A black father of 5 is going viral for....wait for it....his COMMON SENSE parenting approach in response to the delusional clip of the Karmelo Anthony supporter asking, "what do I tell my 5 boys?!"
"I also have 5 boys...I'm gonna try something: when you go to school, DON'T STAB ANY OTHER KIDS. You think you guys can do that?"
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.
It's not the things that happen to us, it's how we react.
Karmelo Anthony chose to respond with violence and take Austin's life. His awful decision has left Austin's family gutted.
And now he's going to have at least 17 years of a 35 year sentence to think about that. He's lucky he wasn't and adult when it happened...the verdict what have been Death.
Just passed 6 liquor stores, 7 fast food restaurants and 4 vape shops on my way to pick up my illegal raw milk. Because the government “cares” about my health.
“Nearly 900 lives have been saved at Tampa General Hospital in Florida in the four years since it introduced the “game-changing” Sepsis Hub system, developed in partnership with Palantir.”
Johnny Georges refused to raise his prices on Shark Tank and it's exactly why he got the deal.
Johnny came on the show asking for $150,000 for 20% of Tree-T-Pee, a product he sells to farmers for their trees.
The Sharks zeroed in on his pricing right away. He sells each unit for just $5.
"Why only $5? Why not charge 10 or 12 or 15?"
Johnny's answer told you everything about who he is:
"Because I'm working with farmers and they're not buying one. They're buying 20,000."
He makes just a dollar on each one. Pushed again on why he wouldn't charge $7, his reasoning was disarmingly simple:
"Well, I've never done that. I've always tried to be right."
One Shark tried to walk him through the brutal math of scaling. As a distributor, the margins just didn't work:
"I can't get involved with you because there's not enough margin for me as a distributor. I need to be able to sell it for $12 at least so that I can make some profit and you can make some profit… now there's two of us, two mouths to feed."
Johnny pushed back: "Yeah, but you're selling to farmers."
The Shark saw the trap clearly. Johnny believed every tree that goes in the ground should have a Tree-T-Pee but he couldn't be everywhere at once:
"In order for that to happen, I'd need a lot of Johnnies. There's only one of you. I need like 2,000 Johnnies calling on farmers all across the land. Now, who's going to pay them?"*
He went out.
But what looked like a fatal flaw to one Shark looked like integrity to another. JP saw something worth backing:
"Farmers are the cornerstone of America. There may be a lot of farmers out there that can't afford $12 per tree, but maybe they could afford $6 or $7. I'm going to give you everything you're asking for. Your $150,000 for 20%. What you're doing is right, and you deserve the chance to make it big and do a lot of good."
The deal closed on a handshake and a "God bless America."
The same conviction that made Johnny look uninvestable to one Shark made him irresistible to another. He wasn't optimising for margin, he was optimising for farmers. And staying true to that mission didn't cost him the deal. It got him one.