Honestly, Apple is having problems because they put their eggs into one basket and got overzealous with pricing.
Somewhat agree with this. Or, more that they let the rest of their products and services linger too long in order to put all their eggs in the iPhone basket. That, and their shift from UX and best products to profits being job number 1, has been burning through a lot of long, hard-earned brand good-will. That can't last forever, nor is the supply infinite.
Just because Apple comes out with a new model every year doesn't mean you have to upgrade every year.
Upgrade every year? Who ever expected anyone to do that in the first place? If either Apple or the Wall Street morons thought that was some kind of reality, they deserve any crash they get. The sad things is that hard-working people have also been duped into 'investing' in the shell game.
Trump is who's ridiculous. Whoever thinks not has bought into the normalization of presidential pronouncements and behaviors that are not worthy of our office of the presidency.
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Nothing Trump says ends up being ordinary because that's his whole schtick ...
Somewhat agree, but I'm also aware enough to realize that the MSM is a ridiculous-magnifier, so if that's where you are building your image of him from, you've been played by them, just as much as the MSM has been played by Trump.
Yes, that is his schtick, and it seems to be working quite well. He has the media whipped up into such a frenzy (along with like half or more of the left-leaning population and then some) that they all can't think straight or reason their way out of a paper-sack any longer.
I read something the other day that said something like, if Trump said oxygen was wonderful then democrats around the country would suffocate themselves to spite him.
Maybe even worse... all the anti-war people have suddenly decided war is good because Trump has actually ended some things he promised to do, that Obama didn't. They are in lala-land.
Classic Trump apologist. The truth is this guy says he knows more about military strategy than his generals. ... But heck, you might also agree that McCain wasn’t a war hero because he was captured.
Or, maybe it's because his generals aren't about military strategy anymore, but about neocon dreams of keeping the $USD propped up at all costs, cutting Russia out of oil-deals, and overthrowing any country that doesn't give the USA what it wants in the name of 'democracy'?
Frankly, I don't much care what kind of war hero McCain was or wasn't. After that, he was one of the number 1 neocon threats to humanity on the planet.
Bush and Obama both were professional and competent magnitudes more than this clown is.
Or, they were just way more eloquent while bending us over to screw us? Competent at what? I don't want a competent neocon any longer, as that just leads to things getting worse and worse. Time to start fixing the mess we created. While Trump is far from perfect, he's done more in that regard already than the last several presidents.
Aside from that, it's less what Trump says than how he easily gets played --and baited-- ...
Or, as mentioned above, maybe he's doing the playin and baiting?
... listen to real news for once. It's been established that those that support this president are ok with lies, deceit, and massive misinformation spewed daily by this administration and are not moved by logic or reason.
Which would be? What's funny, is what you describe applies just as much to the MSM as to Trump. So, where are you getting your news?
Anyway I wish the 116th Congress better luck reining Trump in for everyone's sake. If they don't do it,,,, I predict that American industry will fix that in 2020 and there'll be a further erosion of Republican Party power. Corporations don't have to fund both sides of the aisle during election seasons, and they do know that.
Umm, Congress is the biggest part of the problem. Might I suggest a podcast to help you see that? Congressional Dish.
I don't trust them to do much but look after corporate interests. American industry is a huge part of the problem, so I'm not sure how they are going to fix anything. And, on that, they are pretty darn bipartisan.
Where the heck did this idea come from, anyway, that Republicans were somehow corporate and big-money? Take a look at where politicians get their funding someday. Democrats are just as corporate and big-money... just different corporate and big-money.
Americans have come to expect them to be cheap, and the Chinese have come to appreciate them as the means and opportunities of a burgeoning middle class. Then along comes Trump and... wtf?!
Not necessarily a good situation though. And, before you do too much speculating on trade re: Trump, you might want to study up on TPP.
https://congressionaldish.com/?s=TPP
I suggest starting with number 95, but I think you'll be a bit shocked (especially when you realize it went in under Obama, and Trump repealed it... so at least one thing to be thankful to Trump for!).