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Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins President Trump in Tokyo
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Exactly.😉
So is TikTok banned yet?
Yet the Trump administration continually violate the very laws they are supposed enforce. They ignore 34% of the court orders that is part of the check and balance built into the government.
This entire thread is just pointless; everyone is arguing about what they don't have in common instead of what they do. I'm pretty sure a lot of us has way more in common with each other than we do to someone like Donald Trump or Chuck Schumer. Yet it benefits both men that we continue to stay divided.
Just like WW2. There were choices. Death was often the result. Of course the current King doesn't think it was the bad and he approved of that former leader. I'm so glad I'm old.
I'm certainly no fan of Schumer, who is a product of the neoliberal corporate DNC capitalist establishment.. But he's not a 34 times convicted felon, nor does he advocate pardoning convicted criminals as does the orange nazi, who is intent on upending every established protocol in government. The orange nazi appears to spend the bulk of his day contemplating different ways of enraging decent people.
No I didn't vote for Biden, Obama, Harris.....
The airhead, the devout communist terrorist sympathizer & the JINO. Three peas in a pod...
A) That's not true. With only 64.1% of eligible voters casting a vote for president in 2024, nobody came anywhere close to winning the votes of "a majority of the people of this country." Also, only a plurality (49.8%) of the people who voted in the 2024 US presidential election voted for Trump. A majority (50.2%) of the people who voted cast their votes for someone else. That still translated into a majority of electors for Trump, but he did not win a majority of the votes cast, nor a majority of the votes of the people. He has never done either of those things.
B) Some of the people who did vote for him would say that he is not, in fact, carrying out exactly what they elected him to do. It is very much "little-d" democratic for them to voice their opinions and say so. Many farmers, for instance, would say that they didn't vote for him to cut off their export market, nor did they vote for him to bail out Argentina and invite beef imports from there to undercut American farmers. I've heard a lot of people who said they did not vote for aggressively rounding up immigrants who aren't dangerous criminals. I would argue that very few people who voted for Trump were voting for him to raise their taxes by imposing arbitrary tariffs across the board. (Also, a lot of the people who voted for him expected him to fulfill his promise to release the Epstein files. Flip-flopping and saying there's nothing to see here and it's all a hoax is definitely not carrying out exactly what they elected him to do...)
C) Even in cases where a president is elected by substantially more than 49.8% of the popular vote, the "will of the people" does not require everyone else to remain silent.
D) When Joe Biden won both the majority (51.31%) of the popular vote as well as the electoral vote in 2020, did you bow in silence and submit to the will of the people? I'll bet you didn't. I would argue that it was anti-democratic for Trump to lie and claim he won in 2020, and it was definitely undemocratic for him to send a mob to the Capitol to try to prevent the electoral votes from being counted, and then do nothing for hours while they rioted and violently forced their way in. I would never argue, however, that it was undemocratic for people who disliked President Biden's policies to voice their opinions about that.
As such, it is actually the essence of a democracy for people to be free to object to what a president does, and likewise to object to a corporate leader like Tim Cook for being too obsequious to that president.
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You do know that we're not a democracy right?
Being pedantic will get you nowhere. I am responding to that other guy calling free speech "un-democratic."
Tim Apple will do anything for money.
A horrible person without backbone. No taste at all. No pride in anything. Just pure greed.
A horrible person without backbone. No taste at all. No pride in anything. Just pure greed.
Steve is turning in his grave at Tim's endless crusade to debase himself and the brand
I'm not suggesting Tim Cook is a nazi. I'm suggesting he's a supplicant to the orange nazi. Does that clarify things for you, or do you disagree ?
Yep. People can be mad at Tim all they want. He’s simply playing THE dumbest game, masterfully. Not because he wants to, but because he has to. Big difference.
You missed one small little point... DUE PROCESS!
I always have a chuckle when people short circuit when they are reminded that Harris was never elected by the people to run for President. She was simply installed into the position, but orange man is suddenly a king...
Does any of the daily lawbreaking of Trump bother you even a little?
He doesn't have to do anything. We all make choices.
Which one? 😋
Ah, so you did vote for the man who is ignoring the law and tearing apart the Constitution. (Just because the truth makes you uncomfortable doesn’t mean you don’t have to face it.)