Is it possible to create a static Dropdown/Choice without pulling data from the database?
What do you mean?
Then how would you know which choices are available for that choice component?
In other systems such as Bubble.io etc… you can have static choices which is just text then through a workflow or other mechanism (submit button) you would add it to the database and you could have dynamic choices as well where you would get it from the database like in glide.
As a brand new user one of the things that was throwing me off is having to have data in the database to relate to other tables and having matches, which is confusing to me but just realized I can have a placeholder or dummy column and add the values there to be able to relate things which is eye opening 
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Its a learning curve and being new I may ask some dumb questions along the way and the feedback here has been amazing and Im very thankful for that!
Don’t worry about asking questions. Usually for static list of choices that I don’t use for any other purposes, I have a Choices table setup for that, and put all my choice lists in there as separate columns.