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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Unity in Memo to Staff Following Trump Victory
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People assembling the iPhone need not be qualified as such, they need 300k+ to assemble the iPhone.
I remember my mum used to assemble watches and wasn't exactly skilled.
And how do you know the winners don't share my vision? My guess is the only source of your knowledge is the the left leaning fear mongering, media that hugely profits from racism and riots. I suggest you review exactly what Trump has said or written and utilize more than 140 characters or headlines. You are being lied to and even a simple look into the details will expose the media and progressive lies.
How wonderful it is to have someone with your background and perspective here in the forums! Cheers!
Should have known I'd get pessimism on MR
More like realism. The electoral college won't just disregard the vote based on a petition.
So many Trump supporters lack an alarming amount of empathy for damn near anything. They're so angry by such blatant lies of the world, often incomprehensibly so. They trust random conservative click-bait blog sites but condemn CNN. They yell and scream when anyone challenges their bigotry, claiming bigotry by liberals for not tolerating their deplorable statements and beliefs. This country not only made a mistake on 11/08, it may have committed suicide. Whenever I'm not temporarily distracted by the monotony of everyday life, I think about how Hillary lost and how Trump is picking the next Secretary of State which sends me through bouts of extreme anger and sadness. The man is not only a jerk, a bigot, a sexist, and a racist; he's an unintelligent monster. He doesn't know things about government that children are taught in middle school. His election isn't normal, it should never be accepted or tolerated, and it should be fought until he's out of office or until our dying breath.
Sugarcoating it isn't going to make the Electors change their vote.Should have known I'd get pessimism on MR
Hey, can I cut and paste this rant into the Liberal Freakout thread? It would make for added humor!
That's a semantic distinction. He didn't use Apple'a name or likeness, so the default assumption is OF COURSE that he's doing it as a private citizen. You're the one projecting this Apple halo onto him.
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Yes, we do vote against our own (short term) interests. That doesn't make us idiots. You should consider why we do it before jumping to conclusions. Here's a hint: it has a lot to do with that education teaching us important critical reasoning skills.
Agreed. It's like, if a candidate ran on the platform of "free ice cream for white people", you'd get a bunch of folks claiming that any white people who voted for the other candidate were "idiots...voting against their own interests." With no consideration of what is fair or just. The bit about "so called educated people" is telling. Many conservatives seem to have a huge dislike for intelligence and science, because they're inconvenient. Facts can't be overcome by impassioned speeches.
Where exactly is the "sugarcoating"?
Also doesn't take a rocket scientist to see all of Trump's flaws and fails especially as of recent ( mostly on social media )
My original response to your Electors petition was "not happening." You called it pessimistic.
I replied with sugar coating.
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The only reason leftists need reassuring and calming by their bosses like Cook is because they bought into globalist lies propagated by the corporate media (including social media) that pandered to their broken ideology for so long. 8 years of leftist brainwashing and echo chambering left them shellshocked by reality.
The reason I'm apprehensive of Trump is he has no understanding and respect for the First Amendment. Listening to the right, it sometimes feels like they think the Second Amendment is all-important, but the Second is there so you can protect the First. Without the First, we have a pure democracy, which means ANYTHING the majority says goes. No protection of minority rights. And if Trump manages to shut the press up like he apparently thinks he should be able to do, we are all in deep trouble.
You do realize that there are three branches of government and that the POTUS cannot act alone.
At the moment, congress is controlled by a bunch of spineless Republicans, and Trump gets to appoint at least one Supreme Court justice. I'm not happy my rights depend on the health of an 80+ year old woman.
But you were willing to trust them to a 70 year old woman? Assuming you voted for Clinton, I haven't read that you have or haven't so that is an assumption on my part and not meant to be insulting.
The problem is that equality, multiculturalism and climate change are your religion, I think these are false gods. Luckily your idols are in the process of being smashed to pieces. Weep.
I admit I was a bit concerned about Clinton's age, but 70 isn't 80. Also, you are the one who brought up checks and balances. If Clinton had gotten elected, then the 70 year old and 80 year old women would have been checking each other.
Also, if something happens to the President, the position passes to the VP. Not exactly a check and balance issue if the President is older.
There still is another branch of government that can counter. I'm not sure what Rights you are worried about, but I just don't see Trump going after the SCOTUS ruling on Gay Marriage.
A potential SCOTUS justice who does not see Roe V Wade as settled law is very likely to disagree with the legal grounding for gay marriage as well. And besides, I don't care how "pro-life" someone is:
1. You cannot govern a free society based on your personal religious beliefs
2. Returning to the days of coat hangers and back alley abortions does not help anyone
I'm afraid Trump will try to round up Muslim Americans, silence the press, and try to get Ivanka elected president after him.