The "bribe" went to the event not the person.So the bribe, I mean “donation”, that Tim Cook made to Donald Trump was money well spent after all. Now let’s see the creative accounting involved in the bonuses Apple pays out to Cook to reimburse him four that expense.
LOL! Good one !The only stable genius I have even seen was Mr. Ed. And he was way smarter than Trump.
But Trump is notorious for sometimes falling back when someone at least partially sane breaks from his usual bunch of enablers and sits him down and tells him about the actual consequences of his plans. As you imply, a fair number of the details that have gone into his tariff "ideas" have been the product of other people who have his ear, and are working for their own ends, happy that Trump favoring tariffs in general plays into their hands as well. They're enablers, and there's a good chance that if they weren't supporting this nonsense, that Trump's approach to tariffs, while still insane, might not be nearly as insane. Or maybe they'd be more insane, or somehow both at the same time.He’s been talking about it for decades. All him and the people he purposely surrounds himself with (Yes men).
That's one of the main effects Trump and his enablers are counting onThis whole Tariff thing seems to be a complete shambles
Apparently he had another “instinctive moment”. 🙄Now his administration has come out and said it’ll get tariffs within a month or two since it’ll be lumped into the semiconductor tariff. wtf
"We" elected him. The uninformed, delusional, conspiracy-baked, disinformation-gullible millions of "us".Who elected this bozo? Jerking the world economy around like a yoyo and his delusional supporters pretending he has some master plan.
It can be easily argued that the ONLY job of a President is to keep citizens from panicking while letting the country run itself. Trump and Musk go out of their way to troll the public daily. Even MAGA cannot disagree with this assertion.lol.
Trump being Trump.
But also people being people. People panic, which causes problems, but the reason for their panic never bears fruit.
I feel better already!Don’t worry your pretty little head, we have a Very Stable Genius(TM) at the helm.
Please stop making sense. It's simply not allowed.Reality isn't simply conjured up with baseless assertions. These things are knowable.
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It was Jobs who was pushing margins up through the roof. Within 6mos of his death, Cook had brought them back under control and kept them far more stable over the next decade than Jobs ever did. Margins began growing again with the rise of Apple's services business, which is a much higher margin business than hardware manufacturing.
I don't see any signs of a Cook "tariff". Profits have grown under Cook because sales have grown, not because of some baseless price increase. Sales have grown because, despite what so many people here seem to want to believe, more people have wanted more Apple products. And the products people seem to want, much to the disappointment of my iPhone Mini loving self, are the high end ones.
I was going to post that but you did the work for the rest of us.Wait, tariffs are sort of back on?
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Trump says no exemption for iPhones and other Chinese-made electronics — suggests new tariff coming
“NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook,'” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday.nypost.com
It's the Tangerine Typhoon that's polarising people. The best thing he could do now is donate his brain to a recently affronted university and then immediately create the conditions for research to begin. No hurry; by the end of next week would be nice. And if Eyeliner Vance could join him in a jar of formaldehyde then all might be forgiven - in time.
The website has the receipts, go take a look. Trump went golfing instead of attending the repatriation of the four soldiers who died in Lithuania.He is golfing 25% of the time according to this.
I don't believe it, do you?
21 days golfing? What the heck? If he played 21 rounds of golf I'd be surprised.
I'll bet against this being true.
The website has the receipts, go take a look. Trump went golfing instead of attending the repatriation of the four soldiers who died in Lithuania.
I mean, let's play everybody's favourite game - what would Steve Jobs do in such a situation? He was never the supply chain guru, and he's just as unlikely to bring manufacturing back to the US.Good point. He's been successful, but in my opinion not necessarily with the best strategy. Not panicking here as my Apple purchases are infrequent and always the base (cheapest) models of everything.
Yeah, well Lithuania batteries are bigly dangerous.The website has the receipts, go take a look. Trump went golfing instead of attending the repatriation of the four soldiers who died in Lithuania.