Guys, can we stop with the dogpiling?
He admitted that he was wrong, that takes character.
Again, I don't blame anyone for thinking the warnings were "hysterics" when there's a powerful media machine telling them that.
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Trump Demands US iPhone Production, Threatens 25% Tariff
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He admitted that he was wrong, that takes character.
Again, I don't blame anyone for thinking the warnings were "hysterics" when there's a powerful media machine telling them that.
The 99% remark is a load of crap and it just shows bias and contempt. I know plenty of people who voted for trump who wanted to see if an outsider could actually change the course of 40 years of federal bureaucracy and theft from the american people. Plenty of trump voters are not happy with what's going on and how its happening. However, if you want to create meaningful change in a bloated gov't, with representatives ( from both parties ) who have dug this country an almost insurmountable hole to climb out of financially ( in order to serve their own self interests, personal financial gains and wealth preservation ), you have to break some eggs. He is directly hurting a small business I own ( i source some stuff from china ) and is hurting my stock portfolio too. I've never liked the man, but continuing down the fiscal path of the last 30 years, along with all the wacky crap that the democrats have been peddling in the last 5-7 years is just as nuts.
If people don't understand or can not see the financial train wreck that this country is headed for with the last 30+ years of washington ineptitude, i don't know how to wake people up any more.....
I do blame people for not understanding their actions.
This stuff is too important.
Nobody is dog piling anyone, at least not trying to. -- I think you're reading into it too much.
Here we go again on another idiotic flip flopping economic ride. I need to find my Dramamine.
I'm so ready to never hear this ************'s name again. The day can't come soon enough.
SCOTUS granted him immunity and allowed him to run even though pretty much every legal scholar in the world said it was clearly unconstitutional. How on Earth did you come to expect a Judicial department that is already actively kissing the ring to not be "pushed around?"
Who is paving your roads and highways? Americans, right? Isn't that boting and repetitive work?
Who is fixing your cars at service centers? Americans, right? Isn't that boring and repetitive work?
Who is checking you out at grocery stores? Americans, right? Isn't that boring and repetitive work?
Stop spreading nonsense statements like Americans won't do it.
Even if Apple agrees to do what he says he changes his mind daily. You can't trust a word out of his mouth. Apple could spend $1T to move production to USA and he would say not enough, tariffs now 50%. They need to go the China route and just ignore him.
Didn't Tim Cook specifically note that production outside of the US (China) wasn't a cost-cutting issue anymore, but an issue of engineering talent. China has more engineering talent, infrastructure, etc., that we (at the time) lack here in the US. Does that still apply? If so, then I think we have a more complicated matter.
Exactly. His buddies must need to make a quick buck again riding the stock market on these announcements.
The answer usually is:
MAGA folks thought "other people would be hurt", but not themselves.
They are ok with peopling being negatively impacted as long as it's "other people".
That's fair. There are some very serious problems going on in the US (and really, they date back to McCarthyism and probably even further than that). Trump is really only a symptom of bigger issues that will not go away when he does.
From my perspective both parties are bad for the country right now. The problem with the GOP is that they are massively sucking up to Trump when nearly all of them know damn well that what Trump is doing is harmful to the economy and country -- which you have to hand it to them, as bad as it is, they tow the party line no matter what.
The Dems are so dis-jointed and non organized that they look like morons, even if they are on the right side of whatever issue. Although the problem is that they are not on the right side of many issues IMO.
This adminstration may very well cause another civil war; that is how far divided I see both parties. My guess is the vast majority are probably moderate and we are basically ****ed no matter who we vote for. But I will admit that the current amount of ****ery going on is just insane.
At this point the rest of the world pretty much needs to tell the US to **** off -- and I know by saying that, that it will cause a massive amount of hurt to myself, but it seems it is going to be the only way Trump and the current administration will learn. I am actually surprised that Canada hasn't cut the power off already to those northern states, I mean Trump said we don't need them, so Canada, do it and do it yesterday.
Someone needs to force Trump to read both of these books...
"The World is Flat" Thomas Friedman
"That Used to be Us" Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Large scale highly technical manufacturing is not coming back to the United States anytime soon.
The Dems are so dis-jointed and non organized that they look like morons, even if they are on the right side of whatever issue. Although the problem is that they are not on the right side of many issues IMO.
This adminstration may very well cause another civil war; that is how far divided I see both parties. My guess is the vast majority are probably moderate and we are basically ****ed no matter who we vote for. But I will admit that the current amount of ****ery going on is just insane.
At this point the rest of the world pretty much needs to tell the US to **** off -- and I know by saying that, that it will cause a massive amount of hurt to myself, but it seems it is going to be the only way Trump and the current administration will learn. I am actually surprised that Canada hasn't cut the power off already to those northern states, I mean Trump said we don't need them, so Canada, do it and do it yesterday.
Someone needs to force Trump to read both of these books...
"The World is Flat" Thomas Friedman
"That Used to be Us" Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Large scale highly technical manufacturing is not coming back to the United States anytime soon.
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Why would you care? I wouldn’t pay a single cent to have it made in the country where I live.
While that is probably true to some extent, the only reason why China has such infrastructure now is because of manufacturers investing in Chinese manufacturing as a cost-cutting measure. This is a situation that Apple and other manufacturers created themselves over course of the past 20-30 years.
As for whatever Tim Cook has said, is saying, or will say - he's a CEO trying to justify not having to invest billions of dollars re-jigging his manufacturing infrastructure. A few grains of salt are definitely needed to make that dish palatable.
Maybe so, but I don't like dragging people down over this since I was fooled in 2016 and assumed that checks and balances would prevent any abuses of power then (it didn't).
Frankly, I think it's easy to "not understand" one's actions, when at least for the past 40 years, not much has changed at least with regards to the federal government. It's not like previous administrations made drastic cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, the Dept. of Education, or blatantly ignored the Constitution while kidnapping people off the streets.
Especially when there's been a decades-long effort to convince people that wouldn't happen while putting the pieces in place to make it happen.
He literally said Apple wouldn’t be able to find enough die and toolmakers and China outnumbers those available in the U.S. by football fields.
China has been focusing on STEM education for decades while Americans in high school dream to be social media influencers, real estate agents, and experts in the stock market.
You put tariffs on a country, how do you "tax" a single company?
Yeah I would say any "deal" with Trump at this point could be a moot point 1 day later.