Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 27, 2024

Glad that Sergio let Gracie make that mistake on her own- it will stick better than if he had tried to dissuade her from the beginning.

Gracie you read your market ask them questions and they will tell you what they want.

tonto

Has she thought of selling Bibles to the tontos!?

She trying to channel government thinking into her business model.

Gracie isn’t wrong, to judge by most TV ads.

No it’s only the successful ones

I just learned last week that tonto meant stupid people. Did the Lone Ranger know that?

The perceived value of the value added, varies.

I’ve been kinda critical of Gracie in the past, but I’ve come to see that she really is a true smartypants.

When you look at all of the cheap plastic junk advertised you know she’s not wrong. She just needs to find the right strategy.

“Tontos” means dopes? This just ruined The Lone Ranger for me. I liked Jay Silverheels, why would he disrespect his companion like that.

She’s not wrong, but she’s not right either.

Hopefully she learned she is not very skillful at manipulating people…

Gracie: What lesson am I supposed to learn, Papi? Sergio:That you are a terrible, evil person. Gracie.Gracie: I just wanted to take advantage of fools and make easy moola.Sergio: You are also very, very short.Gracie: I mean, I make fun of Baldo and Cruz all the time.Sergio: I’m ashamed to have you as my daughter.Gracie: I mean duh, I’m smarter than everyone.Sergio: Baldo is my favorite.Gracie: I’m a cute little girl and everyone must do what I say.Sergio: You are an embarrassment to the family, and must be hidden away from society.

In short – and I mean short – an evil child.

Close. They assume we are idiots, but they also don’t give us a choice. A small fraction of wealth control the choices left to the rest of us, so no matter what you pick, your money funnels up to them. And if they decide that a box of cereal is now $9 when it used to be $0.99, you’ll just have to pay it.

The Final Jeopardy question from a few days ago was:

This name of a National Forest means “fool” & may be one Apache group’s name for another group; it’s also a problematic TV character

I knew right away because I’d heard the bit about “tonto” meaning “idiot” or something like that.

tonto was naturally one of the few words and phrases in español my wife picked up from her learning english as a second language classmates in the states… ☺

She’s nearly right…