Apple CEO Tim Cook Invited Back to White House for Tech Event

[kagharaht]

So Tim Apple is fine with bending the knee and giving gifts to a guy that says this. On Video for all to hear and see. "They Were Born To Be Criminals Trump Loses His Cool Goes On Hate". Just look it up and play the video yourself to hear it. It's not old and it's current. So yeah Tim Apple is supporting Racism.

 

[ThomasJL]

Apple should never have had to pay that money.

If American corporations don't pay the same rate of taxes that they were paying from the FDR to the Carter eras, then that tax burden falls upon individual taxpayers. But that's what's been happening in America ever since Reagan was president in the 1980s. Under every American president since Reagan, American-style "capitalism" has been socialism for corporations. And subhuman Silicon Valley scum like Tim Cook strongly support that.

 

[AL2TEACH]

will he bring a gift this time?
stayed tuned
same bat channel
same bat time.

 

[Imperial926]

This event was toe-curling but it's hard to see what these tech leaders could do without having their companies align in the cross-hairs of Trump's autocracy. The test will be if and when he goes. Some of us in other places are not so sure he will either go or possibly hand the baton to someone worse. By that stage, we in Europe have to have our act together with alternatives across the board.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The video of this event was one of the more repulsive things I can recall.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

The video of this event was one of the more repulsive things I can recall.

Agreed.

For those who think that business leaders, the so-called titans of tech, - need to abase themselves so abjectly, or need to demonstrate such grotesquely obsequious, spineless and supine public displays of servility to a political leader (in order to "keep connected" with those who hold power, keep power "informed", keep capricious power from threatening or throttling them), - would you be quite so sanguine about such public displays of spinelessness (moral, political, economic) if the malevolent narcissist holding office was of a different political party or persuasion?

Or, would you howl in outraged disbelief and attempt to argue that tech, or capital, and politics shouldn't mix, still less one be permitted to make humiliating demands of the other?

 

[Imperial926]

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[Mainsail]

I watched a clip from this get together, and they went around the table as each tech leader heaped praise upon Trump in classic “dear leader” fashion. Kinda like those cringy cabinet meetings.

I kept thinking: Really? For the most part, you guys are worth billions of dollars individually. You have more money than you, your children, or your children’s children could possibly spend. Why humiliate yourselves in this fashion. Twenty years from now your grandchildren will be watching this clip and what will they be thinking? Doesn’t seem worth it to me!

 

[Imperial926]

I watched a clip from this get together, and they went around the table as each tech leader heaped praise upon Trump in classic “dear leader” fashion. Kinda like those cringy cabinet meetings.

I kept thinking: Really? For the most part, you guys are worth billions of dollars individually. You have more money than you, your children, or your children’s children could possibly spend. Why humiliate yourselves in this fashion. Twenty years from now your grandchildren will be watching this clip and what will they be thinking? Doesn’t seem worth it to me!

Extraordinary times! Although unrelated in at least the worst ways it does explain to me how people cosy up to history’s worst despots and later excuse themselves by saying they were ‘just following orders’.
There’s going to be a lot of that in years to come but without quite the same justification.

 

[Mainsail]

Extraordinary times! Although unrelated in at least the worst ways it does explain to me how people cosy up to history’s worst despots and later excuse themselves by saying they were ‘just following orders’.
There’s going to be a lot of that in years to come but without quite the same justification.

Agreed.

What I don’t get is: Why bend a knee and kiss the ring? Why behave in such an obsequious manner?

Worse case is Trump takes it out on your company, and your board fires you. Fine. Take your generous buy-out along with the billions you already have and go on your merry way with a clear conscious that you did not humiliate yourself or your company. Seems like a no brainer to me.

 

[ForkHandles]

Thoughts and best wishes on all Americans. The levels of sycophancy that blob commands is sickening. His willingness to inflict pain on non conformists is unprecedented in the USA.

Whatever Cook does it will be, as it has to be, in the best interests of Apple Inc.

Thoughts and best wishes on all Americans. The levels of sycophancy that blob commands is sickening. His willingness to inflict pain on non conformists is unprecedented in the USA.

Whatever Cook does it will be, as it has to be, in the best interests of Apple Inc.

Wow!

The levels of sycophancy were off all known scales!!!!!

Even Bill Gates bent the knee.

But No Musk!!!!

That’s inflicting pain on non conformists.