Look at Tesle any company that deals with Trump is not a product the world will want to buy. Is US products become tok expensive other cheaper companies will take their palce. Apple is largely a fad. Fads go away.
This maybe the last hurdle that this GOP administration will take before its fall. Billionaires rarely take kindly to grifters after a piece of the pie. Maybe a tax without strings attached would be better.
The only leverage we have when the rich and powerful are fighting against each other is to remind them that they need us a lot more than we need them
We should be crashing the economy ourselves by not showing up to work, all at once.
Why pay taxes for services that are being gutted?
Break the system
If you’re going to tariff him because he’s not willing to pursue your ridiculous ideas, maybe you should give back all the money he donated to your campaign.
The Orange Orangutan's done it again. Calling out a CEO, by name, and telling him how to run his company or he (not congress as the constitution normally requires) will impose a excessively high tariff is still another of his power affirmation moves.
Truth? Sleeps with the fishes. Hitmen? How about 1500 freed insurrectionists! Disloyalty? You take a trip… under the bus. His message? An offer you can’t refuse- even if it's a lie.
Musk may have more money, but Don? He owns the attention racket!
Oh we are *very far past* simple Fascism at this point - this is something new and interesting that we are going to fucking have to survive.
This is the confluence between Religious Zealots and the ignorant Dunning-Kruger MBAs that think they're god's unique gift to "running things 'round here"
the brownshirts and attempted coup and violation of human rights and theocratic crackdown on truth and academia and the targeting of minorities wasn't fascist, but being mean to a megacorporation is fascist. fuck these morons. they let this happen
His monicker is The Lying King!
It fits you see, because it really is his thing!
But lately a new Monicker has come to me!
I think THE MAD KING would be very fitting!
Alas! Either name would fit into his big ass canister!
Oh where? Oh where? Fore art thou? Are you Jamie Lannister?
I hope Tim Cook says FU to #Felon47! Remember not too long ago he called him Tim Apple. #Felon47 is a petulant child and needs to go to his room for a time out.
I’ll add any company who indulges consumer protections. Tries to have different charging ports from every other device (USB-C gang!) to sell you more accessories. Helped create planned obsolescence and undermines “right to repair” can eat a bag of dicks.
Incompetent fascism. You let the industrialists brutalize their workers with impunity for a few years before you start central planning. This is basic stuff
Now provide ~40,000 industrial engineers. That’s more than 10% of all of them in the US. And, there aren’t enough as it is. The US made iPhone price projection is $3500.00. With the 25% tariff a $1000.00 iPhone will be $1250.00. GEE! I wonder which way it’ll go. donald j trump is an idiot.
While all his hats and crap he sells is made in China. This fucking hypocrite will soon be gone. The people of the United States will vote all these cunts out of Congress in 26' then impeach First Lady Poo Poo.
Can someone remind the “clown prince “ that all his MAGA merchandise is made in China and he has had 10 years to move the manufacturing of that garbage to the USA and hasn’t complied with his own policies!!!
Had the German people assassinated hitler in 1936 about 15 million lives would have been saved but the US would never had become the hegemonic fund of the world. I get the sense that now china is the US in 1936 just waiting for this idiot to start something. And 50%fell for it so we gotta suffer
Mob Mentality- It's called a SHAKEDOWN. Give me some Money or I will COST you even More Money. There's lots of names for it. The demand for money combined with a threat aligns with the definition of extortion or blackmail.
These are criminal acts.
I dearly hope the day comes soon that a major person in the business world has the balls to publicly say “Fu€k You” to donvict. Those exact words. I think it would go a long way in breaking the spell that he inexplicably holds over these people.
Tim Apple, did you get what you paid for in a multi-million dollar donation to tRUMP? It's called retribution. I thought you were smarter than that, but nope, just greedy like the rest of the American oligarchs.
What happened to Laissez-faire, very stable low IQ Dork? This dude could easily just fuck off to maraweirdo and golf non-stop and we’d all be much happier.
I encourage you to spend sometime listening to guys like Lutnick, Bessent and these project 2025 idiot…. They theorize an economic system where generation work out of the same factory…… it is an evolution as the lull folk into whatever we are becoming
again, I'm anti-fascist. it's why I'm offended at people saying capitalism (which is the economic system of every single fascist state) is the same thing as socialism or communism. this is basic definitional stuff, not complicated theory.
They are different!!!! As simple as who signs the check….. My point is capitalism is as corruptible as communism if allowed to be…… I am neither communist or fascism, I do think it important and honest to deal with literal definition vs a weaponized use…..
communism is defined as "a society that is stateless, classless, and moneyless." you are thinking of state capitalism, which is the economic system of modern China and of the USSR
I have always understood that communism is an economic system where government controls labor and industry. Howard Lutdick, envisions a world where we are servants to industry……
okay, so you have understood wrong. the definition i gave is the one given in the communist manifesto. never forget - fascists and imperialists love co-opting leftist terminology to weaken and abuse it. see also libertarian, anarchy, and socialism
The manifesto was never completed in Russia or China as labor never rose up in the what was described as the last of revolution……. I think America fails to look at capitalism which in purest form are quite toxic…. All systems focus on the oligarchy system where wealth lives at the top…..
i agree completely. vanguardism has failed to function dozens of times and we need to completely throw out the entire idea if we want to win the class war
Hey, Rand Paul, how does this government interference in private business fit with your Libertarian ideals? Only asking because you seem kind of quiet about it.
Anyone seen the price of groceries lately? Gas? A dozen free range eggs is $12. Meanwhile, Bozo keeps making more money and is illegally using our treasury as his personal piggy bank. This is the most corrupt administration in the history of our democracy. He’s getting away with all of it. ALL OF IT
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We should be crashing the economy ourselves by not showing up to work, all at once.
Why pay taxes for services that are being gutted?
Break the system
Find the fascist behavior & call it out: name it and defeat it.
#HoldTrumpAccountable
lmfao
While this action would hurt Apples short term U.S. business profits, it would send a message globally which would probably cover it.
Truth? Sleeps with the fishes. Hitmen? How about 1500 freed insurrectionists! Disloyalty? You take a trip… under the bus. His message? An offer you can’t refuse- even if it's a lie.
Musk may have more money, but Don? He owns the attention racket!
This is the confluence between Religious Zealots and the ignorant Dunning-Kruger MBAs that think they're god's unique gift to "running things 'round here"
This doesn't have ANY coherent long term goals or even short term goals in fact.
We hurt his plans with putin ( his BFF)
your brainworms have brainworms
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
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The Sulfur and Brimstone Age? Yup. That’s the one.
It fits you see, because it really is his thing!
But lately a new Monicker has come to me!
I think THE MAD KING would be very fitting!
Alas! Either name would fit into his big ass canister!
Oh where? Oh where? Fore art thou? Are you Jamie Lannister?
Like I get it. Government should not do this.
But also, fuck Apple they are a shitty company.
centrist ass response of “but apple sucks so who cares 🤓” while ignoring the precedent that this brings.
They would go begging.
Yea, I’m sure super benevolent Apple would never, ever use such power for evil.
Fucking liberals, so excited to trade the boot of the government for corporate flavor.
So, now, children, begins this fairy tale.
These are criminal acts.
Go figure.
The Trump steals all the money age!
That, would be the REAL name of what we are in!
While Trump SCREWS the Maga base!
Now Trump is being USED by Qatar and Qatar is the very thing ALL Americans did not want!
WAY TO VOTE MAGA FOOLS!
BECAUSE TARIFFS ARE CONSTITUTIONALLY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CONGRESS !!
Oh.
So 🤡-boi FELON-47 has decreed that APPLE will pay the tariff and therefore the price consumers pay for their phone will remain unchanged.
KKKool story, bro.
It's Maoist nonsense.
MAFIA NEVER MISS!
Turmp's a bad joke. Believe it, maga.
hello. you are attacking capitalist policies saying it's like communism which is ~on its face~ nonsense.
you are CATEGORICALLY wrong which is the MOST wrong you could be.
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