Cook paid into Trump’s inaugural fund a million dollars, idk if you can call it smart or just a corrupt system. Also explains Fridays’s market surge before the public knew.
We don’t know the whole story… did Tim Apple offer the Don a deal he could not refuse? Yes it would be unpopular to have tech products increase by 100% but once again how does this bring man’f and related Jobs’s back to the US??? Trumps tariffs were always about the GRIFT!
Yep. Heard it on Friday. But if I was Xi, I would impose a 145% export tariff on those items until Trump removes everything and goes back to pre Trump trade.
Scott, Tim Cook preemptively set up his work around the tariffs when he and the other "tech bros' made major contributions to Trump's campaign. quid pro quo!
Cook also said they cant make products here because Americans no longer have the skills but China does. Who caused Americans to move away from those jobs? Apple and others moving factories out of the US for cheap labor/profits...and now blaming Americans for not having the skills to bring them back
47.9% of US voters seem to have no problem with these ideas. They voted for all of this. Now, when MAGA start to protest on the streets - like the crowds are doing with Bernie and AOC - then you can say what 'Americans' want and do not want. For now, half the county's on board with this madness
Yes, Congress could stop all this at any time. We somehow have to convince Republicans that the odds of them losing their general election are greater than the odds of losing their primary.
They wouldn't, but I'm suggesting changing their behavior now, before any elections. Their fear of being primaried by Trump's minions and Musk's money forces them to follow his orders, even when they think the orders are harmful and undemocratic.
It’s still awful for apples business. No one wants to spend if the economy is crashing. Also other costs associated to tariffs that could impact Apple.
that orange inbred imbecile & his merry band of rat, ass-kissing cowards, are doing exactly what anyone, with eyes & ears connected to their brains, knew they would.
The wildly intelligent Black lady lost to a moron who pretended to suck a dick at a microphone.
Yep, were the richest country in the world we wanna buy them we don’t need Americans to be sweatshop labor… although Trump is destroying high tech jobs too
And that all these “best business men in the world” are so anti-democratic. At least they used to use their power to influence Congress, now they are just helping a dictator. We shoulda known, when Musk was so obviously a nazi and all the men did business with him anyway.
And yes, I know it's less than perfectly cool to cast aspersions without any >>EVIDENCE<<.
But my God, the possibilities for unethical conflicts of interest for an administration full of loyalists, felons, & rapists may be more than they can resist.
Chappelle's line is relevant in another way... Americans should be neither wearing nor making 'Nike' shoes... which are poor quality, highly marketed and horribly overpriced corporate product.
Shoe production might be feasible in America, done another way.
Tim Cook's strategy has always been to speak softly, factually and logically but most importantly to never negotiate in public and never poke the bear.
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Within three months, he did!
Apple does all of the design, software engineering, content creation, administration here in the US, so why can't they outsource low-wage labor?
Americans not want tariff wars.
… do not want an end to 80 years of peace and stability in the west.
Americans do not want to seize the Panama Canal.
Americans do not want ignorance to prevail over science and fact.
Congress: DO YOUR JOB!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justice-department-critics
Be polite about it.
check Trump's cryptocurrency sales
The wildly intelligent Black lady lost to a moron who pretended to suck a dick at a microphone.
The U.S. has a STUPIDITY problem.
https://youtu.be/zP2Tnb-bSq4?si=VNQAgAQkj1H0KsQ5
I hope it's worth it to these "people of the land, the common clay of the new West."
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If the mob can't afford its toys and treats, the mob gets bored. Then the mob gets interested.....
But my God, the possibilities for unethical conflicts of interest for an administration full of loyalists, felons, & rapists may be more than they can resist.
Coincidence or intentional? CTV, OTT, and broadcast much harder to manipulate digitally than the internet.
YOUTUBE now biggest set of eyeballs on TV screen, may be a dotted line. If someone is thinking.
Shoe production might be feasible in America, done another way.