very thread

It makes sense because the price of drugs is massively inflated. People in America pay 1000% markups.

>>512075973 (OP)
yeah! ingest more big pharma! MAGA!

>big pharma is going to have to pay citizens an America dividend for all the profit theyve sucked up over the years.

>>512085549
>doesn't know 4th grade math

>>512085227
How do (you) not realize what you said is literally subtracting 99.96% of 10 and that (you) are literally going through so many hoops just to be wrong because you are literally using the math to make a 99.96% subtraction.

>>512085383
>ot only is your decimal placed incorrectly

no its not

10 divided by 150

you blundered in, made a retarded post because you have to literally feign outrage over literally anything Trump says or does, and were completely wrong

now you're trying to twist into pretzels instead of just taking the L like the retard you are

a number can go up over 100%
a number can go down over 100%

your talking point is wrong and you're clinging to it because you can only oppose Trump no matter what

Do you think drug prices should go down?

>>512083938
>Just to make it clear for (you) retard

Give up. Don't try. I taught math at a supposedly elite American high school. The best students were truly world-class. Everyone else was too fucking stupid to shake the piss droplets from his own dick without help. Half of my students are probably on here right now, explaining why a 1000% discount makes sense. You cannot teach these people.

>>512075973 (OP)
>>512076150
>>512076827
>>512076953
>Drug x costs $100 per dose
>Bring drug price down 100%
>Drug x now costs $0
>Bring drug x price down 1000%
>Drug x now costs -$900
>Pfizer now pays you $900 for drug x
There are actually people who disagree with this?

>>512085643
its division not subtraction retard

should drug prices be lower?

>>512083083
Wtf what medicine? Your going to be loaded.

Big Pharma kikes should be paying people to take their medications because half of them are probably for effects caused by Big Pharmas childhood vaccines

>>512085650
You don't divide a number by the percentage it's being decreased by, are you fucking retarded? So you would say 10 decreased by 100% is .1? Actual retard status.

Yes, drug prices should go down, pharma is a cartel, Trump is playing a role like all politicians and is retarded and so are you

>>512085818
>Duh jooz
>Duh pharma jooz

Drug companies should be paying us. That's what he means.

>>512085825
>So you would say 10 decreased by 100% is .1

ten divided by 100 is .1
you're starting to understand


you're a retarded leftist who jumped onto a retarded talking point without thinking it through and now you can't back down because leftists have literally no core values

this is a glimpse into the reason why leftists destroy every society they take root in

>>512085920
Socialism when Trump do it good.
Because whites benefit!
>brraaaaaaaaaaaap

>>512083683
this niggas gf froze to death outside Leningrad lol talkin bout other countries leavin
SHEEESH

>>512081386
>>512075973 (OP)
It's basically for boomers. It's literally been proven that 80% of all prescription drugs are going to that age group. You should see the amount of pill bottles and needles my boomer grandparents bring with them to visit family. Then it's always an issue when they're staying with someone because they have to get boxes of medicine and shit delivered to a different address. They refuse to make a difference in their diet or physical activity. They just want to sit around all day and pop pills and watch Fox News

>>512084191
>now, you're probably seeing where i'm going with this

Percentages are elementary math, probably taught around the 7th or 8th grade. One purpose of math at this low level is to eliminate any need to guess what another person intends. If I say I bought this toaster oven for $20 and you can have it for 10% off, there should not be any guesswork or "creativity" in figuring out what the price is. Trump ( I voted for him BTW) is the most profoundly ignorant President we have ever had, He has knocked GW Bush off a pedestal that I thought he would occupy for all time. It is astonishing that a businessman would not understand 1) percentages, and 2) the need to communicate clearly. But here we are. And people on here and elsewhere are tying themselves in knots trying to explain why he's really not a dumbass.

>>512085767
ocrevus

>>512075973 (OP)
It can very easily, a 1200% reduction merely means that you are paid to pick up your prescription, it is not something that is unreasonable or impossible. This massive (((pharma))) companies could stand to pay back their blood money that they have killed for.

This means that Israel gets 1000% more percent for drugs and Trump gets 1000% more kiddies.

>>512085152
>a number can go down over 100%

Yes, but if a PRICE goes down more than 100%, the seller is paying the buyer. Which is clearly not what Trump meant to say...if it is possible to assign "meaning" to anything he says.

But hey, MAYBE IT'S 5D CHESS!!!

Absolutely abysmal...
>>512085726
>It's a division not a subtraction
>a division is actually just subtraction as a multiplication is just an addition
A division is literally subtracting a value repeatedly from another value until you reach ZERO
A division with a reference value, a DIVISOR, is just a subtraction of a value by a set number of times.
>you have 10 apples
>how many apples you can give to 5 people

>>512086116
a number can go up or down by over 100%
a 1000% decrease is not 'mathematically impossible'

you're a retard who jumped onto a retarded talking point and can't let it go

just take the L retard

>>512086269
Rightoids can't do math.

>>512085656
Honestly, kids would get this faster.
Even the special needs kids would...

>>512086317
Like how this is going to make your monie percent go down to Israel.

>>512083603
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HOLY FUCKING SHIT ARE MIGATARDS STUPID

>>512085990
Yes, that's how division works, not percentages. You're able to string together words semi-coherently so I have to assume you're just attention starved instead of being so retarded. Even elementary school children can understand that 100% of 10 is 10 and therefore if you decrease 10 by 100% (or any fucking number, 2000 doesn't become 20) it's 0

>>512086268
no that is not what that means retard

it means the price is 1000 times less than what it was previously

a number can be 1000 times higher or lower


you jumped onto a retarded talking point, were wrong, and should let it go. but you won't, because you're a retard who the tv has told is smart

>>512086459
0 for you 1000 for the jew

>>512086494
You can't even follow along because it says % and not times so you're the retard. Bazinga

oh yeah let's bring down prices on cancer J&J's anus is ready

>>512086459
that is how adding and subtracting percentages works retard

you're trying to do mental gymnastics after being proven wrong

a number can increase more than 100 percent
a number can decrease more than 100 percent

>>512086650
Everyone gets cancer 1000%

>>512086661
How cheap is trump going to make the fent? I saw they already got it down to a .25 dose on the streetz

>>512075973 (OP)
Sweet, weed has gotten too damn expensive

>>512075973 (OP)
Try linking to him actually saying it, next time, rather than your echo chamber.

When Trump let the Jews do COVID and then pay the Jews for COVID vaccine and pay the Jews to kill Gramma that was 1000%. You guys just don't understand Trump because you're not business man

>>512075973 (OP)
>daddy trump wants to pay me to inject psychiatric drugs
Omg I need a starbucks like RIGHT now!

>>512086948
People don't want to get on the lists the radical leftists are making of the pedos like Trump so sharing his silly clips is a bad idea now because it's kinda profiling as something a pedo does.

>>512086661
You accuse others of being leftists but you are the one who is trying to redefine math. Enjoy being retarded due to your sycophancy (or maybe you thought this before now in which case it's just innate)

>>512084191
I want to know if he even said it, or if this is fake news or clipped out of context like the "fine people on both sides" hoax.

>>512087059
Closeted trump cock enthusiasts will all be put into the new insane asylums

>>512086948
C'mon man, do you doubt Trump said this? It's what he does and lefties still don't realize that by them focusing on a foible they amplify his message, we've had 10 years of this by now and they still take the b8 every time
>Trump said he's going to lower drug prices 900% when that's mathematically impossible, he meant 90%, what a retard
Normies:
>Trump wants to lower drug prices 90%, cool!

>>512087059
Logicn't

>>512087129
the OP image claimed a number can't go down more than 100%

this isn't true and has been shown multiple times in this thread

but you all can't let go of the talking point because you can only feign outrage as a means of trying to create a false group consensus

number can go up more than 100%
numbers can go down more than 100%

not impossible

>>512075973 (OP)
holy shit i knew he was utterly incompetent but not that incompetent

>>512087182
>C'mon man
Joe, that you?
>C'mon man, do you doubt Trump said this?
I already gave an example of them clipping his words out of context, and they make shit up all the time.
>rest of the comment
Covfefe
Yeah, they're like fucking chihuahuas or some shit.

>>512087164
retards are not put in insane asylums anymore.
Too many of them and not insane asylums available.
Still, lobotomy for the retards should be the norm though.

>>512087428
Trump's making homeless alcatrazes now so don't be too sure. I bet he lets Jews test out shit on them.

>>512087182
>>512087387
See, "Homeless Alcatrazes" -> >>512087539

>>512087539
Fair enough
Still, this would be on par with the level of logistics required gas 6 million jews with how many absolute retards are that actually believe and defend the orange nigger stupidity.

>>512075973 (OP)
Trump is just being cute with numbers.

pill costs $0.05 to produce
current sell price is $1.05
that's a 2000% increase

Suppose that Trump says "2000% is too much" and forces a price cap at 800% of the cost. He can now say that he reduced the price by 1200 percent (of the cost)).

He phrased it in a completely retarded way but i think his point is that burgers pay 3000% mark-up on cost price so let's make it less

>>512087978
I'm sure glad a corporate republican is going to fix drug prices.

>>512088018
Yeah, seems unlikely, but who knows

>>512075973 (OP)
This is more than proof that Trump is a way below average IQ retard. As though his recent childish gas lighting hasn't been evidence of that.

>>512087878
Here's a quote from a 2020 press conference when he was apparently doing the same thing:

>So we are doing something that nobody thought anybody would do. The savings is going to be incredible. Then they’ve jacked up the prices by as much as 1,000 to 5,000 percent on this product. This program has also caused shortages of important medicines.

Today, I am announcing that we are ending the Unapproved Drugs Initiative program to put a stop to this unfair practice. So prices are lifted by 1,000 percent to 5,000 percent. In one or two cases, even more than that. And we’re ending this. We are putting an end to it.

>https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-delivering-lower-prescription-drug-prices-americans/

>>512075973 (OP)
Its 4D chess to make the media tell the truth again. Drug companies all the time will literally raise the price on a drug by 1000% They love doing it. Then later saying they'll drop it by 50%

It still costs 500% of what it used to and people pat them on the back for it. So he's playing their game

>>512075973 (OP)
Since leftists are bad at business they don't understand he's referring to big pharmas profit margins. But now leftists have to push for higher drug prices because orange man bad.

>>512088018

yeah that same guy who is deporting the cheap labor, enacting tariffs, and issued an EO in his first term cutting drug costs

you all cry about corporations and rich people but your sacred cows of policy only enrich both of them

leftists have no actual core values

from

>that is mathematically impossible, numbers can't decrease more than 100%

to

>generic republican vs democrat branding rhetoric

>>512087878
>Suppose that Trump says "2000% is too much" and forces a price cap at 800% of the cost. He can now say that he reduced the price by 1200 percent (of the cost)).
No dipshit that's not how math works.
800 of 2000 is 40%.
So you would say you reduced the price by 40%. Idiot.

>>512088382
>that's not how math works.
it is though.
the math operation being done in your quote was 2000 - 800, and the answer was 1200.
stooooooopid

>>512089135
>the math operation being done in your quote was 2000 - 800, and the answer was 1200.
That's not how percentages work dummy.
800 of 2000 is 40%.

>>512088382
I spoon-fed it to you and you just drooled it out all over your shirt. Let's try again.

pill costs $0.05 to produce
current sell price is $1.05
that's a 2000% increase
say Trump forces a cap at 800% increase
800% of $0.05 is $0.40
so new sell price is $0.45
so Trump saved you $1.05 - $0.45 = $0.60
and $0.60 is 1200% of $0.50

>>512089213
Yea whatever that gibberish is.
And $.60 is not 1200% of $.50.
Gas lighting stops now kikes.

Bruh

Free weed

>>512075973 (OP)
Hey, it's that Jewish child rapist.

>>512089348
Fuck. The last line should read:

and $0.60 is 1200% of $0.05 (the cost)

Oh God, another one...
So let me explain for the special needs kids in the classroom.
>original price is 1 shekel (reference)
>price is increased by 100% over normal price (reference)
>price is now 2 shekels. THIS IS THE NORMAL PRICE NOW. THE NEW REFERENCE
>lower price by 50% of THE NEW REFERENCE
>price is now 1 shekel again. THIS IS THE NORMAL PRICE NOW. THE NEW REFERENCE THE 50% WAS SUBTRACTED FROM
Percentages are always on REFERENCE
Also
>price is 2 shekels (REFERENCE)
>it drops to 5 cents
>price drop is 97.5% of REFERENCE
ITS ALWAYS THE REFERENCE
literally mental blackhole gymnastic to try to justify the presidential stupidity.

>>512089662
I wish insurance would cover weed

>>512089199
>800 of 2000 is 40%.
irrelevant, the operation being done was 2000-800, it doesn't matter if they're percentages, or rocks, or infinties, the answer is 1200

ultimately!
the people on the over 100% cap reduction thing are not expressing a standard conventional way of talking about numbers, but it is a possible sensical way, which shits on the notion in OP's pic that "a price of a good cannot go down by more than 100%"
is it pedantic? yes.
is there mental gymnastics involved? yes.
is it still technically true though? yes.

>>512075973 (OP)

>bring down drug prices by 1000%

hell yeah

>>512089213
pill costs $0.05 to produce
current sell price is $1.05
that's a 2000% increase
say Trump forces a cap at 800% increase
800% of $0.05 is $0.40
so new sell price is $0.45
so Trump saved you $1.05 - $0.45 = $0.60
and $0.60 is 1200% of $0.05

Are these niggers bots now or they are following a script?

Translated example:
>actual drug costs $0.50, is marked up to $500 (1000%)
>drug cost comes down 1000%
>its back to $0.50
ftfy

>>512083938
Croatian education at its finest!

>croatian
Holy crap, even when trying to insult these niggers are showing the abyss of knowledge they carry.

>>512075973 (OP)
bring up*

>>512075973 (OP)
they want to kill you. silly goyims.

>>512075973 (OP)
Registered Democrat and known child molestor President Donald Trump says a lot of shit but does very little.

He just can’t shut the fuck up. I’ll bet he was yapping about shit nobody cares about at those kids he fucked the whole time.

>>512075973 (OP)
Why do they always do this? There are hundreds of legitimate reasons to despise Trump and libshits always give his cult followers ammo by latching on to stupid shit like this that doesn't matter.

>>512091996
Holy raptor jesus fuck

This lil nig is OBSESSED with riding trumps cock

>>512075973 (OP)
Bob wants to fill his prescription the drug normally costs $2,000 but Trump reduced the price to $1 what percentage did Bob save?

>>512075973 (OP)
will he make meth affordable again?

>>512076150
>>512075973 (OP)
if advil cost 50 cents in Mogadishu. but i costs 20 bucks in USA it that is 3900% markup.

>>512075973 (OP)
>drug prices are inflated 1500%
>reduce that by 1000%
>drugs only marked up by 500%
8 years of this and you fags still don't understand his verbal shorthand.

>>512075973 (OP)
>>512076827

>drug costs 5$ to make
>drug is sold for 5000$
>trump wants to bring the price down by 1000%
>stupid illiterate goy that doesnt understand how business works takes the president's statement literally and now thinks he's the smartest ape in the room because theres no way to bring something down by thousands of percents oey gevalt its just impossible goy theres no way

thank you common core, thank you doe for creating retards like this.

>>512075973 (OP)
Retarded faggot
DAILY REMINDER: Shkreli did nothing wrong

>>512086661
Holy fuck you're either trolling or Americans really are just that retarded.

>>512075973 (OP)
You know what he meant pajeet. Get back in your hole.

>>512075973 (OP)
They should pay you to try their drugs

AI Overview
A 1000% decrease implies the quantity becoming zero and then going into negative territory. It's not a standard percentage decrease, as percentages typically represent a proportion of a whole. A 100% decrease means something is reduced to nothing, and 1000% decrease goes beyond that, indicating a reversal or a negative value.

Here's why it's unusual and how to think about it:

If something decreases by 1000%, it not only goes to zero but then continues into negative territory. This isn't a standard decrease in the sense of a reduction. It implies a change in direction, potentially representing a "negative quantity" or a reversal of the original value.


Examples of how to interpret a 1000% decrease (with context):

Financial loss:
If an investment loses 1000% of its value, it means it not only lost all its initial value but also incurred a debt of nine times the original investment. This is essentially a collapse and subsequent reverse investment.
Negative growth:
A 1000% decrease in population growth rate might mean the population is shrinking so rapidly that it not only reaches zero but starts to decline substantially.

In essence, a 1000% decrease is a metaphor for an extreme and often counterintuitive negative change, where the original value is not only eliminated but reversed.

>>512085285
Trump is a chronic liar and bullshitter who says whatever sounds great in the moment. He talks like he is always trying to sell you something as well.